Willem de Kooning
Meet the Collector: John Jonas On Living With Art
Jonas’s light-filled Williamsburg apartment was designed by Labscape specifically to house his collection, now spanning more than 100 works. Photo: Arno Reyes Baetz for Observer When one grows up...
At 93, Joan Semmel Continues to Assert the Female Gaze
Transitions (2012) by Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum in New York. Photo: Fred Voon for Observer In 1973, when no gallery in New York would show her vivid...
In New York, Sotheby’s Repositions Itself as a Cultural Destination
Sotheby’s new Breuer location is quickly becoming a cultural destination. Photograph by Emma Milligan/Sotheby’s Sotheby’s reported unprecedented attendance last month for its record-shattering $1.173 billion marquee week sales—with queues...
The Early Experiments of Manoucher Yektai
In Untitled (1953-54), impasto strokes conjure the impression of a flower bouquet without clearly defining its forms. Courtesy of Karma Gallery and the estate of Manoucher Yektai In the...
A Museum Lover’s Guide to Maryland’s Glenstone
Glenstone’s name comes from Glen Road, where the property line begins, and a type of carderock stone found in Montgomery County. Photo by Goran Kosanovic/ For The Washington Post...
Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People
POWER WILL ALWAYS BE THE REAL COIN OF THE ART WORLD, regardless of how many dollars enter a gallery's ledger. It takes a remarkable amount of power to become...
Arshile Gorky’s New York in Image and Memory
Berenice Abbott, Broadway near Broome Street, 1935. From The New York Public Library. Courtesy The Arshile Gorky Foundation and Hauser & Wirth It’s 1924 in New York City. Thirty-four...
Art from the Riggio Collection Will Go On the Auction Block This Spring
René Magritte, L’empire des lumières, 1949. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025 An “anthology of 20th-century masterpieces” is coming to Christie’s, courtesy of art collector Louise Riggio, widow of the late...
