Let’s rewind your year in art. In 2025, you clicked, you looked, you lingered in the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection online. We’ve crunched the numbers to see what caught your eye. Here’s the art you loved most.
One artwork, and its creator, rose above the rest. Website visitors viewed Diego Rivera’s iconic Detroit Industry Murals more than 20,000 times, pushing his artwork to the top spot on art-lovers' lists. The attention is well deserved—even Rivera himself considered these murals his greatest work.
Your curiosity had range. The top five artworks swung from deeply disturbing—The Nightmare and Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (hello, decapitated head!)—to the celebratory joy of The Wedding Dance. In between, you gravitated towards the moody and mysterious Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket and, of course, the grit and grandeur of the Detroit Industry Murals
And while no single Van Gogh painting landed in the top five artworks, he still got plenty of love. Van Gogh was second only to Rivera among this year’s Top Artists. Your favorite Van Gogh searches included Self-Portrait, the first work by the artist purchased by an American museum;Portrait of Postman Roulin; and Vase with Carnations.
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Henry Fuseli, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Artemisia Gentileschi—all with works in the Top Five—took the last three spots on the Top Artists list.
In 2025, you were also into searching for artworks about cats. Like, really into it. More than 16,000 searches led visitors to feline favorites like Cats and Cat’s Cradle.
What will show up on next year’s DIA Unwrapped? We can’t wait to find out. Keep exploring. We’ll keep the art ready.
