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What Were the Most Visited Museums in 2025?

What Were the Most Visited Museums in 2025?

Published by José Betancourt

Some 200 million visitors streamed through the 100 top-attended museums around the world in 2025, according to the latest attendance ranking by the Art Newspaper. That figure is still down a bit from the 230 million who punched their tickets in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic shut museums down for months, indicating that overall museums haven’t quite regained their footing even five years later. Many new museums in the Middle East and Asia, which are relatively new to museum-building, attracted tons of visitors, according to TAN, but so did museums in places like New York and London, already well known for their rich institutional landscape.  Related Articles Paris’s Louvre Museum continues to hold the top spot, with some 9 million visitors. Rounding out the top 10 are the Vatican Museums, the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, the British Museum in London, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum, Shanghai Museum East, Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery in London. …

Monet, Munch Headline the Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar

Monet, Munch Headline the Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar

Published by José Betancourt

The Tate’s four national museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain, in London, plus branches in Liverpool and St Ives—have announced their exhibition programming for 2027. One of the more high-profile shows is “Monet: Painting Time,” Tate Modern’s first solo show dedicated to the French Impressionist. “Painting Time” is co-organized with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie (where it opens on September 30, 2026) and will include several of Monet’s instantly recognizable paintings of water lilies, as well as loans from international museums and private collections. It will be on view at Tate Modern following the Orangerie, from February 25 to June 27, 2027. Related Articles Also coming up next year at Tate Modern is a multimedia installation in the museum’s cavernous Turbine Hall space dedicated to David Hockney’s opera designs (both sets and costumes) from the past half-century; a survey of some 200 works by Nalini Malani (July 1–January 3); and a show of Edvard Munch’s emotionally resonant “soul paintings” (November 11–April 23). Tate Britain will also have a David Hockney show next fall (the British artist turns …

Tarek Atoui Selected for Next Turbine Hall Commission at Tate Modern

Tarek Atoui Selected for Next Turbine Hall Commission at Tate Modern

Published by José Betancourt

Artist Tarek Atoui has been selected as the next artist to take on the Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. His exhibition at the London museum will open on October 13 and run into April 2027. Tate Modern international art curators Nabila Abdel Nabi and Dina Akhmadeeva will curate the commission. The Beirut-born, Paris-based artist is known for creating complex installations featuring specially designed instruments that are often made in collaboration with other artists, composers, or makers. These objects typically incorporate glass, water, or ceramics and are activated by touch, breath, or motors. To create these installations, Atoui does deep research into music histories from around the world.   Related Articles He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Luma Westbau in Zurich, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, and Art Sonje Center in Seoul. He won the Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize in 2022. His work has been featured in major exhibitions like the 2023 and 2021 editions of the Gwangju Biennale, the 2022 Istanbul Biennale, …

Man Serving Life Sentence for Tate Modern Attack Faces New Charges

Man Serving Life Sentence for Tate Modern Attack Faces New Charges

Published by José Betancourt

Jonty Bravery, a 24-year-old man who was given a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old French boy from the 10th floor balcony at the Tate Modern in London, now faces an additional sentence for new charges. Bravery was charged for—and recently found guilty of—assaulting two nurses in September 2024 at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital in the UK. He has been held at Broadmoor since being sentenced for the Tate attack in 2020. That year, he was handed another 14-week jail sentence for attacking two other staff members at Broadmoor. Related Articles The Westminster Magistrates’ Court sentenced Bravery this week to 16 weeks in jail for the assault, which will run concurrently with his current sentence, which has a minimum term of 15 years. Bravery refused to appear at the hearing. “This was a violent and distressing incident for the nurses who were simply doing their jobs. No one should ever face this kind of aggression while providing care,” Jessica Hart of the Crown Prosecution Service told the BBC. The Tate Modern attack left …