We look ahead at the next 12 months, with art market predictions and a guide to big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions.
Georgina Adam, editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper, tells host Ben Luke what might lie ahead for the market this year. And Ben is joined by Jane Morris, another of our editors-at-large, and Gareth Harris, chief contributing editor, to select the big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions of the year.
All of the shows discussed and many more are in The Art Newspaper’s book The Year Ahead 2025, priced £14.99 or the equivalent in your currency. Buy it here
Openings and exhibitions:
- The Frick Collection, New York, opening April
- Vermeer’s Love Letters, The Frick Collection, 18 June-8 September
- Studio Museum, New York, reopens autumn 2025
- New Museum expansion opens late 2025
- V&A East Storehouse, opens 31 May
- Site Santa Fe International: Once Within a Time, Santa Fe, 28 June-13 January 2026
- Liverpool Biennial: Bedrock, 7 June-14 September
- Folkestone Triennial, 19 July-19 October
- Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 5 April-2 September; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 19 October-7 February 2026
- Gabriele Münter, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, until 9 February; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 4 April-24 August; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 7 November-26 April 2026;
- Elizabeth Catlett: a Black Revolutionary Artist, Brooklyn Museum, New York, until 19 January; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 9 March-6 July; Art Institute of Chicago, 30 August-4 January 2026
- Morisot/Manet, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 11 October-1 March 2026
- Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds, Tate St Ives, 1 February-5 May; Tate Britain, London, 13 June-19 October
- Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adamsand Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 June-14 September
- Michaelina Wautier: Painter, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 30 September-25 January 2026
- Radical! Women Artists and Modernism 1910-1950, Belvedere, Vienna, 18 June-12 October
- Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 May-7 September; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 October-1 February 2026
- Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 May-2 November
- Amy Sherald: American Sublime, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, until 9 March; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9 April-August; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 19 September-22 February 2026
- Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, Cincinnati Art Museum, 14 February-4 May; Cleveland Museum of Art, 14 February-8 June; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, 1 October-25 January 2026
- Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June-7 September
- Linder: Danger Came Smiling; Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February-5 May
- Arpita Singh: Remembering, Serpentine Galleries, London, 20 March-27 July
- Vija Celmins, Beyeler Collection, Basel, 15 June-21 September
- An Indigenous Present, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 9 October-8 March 2026;
- The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 18 October-1 March 2026
- Duane Linklater: 12 + 2, Dia Chelsea, 12 September-24 January 2026
- Duane Linklater, Camden Art Centre, London, 4 July-21 September; Vienna Secession, 29 November-22 February 2026
- Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Modern, London, 10 July-11 January 2026
- Archie Moore: Kith and Kin, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 30 August-23 August 2026
- Histories of Ecology, Museu de Arte de S.o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), Sao Paulo, 5 September-1 February 2026
- Jack Whitten: The Messenger, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 23 March-2 August
- Jack Whitten, Dia Beacon, 24 October-18 May 2026
- Wifredo Lam, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10 November-28 March 2026
- Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 18 April-18 January 2026;
- Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, 4 April-3 January 2027
- Marie Antoinette Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 20 September-22 March 2026
- Leigh Bowery!, Tate Modern, London, 27 February-31 August
- Blitz: the Club That Shaped the 80s, Design Museum, London, 19 September-29 March 2026
- The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, Tate Modern, London, 1 May-19 October
- Picasso: the Three Dancers, Tate Modern, London, 17 September-1 April 2026
- Ed Atkins, Tate Britain, London, 2 April-25 August
- Turner and Constable, Tate Britain, 27 November-12 April 2026
- Hiroshige, British Museum, London, 1 May-7 September
- Watteau and Circle, British Museum, London, 15 May-14 September
- Ancient India, British Museum, London, 22 May-12 October
- Kerry James Marshall: the Histories, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 September-18 January 2026
- Kiefer/Van Gogh, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 28 June-26 October
- Anselm Kiefer: Early Works, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 14 February-15 June
- Anselm Kiefer: Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 7 March-9 June
- A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting, Louvre, Paris, 22 January-12 May
- Black Paris: Artistic Movements and Anticolonial Struggles 1950-2000, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 19 March-30 June
- Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 13 February-8 June