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On September 8, 2026, Kataoka Mami, Director of the Mori Art Museum, was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic.
On September 2, 2026, White Cube announced a survey exhibition of Yoko Matsumoto's career, titled 'The Day I Saw the Evening Star', at the Iwaki City Art Museum in Iwaki, Japan.
Ryan Gander will present the fourth edition of his public art project 'The Find' in Seoul from August 31 to September 10, 2026, marking its first realization in Korea.
Hiroshi Sugimoto has guest edited the latest issue of Aperture magazine, focusing on the theme of stopping time through photography.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has covered its entire glass façade in multicolored polka dots designed by Yayoi Kusama Studio, ahead of the opening of a major survey of the artist's work on September 11, 2026.
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist known for her polka dots and infinity mirror rooms, died in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at age 97. The Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds her 1964 work "Macaroni Dress" in its collection, published a tribute to the artist.
Oliver Beer's film 'The Cave' was filmed in one of the best-preserved prehistoric caves in southwestern France, home to some of the world's earliest known artworks.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announced the death of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died at an undisclosed age. Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama developed a distinctive visual language of polka dots, pumpkins, and mirrored environments over a career spanning more than seven decades.
On August 18, 2026, the Getty Conservation Institute announced ongoing conservation of an 18th-century French commode by Bernard II van Risenburgh that incorporates Japanese lacquer panels.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo presents a solo show at its location at 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition runs from June 16, 2026 through September 13, 2026.
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