An Interview With Artist Damián Ortega | Observer Arts
Damián Ortega says it’s a privilege to be part of Mexican art history. Photo By Cesar Ortiz/Europa Press via Getty Images This week marks the last for “Pico y elote,” …
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18 Contemporary Artists Will Enhance the Experience at J.F.K. New T6
Sarah Sze’s art installation in LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B. © Jeff Goldberg/Esto Since its redevelopment kicked off in 2016, LaGuardia Airport has gone from eyesore to aviation art hub. Travelers …
Review: Audrey Flack’s ‘With Darkness Came Stars’ | Observer Arts
Audrey Flack in 1981. Photo by Nancy R. Schiff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Late last month, artist Audrey Flack passed away at the age of 93. Her photorealist paintings expressed a vision …
Why Painter Wayne Thiebaud’s Work Offers Respite from Worldly Chaos
Wayne Thiebaud in 2018. Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images When Wayne Thiebaud died in 2021 at the age of 101, he’d been painting for 80 …
Art Review: Eliza Kentridge’s ‘Tethering’ at Cecilia Brunson Projects
Artist Eliza Kentridge’s work Untitled is otherwordly while being very much of this world. Eliot Gelberg-Wilson To visit London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects this summer is to experience a beguiling departure …
Artist JR On Carrying the Paris Olympic Flame Through the Louvre
JR, the French photographer and street artist, and Sandra Laoura, a French skier, hold the Olympic Flame on July 14. Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images The Paris Olympics don’t kick …
An Interview With Artist Andrea Marie Breiling | Observer Arts
Andrea Marie Breiling in the studio in Mallorca, in between working on the paintings for the show. Photo Emanuel Arceo Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, American abstract artist Andrea Maria Breiling …
Why artists are like albatrosses on land, and how there’s beauty in their inefficiency
Albatrosses, as depicted in Charles Baudelaire’s 1841 poem L’Albatros, face ridicule from sailors after being snared from the sky onto ships’ decks, left to hobble pitifully with their now uselessly …
Review: ‘Time & The Tiger’ at Hessel Museum of Art | Observer Arts
Ho Tzu Nyen, One or Several Tigers, 2017; (still) Two-channel video: ten-channel sound, smoke machine, automated screen, show control system, wayang kulit puppets in aluminium frames. Courtesy of the artist …
Observer Arts Book Review: ‘The Paris Muse’ by Louisa Treger
Dora Maar, photographed with Picasso by Man Ray, was an artist and photographer in her own right. © Man Ray Trust 2015 / VG BILDKUNST 2021 One particularly tense scene …