11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (106+ words) Alison Saar. Photo by Derek White/Getty Images for High Museum of Art Lively conversation filled the air until one voice rose above the rest. Caroline Maddox, the High’s deputy director of... By then, the official program had concluded—but…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (523+ words) Congratulations on your new job! Not to jump to the end of it already, but your tenure is projected to end August 31, 2032. What are your short term goals for the institution? What are some that you’d like to have finished…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (625+ words) observer.com The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026 Anne and Arthur Goldstein, Kay Culbreath Heller and J. Roderick Heller, Nancy Delman Portnoy and other philanthropic collectors recently placed major holdings where they can be studied, displayed and folded into…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (292+ words) This job has you returning to the city after a decade in Houston. What would you say has changed the most since you’ve been gone, in the art world and the city at large? The question I usually ask when…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1370+ words) A growing number of collectors have been gifting significant works of art to college and university museums, and for good reason. (Editor’s note: This article was originally published in October of 2023.) Between 1942 and the early 2000s, “campus art museums increased dramatically…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1448+ words) observer.com Along the border between Tribeca and Soho, there is a wave of young Japanese fashion brands, many appearing only temporarily in some of the neighborhood’s most expensive storefronts. Meanwhile, Issey Miyake has just unveiled an expansive new flagship…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (525+ words) One Fine Show: “Peggy Guggenheim in London, The Making of a Collector” observer.com Galleries have been having a tough time, in the primary art market and in the press. How my colleagues report on their closures with such glee!...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (667+ words) observer.com The consensus out of this year’s Venice Biennale was that the must-see pavilion was Austria’s, the artist of which was the subject of a profile in this week’s New Yorker, and that the can’t-miss off-site exhibition was “Helter…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (960+ words) Bechara gave the Parrish 19 Reds (2015) not long before his death last April. How did that gift come about? Tony had already participated in the Parrish’s 2023 exhibition celebrating our 125th anniversary, for which we invited artists with deep ties to the East…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (45+ words) observer.com "250 Years of American Art and Culture" Artists: Various Venue: Sotheby’s Address: The Breuer Building, 945 Madison Ave, New York, NY Through: August 16, 2026...