50 stories on The Cultural Signal
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.
The Kunsthalle Würth will present the monographic exhibition “Anselm Kiefer – All That Is the Case” from October 16, 2026, marking the museum’s 25th anniversary.
Phillips announced on October 15, 2026, that a 100%-sold auction was led by Gerhard Richter's 'Mathis' from the collection of Marcel Brient. The sale set new artist records for Joseph Yaeger and Eva Helene Pade.
On October 14, 2026, the Centre Pompidou published a feature on Olivier Mourgue's Djinn seating family, noting that the French designer died on October 5, 2026, at age 87.
On October 13, 2026, Phillips announced early highlights for its November sale, including headlining works by Amedeo Modigliani, David Hockney, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, and Derek Fordjour.
On October 13, 2026, Sadie Coles HQ announced that artist Sarah Lucas will be featured in 'Across Epochs: Gursky, Lucas, Miró, Warhol and the Art of the Long 19th Century' at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Artcurial will auction the collection of Marie-Claude Beaud, the influential curator and former director of the Fondation Cartier, Mudam Luxembourg, and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, in Paris on December 1, 2026.
On October 13, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published an essay by critic Jonathan Jones on Georg Baselitz, the German painter who died this year, in connection with the London exhibition of his 'The Heroes' history paintings, which he helped plan.
On October 13, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler highlighted Günther Förg across three museum and exhibition presentations.
On October 5, 2026, Christie's announced its October 20/21 Marquee Week, a series of seven evening, day and online auctions taking place live at King Street in London from 14–16 October 2026 during Frieze Week, with online sales running from 1–21 October.
On October 9, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published a statement featuring critic Jackie Wullschlager's description of Georg Baselitz's monumental single-figure paintings.
On October 9, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac issued a press release by critic Jonathan Jones devoted to Georg Baselitz's series 'The Heroes.' Jones describes the body of work as 'perhaps the most powerful and unforgettable works' of the German artist, who died earlier in 2026.
On October 7, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the first UK exhibition devoted exclusively to Georg Baselitz's Heroes series, which the artist created in 1965–66 at age 27.
On October 7, 2026, Phillips announced a sale series of modern and contemporary prints, featuring Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Chess Set, masterworks by Giorgio Morandi, and a notable group of works by Andy Warhol.
On October 7, 2026, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced "Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living," the largest and most comprehensive museum presentation of the architect's work.
Grisebach will offer Yves Klein's 'Untitled Shroud Anthropometry (ANT SU 30)' from 1960 in its 'Selected Works' sale on November 26, 2026, with an estimate of €2,000,000–3,000,000. The work is one of the few 'Anthropométries Suaires' still in private hands.
On September 30, 2026, Christie's announced its Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, held September 29, 2026, totaled HK$726.4 million ($92.6 million), up 28% year-on-year with 100% of lots sold.
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 October 2, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that Lee Ufan's 'Fragments of Infinity' will open at Casa e Parque de Serralves in Porto on October 16, 2026.
Lyon & Turnbull will sell a pioneering print created by David Hockney on his iPad and signed in pencil in its inaugural Prints/Editions sale in London. The work, "Oranges (iPad Drawing No 643)", from Hockney's 2011 still life series, carries an estimate of £40,000 to £60,000.
On September 30, 2026, Phillips announced that works by Chinese video art pioneer Zhang Peili, Western post-war masters Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, and contemporary artists Atsushi Kaga and Lauren Quin achieved outstanding results in a recent sale.
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London has opened an exhibition of Georg Baselitz's "Heroes" series from 1965–66, marking the first U.K. show devoted solely to this body of work. The presentation includes loans from Tate and several major German museums, and comes months after the artist's death.
Martha Diamond's first European solo exhibition opened at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, on September 19, 2026, and runs through January 17, 2027.
On September 29, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced "EYES FOR YOU", the first major European solo exhibition of Joyce Pensato since her death in 2019, at the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Artcurial's October 24, 2026 auction features nearly 50 modern, post-war, and contemporary works.
Lisson Gallery announced representation of the Estate of Mira Schendel in collaboration with Gomide & Co, São Paulo.
On September 22, 2026, Christie's announced it will offer The Collection of Herbert Lust during New York's Fall Marquee Week of Sales. The collection is led by Alberto Giacometti's bronze "Figure, demie grandeur (no.
The Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection will open the exhibition "Remember Me" on October 9, 2026, celebrating the bicentenary of photography.
On September 14, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced that Robert Rauschenberg's 'Caryatid Cavalcade I / ROCI Chile' (1985) has been installed on long-term loan from the Rauschenberg Foundation in the Christopher Lightfoot Walker Lobby at Lincoln Center Theatre in New York.
Raven Row will present the first UK institutional exhibition devoted to Sturtevant (1924–2014) since her death, curated by Antony Hudek with the Sturtevant Estate and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
On September 22, 2026, Sean Scully was awarded the grade of Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Catherine Pégard, the French Minister of Culture, in recognition of his contribution to the arts.
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.
Adrian Ghenie's new exhibition 'The Fear of NOW' opens at Thaddaeus Ropac London, featuring 20 new paintings and nine charcoal drawings.
Christie's announced the forthcoming sale of the Mia Van Hool collection, titled 'L'audace à l'oeuvre', on December 2 in Paris. The approximately 60 works will be exhibited in Brussels from September 10 to 13 during RendezVous Brussels Art Week, and in Paris from November 28 to December 2.
On September 17, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the opening of 'Perché più bruci', an exhibition dedicated to Italian artist Leoncillo Leonardi at its Milan gallery.
On September 15, 2026, Aguttes announced it will auction 218 photographs from the Kaoru and Raymond Cauchetier Collection, featuring iconic behind-the-scenes images from the French New Wave. The auction will take place on October 12, 2026, at Le Cinéma Le Saint Germain des Prés in Paris.
Sean Scully has organized an installation for the cloister exhibition space at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, drawing on works from his major series including Doric, Outside In, and Eleuthera.
On September 11, 2026, Phillips announced a group of three exceptional paintings by Gerhard Richter, Zao Wou-Ki, and Zeng Fanzhi, describing the works as distinguished by prestigious provenance and rare compositions that mark defining moments in each artist's oeuvre.
On September 10, 2026, the Barbican Centre announced the publication of 'Robert Ryman: The Real Thing', a monograph celebrating the late American artist Robert Ryman (1930–2019).
On September 8, 2026, Christie's announced it will present the collection of legendary record executive Clive Davis, with eight artworks headlining the 20th Century Evening Sale during November's Fall Marquee Week.
Christie's announced it will present "Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection" during its London Marquee Week in October 2026. The collection, from British businessman and Monsoon founder Peter Simon, comprises nearly 200 works across three auctions: an Evening Sale, a Day Sale, and an online sale.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures from the artist's 'Gluts' series to ARTIST ROOMS, a collection jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland that stages free touring exhibitions across the UK.
Aguttes will auction the Nancy Varenne-Brunot collection in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 27, 2026. The 18-lot sale spans 50 years of contemporary art, from Arman's New Realism to Gérard Schlosser's narrative figuration, Jean Fautrier's abstraction and Jean-Pierre Raynaud's conceptual works.
On September 3, 2026, Centre Pompidou announced the exhibition "Projet pour une révolution. Vasarely et l'architecture," which examines Victor Vasarely's architectural projects and his concept of the "centre architectonique" realized as the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence.
On September 1, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that El Museo Del Barrio and KMEC Books will co-publish "Tony Bechara," the first monograph dedicated to the New York artist, posthumously.
On August 31, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced the exhibition 'Per Mano,' organized in close dialogue with Georg Baselitz before his death in April 2026.
On August 26, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that the Sehwa Museum of Art will present a broad retrospective of Georg Baselitz, encompassing 60 years of the artist's work. It is the first Korean exhibition since Baselitz's death earlier this year.
Thaddaeus Ropac presented Lee Kang So's painting "Serenity – 220609" (2022) as a highlight of its booth at Art Busan 2026. The work departs from the artist's signature monochrome palette, introducing diluted pink, orange, and yellow blooms in an all-over calligraphic abstraction.
On August 28, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced an exhibition of works by Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun, featuring his 'back-pressure method' paintings, to open in London in September.
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.
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