As the word itself suggests, the role of the curator begins with “taking care.” Curators act as intermediaries between artists, institutions or galleries and audiences, but also as mediators within ...

Ten department heads and seven management editors will comprise the 2026-27 Editorial Board. The board collectively boasts 15 years of prior experience as editors, the most in the paper’s history.

Ronald and Valery Harrar in their Chelsea loft with a work by Andrea Marie Breiling. Photo: Arno Reyes Baetz for Observer (www.arnobaetz.com) The art world has always loved labels and for all involved ...

Who says server farms for data centers have to be on actual farmland? The properties now are targeting downtown sites, but there are pitfalls that come with the possibilities. We examine the debate, ...

The Observer-Dispatch has been telling Utica's stories for 200 years. Started in the days of the horse and buggy, open-hearth cooking and quill pens, the paper has gone on to chronicle everything from ...