At Serpentine, Peter Doig has made a subtle but consequential shift. House of Music does not abandon painting—far from it—but it loosens painting’s long-held monopoly on silence.
At Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street gallery, Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool proposes a subtle but consequential shift in how the artist is seen.
In North Pole and Other Precarious Landscapes, the Monegasque painter Philippe Pastor arrives in Milan with a body of work that might have seemed impossible in an earlier moment of abstraction: canvases that are both profoundly formal and explicitly bound to environmental urgency.
At the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s 2025 Art Basel party, the museum briefly became what it always promises but rarely achieves so effortlessly: a civic room where art, bodies, sound, and weather negotiated space together.
In a moment of unusual clarity, Britain’s creative community has delivered a near-unanimous verdict on how artificial intelligence should treat
David Zwirner has announced the representation of Amy Sillman, a move that feels less like a market alignment than a recognition long overdue.
In 2026, New York’s Lower East Side will welcome a major new cultural institution devoted entirely to art that unfolds over time.
In the expansive cultural calculus of the soon-to-open Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side, Theaster Gates has been commissioned to create a work that positions his practice—rooted in archiving, community, and Black visual legacies—at the heart of the institution’s public encounter.
Being green can mean many things—lush, envious, ill, or newly formed—and in the work of Henri Rousseau it holds all of these meanings at once, shaping his jungle paintings as visions of untamed nature filtered through European fantasy, colonial voyeurism, and a longing for distant places he never visited. Though derided during much of his life as “rough” or “childlike,” Rousseau’s self-taught naïveté, flattened forms, and folk-like mythologies ultimately earned the admiration of avant-garde artists, including a young Pablo Picasso.
The exhibition MONUMENTS, a collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and The Brick, runs from October 23, 2025, to May 3, 2026, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick.
The Whitney Biennial has never been a mirror so much as a tuning fork. It vibrates in sympathy with the moment, amplifying discord as readily as harmony. The eighty-second edition, gathering fifty-six artists, duos, and collectives, does not pretend to coherence. Instead, it leans into simultaneity — many voices speaking at once, sometimes over one another, sometimes in unexpected unison. The result is less an argument than a condition.
The Miami Beach EDITION presented a dynamic lineup of Art Week events throughout Miami Art Basel 2025.
During Art Basel Week in Miami, the city’s most anticipated cultural exchanges unfolded in spaces where artists, designers, and tastemakers converged, transforming dining into immersive expressions that blended art, design, and food, and culminating in intimate conversations and celebratory gatherings that captured Miami’s creative pulse.
Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize victory feels both overdue and quietly revolutionary. Announced in Bradford, the 2025 UK City of Culture, the award acknowledges an artist whose practice has long operated outside the predictable lanes of contemporary art. Kalu, 59, works with an urgency and sensual grit that leaves the viewer suspended somewhere between sculpture, performance, and raw force.
Every December, the glassy calm of Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 fractures into a weeklong proving ground for global contemporary art. The fair’s 2025 iteration, staged at the Miami Beach Convention Center, arrives not simply as a recurrence but rebalancing — a decisive attempt to reboot market momentum while absorbing digital art’s new centrality.
The announcement that Alma Allen will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale lands with the unhurried certainty of one of his own sculptures. Allen, long admired for his uncanny ability to summon emotion from stone, bronze, and wood, is an artist whose rise has been steady rather than explosive.
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