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What a (thankfully temporary, though we'll see if it ends up actually hitting its deadlines) loss to London. I hope this renovation will not undermine its legendary incomprehensibility...getting lost in the Barbican is a Londoner's rite of passage!
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Barbican to close for renovation in 2028
The first phase of construction is expected to be completed in 2030, ahead of the Barbican’s 50-year anniversary in 2032
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December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What a (thankfully temporary, though we'll see if it ends up actually hitting its deadlines) loss to London. I hope this renovation will not undermine its legendary incomprehensibility...getting lost in the Barbican is a Londoner's rite of passage!
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Maria Balshaw, who has helmed Tate since 2017, will step down from her role artreview.com/tate-directo...
Tate director Maria Balshaw to step down
Maria Balshaw will step down next spring
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December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Maria Balshaw, who has helmed Tate since 2017, will step down from her role artreview.com/tate-directo...
The City of London Corporation has approved a £191 million investment towards the Barbican Centre’s five-year renovation plan artreview.com/barbican-to-...
Barbican to close for renovation in 2028
The first phase of construction is expected to be completed in 2030, ahead of the Barbican’s 50-year anniversary in 2032
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December 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The City of London Corporation has approved a £191 million investment towards the Barbican Centre’s five-year renovation plan artreview.com/barbican-to-...
Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening. artreview.com/why-no-one-l...
Why No One Likes the Tate Anymore
Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening. artreview.com/why-no-one-l...
The conceptual artist Ceal Floyer died on December 11 after a long battle with illness, Esther Schipper gallery has announced artreview.com/ceal-floyer-...
Ceal Floyer, conceptual artist, 1968–2025
The Pakistan-born artist has died after a long battle with illness, Esther Schipper gallery has announced
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December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The conceptual artist Ceal Floyer died on December 11 after a long battle with illness, Esther Schipper gallery has announced artreview.com/ceal-floyer-...
In the cursed year 2025, art staged the increasing centrality of a technological revolution that most people didn’t ask for but can’t escape artreview.com/the-year-ai-...
The Year AI Captured Art
The year in art: In the cursed year 2025, art staged the increasing centrality of a technological revolution that most people didn’t ask for but can’t escape
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December 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
In the cursed year 2025, art staged the increasing centrality of a technological revolution that most people didn’t ask for but can’t escape artreview.com/the-year-ai-...
Each month, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Tishani Doshi chose ‘Drachmas’ (2018) by Ala Younis. Read it here: artreview.com/childhood-as...
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Each month, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, poet Tishani Doshi chose ‘Drachmas’ (2018) by Ala Younis. Read it here: artreview.com/childhood-as...
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam will open its first satellite branch in Eindhoven, the museum has announced. ASML, the leading chip manufacturer based in nearby Veldhoven, is a founding partner of the project artreview.com/rijksmuseum-...
Rijksmuseum expands to Eindhoven
The new satellite branch is expected to open in six to eight years
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December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam will open its first satellite branch in Eindhoven, the museum has announced. ASML, the leading chip manufacturer based in nearby Veldhoven, is a founding partner of the project artreview.com/rijksmuseum-...
The Year in Eating: In 2025 we ought to be asking not just why ‘thin is in’, but more specifically why appetite should now be out artreview.com/make-somethi...
Make Something From Nothing
The Year in Eating: In 2025 we ought to be asking not just why ‘thin is in’, but more specifically why appetite should now be out
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December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Year in Eating: In 2025 we ought to be asking not just why ‘thin is in’, but more specifically why appetite should now be out artreview.com/make-somethi...
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from Bangkok and Kochi to New York and London artreview.com/the-8-exhibi...
The 8 Exhibitions to See in December 2025
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from Bangkok and Kochi to New York and London
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December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to around the world this month, from Bangkok and Kochi to New York and London artreview.com/the-8-exhibi...
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Excellent piece here on the state of cinema in 2025. #filmsky
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say? artreview.com/dialogue-is-...
Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
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December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Excellent piece here on the state of cinema in 2025. #filmsky
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On EDDINGTON:
"I had thought the film gleefully nihilistic; later I saw what it was trying to say. Our petty human vanities and differences and quibbles, the film suggests, pale against the world-dominating visions of our titans of capital..." - Rebecca Liu, @artreview.bsky.social
"I had thought the film gleefully nihilistic; later I saw what it was trying to say. Our petty human vanities and differences and quibbles, the film suggests, pale against the world-dominating visions of our titans of capital..." - Rebecca Liu, @artreview.bsky.social
Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
artreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
On EDDINGTON:
"I had thought the film gleefully nihilistic; later I saw what it was trying to say. Our petty human vanities and differences and quibbles, the film suggests, pale against the world-dominating visions of our titans of capital..." - Rebecca Liu, @artreview.bsky.social
"I had thought the film gleefully nihilistic; later I saw what it was trying to say. Our petty human vanities and differences and quibbles, the film suggests, pale against the world-dominating visions of our titans of capital..." - Rebecca Liu, @artreview.bsky.social
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"films from C20, struck by the richness, even wackiness of the dialogue, fast-talking screwball heroines of 30s, delightful camp of 80s action capers. Now our presiding aesthetic is laconic world-weariness set against thumping techno+droning ambience. Dialogue is over."
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Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
artreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"films from C20, struck by the richness, even wackiness of the dialogue, fast-talking screwball heroines of 30s, delightful camp of 80s action capers. Now our presiding aesthetic is laconic world-weariness set against thumping techno+droning ambience. Dialogue is over."
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The artist Lina Lapelytė’s commission for this year’s Performa Biennial certainly has emancipatory intentions. But is freedom ever a realistic aim of performance?
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Notes from New York: Child’s Play
The artist Lina Lapelytė’s commission for this year’s Performa Biennial certainly has emancipatory intentions. But is freedom ever a realistic aim of performance?
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December 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The artist Lina Lapelytė’s commission for this year’s Performa Biennial certainly has emancipatory intentions. But is freedom ever a realistic aim of performance?
artreview.com/notes-from-n...
artreview.com/notes-from-n...
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”, says Ibrahim Mahama, No.1 on this year’s ArtReview Power 100 list artreview.com/the-intervie...
The Interview: Ibrahim Mahama
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”
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December 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”, says Ibrahim Mahama, No.1 on this year’s ArtReview Power 100 list artreview.com/the-intervie...
Nnena Kalu is the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize artreview.com/nnena-kalu-w...
Nnena Kalu wins 2025 Turner Prize
She is the first artist with a learning disability to receive the Turner Prize
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December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Nnena Kalu is the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize artreview.com/nnena-kalu-w...
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In Milwaukee? My upcoming collaborative exhibition is one of ArtReview's The 8 exhibitions to see in December (in the world!)
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December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
In Milwaukee? My upcoming collaborative exhibition is one of ArtReview's The 8 exhibitions to see in December (in the world!)
artreview.com/the-8-exhibi...
artreview.com/the-8-exhibi...
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say? artreview.com/dialogue-is-...
Dialogue Is Over
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say?
artreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The year in film: 2025 was the year of the social-politics drama. Did any of them have much to say? artreview.com/dialogue-is-...
The final edition of Ghost, curated by Amal Khalaf, excelled at conjuring up spectral meeting places artreview.com/ghost-2568-w...
Ghost 2568 Review: Spiritual Nourishment and Political Yearnings
The final edition of Ghost, curated by Amal Khalaf, excelled at conjuring up spectral meeting places
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December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The final edition of Ghost, curated by Amal Khalaf, excelled at conjuring up spectral meeting places artreview.com/ghost-2568-w...
Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant artreview.com/on-bamboo-bl...
On Bamboo, Blame and Wang Fuk Court
Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant
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December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant artreview.com/on-bamboo-bl...
A suspect has been arrested by the Brazilian police in connection with the theft of several works by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari from the Mario de Andrade Library in downtown São Paulo artreview.com/suspect-arre...
Suspect arrested over art heist at São Paulo library
Works by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari remain missing
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December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A suspect has been arrested by the Brazilian police in connection with the theft of several works by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari from the Mario de Andrade Library in downtown São Paulo artreview.com/suspect-arre...
MoMA PS1, New York, has announced that entry will be free for all visitors for the next three years starting 1 January 2026 artreview.com/moma-ps1-ent...
MoMA PS1 entry to be free for all in 2026
The initiative is made possible by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu
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December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
MoMA PS1, New York, has announced that entry will be free for all visitors for the next three years starting 1 January 2026 artreview.com/moma-ps1-ent...
With her fantastical creatures and humanoid figures, the Zimbabwean painter makes ominousness appear sensual, even seductive artreview.com/portia-zvava...
Portia Zvavahera: Hushed Nightmares and Pictorial Tensions
With her fantastical creatures and humanoid figures, the Zimbabwean painter makes ominousness appear sensual, even seductive
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December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
With her fantastical creatures and humanoid figures, the Zimbabwean painter makes ominousness appear sensual, even seductive artreview.com/portia-zvava...
Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero will be the artistic directors of the 9th Yokohama Triennale artreview.com/cosmin-costi...
Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero to direct the 9th Yokohama Triennale
The 9th Yokohama Triennale is slated to open 23 April to 12 September, 2027
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December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero will be the artistic directors of the 9th Yokohama Triennale artreview.com/cosmin-costi...
The grotesque has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back artreview.com/the-distende...
The Distended Forms of Grotesque Satire
Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back
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December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The grotesque has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back artreview.com/the-distende...