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The Impressionist and Modern category overtook postwar and contemporary to become the most lucrative art-market segment in 2025, as collectors continued to favor well-known names amid a more cautious market. It generated $4.7 billion in sales, a 29.5 percent increase from 2024. Growth was particularly pronounced in the $10-million-plus bracket, which saw $1.5 million in sales up 68.6 percent from 2024. The number of lots sold in the category reached a decade high 122,213, and the average price per lot rose 22.4 percent year over year.

"The museum is a vast monochromatic monolith, and I wanted the installation to be colorful and uplifting, and to signify the welcoming of the tapestry to the museum," Sturgeon said in a statement. "The trees reach out towards the street entrance as if beckoning it to enter."

The benefit the arts confer on the pace at which people age is so dramatic that it is comparable to the difference between smokers and those who have given up smoking, the researchers say. Participants in the research were also asked how often they took part in singing, dancing, paint, photography or crafting.

In December 2024, art curator Koyo Kouoh became the first African woman selected to curate the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. She proposed an introspective and sensitive approach to the exhibition, shaped by themes of grief, memory, spirituality, and global exhaustion. Following her premature passing in May 2025, the Biennale decided to continue with the same curatorial project, titled In Minor Keys.

Mohammad Omer Khalil is lauded by artist communities around the world for his dedication to collaboration and pedagogy. But the 90-year-old Sudanese artist and master printmaker remains little known in the US, where he has lived and worked since 1967. Born in Khartoum, Khalil studied painting and subsequently taught at the city's School of Fine and Applied Arts, before learning fresco in Florence and moving to New York. There, he found community at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (EFA RBPMW), which inaugurated his foray into printmaking and shaped the trajectory of his career.

asks its audience to do something a lot of us are bad at: Listen. The Pacific Northwest premiere of Carissa Atallah's play at Milagro Theatre gives a platform to angry and anguished young Latinos who live in fear of the U.S. government's war on immigrants.

Coral systems, skeletons, living alga, water, the coil of a snake, and the movement of a bird's wings are just some of the natural phenomena that have fed into van Herpen's visual language. Her couture pieces borrow the natural world's rhythms and structures, adapting them into gravity-defying garments.

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Primary Facts has transformed New York's contemporary-focused Mriya Gallery into the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Reading Room, which holds 3,437 bound volumes spanning all of the released Epstein files. The reading room opened in Tribeca on May 8, and remains on view for guests aged 16 and over through May 21. Although limited walk-in slots are available, Primary Facts recommends scheduling an appointment through its platform, snidely titled Trumpsonian.

“Are you out of your minds?” wrote Jessica Douglas in an email to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) ahead of a meeting about the Trump administration's plan to whitewash the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's granite exterior. According to over 2,000 public responses submitted to the NCPC, hundreds of concerned citizens like Douglas have voiced their disapproval of the Eisenhower Executive Office Beautification Project before the commission reviewed the proposal on May 7, emphasizing that paint and granite are about as compatible as oil and water.

Wary of being labelled, many Asian Americans once believed that the safest way to enter the art world was by making their identities invisible. But invisibility is fragile. After the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965-which abolished the discriminatory national quotas that had defined US immigration policy since the 1920s-many Asian artists arrived in New York and entered an art world already defined by hierarchy. For decades thereafter, downplaying identity could feel like survival. But what we try to sidestep is never separate from us.

Archaeologists excavating at the Ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, near modern El-Bahnasa, announced the discovery of a papyrus containing lines from Homer's Iliad on the abdomen of a Roman-era mummy. The papyrus dates to the late Roman period, around the fifth century CE, about 1600 years ago. Over 1,500 papyri quoting Homer's works survive today, but only an extremely small number were placed in burials. Why would a Romano-Egyptian want to take Homer with them to the afterlife?

Once open, Lumana will support new generations of artists, designers and the institutions that champion them," Gilbert says. "It felt fitting that the work of the great Modernist artists I deeply admire could continue to uplift those following in their footsteps." Ahead of this week's fairs and auctions, we asked Gilbert about her latest acquisitions and her approach to collecting.

“One of my personal obsessions is trying to convince people to hang glass on the wall instead of in the window, so you can really experience the pure color and texture of the glass,” she tells Colossal.

“The Iran war isn't stopping art shipments into New York-but it's removing flexibility from the global system. Logistics is becoming more fragile, and that's changing how the market plans,” says Robin Eckstein, the regional manager for the Middle East at the logistics firm Hasenkamp. “What used to be flexible is now fragile.”

“We know a great deal about what museums display, but far less about how they acquire, borrow, deaccession, and return objects,” PennCHC's executive director and the project's co-principal investigator Richard M. Leventhal said in press materials about the survey, which he added “will help us understand this for the first time on a national scale.”

No. 3 Savile Row was the headquarters of the band's label, Apple Corps, housed the studio where the band recorded Let It Be (1970), and was the stage for what turned out to be the band's final concert, which the four-piece delivered on the building's roof in January 1969.

The first, dubbed Full Decant, would see the site fully emptied, with the Lords and the Commons moving to new premises for most of the works. The second, Enhanced Maintenance and Improvement Plus (EMI+), would see only the House of Lords move out for part of the project and construction otherwise undertaken around MPs' daily work. According to these proposals, the latter have until 2030 to choose which option to go for. During that time, companies will bid for construction contracts, the palace will seek planning consent, and a phase of early, preparatory works will begin.

Rosenström envisioned his project as an homage to the act of speech rather than to patriotic rhetoric. His multi-speaker, site-specific sound installation was "partly inspired by the Four Freedoms speech, and partly inspired by my relationship to how I think about human voices as means or a medium to travel between people", the Finnish artist explains.

Now he's a toddler who can change direction like a squirrel and is rather taken with the word no. And I'm beginning to wonder: should we be sticking to exhibitions and events targeted at children? I'm not a joiner, and the thought of stay-and-plays and singalongs is enough to send me running. And yet, here I am, parking the buggy, unbuckling my son and walking with him, with some trepidation, towards a family-friendly drop-in at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

In his current solo exhibition, Black & Blue at Larkin Durey, Hajallie grapples with the devastating stillbirth of his daughter and the "indescribable emotions that sit beneath language," says the gallery. For this show, the artist deliberately switched from using black ballpoint ink to blue. As he made these works, Hajallie also reflected on the loss of his sister four years ago.

In 2003, Su Xiaobai was advised by Gerhard Richter to abandon oils and concentrate on his explorations of lacquer, according to Stephen Little, curator of Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma). Su took that advice, and now only works in lacquer, sometimes using immense quantities of the tree sap to produce contemplative works that form a bridge between Chinese artistic traditions and European abstraction.

Three fully functional arcade cabinets appeared at the DC War Memorial this morning in the latest installment of anti-Trump protest art in the nation's capital. Visitors are invited to play "Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell," also accessible online, which lambasts President Trump's erratic and flippant public messaging as the United States and Israel's prolonged war on Iran continues with no end in sight.

“other” regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025.

“The reality is that my daughter had a severe disease: mental illness. Like cancer, some diseases are terminal. And hers was terminal.” Short says the documentary's director, Lawrence Kasdan, suggested postponing the film's release. “My instinct was the opposite,” Short said. “Because it's about love, loss and survival I think we proceed. We must figure a way to survive through grief without denying it or without in any way undermining its importance.”