Best of 2025
The 10 Best Art Films of 2025
A day in the life of Peter Hujar, a bungled museum heist, and Meredith Monk's six-decade career were the subjects of some of our favorite art films this year.
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Art Review
Joseph Wright of Derby’s Candlelit World
Using an extreme form of chiaroscuro, Wright portrays the dramatic moment of intellectual or moral revelation in his paintings of scientific subjects.
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Announcement
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation’s Transformative Grants Empower Artists
This foundation offers annual grants to support sculptors and ceramic artists with funding, studio advancement, and opportunities for material exploration.
Features
What Exactly Is Calder Gardens?
Meaning is slippery in the new Philadelphia institution dedicated to the modernist master Alexander Calder.
New York Newsletter
The Mayor Is Present
Marina Abramović is Zohran’s muse, the Whitney Biennial announces its exhibitors, the High Line replaces a giant pigeon with a huge Buddha, and more.
Community
Art Problems: Am I Too Old to Fit In?
If you think age is an obstacle to your art career, Paddy Johnson wants you to think again.
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Announcement
Texas A&M’s Visualization Graduate Programs Merge Art and Technology
Full funding is available for MFA students; MS students have scholarship and assistantship opportunities. The priority deadline for funding is January 15, 2026.
Art Review
The 2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past
The show's displays of juvenilia from established artists say little about adolescents today and make its message inscrutable.
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Announcement
Training and Critiquing AI Through Art at WashU
Tiffany Calvert creates historically inspired still life paintings with an AI twist through a collaboration with engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.
Daily Newsletter
Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed
Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.
News
Artists Issue Urgent Call to Defend First Amendment Rights
In New York City's Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights was introduced, cultural leaders decried attacks on free expression, from book bans to censorship.
Opinion
The Sinister Plan to Demolish a Brutalist Icon in Dallas
Behind the spectacle of City Hall’s potential demolition is the transfer of funding away from the public and into a few extraordinarily wealthy hands.
Daily Newsletter
Katherine Bradford's Moonlit Visions
John Yau on Theaster Gates, Pyaari Azaadi's revolutionary orbit, and the plague of American curatorial silence.
Daily Newsletter
Beach Reading and Foot Stuff
Today: The story of a rare Michelangelo sketch, the battle over a San Francisco brutalist icon, and more.
New York Newsletter
Mayor Mamdani’s Artistic Vision
All you need to know about the New York art world this week.
Daily Newsletter
Your Handy Guide to Miami Art Week
Also: The Louvre is hiking up its entry fee, but only for non-Europeans.
Books Newsletter
Louise Bourgeois’s Newest Biography
The countdown to 2026 — and the deluge of end-of-year lists — has begun in earnest, but we're not quite done with 2025 yet. This week, our reviewers tackled two colossal subjects: monuments and the late great Louise Bourgeois. Monumental by Cat Dawson invites us to contemplate a world of
Weekly Newsletter
What We're Grateful For
Last week, some $2.2 billion worth of art was sold in a string of evening auctions that grabbed headlines. The art market media declared a once-again "healthy" market reemerging from a protracted slump. "The entire week becomes a choreographed attempt to convince the world that everything