Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
Pam Evelyn: The Material Life of Painting

In an age saturated by images, Pam Evelyn’s paintings propose a different experience of
looking: physical, prolonged and deeply attentive to the life of the surface. Her expansive
canvases emerge through dense accumulations of oil, where colour, gesture, erasure and
matter remain visibly entangled. Occupying an unstable territory between abstraction,
figuration and landscape, forms appear, dissolve and return.

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
New Research on Botticelli’s Venus Supports a Death from a Pituitary Tumour Diagnosis

The Medical Humanities paper published by the BMJ is the third in a series of papers led by Professor Paolo Pozzilli, in which he’s set out his research on the Renaissance aristocrat, Simonetta Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli’s muse, who died at just 23 from suspected tuberculosis.

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
The (Un)Certainty of (Be)Longing in Peishen Liang’s Threshold

I find that like me, many people like to begin by defining things. Not out of an obsession for labelling them, but in hope to understand them beyond what one may already know. If in luck, one may find some sort of clarity or even resolution to wonder.

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
MPa Hair Shop Düsseldorf: Art Beyond Function

A hair salon is organised around practical outcomes: hair is cut and styled, tools fulfil
specific purposes, and conversations accompany a familiar service.

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
Documenta 16 Hires Four New Curators

Naomi Beckwith, Artistic Director of D16, welcomes new members to her Curatorial Team: Raven Chacon joins the team as Curator-at-Large, Osei Bonsu, Timea Junghaus and Noam Segal as Curatorial Advisors.

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
Rediscovered Leonora Carrington Painting Leads Heritage Auctions’ November Sale

A painting by Leonora Carrington, unseen on the market for more than seven decades, will lead Heritage Auctions’ Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction on November 10. 

Article date: Monday, November 2, 2026
Christie’s First Abu Dhabi Art Auction Achieves $8.94 Million

Christie's auction MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art realised USD$8,940,800. Held at The Abu Dhabi EDITION on 1 November, the evening sale was the first fine-art auction in Abu Dhabi, bringing together a selection of works by artists from across the Middle East and North Africa. 

Article date: Sunday, November 1, 2026
Get Featured: Open Call for Artist Submissions

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

Article date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
Austria, Leopold Museum and Albertina Challenge HEAR Act Amendments in Court

The Republic of Austria, the Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation have filed a legal challenge against the constitutionality of the 2025 amendments to the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.

Article date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
Morocco Opens First Museum Dedicated to Jewish Culture in an Arab Muslim Country

The Museum of Moroccan Jewish Culture was inaugurated in Fez on October 12.

Article date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
U.S. Embassy in Moscow Issues a Security Alert: Threat to Tsaritysyno Museum Reserve in Moscow

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event TODAY October 31, at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow at Dolskaya Ulitsa 1, Moscow, Russia 11569. The U.S. government is coordinating with appropriate Russian authorities on a response.

Article date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Centre Pompidou, M+, and MoMA Announce Unprecedented Cultural Alliance

Christophe Cherix, the David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), Laurent Le Bon, President of Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director of M+ in Hong Kong, jointly announced that the three institutions have formed a new cultural alliance.