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Almine Rech announced that Ewa Juszkiewicz's oil painting 'Lady with a Mirror (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)' (2026) has been acquired by the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The work, rendered in oil on canvas, measures 170 by 120 centimeters.
Gerard Walschap (1898-1989), the Flemish novelist and critic, is represented in the National Portrait Gallery in London as a sitter in one portrait. The museum's collection record lists no additional portraits of him.
On October 24, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published an in-depth essay by Gazelle Mba on painter Jordan Casteel, framing her work as "the studied intimacy of a photo album" and aligning it with the literature of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou.
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 September 23, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of "Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares" (ca. 1626) by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez (1599–1660).
On September 22, 2026, Centre Pompidou published an extensive interview with French photographer Mathieu Pernot (born 1970), whose long-term documentation of the Gorgan Romani family is featured in the exhibition 'Vies minuscules' at the Panthéon in Paris.
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