Jessie S. Martin

12 January 2026. The publication of museum attendance figures for 2025 has reignited an old but ever-relevant debate within the international art world: should cultural success be measured by sheer visitor numbers, or by the nature, depth and coherence of a collection? According to recently released data, the Museo del Prado closed 2025 with over 3.6 million visitors, the highest figure in its history. For the Madrid institution, this milestone has been received not as a race to compete with...

16 December 2025 The Serpentine Gallery in London has announced a major new transatlantic collaboration with The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, marking a significant moment in the landscape of contemporary art prizes in the United Kingdom. The newly established Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will become the largest contemporary art prize awarded to a single artist in the UK, both in financial scale and long-term institutional commitment. Over the course of the next decade, the prize..

29 September 2025. In 2025 we mark the hundredth anniversary of George Bellows’ death. At ARTLO, we believe anniversaries are not just commemorations but opportunities to revisit artists whose voices remain alive in our present. Bellows was one of the most uncompromising painters of his generation, and a century on his canvases still throb with the restless energy of the modern city. This year marks the centenary of George Bellows’ death, and at ARTLO we see it as more than a date on the...