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article culture schedule Dec 20, 2025 visibility 25 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

art words of the year

Artnet News critic Ben Davis presents his annual "art words of the year" for 2025, a curated list of terms that capture prevailing moods and ideas in the art world. The list includes "antimemetics" (from writer Nadia Asparhouva and internet fiction), "cyniserity" (coined by art writer David Colman to describe Anne Imhoff's work), "delightmare" (a horror-adjacent feeling linked to overconsumption and AI art, exemplified by Beeple's Art Basel installation), "elite capture" (from philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's book, now a tool for critiquing identity politics in art), and "K-shaped" (an economic term describing divergent recovery, applied to gallery closures versus record auction sales).

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 17, 2025 visibility 14 link 15 artists, 1 gallery

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery has opened "State Fairs: Growing American Craft," the first exhibition since the Trump administration's August 2025 audit of all Smithsonian exhibitions, didactics, and collections. The audit, based on an executive order to "restore truth and sanity to American history," condemned discussions of racism, sexism, and oppression as revisionist history. The exhibition features over 250 works from across the United States, spanning the 19th century to the present, arguing that regional state and tribal fairs are essential sites for the development of American craft. It includes spectacular pieces like a 12-foot pair of Lucchese boots, a life-size butter sculpture, and works by artists such as Morgan Hill, Kelly Bohnenkamp, Betty Spindler, Linda Nez, Kaye D. Miller, and Peggie Hartwell.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

winston branch goodman gallery london

Caribbean British artist Winston Branch is the subject of his inaugural solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery in London, titled “Out of the Calabash.” The show features new and recent works alongside a historical piece, *Blue for Miles* (1982), and follows the announcement of his global representation by Goodman Gallery in partnership with Varvara Roza Galleries. Branch, who first exhibited at the alternative art space Arts Lab led by Jim Hanes nearly six decades ago, creates abstract paintings that explore light and color, often working on canvas placed on the floor.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 16, 2025 visibility 21 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

alex prager los angeles

Alex Prager has created "Mirage Factory," an immersive installation inside a former Miami Beach cinema that pays tribute to her hometown of Los Angeles while critiquing its illusions. The installation features meticulously crafted sets, a new photograph, and a dining experience by chef Dave Beran, alongside a live performance by Diana Ross. It opened with private events for Capital One cardholders and the Cultivist art club, and is now public through December 4, with proceeds benefiting Heal the Bay.

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art market minute dec 15

The article reports on the state of the art market at the end of 2025, noting that while it has been a difficult year with three years of contraction, there are signs of improvement. Recent sales in Miami and $2.2 billion in marquee auctions in New York last month have boosted optimism. Factors such as lower interest rates and easing geopolitical tensions are contributing to a slightly rosier outlook for 2026, though the article warns that some sectors will recover while others may not for some time.

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article culture schedule Dec 12, 2025 visibility 25 link 13 artists, 6 galleries

artists dealers

A growing number of prominent art dealers across New York, London, Los Angeles, Brussels, and Reykjavik began their careers as artists, not salespeople. Figures like Jack Hanley, Sebastian Gladstone, Börkur Arnarson of i8 Gallery, and the team behind Galerie Sardine (Joe Bradley and Valentina Akerman) all transitioned from studio practice to gallery ownership. The article explores how their firsthand experience as artists shapes their approach to representing others, from patience with the creative process to building artist-centered business models.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 11, 2025 visibility 25 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

design miami 2025 brings out creatures and comfort

Design Miami 2025 preview drew a bustling crowd with over 70 exhibitors under the theme "Make Believe." Highlights included Katie Stout's whimsical carousel featuring marine animals, Roham Shamekh's biomorphic "Roots" sofa with integrated headphones, and ATRA's futuristic "Intelligence of Evolution" seating system upholstered in Hermès fabric. The Spanish silver brand Garrido showcased collaborations with Peter Marino, while the fair's 20th anniversary edition embraced a carnivalesque atmosphere with popcorn and mirrored walls.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 10, 2025 visibility 35 link 18 artists, 12 galleries

these galleries dropped out of art basel miami beach heres what happened next

Several galleries withdrew from Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 amid rising costs and a contracting art market, leaving some like San Francisco's Altman Siegel facing cancellation fees despite closing. Claudia Altman-Siegel, who shut her gallery, owed $22,000 after missing the free-cancellation deadline. Other dealers, including Miguel Abreu, Tilton Gallery, and Sperone Westwater, navigated the fair's strict payment terms for different reasons—some pulling out early to avoid penalties, others proceeding despite business challenges. The fair proceeded with 283 exhibitors and reported strong sales, including an $18.5 million Joan Mitchell painting, signaling a potential market upturn.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 9, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

dana james ink moon hollis taggart

New York-based artist Dana James presents her third solo show with Hollis Taggart, titled “Ink Moon,” at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. The exhibition marks a significant shift in her practice, moving from her signature soft pastels and feminine sensibility toward bolder, more gestural works featuring near-black hues, intense primary colors, and expressive mark-making. James created the new body of work while navigating an advancing pregnancy, which she says pushed her work in a more intense direction rather than the expected softer style.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 26 link 9 artists, 3 galleries

parker gallery artnews awards 2025 best gallery group show

Parker Gallery in Los Angeles mounted its final exhibition, “Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels,” at its longtime home in the Los Feliz neighborhood from February 1 to October 19, 2025. The show featured an intergenerational group of artists—including Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Nancy Shaver, Ruby Neri, Shio Kusaka, Zachary Leener, and Daisy Sheff—who had previously exhibited at the gallery, invited back to explore the theme of the container as form. Works in ceramic ranged from small hand-held bowls to large-scale sculptures, displayed within the domestic space of founder Sam Parker’s home, adding intimacy and resonance.

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article policy schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

aclj watertown school keith haring

A school district in Watertown, New York, is facing potential legal action from the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative Christian legal organization, after a middle school art teacher assigned students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation website and interpret two of the artist's works from the 1980s. Parents complained at a school board meeting that the assignment exposed 11- and 12-year-olds to sexually explicit content. The ACLJ sent a letter to Superintendent Larry Schmiegel on November 21, demanding a reprimand for the teacher, parental consent forms for future sensitive content, and counseling for affected students, threatening litigation if the district did not respond by December 1. The teacher resigned in November but was rehired as an English teacher.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 20 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

alex prager mirage factory miami beach

Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager has opened "Mirage Factory," an immersive installation on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, taking over the historic Beach Theatre. The project features three constructed set pieces that explore Los Angeles history, including a 1:12 scale model of Hollywood Boulevard with landmarks like Grauman's Chinese Theatre and Musso & Frank's, an orange grove with real trees and fake citrus, and a lush garden party set in Griffith Park. The installation is part of an ongoing collaboration between Capital One and the Cultivist, and includes an immersive dining experience by chef Dave Beran, with a performance by Diana Ross. The public can visit on December 4 and 5, 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 13 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

jr paris pont neuf christo jeanne claude

French artist JR will wrap Paris's oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, in images of the limestone rock formations from which it was originally built in the 16th century. The project, titled "La Caverne du Pont Neuf," is scheduled for June 2026 and marks the 41st anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's iconic wrapping of the same bridge in 1985. JR's installation was delayed by a year due to logistical and technical complications, echoing the famously tardy nature of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's large-scale works. The project was offered to JR by Vladimir Yavachev, director of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, who wanted an interpretation rather than a reinstallation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

yun fei ji james cohan

Chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji presents a new body of work in the exhibition “Riding the Tiger” at James Cohan Gallery in New York. The paintings draw on archetypes from Chinese folklore and the 16th-century novel *Journey to the West*, blending fantastical imagery with recognizable human scenes to explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions of migration. Works such as *The Sweep Up of Animal Spirits* and *The Round Up #1* directly reference the persecution of immigrants by government agencies, using symbols like tigers, buddhas, and livestock to critique power structures.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 20 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

es devlin library miami

Es Devlin's *The Library of Us*, a 20-foot-tall rotating bookshelf containing 2,500 books, debuted as a major spectacle during Miami Art Week. Installed on Miami Beach within a circular pool of water, the sculpture invites visitors to step onto a rotating platform, creating shifting social encounters with strangers. By day it towers over the sand, and by night it glows like a beacon. The work also includes an audio track of quotes from the books, some of which have been banned by Florida schools, and Devlin plans to donate all volumes to Miami public schools and libraries after the installation ends.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 15 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

mariko mori radiance sean kelly gallery

Japanese artist Mariko Mori presents "Radiance," a new body of work at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, exploring ancient Japanese cosmologies and spiritual traditions through ultra-contemporary materials. The exhibition features a shrine-like installation with hanging white silk, faceted dichroic sculptures such as *Oshito Stone III* and *Kamitate Stone I* (both 2025), and a series of "Unity" photo paintings that blend art, science, and spirituality. The show runs through December 20, 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

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Ayoung Kim's video "Delivery Dancer's Sphere" (2022) captures the experience of delivery workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Seoul, following two female riders navigating the city via app-based systems. Kim shadowed real delivery workers to create the work, which blends documentary footage, anime-style animation, and AI-generated imagery. The video is part of a series that will be featured in Kim's first US solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York, opening this week, and she will also debut a new motion-capture piece at the Performa festival later this month. Kim recently won a $100,000 award from the Guggenheim Museum and LG.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

french artist jr to wrap pont neuf in paris as christo tribute

French artist JR has announced plans to wrap the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris in June 2025, as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The project, titled "Pont Neuf Cavern," marks the 30-year anniversary of the couple's original wrapping of the same bridge in 1985. JR was approached by Christo's nephew Vladimir Yavachev, director of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, to take on the challenge. The 761-foot bridge will be swathed in fabric, recalling the couple's signature monumental interventions.

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person people schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 28 link 19 artists, 4 galleries

tristan unrau

Tristan Unrau, a 36-year-old Los Angeles-based painter originally from Canada, creates works that deliberately avoid a singular style, instead copying or channeling a vast range of art historical sources—from Old Masters and Modernists to cartoons and photorealism. His pluralistic approach has earned him a dedicated following, and David Kordansky Gallery announced representation of the artist this fall, planning a major solo exhibition in Los Angeles in March 2026. Unrau, who earned his MFA at UCLA, is currently preparing for that show in his East Hollywood studio, producing paintings that reference artists such as Bruegel, Jean-Luc Godard, František Kupka, Emil Nolde, and Willem de Kooning.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists, 8 galleries

art miami aqua art miami context art miami fair

Miami Art Week 2025 features three interrelated fairs—Art Miami, Context Art Miami, and Aqua Art Miami—running from December 2–7. Art Miami, celebrating its 35th year at One Herald Plaza, hosts over 160 galleries from 24 countries with blue-chip and emerging works, including a never-before-seen Alex Katz piece and Keith Haring's Subway Drawings. Context Art Miami returns for its 13th edition as a platform for emerging and mid-career artists with nearly 70 galleries, while Aqua Art Miami on Miami Beach transforms the Aqua Hotel into an intimate fair space for its 19th year.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 26 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

sam falls collaborates with ruinart

Sam Falls has created two paintings, "Rewilding" (2024) and "King's Crossing" (2024), for Ruinart's "Conversations with Nature" program, following a residency at the Champagne house's Taissy vineyard near Reims. The works, which incorporate natural materials and ecological processes, will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024 before traveling to Ruinart's headquarters. Falls's practice involves arranging plants on canvas and using pigment that reacts to humidity and sunlight, reflecting a collaboration with the environment.

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article news schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 28 link 19 artists, 9 galleries

how to close your gallery

Claudia Altman-Siegel closed her San Francisco gallery, Altman Siegel, in November 2025 with a farewell party, handing out beers to friends, artists, and visitors. She aimed to provide closure and avoid the sudden, chaotic closures that have become common in the mid-tier art market, which often leave artists unpaid, works unreturned, and staff in limbo. Other dealers, including Tif Sigfrids and Rena Bransten, shared strategies for ethical closures, such as continuing to support artists through networks, paying them on time, and returning all works. Bransten's gallery, after 50 years, is shifting to a nomadic model rather than fully closing.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 26, 2025 visibility 16 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

jacob hashimoto miles mcenery gallery

Jacob Hashimoto presents a new solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, featuring his signature constructions of screen-printed paper discs assembled into layered, three-dimensional compositions that blur the line between painting and sculpture. The show, his third with the gallery, includes works such as "The Promise of Other Inventions (that worked better)" (2025) and "No, No My Friends, We Will Not" (2025), and is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with an essay by art critic and professor David Pagel.

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person people schedule Nov 20, 2025 visibility 15 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

ceo jacob pabst interview

Jacob Pabst, CEO of Artnet, reflects on the company's transformation since taking the helm in 2012, including the launch of Artnet News in 2014 as a digital-first publication. In an interview, he discusses how the platform grew to become the most-read art publication globally, with over 200 million annual page views, by prioritizing real-time news and market analysis over traditional print cycles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 12 link 5 artists, 2 galleries

gary tyler quilts la show book release

Fiber artist Gary Tyler, who spent nearly 42 years on death row in Louisiana's Angola prison after being falsely convicted as a teenager, has published a memoir titled "Stitching Freedom" and opened his first Los Angeles gallery show, "Illuminations from a Captured Soul," at Official Welcome in MacArthur Park. The exhibition, on view through December 20, features quilts Tyler learned to make while working in the prison's hospice program, depicting scenes from his life and symbols of freedom like butterflies and birds.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

david shrigley selling old rope

British artist David Shrigley has created "Exhibition of Old Rope," a work consisting of 10 tons of salvaged rope arranged on the floor of Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, priced at £1 million ($1.3 million). Shrigley and assistants spent months collecting discarded rope from beaches, cruise ships, climbing schools, tree surgeons, and wind farms, then cleaned and assembled it into a large pile. The work plays on the English idiom "money for old rope," which originally referred to the resale value of used ship rope in early 19th-century Britain.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 17, 2025 visibility 19 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

alfonso artiaco liam gillick alan charlton

Naples-based gallery Alfonso Artiaco has opened a dual exhibition pairing British artists Liam Gillick and Alan Charlton for the first time. Gillick, a former Young British Artist associated with relational aesthetics, presents three new aluminum and Plexiglas "elevation" sculptures plus a wall piece titled *Euphoric Production Cycle* (2025). Charlton, known for his lifelong dedication to grey monochrome painting, contributes three works—a circle, square, and triangle—that anchor the show. The exhibition runs through January 10, 2025.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

david shrigleys latest installation is a 1 3 m pile of old rope at stephen friedman gallery in london

British artist David Shrigley has opened a solo exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London titled “David Shrigley: Exhibition of Old Rope,” featuring a 1.3-meter-high pile of ten tons of discarded rope as a conceptual installation. The work, priced at £1 million ($1.3 million), was assembled from rope salvaged from maritime, climbing, and industrial sources that would otherwise have gone to landfill. Shrigley describes the piece as a literal exploration of the idiom “money for old rope,” questioning the value people place on art.

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article local schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

mr wash community center compton book fundraiser

Artist Fulton Leroy Washington, known as Mr. Wash, is establishing the Art By Wash Studio & Community Center, a 13,000-square-foot campus in Compton, California, to serve recently incarcerated individuals and local youth. Released in 2016 after President Barack Obama commuted his life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses, Mr. Wash taught art in prison for 18 years and later gained recognition in the art world, including a breakout appearance at the 2020 Made in L.A. biennial. The center, designed pro bono by Morphosis Architects and The NOW Institute, will offer art-making instruction, studio space, materials, and exhibition opportunities, with the goal of connecting emerging artists to curators and galleries. The project is currently fundraising $100,000 for its first phase, with completion targeted for 2028.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 28, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

basquiat estate new print pace

The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat is releasing a new screenprint titled *King Alphonso*, available from Pace Prints starting November 5. Produced in an edition of 60, the print reproduces a 1982–83 drawing in acrylic and charcoal, referencing the Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII, known as “El Africano.” The work will be stamped and signed by Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, administrators of his estate. The announcement follows recent estate activities, including the 2022 “King Pleasure” exhibition in New York and the designation of Great Jones Street as “Jean-Michel Basquiat Way.”

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