The 2026 Artificial Intelligence in Exhibitions Report released on First Thursday shows that although most exhibition staff now use AI tools daily, few have implemented policies to ensure data accuracy and customer security. Observer laboratory As AI becomes increasingly integrated into business processes across industries, it is becoming impossible to ignore the fact that art … Read more
After making room for herself in art, O’Grady wants to make room for the rest of us. Courtesy Megan O’Grady “What attracted me to criticism, before I knew to call it criticism, was its assertion that ideas were central to life, which was not always, in my experience, taken for granted,” Megan O’Grady writes in … Read more
In the summer of 1975, a 19-year-old with no formal musical training sat down to a decade-old poem and, in the midst of the beginning of the civil war, composed a tune that he assumed few people would hear. Fifty years later, UNADICOM (I’m Inviting You, 1976) is still sung in the streets. Born on … Read more
Rachel Park in artist Juan Veloz’s installation. Deonte Lee/BFA.com In the busy and busy calendar of spring celebrations, the Public Art Fund’s annual benefit has always provided the art world with an opportunity to break out. Earlier this month, the largest fundraiser of the year returned to the Metropolitan Pavilion with its trademark dynamism presented … Read more
The writer with Nancy Holt’s Starfire. Photo courtesy Christa Terry Usually, when I do this column I have a passing familiarity with the city I’m visiting, but I arrive in Salt Lake City knowing almost nothing about it. Of course, what I’m really here to see is not exactly in Salt Lake City but near … Read more
In the fall, Art Basel Paris attracts an international audience; This spring exhibition keeps its focus close to home Photo: Mark Dommage In front of the Grand Palace, two huge inflatable Haribo-like silhouettes greeted visitors for eye-catching photos. The work of French artist Fabrice Hyper (represented by Nathalie Obadia) brings a bit of frivolity to … Read more
Evan Chow grew up surrounded by a family collection of Chinese works and antiques, giving him an early sense of what it means to live with art. Photo: Ray Leong @TR Concept and Visual Atelier In many ways, Evan Chow represents a new generation of Asian art collectors who are reimagining what art collecting looks … Read more
Sandra Gamarra at the Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. Photo: Oak Taylor Smith In January, Antonio Pocar won the Arts Mundi Prize. His work has been exhibited in many venues in Wales. That same month, Andrea Canepa wrapped Madrid’s Cristal Palace, part of the Reina Sofía Museum, with an installation that … Read more
Yasmine Barrada. Courtesy Loft Art Gallery “When it comes to art, I have always followed my intuition,” Yasmine Barrada tells Observer. We are at Loft Gallery in Casablanca, surrounded by the abstract, geometric and seaweed-like works of Malika Agheznay, a leading artist of the famous Casablanca School. “I feel like the art world is very … Read more
ming smith, Social distancing1974. Archival pigment print, 36 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and The Gund at Kenyon College The recent death of the great Martin Parr reminded us that the best practitioners of photography tend to venerate everything about the medium that makes it unique. Parr described his photographs of trans Britons … Read more