At Stockholm's Moderna Museet, a major new exhibition begins not with a retrospective timeline but with the living disorder of an artist's studio. Jan Håfström: The Lost World, which opened October 17, brings recent paintings, sculptures and painted objects together...
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Large Opens on Île Seguin With 17 New Commissions—and a Public-Access Bet
A new contemporary-art institution has opened on an island that once embodied French industrial power. Large welcomed the public on October 17 on Île Seguin, west of central Paris, placing a six-storey nonprofit art centre at the heart of the wider Pointe des Arts...
Palazzo Grassi Will Put the Pinault Collection on Permanent View
Palazzo Grassi is changing the way one of the world’s largest private contemporary-art collections meets the public. From March 21, 2027, the Venetian museum will replace its long-running cycle of temporary exhibitions with a permanent presentation of more than 100...
Council Housing Wins Britain’s Biggest Architecture Prize
A council-commissioned housing development in South London has won the 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prominent architecture award. Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was designed by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFF Architects for Croydon Council and...
Madrid’s Sorolla Museum Reopens With a €13.1 Million Expansion
Madrid’s Museo Sorolla opens a major new extension to the public on October 15, restoring public activity after a two-year closure and giving the artist’s house-museum room to function as a modern research, exhibition and cultural institution. The first completed...
ART KL Puts Southeast Asia’s Emerging Artists at the Center
A new boutique fair in Kuala Lumpur is making a pointed argument about where Southeast Asian art should be seen. ART KL opens from October 15 to 18 at A Place Where, a repurposed printing factory in Bangsar, with ten regional galleries presenting artists born after...
Frieze London Hands Artists a Bigger Role in Deciding Who Gets Seen
Frieze London opens this week with a notable change in who gets to confer visibility. Alongside 176 galleries from 43 countries, the 2026 fair is expanding programmes that give artists a more direct role in choosing, presenting and interpreting other artists. The most...
The Whitney Rebuilds Roy Lichtenstein’s Lost Spaces—and Makes Pop Art Unfamiliar Again
The Whitney Museum of American Art has opened Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first New York retrospective devoted to the artist since 1993. More than a familiar parade of Ben-Day dots and comic-book panels, the exhibition uses lesser-known work, source material and...
Philadelphia Reassembles Duchamp—and the Question of What Art Can Be
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has opened a Marcel Duchamp retrospective that brings nearly every phase of the artist’s radical career into one chronological exhibition. On view from October 10, 2026, through January 31, 2027, the presentation gathers approximately...
Artists Say Tang Contemporary Owes Money and Still Holds Their Work—What the Hong Kong Closure Reveals
The indefinite closure of Tang Contemporary Art’s Wong Chuk Hang gallery in Hong Kong has become a wider test of trust between galleries and artists. Tang publicly confirmed that the space had been closed since July 21. A demand obtained by The Art Newspaper says the...
RM’s SFMOMA Show Has Already Reserved 50,000 Visits—What Museums Can Learn From Fandom
A museum exhibition co-curated by a musician and collector has become one of the clearest current demonstrations of how cultural fandom can move audiences toward art. On October 7, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art disclosed that 50,000 reservations had already...
Rome Opens the Design Competition for a New Galleria Borghese Pavilion
Rome’s Galleria Borghese has launched an international architecture competition for a new museum pavilion, moving a closely watched expansion proposal into its design phase. The aim is to make more of the collection accessible, improve physical access and relieve...
The Met Rewrites the Krasner–Pollock Story Without Choosing a Winner
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, the first exhibition to follow the full arcs of Lee Krasner’s and Jackson Pollock’s careers together. More than 120 works place two central figures of Abstract Expressionism in parallel...
Ca’ d’Oro’s €10 Million Restoration Puts Private Patronage to a Public Test
Venice’s Ca’ d’Oro is in the middle of a restoration and reinstallation whose cost exceeds €10 million, a scale that makes the project more than a conservation story. It is also a test of how private philanthropy can support a public museum without reducing cultural...
William Morris Gallery Reopens With a Fuller, More Complicated Morris
William Morris spent a lifetime arguing that beauty belonged in ordinary life. The museum in his former Walthamstow home has now reopened with a display that makes the same argument about history: it becomes more useful when more people are allowed into the room....
RM Opens His Private Art Collection to the Public at SFMOMA
A private collection can tell a story that a museum collection alone cannot. On October 3, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me, the first museum exhibition devoted to works from the personal collection of RM, the musician and...
Andrea Galvani Builds a Garden for the Apples We Lost
Andrea Galvani Lost Garden is now on view in Seoul with a startling proposition: what if extinction could be given shape, color and scale before memory smooths away the fact that something has vanished? At Tang Contemporary Art’s Seoul space, The Lost Garden of Heaven...
Twenty-Six Louvre Masterpieces Are Crossing the Atlantic for the First Time
The Louvre Islamic art exhibition arriving in Washington this September will move twenty-six masterpieces across the Atlantic for the first time. From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on September 26,...
Arthur Jafa Makes the New Museum Pulse
Arthur Jafa’s I Am Tony opened at the New Museum on September 24, bringing nearly four decades of restless image-making into one exhibition. The first U.S. museum survey to encompass the full breadth of his practice is also his largest museum presentation to date....
London Must Decide If Banksy’s Blinded Man Belongs There Forever
The Banksy Waterloo Place statue has become a test of what happens when unauthorized art turns into public property. Installed overnight in central London at the end of April, the sculpture shows a suited man stepping forward from a plinth while a large flag blows...
Heinz Marzohl – Artist of the Year 2025 – 2026
ArtTour International Honors Swiss Visionary at the Top 60 Masters Awards Ceremony in ItalyAt this year’s Top 60 Masters Awards Ceremony in Ferrara, Italy, we at ArtTour International were proud to present the title of Artist of the Year 2025 to Swiss artist Heinz...
A Breath for the Planet: Art That Rebirths Through Recycling
In honor of Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, ArtTour International joins the global campaign in partnership with EarthDay.org to give the planet a breath of fresh air. This year, artists from around the world have transformed what many would consider trash, glass,...
Artists to Watch 2026: The Ones Who Are Already Shaping What Comes Next
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2025 Top 60 Masters Awards Ceremony Video
Experience the global broadcast of the 2025 Top 60 Masters Awards Ceremony, a dazzling celebration of visionary art, cultural unity, and the world’s most influential contemporary artists—from Ferrara, Italy.Awardees at the 2025 Top 60 Master Awards ceremony. “Peace...
Top 60 Masters Awards 2025 – ArtTour International Press Release
Celebrating Peace, Creativity, and Global Connection at the 2025 Top 60 Masters Awards. An unforgettable night in Ferrara dedicated to the healing power of art. At ArtTour International, we believe in the transformative power of art to unite, inspire, and heal. On May...
A Celebration of Visionary Creativity: Earth Power Cover Contest
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