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The Week in Art visit the site
15-22 Sep 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Chicago, Dubai, Geneva, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Monaco, New York, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Reykjavík, Sydney, Vienna, Zürich
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Chicago
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| Chicago, Thursday 17 |
GRAY:
Jaume Plensa: Beyond Silence
monumental carved-wood reliefs, dramatically vertical sculptures in cast iron and granite, and intimate bronze works in Plensa’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery |
opening reception |
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Dubai
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| Dubai, Thursday 17 |
JD Malat Gallery:
Stephan Kaluza: From Dust to Bloom
“rooted in timeless inspiration from nature, Kaluza arrays various depictions of the subject in both hyper-realistic and abstract paintings … return[ing] to landscapes, forests, and other natural environments as subjects in transformation” |
first day |
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Geneva
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| Geneva, Thursday 17 |
Taste Contemporary:
The Darkroom, Dye Lab and Kiln
curated by Sarah Griffin, an exhibition which explores the interconnected concepts of the three sites of production and transformation - where material, environment and process converge across photography, weaving and ceramics |
first day |
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Hamburg
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| Hamburg, Tuesday 22 |
Galerie Vera Munro:
Gérard Traquandi
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first day |
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Hong Kong
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| Hong Kong, Thursday 17 |
Hauser & Wirth:
Lucio Fontana: Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary
curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, an exhibition presenting seminal, rare, and unique works from 1949 onward |
opening reception |
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Houston
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| Houston, Thursday 17 |
Opera Gallery:
Texas Contemporary
painting, sculpture, multimedia, installation, objets d’art, and conceptual practice in an exhibition of eight leading contemporary artists with deep connections to the state, one of the most compelling sites of artistic production in the US today |
first day |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Thursday 17 |
Dirimart Pera:
Ebru Duruman: Silent Presence
new paintings in an exhibition exploring how identity is reshaped by experience - “bodies merge with forests, rivers and stone; landscapes grow through the human form; figures become entangled with one another; and faces repeat, fragment and disappear” |
opening reception |
SANATORIUM:
Christiane Peschek: Phoenix Castle
an immersive, interactive installation “a post-apocalyptic, six-week-long playground that imagines a world beyond anthropocentrism … stimulating a shift of perception toward a sensibility where transformation, matter, memory, and time are inseparable” |
opening reception |
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London
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| London, Tuesday 15 |
The Redfern Gallery:
Desmond Morris (1928-2026)
celebrating the life and work of the artist, zoologist, and author with works from across his extraordinary eight-decade artistic career - including his monumental multi-panelled magnum opus The Gathering |
private view |
Roseberys Belgravia:
Fine & Decorative
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first day |
| London, Wednesday 16 |
Albion Jeune:
Xiaochi Dong: Understory
Dong’s meticulously crafted multi-panel paintings draw energy and influence from classical Chinese ink painting and systems of cultivating nature |
opening reception |
Autograph:
The Musicality of Language: Live Poetry Event |
special event |
FreddieFoulkes Gallery:
The Secret Garden
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private view |
Graces Mews:
YOUTH Book Launch and In-discussion |
special event |
Galerie Max Hetzler:
Walton Ford in conversation with Glenn Brown |
talk |
The Redfern Gallery:
Desmond Morris (1928-2026)
celebrating the life and work of the artist, zoologist, and author with works from across his extraordinary eight-decade artistic career - including his monumental multi-panelled magnum opus The Gathering |
first day |
Sotheby’s London:
Prints & Multiples
auction: Wed 16-Wed 23
(viewing: Fri 18-Wed 23) |
auction starts |
| London, Thursday 17 |
Ben Brown Fine Arts:
Surface Tension
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private view |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Vincent Dubourg: Blue Weather
sculptural artworks crafted in bronze and wood, anchored by the passage from molten force to settled calm, as Dubourg explores matter as language, power as form, and transformation as a site of meaning |
first day |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
František Vízner: Beyond the Vessel
“I have sought to strip away every trace of artistic affectation until my objects reveal themselves as pure crystallisations of natural forces into essential forms” - Vízner |
first day |
Frith Street Gallery:
Colin Self: Unseen
curated by Ian Collins, this major exhibition includes rarely seen pieces from public and private collections as well as the first showing of Self’s eclectic multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works, ongoing since the year 2000 |
private view |
Kearsey & Gold:
Filippo Antonello: Load Path
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private view |
Galerie Max Hetzler:
Walton Ford: An Orbed Drop of Light
in Ford’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s London space, paintings and accompanying studies which extend his career-long investigation into the relationship between humans, animals, and the natural world |
opening reception |
SQFT:Space Gallery:
Judy Clarkson: Body & Soul
“paintings of women, each portrayed with an extraordinary intensity and psychological tenderness … vulnerability, psychic weight, the precarious nature of being alive: her subjects wrestle with and negotiate the human condition” |
private view |
Sprüth Magers:
Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful
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opening reception |
Timothy Taylor:
Hayal Pozanti: A Dream That Rhymed With Mine
an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Pozanti - “she builds forms that shift fluidly between flower, body, and current, resisting fixed identity in favour of continuous transformation” |
opening reception |
VeneKlasen:
Ce Roser: Running with the Sun, Works 1961-2014
paintings and works on paper in the centenarian New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe - “tracing her remarkable contribution to the language of abstract painting over more than five decades” |
opening reception |
VeneKlasen:
Ce Roser in conversation with Katy Hessel |
talk |
Victoria Miro:
Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)
these new paintings by Bas focus on overlooked characters - “capturing the interactions that make a transaction possible and the brief window that exposes a person's vulnerability or confidence” |
first day |
| London, Friday 18 |
Ben Brown Fine Arts:
Surface Tension
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first day |
David Zwirner:
Louis Fratino: Prose
in the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in London, new paintings which expand his thematic repertoire, bringing his distinctive attention to the glorious and the everyday in both public and private life |
opening reception |
Frith Street Gallery:
Colin Self: Unseen
curated by Ian Collins, this major exhibition includes rarely seen pieces from public and private collections as well as the first showing of Self’s eclectic multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works, ongoing since the year 2000 |
first day |
Sprüth Magers:
Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful
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first day |
VeneKlasen:
Ce Roser: Running with the Sun, Works 1961-2014
paintings and works on paper in the centenarian New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe - “tracing her remarkable contribution to the language of abstract painting over more than five decades” |
first day |
| London, Saturday 19 |
Bartha_contemporary:
Giulia Ricci & Sarah Chilvers
ten years after they first showed together, the two artists renew their conversation, with Ricci’s drawings showing her interest in pattern, geometry and landscape, and Chilvers’ drawings and paintings using dice to introduce an element of chance |
private view |
Felix & Spear:
One Love: Paintings and Sculptures by Errol Lloyd
works spanning several decades reveal an artist continually attentive to the dignity, vitality and complexity of Black experience - “there is warmth throughout Lloyd’s work, but never sentimentality” - Cameron Amiri |
opening reception |
LBF Contemporary:
Lawrence Perry: Careless Rapture
“in this new body of work the artist reflects on the emotional contradiction of nostalgia - the impossibility of fully recapturing the dazzling immediacy of an experience once it had passed, and the lingering desire to try” |
first day |
October Gallery:
Benji Reid in Conversation with Jarelle Francis |
talk |
domobaal:
Ansel Krut: YAWA EKAT RO NI TAE / EAT IN OR TAKE AWAY
in conversation with newer work, an opportunity to revisit paintings first shown at the gallery twenty years ago - “Krut demonstrates a Surrealist\'s facility for perceiving links between the most disparate commonplace objects” - Andreas Leventis |
first day |
| London, Monday 21 |
Waddington Custot:
Ian Davenport: Reflections
a survey exhibition celebrating the remarkable breadth of Davenport's career from the late 1980s to the present |
first day |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Thursday 17 |
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
Night Window - David Smith Spray Paintings, 1958 – 1964
an exhibition devoted entirely to Smith’s seldom-seen and trailblazing body of work - “these luminous palimpsests compress the physical world into radiant fields that reveal a painterly sensitivity as rigorous and as radical as [his] sculpture” |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
In Conversation: Carol S. Eliel & Mary Weatherford on David Smith |
talk |
| Los Angeles, Friday 18 |
Lisson Gallery:
Oliver Lee Jackson: Form Follows Feeling
the gallery’s first Los Angeles exhibition of the painter, sculptor, and printmaker - “In both two and three dimensions, Jackson’s figures emerge and recede, generating a vivid sense of movement and depth” |
opening reception |
Perrotin Los Angeles:
Paul Pfeiffer: Olympia
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opening reception |
| Los Angeles, Saturday 19 |
Bluerider ART LA•Manhattan Beach:
Bryan Ida: Portrait Remix
“at the core of Ida’s practice is the relationship between humanity and the natural world. His paintings consider the delicate balance between human existence and the fragile ecosystems that sustain it” |
opening reception |
Perrotin Los Angeles:
Paul Pfeiffer and Britt Salvesen in Conversation |
talk |
Roberts Projects:
Mia Middleton: Summoning Cleo
new work by Middleton - “these new paintings recast recognizable forms as surreal archetypes, dramatizing the interplay between presence and absence, and between the literal and the metaphorical” |
opening reception |
Roberts Projects:
Objective Truths
Aaron Glasson, Chris Johanson, Suchitra Mattai, Evan Nesbit, Wendy Red Star, and Brenna Youngblood encompass “representation and non-representation by reconfiguring color, light, material and texture as tools for rendering ineffable sensibilities” |
opening reception |
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Monaco
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| Monaco, Friday 18 |
Opera Gallery:
Xevi Solà: Thoughts of a Bigger Splash
the artist’s first major show in Monaco - “beneath their serene surfaces, Solà’s paintings reveal the quiet complexity of human relationships, inviting viewers to linger within these suspended moments, where meaning always remains just beyond reach” |
first day |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 15 |
Lisson Gallery:
Leonilson
an exhibition spanning the short and prodigious career of the Brazilian artist - from the mid-1970s mixed-media assemblages to the stylistic plurality of his 1980s drawings and paintings, and the small embroidery works that followed his 1991 HIV diagnosis |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery:
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat
photographs from Sugimoto’s ongoing Diorama series, including rediscovered negatives enlarged for the first time and new washi paper screens that transform his images into luminous byōbu |
opening reception |
| New York, Wednesday 16 |
Almine Rech:
Zio Ziegler: The Tesseract
“like Foucault’s pendulum, which moves in an ellipse as it oscillates between its outer limits, Zio Ziegler’s 'The Tesseract' swings the viewer in whirling, elliptical fashion from one aesthetic mode to another” - Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Ph.D. |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York:
Chinese Art
auction: Wed 16
(viewing: Thu 10-Mon 14) |
auction |
| New York, Thursday 17 |
ACA Galleries:
Taking up Space: New Works by Kandy G Lopez |
special event |
Edwynn Houk Gallery:
Abelardo Morell: Out of Paper, In Dialogue with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski & Larry Poons
recent photographs by Morell alongside exemplary paintings by each of the four Color Field artists - in the first exhibition where the gallery presents painting alongside photography |
opening reception |
Gallery Henoch:
Igor & Marina: The Garden of Invisible Birds
new paintings combining luminous portraiture with bold passages of color, ornamental patterns, and symbolic imagery as the husband-and-wife artists explore the boundaries between the visible and the imagined |
opening reception |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Wangari Mathenge: Re-membering
inspired by Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 2009 book on the critical impacts of colonialism and slavery, Mathenge’s first solo exhibition with the gallery debuts sculpture and paintings exploring how culture, memory, and landscape are made and unmade |
opening reception |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Inma Barrero: MOTHERS
Barrero’s first exhibition with the gallery debuts eight large-scale ceramic bead sculptures - a “chorus” of mother figures, “bearing witness and answering one another across the room” - Barrero |
opening reception |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper
in collaboration with the artist’s widow Colette, this exhibition presents more than twenty of Soulages’s works on paper, the majority never previously exhibited |
opening reception |
NORR COHAN:
Vicky Colombet: Memory of the Surface
“Colombet’s abstractions carry a rhythmic, almost variable logic, echoing the geometries nature repeats at every scale - ripples on the surface of water, waves lapping up sand, tectonic plates forming vast topographies” |
first day |
| New York, Friday 18 |
CARVALHO:
Alicja Biała + Diana Orving: Aether’s Long Roots
Biała and Orving reveal - with a tenderness, playfulness and ingenuity that matches their subject - the risks and rewards of our fundamentally and irrevocably interconnected lives” - Rebecca Birrell, PhD. |
opening reception |
Jack Shainman Gallery:
Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror
providing fresh insight into his work - as memory and anecdote (re)animate his photographs - an exhibition revisiting Parks through the reflections of the people and families he portrayed |
opening reception |
| New York, Saturday 19 |
CARVALHO:
Alicja Biała + Diana Orving: Aether’s Long Roots
Biała and Orving reveal - with a tenderness, playfulness and ingenuity that matches their subject - the risks and rewards of our fundamentally and irrevocably interconnected lives” - Rebecca Birrell, PhD. |
first day |
Stellarhighway:
Nearly Somewhere
co-curated with Harry Tafoya, eleven emerging, mid-career, and established American and European painters from across seven decades present abstract landscapes exploring how artists turn to nature to find inspiration and locate meaning |
opening reception |
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Palma de Mallorca
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| Palma de Mallorca, Saturday 19 |
Baró Galeria:
VHILS: Latent
titled after an optical phenomenon that occurs twice each year inside Palma Cathedral, the gallery begins its collaboration with VHILS with an exhibition of work including carved doors, billboards, ceramic tile panels, and architectural debris |
opening reception |
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Paris
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| Paris, Tuesday 15 |
Sotheby’s Paris:
Collection Rochas, Le bestiaire rêvé
auction: Tue 15
(viewing: Wed 9-Mon 14) |
auction |
| Paris, Thursday 17 |
Loevenbruck:
Mes Dalton
curated by Bertrand Godot, an exhibition with over twenty artists including Pierre Ardouvin, Pierre Besson, Michel Blazy, Lilian Bourgeat, Anne Brégeaut, Céline Cléron, François Curlet, Michael Dans, François Dufeil, Sammy Engramer, Makiko Furuichi, … |
opening reception |
| Paris, Friday 18 |
Loevenbruck:
Mes Dalton
curated by Bertrand Godot, an exhibition with over twenty artists including Pierre Ardouvin, Pierre Besson, Michel Blazy, Lilian Bourgeat, Anne Brégeaut, Céline Cléron, François Curlet, Michael Dans, François Dufeil, Sammy Engramer, Makiko Furuichi, … |
first day |
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Reykjavík
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| Reykjavík, Friday 18 |
BERG Contemporary:
Dodda Maggý: Magnus Annus
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first day |
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Sydney
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| Sydney, Thursday 17 |
Sullivan+Strumpf:
By The Grace of God
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first day |
Sullivan+Strumpf:
Tony Albert: Reverb
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first day |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Tuesday 15 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Curated by 2026. Puppies Puppies: Clothes (Kleidung)
“to care is to act; to recognise another person’s needs is to take responsibility for their wellbeing. In Clothes (Kleidung), love therefore becomes material: it is found in what is remembered, reclaimed, shared, given away” - Anna Roberta Goetz |
first day |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On: Franco Andrés: Madly meeting logically in this hour.
“Andrés’s work invites an intimate psychological experience: an excavation sparked by loosened, slightly abstracted images rendered as if viewed only by candlelight. These images pull one into oneself and allow the inside to turn out” - DJ Hellerman |
first day |
MEYER*KAINER:
Side by Side
curated by Reiter Raabe, the exhibition explores painting, attention, and abstraction as a space where love, hesitation, and persistence create a relation beyond recognition and function, inviting a rare form of generosity called attention |
first day |
| Vienna, Tuesday 22 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Angela Bulloch in conversation with Lynn Kost |
talk |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Thursday 17 |
Galerie Fabian Lang:
Xiao Guo Hui: This Side of the Mountain, the Other Side of the Water
“a two year long inquiry into the ontological capacity of contemporary painting … this new body of work uses human conflict, the theatre of conviction and the quiet mechanics of everyday life as its point of departure” |
opening reception |
Galerie Fabian Lang:
Walkthrough with gallery director Fabian Lang |
tour |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Baku, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Taipei
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Baku
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| Baku, Saturday 19 |
Gazelli Art House:
Mikayil Abdullayev: The Light of Distant Roads |
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Dubai
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| Dubai, Tuesday 15 |
JD Malat Gallery:
Points of View |
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London
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| London, Saturday 19 |
Annely Juda Fine Art:
David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Award |
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Autograph:
Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire |
Virtual Visit! ▻ |
Bartha_contemporary:
Giulia Ricci & Sarah Chilvers |
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Benjamin Rhodes Arts:
Summer Mode |
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Graces Mews:
Chardchakaj Waikawee: Youth |
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Hanina Fine Arts:
Gestural v Geometric: The Post-War Dichotomy |
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Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Thomas Houseago: Death’s Sacred Mirror |
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Roseberys Belgravia:
Fine & Decorative |
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Thomas Dane Gallery:
Caragh Thuring |
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| London, Sunday 20 |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Léa Mestres X Martin Laforêt: Small Car, Big Windows |
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Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
Jesse Glazzard: The Sound of Dirt and Beauty |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 19 |
Louis Stern Fine Arts:
Cordillera Mexicana: Alfredo Ramos Martínez and the Mexican Landscape |
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New York
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| New York, Saturday 19 |
Findlay Galleries:
Henrik Simonsen: Recent Works NY |
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| New York, Sunday 20 |
Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Abstract Legacy |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Saturday 19 |
Kimreeaa Gallery:
Hwang Do You: East of Eden |
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LKIF Gallery:
Ruben Müller: In the Thick of Summer |
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Taipei
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| Taipei, Saturday 19 |
Each Modern:
David Diao, Li Yuan-Chia, Chen Shiau-Peng |
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