Following Venice Biennale showcase, David Salle brings AI-assisted works to Parisv

An Antiques Roadshow appraiser recalls his favorite rejected segment: a mortician's music box that played "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" while housing a real shrunken human head.

DALLAS, TX.- Over the years, I had great fun bringing strange and wonderful ethnographic objects to the cameras at Antiques Roadshow. Ironically, some of the most memorable things I ever saw never made it onto television. This was one of them. I can't remember the city, but I remember the couple. They were conservative, buttoned-up, perfectly respectable-looking people. They arrived at the Tribal Arts table and carefully placed a small, hand-painted square box in front of me. I looked at it and… More

Egyptian New Kingdom Limestone Relief, Carved limestone Egyptian relief plaque, likely New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Sold for $48,750.

GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auction ’s October 17th auction event presented a select group of rare Egyptian and Asian artifacts, along with a very important private collection of jewelry and signature pieces from a Water Mill, NY estate. The fine jewelry highlights from this Water Mill, NY collection included pieces by Tiffany, Angela Cummings, Jean Schlumberger, Bulgari, Gurhan 24 K gold items, Buccellati, Mauboussin, and Cartier, Select rare Egyptian and Asian artifacts got a lot of attention at the… More

Constantin Brancusi. Sleeping Muse. 1910. Polished bronze, 6 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 7 1/16″ (16.5 × 26 × 18 cm). Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Purchase, 1947. Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY Photo: Philippe Migeat © Succession Brancusi – All rights reserved (Adagp) 2026.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art opened Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio, a major exhibition surveying Constantin Brancusi's (1876–1957) sculptural achievements through the lens of his Paris studio at impasse Ronsin, on view from October 25, 2026, through February 27, 2027. For more than 40 years, from 1916 until his death, this studio served as a dynamic environment in which Brancusi lived, worked, entertained friends and clients, and exhibited his sculptures. In this singular context,… More

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980), Wild Grapes, 1926. Bronze. Gift of the Ruth Talcott Estate. 1987.083

NEW YORK, NY.- The Syracuse University Art Museum presents “‘And she had a pose that was fascinating’: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s Models and Sculptures”, now on view through February 4, 2027 at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at the Joseph I. Lubin House in midtown Manhattan. In the early twentieth century, Frishmuth earned critical acclaim for her small bronze figures of dancers, caught in motion. Later in her life, she received less attention than some of her peers after moving from New… More

Installation View of Lee Ufan: Fragments of Infinity. Photo: © Serralves Foundation.

PORTO.- Serralves Foundation opened Lee Ufan: Fragments of Infinity, the first major exhibition in Portugal of renowned South Korean-born painter and sculptor Lee Ufan (b. 1936). Set across the expansive 45-acre Serralves Park and the iconic Art Deco Serralves Villa, Fragments of Infinity explores the artist’s groundbreaking approach to blending natural landscapes with architectural environments. The presentation features three outdoor sculptures, strategically installed throughout the Park… More

Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) Elizabeth Taylor, 1955, gelatin silver print. Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, © Condé Nast.

LITTLE ROCK.- The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts announced its 2027 exhibition season, which includes Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World, a celebration of the photographer’s glamorous portraits and fashion work, opening in February. The museum will present Pete Souza: Two Presidents, One Photographer, in partnership with the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, featuring portraits of Presidents Reagan and Obama. The Delta Triennial, AMFA’s legacy exhibition, returns in June. The season begins… More

Isaac Castañeda Pérez, La silla del Sol, 2026. Pine wood, Shou Sugi Ban technique. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ángel Jonathan Ramirez.

DOHA.- This fall, Qatar Museums, the nation’s preeminent institution for art and culture, and Years of Culture, Qatar’s cross-cultural exchange initiative, will present Expanded Tradition. Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico. The exhibition focuses on a group of artisans rooted in established traditions who are innovating from within and traces the continuity of Mexico's vibrant craft heritage while examining how a new generation of makers is reinterpreting inherited techniques,… More

Timothy Yanick Hunter.

HARLEM, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced that Turiya Adkins, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Clifford Prince King have been selected as the 2026–27 participants in the Museum's acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program. They join a creative community that has grown over the past half-century to over 150 alumni, including some of the most celebrated artists working today. From November 2026 through October 2027, Adkins, Hunter, and King will receive institutional and material support;… More

Sofía Bassi, Cazando Estrellas, 1967. Oil on masonite, 120.5 x 89.5 cm, 47 ½ x 35 ¼ in., framed: 138 x 108 cm, 54 ¼ x 42 ½ in.

LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Floating Between Earth and Sky, the first European solo exhibition of Mexican Surrealist painter Sofía Bassi. A contemporary of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, Bassi's work has been underappreciated outside of her native country. The exhibition brings together paintings, works on paper, and a painted ostrich egg - one of just six examples made by Bassi, and the first time that this part of her practice has been publicly presented. At the… More

Susan Meiselas, Sandinistas at the walls of the Esteli National Guard headquarters, Esteli, Nicaragua, 1979 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos.

PARIS.- This exhibition is the first to approach the Nicaragua series from the original angle of the life of images—their circulation, their transformation, and their collective appropriation. It brings together more than a hundred works and objects, including previously unseen photographs, never before exhibited or published. To extend this reflection on the perception of historical fact through the image, four contemporary artistic contributions—by Alfredo Jaar, Arno Fischer & Peter Voigt,… More

The exhibition is structured around three bodies of work exploring different forms of repetition, exhaustion, and material transformation.

PARIS.- Bigaignon presents, from October 8 to November 14, 2026, Studies in Depletion, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Hungarian artist Máté Dobokay. Conceived as an extension of his major work Development till Exhaustion, the exhibition continues the artist’s investigation into the material limits of analog photography: the point at which the medium ceases to function, when chemical processes become exhausted, and when the photographic substrate breaks down before reassembling… More

Dominik Zietlow, Holz, aus dem die Menschen sind, 2026, film still, 16 mm film, digitized in 4K, 13 min. 56 sec., 5.1 surround sound, Courtesy of the artist.

LUCERNE.- Dominik Zietlow (*1988) is being awarded the Manor Art Prize, one of the most important Swiss promotional prizes for the fine arts. Nur die Berge begegnen sich nie (Only the mountains never meet) is the title of the exhibition in which the filmmaker is showing his latest works related to Lucerne. The exhibition title references an old saying: mountains cannot alter their position, whereas people are in a position to encounter one another—also in a metaphorical sense. This approach… More