December 8th, 2023
![Hernan Bas's 'The Conceptualists' at The Bas](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231206_201239-440x294.jpg)
Hernan Bas’s “The Conceptualists” series at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach presents a unique exploration into themes of queerness, desire, the occult, and the absurd. The series, inspired by the unusual hobbies and activities people took up during the pandemic, features fictitious conceptual artists performing eccentric behaviors. This approach offers a perspective on the boundaries and perceptions of conceptual art, questioning the very definition of artistic expression.
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December 7th, 2023
![IMG_20231207_095320](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231207_095320-440x418.jpg)
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 is currently taking place from December 8 to December 10, 2023, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This edition features 277 international galleries, with a notable presence from North and Latin America, including 25 galleries participating for the first time. The event includes different sectors such as the Meridians, dedicated to large-scale artworks, and the Kabinett, with curated installations. Additionally, the Conversations program offers live debates on art and culture, with a focus on Latin America. The fair also collaborates with various institutions and collections for events across Miami Beach. Read More »
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November 29th, 2023
![Abramovic - Royal Academy](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Abramovic-Royal-Academy-1.jpg)
Modern art is full of determined characters. The ones who find success are visionary, changing the face of the contemporary art scene. Marina Abramović‘s exhibition at the Royal Academy marks the first retrospective of a female artist in the institution’s 255 years. The exhibition is one of the largest, occupying the academy’s previously unused rooms. While it was initially planned for September 2020, due to Covid-19 it was postponed numerous times. During this period Abramović suffered an embolism which prevented her from performing in the show as initially planned. It’s an unfortunate reality for an artist who is usually so generous with herself as a performer. Read More »
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November 21st, 2023
![Maria-Ellen-AO COVER](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Maria-Ellen-AO-COVER-440x329.jpg)
Cover images courtesy of Ola Wilk via Maria Kreyn; and Ellen Frances.
For its first artist-on-artist interview, Art Observed sat down with New York-based painter Maria Kreyn and multidisciplinary artist and performer Ellen Frances to talk about their individual practices and their collaboration for the opening of Kreyn’s solo show Untune a String at The Hole in Tribeca earlier this month. In their conversation with Art Observed, the two artists discuss the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration, the enduring resonance of classical artistic and literary forms, and their visions for the future. Read More »
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October 19th, 2023
![Henry Taylor, I Got Brothers All Ova The World But They Forget We're Related (2023), via Hauser & Wirth](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Henry-Taylor-I-Got-Brothers-All-Ova-The-World-But-They-Forget-Were-Related-2023-via-Hauser-Wirth-440x385.jpg)
Henry Taylor, I Got Brothers All Ova The World But They Forget We’re Related (2023), via Hauser & Wirth
Marking its inaugural outing at its new Paris exhibition space, Hauser & Wirth looks west to the work of critically acclaimed Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor, whose major career survey arrives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York on 4 October 2023 and will remain on view through January 2024. Taylor’s exhibition in Paris, the artist’s first prominent show in France, comprises a wide range of over 30 paintings, sculptures and works on paper encompassing the remarkable breadth of his practice. Read More »
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October 18th, 2023
Alex Israel, Self-Portrait (Palette) (2023)
Alex Israel returns to Almine Rech in Paris this fall for his fifth solo show with the gallery, adding a new perspective and mode of interpretation to the understanding and recontextualization of Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death. Treating the artist’s life and work as a fitting jumping-off point for continued explorations of the intersections of art and pop culture, of image and practice, or even of ego vs. landscape, Israel turns his attention to another aspect of Picasso’s legacy: La Californie.
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October 17th, 2023
![Wade Guyton, Galerie Matthiesen, Ausstellung, Edouard Manet, 1928, 6. Februar bis 18. März, Vol. II (2022), via Chantal Crousel](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Galerie-Matthiesen-Ausstellung-Edouard-Manet-1928-6.-Februar-bis-18.-März-Vol.-II-2022-440x465.jpg)
Wade Guyton, Galerie Matthiesen, Ausstellung, Edouard Manet, 1928, 6. Februar bis 18. März, Vol. II (2022), via Chantal Crousel
Opening in Paris during the run of Art Basel’s Paris+ art fair, Galerie Chantal Crousel has opened a solo show of works on paper by artist Wade Guyton, marking the artist’s first foray into lithography. Mining the intersections of digital graphics and analog printing, long a juxtaposition and source of both tension and inspiration in the artist’s work, the show features a range of sourced material from printed matter. Read More »
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October 16th, 2023
![Tony Matelli, Displacement Map 2 (2023), via AndreÌhn-Schiptjenko](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tony-Matelli-Displacement-Map-2-2023-via-AndreÌhn-Schiptjenko.jpg)
Tony Matelli, Displacement Map 2 (2023), via AndreÌhn-Schiptjenko
AndreÌhn-Schiptjenko Paris presents Displacement Map this fall, a new solo exhibition with New York-based artist Tony Matelli. The exhibition, the 8th with the gallery and the second one in Paris, will feature recent works shown for the first time, among these, a life-sized self-portrait and a series of Arrangements, polychrome bronze bouquets of inverted flowers as well as a number of paintings, the first time the artist has shown in this medium.
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October 12th, 2023
![Michael Dean, Four Fuck Sakes (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Michael-Dean-Four-Fuck-Sakes-Installation-View-via-Andrew-Kreps-440x352.jpg)
Michael Dean, Four Fuck Sakes (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps
Michael Dean’s idiosyncratic work draws on language in its wildest sense. Often based on his own writing, Dean broadens what we understand to be the written word into a manifestation of semiotics and typographical abstractions—such as emoticons and logos that morph into three dimensional glyphs. Regularly deploying accessible materials, Dean draws out new language with which the forms themselves are at once a personal vernacular, and a physical configuration. The transitional movement from word-to-image-to-being becomes an amalgamation of symmetrical and physical intimacy. Read More »
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October 11th, 2023
![Ai Weiwei at Galleria Continua](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ai-Weiwei-at-Galleria-Continua-440x484.jpg)
Ai Weiwei at Galleria Continua, all images via Art Observed
With the temperature cooling in the British capital, Frieze Art Fair has returned to Regent’s Park in London for its annual run, bringing with it a range international galleries, projects and talks that underscore its continued vitality in the world of contemporary art. The mood was high as collectors, gallerists and artists strode the fair’s aisle and booths in the early hours of the fair press preview, exploring the gallery booths and chatting below the bright lights of the fair tent, which lent a gleam to the impressive works on offer across the expanse of the fair.
![Marguerite Humeau at Clearing](http://artobserved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Marguerite-Humeau-at-Clearing-440x483.jpg)
Marguerite Humeau at Clearing
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