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Cecily Brown at Serpentine: The Pleasure of Not Knowing What You’re Looking At
Cecily Brown’s Picture Making turns uncertainty into a painterly method: figures emerge, dissolve and return across twenty-five years of paintings, drawings and monotypes.
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The Last Collection of Herbert Lust: Friendship, Scholarship and a $60 Million Estate
Christie’s and Sotheby’s are reportedly competing for roughly 300 works left in Herbert Lust’s estate. The $60 million figure is the news hook; the deeper story is a collector who built through friendship, scholarship and decades of changing his mind.
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Ryoji Ikeda Wins the 2026 Nam June Paik Prize
Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda has received the 2026 Nam June Paik Prize for his pioneering integration of sound, light, data, mathematics and computation. A solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik Art Center will follow in 2027.
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Ryoji Ikeda installation at Park Avenue Armory

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Friends and Legends: The Collection of Michael Chow

Michael Chow commissioned portraits from Basquiat, Warhol, Haring, Hockney, Ruscha and others. Inside the collection behind Gagosian’s Friends and Legends.

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Seoul in November 2026: Six Shows Beyond the Fair Calendar

Christine Sun Kim and Theaster Gates lead a Seoul route that also tests Pam Evelyn’s momentum and highlights Yuichi Hirako, Jenny Holzer and Heejoon Lee.

Yayoi Kusama at the Stedelijk: A Retrospective After a Lifetime of Infinity

Amsterdam’s major Kusama retrospective, planned during the artist’s lifetime, has become a poignant opportunity to look beyond the mirrored rooms to seven decades of experimentation.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat at Princeton: The Blue Ribbon Paintings Change the Story

At Princeton, eleven paintings from 1984 reveal a Basquiat who copied, screened and revised his own images with exacting intent—complicating the myth of improvisational genius.

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Emma Kunz at Hauser & Wirth Somerset: The Geometry of an Unconventional Vision

Emma Kunz occupies an unusual place in the history of twentieth-century abstraction. Born in Switzerland in 1892, she made intricate drawings on graph paper using coloured pencil and methods associated with her spiritual and healing practice. She did not primarily understand herself as an artist. Today, her drawings are shown in major exhibition spaces, discussed alongside modernist abstraction and studied as works of exceptional visual intelligence. Hauser & Wirth Somerset presents an exhibition dedicated to Kunz from 7 November 2026 to 4 Apri

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Exhibitions
Hong Kong in November 2026: Seven Exhibitions Collectors Should See

Seven confirmed Hong Kong exhibitions for November 2026, with artwork-specific photographs matched to M+, Tai Kwun, David Zwirner, White Cube, MASSIMODECARLO, Axel Vervoordt and Whitestone Gallery.

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