Rachel Martin (Tlingit), Chalk drawings of the Gochman family2022. Chalk, site-specific. Photo: Photography by Alon Koppel Sometime this fall, a new art gallery space dedicated to contemporary Native American art will open in Katonah, New York, a name yet to be determined. “We’re in brainstorming mode,” Laura Phipps, the recently appointed director of the yet-to-be-named … Read more
(From left to right) Kobe, Valentina and Kwame Mintah. Courtesy Effie Gallery “A lot of our artists are happy that we represent them because we are similar. As Africans, we understand the story they are telling and who they are talking to,” Kwame Mintah, Ghanaian cultural entrepreneur, art collector and co-founder of Ife Contemporary Gallery … Read more
Istanbul boasts a world-class museum, an array of ambitious exhibitions and unexpected artistic encounters spread throughout its many neighbourhoods. Photograph: Nick Helden for the Observer There are many standard sites that you see when you are in Istanbul. Large mosques and the Grand Bazaar. Taksim has bridges, and there is no shortage of historic architecture. … Read more
Robert Weisenberger. Photo: Erin Johnson Last month, the Brooklyn Museum announced that Robert Weisenberger had joined the Contemporary Art team as Barbara and John Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. Although one of the city’s smaller institutions, the Brooklyn Museum holds a prominent place in the art world, having raised the profile of artists like … Read more
Art Central is presenting its largest edition to date, with 117 galleries and more than 500 artists from Hong Kong, Asia and around the world. Courtesy of Art Central The tone at this year’s Art Central—which opened to VIPs ahead of Art Basel on March 24 in a tent on Hong Kong’s iconic Central Harbourfront—is … Read more
Art Basel Hong Kong runs through March 29, featuring 240 galleries with a strong presence this year of both emerging and established names from the region. Photo by Li Zhihua/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images The energy at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, particularly during the VIP preview, was noticeably different. The aisles filled … Read more
PAVILLION is at H Queens in Hong Kong through March 28, 2026. Ben Marans Photography Ltd. As rising costs and shifting buyer patterns reshape the global art market, widespread fair fatigue has paved the way for independent, artist- or dealer-led initiatives that offer more intimate platforms for both trade and meaningful exchange during major art … Read more
Just before exiting, one arrives at the London-based Everything Gallery, which has gained a reputation across major international fairs for discovering and repositioning visionary figures – from Madge Gill at Frieze Masters to the Afro-Caribbean surrealist painter Hector Hippolyte at Art Basel Paris. In the Outsider Art Gallery, the exhibition presents an entire pavilion dedicated … Read more
Huma Abedin, Nicky Hilton, Stacey Bendet, Jenny Mullen, and Caroline Tate Angel. Neil Rasmus/BFA.com The Arts Production Fund has thrown some memorable parties, but its 15th annual gala — an après-ski fantasia staged in the Seagram Building — was perhaps the most committed to it. Under cool blue lighting, fur-clad celebrities in flowing dresses and … Read more
The 2026 Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report finds the global art market grew to $59.6B in 2025, driven by top auction results as galleries restructure. Courtesy Frieze, photo: Casey Kelbaugh / CKA Starting in the second half of 2025, sentiment in what had been a tepid, tentative art market began to improve. Between … Read more