Art
The exhibitions, walls and art fairs worth your weekend, and the musicians making art too.
Updated todayOctober 12, 2026

Roy Lichtenstein’s Whitney Retrospective Says He Saw the Repost Coming
‘Like New’ opens Oct. 11 with more than 130 works and his rebuilt 1962 debut. Gap has already put his art on hoodies.

Amy Winehouse’s Library Has Been Rebuilt, Book by Book, for a London Art Show

Harry Styles Goes Nude in Tim Walker’s ‘Fairyland’ at the National Portrait Gallery

Banksy Gets Museum Walls at George Lucas’s New Los Angeles Museum

Art Basel Paris 2026, Explained: ‘Emily in Paris’ Meets the Grand Palais and Tracey Emin Faces the Eiffel Tower

Wealthy Gen Z Collectors Are Outspending Everyone Else, Says the New Art Basel/UBS Report

Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods’s Curated Sotheby’s Sale Just Set a Record

Edward Enninful’s ‘The 90s’ Brings the Rave to Tate Britain, and Splits the Critics

Barbara Kruger’s Paris Takeover, Explained: Orwell, Light Boxes and the Supreme Connection
The History of Tears wraps the Bourse de Commerce rotunda in giant text. Here’s what’s in it, and why streetwear fans already know her look.

Frieze Week 2026: Wyclef Jean, Jonathan Anderson and the Shows Worth Your Weekend

A $30 Estate-Sale Painting Just Made $1.35 Million, a Record for Gertrude Abercrombie

At the Met, Pollock’s Drips Get Re-Hung and Lee Krasner Gets Equal Billing

BTS’s RM Hangs Yun Hyong-keun Beside Rothko in His SFMOMA Curating Debut

Thaddaeus Ropac Signs Denzil Forrester, the Painter Who Put London’s Dub Clubs on Canvas

Jeff Koons Appears to Be Selling $100 Million of Picassos and Old Masters at Christie’s

Basquiat’s Fall: Al Diaz Brings SAMO to London as the ‘Blue Ribbon’ Paintings Reunite at Princeton
Basquiat’s old SAMO partner says the story got twisted. In New Jersey, 11 paintings built around a beer logo are back together for the first time in three decades.

Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Art of Manga’ Hangs 600-Plus Original Drawings, From One Piece to JoJo

Salman Toor Makes His European Debut at the Courtauld, Where Queer Brown Nightlife Meets Manet’s Bar

Bon Iver’s ‘22, A Million’ Turns 10 With an Anniversary Edition Built Around Its Artwork

Lauren Halsey Turned the Hollywood Bowl Into a Funk Opera for Erykah Badu and The Alchemist

Arthur Jafa’s ‘I Am Tony’ Opens at the New Museum, Built More Like a Record Than a Survey

An AI Mural in Banksy’s Hometown Got Banksy Wrong, and Bristol’s Artists Noticed

New Museum’s Bowery Show Puts CBGB Photos and Nan Goldin’s ‘Ballad’ on the Walls
‘The Bowery: Devil’s Mile’ opened Sept. 24 and runs from a Lenape footpath to the punk era, with Goldin’s slideshow as its standout, per Art in America.

Taryn Simon Fills the Guggenheim Rotunda With 1,000-Plus New Works About One Unnamed Federal Agent

Tremaine Emory’s Denim Tears Gets a Museum Retrospective, With Jafa, Hammons and Jacob Lawrence on the Walls

Nike’s Archive Opens at New York’s MAD, and the Weird Prototypes Are the Point

Maurizio Cattelan Turns Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Into a Church, Minus the Banana

Clive Davis’s Art Collection Heads to Auction, Led by Warhol’s Aretha Franklin

Beyoncé Marks Her 45th Birthday With a $2 Million Gift to the Studio Museum in Harlem

Frieze Seoul Closes With Record Museum Turnout, a Korean Price High and a Citywide Coin Hunt
Sales moved at a measured pace, but the fifth edition drew its biggest institutional crowd yet, and Seoul’s younger visitors turned up to look.

The Met Cancels Its John Galliano Costume Institute Show, Which Was to Open the 2027 Met Gala

Yayoi Kusama, the Artist Who Put Polka Dots Everywhere From Infinity Rooms to Louis Vuitton, Dies at 97

A Photographer Says Elizabeth Peyton’s $1.9 Million Painting of Liam and Noel Gallagher Kissing Is ‘a Slavish Copy’ of His Photo

Banksy’s Courthouse Mural, Waterloo Place Statue and Piranha Box Have Cost the U.K. Almost £150,000

The exhibitions to see in August 2026: Hockney, Björk and the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale President Calls the EU’s €2 Million Grant Cut ‘Entirely Political’ as Russia Row Outlasts the Opening

Christie’s and Sotheby’s Post Huge First Halves, Led by a $181 Million Pollock and a $50 Million T. Rex
Christie’s says it had its best six months since 2021, and Sotheby’s reports a record, as dealers and bidders came back to the top of the market.

BTS Gets a British Museum Art Trail: a Moon Jar, a Scholar’s Room and the Bell Behind ‘No. 29’
The exhibitions to see in July 2026: Marilyn, Duchamp and Tracey Emin

AC/DC Lane Gets a Bon Scott Mural, With Reg Mombassa Artwork and a Winged Guitar on a Truck

Art Basel 2026 Closes Strong: a $35 Million Picasso, Hockney Sales Days After His Death and Ye in the Aisles

Thomas Bangalter Is Turning Art Basel Into a Rave, and Making Sound You Can Stand Inside

John Lennon’s Colored-In ‘I Feel Fine’ Drawings, Made for One of Rock’s First Music Videos, Go on View in Liverpool

The exhibitions to see in June 2026: Frida Kahlo, Keith Haring and Prince's Guitar at the Met
Six shows across Paris, Bentonville, New York, Basel, London and Venice, from Leandro Erlich's sideways Paris façade to Haring's painted Buick and Tate Modern's Kahlo blockbuster.