14 stories across Contemporary, Los Angeles, New Media, and Art Fair. Latest: Getty Center Screens 'Nova '78' Documentary, Julia Heyward to Perform.
On Friday, October 23, the Getty Center will screen the documentary 'Nova '78' and host a performance by no wave artist Julia Heyward. Heyward, who co-emceed the 1978 Nova Convention that the film documents, will perform her electronic-vocal monologue from the event.
On October 22, 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced a landmark gift of more than 200 works of historical and contemporary digital art from members of its LACMA Digital Leaders (LDL) group and other key figures in the digital community.
On October 22, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Louise Bonnet's works have been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
On October 21, 2026, TEFAF announced museum acquisitions made at its 2026 Maastricht and New York fairs, led by the Art Institute of Chicago's purchase of Lavinia Fontana's 'Christ Expelling the Merchants from the Temple,' offered by Trinity Fine Art and the first Fontana painting to enter that c.
On October 22, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a round-up of new Edmund de Waal projects. The artist's solo exhibition "the eight directions of the wind" opens at The Huntington in Los Angeles with new site-specific installations incorporating text and natural materials.
Lisson Gallery will host a conversation between artist Oliver Lee Jackson and curator Hamza Walker on October 31, 2026, at its Los Angeles location, marking the launch of a new publication dedicated to Jackson's practice.
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On October 20, 2026, the Getty Museum published a feature tracing the history of sleep and beds through its collection, from an ancient Greek kline on a 390–380 BCE vase to a French lit à la polonaise dating to about 1775–80.
Dataland, a museum of artificial intelligence arts co-founded by artist Refik Anadol and his wife Efsun Erkılıç, has opened in Los Angeles.
Isabelle Frances McGuire, a Chicago-based sculptor known for her Whitney Biennial installation of witches and floating villagers, has opened the interactive solo show 'Joy is a Puppet' at Bel Ami in Los Angeles.
On October 15, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a range of projects by artist and writer Edmund de Waal, headlined by a solo exhibition at The Huntington in Los Angeles opening October 18, 2026.
On October 13, 2026, Getty announced a new episode of its Close Looking video series, featuring Senior Curator of Paintings Davide Gasparotto discussing Parmigianino's "Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene" (c. 1535–40).
On October 13, 2026, the Getty Research Institute detailed Accra Shepp's technique of printing portraits on plant leaves, showcased in his 2009 artist's book Atlas. The institute acquired a copy of Atlas last year and made the volume the focus of its Spring Conservation Study Day in June 2026.
On October 13, 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that ROSÉ is the musical guest of the 2026 Art+Film Gala. The event honors artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
The MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will open "Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work," the artist's first major institutional solo exhibition in the United States.
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