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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...
Painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist Llyn Foulkes, known for his uncategorizable work and his resistance to the commodification of art, has died. www.artforum.com/news/llyn-fo...
Llyn Foulkes, Art-World Misfit Who Took On Mickey Mouse, Dies at 91
Uncategorizable artist and jazz musician Llyn Foulkes, known for his staunch resistance to the commodification of art, died on November 25.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist Llyn Foulkes, known for his uncategorizable work and his resistance to the commodification of art, has died. www.artforum.com/news/llyn-fo...
In a new On Site column for Artforum, Stephen van Dyck reports from “the most prudish of orgies”: A Sexual History of the Internet, 2025, Mindy Seu’s Instastory performance that lays bare the internet’s sexual architecture. www.artforum.com/columns/mind...
The Artist Who Turns Your Phone Into a Sex Toy
Stephen van Dyck visits MoCA L.A. for Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet, a lecture-performance on cyberfeminism and how sex built the Web.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In a new On Site column for Artforum, Stephen van Dyck reports from “the most prudish of orgies”: A Sexual History of the Internet, 2025, Mindy Seu’s Instastory performance that lays bare the internet’s sexual architecture. www.artforum.com/columns/mind...
Mexico-based American sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale. The pavilion is to be curated by Jeffrey Uslip, onetime chief curator at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art. www.artforum.com/news/alma-al...
With Trump-Allied Arts Group at Helm, US Artist for 2026 Venice Biennale Is Chosen
The State Department appointed Utah-born sculptor Alma Allen to represent the US at the 61st Venice Biennale, in a show curated by Jeffrey Uslip.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mexico-based American sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale. The pavilion is to be curated by Jeffrey Uslip, onetime chief curator at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art. www.artforum.com/news/alma-al...
This week, as homes across America begin preparing for their Thanksgiving feasts, Artforum revisits Stuart Morgan’s essay “Cold Turkey,” a scathing assessment of the exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts published in the magazine’s April 1981 issue.
Cold Turkey: “A New Spirit in Painting” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
A WOMAN DECIDES TO hold a dinner party and hires a maid to wait on the table. All goes well until the servant steps into the room carrying a huge…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This week, as homes across America begin preparing for their Thanksgiving feasts, Artforum revisits Stuart Morgan’s essay “Cold Turkey,” a scathing assessment of the exhibition “A New Spirit in Painting” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts published in the magazine’s April 1981 issue.
“Art is about feeling. It’s not about anything else.”
In this new episode of Under the Influence, Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art. www.artforum.com/video/larry-...
In this new episode of Under the Influence, Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art. www.artforum.com/video/larry-...
Larry Bell
“Art is about feeling. It’s not about anything else.” In this video Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Art is about feeling. It’s not about anything else.”
In this new episode of Under the Influence, Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art. www.artforum.com/video/larry-...
In this new episode of Under the Influence, Larry Bell discusses his practice, his teachers, and his relationship to art. www.artforum.com/video/larry-...
Entertainment company Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its oddity-themed attractions, bought Maurizio Cattelan’s 2016 work America, a life-size working toilet made of solid 18-karat gold. www.artforum.com/news/ripleys...
Believe It or Not! Ripley’s Ponies Up $12 Million for Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet
Ripley's Believe It or Not! paid $12.1 million—just over the cost of the gold itself—for Maurizio Cattelan's working solid gold toilet at auction.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Entertainment company Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its oddity-themed attractions, bought Maurizio Cattelan’s 2016 work America, a life-size working toilet made of solid 18-karat gold. www.artforum.com/news/ripleys...
The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman has announced the fifteen recipients of its 2025 awards. www.artforum.com/news/anonymo...
Anonymous Was A Woman Grant Program Announces 2025 Awards
Anonymous Was A Woman will present unrestricted $50,000 grants to 15 recipients of its 2025 awards, honoring woman-identifying artists over 40
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November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman has announced the fifteen recipients of its 2025 awards. www.artforum.com/news/anonymo...
Noted New York gallery Sperone Westwater has announced that it is shuttering at the end of the year. www.artforum.com/news/sperone...
Sperone Westwater Closing in New York After Five Decades
Noted New York gallery Sperone Westwater has announced that it will close December 31, 2025, after fifty successful years in business.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Noted New York gallery Sperone Westwater has announced that it is shuttering at the end of the year. www.artforum.com/news/sperone...
In this episode of Under the Cover, Artforum Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan visits the Studio Museum in Harlem to speak with curator Connie H. Choi about the museum’s reopening. www.artforum.com/video/studio...
Connie H. Choi on Tom Lloyd and the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem
Connie H. Choi talks to Artforum's Editor in Chief about the artist Tom Lloyd and his significance to the museum's reopening in Harlem.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In this episode of Under the Cover, Artforum Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan visits the Studio Museum in Harlem to speak with curator Connie H. Choi about the museum’s reopening. www.artforum.com/video/studio...
Greek-Norwegian artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis will represent Greece at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country’s pavilion will be curated by independent curator George Bekirakis. www.artforum.com/news/andreas...
Andreas Angelidakis to Represent Greece at 2026 Venice Biennale
Greek Norwegian artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis will represent Greece at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale in 2026.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Greek-Norwegian artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis will represent Greece at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The country’s pavilion will be curated by independent curator George Bekirakis. www.artforum.com/news/andreas...
More than 150 workers at the Tate family of museums in England have voted in favor of a weeklong strike after receiving what they characterized as “below-inflationary” pay raise offers for two years running. www.artforum.com/news/weeklon...
Weeklong Strike Looms at Tate Museums
Over 150 workers at the Tate Museums in England on November 11 voted to stage a weeklong strike over "insulting" pay raises amid surging inflation
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
More than 150 workers at the Tate family of museums in England have voted in favor of a weeklong strike after receiving what they characterized as “below-inflationary” pay raise offers for two years running. www.artforum.com/news/weeklon...
This week, with images of White House renovations seared into our minds—the Lincoln Bathroom’s marble-and-gold overhaul, gilded ornamentation and signage, and, of course, the demolition of the East Wing—Artforum revisits Ian Volner’s November 2016 essay “Fool’s Gold: The Architecture of Trump.”
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November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This week, with images of White House renovations seared into our minds—the Lincoln Bathroom’s marble-and-gold overhaul, gilded ornamentation and signage, and, of course, the demolition of the East Wing—Artforum revisits Ian Volner’s November 2016 essay “Fool’s Gold: The Architecture of Trump.”
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
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...
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
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...
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
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-...
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
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...
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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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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
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).
www.artforum.com/columns/guil...
It’s a fantastic excoriation of Byron that, like every GdT film, wants to find the humanity even in its most vile monsters (Victor).
www.artforum.com/columns/guil...
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
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.
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
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-...
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
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...
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
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-...
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
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-...
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...