14 stories on The Cultural Signal
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 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.
On October 15, 2026, M+, the museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, announced its fifth anniversary celebrations. The museum, which opened in 2021, has welcomed over 12.5 million visitors.
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 (b. 1993, Edinburgh) is featured in British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, spotlighted by Southbank Centre, the UK's largest arts centre.
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris has published a detailed description of Paul Cézanne's 'Pommes et oranges' (Apples and Oranges), a still life from 1899 that the museum calls the most important such work from the artist's late 1890s.
The Musée d'Orsay has published a listing of works by Auguste Renoir, including paintings such as 'Bouquet de roses', 'La Liseuse verte', and 'Etude pour l'une des «Grandes baigneuses»', alongside an anonymous portrait from after 1868.
The Musée d'Orsay holds Eugène Carrière's 1885 oil painting 'L'Enfant au verre' (The Child with a Glass), measuring 61.5 by 50.5 cm. The work was donated by Louis-Henri Devillez in 1930 and was previously housed at the Musée du Louvre before being transferred to the Musée d'Orsay in 1977.
The Musée d'Orsay has published a detailed catalogue entry for Ernest Meissonier's oil-on-wood painting 'L'Empereur à la bataille de Solférino' (1863), which depicts Napoleon III at the 1859 Battle of Solferino.
On October 13, 2026, Phillips announced early highlights for its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, scheduled for 18 November in New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Spaces Between," the first museum survey of the artist's work in the city in three decades.
On September 16, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that Karimah Ashadu's 2024 video 'Machine Boys' is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. The film examines the informal economy surrounding okadas—commercial motorcycles that serve as unofficial public transport in Lagos, Nigeria.
On September 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published an interview with Raqib Shaw, revealing that the artist will present his first UK solo exhibition since 2015 at Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
On August 27, 2026, Getty Publications announced the forthcoming book 'Cassatt Reconsidered' by Mary G. Morton, which challenges over a century of misconceptions about Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt.
On September 2, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a series of developments for Los Angeles-based sculptor Liz Larner, headlined by her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, "A hard line to bend," at Camden Art Centre in London.
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