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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

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

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

Azu Nwagbogu is a Nigerian curator, writer, and cultural leader whose work explores decolonisation, restitution, and the evolving role of museums and exhibitions as spaces for dialogue, reflection, and civic engagement.

DOHA.- Qatar Museums (QM) has appointed celebrated Nigerian curator Azu Nwagbogu as the Artistic Director of Tasweer 2027, the fourth edition of QM’s photography biennial and the first to be presented under QM’s future Art Mill Museum. Known for his work organising exhibitions and publishing texts that focus on decolonisation, restitution, and repatriation, the internationally recognised Nwagbogu is a founder of the LagosPhoto Biennale and the founder and director of the African Artists’… More

Mary Cremin, Head of Programming, IMMA and the Palestinian Ambassador, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid pictured at a preview of Eltiqa: How to Work Together? at IMMA on Thursday 22 October 2026. Photographer: Mark Stedman.

DUBLIN.- The Palestinian Ambassador, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, visited the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) today (Thursday 22 October 2026) for a preview of Eltiqa: How to Work Together? an exhibition of artists from Eltiqa, an artist collective from Gaza City curated by The Question of Funding, opening tomorrow (Friday 23 October 2026). The exhibition is a collaboration with Art Jameel and tours to IMMA from Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Featuring more than 60 artworks… More

Danielle Morsette. Weaver’s Eye, 2015. Wool. 45 x 60 in. Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort.

SEATTLE, WA.- My Body is a Basket brings together works by Brenda Mallory (Cherokee, born 1955), Danielle Morsette (Suquamish, Shxwhá:y Village, born 1987), and Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos, born 1976), three contemporary Indigenous women artists working in Washington and Oregon whose practices are rooted in innovation, materiality, and abstraction. Weaving—in unexpected materials and scales, and as a metaphor—connects their diverse approaches, whether in the tight weft of a wool blanket or stapled… 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

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

Jyll Bradley (b.1966, Folkestone, UK) is a British artist based in London who works across installation, photography, sculpture, film and performance.

LONDON.- Pi Artworks presents Power of What (Memory Room), Jyll Bradley’s first solo exhibition in the UK since Running and Returning, her major presentation at The Box in Plymouth (2025). In both shows, Bradley has created intimate installations that explore memory and identity through photography from her archive, which she has juxtaposed with recent sculptures. Set against wallpaper created by the artist to reflect patterns and colours associated with the artist’s childhood home, these… 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

Liu Xuan, Two Courses, 2026. Resin, tile dust, flax, elm bark, glutinous rice, timber, oil palm, cashew lacquer, silicone. Two parts: 140H × 40W × 30D cm (each). Copyright The Artist and ai.

LONDON.- Spectral Kinship brings together six artists whose works give voice to silenced subjects and explore how suppressed histories and unaccommodated desires are made palpable through sound, ritual, materiality and form. Drawing on Avery Gordon’s account of haunting as a social force that makes the present waver, the exhibition approaches the spectral as a condition of latency: elusive or buried beneath the surface, yet continually seeping across seemingly impermeable temporal and spatial… 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

Shelley Niro, In Her Lifetime, 1992 (detail).

Hales is presenting In Her Lifetime, Shelley Niro’s second solo exhibition at the New York gallery. Bringing together a focused selection of photographic works spanning several decades of the artist’s celebrated career, the exhibition explores memory, identity, and contemporary Indigenous life through Niro’s rich use of image, text, and ornament. Coinciding with Niro’s solo exhibition at Centre d’art daphne, Montréal, and her inclusion in the Canadian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju… More

RICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University presents three solo exhibitions by multidisciplinary artists Tony Cokes, Cassi Namoda, and Diane Severin Nguyen, on view now through February 21, 2027, at the Markel Center. The fall exhibitions feature a survey spanning more than three decades of work by Richmond-born Cokes, new site-specific commissions by internationally recognized Namoda, and a kinetic sonic installation by Severin Nguyen. Together, the… More

View of Minja Gu, Middle Ground: (Im)possible Kitchen, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, 2026.

SEOUL.- Reproductive labour moves across national borders. Korea, once subjected to colonial rule, now occupies a quasi-imperial position, drawing on resources, labour and care from the Global South. In Yangpyeong in 2018, Minja Gu met Lusi Sapitri, an Indonesian marriage migrant. Sapitri recounted how she had once eaten jajang-myeon (noodles in black bean sauce) without knowing it was made with pork. In her Korean household she is expected to cook Korean food, with pork, as part of her… More

International museum organization calls for transparency, curatorial independence and restoration of public access to materials documenting Colombia's social and political history.

BOGOTA.- The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) has expressed serious concern over the removal of artworks, photographs, documents and historical objects from the permanent displays of the Museo Nacional de Colombia, warning that the decision could undermine public access to the country's history and threaten the professional independence of museum institutions. In a statement issued by its Museum Watch initiative, CIMAM criticized the removal of at least… More

Tina Barney, The Lincoln Room. POP, 2009 © Tina Barney.

NEW YORK, NY.- Olney Gleason announces Tina Barney: Fashion, a solo exhibition of work by American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945), on view at 297 Tenth Avenue, New York, from October 24 through November 14, 2026. The exhibition brings together nearly four decades of Barney’s major editorial commissions and campaigns for global fashion brands, between the late 1980s and the present—works that continue to expand the range of the artist’s photography practice. Tina Barney: Fashion is presented… More

Philadelphia Museum of Art, East Entrance. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) today announced a $20 million gift from Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky to establish the new Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky Learning and Engagement Center (Brodsky Center). Their commitment is among the largest in the museum’s history and will transform the north wing into a dedicated space for advancing the museum’s educational mission. The Brodsky Center is the PMA’s first major capital project since the Core Project, Frank Gehry’s landmark… More

Kiri Dalena, Erased Slogans, 2008–ongoing. Series of digital prints. © Kiri Dalena.

EDINBURGH.- The Rupture is an international collaboration bringing together the University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery, Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila. Conceived by Tessa Giblin and Carol Yinghua Lu, with Joselina Cruz completing the curatorial partnership, the project responds in real time to a world undergoing profound political, social and economic change, echoing Mark Carney's declaration that "we are in the midst of a rupture”… More

Professor Lesley Lokko OBE.

LAGOS.- Design Week Lagos 2026 was officially inaugurated at the National Theatre in Lagos on 22 October with the 180 New Ideas exhibition and IDEA Honours awards ceremony. Design Week Lagos runs until 25 October 2026 at the National Theatre Lagos and venues around the city. Making a New Africa: From Material to Market is the theme running through Design Week Lagos 2026, which features a programme exploring how African design can move beyond international recognition to shape manufacturing,… More