Dan Duray

New York

Writer and Reporter at Freelance

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Paola Mura Reflects On the Material Universality of Artist Maria Lai’s Work

3 weeks ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Paola Mura, artistic director of Magazzino Italian Art. Marco AnelliThe New York museum Magazzino Italian Art has just opened a show of work by artist Maria Lai (1919-2013), “A Journey to America,” which represents the recently rediscovered artist’s first retrospective in the United States.
Exhibition Review: ‘Caravaggio 2025’ at Palazzo Barberini in Rome

3 weeks ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

The exhibition invites visitors to contemplate an artistic legacy defined by the artist’s profound emotional depth and unmatched technical mastery. Photo: Alberto Novelli & Alessio PanunziWelcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to visit the Louvre during their partnership with the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Exhibition Review: ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern

4 weeks ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Fergus Greer, Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 2 (1988). Photo: © Fergus Greer, courtesy Michael Hoppen GalleryWelcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. When sorting through all the stories, it’s important to remember that Andy Warhol’s Factory had a certain underpinning of blue-collar conservatism.
What Collectors Really Want from Galleries, According to Artsy’s Casey Lesser

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Casey Lesser, chief curator at Artsy, offered up key takeaways from the 2025 Art Market Trends report. Courtesty ArtsyLate last month, Artsy released its Art Market Trends 2025, a report analyzing the art market that offers another view of the business alongside the UBS/Art Basel report, still widely regarded as the authority.
One Fine Show: “Survival of the Fittest” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Richard Friese, Polar Bear and Eiders on the Coast. Rik Klein Gotink - Rijksmseum TwentheWelcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. The longer I live in New York, the more I have come to appreciate pigeons.
In Tactile New Works, Sheree Hovsepian Explores the Physicality of Experience

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Sheree Hovsepian. Photo: Levi WaltonEarlier this month, Sheree Hovsepian opened “Figure Ground,” her second solo exhibition at Uffner & Liu (formerly Rachel Uffner Gallery). The show features four distinct bodies of output—traditional silver gelatin photographs, ink-on-paper drawings, mixed media assemblages and bronze sculptures—and constitutes a major offering of new pieces from a celebrated artist whose work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R.
One Fine Show: “Wayne Thiebaud, Art Comes from Art” at the Legion of Honor

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Wayne Thiebaud, Five Seated Figures, 1965; oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 182.88 cm). Wayne Thiebaud Foundation © Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NYWelcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.
Christie’s Isabella Lauria Talks Basquiat, Market Shifts and What Makes a Masterpiece

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Isabella Lauria. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025It’s the week of the big spring auctions in New York, and art collectors with a little left over in their pockets from the fair weekend now turn their attention to the big three houses. Last May Christie's, Sotheby’s and Phillips sold $1.4 billion during this season, a 22 percent decrease from 2023. Will we see a return to form this week?
One Fine Show: ‘Gabriel Orozco, Politécnico Nacional’ at Museo Jumex

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

Gabriel Orozco, La DS (Cornaline), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/Los AngelesWelcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Back in February, much of the art world migrated to Mexico, where the weather was better and there was the most art to be seen by quantity.
The Five Pieces You Should Absolutely Make Time for at Frieze New York

1 month ago | observer.com | Dan Duray

The most resonant pieces at Frieze revel in their ambiguity. Casey Kelbaugh/CKAEvery year, New Yorkers eager to see what’s new at the city’s edition of Frieze trek out to The Shed at Hudson Yards, a building used for this art fair, a silly play about Robert Moses and presumably other purposes.