The art market faces challenges amid a paradigm shift. New consultancies emerge, focusing on next-gen collectors, personalized service, and navigating a globalized, digitally driven landscape. Art Basel adapts to changing audiences.
Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) faces financial difficulties, leading to layoffs of around 30 staff members and budget cuts across departments amid funding reductions and suspended building plans.
Ai Weiwei's Kyiv installation uses camouflage uniforms & cat-inspired patterns to explore war, peace, rationality, and irrationality. The art reflects on conflict and human suffering.
Ditchling Museum removes Gill's nude art after survivor consultation due to abuse concerns. Exhibit highlights Gill's daughters' lives & work. The survivors group also raised objections to Annunciation.
Beamish Museum wins the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025! Judges include Rana Begum and Phil Wang. Beamish recreates Georgian, Edwardian, and 1940s/50s life. Other finalists receive £15,000.
Zohran Mamdani's surprising primary win signals a shift in NYC politics, driven by youth and class-conscious messaging. Can this socialist candidate reshape the city's future, challenging established power structures?
A story of blessings, dealing with messages and concerns after a flooding, and the inspiration behind a Broadway musical's set design by Dane Laffrey. Includes Darren Criss & Helen J. Shen.
The Raymond Naftali Center, a Chelsea arts keystone, is for sale for $170M after its owners' deaths. 211 artists face displacement amid rising rents and redevelopment fears. Future of NYC arts in jeopardy.
Studiolo, a one-day art pop-up in London, highlights ephemeral collaborations. Ben Elwes Fine Art rediscovers Swedish artist GAN, showcasing his Cubist works. Classic Art London fills the void of London Art Week.
Takashi Murakami's 'Japonisme' exhibition explores cultural borrowing, copying European artists influenced by Japan (Monet, Van Gogh), and questions of cultural appropriation through Hiroshige's art.
Gavin Newsom's evolving stance against Trump, from conciliatory podcasting to #Resistance memes, mirrors a broader Democratic struggle. Newsom's resistance and Trump's reactions create political tension.
Kunsthalle Bern, under Iliana Fokianaki, confronts its Eurocentric past. Exhibitions by Mahama, Edwards & Mekondjo explore themes of colonialism, racial industrialism, and global perspectives.
