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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

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

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

John Mahli Lawa' Hampton, photo by Hayden Schutz.

WINNIPEG.- Following an extensive international search, the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq announced the appointment of John Mahli Lawa' Hampton as Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective December 10. As WAG-Qaumajuq’s Director & CEO, Hampton will lead the art museum’s finances, operations, and capital expansion projects while fostering a culture of creativity and innovation and advancing the strategic vision of Canada’s oldest civic art gallery, connecting art, culture, learning, and… More

Fourteen-minute bidding battle for a 2,000-year-old marble sculpture leads a white-glove auction spanning Roman antiquities, Old Master paintings, French royal furniture and Islamic art.

NEW YORK, NY.- A Roman marble torso dating from the first century A.D. stole the spotlight at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday evening, October 21, selling for $34.3 million after an intense, nearly 14-minute bidding contest and establishing a new auction record for a Roman antiquity. The dramatic result helped propel the auction house's Magnum Opus Evening Auction to $63 million, surpassing its $47.6 million high estimate and achieving a 100 percent sell-through rate. The evening marked the… More

1970 Barris T Buggy — $25,000 - $35,000 USD.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- RM Sotheby’s will offer The Boeckmann Collection across two distinct sales in 2027, featuring 120+ cars that capture the creativity, eccentricity, and unmistakable spirit of California car culture. The collection will headline The Arizona Auction, expanding the event to two days, with 50+ cars crossing the block on January 28, followed by an online sale featuring the remaining 60+ vehicles, with bidding closing February 4. Drawn from a collection assembled over decades by lifelong… More

View of How to Feel Real, MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2026. Photo: Domas Rimeika. Courtesy of MO Museum. © Domas Rimeika.

VILNIUS.- What does it mean to live in an age in which technology defines every level of reality? Will our sense of self and our societies shatter into fragments—only to be pieced together again by markets or political campaigns? In a world where everything is personalised, what makes us truly individual? Do we still have a choice, or are we increasingly shaped by the codes that surround us? At a time of deep uncertainty, marked by climate crisis, wars, and global instability, it is no longer… More

Installation view of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's exhibition at Tate St Ives.

ST IVES.- Tate St Ives opens a major retrospective dedicated to Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004), one of the most innovative figures in British modernism and a key member of St Ives’s groundbreaking mid-century artistic community. This long overdue celebration of Barns-Graham’s work marks the first exhibition to span the full breadth of her practice, tracing its evolution from early landscapes and interior paintings to the increasingly abstract and gestural compositions of her later years… More

Iria Leino, Conviction (166), 1980. Mixed media on canvas, 76.5 x 62.5 x 8 cm. 30 1/8 x 24 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. Photo: Angel Gil / Galerie Forsblom.

HELSINKI.- In Iria Leino’s art, the Finnish landscape is intertwined with a spiritual quest. Born in Helsinki and active as an artist in New York from the 1960s onward, Leino seamlessly incorporated imagery drawn from Finland’s lakes, forests and waterways, as well as from meditation and the avant-garde artist circles of SoHo. In her work, Leino sought to preserve her Finnish heritage and connection to nature, fueled by her spiritual search in Buddhism. From Pouring to Paintings-as-Sculpture is… More

Installation view, Rosalie Gascoigne, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2026, featuring: (left to right) Rosalie Gascoigne, Suddenly the Lake, 1995; Feathered fence, 1978-79, © Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency.

PARKES.- From 24 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, Rosalie Gascoigne brings together over 80 significant works spanning the artist's career, offering a major retrospective of her pioneering practice and deep connection to Kamberri/Canberra, which she called home for over 50 years. Aotearoa/New Zealand-born Rosalie Gascoigne (1917 – 1999) is renowned for her remarkable ability to transform discarded everyday materials into poetic sculptural assemblages. Inspired by nature, Gascoigne’s art… 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

Installation view, Moderna Museet. Jan Håfström, The Lost World, 2026. © Jan Håfström Photo: My Matson/Moderna Museet.

STOCKHOLM.- Jan Håfström is one of the most noted artists in Swedish contemporary art. He has been active for sixty years with exhibitions both in Sweden and internationally. At Moderna Museet, visitors will encounter art that he has been working on recently, and that comes directly from his studio. Jan Håfström (born 1937) works with painting, sculpture, prints, installation, drawing and film. He debuted in the 1960s and his artistic work moves between the personal and the universal. Ever since… More

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BOULDER, CO.- From a Sumerian limestone pendant carved nearly 5,000 years ago to the elaborate enamelwork and ivory sculpture of Meiji-period Japan, Artemis Fine Arts will bring together centuries of artistic traditions in an auction scheduled for Friday, October 23, 2026. The sale, titled Ancient Jewelry, Antiquities & Ethnographic Art , features approximately 246 lots spanning the ancient Mediterranean, the Near East, Asia, and other cultural traditions. Beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, the… More

ATADA's current bylaws place authenticity at the center of the organization's definition of the material represented by its dealer members.

DALLAS, TX.- The change from Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association to Authentic Tribal Art Dealers Association substituted a consequential word. “Antique” primarily concerns age. “Authentic” raises questions of identity, authorship, cultural context and representation. For dealers, collectors, museums, appraisers and Indigenous artists, those distinctions have practical consequences. ATADA's current bylaws place authenticity at the center of the organization's definition of the material… 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

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) | acrylic and oilstick on canvas | 84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm.) | Painted in 1983 | Estimate: in the region of $30 million.

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced a masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads), which will be offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on November 19 during 20/21 Fall Marquee Week. The monumental 84 x 84-inch painting is Basquiat's interpretation of Leonardo DaVinci's celebrated Grotesque sketch from circa 1493, A man tricked by Gypsies (Formerly Five Grotesque Heads). It has been in the same private collection for over two decades, unseen by the public.… More