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January 2026
The January 2026 issue of Artforum, featuring Álvaro Urbano, Togar, Kerry James Marshall, and Man Ray.
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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...
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-...
Uffizi Staffers Protest Mass Layoff of Part-Time Workers
About 100 staffers at the Uffizi demonstrated at the Florence institution on January 4 in protest of the effective layoff of its casual workers.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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.
One year after Los Angeles burned, we revisit Andrew Berardini’s poignant reflection on what was lost.
The Fire This Time
If you’ll forgive me this slant, I can talk about what has been. A cosmopolitan city with a deep and weird art history, a huge community of support, dozens of museums and nonprofits and dozens of comm...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:17 PM
“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.
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...
Diriyah Biennale Reveals Artists for Third Edition
The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the more than 65 artists set to participate in the third iteration of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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...
British Museum Seeks Specialist to Hunt Down Missing Treasures
The British Museum is looking for someone to assist it in retrieving hundreds of antiquities stolen from its Greek and Roman Department.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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...
Bayeux Tapestry to Be Insured for $1 Billion During Historic France–UK Loan
The UK Treasury will rely on the Government Indemnity Scheme to insure the Bayeux Tapestry for £800 million while it is on loan to the British Museum.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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...
January 2026
The January 2026 issue of Artforum, featuring Álvaro Urbano, Togar, Kerry James Marshall, and Man Ray.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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...
Cornelia Stokes Named Inaugural Assistant Curator of the Art of the African Diaspora at SFMOMA and MOAD
SFMOMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora have named Cornelia Stokes as inaugural assistant curator of the art of the African diaspora.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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...
Ruth Foundation Names 2026 Ruth Award Recipients
The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award, an unrestricted $100,000 prize honoring contemporary artists.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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...
Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96
Uncategorizable Austrian abstractionist Arnulf Rainer, best known for his psychologically intense Übermahlungen,” or overpaintings, has died at 96.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
LACMA Workers Vote to Unionize
Employees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 15 and 16 voted to unionize with AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...
Martha Rosler
Trailblazing Conceptual artist Martha Rosler remembers the peers and predecessors who most closely influenced her life and art.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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...
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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:
Thomas Crow on revolution in Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat
Thomas Crow performs a close reading of Jacques-Louis David’s iconic 1793 painting The Death of Marat and highlights its revolutionary ideals
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December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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...
Trump Reappoints Mary Anne Carter NEA Chair
The US Senate voted along party lines to confirm two-time Trump appointee Mary Anne Carter as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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...
Las Vegas Museum of Art Reveals Plans for Francis Kéré–Designed Building
The Las Vegas Museum of Art released updated renderings of its future home, designed by the office of Burkinabé architect Diébédo Francis Kéré.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...
Conceptual Artist Franco Vaccari, Whose Work Presaged Social Media, Dies at 89
Conceptual artist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works helped photography gain recognition as an art form, died on December 12.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
Thomas Crow on revolution in Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat
Thomas Crow performs a close reading of Jacques-Louis David’s iconic 1793 painting The Death of Marat and highlights its revolutionary ideals
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December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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...
Ceal Floyer, Understated Conceptualist, Dead at 57
Pakistani-born British Conceptual artist Ceal Floyer, known for her discreetly comedic conceptual works, died on December 11.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
Martin Parr, Documentarian of Modern Life, Dies at 73
Photographer Martin Parr, known for his wryly incisive documentation of England’s social classes, died on December 6 at his home in Bristol, England.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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...
A Biennale Double Bill: Taipei & Shanghai
Zian Chen reports from the openings of the 14th Taipei Biennial, at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the 15th Shanghai Biennale, at Power Station of Art.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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...
Maria Balshaw to Depart as Director of London’s Tate
Maria Balshaw, who has led the Tate group of museums since 2017, will depart the London organization in the spring of 2026.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...
Hamza Walker Wins CCS Bard’s 2026 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, has named Hamza Walker the winner of the 2026 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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...
Nnena Kalu Becomes First Learning-Disabled Artist to Win Turner Prize
Glasgow-born Nigerian artist Nnena Kalu has been named the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize. She is the first learning-disabled artist to win the award
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December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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-...
Tacky Delights: Revisiting Art Basel Miami Beach
A diary from Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 including visits to ICA Miami, NADA, the Bass Museum, the Rubell museum, and the Museum of Sex.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...
Branching Out: Around the Paiz Biennial
Bryan Barcena's photo diary from the opening of the Paiz Biennial in Guatemala, curated by Eugenio Viola.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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...
Yokohama Triennale Reveals Artistic Directors for 2027 Edition
Cosmin Constinas and Inti Guerro have been named joint artistic directors of the Ninth Yokohama Triennale, to run April 23–September 12, 2027,
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December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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...