Alan Grinnell, author of Painting the Cosmos: Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient Panama, examines a vessel from his collection of research material on ancient Panamanian ceramics.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alan Grinnell, author of Painting the Cosmos: Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient Panama, discusses what decades of looking at ancient Panamanian pottery have led him to see in an artistic tradition still unfamiliar to many specialists in pre-Columbian art. Drawing on more than 800 vessels, archaeological evidence, early Spanish accounts and his own background as a neuroscientist and biologist, Grinnell considers the possible meanings of hybrid animals, transformed shamans, hidden faces and recurring designs that persisted for centuries. He also addresses the difficulties created by looting and lost archaeological contexts, explains why he believes many of the vessels themselves may have been regarded as living beings, and reflects on the questions that future excavations and scientific analysis might finally answer. Artdaily: You argue that the ceramics of ancient Panama should be understood not simply as archaeological o ... More
The Boturini Codex arrives at the Museum of the National Library of France. Photo Gerardo Peña, INAH.
PARIS.- One of the most important surviving visual records of Mexica migration has arrived in Paris, where the Boturini Codex is now on view at the museum of the Bibliothèque nationale de France through December 13, 2026. The display places the early 16th-century Indigenous manuscript in an unexpected architectural setting: the Galerie Mazarin, where figures from Greco-Roman mythology look down on images of Huitzilopochtli and the migration of the Mexica people. The encounter brings together two very different visual traditions while marking 200 years of diplomatic relations between Mexico and France. The exhibition is part of a reciprocal cultural exchange organized by Mexico’s Ministry of Culture, through the National Institute of Anthropology and History, and France’s Ministry of Culture, through the BnF. Just one week earlier, the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City received the Azcatitlan Codex, a manuscript held in France. The two loans were conceived a ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting a solo exhibition by Sasha Stiles, a first-generation Kalmyk-American artist and poet. This is the gallery’s first exhibition of works by Stiles, who embarks on a deeply personal exploration of poetry as a technology of inheritance. Drawing on Jangar — a centuries-old Kalmyk-Mongolian epic that has survived migration, persecution, deportation, and diaspora — Stiles returns to a foundational story of her nomadic heritage to consider how language, memory, and culture are carried forward, or fall silent. Working across voice, script, print, code, and generative systems, Stiles continues Jangar's living tradition, using ancient practices of oral transmission, portable memory, and embodied knowledge to offer new ways of understanding our increasingly networked, mobile, and computational world. From original poetry to 3D-printed objects, cyanotypes, encoded beadwork, spoken word, and hybrid scrolls, each translation expands language beyond text ... More
Visual identity of the Cornucopia exhibition. 2026. Design: Līva Kreislere.
RIGA.- Cornucopia, an exhibition from the museum’s collection, is on view at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 26 September 2026 to 3 January 2027. The cornucopia, usually depicted in a positive and affirmative form, symbolises unlimited material and spiritual abundance. In a sense, a museum with its collection is also like a cornucopia: only a small part of its riches is visible, while the rest waits in storage for researchers and exhibition curators. And yet… What is a museum today? What kinds of exhibitions are created, and for whom? Can anything become an exhibit, and does the “cornucopia” also have limits to its capacity? The exhibition explores the concept of the cornucopia through the diversity, research and interpretation of the collections of the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE, highlighting its openness to change and responses to the socio-political situation. The display is mostly based on works of art that have either been inaccessible to visitors ... More
ZURICH.- With Crossing, Kunsthalle Zürich presents the first institutional solo exhibition outside the United Kingdom by London-based filmmaker and artist Ayo Akingbade (b. 1994, London). Bringing together two new productions which have their premiere at Kunsthalle Zürich, as well as earlier works by the artist, the exhibition traces Akingbade’s continued engagement with urbanism and architecture and the social and political forces that shape them. Over the past decade, Akingbade has realised over twenty short films that move between the genres of experimental documentary, fiction, and personal essay film, presenting them in both art exhibitions and cinema settings. Her works often centre on specific types of architecture and locations—from social housing to shopping centres, factories, and other spaces, public and private alike—which the artist usually captures on celluloid. But Akingbade is less interested in architecture as built form than in how people inhabit these spaces, s ... More
BASEL.- “Constellations” inaugurates the Fondation Beyeler’s newly expanded ensemble, unfolding across both museum buildings and throughout the enlarged expanse of the park. Individual works will further be featured in the repurposed historical buildings. The exhibition brings together over 200 outstanding works from the museum’s own collection and from private collections closely connected to the institution, giving rise to unique constellations of art, architecture and nature. “Constellations” unfolds across the Fondation Beyeler’s two museum buildings—Renzo Piano’s iconic Beyeler Museum and Peter Zumthor’s new Wyss Museum. The two buildings offer different perspectives onto the artworks on display. In the Beyeler Museum, the works encounter the familiar architecture that has shaped the experience of art at the Fondation Beyeler for the past 30 years. In the Wyss Museum, the works are positioned in a new context. At the same time, “Const ... More
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, alongside the Balnaves Foundation in honour of Neil Balnaves AO, today unveiled Mushrooms, a major new temporary public artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei for the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission series. Installed in front of MCA Australia on Tallawoladah Lawn, overlooking Warrane/Sydney Harbour, Mushrooms invites audiences to meditate on the fragility of life during times of conflict and division. Spanning 40-metres in length, Ai Weiwei's monumental public artwork comprises 500 cast iron sculptures of combat helmets, Mushrooms transforms symbols of war into a declaration for peace. ‘In the era we live in, the 21st century, wa ... More
Ar/Ge Kunst is a Kunstverein in Bozen-Bolzano. Its exhibitions, live acts, publication and podcast series are curated and directed by Zasha Colah and Francesca Verga.
BOLZANO.- Ar/Ge Kunst’s fall–winter 2026–27 exhibition program unfolds through three exhibitions by Nataliya Zuban, Reem Masri, and Yadykar Ibraimov. Taken together, the three exhibitions are vigilant toward the present, approaching it not as a stable point in time, but as a condition of unseparated experience. That these geographies of genocide, invasion, and incarceration belong to each other, are each other’s missing dark water, and that each of them are ours, is the question and the research of this cycle of exhibitions. Condition of Suspended Present is an exhibition in which ceramics, machines, and sound give material form to states of waiting. Nataliya Zuban’s sculptures are subjected to processes of gradual destruction: clocks struggle to mark time, ceramic forms break down, and fragments are ground back into matter. Works that recall the antidrone nets covering streets in frontline cities of Ukraine bracket the exhibition: at once suggesting protective barriers ... More
Xie Lei. Photo: Margot Montigny.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly presents Pain of Others, an exhibition of new paintings by Xie Lei. The exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo presentation with the gallery and his first in Los Angeles, opening in Beverly Hills at 415 N Camden Dr. Pain of Others continues French-Chinese artist Xie Lei’s investigation into the possibilities of representing our most elemental emotional states. The artist’s paintings develop from meticulously-applied layers of oil paint that give his surfaces a breathlike shimmer, in a palette of phosphorescent blues, Sèvres greens, or warm ochres that provide a blanketed, nocturnal quality to his scenes. The indeterminate spaces of his paintings are lit almost entirely by figures which possess a luminosity that radiates from the deepest underlayers of their forms. Inflamed by this seeming inner light, Xie’s subjects are human silhouettes stripped of their identifying features so that their essential forms achieve a near archetypal expression. Xie& ... More
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jeunes filles au bord de la mer. Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.2 cm. Painted in 1894. Estimate: €4,000,000-6,000,000.
PARIS.- Christie’s is preparing an ambitious week of Modern and Contemporary art sales in Paris this October, bringing together major private collections, fresh-to-market works and a broad sweep of art from Impressionism to the post-war period.
The Paris programme, running from October 16 to 23 during Art Basel Paris, forms part of Christie’s wider autumn 20th- and 21st-century season, which begins in London with its traditional 20/21 Marquee Week from October 14 to 16. In Paris, the auction house will stage four sales centered on important international collections and works that have remained outside the market for years. Among the collections taking center stage are those connected with the Durand-Ruel family, Antonio Homem Sonnabend, Marlene and Spencer Hays, and the group known as Radiant Modernism. Works from these collections are being offered across London, Paris and New York, underscoring the international scope of Christie’s autumn season. One of the week’s defin ... More
PARIS.- At Christie's, the Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares Collection achieved a resounding success, realising €38,736,120. Heralded as a landmark sale, it more than fulfilled expectations, surpassing its high estimate by a substantial margin, with 64% of lots selling above their high estimates. Christie's saleroom was filled to capacity for this highly anticipated auction, eagerly awaited by collectors and connoisseurs of the Grand Goût and eighteenth-century French art. The results reflect the remarkable coherence of the collection, with each work embodying Graziella's relentless pursuit of excellence and uncompromising standards. Comprising 59 exceptional lots, the sale was led by an outstanding group of paintings dedicated to the greatest names in French art and some of their most celebrated masterpieces. These works attracted strong international interest and inspired intense bidding battles in the room, on the telephones and online. Jean-Honoré Fragonard's L'Instant désiré tripled ... More
Josh Benesh, Global Head of Pop Culture, Christie's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the appointment of Josh Benesh as Global Head of Christie's Pop Culture at Christie's, based in New York. Benesh will lead an international team of specialists and work closely with clients and collectors across categories to drive the auction house's growth and expansion across new and emerging markets in the Christie's Pop Culture vertical. The Christie's pop culture team will hold multiple annual auctions celebrating the iconic objects, personas, and achievements that define our collective culture. Its sales will span and celebrate such diverse areas of collecting as: • Film, television and theatrical entertainment • Music and musical instruments • Sports memorabilia • Science, technology, and natural history • Fashion and popular design. “We are excited to meet our client's passions with our unmatched legacy of storytelling and innovation, with the opportunities to collect the very best objects from our collective popular culture s ... More
Fu Baoshi (1904–1965), The Song of the Pipa Player, 1945. Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper; 138 × 59.2 cm. Property from an Important Private Hong Kong Collection; formerly in the Fu Baoshi Family Collection. Estimate: HK$4,000,000–8,000,000.
HONG KONG.- Christie’s will bring together centuries of Chinese painting and calligraphy this October in Hong Kong, with two sales drawing on works from prominent private collections in Asia, Europe and the United States. The auctions, scheduled for October 27 and 28 during Hong Kong Asian Art Week, range from Yuan and Ming dynasty masters to some of the defining figures of 20th-century Chinese ink painting. The first sale, Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy, takes place on October 27 and is led by Bada Shanren’s Flowers and Birds, a 1699 album of twelve leaves estimated at HK$12 million to HK$18 million. The work comes from a distinguished American private collection and was formerly part of both the Tingfanlou Collection and the Dafengtang Collection. Bada Shanren, one of the most distinctive individualists of the early Qing period, is represented here through an intimate sequence of ink studies in which birds, flowers and vegetation are reduced to remarkably spare forms. ... More
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The FLAG Art Foundation presents 'Clockwork', a solo exhibition by Sable Elyse Smith NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Clockwork, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent work by Sable Elyse Smith, the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, on view September 24, 2026–February 13, 2027. Following its presentation at The Contemporary Austin, FLAG reframes Clockwork by expanding its more cinematic elements into an immersive stage set environment, where video becomes an immediate means of visualizing unseen, ordinary violence. Including sculpture, video, neon, and photography, Clockwork interrogates the fundamental systems of power that define contemporary society, as well as their cultural and psychological impacts. Through formal strategies such as seriality and repetition, disorientation, and appropriation, Smith illustrates how systems of power not only overlap, but how they intertwine and mutually reinforce one another. Clockwork features two video installations that signal moments of transition and pause within the exhibition ... More
Christie's brings anime icons from Pikachu to Totoro and Akira back to auction in New York NEW YORK, NY.- Pikachu, Goku, Totoro and Kaneda are returning to Christie’s this fall as the auction house continues its exploration of Japanese popular culture with Anime Starts Here: Japanese Subculture Reimagines Tradition, an online sale running from October 9 through 22, 2026. The auction follows Christie’s first edition of Anime Starts Here in March, when a mix of anime, manga and contemporary art influenced by those traditions brought $1,442,466—four times the sale’s low estimate. For the October edition, Christie’s is narrowing the focus more directly onto anime and manga themselves, offering original production material connected with some of the most recognizable characters and films to emerge from Japan over the past several decades. It is a lineup that crosses generations. Dragon Ball, Pokémon and Sailor Moon appear alongside works from Studio Ghibli, while original drawings by manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka and soft-vinyl figures from Ultraman broaden the sale beyond animation cels.
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The Perimeter presents Magali Reus' first institutional London exhibition since 2018 LONDON.- The Perimeter opened Swimming by Night, Magali Reus’ first institutional exhibition in London since 2018. Four bodies of new and recent works – Merlin (2024), Streamers (2025), Rig (2025–26) and Subs (2026) – are brought into dialogue with site-specific wall renderings and architectural interventions. Rooted by an interest in ecology and systems of production, this exhibition speaks to the relationship between nature, technology and the impact of post-industrial human activity. Together, these works play with the dynamics of attention, where objects become carriers of competing narratives around desire, consumption and transformation. Constructed using varied techniques of fabrication, ranging from the handcrafted to the industrial, Reus’ process unfolds through its own material language, where forms and symbols feel familiar yet not immediately determinable. In the Rig series, wall-mounted sculptures evoke fishhooks or larger-than-life earrings. Poised between adornment and capture, t ... More
Vatican Apostolic Library explores water, catastrophe, and wonder in major new initiative VATICAN CITY.- His Holiness Pope Leo XIV inaugurated AQVA, the landmark exhibition of the Vatican Apostolic Library’s new five-year cycle, Catastrophe and Wonder (Catastrofe e Meraviglia). Marking a dynamic new chapter in the Library's centuries-long mission of preservation and public engagement, the ambitious multi-year initiative offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural elements — framing them as mirrors to humanity’s deepest fears and highest hopes. Conceived as an immersive journey through the environmental and human threats that have historically imperilled the written word — ranging from water and fire to light, insects, and human intervention — Catastrophe and Wonder invites visitors to look beyond fear to discover new avenues of interpretation and artistic creation. The very forces that threaten our collective memory are reimagined as universal allegories for the anxieties surrounding all that lies beyond human control. The inaugural showcas ... More
Bechtler Museum spotlights four generations of Latin American printmakers CHARLOTTE, NC.- Bechtler Museum of Modern Art presents Making an Impression: Pioneering Latin American Printmakers, a major exhibition that brings together works by Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991), Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuelan, 1923–2005), Regina Silveira (Brazilian, born 1939) and Analia Saban (Argentinian, born 1980). On view from September 26, 2026, through February 1, 2027, and curated by Bechtler Curator Dr. Katia Zavistovski, the exhibition examines how artists across generations have transformed the possibilities of printmaking through material and perceptual innovation. Spanning works on paper, sculptural editions, vinyl installations, and technologically driven processes, Making an Impression highlights printmaking as a dynamic field of experimentation that continually redefines the relationship between image, surface and space. For each of these artists, printmaking serves not simply as a means of reproduction, but as a site of invention. “Making an Impression reflects the ... More
Musée Carnavalet opens 'Nouveau Paris' featuring major donations from Christo and JR PARIS.- As the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris has just celebrated its 160th anniversary, the Parisian institution is presenting a new exhibition in the final room of its collection tour, dedicated to Paris from 1977 to the present day. Titled Nouveau Paris, it offers renewed perspectives on the capital’s recent history and explores the transformations that have shaped the lives of Parisians. Featuring nearly thirty works from the museum’s collections, the exhibition—opening Friday, September 25—invites visitors to admire two exceptional donations: one from the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and the other from JR. These artists have in common their lasting legacy on the contemporary history of the City of Light through their temporary installations. It was, in fact, following the first election of the Mayor of Paris by its citizens in 1977 that public art projects gradually began to find their place. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were the pioneers in this field; they ... More
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