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There’s a lot to be cynical about at Miami Art Week: galleries skipping the fairs and robo-dogs bearing the faces of tech oligarchs. Or, you could choose to see things differently and celebrate with the long-running Miami spaces that are thriving beyond this week.
Rare Basquiat Photos and More Art to See in Miami This Week
Here’s your handy guide to fairs, exhibitions, and other art events in the city over the next five days.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
There’s a lot to be cynical about at Miami Art Week: galleries skipping the fairs and robo-dogs bearing the faces of tech oligarchs. Or, you could choose to see things differently and celebrate with the long-running Miami spaces that are thriving beyond this week.
Planning to stop by the Louvre next year? That'll be €32 (~$37) if you live outside of the European Union.
Louvre Museum to Hike Entry Fee Amid Heist Fallout
Come January, visitors outside the European Union can expect to pay $37 per ticket, an increase the institution says will help finance security updates.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Planning to stop by the Louvre next year? That'll be €32 (~$37) if you live outside of the European Union.
The Russian feminist dissident group Pussy Riot could soon be labeled an “extremist” organization as part of the country’s recent attempts to quell dissent.
Russia Moves to Label Pussy Riot an “Extremist” Group
It’s an attempt to “erase Pussy Riot from the minds of Russian citizens,” the feminist art collective’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova told Hyperallergic.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Russian feminist dissident group Pussy Riot could soon be labeled an “extremist” organization as part of the country’s recent attempts to quell dissent.
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities in December 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Ucross, Athens Photo Research Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
As we scramble through toppled monuments or ruminate on those never built, art historian Cat Dawson’s new book questions the fundamental utility of monuments — who are they for, and what work do they actually do?
Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
As we scramble through toppled monuments or ruminate on those never built, art historian Cat Dawson’s new book questions the fundamental utility of monuments — who are they for, and what work do they actually do?
Louise Bourgeois kept nearly everything she made, read, wore, or wrote in the course of her long life. Even the hardiest biographer might buckle under the weight of so much material, yet Marie-Laure Bernadac, a French curator who knew the artist, takes on the task in a new book.
Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art
Writing the first comprehensive biography of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Louise Bourgeois kept nearly everything she made, read, wore, or wrote in the course of her long life. Even the hardiest biographer might buckle under the weight of so much material, yet Marie-Laure Bernadac, a French curator who knew the artist, takes on the task in a new book.
An exhibition of stained glass by Raúl de Nieves at Pioneer Works is in many ways a collaboration — across tarot, Mexican folklore, and Catholicism — as the artist draws from these visual traditions to create a grand cathedral.
Basking in the Light of Raúl de Nieves’s Stained Glass Tarot
With its spiritual and religious connotations, de Nieves's installation transforms Pioneer Works from a creative space to a contemplative one.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
An exhibition of stained glass by Raúl de Nieves at Pioneer Works is in many ways a collaboration — across tarot, Mexican folklore, and Catholicism — as the artist draws from these visual traditions to create a grand cathedral.
According to the American Alliance of Museums, one-third of museums in the US have lost federal funding since Trump took office. Within this climate of erasure at home, four exhibitions of Black American artists in Europe take on even sharper resonance.
As the US Slides Into Tyranny, Europe Champions Black American Artists
It’s a striking contradiction: Four Black American artists get major shows in Europe while the American institutional capacity and constitutional protections collapse in tandem.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
According to the American Alliance of Museums, one-third of museums in the US have lost federal funding since Trump took office. Within this climate of erasure at home, four exhibitions of Black American artists in Europe take on even sharper resonance.
Jennifer Packer’s tender portraits of friends veer between mark-making and stunning specificity. Even if their faces were blurred, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were fully and lovingly rendered.
Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep
The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Jennifer Packer’s tender portraits of friends veer between mark-making and stunning specificity. Even if their faces were blurred, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were fully and lovingly rendered.
Say formaggio! Pope Francis’s white-and-silver Leica camera sold at auction this weekend. It’s uniquely engraved with the keys of Peter on the flash cover and the late pope’s motto on the top plate: “Miserando atque eligendo.”
Pope Francis’s Camera Sells for $7.5M
The Leica M-A owned by the late pontiff is one of the most valuable models ever sold at auction.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Say formaggio! Pope Francis’s white-and-silver Leica camera sold at auction this weekend. It’s uniquely engraved with the keys of Peter on the flash cover and the late pope’s motto on the top plate: “Miserando atque eligendo.”
What are we truly grateful for in the art world? Our feel-good list for this year includes gallery dogs, no-strings-attached grants, thoughtful rehangs, and desserts at a specific museum cafe. Enjoy!
25 Things We're Grateful for in the Art World
Here’s to celebrating what brings us joy, great and small.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What are we truly grateful for in the art world? Our feel-good list for this year includes gallery dogs, no-strings-attached grants, thoughtful rehangs, and desserts at a specific museum cafe. Enjoy!
The US finally has a representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Zohran Mamdani puts together his Committee on Arts and Culture, and the latest installment of “What in the World Is Happening at the Philadelphia Art Museum?”
Art Movements: The US Finally Gets a Venice Biennale Rep
Plus, Zohran Mamdani’s arts committee, Frida Kahlo sets price record (again), John Oliver hawks a Bob Ross, and more in this week’s news.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The US finally has a representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Zohran Mamdani puts together his Committee on Arts and Culture, and the latest installment of “What in the World Is Happening at the Philadelphia Art Museum?”
Each December, thousands of art world denizens descend on Miami for a weeklong extravaganza anchored by fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, two museums hope locals and tourists alike will also spend time with art by some of the region’s original inhabitants.
Florida’s Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at Miami Art Week
An exhibition organized by the HistoryMiami Museum and the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is an ode to Seminole creativity and resilience.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Each December, thousands of art world denizens descend on Miami for a weeklong extravaganza anchored by fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, two museums hope locals and tourists alike will also spend time with art by some of the region’s original inhabitants.
Interruption and responsiveness are not just conditions of childcare and time and space, Ruth Asawa affirmed, but of creativity and generativity. The skills of keeping a human alive are inherently artistic.
Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic
Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Interruption and responsiveness are not just conditions of childcare and time and space, Ruth Asawa affirmed, but of creativity and generativity. The skills of keeping a human alive are inherently artistic.
What “Sixties Surreal” at the Whitney is trying to do is incredibly ambitious. Because of the very importance of its aims, it needs to better define its terms. What constitutes the “real,” and therefore, the “surreal”?
The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck
I wish “Sixties Surreal” focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What “Sixties Surreal” at the Whitney is trying to do is incredibly ambitious. Because of the very importance of its aims, it needs to better define its terms. What constitutes the “real,” and therefore, the “surreal”?
At the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new show on Marie Antoinette, the lack of historical artifact about the late Queen’s true self is compounded by a reluctance to include any sociopolitical background. When focusing on style, who needs to hear about nasty old revolutionary history anyway?
Who Was Marie Antoinette Beneath All That Silk and Spectacle?
History has never really known her as a person, and that isn’t about to change here.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new show on Marie Antoinette, the lack of historical artifact about the late Queen’s true self is compounded by a reluctance to include any sociopolitical background. When focusing on style, who needs to hear about nasty old revolutionary history anyway?
Genderplay was, in fact, an essential part of Medieval religious art. Unknowable and non-corporeal, Medieval artists visualized the divine as transcending human constructs of gender.
Mapping the Queer Landscape of Medieval Europe
A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Genderplay was, in fact, an essential part of Medieval religious art. Unknowable and non-corporeal, Medieval artists visualized the divine as transcending human constructs of gender.
The journey of Detroit’s own Black arts movement — from responding to historical disenfranchisement to representing the complexity of the Black experience — paved the way for the city to become the mecca of Black art that it is today.
How Detroit Became a Hub for Black Art
A decade before the mainstream Black Arts Movement, Detroit underwent a transformation of its own, driven by Black artists who recognized a need for opportunities and community.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The journey of Detroit’s own Black arts movement — from responding to historical disenfranchisement to representing the complexity of the Black experience — paved the way for the city to become the mecca of Black art that it is today.
Coco Fusco’s performances borrow from institutional procedures: She recreates military drills and enrolls in an immersive simulation and workshop on military interrogation, dissecting the grammar of disciplinary systems.
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze
In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Coco Fusco’s performances borrow from institutional procedures: She recreates military drills and enrolls in an immersive simulation and workshop on military interrogation, dissecting the grammar of disciplinary systems.
A Man Ray exhibition at The Met proves, thrillingly, that anyone feeling jaded about Surrealism’s centennial in 2024 can still see the movement’s key photographer with a fresh set of eyes.
Man Ray Was So Much More Than a Photographer
From film to painting to sculpture to chess, the Surrealist was an artist-inventor, tinkering away at light and objects and having a good laugh all the while.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A Man Ray exhibition at The Met proves, thrillingly, that anyone feeling jaded about Surrealism’s centennial in 2024 can still see the movement’s key photographer with a fresh set of eyes.
Without a clear curatorial thesis, the Hammer Museum’s LA artist biennial presents those who have already been vetted by other institutions. Writer Alex Paik would love to see them go a little more “off menu” next time.
Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Without a clear curatorial thesis, the Hammer Museum’s LA artist biennial presents those who have already been vetted by other institutions. Writer Alex Paik would love to see them go a little more “off menu” next time.
Patterned with semi-abstracted botanical motifs, Nour Jaouda’s hand-crafted fabric installation is emblematic of her ongoing exploration of the alternately transient, cyclical, and enduring nature of both a body of work and a landscape.
Tapestries That Contain the World
Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Patterned with semi-abstracted botanical motifs, Nour Jaouda’s hand-crafted fabric installation is emblematic of her ongoing exploration of the alternately transient, cyclical, and enduring nature of both a body of work and a landscape.
Conservativism is a rejection of imagination. We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is a threat to society.
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Conservativism is a rejection of imagination. We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is a threat to society.
What happens when abstract art gets inventive, playful, even rebellious? A handful of current exhibitions in New York City offer compelling answers.
Five New York City Art Shows We Love Right Now
Whether your preference is abstraction or history, we’ve got you covered with shows featuring Anish Kapoor and others, as well as historical artifacts.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What happens when abstract art gets inventive, playful, even rebellious? A handful of current exhibitions in New York City offer compelling answers.
Your handy gift guide to art books is here, with something for every artist and art enthusiast in your life — from an artsy almanac for the planners, to a Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, to a Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans.
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Your handy gift guide to art books is here, with something for every artist and art enthusiast in your life — from an artsy almanac for the planners, to a Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, to a Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans.