Best of 2025
10 Artworks That Spoke Truth to Power in 2025
From public murals to museum walls, artists mobilized their practices to call out injustices, expose wrongdoing, and advocate for a better world.
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Best of 2025
Hyperallergic’s 20 Most Read Stories of 2025
From our coverage of the Louvre heist to the rising authoritarianism in the White House, this year has generated plenty of fodder for art discourse, memes, and more.
In Memoriam
Art-World Giants We Lost in 2025
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch, sculptor of skylines Frank Gehry, powerhouse of Indigenous aesthetics Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, beloved curator Koyo Kouoh, and others we’ll carry with us.
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Required Reading
Reckoning with Harry Potter fandom as a trans person, Hallmark Christmas movie plot twists, a hard-hitting interview with Santa, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“My wife and I are both involved in education in the arts, so we see the beginnings of artistic growth.”
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Odd-Shaped Cookie Cutters Spark Community and Creativity
A growing subreddit helps confounded users decipher the mystery cutouts, but not without some imaginative detours.
Powerless 20
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2025 Edition
Hyperallergic’s annual antidote to the lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and so-called tastemakers that pervade the art media.
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Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts Get to the Heart of Being Human
Through her creative lives as author, illustrator, painter, quilter, sculptor, and activist, Ringgold spoke to the urgency and vulnerability of life.
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Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life
The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited.
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Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Winter Solstice
After a long period of feeling frozen, the new year hints at signs of thaw and forward movement.
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The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes
In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing to enter the world in marginalized circumstances.
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Banksy’s Latest Mural Is a Heartbreaking Christmastime Message
The elusive street artist’s latest stencil may reference the tens of thousands of unhoused children living in London.