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Art
Two established fairs anchor Shanghai’s annual art week as galleries seek young artists and new collectors, while the wider art community draws on regional connections amid China’s economic slowdown.
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Japan art
The exhibition renews attention on Mori as Japan’s autumn art programme ranges from a 56-venue Tokyo event to a Maebashi festival linked to urban renewal.
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Art
Two established fairs anchor Shanghai’s 10-15 November 2026 art week, as galleries, museums and artist communities offer sources of resilience amid economic upheaval.
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Public art
Anish Kapoor’s 110-ton Cloud Gate remained in place after a crowd tried to shift the Millennium Park landmark on Sunday.
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Art
Atsuko Ninagawa’s effort to link Tokyo’s dispersed art scene takes shape in a fifth edition bringing together 56 venues and international participants over five days.
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Japan
The new festival in Gunma Prefecture brings a focus on city-making to a season of exhibitions, performances and new festivals in Japan.
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Art
The Costume Institute is assembling 200 to 230 pieces for its 2027 exhibition, shifting attention from John Galliano to designers’ transformations of familiar clothes and materials.
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Art
Art Week Tokyo’s curated platform is moving beyond a single museum, making travel between neighbourhoods part of an event bringing together a record 56 museums and galleries.
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Art
Director Gabriele Finaldi’s rejection of trigger warnings puts the London museum’s approach to access in focus as it plans a $1 billion modern-art wing alongside an $11.2 million deficit announced earlier in 2026.
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Public art
The Queens waterfront park plans to unveil an area featuring three large-scale works by Mark di Suvero while seawall reconstruction keeps much of its five-acre campus closed until spring 2027.
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Georgian art
Set on a 115-acre site, the Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art is scheduled to open with an exhibition tracing Georgian art since the 1960s as demonstrations intensify again.
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Cultural heritage
A training programme involving professionals from nine French-speaking African countries places collection records, provenance research and investigative cooperation at the centre of heritage protection.
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Gulf art
The Doha fair’s second edition will include 30 newcomers as organisers expand their commitment to Qatar against a backdrop of renewed regional conflict concerns.
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Art market
7 million sale set a record for the artist’s landscapes.
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France
The Louvre and other major museums shut on Saturday, while Art Basel cancels its weekend programme amid the threat of unrest.
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Art market
The Paris sale surpassed expectations after nearly 45 minutes of bidding, though the broader French auction record remains higher when adjusted for inflation.
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Colombia
De la Espriella’s intervention puts political control of culture in focus as he warns against what he calls “atheist social communism”.
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Art
The fair’s fifth edition will end at 7pm on October 23 and remain closed through the weekend, with further demonstrations planned in central Paris.
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Art
The fair, featuring 211 galleries at the Grand Palais, is cutting short a run scheduled through Sunday as Paris prepares for further demonstrations.
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Colombia
De la Espriella’s removal of works from the National Museum comes alongside his stated opposition to what he calls “atheist social communism” in cultural institutions.
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Art
The fair on Quai de Valmy also hosts five nonprofit spaces, while events elsewhere in the city include public sculpture, museum residency exhibitions and shows exploring industrial heritage.
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Art
The conical bowl, measuring 25 x 18 cm, is listed as lot 184 in Adam’s mid-century modern auction scheduled for October 20, 2026.
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Photography
Around half the works in Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography have never been shown in the UK, giving its international reassessment a substantial element of discovery.
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Arts
The museum, which drew more than 9 million visitors last year, remained closed at 11 a.m. after demonstrators blocked its pyramid entrance in a protest against public-funding cuts.
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