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Disputed Picasso Silver And Gold: French Authorities Open Criminal Investigation tinyurl.com/y22cfhec A criminal investigation in southern France is putting a celebrated workshop (Ateliers Hugo) under scrutiny. According to a legal source. @bonhams1793 @mPICASSOm #ateliershugo

Helen Sear To Co-ordinate Royal Academy’s 259th Summer Exhibition tinyurl.com/bdzny7wu Helen Sear To Co-ordinate Royal Academy’s 259th Summer Exhibition @royalacademy #helensear

Richard Long: Gravity A New Installation At Yale Centre British Art tinyurl.com/bpadd4mr Richard Long, presented alongside John Constable: The Landscape Reimagined in the galleries upstairs at the Yale Centre for British Art (YCBA) @yalepress #richardlong

Katie Hitchcock-Smith Wins Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 tinyurl.com/4ywmv8f7 National Portrait Gallery has named Katie Hitchcock-Smith the winner of the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026, formerly known as the Taylor Wessing Prize @NPGLondon @photography

Gordon Matta-Clark: Art Architecture And Radical Generational Thinking - Jude Montague tinyurl.com/3hauxxhv Gordon Matta-Clark applied physical poetics to sculpture. Echoing Jacques Derrida's literary theories of deconstruction of texts. #gordonmattaclark @dlwp

Edmund de Waal Curates A Day of Psalms From Dawn to Dusk tinyurl.com/3e64mxa3 The artist and writer Edmund de Waal is turning the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford into a single, sunrise-to-sunset event. @chr_flagship @UniofOxford #edmundsewaal

MoMA Centre Pompidou And M+ Form An Unparalleled Museum Alliance tinyurl.com/2f3t5sft Three of the world’s most closely watched modern and contemporary art institutions have agreed to work as one. @MuseumModernArt @CentrePompidou @Mplus

Between The Breath: When Nothing Much Happens – Thicket Collective London tinyurl.com/yc2m3trm @thicketcollective @csm_news @RCA

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Names Its 2027 Shortlist Four artists are in the running for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. They are Hoda Afshar, Lotus L. Kang, Sasha Kurmaz and Salvatore Vitale. tinyurl.com/t4jrf6dr @DeutscheBoerse @TPGallery

Michael (Mr.) Chow: Art Collection Of Legendary Restaurateur Exhibited At Gagosian tinyurl.com/56yv44bt Gagosian will be exhibiting eleven works from the collection of Michael Chow this autumn. The presentation is called Friends and Legends. @Gagosian @MRCHOW @TheWarholMuseum

Robert Ryman: A Whiter Shade Of Pale At The Barbican tinyurl.com/psjtmtwp The Barbican is a fitting home for Robert Ryman’s The Real Thing. Its concrete is stern and unfussy, and so are his paintings. At a glance, many look like primed canvases. @BarbicanCentre #robertryman

Jogen Chowdhury Painter of the Human Interior Dies at 87 tinyurl.com/yhcxnr3u Jogen Chowdhury, one of India’s leading modern painters, died on October 25 at a hospital in Kolkata. He was 87. @indiatimes @ArtistsIndian

Klimt’s Litzlbergkeller to Lead Christie’s New York Fall Marquee Week tinyurl.com/wczpshns Christie’s will offer one of Gustav Klimt’s finest landscapes this November. 'Litzlbergkeller' ($60 – 80 million estimate) headlines @ChristiesInc @artistgklimt

Art Basel Paris 2026 Delivers Strong Top-End Sales Despite Early Closure - Report tinyurl.com/2rp3am35 Art Basel Paris ended its week, closing two days early. The possibility of rioting in the French capital forced galleries to shutter and pack up. @ArtBasel @friezeofficial

Monet’s Iris Painting Achieves Record €50 Million Sale at Sotheby’s Paris tinyurl.com/5n66bzz8 Claude Monet’s Iris sold on Thursday at Sotheby’s Paris for €50 million with fees, about $56 million. @Sothebys @artistmonet

Art Basel Paris Closes Two Days Early As Protests Grip France tinyurl.com/2sa5urtz Art Basel Paris will end its 2026 edition at 7 pm on Friday, October 23 The fair will stay shut on Saturday and Sunday. Organisers told VIP guests by email on Thursday @ArtBasel @friezeofficial

L.S. Lowry Takes Centre Stage As Milton Keynes Makes Culture Shortlist tinyurl.com/p77ws5w6 Milton Keynes has been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029. The announcement has come on the day MK Gallery opens L.S. Lowry. @MKMuseum @The_Lowry

Lichtenstein, Rondinone, Na Kim, Slonem Seriality Season: New York – Ilka Scobie tinyurl.com/2p9zfs26 In a moment of upheaval and too much art…. Happily skipping the Fairs, I detoured to the Folk Art Museum... @whitneymuseum @

Basquiat: $30m Leonardo Inspired Painting Leads Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale tinyurl.com/bddh3bv4 Christie’s will offer Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads @ChristiesInc @artistbasquiat

Art Basel Paris Opens Under Extra Security After Weekend Riots tinyurl.com/ycyzbp23 VIPs began arriving in Paris today for Art Basel, with no one quite sure how the weekend’s riots will affect the fair. Barriers now surround the Grand Palais. @ArtBasel @parisriots