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Reviews, commentary, news and interviews with and about the artists who influence every corner of the art market. Visit our Artist Index to browse all artists Observer has chronicled over the last 30+ years.

A contemporary art gallery showing two sculptures of dogs and two paintings of natural landscapes

Maia Cruz Palileo Reveals Invisible Stories of American Filipino Heritage at David Kordansky

Merging diasporic narratives with archival materials, the artist resuscitates lost images and stories, recontextualizing them in symbolically charged canvases.
By Elisa Carollo
A woman in a blue gown and headscarf looks directly at the viewer while seated, holding a musical instrument on her lap.

Our Top Ten Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings Ranked

We look at the artist's most important paintings and what makes them great.
By Mary Gregory
A contemporary art gallery space with light wood floors and white walls displays abstract paintings on the left wall, a large black-and-white photographic mural of a man and woman at a piano in the center, sculptures on the floor including one made of broken wooden slats, a set of drum equipment in the back left corner, and several minimalist gray wall pieces and a small portrait on the right wall.

One Fine Show: ‘Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal’ at the Hammer Museum

Here, works by Jasper Marsalis, Bethany Collins and Rashid Johnson tap into the improvisational ethos central to Coltrane’s music.
By Dan Duray
Kimsooja, To Breathe — AlUla, 2024

Her Body as a Needle: Understanding the Conceptual Work of Kimsooja

By Xinyi Ye
A man working on a serpent-like scylpture made of heads

How Sculptor David Altmejd Taps into the Collective Unconscious Through Material

By Elisa Carollo
A person sits on a white wall-installed bench along a white wall where two brightly-colored paintings hang (one in shades of pink, one in shades of blue)

‘Esos Colores son Prohibidos’: An Interview With Artist Ana Segovia

By Dan Duray
Image of a book flipping pages with the movement of a fan.

Shilpa Gupta Exposes the Fragility of National Identity in Her L.A. Debut

By Elisa Carollo
A close-up of one of Demery’s suspended black head wind chimes shows the silver chain passing through the crown and a circular metal ring, with wooden figurines and black metal chimes hanging below a wide collar-shaped ring.

How Artist Kevin Demery Is Reshaping Implicit Understandings in Kansas City

By Leia Genis
An installation view at the Birmingham Museum of Art shows five historical Islamic prayer rugs surrounding Faig Ahmed’s surreal, multicolored rug artwork that visually distorts traditional motifs by stretching them downward.

In ‘Illuminated Threads,’ Artist Faig Ahmed Distorts Pious History

By Leia Genis
Abstract painting with cartoonish faces emerging from painting tides.

Cecily Brown On Revisiting History, Subverting the Gaze and Embracing the Accident

By Elisa Carollo
A painting by Gustave Caillebotte, The Bezique Game, depicts five men seated around a green card table in an elegant interior, their expressions focused as they play, while another man reclines on a couch in the background.

Masculinity, Impressionism and the Third Republic: The Getty Center Unpacks Gustave Caillebotte’s World

By Jordan Riefe
painting of a woman holding a thread between a cat and a owl

A Spellbinding Retrospective Showcases Artist and Jazz Witch Gertrude Abercrombie’s Singular Vision

By Elisa Carollo
A grid of six framed portraits by Hassan Hajjaj features vibrantly dressed subjects set against colorful, patterned backgrounds, each enclosed in a bold, patterned frame.

Hassan Hajjaj Brings His Signature Vivacity to Hannah Traore Gallery

By Sarah Moroz
A stage performance featuring two ballet dancers in skin-tight costumes surrounded by large, textured sculptural objects, set against a glowing orange backdrop.

Choreographer Julia K. Gleich Is Pushing Artistic Boundaries By Encouraging Interdisciplinary Collaboration

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A woman in a grey jumpsuit working on a sculpture.

Camille Henrot Takes On the Arbitrariness of Social Rules at Hauser & Wirth

By Elisa Carollo
Katie Hudnall, NAUTILUS, 2015

Artist Katie Hudnall On the Slow Joy of Working With Wood

By Xinyi Ye
A smiling black girl sitting in her studio in front of her painting.

In Lindsay Adams’ Abstract Worlds, Color, Rhythm and Intuition Converge

By Elisa Carollo
A young child sits on the floor surrounded by hundreds of metallic silver spheres, facing a massive pink polka-dotted installation with a large circular pattern in the background.

Understanding Yayoi Kusama Is About Connecting the Dots

By Nathan Smith
Sculptures of walking people confronting large murals

Julian Opie’s Figures Walk Between Individuality and Universal Humanity

By Elisa Carollo
Artist Ken Lum

Skepticism and Asian Voices in Art: An Interview With Ken Lum

By Xinyi Ye
A painting of seven men, six Black and one white, poses together in front of a poolside courtyard, all dressed casually with beers and cigarettes in hand, while a sign in the background repeatedly states "NO," suggesting social restrictions or exclusion.

At Small Works Projects, Funny and Smart Takes On Looking at Men With a ‘70s Vibe

By Brian Karl
A portrait of artist Haegue Yang sitting cross-legged on the floor beside her stone installation, dressed in a black sweater and pants, with gray-streaked hair, gazing seriously at the camera.

Trust Fuels Experimentation and Evolution in the Work of Haegue Yang

By Dan Duray
Large abstract horizontal painting.

Invoking a Radical Past, Frank Holliday’s Energetic Abstractions Invite Us to Shake Things Up

By Elisa Carollo
A blue wall holds 19 framed digital paintings of colorful floral arrangements in vases on checkered tablecloths, with two elderly figures seated in wicker chairs facing the artwork, a small table with a water bottle between them.

This Hockney Retrospective Shows He’s Always Been Cutting Edge

By Renée Reizman
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