Alina Cohen

“Even though this film is about a muse/author relationship, it’s also about a woman’s relationship to herself,” the director tells Observer.

From Zadie Smith’s essay collection written in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, to Sarah Gerard’s sophomore novel, here are the best new books to read this July.

With ‘Death in Her Hands,’ Ottessa Moshfegh continues her theme of creating characters who are trying desperately to escape—from themselves.

There couldn’t be better time to read the essays collected in Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency.’

Kawakami is already a star in Japan, where Haruki Murakami has proclaimed her his favorite novelist. A three-book deal with Europa brings her to English readers for the first time, starting with &#…

Salman Toor—whose solo show at the Whitney was postponed—paints lush, bohemian gatherings that make me yearn for the time before social distancing.

As they attempt to cultivate the next generation of art collectors, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips are pursuing some unorthodox strategies.

Cain’s protagonist, Vitória, transitions from working as a cleaning lady at an art museum to an unhappily married wealthy woman to orchestrating a divorce that will leave her financially able…

As the decade comes to a close, we reflect on where the art world is headed in the 2020s.

The “boy pharaoh” only reigned over Egypt for nine years but, millennia later, he continues to rule the world’s imagination.

Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic” both reveals and conceals its subject matter, functioning as a brutal record and an homage to science.

The master of cinematic mood has created a suite of eerie, beguiling, and poignant new paintings.

Since the middle of the 20th century, the idea of movements has eroded as the art world has become increasingly fractured.

If you’re considering applying to a residency, there are steps you can take to ensure the best possible experience.

When a Japanese company couldn’t decide which auction house to sell its art collection through, it put the decision in the auctioneers’ hands.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s flirtatious “The Swing” offers a peek inside an illicit garden of earthly delights.

In post-war Japan, the founders of the avant-garde Metabolism movement sought to create architecture inspired by nature.

Formidable women across centuries and continents have wielded influence through their impassioned support of art and culture.

David Brooks argues that our creative era is rife with artists making impersonal protest gestures. There’s much more to the story.

Her prescient essays, “On Photography” (1977), articulated the concerns we have about images today.