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New Exhibition Reflects on “MAD” Magazine at the CAM

The Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) will host "What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine," a traveling exhibition from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, opening November 21. The show traces MAD's evolution from a satirical comic book launched in 1952 to a magazine format adopted in 1955 after clashes with the Comics Code Authority, featuring original covers, illustrations, interactive galleries, and thematic sections on mascot Alfred E. Newman, fold-ins, Spy vs. Spy, and spoofs of famous artworks.

Portland Art Museum to unveil $116m transformation with Mark Rothko at its heart

The Portland Art Museum (PAM) will unveil a $116 million expansion and renovation on November 20, the largest single-organization arts investment in Oregon history. The centerpiece is the new Mark Rothko Pavilion, a multi-story glass structure designed by Hennebery Eddy Architects and Vinci Hamp Architects, which bridges the museum's 1932 building with a former Masonic Temple. The project adds 100,000 square feet of renovated space, including new plazas with sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, Roy Lichtenstein, Anthony Caro, and Clement Meadmore. The Rothko family is lending major paintings from their private collection for display over two decades, with a promised gift at the end of that period, and made a six-figure donation to the museum's $146 million capital campaign.

This Week at LACMA

This week at LACMA features the opening of Tavares Strachan's first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, "The Day Tomorrow Began" (October 12, 2025–March 29, 2026), with immersive multisensory installations including uncanny everyday spaces, a field of rice grass with ceramic figures, and monumental bronze sculptures. The museum also offers a gallery tour of "Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures" with curator Erin Maynes on November 18, alongside ongoing exhibitions such as works by Beeple, Zheng Chongbin, Youssef Nabil, Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Robert Irwin, Barbara Kruger, Richard Serra, and Chris Burden, plus public programs like Mindful Monday, Communities Create LA! workshops, and member screenings of Academy Award contenders.

‘The Hay Wain’ to go on show in Constable's home county for the first time

John Constable's iconic painting *The Hay Wain* (1821) will be exhibited in Suffolk, the artist's home county, for the first time in 2026 as part of the 250th anniversary of his birth. The work, on loan from the National Gallery in London, will be shown at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich from 11 July to 4 October 2026, within the exhibition *Constable: Walking the Landscape*. It will be reunited with preparatory sketches from the Ipswich collection and accompanied by loans from the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Galleries of Scotland. Two additional exhibitions at Christchurch Mansion—*Constable: A Cast of Characters* and *Constable to Contemporary*—also form part of the broader Constable 250 project, which is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported by the Weston Loan Programme.

Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast

The Studio Museum in Harlem has opened its first-ever purpose-built space, designed by Adjaye Associates, with director Thelma Golden leading the institution into a new era. In Egypt, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has finally opened in Cairo. Meanwhile, the exhibition "Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk" is on view at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, featuring the painting "Tree and Chicken Coops, Wangford" (1925) by Stanley Spencer, with co-curator Amy Lim discussing the work.

Ackland's new exhibit displays modern art from Robertson Scholarship founder's collection

Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill has opened a new exhibition, "Color Triumphant," featuring 54 modern artworks from the collection of Julian and Josie Robertson. Julian Robertson, a UNC alumnus and founder of the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, died in 2022. The exhibition traces the evolution of modern art from the late 19th century to the present, displaying works by 33 artists including Pablo Picasso, Oscar-Claude Monet, and Frank Stella. It includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, and is part of a traveling exhibition that will also visit Salisbury, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; and Austin, Texas.

The Interview: Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, is interviewed ahead of the museum's reopening in a new Adjaye Associates-designed building following a $300 million capital campaign. Golden reflects on her career, including curating the politically charged 1993 Whitney Biennial and the landmark exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" (1994–95), as well as her influential 2001 show "Freestyle," which introduced the concept of "post-Black" art. The article also highlights the museum's first exhibition in the new building, focusing on artist Tom Lloyd, whose work was featured in the museum's inaugural show in 1968.

World Economic Forum and J. Paul Getty Trust bring art world leaders together to find ‘Connection in Times of Division’

The World Economic Forum and the J. Paul Getty Trust co-hosted a "cultural table" dinner for art world leaders on 23 October at the Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, themed "Bridging Worlds: Culture as a Force for Connection in Times of Division." The event, held in the Pompadour Room—where Pablo Picasso celebrated his 1918 wedding—was co-hosted by Getty president Katherine Fleming and WEF arts head Joseph Fowler, and marked the first collaboration between the two organizations. Fowler described the initiative as a global movement to place culture at the heart of systemic change, while Fleming emphasized art's unifying power and its measurable health benefits.

Camille Pissarro show at Denver Art Museum is both ambitious and exhaustive

The Denver Art Museum has opened "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism," a comprehensive retrospective of the Impressionist painter featuring over 100 works from nearly 50 international museums and private collections. Co-organized with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, the exhibition is the first major U.S. museum survey of Pissarro in 30 years, curated by Clarisse Fava-Piz, Claire Durand-Ruel, and Nerina Santorius.

Sara Friedlander Appointed Chairman, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Americas - Christie's

Christie's has promoted Sara Friedlander to chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art for the Americas, as announced by Global President Alex Rotter. Friedlander, a specialist and dealmaker with nearly 20 years at the auction house, will focus on works from the last 50 years. She has brought major collections to market, including the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art and the Edlis | Neeson Collection, and has achieved world-record prices for artists such as Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Ernie Barnes, Dorothea Tanning, and Marlene Dumas.

Blanton Museum of Art To Showcase Transformative Gifts of Art in 2027 Exhibition

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced a major upcoming exhibition titled “Shaping the Future: Transformative Gifts to the Blanton Collection,” opening in March 2027. The show will feature significant artworks donated by alumni, Austinites, and collectors from across the country, including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition debuts at a fundraising gala on March 6, 2027, and opens to the public on March 14, 2027, honoring donors whose gifts have strengthened the museum’s collection and supported its growth.

Fred Voon

Fred Voon, a prominent figure in the art world, has passed away. The article, published by The Art Newspaper, reports on his death and likely includes tributes and reflections on his career and contributions to the art community.

Portland exhibit shows off multifaceted artists’ personal narratives | Column - Portland Press Herald

Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts' installation "The Harvest" (2021) is featured in "otherwise," a thesis exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D in Portland, running through Dec. 13. The show also includes works by Ayana V. Jackson, whose project "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya" was targeted by Donald Trump in his attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition explores how artists use storytelling and worldbuilding to cope with difficult contemporary issues and imagine better futures, serving as a companion to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's "Where the Real Lies."

A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections

New research by curator Alexandra van Dongen of Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum reveals that a rare Indo-Portuguese jewellery casket depicted in two Johannes Vermeer paintings—Mistress and Maid and A Lady Writing (both 1664-67)—is a real, surviving object. Van Dongen tracked down the sole known example in the Távora Sequeira Pinto collection in Porto, with help from Amsterdam dealer Dickie Zebregs. Her findings, published in the book De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer, suggest the casket likely belonged to Vermeer’s patron Maria de Knuijt, a wealthy Dutch East India Company shareholder who may have asked the artist to include it in her paintings.

Robert Rauschenberg’s New York

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) has opened "Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World," an exhibition celebrating the centennial of artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008). Organized in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the show focuses on Rauschenberg’s photography and its integration with found objects, painting, and sculpture. It is divided into three sections—Early Photographs, In + Out City Limits, and Photography in Painting—and features a centerpiece photographic survey conducted across the United States from 1979 to 1981, alongside works from 1963 to 1994 that combine New York imagery with global photographs.

Turner winner Jasleen Kaur announces first permanent public work

Turner Prize winner Jasleen Kaur has announced her first permanent public artwork, titled *Was.Is.Will.Be*, to be unveiled on 28 November at Southmere Lake in Cygnet Square, Thamesmead, southeast London. The sculpture is funded by housing association Peabody and was selected with input from a creative studio that includes five local residents, among them filmmaker Comfort Adeneye and painter Gonzalo Fuentes. Other project partners include Studio Danmole, Company, Place, and youth culture specialist Joseph Gray. The work incorporates fragments of local conversation and features the phrase 'horses are here' written in the sky.

Sasha Gordon Finds Beauty and Empathy in the Shadows of the Human Mind

Sasha Gordon, a rising young artist from New York's art scene, debuted her solo exhibition "Haze" at David Zwirner's 19th Street gallery in Chelsea. The show, which drew long lines and significant attention, features hyperrealistic paintings that explore identity, memory, and the subconscious through an Asian diasporic lens. Gordon, who rose to fame during the pandemic and is co-represented by David Zwirner and Matthew Brown (Zwirner's son-in-law), discusses her evolving technique and her shift away from explicitly autobiographical work toward more open-ended, timeless figures.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents "Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers," the artist's largest exhibition to date and his first major museum survey in over a decade. The show brings together nearly ninety works spanning Johnson's career, including painting, sculpture, film, installation, a site-specific piece, an outdoor sculpture, and live performances. Co-curated by Naomi Beckwith of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Andrea Karnes of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the exhibition takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka and explores themes of race, masculinity, empathy, self-care, family, and emotional life.

Camille Pissarro Member Preview Saturday

The Denver Art Museum and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam have co-organized a new exhibition titled 'The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism,' which opens with a member preview on Saturday. The show is supported by a wide range of donors, including Jana and Fred Bartlit, Barbara Bridges, Bridget and John Grier, the Kristin and Charles Lohmiller Exhibitions Fund, Craig Ponzio, and many others, as well as by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities and promotional support from CBS Colorado.

After reopening, Joslyn Art Museum breaks visitor records, earns national acclaim

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has broken visitor records and earned national acclaim in its first full year after reopening with a 42,000-square-foot addition. The new Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion, designed by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, opened in September 2024 and added 16,700 square feet of gallery space, 15,400 square feet of public gathering space, and new gardens. Through September 2025, the museum welcomed 159,420 visitors, on track to surpass 200,000—a milestone only reached a few times before, typically due to blockbuster traveling exhibitions like the Tutankhamun Treasures or Dead Sea Scrolls shows.

KAWS to take centre stage at second edition of Manar Abu Dhabi

The second edition of Manar Abu Dhabi, a public art initiative focused on light-based works, will launch on 1 November 2025, featuring 23 installations across four locations including Jubail Island and Al Ain. High-profile street artist KAWS will present a large-scale work showing his signature COMPANION figure reclining while lifting a lit moon. Other participating artists include Emirati sculptor Shaikha Al Mazrou, Dutch duo DRIFT, Maitha Hamdan, Ammar Al Attar, and Hamburg-based Christian Brinkmann, who will debut an interactive audio-visual piece called Floral Resonance.

Manhattan block where Basquiat lived and worked renamed in his honour

A block of Great Jones Street in downtown Manhattan, between Bowery and Lafayette Street, has been officially renamed Jean-Michel Basquiat Way in honor of the late Neo-Expressionist artist. Basquiat lived and worked at 57 Great Jones Street from 1983 until his death from a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1988, renting the space from his friend Andy Warhol. On October 21, New York city council members and Basquiat's family, including his sister Lisane Basquiat, unveiled the street signs. The building now features a commemorative plaque and has been rented by actress Angelina Jolie as a showroom and curatorial space for her fashion brand Jolie Atelier.

Oberlin art museum kicks off fall with a fine Monet show and a new director

The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College has opened "Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City," a focused exhibition reuniting three Claude Monet paintings from spring 1867, including the museum's own "The Garden of the Princess" alongside two loans from European museums. The show features over 30 additional works from the Allen's collection by artists such as Renoir, Degas, and Cézanne, and coincides with the arrival of new director Jon Seydl, who returned to Northeast Ohio in July after leadership roles at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, and Krannert Art Museum.

Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past Comes to Albuquerque Museum

The Albuquerque Museum will present "Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past" from November 1, 2025, through February 8, 2026. This is the first national traveling exhibition to bring together the work of acclaimed contemporary artists Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and Diego Romero (Cochiti), featuring 40 works including Diego’s pottery and lithographs and Cara’s photographs from her Indigenous Futurism series. The exhibition, organized by the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, includes the debut of Cara Romero’s large-scale photographs "Four Horsewomen I and II" and a documentary by Kaela Waldstein. Public events include an opening panel moderated by artist and scholar Deborah Jojola.

Comment | Museums can't get enough of anniversary exhibitions—but surely there's better ways to serve the public

The article critiques the growing trend of museums mounting anniversary exhibitions to celebrate the birth or death of famous artists, using the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg as a prime example. Nearly 100 organizations worldwide are participating in Rauschenberg-related shows, from the Menil Collection in Houston to the Grey Art Museum in New York. The author notes similar patterns in 2024 for James Ensor and in 2023 for Ellsworth Kelly and Pablo Picasso, with museums often resorting to highly specific or gimmicky themes to differentiate their offerings.

LACMA Expands Local Access Initiative with New Museum Partners and Exhibitions

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has expanded its Local Access program, adding three new museum partners: the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, the Millard Sheets Art Center at the LA County Fair, and the Ontario Museum of History & Art. Supported by the Art Bridges Cohort Program, the initiative brings exhibitions sourced from LACMA's permanent collection to communities across Southern California. The program's latest exhibition, 'Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles,' opens at the Vincent Price Art Museum on September 27, exploring the legacy of the historic Brockman Gallery and its role in the Black Arts Movement.

A ‘town square for the arts and humanities’: The new Princeton University Art Museum shares opening details

The Princeton University Art Museum will open its new building to the public with a 24-hour celebration from 5 p.m. on Oct. 31 to 5 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2025. The event includes tours, artmaking, live performances, film screenings, poetry readings, and yoga, all free of charge. Planning began in 2012, and the museum has also scheduled preview days for Princeton students, faculty, staff, and members before the public opening.

NEXT in the Gallery: October arts are all about play

October arts in Pittsburgh focus on play and legacy, with several gallery openings and retrospectives. GalleriE CHIZ hosts "Celebrating the Art and Life of Ellen Chisdes Neuberg" on Oct. 3, showcasing the late artist and gallery owner's bold Abstract Expressionist works. The Pittsburgh Glass Center presents "Idea Furnace Retrospective" (Oct. 3, 2025–Jan. 19, 2026), featuring alumni like Renee Cox and Alisha Wormsley. James Wodarek's "Industria Nova" at Atithi Studios reimagines industrial forms, while the Cooley Gallery pairs "Felt-Occurrence" with "Continuing a Legacy of Classical Painting," linking three generations of American landscape artists from Frank DuMond to James Sulkowski.

‘I don’t want to compare myself with these masters’: Giorgio Armani placed side by side with Raphael and Caravaggio in Milan exhibition

Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera has opened a major exhibition titled *Giorgio Armani: Milano, per amore*, juxtaposing over 120 garments designed by the legendary fashion designer Giorgio Armani—who died this month—with Renaissance masterpieces by Caravaggio, Bellini, Raphael, and Mantegna. Unveiled on September 24 during Milan Fashion Week, the show was planned by Armani until shortly before his death, making it his final project. The exhibition also includes a catwalk event in the museum's courtyard on September 28, originally conceived to celebrate 50 years since the Armani fashion house launched in the Brera district.

11 must-see works in MAM's new Bradley Collection exhibition

The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) has opened a new exhibition titled "The Bradley Collection of Modern Art: A Bold Vision for Milwaukee" in the Baker/Rowland Galleries, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Peg Bradley's donation of nearly 400 works to the museum. The show features highlights from the collection, including pieces by Wassily Kandinsky, Raoul Dufy, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, alongside works by American artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol. The exhibition offers visitors a chance to see these works in a new setting and learn more about Bradley as a collector and philanthropist.