2025 in art
overview of the events of 2025 in art
The year 2025 in art involves various significant events.
Art fairs
Listed are art fairs with an article on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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