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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Interview: Maggie Lemak On the Appeal of the Art Novel
Maggie Lemak. Courtesy Bond & Grace Over the past few years, the publisher Bond & Grace has come to be known, among a certain set of readers, for its...
Enjoy Art In A Historic Gilded Age Setting
Entrance Hall, The Frick Collection, New York © Nicholas Venezia The Frick Collection reopened on Manhattan’s Upper East Side this spring after a five-year,...
4 Events, Fairs and Shows You Can’t Miss This Summer
In winter, Aspen is a monochrome, minimalist paradise—stark volumes and faces carved by time and the trails of avid outdoorsmen. In summer, the technicolor...
Meet the Jewish architects who designed NYC’s iconic art deco buildings
The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Radio City Music Hall. One thing these iconic New York buildings all have in common: They’re all built in the...
The fine line between art and pornography
(Image credit: Getty Images) For more than 100 years, activists have drawn attention to the depiction of female nudes in art. Is it time to look at them with...
Canvas, capital: Rising role of art business in world economy
Art has always had a double life, as both an expression of human spirit and a repository of value. From Renaissance patronage to today’s multimillion-dollar...
How Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo and ADMAF Are Driving UAE’s Cultural Rise
Still, as Alkhamis-Kanoo emphasizes, the real transformation runs deeper. An entirely new group of artists, cultural leaders, collectors and audiences is...
Does Where Music Or Art Is From Matter Anymore?
Everything, including the code to power algorithms, came from someone at some point. Are we as a society forgetting that? Within the rise of artificial...
