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American Art, New York; purchase 31.408. Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Charles Burchfield: Elemental, an exhibition exploring Charles Burchfield’s (1893–1967) lifelong pursuit of what he described as the “tremendous force of nature.” Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, the presentation brings together ten watercolors created between 1916 and 1960, tracing more than four decades of the artist’s singular engagement with the natural world and his transformation of landscape into an expression of emotion,… 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

Solana Chehtman and Sharon Mizota, Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship, 2026. Published by Joan Mitchell Foundation. Artwork detail featured on cover: Troy Montes Michie, Knickknacks, 2025. Cut paper, photograph, thread, acrylics on paper, magazine pages, ink, graphite paper, staples, and clip, 25 × 25 inches. © Troy Montes Michie. Courtesy of the artist.

NEW YORK, NY.- What happens to an artist’s work, archives, and ideas when they are gone? Who makes the decisions that drive who and what gets to be remembered? What stories and perspectives are at risk of being lost in times of accelerated cultural erasure? These questions are at the heart of a new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation: Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship , available as a free PDF download via the Foundation’s website. Alongside this… More

Oil on canvas painting by Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982), titled Personnage 1 (1939), 36in x 23¼ in. Estimate: $150,000-$250,000.

MILFORD.- Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will host their annual Fall Fine Art Auction on Thursday, October 29th at 6pm Eastern Time. The auction, featuring over 200 lots, will showcase examples of quality American art, Modern art, and European paintings. A rare painting attributed to Alfred Jacob Miller titled Green River leads the auction. Painted in 1851, this work depicts a rendezvous of Native Americans, fur traders, and pioneers. Miller first travelled to the Rocky Mountains in 1837 and… 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

Alexander Kaletski, Sugar Free, 2006. Mixed media on cardboard, 82.25 x 54.5 in (208.9 x 138.4 cm).

NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery presents Cardboard Chapel, a solo exhibition by Alexander Kaletski that includes a fifty year retrospective of his painting on cardboard. The title draws from the Sistine Chapel as a monumental example of how patronage of the arts has been used to shape and disseminate ideas, beliefs and stories throughout history. Kaletski considers how this powerful force operates today and he finds it in the marketing that surrounds us. Nowadays, financial support funds the… More

Victoria Skarlatou, The Blue Couple, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 88cm. © Victoria Skarlatou.

ATHENS.- Between Heaven and Earth, the first solo exhibition and retrospective of Victoria Skarlatou’s work, will be held at the City of Athens Art Gallery from October 22 to November 22, 2026. After more than sixty years of continuous artistic creation, Skarlatou’s work will be presented publicly for the first time as a unified artistic universe. Bringing together sixty-one works from the 1960s to the present day, the exhibition traces the evolution of a highly distinctive visual language… More

New research by Laura Alidori Battaglia and Marco Battaglia explores the artists, patrons, and workshops that shaped Florence's flourishing manuscript culture in the early fourteenth century.

Long before the printed book transformed the way knowledge circulated, the making of a manuscript was a remarkable collective undertaking. Scribes carefully copied texts by hand, artists filled pages with painted figures and elaborate decoration, and patrons commissioned books that expressed their devotion, wealth, learning, and social standing. In early fourteenth-century Florence, this world flourished alongside one of the most important transformations in the history of Western… More

Ibrahim Said (Egyptian, b. 1976), Floating Vase 32, 2026. White Earthenware, 19 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 6 1/4" (50 x 16 x 16 cm).

NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo is presenting Shaping Time, Ibrahim Said’s second solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will open on Thursday, October 22 will be on view through Saturday, January 9, 2027. Shaping Time coincides with the conclusion of Said’s participation as one of three inaugural artists in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vacheron Constantin Artisan Residency. Centered on the preservation and reinterpretation of traditional craft, this 18-month residency granted Said… 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

Reliquary of the Sacred Thorn.

WATERTOWN.- The Armenian Museum of America announced the opening of Beyond the Curtain: Materiality and Devotion in Armenian Art on October 22. This new exhibition includes more than 20 objects from the Museum’s collection, and it is curated by Anahit Gasparyan. The exhibition examines Armenian religious art through the materials that have shaped devotional experiences, inviting visitors to consider how faith becomes tangible through art, ritual, craftsmanship, and sacred objects. At the heart of… More

Chez Sotheby’s.

PARIS.- Now open through 24 October, during Art Basel Paris, Sotheby’s and _POLIMENO present Chez Sotheby’s, a living environment bringing together art, dining and cultural exchange within an extraordinary Parisian apartment. Neither an exhibition nor a restaurant in the conventional sense, Chez Sotheby’s brings exceptional works of Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art into a setting designed for gathering, discovery and dialogue. Located at 242 Rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Jardin des… More

Pablo Picasso, Femme nue et homme au fanion. Executed on 29 July 1969. Estimate: $15 – 20 million.

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's will present Picasso's Heroic Years: Masterpieces from a Prestigious European Family, a group of four works from the final chapter of one of the most inventive careers in the history of art, in the Modern Evening Auction during The New York Sales this November. The group is led by the monumental Femme nue et homme au fanion (1969, estimate $15–20 million), alongside Couple (1970), Le Peintre et son modèle (1964) and Nu (1972), together carrying a combined estimate of $30–42… More

Maurizio Cattelan, Bubblegum Cigarettes, 2012. Performance.

PARIS.- Alberta Pane Gallery is presenting across its two Parisian spaces the exhibition Kreëmart: The Provocateurs of Experimental Consumption, a new exhibition in Paris devoted to the most significant collaborations between the Kreëmart production studio and numerous internationally renowned artists. The exhibition is accompanied by a critical text by Eugenio Viola. Founded in 2009 by Raphael Castoriano, the sensory art studio Kreëmart was born from a desire to bring contemporary artists… More

View of Lee Bae's exhibition 'Attending' at Perrotin Paris, 2026. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

PARIS.- The cycle of life beats at the heart of Lee Bae’s art. Widely recognized for his mastery of charcoal, the philosophical artist uses it to explore universal themes of destruction and renewal. Charcoal, made from wood burned by fire, symbolizes both nature’s destructive force and its potential for regeneration and reignition. For Lee Bae, charcoal embodies the life cycle, purification, the passage of time, and energy. It is nature transformed by fire. Born in South Korea in 1956, Lee… More

View of Otobong Nkanga: I dreamt of you in colours, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, 2026. Photo: Helene Toresdotter.

MALMÖ.- Since the late 1990s, Otobong Nkanga has explored themes related to ecology and the relationships between the body and territory. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she has been delving deeply into issues such as mining extraction and the use of the earth’s resources, but also the body and its connection to space and the earth. The notion of strata is central both in the materiality of Nkanga’s works and in her way of thinking about the relationships between human beings and the… More

The exhibition will be accompanied by <a href="https://amzn.to/4dRDKEm" rel="nofollow">a fully-illustrated catalogue</a> available in spring 2027, published by Princeton University Press.

ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation announces the recent opening of a major retrospective dedicated to Colombian fiber artist Olga de Amaral (b. 1932), co-organized with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Amaral is known internationally for her virtuosic textile works, which blur the boundaries between weaving, sculpture, and painting. On view at the Pulitzer through January 31, 2027, and at Cooper Hewitt beginning in April 2027, Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite is co-curated by… More

Robert Indiana, Eat, 1962, cast 1991. Painted bronze, 58 5/8 × 15 × 12 5/8 in. 148.8 × 38.1 × 32 cm © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Robert Indiana's first monographic exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, on view from October 17, 2026 to January 23, 2027. Concurrent with the exhibition, a monumental LOVE sculpture (LOVE WALL, 1966 - 2006) by the artist will be on view as part of Art Basel Paris' public program. "The technique, if successful, is that happy transmutation of the lost into the found, junk into art, the… More

Thirty watches, led by more than two Patek Philippe auction debuts and an exceptional group of fresh-tomarket Tiffany & Co.-retailed timepieces.

NEW YORK, NY.- For many collectors, the story behind a watch is as compelling as the craftsmanship within it. Beyond mechanical ingenuity, rarity or aesthetic distinction, a timepiece carries the history of its ownership – a connection to the person who first acquired it, the life it accompanied, and the story it carries into the future. Provenance lends a watch an additional dimension of meaning, enriching its appeal with a human narrative that transcends its material value. In this respect,… More

Jazsalyn’s latest project launches on whitney.org and expands the artist’s Warpmode worldbuilding toolkit, inviting participants to explore Ancestral Intelligence and Black Metatheories.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art launches Warpmode, This is not a game!, a digital art project by Jazsalyn commissioned for artport, the Museum’s online gallery space for Internet art. A digital extension of the artist’s worldbuilding toolkit Warpmode, the project invites viewers to contemplate multidimensional layers of Blackness through a series of prompts. Jazsalyn produced Warpmode with the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond and published the toolkit through Metalabel… More