A South African court ruled against artist Gabrielle Goliath in her effort to reinstate her pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale after it was abruptly canceled by South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie earlier this year. www.artforum.com/news/south-a...

Prolific director Frederick Wiseman, whose pathbreaking documentaries shed light on aspects of society hitherto in shadow, died on February 16 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ninety-six. www.artforum.com/news/visiona...

“The Olympic Games as we know them were born out of a late-nineteenth-century marriage of classical mythology and political science fiction,” wrote Sean Keller in an essay on the 2008 Beijing Olympics published in that year’s Summer issue of Artforum. www.artforum.com/columns/beij...

French police have detained nine people in relation to a ticketing fraud scheme that may have cost the Louvre €10 million ($12 million). www.artforum.com/news/nine-ar...

German artist Henrike Naumann, known for her installations of furniture and household objects addressing the turmoil of German reunification and showing how aesthetic choices affect political ideology, died in Berlin on February 14. She was forty-one. www.artforum.com/news/henrike...

The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, has named Olivia Colling as its new executive director and Laura Smith as its artistic director. www.artforum.com/news/england...

MoMA PS1 has named the fifty-three artists and collectives whose work will be featured in this year’s iteration of the Queens-based institution’s quinquennial Greater New York survey, set to open April 10 and run through August 17. www.artforum.com/news/moma-ps...

Graphic designer Erik Brandt is one of a number of Minneapolis–based artists who have created works responding to the violent presence of ICE agents in their city. In a new interview for Artforum, Kathryn Savage speaks with Brandt about his viral ICE OUT MSP lawn signs.

Onetime French culture minister Jack Lang has resigned his role as president of L’Institut du Monde Arabe over his links to financier Jeffrey Epstein. www.artforum.com/news/jack-la...

This week, following the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, Artforum revisits Hal Foster’s essay on Richard Serra’s East-West/West-East, 2014, a monumental sculpture located in the desert forty miles outside of Doha. www.artforum.com/columns/from...

In Artforum’s Summer 2014 issue, Matt Saunders puzzled over paintings by George W. Bush: “The ex-president defines himself as a painter, but do we define him as an artist?” www.artforum.com/columns/the-...

Belgium is abandoning its plan to dismantle the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) after being met with stiff resistance from the artistic community. www.artforum.com/news/flemish...

Stephen Friedman Gallery in London has shut its doors permanently and begun insolvency proceedings after thirty years in business. www.artforum.com/news/londons...

David A. Ross has stepped down as chair of the master’s degree program in art practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York following the revelation of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. www.artforum.com/news/school-...

The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), a leading light of the Glasgow experimental and contemporary art scene and a mainstay in the larger Scottish art scene, is closing after thirty-three years in operation. All thirty-nine of it staff will lose their jobs. www.artforum.com/news/glasgow...

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will go dark for two years while it undergoes renovations. www.artforum.com/news/kennedy...

In Artforum’s February 2026 issue, Rachel Wetzler reflects on the art of Banks Violette, who rose to prominence in the neo-goth movement of the 2000s. Today, “Violette’s work has returned with a vengeance.” www.artforum.com/issue/2026/f...

Rodrigo Moura will step down as artistic director of Argentina’s Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in February, after occupying the post for one year. www.artforum.com/news/rodrigo...

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, is closed until February 7, following a January 23 “sprinkler emergency” that caused it to evacuate visitors. www.artforum.com/news/studio-...

Francis Irv, a young New York gallery known for showing an eclectic mix of established and emerging artists from the US and Europe, has announced its closure after a little more than three years in business. www.artforum.com/news/new-yor...

For this installment of the Under the Influence video series, Artforum asked Howardena Pindell about her favorite artworks, artists, and sources of inspiration. www.artforum.com/video/howard...

Gallerist Marian Goodman, who reshaped the New York contemporary art scene and by extension that of the US, has died at the age of ninety-seven. www.artforum.com/news/transfo...

This week, amid demonstrations against ICE in Minneapolis and beyond, Artforum revisits David Gissen’s essay “Grounds for Action: Landscape and Protest,” published in the magazine’s September 2015 issue. www.artforum.com/columns/davi...

The Walker Art Center is closed today, January 23, in solidarity with a Minnesota-wide general strike protesting ICE activity. “This reflects our institutional values,” a spokesperson said. www.artforum.com/news/walker-...

Facing a budget crunch, the Metropolitan Opera in New York is considering selling off two massive murals by renowned Russian French painter Marc Chagall that have graced its Grand Tier since 1966, when they were created. www.artforum.com/news/metropo...

Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar, known for his work drawing on Andean culture, has been announced as the winner of the eleventh Artes Mundi Prize. www.artforum.com/news/antonio...

In Artforum’s January 2025 issue, Alex Jovanovich introduces a portfolio by Beau McCall, who “unabashedly take[s] on social and political issues” in works that are “technically sophisticated and dazzlingly beautiful.” www.artforum.com/features/bea...

The Southbank Centre has named Leeds-born curator Sally Tallant as the next director of London’s Hayward Gallery. www.artforum.com/news/sally-t...

Philip Leider, the founding editor in chief of Artforum, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on January 11. He was ninety-six. www.artforum.com/news/artforu...

San Francisco’s California College of the Arts announced on January 13 that it will “wind down” its operations and shutter permanently at the end of the 2026–27 school year. www.artforum.com/news/califor...

Roland Augustine, who alongside Lawrence Luhring cofounded influential New York gallery Luhring Augustine forty-one years ago, is leaving the business to engage in philanthropic pursuits and work as an independent adviser. www.artforum.com/news/lurhing...

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has revealed the recipients of its fall 2025 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to fifty-seven visual arts organizations and institutions, scattered across seventeen US states and Washington, DC, as well as Lebanon and Ukraine.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery removed a wall text accompanying a portrait of US president Donald Trump that contained mention of his two impeachments. www.artforum.com/news/smithso...

South Africa’s Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture has canceled artist Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion at the upcoming Sixty-First Venice Biennale, calling it “highly divisive.” www.artforum.com/news/south-a...

In a feature essay on the art of Kerry James Marshall, James Meyer considers “The Histories,” Marshall’s major exhibition on view at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, which “emphasizes the artist’s identity as a painter in conversation with the medium’s finest practitioners.”

At a January 6 press conference, the leaders of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp publicly denounced the Flemish government’s scheme to dissolve it and move its collection to a museum in another city, contending that the plan is “flagrantly” illegal. www.artforum.com/news/antwerp...

Roughly one hundred Uffizi staffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service managers. www.artforum.com/news/uffizi-...

“Those who had to, fled. Those who could, took flight. . . . We who stayed behind, those who could or had to, became mourners doused in ash.” One year after Los Angeles burned, we revisit Andrew Berardini’s poignant reflection on what was lost.

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than sixty-five artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale. www.artforum.com/news/diriyah...

The British Museum is looking for an experienced treasure hunter to track hundreds of Greek and Roman antiquities that went missing from its collection in recent years and were possibly stolen by an employee. www.artforum.com/news/british...

The UK Treasury will rely on the taxpayer-backed Government Indemnity Scheme to insure the Bayeux Tapestry for an estimated £800 million ($1 billion) while it is on loan from Normandy to the British Museum next year. www.artforum.com/news/uk-taxp...

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...