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The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has appointed Irini Papadimitriou as Artistic Director of the 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, scheduled to open in August 2027.

ArtDependence is accepting portfolio submissions from artists seeking international publication and exposure.

In a new series on ArtDependence Margherita Artoni examines what happens before a painting finds its form. Before an image takes shape, there is an intuition, a sensation, a memory, or an encounter with the world. There are questions without answers, ideas not yet fully understood, and possibilities that have not yet found their form. Painting begins in this uncertain territory, where looking becomes thinking and thinking gradually becomes a physical act.

Emma Masut's practice unfolds between drawing and painting, through images that take shape from impressions, associations and enduring interests.

The UK Government has placed a temporary export bar on the Scarthingwell battle-axe head, a rare survivor from prehistoric Britain, in the hope that a UK museum, gallery or institution can acquire it and secure it for public display.

“One way to subvert a hegemonic technology is to co-opt it,” David Salle declares. At
Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, The Venice Paintings explores the encounter between
artificial intelligence and the material intelligence of painting.

The Städel Museum has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign aimed at securing its financial independence for future generations, inviting the public to contribute to an endowment fund with a long-term target of at least €100 million.

Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade’s monumental public installation, L'Élévation des Mondes (2026), is being prematurely dismantled from its prominent location on Avenue Winston Churchill outside the Petit Palais and Grand Palais.

The Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage expressed concern amid the ongoing protests in Paris, which led to the closure of the Louvre Museum following demonstrations outside its doors on Monday.

A marble torso made in the earliest days of the Roman Empire has set a new world record for any ancient classical sculpture at auction.

What survives of the past depends on what is preserved, how it is displayed, and the
meanings it is made to carry. In The Trace of Things, Dominique Fung’s first solo exhibition in Italy, presented by MASSIMODECARLO in Milan, paintings and drawings explore the relationship between material persistence and cultural memory. Objects and represented forms participate in the construction of history, their significance shifting as they move through different contexts of interpretation.

Art Basel Paris will officially wrap up its public programming at the end of the day on Friday, cutting short its schedule ahead of the weekend as Paris braces for widespread demonstrations announced for Saturday and Sunday.

Iris," a painting by Claude Monet, sold for €50 million in Paris, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.

Apple Corps have announced plans for a spectacular city centre redevelopment and new home for The Beatles Story.

On view at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Paris Marais gallery from 19 October to 23 December
2026, Winter Sun marks Jordan Casteel’s first exhibition in France and her most significant presentation in Europe to date.

The director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has announced that it is now possible to view the museum’s collection online.

The identity of a skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus in the grounds of Westminster Abbey more than 150 years ago appears closer to being solved.

Jesse Mockrin’s paintings begin with images that already carry the weight of art history. Drawing on Renaissance and Baroque painting, she isolates bodies, gestures, and fragments from canonical compositions, reconstructing them within new pictorial narratives.

Every October, the arrival of Art Basel Paris transforms the French capital into the undisputed epicenter of the global art market.

For the first time in more than 30 years, an abstract work by Hilma af Klint is going up for auction. It’s a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to acquire a work like this, says Louise Wrede of Bukowskis Auction House in Stockholm.