When Art’s Spotlight Shifts: Margins, Maps, and the Museums of 2025
Blockbuster art shows often focus on familiar names, but 2025’s museum calendar is rewriting the script. Major exhibitions are finally centering artists and stories that have long been overlooked or pushed to the margins.
Christine Sun Kim’s survey at the Whitney and Walker Art Center explores the power and play of communication, sound, and Deaf culture, inviting viewers to rethink what language can be.
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk and Van Gogh Museums unite to reveal how Anselm Kiefer and Van Gogh both confronted national trauma and personal vision, bridging eras and artistic legacies.
Paris’s Centre Pompidou spotlights Black artists who shaped the city’s creative pulse from 1950 to 2000, challenging narrow definitions of Frenchness and art history.
Meanwhile, Indigenous Australian artists take center stage in North America and Europe, with Emily Kam Kngwarray and the sweeping “The Stars We Do Not See” exhibition mapping new constellations of cultural memory and innovation.
In 2025, museums aren’t just displaying art—they’re redrawing the map of who gets seen, heard, and remembered.
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