The year 2025 in art involves various significant events.
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January
22 – 26: London Art Fair
February 5 – 9: Zona Maco, Mexico City. 6 – 9: India Art Fair, New Delhi
March
5 – 9: Art Madrid 15 – 20: TEFAF, Maastricht
April
18 – 20: Art Dubai 24 – 27: Expo Chicago
May
1 – 4, 8 – 11: Clio, New York 8 – 11: 1-54, New York 8 – 11: Independent, New York 17 – 18: Springfield Old Capitol, Illinois
June
7 – 8: 57th Street, Chicago 19 – 22: Art Basel
July
11 – 13: Cairns Indigenous Art 17 – 19: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair
August
9 – 11: Darwin Festival 28 – 31: Enter Art, Copenhagen
September
5 – 7: The Armory Show, New York 25 – 28: British Art Fair, London
October
3 – 5: Art Jakarta 16 – 19: Highlights – Internationale Kunstmesse München, Munich 23 – 26: Art Toronto
November
December 5 - 7: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach
Events
March March – Rembrandt's only known seascape, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, stolen in 1990 in a famed art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is seemingly recovered by FBI from an art gallery in Manhattan. After video of the event goes viral on social media it is revealed that it was staged for a film shoot.
April April – A 12-foot tall bust of Elon Musk which was inspired by a Reddit meme is defaced in Texas. April 3 – The Tate Modern in London announces that Jorge and Darlene Pérez the art collectors and Perez Art Museum namesakes donated the monumental Joan Mitchell triptych Iva (1973) to the institution. April 23 – The shortlist for the 2025 Turner Prize is announced: Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, with the exhibition held at Cartwright Hall in Bradford as part of its UK City of Culture year.
May May 27 - The organizers of the 2026 Venice Biennale announce that they will go forward with the late Cameroonian-Swiss artistic director of the event Koyo Kouoh's creative vision for the exhibition after she unexpectedly died more than a year before its opening.
July
July 15 - The Japan Art Association announces the laureates of the 36th Praemium Imperiale.
September September 25 – More than 600 artifacts related to the British Empire and Commonwealth are stolen from Bristol Museum.
October October 19 – 2025 Louvre robbery: thieves disguised as workers steal eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels from the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre art museum in Paris in a daring daylight raid; the Crown of Empress Eugénie is abandoned nearby. October 24 – Xie Lei wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp work by the four finalists goes on view at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.
November November 18 – Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–1916), a life-size oil on canvas portrait by Gustav Klimt, sells for $238.4 million $US rendering it the most expensive work of Modern Art ever sold at auction and the second most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, after Leonardo da Vinci's Salvador Mundi which sold for $450.3 million $US in 2017. November 20 – The Dream (The Bed) (1940) by Frida Kahlo sells for 54.7 million $US at Sotheby's in New York, setting both a new record for the highest price of an artwork by a female artist at auction (besting the previous 44.4 million $US highmark paid for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014 also at Sotheby;s in New York) and that of a Latin American artwork at auction. November 27 – Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals opens at the Tate Britain in London
December December 3 – The Winter Egg, one of the few Fabergé eggs still in private hands, is sold at Christie's in London, England, UK, for £22.9 million (US$30.2 million), setting a new auction record for a work from the House of Fabergé. December 7 – Eight engravings by Henri Matisse and five works of Candido Portinari are stolen from Mário de Andrade Library in Brazil.
Exhibitions January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 23 until March 11 - Christopher Hart Chambers: Passages at Crossing Art in New York City. January 26 until November 15 - Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York February 4 until March 22 - Ronnie Landfield Recent Works Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida,Ronnie Landfield Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, Recent Work February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer: The Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in Oxford, England. February 18 until March 8 - Sylvie Covey: Botanical Space at the NoHo M55 Gallery in New York City. March 6 until April 19 - Walton Ford: Tutto at Gagosian in New York City. March 6 until April 19 - Julio Galán (a two part exhibition) at Luhring Augustine Gallery and Kurimanzutto in New York City. March 23 until August 2 - Jack Whitten: The Messenger at MoMA in New York City. March 31 until June 22 - Anselm Kiefer: Solaris at Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan. April 9 until August 10 - Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. April 9 until August 31 - David Hockney; 25 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France. April 18 until July 3 - Picasso: Tête-à-tête (in collaboration with Paloma Picasso) at the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City. April 27 until August 3 - Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. April 18 until May 29 - Don Perlis' New York at Ilon Gallery in New York City. May 4 until June 26 - David Mellen: Wound of Abscence at the Ivy Brown Gallery in New York City. May 7 until June 28 - Will Cotton: Between Instinct and Reason at Templon in New York City. May 30 until September 14 - In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in New York City. July 16 until August 30 - Summer Show at Shin Gallery in New York City. July 17 until May 31, 2026 - The Magical City: George Morrison's New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. September 4 until February 1, 2026 - Man Ray: When Objects Dream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. September 24 until January 18, 2026 - Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. October 11 until February 1, 2026 - Monet and Venice at the Brooklyn Museum. October 17 until March 2, 2026 - Gerhard Richter at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. October 23 until May 9, 2026 - Monuments at MOCA, LA in Los Angeles,California, (co-organized by The Brick, which is also located in Los Angeles}. October 29 until November 21 - David Szauder: Glitches & Glory at the Elza kayal Gallery in New York City. November 10 until April 11, 2026 - Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream at the MoMA in New York City. November 13 until February 28, 2026 - Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City. November 15 until January 17, 2026 - Jiseph Yaeger Polygraph]] at Modern Art in London, England. December 16 until march 14, 2026 - The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson at the Gagosian Gallery, Paris.
Awards Bennett Prize - Amy Werntz Turner Prize - Nnena Kalu Prix Marcel Duchamp - Xie Lei Praemium Imperiale (painting) - Peter Doig Praemium Imperiale (sculpture) - Marina Abramović Praemium Imperiale (architecture) - Eduardo Souto de Moura Praemium Imperiale (music) - András Schiff Praemium Imperiale (theatre/film) - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Praemium Imperiale Grant for Young Artists - National Youth Theatre Hasselblad Award - Sophie Ristelhueber
Works Beeple - Regular Animals (sculptural animatronic instillation premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach). Jack Butcher - Self Checkout (created for and shown at Art Basel Miami Beach in conjunction with his Visualize Value project concern). Nick Cave - Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton created for the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey (mosaic). Adam Cvijanovic - What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding - at the narthex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City (completed). Make America Wait Again Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez - Brownsville King of Love (mural) in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. Lachlan Turczan and ivy Ross and the Google design team - Making the Invisible Visible for Milan Design Week in Milan, Italy. Joseph Yaeger - We Come in With Some of Who We Are
Deaths
January January 3 – La Chunga, 87, Spanish flamenco dancer, painter. and painter's muse (Salvador Dalí) (born 1938) January 4 Ed Askew, 84, American painter (born 1940) Peter Brandes, 80, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1944) Elisabeth Haarr, 78, Norwegian textile artist (born 1945) January 4 – Jagdish Mittal, 99, Indian art collector (born 1925) January 5 – Philippa Blair, 79, New Zealand artist (born 1945). January 7 – Leo Segedin, 97, American painter (born 1927) January 8 – Alastair MacKinven, 53, British artist (born 1971) (death announced on this date) January 13 – Oliviero Toscani, 82, Italian photographer (Benetton) (born 1942) January 16 David Lynch, 78, American film director and visual artist (born 1946) George A. Tice, 86, American photographer (born 1938) January 17 – Jules Feiffer, 95, American cartoonist, author, and visual artist (born 1929) January 21 Jo Baer, 95, American painter (born 1929) Håkon Bleken, 96, Norwegian painter (born 1929) Renina Katz, 99, Brazilian engraver (born 1925) January 22 – Aaron De Groft, 59, American art museum director (Orlando Museum of Art) (born 1965) (death announced on this date) January 24 Rutherford Chang, 45, American conceptual artist (born 1979) Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 85, American artist and curator (born 1940) January 27 – Alonzo Davis, 82, American artist and academic (born 1942) January 28 – Graham Nickson, 78, British painter, longtime dean of the New York Studio School; (born 1946)
February February 1 – C. Richard Kramlich, 89, American venture capitalist and video art collector (born 1935) February 2 – Helga de Alvear, 88, German-Spanish art collector and dealer (born 1936) February 3 David Edward Byrd, 83, American graphic artist (born 1941) Lim Tze Peng, 103, Singaporean painter (born 1921) February 5 Satoru Abe, 98, American sculptor and painter (born 1926) Waldo Díaz-Balart, 93, Cuban painter and sculptor (born 1931) February 8 – Yrjö Kukkapuro, 91, Finnish interior architect and furniture designer (born 1933) February 9 - Walter Robinson, 74, American painter and art writer (born 1950). February 10 - Mustafa Arruf, 66, Spanish sculptor (born 1958) February 11 - Kay Smith, 101, American visual artist (born 1923) February 12 - Mel Bochner, 84, American conceptual artist (born 1940) February 20 - Frankétienne, 88, Haitian painter (born 1936) February 23 - Ming Fay, 82, Chinese-born American sculptor (born 1943)
March March 1 - Jack Vettriano, 73, Scottish painter (The Singing Butler) (born 1951) March 3 - Victor Cicansky, 90, Canadian sculptor (born 1935)Renowned Saskatchewan sculptor Victor Cicansky dies at 90 March 14 - Fred Eversley, 83, American sculptor (born 1941) March 17 - Peter Sedgley, 95, English artist, co-founder of Space Studios (born 1930) March 22 Joe Goode, 87, American painter. Asaf Lifshitz, 82, Israeli sculptor (born 1942) March 25 - Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, 90–91, Bahraini artist (born 1934) March 27 - Marcia Marcus, 97, American painter (born 1928)
April April 6 - Max Kozloff, 91, American art historian and art critic (born 1933) April 11 - Gretchen Dow Simpson, 85, American painter (born 1939) April 14 - Elaine Wynn 82, American art collector and philanthropist (born 1942)