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Also: the best Paris shows of the year, protest at the New School, Maureen McCabe’s magical creatures, and Liz Collins’s groundbreaking textiles.
What are you reading on New Year’s Eve? (image of Frank Millet’s “A Cosey Corner” (1884) public domain CC0 via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edit Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)
New revelations about the Louvre heist in October keep trickling in, exposing the depth of this historic security fiasco. This time, we learned that the thieves had just 30 seconds to escape before police and museum security guards arrived on the scene. Keep that in mind next time you complain that there aren’t enough hours in the day to get things done.
But there’s a lot more going on in the city of lights, which has been experiencing an art renaissance in recent years, especially after Brexit severed London from Europe. With that in mind, we present our list of The 10 Best Paris Art Shows of 2025, rounded up by Eurídice Arratia. Highlights include Meriem Bennani at Lafayette Anticipations, Olga de Amaral at Fondation Cartier, Otobong Nkanga at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, and more.
Lygia Pape’s Minimal at Fondation Pinault is one of our favorite Paris shows of the year. (photo courtesy Fondation Pinault)
This is also the time to look back at the art books that defined the year. They include titles about Ruth Asawa and her fellow artist-mothers, Mary Cassatt in Paris, James Baldwin’s friendship with Beauford Delaney, and the story of a French lesbian art spy. View the full list of Our Favorite Art Books of 2025.
Eamon Ore-Giron on View at James Cohan’s 48 & 52 Walker Street Galleries
Conversations with Snakes, Birds, and Stars, an exhibition of new paintings and mosaic works, represents an evolution of Eamon Ore-Giron’s ongoing Talking Shit series, which he began in 2017. In this next chapter, Ore-Giron deepens his artistic dialogue with the iconography of ancient Mesoamerican and Andean cultures while expanding his own pictorial inventiveness.
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News
A protester holds a sign at a rally against cuts at the New School on December 10, 2025. (photo Aaron Short/Hyperallergic)
- Faculty and students rally in the hundreds against sweeping cuts at Manhattan’s New School. Around 40% of full-time faculty were offered buyouts, and dozens of programs are on the chopping block as the school faces a $48M deficit.
- The Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), a coalition of 39 city-funded New York City arts and cultural organizations, has new leadership. Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, director and president of the Museum of the City of New York, will become chair of the coalition, and Atiba Edwards, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, will serve as its executive vice chair.
Features
At age 79, Connecticut-based artist Maureen McCabe is still spreading magic with work steeped in the occult. Aaron Short visited her new exhibition Fate and Magic: The Art of Maureen McCabe at the Benton Museum of Art and came back enchanted.
TCU School of Art Offers Fully Funded Graduate Study
MA and MFA students at this university in Fort Worth, Texas, are trained for impactful careers in contemporary art, museums, and the broader arts field.
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In Memoriam
The Marqués de Riscal hotel, located in Elciego, Spain, and designed by Frank Gehry (photo by Makeip via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Remembering architects Frank Gehry and Gillian Hopwood, photographer Martin Parr, artist Mel Leipzig, and others we lost this week.
From Our Critics
Liz Collins, “Rainbow Mountain Weather” (2024) (photo Alexis Clements/Hyperallergic)
Alexis Clements
Liz Collins: Motherlode at the RISD Museum
“Curated by Kate Irvin, Motherlode offers an expansive view of a body of work that refuses to sit still, shifting form over time, yet carrying a consistent voice throughout.”
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Fall 2025 Art Books From Yale University Press
Exceptional exhibition catalogues for Man Ray and Hew Locke, a landmark Louise Bourgeois biography, Robert Rauschenberg’s writings, and more titles to delight and edify.
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Lowery Sims on Clara Maria Apostolatos’s “Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom”
Thanks so much, Clara Maria Apostolatos for your exquisitely nuanced review of this phenomenal survey assembled by Christophe Cherix and Beverly Adams with Damasia Lacroze and Eva Caston. So great to have John Yau’s essay back in the discussion. It was a game changer for me in my own research.
ICYMI
Frank Stella, “Zeltweg 3x: (1982), painted aluminum (photo courtesy the William Rubin Collection)
Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella. | John Yau
From the Archive
Frederick Kiesler, “Endless House” (Project, 1950–60), exterior view of the model in 1958, gelatin silver print (photo by George Barrows, courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Architecture and Design Study Center)
The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built
While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik’s Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling. | Allison Meier
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