Review: Furong Zhang at Kravets Wehby Gallery
How does a Chinese tale from more than fifteen centuries ago connect with the experience of a first-generation Asian American migrant in the United States? In “Land of the Peach …
Arts
An Interview with Tim Blum of Tribeca’s BLUM
A few months ago, the gallery Blum & Poe made waves across art media with the announcement that Jeff Poe would “stepping back” from the gallery. Poe and Tim Blum …
Darlington Trio close out Grove Classics season at the library with Kodaly and Dvorak
Darlington Trio closed out the Grove Classics 2023 season in a flamboyant offering of East European attitude on Sunday. In a tale of two halves, WASO assistant concertmaster Semra Lee …
The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal
More than five years after announcing its renovation plans, the Frick Collection is 83 percent of the way there. The Manhattan-based museum is now entering the public phase of the …
Winners from the 2023 Performing Arts WA Awards at Heath Ledger Theatre
Tennis-inspired contemporary dance, a creepy and kooky gothic family musical, a Donnybrook footy comedy, breathtaking Noongar Swan Lake, epic Elizabethan drama and ground-breaking theatre making with telephones were among the …
Andy Warhol’s Watch Is Coming to Auction
An Andy Warhol is hitting the auction block this December. The lot isn’t one of his renowned prints or paintings, however, but a valuable watch previously owned and worn by …
Spike Lee Opens Up About His Brooklyn Museum Exhibition
There are few figures as emblematic of—and beloved to—New York City culture than Spike Lee. In the modern era, maybe Fran Lebowitz or Aaron Judge compare. Along those lines, a …
Review: ‘Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955’
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. …
The transformative impact of the America’s Cup on Fremantle
In the world of sailing, few events are as iconic and prestigious as the America’s Cup. Four decades ago, Fremantle witnessed a monumental shift as the yacht, Australia II, successfully …
PICA presents Roberta Joy Rich major solo exhibition The Purple Shall Govern
Nigella Lawson and Martin Luther King Jr may seem like an unlikely combination to ignite the passion of Roberta Joy Rich’s artistic practice, but that is exactly what happened towards …