In Artforum’s January 2026 issue: James Meyer on the art of Kerry James Marshall, Carol Armstrong on Helen Frankenthaler’s “Before the Caves,” Hung Duong on the work of Indonesian artist Julian Abraham “Togar,” + more. www.artforum.com/issue/2026/j...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the African Diaspora, also in San Francisco, have announced Cornelia Stokes as inaugural assistant curator of the art of the African diaspora. www.artforum.com/news/corneli...

The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. www.artforum.com/news/ruth-fo...

Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. www.artforum.com/news/pathbre...

Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have voted to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, with 96 percent casting their electronic ballots in favor of doing so. www.artforum.com/news/lacma-w...

In the final Under the Influence episode of 2025, trailblazing Conceptual artist Martha Rosler remembers the peers and predecessors who most closely influenced her life and art. www.artforum.com/video/martha...

For @artforum.com, Thomas Crow, author of Murder in the Rue Marat, performs a close reading of Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Death of Marat:

The US Senate on December 19 confirmed Mary Anne Carter as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Carter occupied the role during the first Trump presidency. www.artforum.com/news/trump-a...

The Las Vegas Museum of Art on December 17 released updated renderings of its future home, designed by the office of Pritzker Prize–winning Burkinabé architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. www.artforum.com/news/las-veg...

Italian Conceptual artist and theorist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works presaged the logics of social media and helped photography gain recognition as an art form, has died. www.artforum.com/news/concept...

In this episode of Interpretations, Thomas Crow performs a close reading of Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting The Death of Marat, which is on view at the Louvre’s major survey of the artist through January 26, 2026. www.artforum.com/video/thomas...

Pakistani-born British Conceptual artist Ceal Floyer, known for her discreetly comedic conceptual performances and films and for her works composed of slightly altered mundane objects, died on December 11. www.artforum.com/news/concept...

British photographer Martin Parr, known for his wry and incisive documentation of England’s social class structure, died on December 6 at his home in Bristol, England. He was seventy-three. www.artforum.com/news/documen...

In a new Diary for Artforum, Zian Chen reports from the concurrent openings of the Taipei and Shanghai biennials, Asia’s legacy art events. www.artforum.com/columns/taip...

Maria Balshaw, who has led London’s Tate group of museums since 2017, has announced that she will step down as director in spring 2026. www.artforum.com/news/maria-b...

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, has named curator, writer, and educator Hamza Walker the winner of the 2026 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. www.artforum.com/news/hamza-w...

Glasgow-born Nigerian artist Nnena Kalu has been named the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize, considered the UK’s most prestigious award in the field of the visual arts. www.artforum.com/news/nnena-k...

In a new Artforum Diary, Andrew Berardini describes the goings on around Miami Art Week 2025: “Given that I’m pretty sure the Florida state motto is the same as the Hooters slogan (‘Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined’), the week was even classier than I expected.” www.artforum.com/columns/art-...

In a new Diary for Artforum, Bryan Barcena reports from the Paiz Biennial, the sixth-oldest biennial in the world, which opened its twenty-fourth edition in November across sites in Guatemala City and Antigua. www.artforum.com/columns/phot...

Writer and critic Cosmin Costinas and art historian Inti Guerrero have been named joint artistic directors of the Ninth Yokohama Triennale, set to take place at the Yokohama Museum of Art and at other venues across the Japanese city in the spring of 2027. www.artforum.com/news/yokoham...

MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, New York, will offer free admission to all visitors from the beginning of 2026 through the end of 2028. www.artforum.com/news/moma-ps...

Earlier today, some two hundred employees representing three unions at the Louvre voted unanimously to begin rolling walkouts on December 15 in response to “insufficient staff numbers as well as technical failures and the building’s aging condition.” www.artforum.com/news/louvre-...

El Salvador will make its inaugural appearance at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026, and will be represented by Salvadoran American artist J. Oscar Molina. www.artforum.com/news/el-salv...

A trio of art-world stalwarts are joining forces to form a global gallery devoted to selling artwork on the secondary market. www.artforum.com/news/triple-...

The Louvre has announced that it will raise ticket prices for most visitors from outside the European Union by 45 percent, effective January 14, 2026. www.artforum.com/news/louvre-...

Pulitzer Prize–winning Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight retired on November 28 after serving thirty-six years in the role. www.artforum.com/news/la-time...

Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen, who together ran Michael Werner Gallery for thirty-five years, have announced the end of their professional partnership, effective February 1, 2026. www.artforum.com/news/galleri...

In Artforum’s December 2025 issue, a wide array of artists, curators, and writers reflect on the previous year. www.artforum.com/issue/2025/d...

The Philadelphia Art Museum has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. Suda was fired from the museum on November 4 and subsequently sued the institution, claiming she had been let go “without a valid basis.” www.artforum.com/news/philade...

Stephen Friedman Gallery announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February. The gallery will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. www.artforum.com/news/stephen...

Painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist Llyn Foulkes, known for his uncategorizable work and his resistance to the commodification of art, has died. www.artforum.com/news/llyn-fo...

In a new On Site column for Artforum, Stephen van Dyck reports from “the most prudish of orgies”: A Sexual History of the Internet, 2025, Mindy Seu’s Instastory performance that lays bare the internet’s sexual architecture. www.artforum.com/columns/mind...

Mexico-based American sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale. The pavilion is to be curated by Jeffrey Uslip, onetime chief curator at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art. www.artforum.com/news/alma-al...

This week, as homes across America begin preparing for their Thanksgiving feasts, Artforum revisits Stuart Morgan’s essay “Cold Turkey,” a scathing assessment of the exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts published in the magazine’s April 1981 issue.

“Art is about feeling. It’s not about anything else.” In this new episode of Under the Influence, Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art. www.artforum.com/video/larry-...

Entertainment company Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its oddity-themed attractions, bought Maurizio Cattelan’s 2016 work America, a life-size working toilet made of solid 18-karat gold. www.artforum.com/news/ripleys...

The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman has announced the fifteen recipients of its 2025 awards. www.artforum.com/news/anonymo...

Noted New York gallery Sperone Westwater has announced that it is shuttering at the end of the year. www.artforum.com/news/sperone...

In this episode of Under the Cover, Artforum Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan visits the Studio Museum in Harlem to speak with curator Connie H. Choi about the museum’s reopening. www.artforum.com/video/studio...

Greek-Norwegian artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis will represent Greece at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country’s pavilion will be curated by independent curator George Bekirakis. www.artforum.com/news/andreas...

More than 150 workers at the Tate family of museums in England have voted in favor of a weeklong strike after receiving what they characterized as “below-inflationary” pay raise offers for two years running. www.artforum.com/news/weeklon...

This week, with images of White House renovations seared into our minds—the Lincoln Bathroom’s marble-and-gold overhaul, gilded ornamentation and signage, and, of course, the demolition of the East Wing—Artforum revisits Ian Volner’s November 2016 essay “Fool’s Gold: The Architecture of Trump.”

For Artforum’s November 2025 issue, Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan sat down with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden and curator Connie H. Choi to discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem. www.artforum.com/features/int...

San Francisco’s Rena Bransten Gallery, known for championing BIPOC and female artists since 1975, will close on November 22, along with its current Oliver Lee Jackson exhibition. www.artforum.com/news/rena-br...

A survey published this week by the American Alliance of Museums reveals American museums to have been negatively affected by the Trump administration’s funding cuts across the arts and culture sector. www.artforum.com/news/report-...

Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani, known for refiguring historical forms, themes, and tropes of Middle Eastern cultures, has been chosen to represent Saudi Arabia at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. www.artforum.com/news/dana-aw...

My article on @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s #frankenstein is up at @artforum.com It’s a fantastic excoriation of Byron that, like every GdT film, wants to find the humanity even in its most vile monsters (Victor). www.artforum.com/columns/guil...

In a new On Site column for Artforum, Hung Duong reports on Ghost 2568—the third and final edition of Ghost, Bangkok’s sprawling festival of video and performance art—in which “layered artistic narratives of yearning, belonging, and alienation haunt various sites” throughout the city.

Sasha Suda, who last week was abruptly fired from her roles of director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), is suing the institution. www.artforum.com/news/ousted-...

Tania Willard, an artist of Secwépemc descent known for her work centering Indigenous basketry, has been named the winner of the 2025 Sobey Art Award, widely regarded as Canada’s most prestigious contemporary art honor. www.artforum.com/news/tania-w...