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The Week in Art visit the site
12-19 May 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Bangor ME, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palm Beach, Seoul, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tisbury, Tokyo |
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Bangor, ME
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| Bangor, Friday 15 |
Zillman Art Museum:
Gerri Rachins: Selected Works on Paper, 2008–2025
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first day |
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Dubai
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| Dubai, Tuesday 12 |
JD Malat Gallery:
Masayoshi Nojo: Hone Intuition
“Nojo invites viewers into a space of attentiveness and stillness; one where perception sharpens, time slows, and meaning emerges through sustained observation” |
first day |
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London
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| London, Tuesday 12 |
Alon Zakaim Fine Art:
Turmoil and Triumph: Art through the War Years
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first day |
Canopy Collections:
Isabelle Young: Venice As I Was
the British photographer’s first exhibition with the gallery – “Young’s Venice is both elegy and diary. The city appears suspended at the threshold of submergence … both shielded and already defeated” – Alona Pardo |
private view |
County Hall Pottery:
Refigured
“across sculpture, statuary, devotional forms, and porcelain figurines … drawing on mythic, classical, and domestic traditions, the works return to forms we think we know and reshape them for the present” |
first day |
Ed Cross @ 67 York Street:
Tiffany-Annabelle: 100 ways she blooms
a hundred small mixed media works on C5 manilla envelopes in the latest iteration of Tiffany-Annabelle’s Women in Bloom series |
first day |
sketch:
sketch in Bloom
the 12th edition of sketch in Bloom presents “a floricultural tribute; an immersive flower show bringing together bold floral design and seasonal expression” |
first day |
| London, Wednesday 13 |
Ed Cross @ 67 York Street:
Tiffany-Annabelle: 100 ways she blooms
a hundred small mixed media works on C5 manilla envelopes in the latest iteration of Tiffany-Annabelle’s Women in Bloom series |
private view |
| London, Thursday 14 |
County Hall Pottery:
Artist Dinner with Refigured Artists |
special event |
Emanuel von Baeyer:
Carel de Nerée tot Babberich
a substantial display of extremely rare works by the bohemian symbolist artist and society figure |
opening reception |
Grosvenor Gallery:
Works from the Estate of George Claessen
an exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant 20th-century Sri Lankan painters, a founder-member of the influential ’43 Group and pioneering figure in the development of abstraction in South Asia |
opening reception |
Heckmann Design Studio & Gallery:
Abe Hamilton: Fragile Dreams
including many works publicly exhibited for the first time, a retrospective exhibition of the British fashion designer and artist which examines the relationship between fashion, process, and artistic expression at the core of his practice |
private view |
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Kat Lyons: The Familiars
new paintings by Lyons examining how animals have shaped the human world materially, technologically, and philosophically |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s London:
Curated Ceramics, the FiredUp4 auction
auction: Thu 14
(viewing: Tue 5-Sun 17) |
auction |
| London, Friday 15 |
Grosvenor Gallery:
Works from the Estate of George Claessen
an exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant 20th-century Sri Lankan painters, a founder-member of the influential ’43 Group and pioneering figure in the development of abstraction in South Asia |
first day |
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Kat Lyons: The Familiars
new paintings by Lyons examining how animals have shaped the human world materially, technologically, and philosophically |
first day |
Ruup & Form:
Artist Brunch & Conversation |
special event |
| London, Tuesday 19 |
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter and Tariq Goddard |
special event |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 16 |
Louis Stern Fine Arts:
Infinite Horizons: Works by Heather Hutchison and Ruth Pastine
“Hutchison’s mixed media constructions and Pastine’s oils on canvas and paper alchemically transcend their materiality, dissolving into hazy implications of perpetual vistas and limitless color fields” |
first day |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 12 |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Terence Woodgate x John Barnard: Lightness of Form
shown for the first time in New York, works by the acclaimed British designer in dialogue with the pioneering engineer – “a refined study in balance, where structural innovation meets sculptural clarity” |
first day |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Material Intent
contemporary and historic works that embrace brightness and openness, showcasing playful and instinctive design languages and celebrating light, vibrancy, color, and texture |
first day |
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Firelei Báez. Feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty
Báez first NYC exhibition with the gallery presents “an ambitious, enveloping constellation of radiant new paintings and works on paper” shown alongside new large-scale bronze sculptures |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Carol Rama. I See You You See Me
organized by Carlo Knoell, the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian artist brings new focus to her wildly original experimentations in paint, textile, sculpture, and bricolage |
opening reception |
Leila Heller Gallery:
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective & Book Launch
“Boutros-Ghali’s paintings demonstrate a refined balance between architectural precision and painterly sensitivity, transforming geometry into a contemplative language marked by constant visual flux” |
first day |
Nara Roesler:
Amelia Toledo and Cristina Canale: On the Nature of Figures
as part of the series marking the gallery’s 50th anniversary “two artists whose practices … converge in their investigation of form in relation to nature and to the structures that organize the visual field” |
opening reception |
| New York, Wednesday 13 |
Galerie Buchholz:
Paul Thek
newspaper paintings, paintings on canvas, and drawings shown alongside a 1971 sculptural installation and a quilted flag from 1977 |
opening reception |
Colnaghi:
Leonor Fini: A Practice of Transformation
thirty of Fini’s graphic works “in a trans-temporal dialogue with Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and African ritual objects” |
first day |
Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary:
Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame
works on paper, paintings, neon sculpture, and installation celebrating Dominican players in US Major League Baseball, in the first posthumous exhibition of the Dominican-born New York-based artist |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery:
Kelly Akashi: Heirloom
Akashi’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York reflects on heirlooms, not as tokens of nostalgia but as material conditions in which matter itself carries history forward |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery:
Huguette Caland: My Home
organized by Tarini Malik, an exhibition which charts Caland’s groundbreaking career across five decades and three continents – “imagination was probably my only homeland” – Caland |
opening reception |
Nagas:
Louise Janin: Cosmogrammes 1953-1965
“cosmogrammes offered [Janin] a way to explore both science and spirituality through art … within these compositions, metamorphic shapes suggest plants, landscapes, and flowers – forms more imagined than real” |
first day |
VeneKlasen:
Enrico David: Works on Paper: 1995-2026
the first exhibition dedicated solely to David’s works on paper – “I have come to think of drawing as something that emerges from God knows where … something that requires so little to exist, and yet has the capacity to bring me so much hope” – David |
opening reception |
| New York, Thursday 14 |
D LAN GALLERIES:
SIGNIFICANT
taking place across all three of the gallery’s international spaces, the second edition of its annual presentation of the finest Australian First Nations works of art |
opening reception |
Gallery Henoch:
Carin/Rebecca
a two-person exhibition of still life artist Carin Gerard and landscapist Rebecca Stenn – “the exhibition plays on the juxtapositions, while uniting themes of color, form, and technique” |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong:
Lucia Laguna: Apenas meus cabelos são brancos [Only my hair is white]
“poignant, exuberant distillations of how it feels to be human in a rapidly changing world” – organized in collaboration with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, new paintings in the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in the US |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York:
Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart Evening Auction
auction: Thu 14
(viewing: Sat 2-Wed 13) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York:
The Now & Contemporary Evening Auction
auction: Thu 14
(viewing: Sat 2-Wed 13) |
auction |
| New York, Friday 15 |
The Foundation of ART NYC:
Song E Yoon: Shift
“working fluidly between painting and installation [Song E Yoon] investigates the relationship between material and immaterial, visible, and invisible dimensions” |
opening reception |
GRIMM:
Francesca Mollett: Buried shadow
new paintings by Mollett – “these are works much concerned with grasping the intangible … she is an artist whose work argues for her medium’s necessity, for painting’s unique ability to illuminate” – Tom Morton |
first day |
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
In Dialogue with the Art of Benny Andrews: Maria de Los Angeles and William Villalongo, moderated by Dean Daderko |
talk |
Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Day Auction
auction: Fri 15
(viewing: Sat 2-Thu 14) |
auction |
VeneKlasen:
Enrico David in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni |
talk |
| New York, Saturday 16 |
Berry Campbell:
In Conversation: Sally Silberberg and Glenn Adamson |
talk |
Galerie Lelong:
Exhibition Walkthrough with Lucia Laguna and Larry Ossei-Mensah |
tour |
| New York, Tuesday 19 |
Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Evening Auction
auction: Tue 19
(viewing: Sat 2-Mon 18) |
auction |
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Palm Beach
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| Palm Beach, Wednesday 13 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Gilles Gorriti: The Quintessential Modernist
an exhibition focussing on Gorriti’s still lifes and interior scenes – “Gorriti transforms everyday subjects into meditations on light, harmony, and atmosphere” |
first day |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Friday 15 |
Perrotin Seoul:
Tomoko Nagai: Origami Light and Cabbage-Green Curtains
“Nagai’s compositions begin with everyday and intimate subjects, which she reconfigures into unique spatial structures and rhythms. Intuitive arrangements, bold colors, and swift brushwork bring a vivid energy to the canvas” – Shinyoung Chung |
first day |
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Shanghai
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| Shanghai, Saturday 16 |
Lisson Gallery:
Li Ran: Like a Stranger
in his first solo exhibition with the gallery in Shanghai, new and recent works by Li highlighting the evolving direction of his painting, with a deepened focus on material painterliness and pictorial storytelling |
first day |
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Stockholm
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| Stockholm, Tuesday 12 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Bella Rune: Planet
new works that criss-cross between two and three dimensions in sculptures, objects, and works on paper “engaged in a playful dialogue with geometric, non-figurative art” |
opening reception |
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Tisbury
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| Tisbury, Thursday 14 |
Messums West:
Forest Cathedral
an immersive exhibition transforming the gallery’s tithe barn into a living forest of light and sound, with a kinetic sculpture of branching limbs and mirrored leaves gently moving with air currents |
first day |
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Tokyo
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| Tokyo, Saturday 16 |
Taka Ishii Gallery:
Hiroka Yamashita: 白気 White Veils
new paintings focusing on the Shinto ritual ceremonial dance “kagura” – something Yamashita has been working on since 2024 – shown alongside paintings that draw on classical snow scenes and waterside settings |
opening reception |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Istanbul, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, Vienna, Zug, Zürich
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Saturday 16 |
SANATORIUM:
Agnes Waruguru: It Sounds Like Rain is Coming |
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London
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| London, Tuesday 12 |
JD Malat Gallery:
The Body in the Room |
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| London, Friday 15 |
Helly Nahmad Gallery at Nahmad Projects:
Petits Bijoux |
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| London, Saturday 16 |
Bartha_contemporary:
Lucinda Burgess: Morphosis |
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Gazelli Art House:
Kalliopi Lemos: A Tide of Roses |
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Maureen Paley, 4 Herald St:
Fiona Connor: I haven’t arrived yet, Closed Down Clubs |
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October Gallery:
Inheriting the Future |
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Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Lizzie Munn: Small fabric |
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Sprüth Magers:
Thomas Scheibitz: Bright Shadows |
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Tiwani Contemporary:
Tizta Berhanu: Love Is A Practice |
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| London, Sunday 17 |
Ed Cross @ 67 York Street:
Tiffany-Annabelle: 100 ways she blooms |
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Sotheby’s London:
Crafted |
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Sotheby’s London:
Crafted: The Fair |
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Sotheby’s London:
Intoart: Tékhnē |
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Sotheby’s London:
Secret Ceramics |
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Sotheby’s London:
The 2026 House & Garden Craft Prize Showcase |
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Melbourne
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| Melbourne, Saturday 16 |
Tolarno Galleries:
Guruwuy Murrinyina & Djurrayun Murrinyina: Guwarguwarmirri – Colours of the Rainbow |
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New York
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| New York, Sunday 17 |
Halsey McKay Gallery:
Ann Pibal: GHSTBKSX |
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Halsey McKay Gallery:
Colin Brant: SUN and RAIN |
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Paris
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| Paris, Friday 15 |
Baró Galeria:
Lygia Clark: Anatomie d’une ligne |
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| Paris, Saturday 16 |
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m.:
Louis Cane |
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Semiose:
Moffat Takadiwa: The Crown! |
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Semiose:
Paul Gondry: VALIS |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Sunday 17 |
Gallery Chosun:
Lee Eun: Silly Symphony |
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Shanghai
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| Shanghai, Saturday 16 |
Almine Rech:
Not Vital: Portraits |
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| Shanghai, Sunday 17 |
Bluerider ART Shanghai:
Thierry Feuz: Silent Wind |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Friday 15 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Théo Viardin: Orphaned |
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Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On. So Young Park: Gestated Leak |
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| Vienna, Saturday 16 |
MEYER*KAINER:
SPLENDID PLAYGROUND (after Gutai) |
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Zug
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| Zug, Sunday 17 |
Helvetika 1575:
Magical Transitions |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Saturday 16 |
Hauser & Wirth Bahnhofstrasse 1:
Franz Gertsch |
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Hauser & Wirth:
KOO JEONG A. KANGSE X |
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