Christa Terry, Arts Editor

Overwhelmed? Sad? Frustrated? I recommend you look at my dog for a while.

@kramerposts What I always say to those people is: go to any airport and look around. In under a minute, you will be 100 percent disabused of the notion that only the hottest people partner up.

I feel like every time I go to the farmers market I see a dozen different couples that defy all the false dating narratives online… the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen holding hands with a guy a foot shorter than her, a freakish male model gym specimen who targets muscles you don’t even know exist paired up with the quirky and slightly overweight shy girl… real lovers, at scale, are operating on levels of mutual curiosity and connection that no narrative could ever hope to encompass, for all real lovers know that romance is about expanding your reality together, not shrinking it to fit inside of a shallow and reductive cultural narrative. The only thing that matters, the only thing that has ever mattered, is how they make each other feel.

It's the 20th day of #WomensHistoryMonth Here are works by Alma Thomas Dorothea Tanning Anne Truitt Rosie Lee Tompkins #womenartists

Danielle Orchard’s Indescribable Yearning observer.com/2026/03/exhibi…

Optimism in 2025 masked a market quietly restructuring around local collectors, lower price tiers and rising costs. observer.com/2026/03/art-ba…

"In 2025, primary market galleries reached gender parity" #AboutTime 👏👏👏 Gotta start somewhere!

@observer Rediscovered Gentileschi works at TEFAF: thrilling. Her handling of fabric and light on copper rivals any male contemporary.

The most recent Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report confirms that headline-generating auctions, stronger dealer sales and cautious optimism in 2025 masked a market quietly restructuring around local collectors, lower price tiers and rising costs. observer.com/2026/03/art-ba…

In "Borrowed Chord" at Perrotin Paris, she immerses the viewer in a world of female subjectivity rendered with the cool authority of a classicist and the instincts of a modernist. observer.com/2026/03/exhibi…

San Juan’s Artists Are Shaping Puerto Rico’s Cultural Future One Space at a Time observer.com/2026/01/artist…

The Best Classic #Books That Feel Surprisingly Contemporary observer.com/list/best-clas…

Peak era for social media was around 2008-2018 because people posted real information about their lives to people who actually knew them—it was wholesome. Now it’s basically just a way to talk about current events with strangers. No wonder so many are unwell.

Hanging by a Thread: Inside the Death-Defying World of Rappel Graffiti observer.com/2026/03/inside…

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” Adds an Essential Chapter to the Movement’s History observer.com/2026/03/art-ex…

Danielle Orchard’s Indescribable Yearning observer.com/2026/03/exhibi…

The Best Classic Books That Feel Surprisingly Contemporary observer.com/list/best-clas…

I think sometimes people really don’t understand what it takes to be at world class level in things and will readily assume that nobody ever thinks hard or works hard to get there. It’s a very strange phenomenon to me.

Pier Paolo Calzolari On the Quiet Alchemy of Time observer.com/2026/02/artist…

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

don't comment on the dinergoth article unless you worked in a grocery store in the bible belt where your trans coworker introduced you to jujutusu kaisen, the opener lived in a sephiroth hoodie, & the 20 year-old manager said she worshipped Aphrodite, before leaving abruptly ✌️

None of Morandi's pictures are simple once you start to think how they were made. Once you get beyond admiration of his skill you start to wonder about him working in his bedroom and living with his sisters in a flat in Bologna, and how he produced purity of form like this.