“Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave” at White Cube New York
Tracey Emin is a bit of a bad girl in the art world. Her confessional artwork feels like a soundtrack to the 1990s; parts Courtney Love, Fiona Apple, Sarah MacLachlan …
Visual Art
On View Now: ‘In Our Hands’ at Minneapolis Institute of Art
If you’ve first encountered Native American images in 19th-century archives portraying Natives as exotic subjects, you’re sadly not alone. The Minneapolis Institute of Art redresses this historical violence and injustice …
Former Director Aaron De Groft Countersues the Orlando Museum of Art
The museum director at the heart of an ongoing saga involving Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings of disputed authenticity is now attempting to clear his name. Aaron De Groft, former head of …
Review: ‘Pacita Abad’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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. …
An Interview with Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley puts a lot of effort into installations with the expectation that audiences will put in just as much or even more. The artist, who prefers not to use …
Tracey Emin’s Appointment as British Museum Trustee Is Groundbreaking
Tracey Emin, the English confessional artist renowned for her unapologetically autobiographical installations, prints and neon signs, is the newest trustee at the British Museum. While Emin’s work has been a …
The Morgan Library & Museum Is Gearing Up to Celebrate Its Centennial
The legacy of American financier John Pierpont Morgan is everywhere in New York. In addition to the pivotal and ruthless role he played on Wall Street, which included heading the …
An Interview with Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung of Art-Bureau
Last week was the year’s biggest in the Shanghai art scene, with the opening of the West Bund and Art021 fairs and all their attendant satellite shows. Of these, one …
The National Gallery of Art Acquires First Haitian Works Via Donation
More than a dozen new pieces are entering the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in what represents the institution’s first acquisition of work by …
Review: Avery Singer at Hauser & Wirth, London
September 11 continues to haunt our collective consciousness. Last month, when Hamas militants launched a lethal incursion into Israel, the 2001 terrorist attack was conjured up by countless commentators as …