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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

David Salle, Dots, 2025. Oil, acrylic, flashe and charcoal on archival UV print on linen. Image 86,4 x 109,2 cm (34 x 43 in) Frame 98,2 x 121 x 7 cm (38,66 x 47,64 x 2,76 in) © David Salle / Adagp, Paris, 2026. Photos: John Berens. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul.

PARIS.- Following David Salle’s solo presentation at the Palazzo Cini Gallery during the 61st Venice Biennale earlier this year, this exhibition, held in an intimate space at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, reunites the works shown together in Venice. The paintings extend the New York-based artist’s use of artificial intelligence as a tool to unravel and recalibrate the logic of painting. Focusing his AI model on his earlier Tapestry Paintings (1989–91) – a series of works based on 18th-century… 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

BRUSSELS.- Mendes Wood DM will present seven lakes, Shota Nakamura’s first solo presentation with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in Belgium. The show returns to the desaturated, dreamlike terrain of Nakamura, an artist who works as readily from memory as from observation. The Brussels space, with its fireplaces and separate rooms that distinguish it from a white cube, set Nakamura thinking about scale, and he has approached much of the exhibition through medium and small formats as an… 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

Iris Eichenberg.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS.- Cranbrook Academy of Art announced today that Iris Eichenberg, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Metalsmithing program, will leave the Academy at the end of the 2026–2027 academic year. Eichenberg was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Metalsmithing program in 2006. She came to Cranbrook after a decade of teaching and leading the Jewelry Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. During her tenure at Cranbrook, she has helped shape generations of artists… 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

Installation View of Lee Ufan: Fragments of Infinity. Photo: © Serralves Foundation.

PORTO.- Serralves Foundation opened Lee Ufan: Fragments of Infinity, the first major exhibition in Portugal of renowned South Korean-born painter and sculptor Lee Ufan (b. 1936). Set across the expansive 45-acre Serralves Park and the iconic Art Deco Serralves Villa, Fragments of Infinity explores the artist’s groundbreaking approach to blending natural landscapes with architectural environments. The presentation features three outdoor sculptures, strategically installed throughout the Park… 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

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980), Wild Grapes, 1926. Bronze. Gift of the Ruth Talcott Estate. 1987.083

NEW YORK, NY.- The Syracuse University Art Museum presents “‘And she had a pose that was fascinating’: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s Models and Sculptures”, now on view through February 4, 2027 at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at the Joseph I. Lubin House in midtown Manhattan. In the early twentieth century, Frishmuth earned critical acclaim for her small bronze figures of dancers, caught in motion. Later in her life, she received less attention than some of her peers after moving from New… 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

Turner's works explore fundamental dichotomies: life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion.

LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art opened its first solo exhibition by Nicola Turner, I Tear Secrets from Your Yielding Flesh. A site-responsive installation made mainly from dark wool and horsehair fills the ground-floor galleries at 16 Hanover Square, extending in a procession-like manner that continues 12 metres up the façade of the Georgian townhouse. In line with Turner's practice, the installation references the fascinating history of the building, whilst touching on myriad issues such as… 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

Pedro Reyes, Zero Nukes I, 2021. Fabric, 900 × 650 × 650 cm. Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation. Photo: Persona we are.

CHANGWON-SI.- The Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2026 Resonance Field, which opened on September 30, is currently on view through November 15. Hosted and organized by Changwon Special City and the Changwon Cultural Foundation, the Changwon Sculpture Biennale is Korea’s only sculpture biennale. Growing out of the MoonShin International Sculpture Symposium in 2010 and held every two years since 2012, it has functioned as a platform where contemporary sculpture discourse intersects with international… More