Images via Serpentine Gallery. This summer the recently opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London celebrates its 12th anniversary. Since 2000, this architectural event has featured temporary struc...
Agata Olek yarn bombs Antony Gormley iron men sculptures, part of his Another Place series on Crosby beach, UK. “By covering them and giving them a new skin, I made them more alive,” says Olek. Read...
High-profile artists such as Jeff Koons invited to teach for a day at NYC public schools as part of Visual Arts Appreciation Week, started by the nonprofit Studio in a School. Read the article via T...
After a 10 month lockout, the contract dispute between NY art handlers and Sotheby’s has been resolved. The new agreement includes an increase in compensation and preserves health/retirement benefits...
All photos by Lisa Marsova for Art Observed. Canadian artist Bruce LaBruce has done extensive work in photography and film, with world premiers at such festivals as Sundance. He is perhaps best known...
Russian gallerist Dasha Zhukova presented plans yesterday to move her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture to a temporary venue designed by Shigeru Ban and constructed from paper tubes 24 inches i...
Parrish Art Museum to re-open in Water Mill on the East End of Long Island, November 10th. The 34,400 sqft building will nearly triple its current exhibition space. Read the article via NY Times
The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC has applied for a visa to allow artist Ai Weiwei to attend the opening of his exhibition. “The museum…is “optimistic” that the artist, althou...
Award winning documentary “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” to premier at NYC Film Forum June 13 and show through June 26. Read the article via Film Forum
The Cy Twombly foundation has paid $27.75 million for a 25-foot-wide Beaux Arts mansion near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with plans to convert it into a museum dedicated to his work. Twombly was...
The Economist writes on the political and economic factors behind mainland China-based galleries expanding into Hong Kong: “A presence in Hong Kong makes a lot of sense for us. We can show [our arti...
Collector sues Chicago gallery for losing signed instructions for Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #448”, “The unique nature of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings renders their accompanying certificates of authent...
Joan Miró’s “Peinture (Étoile Bleue)” to lead Sotheby’s London auction June 19, estimated to bring £15m-£20m. “[This is] one of Miró’s most important paintings, effortlessly bridging the transition ...
Anthony McCall, You and I Horizontal, (2006), installation view at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, (2006). Photo: Blaise Adilon. All images via Hamburger Bahnhof. Five Minutes of Pure Scul...
The WSJ reviews art dealer Michael Findlay’s book “The Value of Art” and his critical views on commoditization: “One of the signs of a decaying culture is a reverence for form over content,” he...
Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto to collaborate with Hermès for new collection of scarves, featuring patterns from his photography exhibition “Colors of Shadow”. Read the article via Women’s Wear...
Yayoi Kusama’s traveling exhibition to make its final stop at the Whitney on July 2. “This survey celebrates a career of exceptional duration and distinction, tracing the development of Kusama...
A new interview with artist and social activist Ai Wei Wei highlights his continued conflict with the Chinese government: ““It has never been important to stay, until now”, “I never really thi...
NY Times reports on the theories and paradoxes behind the value of art “Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make money.” Read the article via The NY Times
George Condo‘s cover art for Kanye West‘s new single “Cold” released. Read the article via Highsnobiety
Christie’s to offer the “The Lock” by John Constable, expected to sell at £20 million to £25 million, at its Old Master & British Paintings Evening Auction in London on July 3rd. “This superb la...
New York-based artist Hanna Liden’s show Ghost Town is on now at Maccarone Gallery in the West Village. The show features mixed media sculptures, installations, and photographs; most of which represe...
Larry Gagosian enlists architect Annabelle Selldorf to help open a café including new gallery space at his flagship Gagosian Gallery on 980 Madison Avenue. Read the article via GalleristNY
A review of notable culinary destinations within the art hamlet of Marfa, Texas “the extreme rural center-of-the-universe equivalent to New York.” Read the article via Papermag
Jackson Pollock’s “Mural on Indian Red Ground” valued at $250 million, has returned to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art after being detained (in transit from Tokyo) at Iran customs due to outsta...
Robert Wilson, Video Portraits (2007). All photos by Ryann Donnelly for Art Observed. Short films by avant-garde theater director and visual artist, Robert Wilson are on view in New York’s Time...
Nine artworks donated to the Tate, including pieces by David Hockney, Lucian Freud, and Jacob Epstein, “[this gift] greatly enriched the national collection of art”, says director Sir Ni...
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese (1959). Images via Gagosian Gallery. Ambienti Spaziali, a retrospective of artist Lucio Fontana’s work is on view now at Gagosian Gallery. Curated by the nota...
The Dia Art Foundation hires architect Roger Duffy to construct its new Chelsea home, “We want to make sure that 22nd Street will re-engage with new generations of artists,” says Dia’s director Phili...
Forbes writes on Ukraine’s shift from its Soviet past towards a landscape more conducive to contemporary art thanks to such endeavors as the First Kiev International Biennale and the Pinchuk A...
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