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Elisa Carollo

Arts Reporter

Elisa Carollo is an art writer, art advisor and curator with a focus on contemporary and ultra-contemporary art. With over a decade in the art business at different levels between secondary and primary market, as well as engaging institutions and Biennales, she covers the latest from the Art World and Art Market for Obsever.

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A Sotheby’s auctioneer in a black suit stands in front of a crowded room with Gustav Klimt’s portrait of a woman hanging beside a bidding screen showing Antonio Obá’s Alvorada—Musica Incidental Black Bird.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s Close 2025 With a Market Rebound Fueled by Luxury and New Buyers

By Elisa Carollo
Luigi Bonotto plays a white chess set with Yoko Ono, who wears a red hat, as photographers gather around them in a crowded room.

A Tribute to Luigi Bonotto, the Visionary Fluxus Patron Who Merged Art, Life and Industry

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery with multiple large-scale projections showing animated scenes from Lawrence Lek’s NOX series. In the center sits a modular concrete-like pavilion of tiled benches and vertical supports, lit from below with warm LEDs that accent the structure.

At the Bass in Miami, Lawrence Lek’s Odyssey for an Era Shaped by A.I.

By Elisa Carollo
Exterior view of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Building, showing its angled steel facade, glass canopy and upper-level cantilever against a partly cloudy sky.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Aims to Map a New Geography of American Art in ‘a Moment of Profound Transition’

By Elisa Carollo
A nighttime projection artwork illuminates the corner of a modern building, showing two glowing, white, spherical forms that resemble abstract planets beside scrolling text about “home.” The projection reflects in the building’s glass windows, casting soft light into the dark, empty parking lot below.

The Art World Is Quietly Cutting Emissions Faster Than Expected, New Report Reveals

By Elisa Carollo
A gallery installation view shows multiple ceramic works arranged on the walls and two large ceramic sculptures on white pedestals, all illuminated by overhead spotlights on wooden floors. If you'd prefer these written in your Observer alt-text style (more concise, more atmosphe

Samuel Sarmiento’s Ceramics Channel Universal Memory in His U.S. Debut

By Elisa Carollo
A crowd of visitors gathers around an enclosure where several small four-legged robot creatures with realistic human heads move across the floor while people photograph and watch them.

What Zero 10 Can Tell Us About the Art World’s Next Chapter

By Elisa Carollo
A large illuminated sign reading "Collectors’ Week Abu Dhabi" stands against a purple sunset sky, surrounded by palm trees and greenery.

Sotheby’s Closes Its Inaugural Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week With $133 Million in Sales

By Elisa Carollo
A wide view of Palazzo De Seta in Palermo, with its neoclassical façade framed by palm trees and an open lawn in the foreground, set against distant mountain silhouettes under a clear sky.

What Hauser & Wirth’s Palermo Move Reveals About Cultural Branding in Art and Luxury

By Elisa Carollo
Another angle of the exhibition, highlighting the whimsical ceramic sculptures arranged on pedestals and a wooden table. The figures, with oversized heads and soft features, are displayed alongside vibrant paintings on the wall, creating a dialogue between sculpture and painting in a spacious, minimal gallery setting.

Otani Workshop’s Invitation to Revisit the Unfiltered Imagination of Early Life

By Elisa Carollo
A large triangular mirrored structure filled with colorful book spines stands on the sand at the edge of the ocean at sunset, surrounded by a circular platform glowing with soft light.

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

By Elisa Carollo
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