In Artforum’s September 2025 issue: Jan Tumlir on Mungo Thomson, Christy Lange on Agnieszka Kurant, Jim Quilty on Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Elizabeth Mangini on Carol Rama, Alex Jovanovich introduces a portfolio of Agosto Machado’s queer archives, and more.

On the cover: Mungo Thomson, Volume 5. Sideways Thought, 2020–22, 4K video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds. Score by Ernst Karel. From the series “Time Life,” 2014–.

In an August 27 press release, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum said it would be forced to shutter if the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science does not pony up the funds necessary for a much-needed refurbishment.

Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2025 recipients of funds from AWAW’s Environmental Art Grants (EAG) program.

Asia Art Archive has named Istanbul-born curator Özge Ersoy as its next executive director. She succeeds artist Christopher K. Ho, who led the nonprofit for four years and will remain on its board.

The School of Visual Arts in New York has laid off roughly thirty employees, citing “financial challenges” as behind the cuts.

The Trump administration on August 21 posted an unsigned article on the White House’s website calling out a number of Smithsonian museums for their exhibitions and messaging, which it sees as out of alignment with its own anti-diversity values.

Selected from an archive of more than 600 photographs of the artist’s arrangements, the collection furthers Oldham’s efforts to broaden access to freestyle ikebana’s “aesthetic and philosophical developments” since the 1970s.

For the Summer issue of Artforum, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham introduces a portfolio from “Legend of Ikebana” Kosen Ohtsubo comprising eight works from the 1970s and ’80s.

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has announced the closure of its Los Angeles branch. Inaugurated in 2018, the space will shut after its last exhibition, a solo show of work by Bek Hyunjin, which closes on August 29.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has appointed Brian Ferriso as its new director. Ferriso arrives to the role from the Portland Art Museum (PMA) in Oregon, which he helmed for nearly two decades, beginning in 2006.

The Getty Foundation has presented seven US organizations with a total of $1.5 million in grants as part of its ongoing Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, established in 2022.

Collector, fashion designer, and art patron Christophe de Menil died August 5 at her home in New York. She was ninety-two.

British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red will remain in England following a successful financial appeal issued by the Hepworth Wakefield museum and UK charity Art Fund.

Naomi Beckwith, who late last year was named curator of Documenta 16, has appointed an all-female artistic team to help organize the German quinquennial’s 2027 edition.

Art in General, the well-regarded nonprofit exhibition space founded in New York in 1981 by artists Martin Weinstein and Teresa Liszka, is set to make its return under the leadership of curator Xiaoyu Weng.

A small band of demonstrators from the environmental activist group Greenpeace climbed an active Shell gas extraction platform on August 13 to unfurl a massive Anish Kapoor work in protest of the catastrophic effects of oil and gas on the climate.

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has named writer and curator Dan Nadel as its Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints.

The Trump administration on August 12 announced that it would conduct a comprehensive review of the Smithsonian Institution’s current and forthcoming exhibitions “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals.”

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland has named Daniel Muzyczuk as the next director of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.