Ocula has published its editors' selection of the exhibitions not to miss during October, ranging from a major Pop retrospective in New York to a biennale in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The list opens with "Roy Lichtenstein: Like New" at the Whitney Museum of American Art (11 October 2026–10 May 2027), the first retrospective of Lichtenstein's work in New York City in 33 years, framing his preoccupation with copied and circulated images as a precursor to today's remix culture, alongside Sturtevant and co-curator Alex Da Corte. In Paris, Jenny Holzer presents "J'ai vu" at the Musée d'Orsay (20 October 2026–21 February 2027). The Praemium Imperiale laureate will project texts drawn from the museum's archives — excerpts from artists' letters combined with literary and political commentary — onto the institution's 19th-century facade, timed to coincide with Art Basel Paris, while LED works and gold-leafed paintings inside echo the building's history as a train station. Further afield, the guide highlights "Myths and Monsters: The Art of Fantasy in Asia" at M+ in Hong Kong (17 October 2026–4 April 2027), tracing monsters and fantasy from Utagawa Kuniyoshi's 1852 woodblocks to Lawrence Lek's cyborg videos; "Flow of Paint = Flow of Life" at Kunsthaus Zurich (2 October 2026–21 February 2027), pairing Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch; and Umi Ishihara's "Nocturnal Melody" at Esea Contemporary in Manchester (10 October 2026–17 January 2027). Also featured are Sabine Moritz's first Galerie Max Hetzler show in Berlin, Elizabeth Magill's new paintings at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, a Lynn Hershman Leeson survey at the Seoul Museum of Art (21 October 2026–21 February 2027) — her first solo museum exhibition in Asia — and the ninth Biennale de Lubumbashi (15 October–15 November 2026), whose title "manger la terre / ku kuria bulongo" (Eat the Earth) asks how land shaped by extraction can continue to nourish people.