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In Artforum’s Summer 2025 issue: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Gabriel Orozco’s turn to “use value” as a bulwark against spectacle; Marina Isgro on Liliane Lijn’s feminist re-casting of technology; and Diedrich Diederichsen on Mi You’s “multipolar” art world. artforum.com/issue/2025/sum…
The administration of President Donald J. Trump announced that the US would once again pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, which preserves 1,200 World Heritage sites. artforum.com/news/trump-onc…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that it had welcomed more than 5.7 million visitors to its two locations in the 2025 fiscal year, which ended June 30. The number represents a 5 percent increase in attendance over that in 2024. artforum.com/news/met-highe…
The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach have revealed the 285 exhibitors participating in the fair’s 2025 iteration, which will hold preview days on December 3 and 4 at the Miami Beach Convention Center before opening to the general public December 5–7. artforum.com/news/art-basel…
In the latest Artforum Diary, Linda Yablonsky reports from Hydra and Athens, where “something is infusing the atmosphere with palpable brio. Could it be the freedom to imagine a new world that an imperfect, but increasingly tolerant, society allows?” artforum.com/columns/linda-…
The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee has named Amal Khalaf and Evelyn Simons co-artistic directors of the next Busan Biennale, to open in September 2026. artforum.com/news/amal-khal…
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the organization comprising the city’s de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, on July 18 announced the layoff of twelve staffers, or about 5 percent of its workforce. artforum.com/news/fine-arts…
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will not stage the thirty-seventh iteration of the Art Show, its flagship fair. artforum.com/news/adaa-canc…
Cleveland-based artist Robert Louis Brandon Edwards is repurposing a 1947 Greyhound bus salvaged from a Pennsylvania junkyard to serve as a museum commemorating the Great Migration. artforum.com/news/cleveland…
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the Art Bridges Foundation, its museum-partnership, have acquired ninety contemporary works made by Indigenous artists. artforum.com/news/crystal-b…
More than 150 artists and arts professionals have signed an open letter castigating France’s Centre Pompidou-Metz for its sudden cancellation of a long-planned survey of contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. artforum.com/news/centre-po…
Serbian Conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramović has been named the winner of Japan’s 2025 Praemium Imperiale award for sculpture; Scottish-born figurative painter Peter Doig received the honor for painting. artforum.com/news/marina-ab…
Employing the iconography and narrative devices of historical religious art and architecture, Nina Chanel Abney’s latest exhibition offered compositions that reevaluate how and where we place, and misplace, our faith, writes @theartoprah. artforum.com/events/nina-ch…
In celebration of the US debut of Christian Marclay’s Clocks (2022) @icainboston, Artforum revisits Sabine B. Vogel’s feature essay on Marclay’s art, “In Record Time,” the magazine’s May 1991 cover story. artforum.com/features/in-re…
In “ICARUS” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi “reinterprets the iconic myth through the lens of twentieth-century traumas, techno-optimism, globalization, and nationalism,” writes Alberto Villa. artforum.com/events/yukinor…