The Turner Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nnena Kalu. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony at Bradford Grammar School presented by magician Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, in Bradford, this year’s UK City of Culture, and broadcast live on BBC News.

Tate has announced that Maria Balshaw will step down as Director in spring 2026, bringing to a close a nine-year tenure that has reshaped the institution’s public-facing mission, programming, and long-term strategy. Appointed in 2017, Balshaw leaves Tate at a moment of institutional stability, with major capital projects underway and a strengthened financial framework in place.

Máret Ánne Sara’s Goavve-Geabbil transforms Tate Modern into a living landscape of hides, bone, sound, and spirit. Rooted in Sámi cosmology, the installation marks a powerful return of shamanic presence in contemporary art—an immersive call to reconnect with land, ancestors, and the unseen.

Miami Beach is about to trade in its sunscreen for art, ambition, and audacity, as Art Basel 2025 takes over the city in a whirlwind of color, ideas, and unapologetic creativity. From Havana to São Paulo, New York to Kyiv, 283 galleries are landing in the Sunshine State, bringing a global parade of Modern masters, postwar icons, and daring emerging voices. This year, the fair is shining a spotlight on Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic artists—because if Miami is the crossroads of the Americas, Art Basel is the crossroads of ideas. Get ready for a week where the beach vibes meet bold statements, and the cocktail of culture is curated with intellectual rigor.

The latest Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting reveals a new balance of power in the art world — where women lead in spending, Gen Z embraces digital art, and collecting becomes as much about identity as investment.

In the past few years, the art world’s compass has been turning steadily eastward. From Seoul and Singapore to Doha and Abu Dhabi, the expansion of major art fairs signals more than just geographic curiosity—it represents a structural realignment of the global art economy. Asia is no longer a satellite orbiting Western capitals; it is fast becoming a gravitational centre in its own right.