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On October 28, 2026, Getty announced that a curator's search for a missing shade led La Maison du Pastel in Paris to create a new pastel color, tentatively named Seafoam.
On October 27, 2026, Nationalmuseum announced that the Morgan Library & Museum in New York will open 'Fantasy and Reality: The Art of Johan Tobias Sergel' on October 30, 2026.
Uffizi Galleries will lend six sixteenth-century drawings to "Go Nagai – Sun, Heart and Steel", an exhibition dedicated to the Japanese manga creator at Lucca Comics & Games, running October 28–November 1, 2026, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Lucca.
Frieze Seoul 2026 will take place at COEX from September 2 to 5, 2026, with a citywide program of 10 exhibitions across major Seoul institutions.
Cory Arcangel, a leading figure in digital and Internet art, is profiled by Thaddaeus Ropac gallery. Arcangel first gained attention in 2002 by hacking a Super Mario game cassette to create video art, a move that helped elevate Internet-age technologies into the art world.
Tate St Ives opens a major retrospective of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004), the first exhibition to span the full breadth of her eight-decade career.
SFMOMA has announced a major retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara, opening in Fall 2027 in the museum's Floor 7 galleries.
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.
Lisson Gallery announced on October 22, 2026, that Otobong Nkanga has created a new commission for the opening of Kanal – Centre Pompidou in Brussels. The installation centers on a series of wooden looms, inviting participants to weave personal and collective narratives into an evolving textile.
The Musée d'Orsay has made available three architectural drawings by British architect John Turtle Wood recording his restitution of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, executed around 1863.
On October 19, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released a feature on Jordan Casteel ahead of her autumn exhibition "Winter Sun" at the gallery's Marais space in Paris.
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.
The Serpentine, the Zaha Hadid Foundation, and the Architectural Association (AA) will co-present “89 Degrees of Zaha Hadid”, a two-day symposium exploring the architect’s life, work and influence.
The Musée d'Orsay has released a group of works from its holdings, including studies by Alphonse Osbert for the decor of the thermal establishment in Vichy, dated 1902, and photographs by Henri de La Blanchère depicting actress Rachel as Phèdre from 1859.
On October 16, 2026, Gagosian announced a conversation between artist Richard Wright and Christine Riding, director of collections and research at the National Gallery, London, to mark the tenth anniversary of Wright's site-responsive work No Title (2016).
On October 15, 2026, Judd Foundation announced a book signing for the second edition of "Donald Judd Spaces" at the Broken Arm in Paris on October 23, 2026, from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will feature Flavin Judd, artistic director of Judd Foundation, and is free to attend.
Musée d'Orsay is presenting 'A Statue for Liberty,' an immersive virtual-reality experience devoted to Auguste Bartholdi's 'Liberty Enlightening the World,' on view until January 31, 2027.
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 14, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced "Rinus Van de Velde: Films," the first publication devoted to the artist's film work since 2019. It includes film stills, drawings, sculptures, props, studio and exhibition views, and a vinyl pressing of Joachim Badenhorst's soundtracks.
On August 19, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced a series of Eddie Martinez projects, led by a presentation at the Albertina Klosterneuburg pairing 350 works on paper by Martinez with drawings by Georg Baselitz, part of 'Donated with Love.' His debut monograph, 'Eddie Martinez: 20 Years of Paint.
The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, presents the fourth and final leg of the first European retrospective dedicated to Ruth Asawa, the influential American artist of Japanese descent.
The Van Eeghen family has donated an extremely rare early 17th-century drawing book to the Rijksmuseum, the museum announced on August 18, 2026.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting the exhibition ‘Lucian Freud – Drawing into Painting’, organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Louisiana.
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