Observer’s Five Pieces Not to Miss at Art Basel 2024
OEdipus Rex, 1984, by French artist Michel Journiac, greets fair goers. Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images The art at Art Basel in Basel—not to be confused with Art …
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Observer Art Reviews: ‘7 Mile+Livernois’ at Detroit Institute of Arts
“7 Mile + Livernois,” a solo exhibition by Detroit artist Tiff Massey, opened at the DIA last month. Taizon Taylor Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently …
Review: Tim Hetherington’s Photography at London’s Imperial War Museum
Photograph taken by photojournalist Tim Hetherington during the Libyan Revolution in Misrata, Libya, scanned from negatives at Imperial War Museum. Dean Moore Tim Hetherington was not a war photographer, not …
Review: ‘Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools’ at Montreal’s MMFA
Visitors to “Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks” should expect the unexpected. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley Sometimes while viewing an exhibition for the first time, …
Observer’s 10 Art Exhibitions to See In Europe This Summer 2024
Nina Beier, China, 2015. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen Summer is basically here, the New York art scene is set to slow down for the season and all …
Review: ‘Judy Chicago: Revelations’ at Serpentine North | Observer Art
What If Women Ruled The World (2022), made in collaboration with Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova. Photo: Jo Underhill. Courtesy Judy Chicago and Serpentine The fact that art has been predominantly …
Review: “Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody” at the Walker Art Center
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982; Baked enamel on metal. Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy of The Broad Art Foundation © Keith Haring Foundation Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights …
Art Review: ‘Now You See Us: Women Artists In Britain’ at Tate Britain
Elizabeth Butler, The Roll Call, 1874. Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2024 What a feeling it must be to prove one’s detractors wrong, and to do so …
Art Review: ‘Paul Klee Psychic Improvisation’ at David Zwirner Gallery
Felsengrab (Rock tomb), 1932; Indelible pencil and grease crayon on primed paper on cardboard; Framed: 21 3/8 x 27 5/8 inches (54.3 x 70.2 cm). Courtesy of the gallery / …
Review: ‘When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting’
Roméo Mivekannin, Le modèle noir, d’après Félix Vallotton, 2019. © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich Courtesy of Jochen Zeitz Collection Photo credit: Laurent Belet “Art constitutes one of the rare locations where …