31 stories across New York, Contemporary, Public Art, and Art Fair. Latest: Getty Traces No Wave's Art-Music Legacy in Playlist Ahead of 'Nova '78' Screening.
On October 22, 2026, Getty published a playlist tracing the no wave movement, timed to its October 23 screening of the documentary 'Nova '78'.
On October 22, 2026, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation released the first installment of the Robert Rauschenberg Catalogue Raisonné, covering the artist's paintings and sculptures from 1948 to 1953.
On October 22, 2026, Pratt Institute announced that it will honor artist Derrick Adams at its annual Legends fundraising event on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
On October 22, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a series of concurrent presentations of works by Eddie Martinez, including a solo exhibition at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai.
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.
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On October 21, 2026, TEFAF announced that works by Pablo Picasso, Lucio Fontana, and Sonia Delaunay have been acquired by public museums, facilitated through its recent fairs in New York and Maastricht.
On October 21, 2026, TEFAF announced major museum acquisitions from its 2026 fairs in Maastricht (March 14–19) and New York (May 15–19). The fairs, covering 7,000 years of art, attracted over 600 museum directors and 130 patron groups.
Bonhams has appointed Reg Brack as International Director of Watches, US, based in New York. Brack will lead the auction house's watches business across the United States, overseeing business development, client engagement, and strategic growth.
Bonhams sold the 'Hatfield' Apple-1 computer for $1.15 million, setting a world auction record for a commercially sold Apple-1. The sale closed on October 14 after a 28-minute bidding war between two bidders.
On October 21, 2026, the Rema Hort Mann Fund announced its 2026 gala and benefit art auction, celebrating the nonprofit’s 30th anniversary and raising funds for its Artists Living with Cancer Grant, launched in 2026 to provide direct financial support to New York metropolitan-area visual artists .
Christie's announced the sale of Property from the Collection of Wilma (Billie) and Laurence Tisch, with the first works offered in London on October 21, 2026 and the majority sold in New York during its November Marquee Week.
On October 20, 2026, The Frick Collection announced an installation of new paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman, opening this fall in the museum's Cabinet Gallery. The series of five paintings reimagines Johannes Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl (ca.
On October 20, 2026, the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dr. Chassica “Chaz” Kirchhoff as the J. J. Medveckis Curator of Arms and Armor.
Getty published a blog post on October 16, 2026, featuring holiday recipes shared by its staff. The post includes a range of dishes from pierogi and pumpkin lasagna to ajiaco, khoresh fesenjān, pot stickers, fruitcake, chocolate con queso, banana leaf tamales, and Yorkshire pudding.
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is presenting "Hujar:Contact," an exhibition of more than 110 contact sheets by photographer Peter Hujar. The show runs through October 25.
On October 12, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the presentation of Tom Sachs's '31 Rue Cambon,' an installation staged recently in the artist's SoHo studio in New York.
On October 14, 2026, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Danh Vo will create the 2027 Genesis Facade Commission, the eighth in the series.
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 14, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Sarah Crowner's collaboration with choreographer Pam Tanowitz, "Messengers, Maidens and the End of Something Else," will premiere at Lincoln Center in New York on November 8, 14, and 20, 2026.
On October 14, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a series of Eddie Martinez projects in the US and Austria. At Boston Seaport, Martinez installed two site-specific commissions, "Seaport Bouquet" (2025) and "Seaport Shuffle" (2025–2026), alongside a temporary exhibition of paintings.
On October 13, 2026, Phillips announced it will auction a Rolex Daytona reference 6239, the first known example ever awarded to the winner of an automotive race.
The Whitney Museum will present 'artport: A History of Internet Art', a survey of net art marking the 25th anniversary of its online gallery space artport.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a wave of milestones for Danielle Mckinney.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a broad slate of Matthew Barney presentations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Barney was inducted as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual ceremonial in May 2024.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a wave of Matthew Barney presentations, headlined by an eight-hour screening of 'River of Fundament' at Masonic Hall in New York with New People's Cinema Club and Unsound New York. The 2014 film gets its second New York outing.
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.
On October 13, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that Alex Da Corte's 'Hot Dog with Ketchup' (2026) is now on view on the facade of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, facing Gansevoort Street and the High Line.
Bonhams will present its live American Art sale on November 3 in New York at its U.S. flagship galleries, 111 West 57th Street. The 107-lot auction spans 19th-century Hudson River School painting, the Ashcan School, and Modernism.
On October 5, 2026, Christie's announced 'Heroes and Lovers,' a private collection of nine masterpieces spanning 500 years, estimated at approximately $100 million. The collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Tilman Riemenschneider, Cornelis Cornelisz.
Bonhams will offer the personal archive of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in a live auction at its London saleroom on February 3, 2027, with an online auction ending February 4.
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