Galleries, artists, exhibitions
A new book draws on the Stendahl Art Galleries archive to document how hundreds of smuggled objects moved from Mexico to LA collectors and museums. One sculpture sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for $10,000 was later found to be a forgery.
The Lahore-born, New York-based painter opens 'Someone Like You' in London on 2 October 2026, showing 19 works — all new to Britain — that explore queer South Asian identity, solitude and belonging. The show runs to January 2027.
"Father Country I Do Love You" spreads across all six floors of the New York museum's spiral rotunda — the first time any artist has filled it entirely. The 42-chapter show follows the agent's career through the major events of 20th-century American history.
A production called '50 Minutes in Gaza' toured four cities this summer, with actors portraying a doctor who could not save his son and a woman giving birth under siege. For the cast, the dangers and shortages do not end when they leave the stage.
Lina Jouni began collecting shrapnel near her home in Nabatieh after Israeli forces withdrew in 2024. She turns the fragments into sculptures and paintings that document the destruction while insisting that reconstruction is still possible.
The Codex Azcatitlán, a 16th-century manuscript charting the rise and fall of the Aztec empire, is on loan to Mexico City's Museum of Anthropology until December. France says legal constraints prevent a permanent return.
The German-American artist brought Day-Glo flowers, rainbows and psychedelic portraits to a mass audience over six decades. He died in Manhattan after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Studio Drift and architect Shigeru Ban flew each drone for a single life lost. Together they traced the towers at full scale above the harbour on 9 September.
The 300,000-square-foot building in Exposition Park holds more than 40,000 works, from Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell to Star Wars and Indiana Jones archives. Doors open to the public on September 22; adult admission is $25.
The 70-metre embroidery depicting the Norman conquest of England has arrived at the British Museum in London. The public exhibition opens on 10 September — but tickets are already sold out through the end of 2026.
His most celebrated work, Camel of Hardship, showed an elderly porter carrying Jerusalem on his back. It became one of the most recognised images in Palestinian art, reproduced on walls and in publications for decades.
UNESCO inscribed the 80-kilometre stretch of Allied landing sites at its Busan session, completing a bid that began nearly 20 years ago and marking a shift in how the body treats sites associated with modern conflict.
Tate is planning two major retrospectives for 2027, as a Serpentine show made on an iPad during lockdown passes 200,000 visitors in its final weeks.
Curator Sang-ah Kim selected five permanent artefacts — including a Silla Kingdom bell said to echo on track 29 — whose themes of hope and belonging mirror those of the group's fifth studio album, 'Arirang'.
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