Tuesday, 10 November 2026
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Historical art, worth seeing in person.
A growing selection from museums and galleries. Dates checked against official announcements.
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Bengaluru · India
Museum of Art and Photography, Axis & Citi Bank Galleries
Manuscripts, scrolls and comics trace fifteen centuries of storytelling in images, alongside recent examples.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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Doha · Qatar
Museum of Islamic Art, Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Temporary Exhibitions Gallery
Manuscripts, ceramics and architectural material explore Uzbekistan’s Islamic heritage. Museum closed 25 October 2026.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Boston · United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gallery 243A
Paintings, prints and Judaica examine Jewish patrons, collectors and subjects in the Dutch Republic.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Kyoto · Japan
Kyoto National Museum
Paintings, manuscripts and decorative arts trace the visual afterlife of The Tale of Genji.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Wallace Collection
Churchill’s paintings are shown with work by some of his artistic mentors and friends.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée du Louvre
Islamic objects placed among the decorative arts explore shared materials, techniques and collecting histories.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Dublin · Ireland
National Gallery of Ireland
Drawings, prints, watercolours and photographs trace European subjects and styles across centuries.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Chicago · United States
Art Institute of Chicago, Galleries 1–4
Photographs trace Miller’s work across fashion, Surrealism, portraiture and wartime reporting.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Tokyo · Japan
Tokyo National Museum
Landscape and bird-and-flower prints from the Uchiyama Susumu collection, shown in three successive displays.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Chicago · United States
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 107
Woodblock prints examine Utamaro’s portrayals of women in late eighteenth-century Japan.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Chicago · United States
Art Institute of Chicago, Galleries 182–184
Paintings, pastels and prints examine Cassatt’s experiments after the final Impressionist group exhibition.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Cleveland · United States
Cleveland Museum of Art
Goryeo paintings and objects explore Buddhist ideas of judgement and salvation, with recent works as context.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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New York · United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue
Si Lewen’s sequence of drawings considers war and its aftermath.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Cape Town · South Africa
Norval Foundation
Paintings, drawings and sculpture explore Stern’s travels closer to home in southern Africa.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Madrid · Spain
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis join the Madrid collection, including Vermeer’s View of Delft.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Humlebæk · Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Paintings, drawings and documentary material survey Varo’s Surrealist worlds.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Riehen · Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler
Wire sculpture, drawings and other work survey Asawa’s artistic practice.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Frankfurt am Main · Germany
Städel Museum
Paintings, sculpture and prints examine changing images of Mary Magdalene.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Amsterdam · Netherlands
Rijksmuseum
Drawings, paintings and sculpture explore how drawing shaped de Kooning’s practice.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
The Frick Collection
Renaissance bronze statues, reliefs, medals and ceremonial objects explore the workshops of Siena.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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Cleveland · United States
Cleveland Museum of Art
Watercolours and paintings examine Wyeth’s early development of the medium.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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Shanghai · China
Shanghai Museum East
Treasures of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla, shown at Shanghai Museum East.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Toy designs, prints and a still life explore Gill’s practice and her work at the Omega Workshops.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
Museum of Modern Art
Artists’ books, experimental bindings and illustrated volumes trace Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Petit Palais
Paintings, pastels and prints revisit Gonzalès’s nineteenth-century career.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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Boston · United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gallery 184
Illustrated books explore collaborations between Spanish artists, writers, printers and publishers.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Madrid · Spain
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paintings and drawings explore Dalí’s engagement with Freud across his career.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée de l’Orangerie
Monet’s paintings explore the fleeting moment, repeated motifs and the passage of time.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée du Louvre
Spanish polychrome sculpture on loan from Valladolid explores materials, devotion and processional display.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée du Louvre
Religious paintings, portraits and still lifes examine Zurbarán’s career and later artistic influence.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée d’Orsay
The exhibition follows Bartholdi’s career and the design, construction and reception of the Statue of Liberty.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue
The careers of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock considered together through painting and abstraction.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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São Paulo · Brazil
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), Pietro Building
Precolonial objects, devotional images and modern works meet recent art in a thematic history of Latin America.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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Vienna · Austria
Albertina
A comparison of Picasso’s and Bacon’s treatments of the human figure.
Francis Bacon →Pablo Picasso →
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
National Gallery
Paintings from the 1860s to the 1880s explore affection, friendship and the social life of Paris.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue
Design drawings show how Tiffany’s studios developed windows, lamps and interiors.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Stockholm · Sweden
Nationalmuseum
Paintings and photographs trace seaside tourism from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Madrid · Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
A focused display examines Millares’s 1970 painting Personaje caído I.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Milan · Italy
MUDEC, Museo delle Culture
Paintings, sculpture, works on paper and objects explore the cultures that informed Matisse’s art.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Shanghai · China
Shanghai Museum East
Ming and Qing porcelain donated from the Zandelou collection, displayed at Shanghai Museum East.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture, photographs, films and studio objects explore Brancusi’s working environment in Paris.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Washington, DC · United States
National Gallery of Art
Early photographs explore African American self-representation and community life.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Musée du Louvre
Objects from ancient Mesopotamia explore water, irrigation and the changing environment.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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São Paulo · Brazil
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
Small paintings record everyday life and ceremonies in the Maya Kaqchikel community of Comalapa.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Oxford · United Kingdom
Ashmolean Museum
Objects and images trace Aphrodite’s transformations from ancient Cyprus through later art.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Paris · France
Petit Palais
Paintings, sculpture and decorative arts examine Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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Helsinki · Finland
Ateneum Art Museum
A career survey of Sesemann’s expressive paintings of people, landscapes and interiors.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Shanghai · China
Shanghai Museum, People’s Square
An exhibition of ancient American civilisations at the museum’s People’s Square building.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Brisbane · Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Picasso’s early etchings and drypoints depict travelling performers and their circle.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Venice · Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Glass, drawings and archives follow Egidio Costantini’s collaborations with artists and Murano glassmakers.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Bengaluru · India
Museum of Art and Photography, Infosys Foundation Gallery
Traditional Indian paintings from the Waswo collection explore connections between portraits, devotional imagery and album-making.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Wallace Collection
A focused display examines how Cosimo I used images and objects to express dynastic authority.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
Royal Academy of Arts
The touring exhibition examines Guggenheim’s London gallery and its avant-garde circle.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
National Gallery
A gathering of Jan van Eyck’s painted portraits, tracing the people and relationships behind them.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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São Paulo · Brazil
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
Soto’s optical and kinetic experiments bring movement and the viewer into the work.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Ottawa · Canada
National Gallery of Canada
A retrospective follows seven decades of Tanabe’s work.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Frankfurt am Main · Germany
Städel Museum
Works in several media consider the depiction of skin and touch.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Vancouver · Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery
Paintings, sculpture, photographs and architectural material trace Iranian modernism before the revolution.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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Ottawa · Canada
National Gallery of Canada
Photographs examine the studio as a setting for collaboration and self-expression.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Washington, DC · United States
National Gallery of Art
Prints and proofs reveal how artists developed and revised their images.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue
Ancient objects explore artistic exchange across the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Riehen · Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler
Paintings and drawings trace Kahlo’s artistic development from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Dates and venue checked 19 October 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Flemish drawings are presented alongside findings from recent research and technical examination.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
A focused exhibition reassesses Rego’s Dog Woman pastels.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Rego’s etchings and aquatints draw on poems by Blake Morrison.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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Frankfurt am Main · Germany
Städel Museum
An exhibition explores the garden as an earthly and religious image around 1400.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
Tate Modern
The touring exhibition explores time through Monet’s paintings and repeated motifs.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
National Gallery
Small paintings examine the signed work of a sixteenth-century Flemish painter.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Wallace Collection
Paintings and drawings examine the relationship between observation and invention in Watteau’s work.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
National Gallery
Paintings by Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter trace German Expressionism before and during the First World War.
Dates and venue checked 5 October 2026.
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New York · United States
The Frick Collection
Signed Limoges enamels are shown with sixteenth-century prints that informed their designs.
Dates and venue checked 12 October 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Wallace Collection
A display explores the cultural significance and histories of Asante gold regalia.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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New York · United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The touring exhibition examines Guggenheim’s London gallery and its avant-garde circle.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Drawings explore invention and collaboration around Rubens’s workshop.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Watercolours follow the journeys of Turner, Constable, Girtin and Cotman.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Landscapes depict the terrain around O’Keeffe’s home and studio at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Courtauld Gallery
Photographs by Philippe Halsman and John Loengard show O’Keeffe at her New Mexico home.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
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London · United Kingdom
The Wallace Collection
Portraits of Titus are shown alongside Rembrandt’s self-portraits.
Dates and venue checked 30 September 2026.
Announcements, reviews and the stories behind the exhibitions.
Alfred Wallis occupies an awkwardly comfortable place in the history of British modernism.
A piece of flint, a tangle of vegetation, the worn contours of a bone: Monica Poole found ample material for her imagination in things easily passed over on a country walk.
Peter and Andrew are about to abandon their livelihood. Beside them, another fisherman remains absorbed in the catch, apparently oblivious to the encounter that will change their lives. That contrast between revelation and everyday work animates Luca Giordano’s The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, now receiving its first public showing at the MarteS Museo d’Arte Sorlini near Lake Garda.
At just 19cm high, Barbara Hepworth’s Figure of 1933 might seem an unlikely work to hold its own in a company of celebrated British sculptors.
Peter Zumthor’s three new buildings add 1,500 sq. m of gallery space, while the enlarged park opens with visitor numbers initially restricted.
A major retrospective opens in Milton Keynes, bringing the painter’s portraits, seascapes and early studies into the company of his familiar industrial crowds.
