2025 in art

Listed are art fairs with an article on the English Wikipedia.^[1]

• 22 – 26: London Art Fair

• 5 – 9: Zona Maco, Mexico City.
• 6 – 9: India Art Fair, New Delhi

• 5 – 9: Art Madrid
• 15 – 20: TEFAF, Maastricht

• 18 – 20: Art Dubai
• 24 – 27: Expo Chicago

• 1 – 4, 8 – 11: Clio, New York
• 8 – 11: 1-54, New York
• 8 – 11: Independent, New York
• 17 – 18: Springfield Old Capitol, Illinois

• 7 – 8: 57th Street, Chicago
• 19 – 22: Art Basel

• 11 – 13: Cairns Indigenous Art
• 17 – 19: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair

• 9 – 11: Darwin Festival
• 28 – 31: Enter Art, Copenhagen

• 5 – 7: The Armory Show, New York
• 25 – 28: British Art Fair, London

• 3 – 5: Art Jakarta
• 16 – 19: Highlights – Internationale Kunstmesse München, Munich
• 23 – 26: Art Toronto

• 5 - 7: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach

• 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.^[2]
• April - A 12-foot tall bust of Elon Musk which was inspired by a Reddit meme is defaced in Texas.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• September 25 - More than 600 artifacts related to the British Empire and Commonwealth are stolen from Bristol Museum.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• 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 sod at auction, after Leonardo da Vinci's Salvador Mundi which sold for $450.3 million $US in 2017.^[8][9]
• 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 high markpaid for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014 also at Sotheby;s in New York^[10]) and that of a Latin American artwork at auction.^[11]
• November 27 – Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals opens at the Tate Britain in London^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• December 7 - Eight engravings by Henri Matisse and five works of Candido Portinari are stolen from Mário de Andrade Library in Brazil.^[14]

• January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.^[15]
• January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[16]
• January 23 until March 11 - Christopher Hart Chambers: Passages at Crossing Art in New York City.^[17][18]
• January 26 until November 15 - Pirouette: Turning Points in Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York^[19]
• February 4 until March 22 - Ronnie Landfield Recent Works Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida,^[20]
• February 8 until May 11 - Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[21]
• February 14 until June 15 - Anselm Kiefer: The Early Works at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in Oxford, England.^[22]
• February 18 until March 8 - Sylvie Covey: Botanical Space at the NoHo M55 Gallery in New York City.^[23]
• March 6 until April 19 - Walton Ford: Tutto at Gagosian in New York City.^[24]
• March 6 until April 19 - Julio Galán (a two part exhibition) at Luhring Augustine Gallery and Kurimanzutto in New York City.^[25]
• March 23 until August 2 - Jack Whitten: The Messenger at MoMA in New York City.^[26]
• March 31 until June 22 - Anselm Kiefer: Solaris at Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan.^[27]
• April 9 until August 10 - Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.^[28]
• April 9 until August 31 - David Hockney; 25 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France.^[29]
• 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.^[30]
• April 27 until August 3 - Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[31]
• April 18 until May 29 - Don Perlis' New York at Ilon Galery in New York City.^[32]
• May 7 until June 28 - Will Cotton: Between Instinct and Reason at Templon in New York City.^[33]
• May 30 until September 14 - In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center in New York City.^[34]
• July 16 until August 30 - Summer Show at Shin Gallery in New York City.^[35]
• July 17 until May 31, 2026 - The Magical City: George Morrison's New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[36]
• September 4 until February 1, 2026 - Man Ray: When Objects Dream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[37]
• September 24 until January 18, 2026 - Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.^[38]
• October 11 until February 1, 2026 - Monet abd Venice at the Brooklyn Museum.^[39]
• October 17 until March 2, 2026 - Gerhard Richter at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.^[40]
• October 29 until November 21 - David Szauder: Glitches & Glory at the Elza kayal Gallery in New York City.^[41]
• November 10 until April 11, 2026 - Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream at the MoMA in New York City.^[42]
• November 13 until February 28, 2026 - Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City.^[43]

• Bennett Prize - Amy Werntz^[44]