Pari Dukovic, Metamorphosis, 2026. Archival pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist and VISU Contemporary.
MIAMI BEACH.- <a href="https://visugallery.com/" target="_blank">VISU Contemporary</a> presents RISE, a new exhibition of 29 photographs by Pari Dukovic, made with the dancers of Miami City Ballet during the company's 40th anniversary season. Rather than documenting performance as spectacle, Dukovic photographs the disciplined bodies behind it, isolating moments in which years of repetition, physical intelligence, and private effort become visible as apparent ease. In RISE, the dancer's body becomes both subject and evidence: of endurance, vulnerability, control, and the sustained labor required to approach mastery. Dukovic's images move beyond conventional performance photography to examine what achievement looks like before it is polished into an image—and what remains concealed within gestures that appear effortless. The exhibition arrives at a moment when accomplishment is increasingly encountered as something immediate, visible, and easily consumed. Against that culture of compre More
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Installation view of Artemisia Gentileschi a Firenze, on view at the Museo degli Innocenti, Florence, October 20, 2026 – April 4, 2027
Written by an experienced art observer inspired by the Menil Collections minimalist display philosophy, this essay challenges museums to clearly separate documented evidence from subjective interpretation on gallery labels.
DALLAS, TX.- After more than fifty years of looking at art in private and public collections, one problem has become increasingly clear to me: we have a tendency to confuse what we believe with what we know. There is another problem. Sometimes we are told what to think before we have had a chance to look. Years ago, while preparing a Roadshow shoot at the Menil Collection in Houston, I became interested in Dominique de Menil's approach to presenting art. What stayed with me was the unobtrusive… More
Michael Jordan 1998 Fleer Tradition #6 Electrifying basketball card, graded PSA 8. Estimate: $4,000-$6,000.
MESQUITE.- Fresh off its move from Davenport, Washington, where the company was headquartered for over 10 years, Grant Zahajko Auctions will make a splash at its new home in Mesquite, Nevada on Wednesday, October 28th, with a Sports Cards & Memorabilia auction, packed with over 400 lots of rare and highly desirable sports collectibles. The action will be held online from the firm’s new gallery home located at 1624 Riverstone Bend, Unit 604 in Mesquite. Certainly the most intriguing lot in the… More
Joe Whale, previously known as The Doodle Boy, presents his first major London solo exhibition on view at The Truman Brewery, Shoreditch, from 2225 October 2026.
LONDON.- Joe Whale was nine when the drawings that repeatedly landed him in trouble at school found an unexpected new home, covering the walls of a restaurant in Shrewsbury. The images soon travelled around the world, and "The Doodle Boy" was born. Seven years later, Whale returns to the UK as a very different artist. Now 16 and based in Adelaide, Australia, Joe Whale will unveil Ambassadors of Feeling, his first major London solo exhibition, at The Truman Brewery in Shoreditch from 2225… More
<a href="https://amzn.to/4hV7qD2" rel="nofollow">Myths, Monsters, and Manga: The Art of Fantasy in Asia</a>
HONG KONG.- M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, is proud to present Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia, a Special Exhibition exploring fantasy’s role in Asian visual culture and its global impact. Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this is the first major survey to trace how artists have used fantasy to navigate the world and their times. The exhibition will be on view in the West Gallery at M+… More
The findings were made at the Balık Dere archaeological site, where excavations have revealed an unusual architectural complex believed to have begun functioning during the third century AD.
IVAYLOVGRAD.- Archaeologists working near the town of Ivaylovgrad in southern Bulgaria have uncovered the remains of an ancient pagan temple and a remarkable marble relief depicting three nymphs alongside the mother goddess Cybele. The discovery is offering new insights into religious life in Western Thrace during Late Antiquity and may represent one of the last pagan sanctuaries used by the region's Thracian population. The findings were made at the Balık Dere archaeological site, where… More
Geoff MacCormack, David Bowie recording Station to Station, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, 1975. Photograph by Geoff MacCormack. Courtesy of Lucy Bell Gallery.
ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA.- Fifty years after the release of David Bowie's landmark album Station to Station, a collection of previously unseen photographs is offering a rare glimpse into the recording sessions that helped shape one of the most fascinating periods of his career. Taken by Geoff MacCormack, one of Bowie's oldest friends and closest collaborators, the images are being presented at Lucy Bell Gallery in an exhibition running from October 16 through November 21, 2026. The photographs transport viewers… More
Lee Krasner, c. 196061, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, c. 191484, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo: Paul De Vries. Courtesy the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Olney Gleason, New York.
PARIS.- Gagosian, Olney Gleason, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation present Lee Krasner: Works from the 1960s, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Gagosian’s rue de Ponthieu gallery in Paris. Opening on October 19, on the eve of Art Basel Paris, the exhibition marks the first solo presentation of Krasner’s work in France. It brings to Paris a focused examination of a transformative decade in the career of one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century. The… More
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976), Black Triangle Red Ribbon, 1953. Sheet metal, wire, and paint, 55.5 x 60 x 60 cm / 21 7/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.
PARIS.- In 1953, Calder returned to live in France for the first time in 20 years, settling in the countryside outside Aix-en-Provence and then in the small town of Saché in the Loire Valley. The artist’s productivity flourished in the expansive Provençal landscape and the modest, solitary spaces of a 17th-century stone house called François Premier in Saché. In Paris the following year, Galerie des Cahiers d’Art exhibited Calder’s ink and gouache paintings from Aix and Galerie Maeght… More
Orazio Gentileschi, Saint Jerome in Prayer, 16101611. Oil on canvas, 152 × 126.5 cm. Turin, Palazzo Madama Museo Civico dArte Antica.
FLORENCE.- When Artemisia Gentileschi arrived in Florence in 1613, she was a young painter trying to establish herself in a world where artistic recognition, professional opportunities, and financial independence were overwhelmingly controlled by men. She had left behind Rome, the city where she had learned to paint in her father's workshop and endured a highly publicized rape trial. What awaited her in Florence would change the course of her career. More than four centuries later, those… More
BASEL.- Museum Tinguely presents the exhibition SPACES BETWEEN with works by Zilla Leutenegger, one of the most defining voices in Swiss contemporary art. Ten multimedia installations and three monotypes are presented in various places around the museum, where her quiet, poetic video drawings meet the mechanical dynamism of Jean Tinguely’s machines. Sharing the space like “tenants in an apartment block”, they create a dialogue that is neither competitive nor harmonic, each achieving a… More
PARIS.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann presentd Didier William's first solo exhibition in France and his second with the gallery. Entitled Lot Bò D'lo A - a Haitian Creole expression literally meaning « on the other side of the water » the exhibition presents thirteen paintings realised this year. The ensemble is complemented by a version of his emblematic installation Gesture to Home (2024), originally conceived for the Prospect.6 Triennial in New Orleans in 2024. The installation brings together… More
How to Become an Artist, 2026. Ready-made boxing ring, figure in silicone, clothing, gloves, boxing ring: 180 x 400 x 400 cm.; 70 7/8 x 157 1/2 x 157 1/2 in. Figure: life-size.
PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, is presenting Les Fous d’En Face, a new exhibition by Elmgreen & Dragset. Coinciding with Art Basel Paris, this is the artist duo’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and their first in the Paris space. For Les Fous d’En Face, Elmgreen & Dragset occupy Galerie Max Hetzler’s two spaces at 46 & 57 rue du Temple. Translating to The Fools on the Other Side, the exhibition presents three new installations which build on some of the central elements in the… More
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“Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation.”
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is presenting an exhibition featuring Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman. Since the early 1990s, Tacita Dean has produced a body of work across many mediums including drawing, printmaking and photochemical film. From the mid-1960s onwards, Bruce Nauman has continually pushed the boundaries of traditional artistic practice through his exploration of the body, language and performance, and is regarded as one of the most influential artists working today. Together, they present Drawing Blind Dra…
PARIS.- A table can be many things: a place to share a meal, a surface on which to work, a gathering point for family and friends, or a quiet witness to conversations and rituals that have long since ended. These familiar associations form the starting point for Tables Around — Six Proposals from Saudi Arabia, an exhibition bringing together seven women artists whose works explore the relationships between everyday objects, cultural memory and contemporary life. Presented by Villa Hegra at Asia Now 2026, the exhibitio…
PARIS.- Gagosian announced its participation in Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais with a presentation of exceptional paintings, sculpture, and photographs that define many of the key artistic movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, evidenced by the inclusion of these artists in major museum exhibitions currently in Paris and internationally. The booth centers around Corks (Couple) (2011–18), a rarely seen polychrome bronze sculpture by Jeff Koons. Standing over three meters (10 feet) tall, it depicts …
LONDON.- The complete archive of V&A Magazine is now digitally available to all V&A members for the first time. Archived since Spring 2003, the collection comprises over 70 issues and explores some of the most significant developments to occur within the museum over the past 20 years. Digital access is included in a V&A membership, and is also available through individual and institutional subscriptions via Exact Editions. The V&A is a renowned family of museums based in London and across the UK, whose collections encompass…
PARIS.- Jeu de Paume presents Parallax, the largest monographic exhibition devoted to Stan Douglas in France for over thirty years. Born in Vancouver in 1960, this artist, a major figure on the international contemporary art scene, will show some forty or so of his works here, including films, video installations, photographic series, etc, covering the entirety of his career from the late 1980s to the present day. Following the exhibition in Paris, the show will travel to the MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona i…
PARIS.- In fall 2026, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is devoting a major exhibition to Simone Fattal, a Lebanese American artist born in Damas, Syria, in 1942 and based in Paris for many years. Bringing together some one hundred works, the exhibition covers over fifty years of her artistic trajectory—from early landscape paintings to ceramics and collages. Organized into successive groupings rather than chronologically, the exhibition sequence invites visitors to explore the key themes of a constantly renewed d…
LONDON.- On 21 and 22 October 2026, Christie's will host its flagship Modern British and Irish Art Sales, presenting outstanding works by the major artists who shaped British and Irish art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Spanning the most influential movements and developments from across the category, including British Pop Art, the London and St Ives Schools, and Post War British sculpture, the auctions will present key works by artists such as Dame Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Sir Frank Bowling, Euan Uglow, Paul Henry, …
PARIS.- On December 1st, 2026, Artcurial will auction in Paris the collection of Marie-Claude Beaud (1946–2024), a leading figure in contemporary art. Marie-Claude Beaud was one of those who leave a lasting mark on institutions. As the first director of the Fondation Cartier, she brought to life, as early as 1984, this pioneering experiment in private patronage, founded on artistic freedom and dialogue between disciplines. Convinced that a museum should be an experience to be lived as much as it is to be visited, she …
LONDON.- Willem de Kooning emerged as the star of Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction in London on October 15, with a 1977 painting fetching £9.8 million ($12.9 million), the highest price ever paid at auction in Europe for a work by the American artist. The sale brought in a total of £46 million ($61 million), adding to a particularly strong year for the auction house in the British capital. The result offered another indication of the enduring appeal of established names in the international art market, with works by G…
PARIS.- Two artists with distinctly different approaches to making art are taking over Galerie Lelong's Paris spaces this autumn. Beginning October 19, 2026, the gallery presents Théâtre imaginaire, an exhibition of paintings by German artist Magnus Plessen, alongside Kind of Blue, a selection of recent sculptures by American artist Arlene Shechet. Together, the exhibitions offer contrasting yet complementary perspectives on the human experience, exploring how memory, physical gestures, imagination, and materials can shape…
In 1953, Alexander Calder returned to live in France for the first time in twenty years, settling in the countryside outside Aix-en-Provence before finding a home in Saché in the Loire Valley. “A changed life like that might give me new ideas,” Calder told a journalist before set…
