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At the Dallas Art Fair 2025, Local Resilience Shines Despite Economic Clouds

1 week ago | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

Art MarketAt the Dallas Art Fair 2025, Local Resilience Shines Despite Economic CloudsOlivia HornInstallation view of Sputnik Modern’s booth at the Dallas Art Fair, 2025. Photo by Exploredinary. Courtesy of the Dallas Art Fair. Portrait of Aarieanna Ware (Miss Texas USA) at the Dallas Art Fair, 2025. Photo by Exploredinary. Courtesy of the Dallas Art Fair. Thankfully, there were no vacant walls at the Dallas Art Fair 2025 when its VIP preview opened on Thursday, April 10th.
New MoMA director is Christophe Cherix, replacing Glenn Lowry.

3 weeks ago | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

Portrait of Christophe Cherix by Peter Ross. © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced on Friday that Christophe Cherix will become its next director, beginning this September. The Swiss curator, who is currently MoMA’s chief curator of drawings and prints, first joined the museum in 2007. He is set to succeed Glenn D. Lowry, who has led the institution since 1995.
Selena Gomez / Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Olivia Horn

For a star who’s been publicly unlucky in love, Selena Gomez has a surprisingly rich catalog of love songs. There’s the title track of her 2015 album, Revival, whose subject basks in the romantic glow of self-discovery. Her biggest hit to date is a profession of tenderness for a woman rising from the ashes of heartbreak. You see what I’m getting at: Gomez has historically been the object of her own affection.
In Alfie Caine’s Paintings, Dreamy Interiors Meet Surreal Landscapes

1 month ago | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

Some boys collect Hot Wheels, some collect comic books. Alfie Caine collected miniature chairs. When the rising painter was growing up in London, he funneled a precocious love of furniture into acquiring dollhouse-sized models of iconic designs, like the Prouvé Standard Chair and the Eames LCW Lounge. He arranged them into imagined rooms on shelves in his bedroom—foreshadowing the pristine, just-so interiors that would later become the focus of his paintings.
Melissa Joseph’s Felted Wool Portraits Are Cocoons of Memory and Heritage

Oct 21, 2024 | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

It’s hard to know where to look first in Melissa Joseph’s midtown Manhattan studio. Perhaps the work table, piled with tufts of wool in an array of colors that would make the Crayola 64-pack blush? Perhaps the heap of tires in the corner, or the knickknacks that line the windows overlooking 39th Street. Or maybe a small, figurative felt piece displayed in a shadow box frame, depicting a sunset, as filtered through the frame of a cell phone screen.
Charli XCX “brat”-ifies Storm King Art Center at album listening party.

Oct 11, 2024 | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

The brat green of summer is beginning to show its fall colors. In New Windsor, New York, on Thursday, shades of yellow and red could be seen streaking through the foliage of Storm King Art Center as the sculpture park welcomed a few hundred lucky guests. Their business there: to hear brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, a new album of remixes by the British pop singer Charli XCX, ahead of its Friday release.
Inside Mary Cassatt’s World of Mothers, Babies, and Subtle Feminist Politics

Jun 20, 2024 | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

It would be unseemly behavior in a museum, but you’d be forgiven for wanting to nuzzle one of Mary Cassatt’s wondrously soft and textural pictures. Mother and Child (Maternal Kiss), a work on paper from 1896, is a particularly inviting candidate. The fulsome cheeks of its subjects, presumably a mother and daughter, are gently smushed together; wisps of silky hair are tucked into bows and buns; streaks of pastel sweep like taffy pulled across the paper.
Inside Esther, New York’s New Alternative Art Fair with a DIY Spirit

May 2, 2024 | artsy.net | Olivia Horn

On an unassuming block on East 34th Street, near the East River, is a 1898 French Beaux Arts townhouse. As the city’s fortnight of art fairs gets underway, many New York art denizens may find themselves here, possibly for the first time—just under two miles, but a metaphorical world away from the headline appeal of Frieze New York at The Shed and its various satellites.
The Tortured Poets Department /

Apr 22, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Olivia Horn

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Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department / The Anthology

Apr 22, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Olivia Horn

Taylor Swift’s music was once much bigger than her. A born storyteller, she gathered up the emotional ephemera of her life and molded it into indelible songs about herself, but also about young women—about their sorrow, their desire, their wit and will. She was the girl next door with the platinum pen, her feelings worth hearing about not simply because they existed but because she turned them into art. Those days are gone.