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The ARTnews holiday art gift guide has arrived, bursting with art-inspired products for every enthusiast in your circle! Whether you’re shopping for your favorite Lower East Side gallery denizen, your niece in art school, or a jaded mega collector, our list of art gifts has you covered, with everything from art apparel and accessories to artists’ limited-edition home goods. As with our previous art gift guides, we’ve even sprinkled in some collectible art that may accrue value over time. Options range from under $3 to $750, with half no more than $50.
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Marina Abramović Method Card Set
Image Credit: Amazon In this boxed set of 30 instruction cards, Marina Abramović—whose challenging performance works established an edgy, feminist interpretation of the relationship between performer and audience—shares her methods for focusing the mind. The artist offers instructions like “Listen to nature” and “Lie down and hold your breath” to develop stamina and presence. This gift is perfectly sized for a stocking.
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Cole Haan Keith Haring Slip-Ons
Image Credit: Amazon You might think Cole Haan only does dress shoes, but no: This stalwart brand’s wearable collaboration featuring art by Keith Haring, available in two designs, makes for a sneaker that will delight any fan of the artist’s work.
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Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Coin Purse
Image Credit: Smithsonian A mini version of one of Yayoi Kusama’s iconic pumpkin sculptures, this delightful coin purse is made of durable leather with a black grosgrain lining and is one of the most coveted items of the season.
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MasterClass
Image Credit: Urupong - stock.adobe.com You’ve most likely seen one of the commercials for MasterClass, the online education subscription service that gets celebrities from to record tutorials on a wide range of topics from cooking to science to philosophy. Instructors include musician Alicia Keys, chef Gordon Ramsay, editor and fashion icon Anna Wintour, comedian and actor Steve Martin, and other luminaries. One commercial even features well-known artist Jeff Koons, but there are other artists teaching courses as well, among them photographer Annie Leibovitz (photography), street artist Futura (spray painting and abstract art), Tyler Mitchell (storytelling and portrait photography), Es Devlin (turning ideas into art), and Jimmy Chin (adventure photography), with more always being added.
Relying they do for star power, courses can be entertaining as well as useful, but that comes at a price. So how do you know if MasterClass is for you? You can watch free videos or chapters for many of the courses without having to sign up for the service. The least expensive annual membership fee is $180 or “$15 (billed annually).” For a limited time, you can buy one MasterClass annual membership and get an additional annual membership, perfect for gifting, absolutely free. Check this page for more about the offer.
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Julian Opie Wrapping Paper
Image Credit: Julian Opie Julian Opie’s cartoonish renderings of the human body have led to his inclusion as one of the canonical figures of New British Art. You can boggle the mind of your favorite art collector by going meta and wrapping her art gift with an Opie original. Actually, this “wrapping paper” is so good, she might want to frame it.
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Alex Katz Gift Collection at the Guggenheim Store
Image Credit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum At 95 years old, the American figurative painter Alex Katz has built an iconic oeuvre of large-scale yet simplified images of places and people. The Guggenheim just dropped a cornucopia of Katz collectibles to coincide with the opening of “Gathering,” a retrospective of the artist’s works. This capsule collection has something for all budgets and ages: a limited-run Limoges porcelain plate ($150), exotic Katz-designed clothing items and linens ($425 for eye-popping quilts), even a limited-run puzzle depicting his iconic 1977 screen print Five Women ($25).
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Van Gogh Ornament
Image Credit: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum This handmade felt ornament in the shape of Vincent Van Gogh—complete with sunflower—is sure to find a favored place on any art lover’s Christmas tree. Or just use him to embellish a special gift—such as the exhibition catalog for “Van Gogh in America” now on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Tom Sachs and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Notepad
Image Credit: Tom Sachs Sculptor Tom Sachs’s collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, featuring the JPL logo, is an easy acquisition whether you’re thinking of it as a sketch pad or a piece to leave shrink wrapped for posterity. This makes a suitable gift for any friend or family member interested in space exploration.
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Warhol Marilyn Eye Mask
Image Credit: The Broad Give the gift of Andy with this fetching eye mask by Gallison, licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation. It features Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe (from his 1967 series) printed on satin over a soft floss filling. Presented in a box with peekaboo window, this is a stocking stuffer even Marilyn herself would have loved.
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Kehinde Wiley Playing Cards
Image Credit: Studio Museum in Harlem This sumptuous deck of playing cards features the painting Yachinboaz Ben Yisrael II (2021) by Kehinde Wiley, who borrows from European art history and portrait traditions to create his portraits of urban black and brown men. Sales of the deck support Black Rock, Wiley’s artist-in-residence program in Dakar, Senegal.
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby Tote Bag
Image Credit: Studio Museum in Harlem This gorgeous tote bag features artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s painting Nwantinti, inspired by Nelly Uchendu’s popular 1976 rendition of an Igbo folk song. Give a romantic image by one of contemporary art’s most important and virtuosic young painters while supporting the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Virgil Abloh “Figures of Speech” Youth Mickey Tee
Image Credit: Brooklyn Museum You can take pride in giving this unusual branding crossover, a Virgil Abloh/Off-White + Disney limited-edition piece sure to please young fans of Mickey and their fans-of-Virgil parents.
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Andrea Joyce Heimer Puzzle
Image Credit: Nino Mier Gallery Brooklyn-based Kinstler puzzles reproduced artist Andrea Joyce Heimer’s painting In the Summer We Started Drinking During the Hot of the Day and by Night Time We Were Monsters for this sumptuous (and challenging) puzzle. The 1,000-piece puzzle is made with 100 percent recyclable materials and is the one art gift that’ll entertain right out of the box.
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Shepard Fairey Signed Lithograph
Image Credit: Shepard Fairey Shepard Fairey’s lithograph Make Art Not War offers a timeless message. This signed print by one of America’s most famous street artists (and the designer of Barack Obama’s “Hope” campaign poster) is available for an amazingly affordable price.
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Isamu Noguchi Akari Lamp
Image Credit: Noguchi Museum An icon of midcentury design, Isamu Noguchi’s Akari paper lantern is a harmonious blend of Japanese traditional craft and modernist form. It is constructed from handmade washi paper and bamboo ribbing, supported by a metal frame. Or, if you are looking for a more economical way to gift an article designed by Noguchi, buy a screen print on washi paper—such as Yellow Bowtie, shown here—only $50 at the Noguchi Museum Store.
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Monopoly: The Met Edition
Image Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art For the art fanatic who also loves games, this collaboration between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the makers of Monopoly hits the mark. Its “properties” include masterpieces and antiquities from the Met’s collection, which you can use to build a mini-Met of your own.
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Frank Stella Star Ornament
Image Credit: Whitney Museum of American Art Choose one of the six ornaments Frank Stella designed for the Whitney Museum in conjunction with his 2014 retrospective there. The star-shaped decorations measure approximately four inches across and come in a chic collectible box.
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Mr. Brainwash Art Museum Limited-Edition Posters
Image Credit: Thierry Guetta More than a decade ago, the rise to fame of street artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, was documented in Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop documentary. Now a fixture in the contemporary art world, Mr. Brainwash is set to unveil his Mr. Brainwash Art Museum in Beverly Hills in November—and in tandem with the opening, he has released 20 coyly art-referential limited-edition posters. One would certainly make the perfect gift for any Banksy-heads who fondly recall the movie.
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LEGO Starry Night
Image Credit: Museum of Modern Art The Starry Night was the first artwork by Van Gogh to enter a New York museum collection. Now you can build your own version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece—out of LEGOs! This 2,316-piece kit, originally a submission on the LEGO Ideas platform, has been created in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art—a good fit, since LEGO building bricks, designed by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen between 1954 and 1958, reside in MoMA’s design collection.
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Andy Warhol Skate Deck
Image Credit: LACMA Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can paintings are among the most recognizable works of art of the 20th century. This skate deck from the Andy Warhol Foundation is a great opportunity to bowl over your favorite Warhol fan. Proceeds from sales of these decks support Skateistan, an award-winning, international nonprofit group with educational projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa.
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Takashi Murakami Pixelated Flower Floor Mat
Image Credit: Gagosian This floor mat is based on the Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami’s design for his Murakami Flowers NFT project (2021–2022). The image combines the artist’s influential Superflat aesthetic with a nostalgic nod to the pixelated graphics of 1980s video games. Made of pink, white, and light blue acrylic yarn, the mat is perfect for a child’s room.