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Time has become a strange and elastic thing in the post-Covid era. Since President Donald Trump reentered office on January 20, his administration has “flooded the zone” with executive orders, outlandish statements.

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.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents two winter exhibitions celebrating the layered histories of LACMA’s Impressionist.

The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, a two-part exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

The Spanish master’s angle on performance, treasures from Egypt and the year’s best wildlife images on Earth – all in your weekly dispatch.

The two biggest auction houses recently released their 2025 numbers, showing a 17 percent sales jump at Sotheby’s and a nearly 7 percent rise at Christie’s.

Picasso Reflections is an exhibition programme that has the strategic aim of expanding the presence of the Museo Picasso Málaga in Andalusia, generating new opportunities to reinterpret Picasso's work from contemporary perspectives.

An accelerating 2025 driven by luxury, while the Middle East reinforces the strategic role of the EMEA region.

Here’s how 2025 looked from the rostrum, after the dust had settled and the adrenaline finally wore off.

Take a look at the top ten auction results of 2025 and you’d be forgiven for thinking the art market had been magically transported back to the halcyon post-pandemic years.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has agreed to return 12 works of art worth more than US$30 million (S$38.7 million), part of the recovery of assets linked to Malaysia’s state fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

On November 24, 2025, 1 Picasso for 100 Euros launched its third edition in support of Alzheimer’s research.

The Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai has launched more than 300 items of official merchandise derived from two heavyweight exhibitions.

The “1 Picasso for 100 Euros” charity raffle returns, offering up the painter’s 1941 portrait “Tête de femme”.

You might associate raffles with pretty low stakes: pitch in a few dollars for the Girl Scouts, say, and win a chance for something like a gift card or a spa day.