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In Artforum’s November 2025 issue: Andy St. Louis spotlights the art of Ayoung Kim; Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, and Tina Rivers Ryan discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem; six photographers share portfolios of their work; and more. www.artforum.com/issue/2025/n...
November 2025
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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...
Electronic Refractions
Tina Rivers Ryan interviews Thelma Golden and Connie H. Choi on the artist Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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...
Rena Bransten Gallery Closes in San Francisco After 50 Years
San Francisco’s Rena Bransten Gallery, known for its early championship of BIPOC and female artists, will close on November 22, concurrent with the end of its final exhibition, of Oliver Lee Jackson.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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-...
Report Shows US Museums Hit Hard by Trump Cuts
A survey published this week by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) reveals American museums to have been negatively affected by the Trump administration’s funding cuts aimed at the arts and culture sector.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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...
Dana Awartani to Represent Saudi Arabia at 2026 Venice Biennale
Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani has been chosen to represent Saudi Arabia at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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).

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Byronically
A review of Guillermo del Toro's new take on Mary Shelley's iconic novel Frankenstein, highlighting the film's Byronic references.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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.
Spectral Vision
"Ghost 2568: Wish We Were Here" was curated by Amal Khalaf and hosted at venues throughout Bangkok.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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-...
Ousted Director Sasha Suda Sues Philadelphia Art Museum
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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...
Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Sobey Art Award
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.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The opening of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, originally slated for November 11, has been postponed after a group of some twenty protesters disrupted a preview event on November 9. www.artforum.com/news/museum-...
Museum of West African Art Opening Delayed by Protesters
The opening of the Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria, originally slated to take place November 11, has been postponed after a group of about twenty protesters disrupted a preview event...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
France’s court of auditors have released a report on security at the Louvre accusing the Paris museum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security. www.artforum.com/news/french-...
French State Auditor Issues Damning Report on Louvre Security
France’s court of auditors on November 6 released a report on security at the Louvre accusing the Paris museum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his use of humor to question social structures and systems of power, has been named the winner of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie. www.artforum.com/news/maurizi...
Maurizio Cattelan Wins 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie
Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his use of humor to question social structures and systems of power, has been named the winner of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, to take place in summer 2027. www.artforum.com/news/vasyl-c...
Vasyl Cherepanyn Appointed Curator of 2027 Berlin Biennale
Ukrainian curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2027.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Gwangju-based National Asian Culture Center (ACC) has named interdisciplinary artist YoungEun Kim the winner of the ACC Future Prize. www.artforum.com/news/youngeu...
YoungEun Kim Awarded 2026 ACC Future Prize
The Gwangju-based Asian National Cultural Center (ACC) has named interdisciplinary artist YoungEun Kim the winner of the ACC Future Prize.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have announced their intention to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, a branch of the union representing museum workers across the country. www.artforum.com/news/lacma-p...
As LACMA Prepares to Unveil $720 Million Building, Employees Unionize
Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on October 29 announced their intention to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Alison Knowles, a key member of the Fluxus movement whose focus on the haptic set her work apart from that of her compatriots, died at her home in New York on October 29. She was ninety-two. www.artforum.com/news/alison-...
Alison Knowles (1933–2025)
Alison Knowles, a key member of the Fluxus movement whose focus on the haptic set her work apart from that of her compatriots, died at her home in New York on October 29.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Oakland Museum of California lost more than one thousand items in an October 15 break-in targeting the museum’s 100,000-square-foot off-site storage facility. www.artforum.com/news/opportu...
Opportunistic Thieves Rob Oakland Museum of 1,000+ Objects
The Oakland Museum of California lost more than one thousand items in an October 15 break-in targeting the museum’s storage facility.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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For @artforum.com I wrote about @chan.gallery's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at Nguyen Wahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. www.artforum.com/columns/mitc...
Flipping Coins
Kevin Buist reflects on Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games, crypto, and the attention economy
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November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In Artforum’s November 2025 issue: Andy St. Louis spotlights the art of Ayoung Kim; Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, and Tina Rivers Ryan discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem; six photographers share portfolios of their work; and more. www.artforum.com/issue/2025/n...
November 2025
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November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In this episode of “Under the Cover,” Ibrahim Mahama, discusses his work with wax print cloth; founding an art museum in the town of Tamale, Ghana; and his exhibition “Ibrahim Mahama: Zilijifa” at Kunsthalle Wien. www.artforum.com/video/ibrahi...
Ibrahim Mahama on institution building in Ghana
Pablo Larios talks with Ibrahim Mahama about his work with wax-print cloth and institution building in Tamale, Ghana.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Talladega College, Alabama’s first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals painted for the institution by renowned Black painter Hale Woodruff in order to shore up its $5 million endowment and make payroll. www.artforum.com/news/tallade...
Talladega College Sells Hale Woodruff Murals
Talladega College, Alabama’s first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals by Hale Woodruff to shore up its $5 million endowment and make payroll.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The nonprofit Institute of Contemporary Art San Franciso has announced that it will leave its downtown home, a Modernist onetime banking hall known as “the Cube,” and instead mount exhibitions at various Bay Area locations, beginning in 2026. www.artforum.com/news/ica-san...
ICA San Francisco Shifts to Nomadic Model
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Franciso will leave its downtown home and instead mount exhibitions at various Bay Area locations, beginning in 2026.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows have promised the Baltimore Museum of Art more than $10 million to support educational programming for local students. www.artforum.com/news/baltimo...
Baltimore Museum of Art Receives $10 Million Gift in Support of Education Initiatives
Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows have promised the Baltimore Museum of Art more than $10 million to support educational programming for local students.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Investigators have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the audacious October 19 theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris. www.artforum.com/news/two-sus...
Two Suspects Arrested in Connection with Louvre Robbery
Investigators have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the audacious October 17 theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Franco-Chinese painter Xie Lei, known for his dreamlike portraits of ghostly, ambiguous figures adrift in dark spaces, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize. www.artforum.com/news/xie-lei...
Xie Lei Awarded 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp
Xie Lei, known for dreamlike portraits of ghostly figures in dark spaces, has won the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Canal Projects, the cutting-edge nonprofit arts space established by the Korean American community-building organization YS Kim Foundation at the edge of New York’s Chinatown, will close its physical location on May 23, 2026. www.artforum.com/news/new-yor...
New York Nonprofit Canal Projects to Shutter
Cutting-edge nonprofit arts space Canal Projects has announced it will close its physical location in May 2026, transitioning into a grantmaking and funding body.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM