As 2026 dawns, we pay tribute to the artists, curators, writers, dealers and other art world personalities who died in 2025.

British-born, New Orleans-based photographer Steve Pyke knows Ireland well. His new book, Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025, is published by Lilliput Press and out now.

When the fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) drove into the American West in 1979, he left behind ...

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year ...

Glitching, coding and painting: 2025 has been a bumper year for art and culture. Here, Art and culture editor Hannah Silver ...

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As a glut of images parades through our lives, photographers re-educate us on how to see. In 2025, Sara Cwynar mounted an alphabet’s worth of search engine-produced images at ICA Boston; Inuuteq ...

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“Brocken Spectre and Glory: Portrait of Temple Grandin” by David Lenz, oil on canvas, 2022. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired by the Marc Pachter Commissioning Fund and an ...

The White House holiday decorations also include more than 50 Christmas trees, 10,000 blue butterflies and a handful of "Be Best" ornaments Chip Somodevilla/Getty; Anna Moneymaker/Getty First lady ...

The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated. By Zachary Small and Tim F. Schneider An enigmatic self-portrait ...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898), better known as Princess Sisi, became an icon of the Habsburg Empire when, at just 16 years old, she wed her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph, and ...