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Leon Barnard, Black Forest Man, 50 x 40 cm.

COLCHESTER.- Colchester + Ipswich Museums’ (CIMS) Constable 250 – a year-long programme of exhibitions, performances and events – concludes with a very special show that showcases artworks made by members of the local community, alongside paintings by seven professional contemporary artists, all of whom have been inspired by John Constable’s legacy and indelible contribution to British painting. Constable to Contemporary will also display pictures made by the next generation of exciting young… 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

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 - 1669) Recumbent Lion, 1660. Reed pen, brown ink, and brown wash on paper, 12.2 x 21.2 cm. The Rijksmuseum (RP-T-1901-A-4524), Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum presents Rembrandt's Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic, an exhibition that brings together, for the first time, a remarkable group of drawings, etchings, and paintings highlighting the often overlooked but formative presence of migrants, immigrants, exiles, and refugees in the world and work of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669). The exhibition particularly focuses on stories of diaspora, or dispersed communities, that figure prominently in… More

Irini Papadimitriou. Courtesy of the Seoul Museum of Art.

SEOUL.- The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has appointed Irini Papadimitriou as Artistic Director of the 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, scheduled to open in August 2027. Currently serving as Director of Exhibitions at Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Papadimitriou is a curator whose practice critically examines the relationships between art, technology, and society. Her previous roles include positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and FutureEverything in the United Kingdom.… 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

Chassica Kirchoff, J.J. Medvecki Curator of Arms and Armor. Photo by Brett Carson.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dr. Chassica “Chaz” Kirchhoff as the J. J. Medveckis Curator of Arms and Armor. Kirchhoff joins the PMA from the Detroit Institute of Arts. She begins her new role on November 30, 2026. “We are delighted to welcome Chassica as the J. J. Medveckis Curator of Arms and Armor. She brings a deep knowledge of the field, and her curatorial and scholarly achievements make her ideal for the role,” said Daniel Weiss, the George D.… 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

Abdij van Park.

LEUVEN.- After fifteen years of restoration, the historic monastic complex of Park Abbey in Leuven is opening fully to the public for the first time. Museum PARCUM marks this exceptional moment with Threading Landscapes: Art at Park Abbey, an ambitious exhibition featuring work by 24 contemporary artists from around the world. Nine artists have developed new projects in direct response to the abbey, its architecture, landscape, biodiversity, archives and history. This moment represents more… More

Sultan Gökdemir, A Grad, 2026. Photo: Metean Bars (Salt).

ISTANBUL.- Workplaces are among the most central yet least visible spaces of everyday life. They often remain outside the public eye as closed spaces to which there is “no admittance except on business.” Once a symbol of industrial capitalism with its chimneys rising above city centers, the factory largely lost its urban visibility after 1980, as production was reorganized on a global scale. As manufacturing facilities in city centers gave way to residential projects, shopping centers, and… More

Olga Costa, Girl with Red Ribbons, no date, oil on Masonite, Charles Butt Collection. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

HOUSTON, TX.- American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection is the first exhibition organized from the collection of philanthropist and Texas native Charles Butt. Featuring over 80 works of art by such icons as Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell and Andrew Wyeth, as well as Texas artists like Everett Gee Jackson and Mary Bonner, the exhibition reflects and recontextualizes the multifold histories of American art by sharing Butt's… More

Eva Fabbris. Photo: Camilla Maria Santini.

ROME.- The Fondazione Società delle Api announces the appointment of Eva Fabbris as Artistic Director. Already a member of the Advisory Board since its inception, Fabbris takes on a role that marks a new phase in the institutional development of Società delle Api, strengthening its curatorial structure while preserving the collective dimension that has characterized the Foundation. Her directorship will help give curatorial form to an already collective approach, which involves the role of… More

Michelangelo Pistoletto, 'Avant et après l'Arte Povera', exhibition view, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Paris. Photo: © Hafid Lhachmi - ADAGP Paris, 2026.

PARIS.- Galleria Continua is presenting, in its Marais exhibition space, in the heart of Paris, the solo exhibition of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Avant et après l’Arte Povera. Michelangelo Pistoletto is not only an Arte Povera artist, but one of the protagonists of the movement that Germano Celant theorised and defined in 1967. Arte Povera represents only one stage within a practice that now spans seventy years. Pistoletto’s artistic path began earlier and, above all, has continued to develop… More

Santiago Mostyn. © Ellika Henrikson.

GOTHENBURG.- Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Santiago Mostyn as curator of the 14th edition of the project, taking place at art centres and collaborative venues throughout Gothenburg, from September 4–November 21, 2027. Santiago Mostyn is an artist based in Stockholm who works within film, installation, and performance. His practice can be viewed as an ongoing visual research framework in which non-aligned histories and… More

Working in Southern California, Hayward developed his practice in dialogue with the reductive tendencies of the Los Angeles art scene, including Minimalism and the L.A. Fetish Finish aesthetic.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Modernism , San Francisco brings together nearly four decades of work by James Hayward [1943–2026] in James HAYWARD: Works 1975–2013 , the first exhibition devoted to the artist’s work since his passing earlier this year. Spanning the development of Hayward’s practice from the 1970s through the early 2010s, the retrospective offers an occasion to reconsider his sustained engagement with the monochrome and the material possibilities of paint. From the formal Automatic Paintings of the… More

Andrius Arutiunian, Below (For the Ones Who Murmur), and Saodat Ismailova, Arslanbob. Installation view, Recurse, KCCC Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, 2026.

KLAIPĖDA.- KCCC Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, presents Recurse, an overview of recent works by Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer Andrius Arutiunian and Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova. Between two mirrors, you find a recursion of your point of view: an image repeated inside itself. Recurse stages such a doubling. Arutiunian and Ismailova, artistic kindred spirits who have connected on a shared imaginary space since 2022, are brought into direct conversation across common terrain:… More

[Civil War] Eight-Star Virginia Confederate First National Flag, Forensically Linked to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's First Command at Harpers Ferry, Circa April-May 1861.

DALLAS, TX.- Led in value by an eight-star Virginia Confederate flag flown at Harpers Ferry circa April–May 1861 during Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s first command, Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 11–12 Political Americana Signature® Auction presents a broad and compelling selection spanning presidential campaigns, the American West, maritime history and pivotal moments in the nation’s political and military past. Completely handsewn and constructed in the pattern of a Confederate First National Color,… More

John Nieto (American, 1936-2018), Pow-Wow Dancer, 1989. Acrylic on canvas, 84-3/8 x 68-1/4 in. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.

A dancer brought to life in brilliant color, a ranch foreman portrayed against the land he tended and a gold figure poised in ritual movement: Across two consecutive November auctions, Heritage Auctions explores the many ways artists express identity, community and connections to place. The Nov. 5 Texas & Western Art Signature® Auction and the Nov. 6 Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Signature® Auction bring those themes into focus through paintings and… More

Improved form of G. Adam’s universal microscope © Science Museum Group.

LONDON.- The Science Museum will open Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation, supported by Griffin Catalyst. This significant free exhibition will reveal how science and technology shaped the land, peoples and identity as the United States of America came into existence. The exhibition will examine interwoven stories of how Anglo-American colonists, enslaved and free people of African descent, and Indigenous Americans used their knowledge, skills and tools to live, cultivate the land… More