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Dan Duray

Dan Duray is a writer in Brooklyn whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Bookforum, The Baffler, The Economist, W magazine, and Town & Country, among other publications.

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Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

By The Editors, Christa Terry, Dan Duray, Elisa Carollo, Farah Abdessamad and Merin Curotto
An artwork consisting of two beer cans painted and set on a plaque

One Fine Show: “Five Friends” at Museum Ludwig in Köln

By Dan Duray
An installation composed of two weathered wooden chairs facing slightly away from each other with a pale fabric sheet stretched between them, illustrating Robert Rauschenberg’s Sant’Agnese (Venetian) (1973) and reflecting his exploration of everyday materials and poetic tension.

One Fine Show: “Robert Rauschenberg, Fabric Works of the 1970s” at the Menil Collection

By Dan Duray
An art viewer stands in a gallery looking at two large, colorful paintings mounted on adjacent walls, illustrating the exhibition.

Juana Williams and Julie Egan of DETROIT SALON On Bringing Motor City’s Art to the World

By Dan Duray
An ocean-level view captures a large offshore gas platform with a white canvas marked by a red vertical streak, seen partially through the surface of the surrounding water.

In Anish Kapoor’s Hands, an Offshore Gas Rig Became a Call for Climate Accountability

By Dan Duray
An oil painting shows a young boy wearing a large brown hat and loose tan clothing, holding a cracked egg in one hand while pinching his nose with the other, his expression suggesting the egg smells unpleasant.

One Fine Show: ‘Michaelina Wautier, Painter’ at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

By Dan Duray
A performer stands balanced on the hands of a packed audience inside a large, dimly lit industrial hall at Knockdown Center, surrounded by hundreds of cheering fans reaching upward under red stage lights.

Five Years On, Jeff Klingman’s Outline Festival Keeps New York Guessing

By Dan Duray
A man jumps out of a truck onto a rural road in front of a large herd of sheep blocking traffic, with two utility vehicles and a livestock trailer stopped as part of a sheep herding operation.

One Fine Show: ‘Jon Rafman’ at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

By Dan Duray

One Fine Show: ‘This is What You Get’ at the Ashmolean Museum

By Dan Duray
A series of sculptural metal works hang from the ceiling in a gallery with a grid of square skylights set into the ceiling

One Fine Show: ‘June Crespo, Danzante’ at Secession

By Dan Duray
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