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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

[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

Eva Schlegel, in between (still), 2011. © Bildrecht, Vienna 2026.

GRAZ.- The nature of space lies at the heart of some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy and physics. How space is conceived, perceived and experienced is also a subject explored by many cultural theories. Whatever the approach, it remains a phenomenon that both fascinates and challenges us. These different perspectives form the starting point for Eva Schlegel’s artistic practice. For some time now, she has been examining how perception and immateriality shape our relationship… More

Important 18th century blue and white ‘Crane and Tortoise’ ovoid jar (Joseon Dynasty, Korea) 13 ½ inches tall and diameter. Sold for $344,400, blasting through its $10,000 high estimate.

STAMFORD.- An important 18th century blue and white ‘Crane and Tortoise’ ovoid jar (Joseon Dynasty, Korea) blasted through its $10,000 high estimate to finish at $344,400 in ACES Gallery’s Fall Estates Auction held October 18th. The jar was the top lot in a sale that contained 452 lots and totaled $940,000. All prices quoted are inclusive of the buyer’s premium. “I had my suspicions about the jar when I found it sitting on the living room floor of an unassuming Bedford, New York home with a… More

Cardboard Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2013. Photo: © Stephen Goodenough.

METZ.- Sixteen years after the opening of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Shigeru Ban takes over the museum he designed with Jean de Gastines to showcase over forty years of architecture: from early experiments to major cultural buildings, from emergency structures in the wake of disasters to explorations of wood, paper, and recyclable materials, the exhibition reveals an architectural vision of remarkable coherence. For Building a Better World, Shigeru Ban personally oversees both the curation… More

Millard Rogers (1988); photograph by O. Joseph Galli, from the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives, Cincinnati Art Museum.

CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum has launched an innovative new curatorial leadership model, appointing its first Director of Academic Partnerships & Research and launching an international search for Director of Curatorial Affairs & Initiatives. Honoring a high-impact past director of the museum, Millard F. Rogers, director 1974-1994, CAM also announces a $4 million anonymous gift to endow the permanent curatorship of European paintings, sculpture and drawings at the museum. Peter Jonathan… More

Endowment Campaign Städel remains Städel. With your contribution to our endowment.

FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign aimed at securing its financial independence for future generations, inviting the public to contribute to an endowment fund with a long-term target of at least €100 million. Announced on October 21, the initiative marks what the museum describes as the first comprehensive endowment campaign undertaken by a German art museum. Under the slogan "Städel remains Städel," the institution is asking visitors, supporters, and the… More

Leonor Fini: Magically Surreal, exhibition view “Autoportrait au Scorpion“ (1938) © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2026. Photo: Norbert Miguletz.

FRANKFURT.- Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was a rebel, both as an artist and in her private life. From October 23, 2026, to February 21, 2027, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will present the first retrospective of the artist in Germany. In around 100 works—including paintings, drawings, photographs, costumes, masks, and books—the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into her fascinating oeuvre. Born in Buenos Aires and raised in Trieste, the self-taught artist remained independent throughout her… More

Song Dong. Photo: Perottino.

TURIN.- From 23 October 2026 to 27 June 2027, MAO, Turin is hosting Song Dong. Soul Out, the first solo exhibition in Italy of works by the artist Song Dong (Beijing, 1966), curated by Li Zhenhua and Davide Quadrio, with Francesca Filisetti and Rebecca Ricci, and with the curatorial and scholarly contribution of Manuela Lietti. The exhibition is conceived as a site-specific project that involves the whole museum, transforming it into a narrative device in which Song Dong's works enter into… More

Sexual Fantasies, 2023 © Myriam Boulos.

AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents the first museum solo exhibition of Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, recipient of the 19th Foam Paul Huf Award. Bringing together an intimate and deeply personal body of work, largely made in her hometown of Beirut, Boulos turns her camera towards the spaces, bodies and intimate encounters that exist beyond the immediately visible. Her photographs explore sexuality, desire and fantasy, while reflecting on the ways bodies and land are shaped by systems of power and… More

Sylvie Vartan on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, June 1979. Print, 40.6 × 50.8 cm. Estimate: €1,000–€1,500.. © Jean-Pierre Laffont.

PARIS.- From Martin Luther King Jr. addressing opponents of the Vietnam War to Muhammad Ali preparing for one of boxing's most celebrated rematches, French photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont captured a nation struggling with its identity. More than 150 of his photographs will be offered at auction by Gros & Delettrez in Paris on November 16, bringing together images of political upheaval, social movements, counterculture, and everyday American life from the 1960s through the 1980s. The sale,… More

Mirror Shield Project, Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2016. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

WASHINGTON, DC.- For Freedoms , an artist-led organization deepening civic engagement by centering artists as essential to shaping a free and pluralist society, presents two new exhibitions marking the third and final year of its three-year artist residency with the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University. Night and Day, by artist Eric Gottesman, and Reflect, by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, will be on view at the Corcoran October 28, 2026 – February 19, 2027. Night… More

Adebunmi Gbadebo, Periwinkle 2026, Cyanotype, screenprint with handmade inks, lithograph, and collage, Edition of 20, 29 ½ x 44 ½ inches. ©Adebunmi Gbadebo.

EVANSTON, IL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University announces the acquisition of Many Mornings Later (2025–26) by American artist Adebunmi Gbadebo, whose work is currently featured in the 2026 Venice Biennale. The large-scale handmade paper work was selected by The Block’s 2025–26 Collection Council, a group of donors whose contributions support the growth and care of the museum’s collection. Throughout the academic year, Council members participate in a collaborative process of… More

Karen Gunderson, Dark Waves Rising, 2026. Oil on linen, 75 x 75 inches.

NEW YORK, NY.- Yancey Richardson presents Dark Waves Rising, an exhibition of new paintings by Karen Gunderson, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in over ten years and first with the gallery since joining in 2025. Gunderson will debut paintings from two bodies of work, Moon and Water, that have been unfolding and evolving over several decades. Dark Waves Rising sees Gunderson continuing her pursuit of the haptic with paintings that shift and adapt to their environment through an… More

Ieva Iltnere and Jānis Mitrēvics in the wooded meadow at Marsi in the summer of 2025. Photo: Kristaps Kalns.

RIGA.- From 22 October to 15 November 2026, the 3rd floor vestibule of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) hosts A Journey to Marsi. An Artist Enters a Wooded Meadow, an exhibition created jointly by the Latvian Fund for Nature and artists Kristaps Kalns and Sarmīte Māliņa. This collaborative project is dedicated to wooded meadows, one of Latvia’s rarest and most biodiverse landscapes. Through large-scale photographs, the exhibition… More

Allen Jones, Bend the Knee, 2024-5. Oil on canvas, 170 x 120 cm. 66 7/8 x 47 1/4 in. Copyright of the artist.

LONDON.- Gazelli Art House is presenting In Town Tonight, the first solo exhibition by Allen Jones RA (b. 1937, Southampton) with the gallery. Bringing together a substantial body of new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant works from across his career, the exhibition presents Jones as an artist whose investigation of the human figure, performance, and the relationship between image and object remains in active evolution. A defining figure of British Pop Art, Jones emerged at the… More