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Exhibitions · New York
David Zwirner will present Yoshitomo Nara across its two Chelsea spaces from October 29 to December 12, 2026, in the artist's first solo show with the gallery and his first major New York solo exhibition in nearly a decade.
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Policy · Global
The European Commission has published the 2027 Creative Europe work programme and opened the first funding calls on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, with a €402 million budget for culture, creativity and resilience.
Source date ·Silverlens presents 'Untethered', a group exhibition featuring Catalina Africa, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Is Jumalon, Pow Martinez, Bernardo Pacquing and MM Yu, at dusitD2 Davao from October 2 to 4 — the first time the artists converge in the city.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · London
I Can't Complain, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from September 29 to November 29, 2026, is New York-based artist Autumn Knight's first major UK presentation, reframing complaint as a tool for examining power and voice.
Source date ·Museums · Exhibitions · Denver
DIVA, organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum and running at the Denver Art Museum from October 4, 2026 through January 31, 2027, brings nearly 250 objects and 58 costumes worn by performers from Marilyn Monroe to Beyoncé to its exclusive US venue.
Source date ·Museums · Public Art · Hong Kong
Alicja Kwade's site-specific installation Waiting Pavilions at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong was found damaged in mid-September, with a large stone dislodged from a cast-bronze chair, prompting a police investigation into suspected criminal damage.
Source date ·Five Indian nominations—four heritage sites in Madhya Pradesh and a transnational India–South Africa proposal on Sites of Satyagraha—were added to UNESCO's Tentative List on September 30, 2026, bringing India's roster to 78 sites.
Source date ·Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired four Matthew Waldman-designed Nooka wristwatches for its National Design Collection, tracing the brand's evolution from its 1999 Seiko license to independent production.
Source date ·Sean Kelly's seventh solo show for Anthony McCall, on view through October 31, brings together the 1973 classic *Line Describing a Cone*, the 2020 *Skylight*, and the debut of *Swarm* (2026).
Source date ·Gary Hume's exhibition at Matthew Marks's Chelsea space presents 16 enamel-on-aluminum paintings installed over site-specific murals that revisit the cartoons he made for UK immigration centres, painted over in 2023 after being judged too welcoming.
Source date ·Galleria Continua is showing Hank Willis Thomas's new solo 'Afterimage' in Paris alongside 'Tomorrow I Shall Contradict Myself,' a presentation in San Gimignano and Rome that stages his work against Man Ray, running through the end of the year.
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