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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, Art Basel announced a partnership with Live Nation to present "GOD HATES SPACE," an immersive audiovisual installation by the interdisciplinary duo GENER8ION, formed by producer Surkin and filmmaker Romain Gavras.
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, Sadie Coles HQ announced that Lawrence Lek will feature in 'Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia' at M+ Museum of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong.
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.
On October 13, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced the group exhibition “Do you dream of electric sleep?” at Le Château, Centre d’Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d’Aubenas in Aubenas, France.
On October 12, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced "Lost and Found," a major survey of Susan Hiller's work opening at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw on October 29, 2026.
Manchester Collective will present 'Black Gold' at Southbank Centre's Purcell Room in London on December 6, 2026, at 6pm.
On October 7, 2026, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced the display of C.B. Evans' major work 'Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen' in the museum's Great Hall.
The Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection in Paris is presenting the exhibition "Remember Me," which includes Nan Goldin's work "Syndrome de Stendhal." The piece is a slideshow juxtaposing classical masterpieces from the Renaissance and Baroque with portraits of Goldin's friends and lovers, acc.
On October 5, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that Sir John Akomfrah's five-channel film installation, 'Arcadia' (2023), will premiere at the Natural History Museum, London, on November 5, 2026.
On September 29, 2026, Art Basel announced the exhibitor line-up and program highlights for its 2026 Miami Beach edition, taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 4–6, with VIP Preview Days on December 2 and 3.
On September 25, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced Cory Arcangel's new work 'For X (2026)'. Arcangel, a key figure in postconceptual and digital art, has designed and constructed a carillon—a musical instrument composed of twelve bells—hanging within a cell phone tower.
On September 24, 2026, Gagosian announced that the Jamaica Bay–Rockaway Parks Conservancy and the National Park Service will host a public arts festival on October 3, 2026, at Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
On September 14, 2026, M+, Asia's global museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong, announced a new commission for its Facade: 'Winds of Hong Kong' (2026) by Turkish-American media artist Refik Anadol.
On September 21, 2026, the J.
Fondation Louis Vuitton will reopen on October 9, 2026, with "Gustave Fayet, Collector - Designer. Icons of Modern Art," an exhibition running through March 8, 2027. The show occupies all museum spaces and is presented in two parts, focusing on Fayet as both a collector and designer.
On September 17, 2026, Sharjah Art Foundation announced the Early Bird Pass offer for the ninth edition of Sharjah Film Platform (SFP9), an annual festival of independent cinema and experimental filmmaking.
On September 14, 2026, Getty announced the launch of season two of 'If Objects Could Talk,' an award-winning family-friendly podcast that brings to life objects from its art collection.
On September 9, 2026, the Getty Foundation announced a multinational traveling research seminar, "The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland," supported by its Connecting Art Histories initiative.
Getty Scholar Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann and Getty Graduate Intern Tom Keep are collaborating to reimagine research and storytelling around the transatlantic slave trade through 3D digitization of artifacts from Christiansborg Castle in Ghana.
Serpentine Galleries announced the launch of the Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship, a new flagship programme supported by a three-year partnership with Glass Castle.
On August 31, 2026, M+ announced "Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia," a Special Exhibition opening at the West Gallery in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District from October 17, 2026 to April 4, 2027.
The 9th Nam June Paik Prize has been awarded to Ryoji Ikeda, a Japanese composer and artist known for his precise mathematical explorations of sound and light. The prize is given by the Nam June Paik Art Center, directed by Namhee Park.
Jeu de Paume in Paris will present the largest retrospective of Stan Douglas in the city in over 30 years, running from October 16, 2026 to January 31, 2027.
Frieze Seoul opened its fifth edition on August 19, 2026, at the COEX convention center in Seoul, South Korea, connecting the global art world with Asia through new curated sections and an expanded programme.
Serpentine Galleries will open 'Change Ringing', the first UK institutional exhibition of new and recent works by Justin Caguiat, at Serpentine South from 8 October 2026 to 10 January 2027.
LAS Art Foundation presents an afternoon of conversations on the evolving landscape of quantum technologies on June 20, 2026, at Grand Palais in Paris.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn's work Stones Trinity, 2025 is featured on the Rolling Stones' album Foreign Tongues, scheduled for release on July 7, 2026. Quinn creates hybrid fractured portraits on paper and linen using charcoal, gouache, pastel, paint stick and oil paint.
On June 3, 2026, Tokyo Node announced the exhibition 'Tony Oursler: Between Technology and Spiritual Knowledge - Magic, Media, and Art', which runs from July 3 to September 27, 2026.
Tom Holert examines Harun Farocki’s views on the function of film and images, referencing a 2014 Berlin Documentary Forum panel where Farocki discussed the early twentieth-century shift of film toward entertainment and education.
The Getty Museum offers mindfulness-based tours including the Breathe Tour, Art & Nature Tour, Memento Mori and Moving Mindfully tours led by head of education Keishia Gu.
Tate Liverpool announced that Asad Raza will create the first major commission for the Art Hall, a new space at the heart of the transformed gallery when it reopens in 2027.
DEMO2026 festival tickets are now on sale for the event at the New Museum’s Expanded Building in New York. The festival runs from June 3–5 with showcases on view from June 3–10. Speakers include Xin Liu, Dr. Sarah Lewis, Germane Barnes, Felix Burrichter and Tao Leigh Goffe.
Tate Britain has shortlisted Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku for the Turner Prize 2026. An exhibition of their work will be held at Teesside University’s MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, from 26 September 2026 to 29 March 2027.
The Stedelijk Museum has redesigned its presentation of art from 1950 to 1980 to feature works unseen for decades paired with new acquisitions.
LACMA is presenting Diffuse Control by Beeple, the artist’s first museum exhibition in the western United States. The work is a kinetic video sculpture that plays a continuously evolving video powered by custom AI models and real-time user interaction.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr. The exhibition features one-inch-high sculptures made primarily from chewing gum wrappers that depict unforgettable moments from the histories of women's and men's soccer.
Lisson Gallery is presenting a series of exhibitions and talks featuring Cory Arcangel: Powerpoints, Jonathan Monk: Less Is More..., Christian Jankowski: Heavy Weight History, Lawrence Weiner: The Grace of a Gesture, Shirazeh Houshiary: Breath, Ai Weiwei: Disposition and Pedro Reyes: DISARM.
Tate Modern has launched two new projects for its UNIQLO Tate Play programme in the Turbine Hall. From 28 March to 12 April 2026 visitors can create sculptures using everyday materials in a project conceived with ActionSpace and inspired by British artist Linda Bell.
On March 25, 2026, Artforum released an episode of Under the Influence featuring artist, filmmaker and writer John Akomfrah. He discusses admired works including Andrea Mantegna’s The Lamentation of Christ and J. M. W.
Tate and Hyundai Motor Company have selected artist and composer Tarek Atoui to create the next annual Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The site-specific work will be open to the public from 13 October 2026 to 11 April 2027 and represents the 11th commission in the series.
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