Thursday, October 29, 2026

The Rockwell Museum announces completion of "Infinity Park," a public mural by Devan Shimoyama

The mural is the 18th installation in The Rockwell Museum's Alley Art Project and serves as a featured initiative during the Museum's 50th anniversary. Photo by Jess Spady, The Rockwell Museum.
CORNING, NY.— The Rockwell Museum invites people to see themselves amid a kaleidoscope of rolling hills, flowers and radiant color in "Infinity Park," a new public mural by multidisciplinary artist Devan Shimoyama. Developed through The Rockwell Museum's Alley Art Project, the artwork translates Shimoyama's signature use of color, adornment, symbolism and personal narrative into an immersive public artwork that invites viewers to pause, reflect and connect. The mural is the 18th installation in The Rockwell Museum's Alley Art Project and serves as a featured initiative during the Museum's 50th anniversary. Since 2010, the program has partnered with professional artists, students, educators and community organizations to create ambitious public artworks inspired by works in the Museum's collection. 2026 Alley Art Mural Ribbon Cutting. Photo by Jess Spady, The Rockwell Museum. "Infinity Park" marks a significant milestone in the Pittsburgh-based artist's career as his first large-scale outdoor public mural project, extending the visual language of an internationally recognized practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media. The immersive artwork celebrates the seasonal transition between spring and summer. Figures gather throughout the composition to read, play, rest and connect, creating a vision of collective renewal and belonging. Mirrors incorporated into the mural invite passersby to see themselves reflected within the work, connecting the surrounding environment and community directly to the mural. 2026 Alley Art Mural Ribbon Cutting. Photo by Jess Spady, The Rockwell Museum. While the mural exudes a celebratory spirit, it also reflects Shimoyama's longstanding interest in how art can...
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Christie's New York presents It Girl: Thiebaud Portrait from the Collection of Blair Sabol

NEW YORK, NY.— This November, Girl in White Boots, Wayne Thiebaud's iconic 1965 portrait of Blair Sabol, will be sold at Christie's, coming from the collection of Blair Sabol. Commissioned by Blair's parents following her senior year of high school, the work was painted by Thiebaud in the summer of 1965 in his Sacramento studio, where Blair sat perfectly still for him over the course of four consecutive days from 10am to 5pm, with an hour break for lunch. Blair had just come from a trip to New York with her mother, Audrey Sabol, whom had given her the ultimate graduation present: an appointment with Vidal Sassoon, the world's most sought-after hair stylist, in his newly opened salon. Depicting Blair in her new mod haircut, bright yellow Courreges-style shift dress and white go-go boots, the portrait captures a moment in American culture, intersecting
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Galerie Lelong New York presents Mildred Thompson masterworks in 'Cosmos Calling'

NEW YORK, NY.— Galerie Lelong, New York, announces exhibition of work by Mildred Thompson (b. 1936–d. 2003), the gallery’s third exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking American artist. Entitled Cosmos Calling, the exhibition presents her masterwork Music of the Spheres paintings alongside a selection from her Heliocentric Series. In these bodies of works, Thompson turns her longstanding interest in the invisible forces that make up the fabric of the universe toward our solar system. Created in the early-to-mid 1990s, the works on view represent the coalescence of Thompson’s artistic practice with her deep personal interests in astrophysics and music. In an artist statement from the same decade, “I seek to portray some of the profound meanings and influences indicated by the invisible dimensions and realities around us. My works are physical manifestations of my understanding and appreciation for the
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Olney Gleason opens Bosco Sodi solo show featuring oxidized copper works

NEW YORK, NY.— Olney Gleason announced a solo exhibition of new paintings by Bosco Sodi (b. 1970, Mexico City). On view will be a suite of oxidized copper paintings made over the last year in the artist’s Brooklyn studio and a new group of glazed volcanic rock sculptures. The paintings are characterized by the vibrant verdigris patina that forms on each surface as the copper reacts to the atmospheric elements, deepening Sodi’s longstanding exploration of the dialectic of beauty and transformation. The exhibition will open at 509 West 27th Street, New York, in October 2026, concurrent with Sodi’s participation in the 16th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Layering copper paint and copper-based gold powder onto canvas, Sodi applies vinegar, salt, and various acids to induce a chemical reaction that causes a dramatic change in color over time. Introducing an element of anticipation to this body work, he lets chance determine the final color and texture by applying these agents at varying d
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Ibrahim Mahama transforms Ghana's industrial past into a vision of the future at Fondation Cartier

PARIS.— What happens to the ambitions of a nation when its factories close, its institutions disappear, and the promises of independence remain unfulfilled? For Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, the answer lies not in abandoning the past but in bringing its forgotten materials, buildings, and histories back to life. At the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, Mahama explores these questions in Le Temps des récoltes (The Time of Harvests), an ambitious exhibition running from October 22, 2026, through February 28, 2027. Described by the institution as the largest presentation of his work yet organized in France, the exhibition brings together monumental installations, archival materials, and the contributions of nine artists and collectives whose practices intersect with his own. Taking over the Fondation Cartier's exhibition spaces at Place du Palais-Royal, the project transforms the museum into something more than a place for displaying art. It becomes a forum for
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S.M.A.K. presents seven decades of work by Ana Lupas, one of the leading artists from Eastern Europe

GHENT.— S.M.A.K. presents a major exhibition dedicated to the work of Ana Lupas, one of the leading artists from Eastern Europe. On Ritual Time has been conceived in the final phase of Lupas’s artistic career and life. Alongside her own work, the exhibition also features works by her late partner, the artist S P A T A R U. The exhibition thus takes on the character of a deeply personal artistic testament, looking back on seven decades of a multifaceted body of work, ranging from textile art to monumental in situ projects. Ana Lupas (b. 1940, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) has devoted seven decades to artistic practice, initially working with textiles. Drawing on inherited techniques such as weaving, sewing, knotting and braiding, she developed a contemporary visual language at a time when Fiber Art was emerging as an artistic movement. A monumental presentation of her earliest textile works, Prapori 1961–1964, comprising 53 free-standing
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Paula Cooper Gallery explores domesticity, memory, and 1970s New York art scene

NEW YORK, NY.— Paula Cooper Gallery presents Art is for the Spirit: Records of the Self, a group exhibition organized by Ivy Shapiro with work by Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kazuko Miyamoto, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, and Joel Shapiro. The exhibition gathers work that explores the home and autobiography as tools for grounding the self. Anchored in Shapiro’s memories of her childhood, the presentation also underlines the interrelated lives of Paula Cooper, her artists and their families within the close-knit New York art world of the 1970s and beyond. Joel Shapiro and Jonathan Borofksy both exhibited work at Paula Cooper Gallery for the first time in 1969, the year Ivy Shapiro was born. Shapiro showed a fingerprint drawing, using his finger as a tool to create refined rows of imprints, while Borofsky presented the first in his serial project Counting, in which the artist wrote consecutive numbers
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Danziger Gallery announces representation of artist and photographer Oliver Wasow

NEW YORK, NY.— Danziger Gallery announced their representation of Oliver Wasow. An artist/photographer who engages with the medium in both a straightforward way and through technology, for more than 20 years his work has covered myriad subjects including science fact and fiction, dystopian landscapes, portraiture, politics, and UFOs. Wasow’s work has been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as ‘Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Image World,’ at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC, and ‘The Photography of Invention,’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Recently the gallery successfully exhibited Wasow’s most recent portrait work at Untitled Houston and we will be showing three new images at Untitled Miami. These portraits are made using a combination of media, including painting, analog photography, digital photography, and generative AI. In Waso
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Bertoia, Knoll and a golden Dandelion: A modern design story comes to Heritage Auctions

DALLAS, TX.— A glistening gold Dandelion by Harry Bertoia, preserved for more than half a century in the family of the Knoll executive who championed his sculpture, leads Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 12 Modern Design Signature® Auction. The sale brings together some of the most important Modern Design property Heritage has ever offered and carries the highest total pre-auction estimate in the category’s history at the auction house. Together with the Nov. 11 Early 20th Century Design Signature® Auction, likewise Heritage’s strongest offering to date in its category, the sale marks a significant advance for two growing categories withing the Design department. “These are the most important Early 20th Century Design and Modern Design auctions we have assembled at Heritage,” says Samantha Robinson, Heritage’s Vice President of Design. “The growth of both departments is reflected in the caliber of the works entrusted to us. In Modern Design, the
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Historic 1548 self-portrait at an easel headlining National Gallery survey in 2027

LONDON.— A remarkable self portrait thought to be the first of an artist depicting herself at work at an easel will be a highlight of the first ever UK exhibition of the painter Catharina van Hemessen (1528–after 1566?), opening at the National Gallery on 4 March, just ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March 2027. Catharina van Hemessen: Signature Works (4 March – 30 May 2027) will bring together for the first time, a significant group of the signed paintings of this striking artist, from international collections. The Self Portrait (1548, Kunstmuseum Basel), coming to the UK for the first time, is thought to be the first artist's self portrait at an easel, regardless of gender. Created when she was just 20 years old, it shows van Hemessen holding her palette, brushes and a maulstick as she starts work on a painting. The portrait pioneered a common mode of self-representation among later women artists, such as Artemisia
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Brooklyn Museum extends acclaimed exhibition Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

BROOKLYN, NY.— Following an enthusiastic response from visitors and critics, the Brooklyn Museum announced today that Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses will be extended through Sunday, January 3, 2027. Originally scheduled to close on December 6, 2026, the celebrated exhibition will remain on view for an additional four weeks, offering visitors more time to experience this extraordinary intersection of fashion, art, science, and nature. A pioneer in her use of cutting-edge technologies, Van Herpen defies the limits of conventional fashion while embracing both traditional couture craftsmanship and innovative materials and techniques. Sculpting the Senses features over 140 of Van Herpen’s avant-garde designs, placed in dialogue with works of contemporary art and loans of scientific artifacts and natural history specimens. The Brooklyn presentation expands upon the original exhibition with Craftolution (2026), an ambitious new video installation commissioned by the Museum, that offers a meditat
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The Whitney Museum appoints Nolan Jimbo as Arnhold Associate Curator

NEW YORK, NY.— The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Nolan Jimbo as Arnhold Associate Curator. In this role, Jimbo will organize exhibitions, produce publications and public programs, contribute to the growth and interpretation of the Museum’s collection, and collaborate with artists and colleagues across the institution. His appointment reflects the Whitney’s ongoing commitment to championing artists and expanding narratives of American art through exhibitions, collections, scholarship, and public engagement. Jimbo’s first day at the Whitney is November 16. “Nolan is a star among a new generation of curators with fresh perspectives on art both past and present. He brings to the Whitney a range of experience from museums across the country, along with keen intellectual rigor and a deep commitment to artists,” said Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. “His work moves fluidly between exhibitions, performance, and scho
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MOCA Toronto names Claire Shea Curator of Greater Toronto Art 2027

TORONTO.— The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto announced Claire Shea as curator of the third edition of Greater Toronto Art (GTA), opening in November of next year and running through April 2028. Launched in 2021, GTA is a triennial exhibition highlighting artists based in the city or who have strong ties to the Greater Toronto Area. The only recurring institutional exhibition dedicated to emphasizing and supporting artists from the region, GTA platforms the breadth of contemporary art emerging from the Greater Toronto Area to audiences locally and internationally. Shea brings nearly two decades of Canadian and international curatorial experience, as well as a deep understanding of how artistic practices are informed by place, community knowledge, and cultural context. Based in Toronto, her experience working in Asia, Europe, and North America, including Hong Kong, the Azores, and Fogo Island, coupled with her relationship to our city, gives her an exciting and distinct curatorial perspective.
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Amy Torbert to join Newfields as Curator of American Art

Newfields announces the appointment of Amy Torbert as Curator of American Art. Following an international search, Newfields leadership identified Torbert as a leading candidate based on her immense curatorial experience, professional accolades and her commitment to community, innovation and storytelling. She will begin her work at Newfields on January 4, 2027. “We are delighted to welcome Amy Torbert to Newfields as she assumes stewardship of our distinguished American art collection,” said Le Monte G. Booker, Sr., President and CEO of Newfields. “Her appointment reflects our commitment to attracting exceptional talent and advancing the priorities of our five-year strategic plan. Amy brings a depth of expertise and a thoughtful curatorial perspective that will strengthen our institution, enrich the visitor experience,

Abigail Lazkoz explores Kafkaesque hybridity and expanded drawing in Bilbao

Azkuna Zentroa—Alhóndiga Bilbao, Bilbao City Council Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, presents Lamb, Half Cat, Almost Dog by artist Abigail Lazkoz (Bilbao, 1972). Lazkoz is one of the most recognised Spanish artists of her generation, whose work explores expanded drawing in dialogue with painting, sculpture and architecture. Abigail Lazkoz’s practice addresses issues of identity, memory, symbolic violence, the architecture of power and the tensions between the individual and the collective, often through large-scale black-and-white wall installations that combine references to comics, popular culture and recent political history. Curated by Yara Sonseca, the project includes expanded works created by revisiting and rearranging existing pieces, combining them with new or previously unseen work. In coproduction with DA2 Domus

Carpenters Paris unveils Rick Owens Furniture exhibition

Five Easy Pieces is an exhibition of work by Rick Owens Furniture, curated by Rick Owens’ partner and long-standing creative collaborator, Michèle Lamy. The exhibition brings renowned selections from Rick Owens Furniture in conversation with artworks from Owens and Lamy’s own contemporary art collection. Both Owens and Lamy are considered among the most cutting-edge figures of aesthetic culture today, with a collaborative collectible design practice that combines sleek minimalism with vivid emotional texture. Taking place at Carpenters in Paris, the exhibition showcases five new editions of iconic functional artworks that advance Owens and Lamy’s explorations of primal materiality and architectural form. Many of the works feature steel in a state of rust, which the creative pair sees as a metaphor for creative resistance, while the use of wood

RM Sotheby's announces exceptional early consignments for it's Abu Dhabi auction

RM Sotheby’s announced the first consignments for its upcoming Abu Dhabi auction on 9 December 2026, bringing together a carefully curated selection of cars that reflects the enduring appeal of automotive design, performance and heritage. Led by a compelling line-up of Ferrari models, the early consignments offer a glimpse into a sale that celebrates the passion for collecting and the craftsmanship that defines the world’s most admired automotive marques. Taking place in the UAE capital, the auction underscores RM Sotheby’s continued commitment to the Middle East and its ambition to bring exceptional collector cars to an increasingly passionate and sophisticated audience. Working closely with Sotheby’s, RM Sotheby’s continues to strengthen its presence in the region, connecting automotive enthusiasts and collectors with extraordinary opportunities.

Fondazione MAST presents David Claerbout's first major Italian retrospective

From 29 October, Fondazione MAST presents The Quiet Machine, the first major solo exhibition in Italy by the Belgian artist David Claerbout (Kortrijk, 1969). The exhibition, curated by Francesco Zanot, is one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of his work, exploring the relationship between industry, technology and nature through nine film installations—including two previously unseen works—and a dozen drawings, arranged across a linear exhibition itinerary on the first floor of MAST and a site-specific installation on the ground floor. Claerbout began his career as a painter and gradually moved towards photography, film, and new media, producing works in which these disciplines exist both individually and combined. His reflection on technology is a fundamental part of his artistic practice and contributes to the definition of a multifaceted

Bangkok Art Biennale opens fifth edition, 'Angels & Mara,' across 11 citywide venues

Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) opens its fifth edition, Angels & Mara, featuring 72 artists and collectives across 11 venues, from historic temples and museums to contemporary art spaces and commercial districts. Drawing on Bangkok’s identity as the “City of Angels” and Mara, the Buddhist figure associated with temptation and obstacles to enlightenment, the Biennale explores the shifting boundaries between desire and restraint, destruction and renewal, the sacred and the everyday. At Wat Pho, Leiko Ikemura presents Memento Mori, a reclining bronze figure that echoes the temple’s monumental Reclining Buddha, alongside Wu-san and Ma-san, embodying angelic and demonic forces. At the National Museum Bangkok, Liu Jianhua’s Square (Siamese Triangle) brings steel and glazed porcelain into dialogue with the historic Throne Hall and

Unseen contact sheets reveal Robert Adams's creative process at Fraenkel Gallery

For the first time, Robert Adams: Contact brings into view the artist’s contact sheets. Presented alongside the final prints, these previously unseen materials provide a glimpse into Adams’s creative process and the choices that shaped some of his most celebrated photographs. They trace his path through the landscape, and offer insights into his selections, sequences, and printing long after the exposure was made. Adams sometimes returned to contact sheets months or even years later. Sometimes the image “would be perfectly obvious,” says Adams. For others, “it took me a year to realize something was a picture.” Looking closely, Adams’s contact sheets reveal how he approached his subjects, and how he continued to think about his work after making an image. In a 1969 contact sheet made in Colorado Springs, Adams

Maya Freelon debuts immersive career retrospective at Gregg Museum of Art & Design

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University opens 2026 Artist-in-Residence Maya Freelon’s immersive exhibition Grounded. Freelon invites visitors on a journey through the Gregg Museum—a space shaped by the architectural influence of her father Phil Freelon, NC State College of Design alumnus, designer of the Gregg Museum’s contemporary building, and principal architect for the National Museum of African American History and Culture—and across two decades of her artistic practice. On view through May 29, 2027, Grounded debuts Origination, a new site-specific installation, in dialogue with more than 20 works including photography, paintings, and vibrant, larger-than-life layered tissue paper sculptures spanning two decades of Freelon’s career. Through thematic sections

Museum Villa Stuck presents a monumental immersive exhibition by Gonzalo Borondo

Mater is another place. Upon entering the exhibition, a dreamlike world opens up, challenging our senses. The exhibition route moves between installation, sound environment, and walk-through image machine; behind every threshold, a surprising turn awaits. With Mater, the Museum Villa Stuck presents artist Gonzalo Borondo’s second intervention in Munich. In 2025, during the museum’s renovation, a white-and-gold-painted scaffolding mesh enveloped the facade like translucent skin—the project was titled Chrysalis. Now the building’s renovation is complete, the restored facade shines with renewed splendor, and the transformation continues in the monumental spaces of the Villa Stuck’s New Studio. For Borondo, the exhibition itself is the work of art. The works are prepared over months and years but created largely on site, where they

Berggruen Gallery presents two-part Stephen Hannock exhibition of luminous landscapes

Berggruen Gallery is presenting a two-part exhibition of recent work by Stephen Hannock. Building on Hannock’s five decades of work in luminous landscapes, Nocturnes in the Gloaming and From the River Tyne to the Port of San Francisco bring a contemporary context to the tradition of American landscape painting. The exhibition will be on view from October 29, 2026 through January 7, 2027. Stephen Hannock has long observed the diffuse light between day and night, rendering the quiet color of this atmosphere in specific luminosity. In Nocturnes in the Gloaming, Hannock pays special attention to the surface of the paintings. Employing a method in which oil paint is machine polished between applications, the artist renders a velvet-like surface quality. Hannock will present ten polished oil paintings along with each painting’s accompanying

Alicja Kwade brings new sculptures, mirrors, and distorted clocks to Pace Tokyo

A peach is caught in the pull of a tunnel. Boulders encounter their mirror images, heavy stones appear to float between gleaming funnels, and a clock tries in vain to escape its own course. From October 29 through December 25, Pace will present La Pêche miraculeuse, an exhibition of new works by Alicja Kwade, at its Tokyo gallery. Bringing together larger and smaller sculptures in an installation conceived specifically for the exhibition, alongside works on paper, La Pêche miraculeuse turns toward the unfamiliar and often unseen spaces within and between things. As throughout Kwade’s practice, the exhibition engages with reality and, with it, all that eludes immediate perception and cannot be fully grasped through the senses. Emptiness, light, and time become the sculptures themselves, while the physicality of things becomes their visible manifestation.
Flashback: On a day like today, American artist Joan Mitchell died
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artists in the 1950s. A native of Chicago, she is associated with the American abstract expressionist movement, even though she lived in France for much of her career. In this image: Joan Mitchell, Untitled, c. 1965, 29 x 21”, charcoal and pastel on paper. Photo: Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. © The Estate of Joan Mitchell.

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