In Artforum’s November 2025 issue: Andy St. Louis spotlights the art of Ayoung Kim; Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, and Tina Rivers Ryan discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem; six photographers share portfolios of their work; and more.

Curator and researcher Vasyl Cherepanyn has been named curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, to take place in summer 2027.

The Gwangju-based National Asian Culture Center (ACC) has named interdisciplinary artist YoungEun Kim the winner of the ACC Future Prize.

Staffers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have announced their intention to unionize under the auspices of AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36, a branch of the union representing museum workers across the country.

Alison Knowles, a key member of the Fluxus movement whose focus on the haptic set her work apart from that of her compatriots, died at her home in New York on October 29. She was ninety-two.

The Oakland Museum of California lost more than one thousand items in an October 15 break-in targeting the museum’s 100,000-square-foot off-site storage facility.

For @Artforum I wrote about @mitchellfchan's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at @nguyenwahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. Link below...

I haven’t been as present covering the Kings lately — not from disinterest, but because I’ve been pouring my energy into something that feels like the foundation of everything I care about. While I rarely talk politics online, I’ve quietly built my path in international

On Artforum’s November 2025 cover: Ayoung Kim, Ghost Dancers B (detail), 2022, mannequins, clothes, helmets, gloves, tap case, reinforced case, tempered glass, dimensions variable.

Also: Laurie Anderson remembers Robert Wilson; Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Thomas Demand, Florian Ebner, Roxana Marcoci, Christian Scheidemann, and Jeff Wall discuss the future of photography; and Caroline A. Jones tackles the history of immersive media art.

Mahama’s Beasts of no nation, 2013–22, appears on the cover of Artforum’s October 2025 issue, accompanied by a feature essay on the artist’s practice by writer Edna Bonhomme.

In this episode of “Under the Cover,” Ibrahim Mahama, discusses his work with wax print cloth; founding an art museum in the town of Tamale, Ghana; and his exhibition “Ibrahim Mahama: Zilijifa” at Kunsthalle Wien.

Talladega College, Alabama’s first private historically Black college, has sold four of six murals painted for the institution by renowned Black painter Hale Woodruff in order to shore up its $5 million endowment and make payroll.

The nonprofit Institute of Contemporary Art San Franciso has announced that it will leave its downtown home, a Modernist onetime banking hall known as “the Cube,” and instead mount exhibitions at various Bay Area locations, beginning in 2026.

Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows have promised the Baltimore Museum of Art more than $10 million to support educational programming for local students.

Investigators have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the audacious October 19 theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris.

Franco-Chinese painter Xie Lei, known for his dreamlike portraits of ghostly, ambiguous figures adrift in dark spaces, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize.

Canal Projects, the cutting-edge nonprofit arts space established by the Korean American community-building organization YS Kim Foundation at the edge of New York’s Chinatown, will close its physical location on May 23, 2026.

In her latest Field Notes column, Artforum executive editor Rachel Wetzler (@rwetzler) visits the current exhibitions at New York’s Upper East Side galleries. Her conclusion: “Uptown, ghosts abound.”

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver has announced Anthony Kiendl as its next director, effective December 1. Kiendl was most recently chief executive and executive director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, which he departed this past March.

Curator and critic Adam Szymczyk has been named director of S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. The appointment marks a homecoming of sorts for the Zürich-based Szymczyk, who spent more than a decade as the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel.