Observer’s Best Art Books of 2025
Our favorite new art books span museum insider accounts, histories of protest and fresh takes on how images shape politics. Courtesy the publishers This year...
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Owensboro Muesum of Fine Arts: About the Kentucky museum
An Owensboro visitor may not expect to encounter an art scene as rich as the one the west Kentucky city of roughly 60,000 boasts. It’s a facet of the city that...
Sky High Farm Biennial Unites Anne Imhof, Stingel, Tiravanija Upstate
Sky High Farm’s inaugural Biennial, “TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END,” explores the relationship between local ecology, history and industry. Photo:...
The Art Daddy Controversy: Anonymous Art Critic Sparks Industry Drama
The Art Daddy’s Instagram account offers a glimpse into the art world’s most unvarnished truths. The Art Daddy On August 26, Observer published an op-ed by...
Who Owns Street Art? | Observer
People remove a new artwork by Banksy, depicting a howling wolf painted on a satellite dish that was placed on a shop roof in Peckham, south London. Photo:...
Art Museum extends free busing program, plans for educational expansion
Students returned to classrooms Monday, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s education programming is also shifting back into school mode at its learning and...
Erin Schuppert Explains How New Collectors Are Transforming the Market
Erin Schuppert sees the next generation of buyers redefining what it means to collect art. Courtesy Affordable Art Fair Even with the recent high-profile...
The Death of the Full-Time Critic and the Future of Art Writing
What happens when writers like Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz become a thing of the past? David X Prutting/BFA.com The latest shakeup to hit the New York Times...
Daniel Klewer explores light, texture and story
Nakeshia Shannon | TALK Greenville Daniel Klewer is an abstract painter known for pushing the limits of paint as a material. A native of Milwaukee, Klewer...
Art Center Sarasota celebrates 100 years of making art accessible
Clinton Engelberger | Suncoast Searchlight Raised in Sarasota by a single mother, Katherine Ceaser’s first encounters with fine art came on school field...
