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White Cube will present an online exhibition of historic hand-finished lithographs by Japanese artist Minoru Nomata, covering the years 1988 to 1998. The digital show runs from 10 November 2026 through 2 February 2027.
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Maison Ruinart has given Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata carte blanche for a presentation at the Grand Palais during Art Basel Paris 2026. Preparatory drawings and models will be shown from 23 to 25 October, with the resulting work revealed on site in Paris.
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Image: ArtskKunsthaus Bregenz has opened a solo exhibition by artist Torkwase Dyson, designated KUB 2026.03. The show opened on 17 October 2026, following a Friday evening preview on 16 October, and runs through 24 January 2027.
Source date ·Phillips' modern and contemporary evening sale in London on October 15 totaled £14.8 million ($19.6 million) with every one of its 20 lots sold. Gerhard Richter's "Mathis" led at $7.6 million while a Banksy reworking of an EU arrivals gate made its auction debut at $2.1 million, and records were set for Eva Helene Pade and Joseph Yaeger.
Source date ·K Auction will hold its October sale on October 28 at its Sinsa headquarters in Seoul's Gangnam District, offering 85 lots worth about ₩11.2 billion ($7.8 million). Headliners include Park Soo-keun's 1964 "Homeward" at ₩680 million to ₩1.8 billion and Kusama's 1981 "Butterfly" at ₩650 million to ₩1.4 billion, alongside works by Chung Sang-hwa, Park Seo-bo and Yun Hyong-keun.
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In American Traditional, his new solo show at Garth Greenan Gallery in SoHo, Cannupa Hanska Luger moves away from his participatory ceramics toward a declarative body of wood, ink and archival works confronting the 19th-century extermination of the bison.
Source date ·Tanya Merrill's new oil-and-graphite paintings at 303 Gallery in New York, shown under the title Land animal, house animal (September 10–October 24, 2026), respond to two life changes — the birth of her daughter in June and a move from the city to upstate New York — by presenting animals as sentient, desire-driven beings.
Source date ·Art Week NYC, presented by Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America, has announced the 32 museums and institutions joining more than 80 galleries for its first citywide edition, running November 11–14, 2026, with the New Museum as primary institutional partner.
Source date ·In an interview published October 16, London collector Aarti Lohia discusses the SP Lohia Foundation's support of Amar Kanwar's Serpentine North exhibition and her philosophy of long-term cultural patronage across art, chess and film.
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The Seoul Museum of Art will present 'Lynn Hershman Leeson: First Person Plural', the American media artist's first museum solo exhibition in Asia, from 21 October 2026 to 21 February 2027. The free-admission survey spans six decades of work on technology, identity and surveillance, from the fictional persona Roberta Breitmore to the web-based Agent Ruby.
Source date ·Tokyo Arts and Space has opened applications for its 2027 residency programmes, with four places in its domestic young-creator programme and one three-month international exchange slot each in Basel, Brussels, Dublin, Helsinki, Montreal, Seoul and Taipei. Applications close on 3 November 2026.
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