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Market · Paris
The fourth and last known Sèvres breast-shaped bowl made for Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet has resurfaced after more than two centuries and will be auctioned at Hôtel Drouot on 26 November, estimated at €1–2 million.
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The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2026 found 72% of the 3,100 wealthy collectors surveyed had received works from family or friends, and 75% had kept at least some of what they inherited — raising questions about tax, storage and family legacy.
Source date ·Two months after the artist was found dead in his Manhattan home, New York City's medical examiner has ruled that Lucien Smith died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and oxycodone.
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São Paulo-based artist Diambe joins Artsy's Vanguard 2027, the platform's annual list of ten emerging artists to watch. Working in beeswax, bronze and egg tempera, Diambe turns Brazil's extreme heat into a material record of climate change, with two new exhibitions opening this week in Curitiba and Milan.
Source date ·The only known specimen of Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis, a 167-million-year-old French dinosaur, goes under the hammer at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 18 November, estimated at €280,000–€390,000. Palaeontologists are petitioning to stop the sale of the holotype, the reference fossil for the whole species, while the Millon auction house says the sale is legal and the fossil could still be lent to museums.
Source date ·The Vatican Museums have completed the first cleaning of Michelangelo's Last Judgement in more than 30 years, removing a white film of calcium lactate left by visitors' perspiration and revealing fresh detail about the artist's brushwork and handling of volume.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · Singapore
ArtScience Museum in Singapore will give Asia its first showing of More than Human: Making With the Living World, opening 28 November 2026 and running to 16 May 2027. More than 140 works by nearly 55 artists and designers explore how humans and other species can live together; the Singapore edition adds 25 works from Asia.
Source date ·Exhibitions · Public Art · Singapore
Proposal for HOYA: 5 Lungs Temple, a free installation by Yussef Agbo-Ola, opened at Jurong Library on 28 October and will tour seven Singapore public libraries until 3 October 2027. Knitted panels made from deep-sea plastic enlarge the microscopic structure of Hoya wallichii, a flower thought extinct in Singapore since 1894.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · Busan
The Busan Museum of Art is marking its reopening after roughly two years of renovation with To All the Museums of Yesterday, a special exhibition tracing the museum's history from 1960s discussions about a municipal museum to its 1998 building. It runs in the new Project Gallery through 14 March 2027, with free admission.
Source date ·Indonesian artist Roby Dwi Antono has opened his first solo exhibition in Thailand at MOCA Bangkok. SUDO RUNGU: Echoes of Fire runs 27 October 2026 to 3 January 2027 and turns the memory of his late father's blacksmith workshop in Central Java into a meditation on labour, inheritance and loss.
Source date ·Singapore print and paper centre STPI is presenting STPI in Kyoto: Print, Paper & Beyond at Kyoto City University of Arts, 7-12 November 2026, in parallel with its participation in Art Collaboration Kyoto. The showcase features works by 14 artists made during STPI residencies and marks 60 years of Singapore-Japan diplomatic relations.
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