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Daily brief 13 Oct 2026

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Helsinki turns its attention to the images that shape online life, while Valencia’s Albufera exhibition enters its final week. In Naples, Capodimonte prepares to unveil a newly donated terracotta portrait by Francesco De Matteis, expanding its record of southern Italian sculpture.

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Image: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
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London Frieze London, 1-54 Contemporary African Art, Minor Attractions

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Fondation Louis Vuitton Gives Its Whole Building to Collector and Designer Gustave Fayet Image: Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, January 1889, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 44.2 cm, private collection. Photo: © Peter Schälchli | Paul Gauguin, Three Tahitians, 1899, oil on canvas, 73 x 94 cm, National Galleries of Scotland. Photo: © National Galleries of Scotland, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
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Fondation Louis Vuitton Gives Its Whole Building to Collector and Designer Gustave Fayet

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is devoting its entire building, from 9 October 2026 to 8 March 2027, to Gustave Fayet (1865–1925), a collector, artist and designer whom the Fondation presents as a long-overlooked figure of early modernism.

Read full story Paris · 7 Oct 2026 [REPORT]
Thyssen-Bornemisza and Mauritshuis Exchange 25 Works Image: Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, c. 1660–1661. Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Thyssen-Bornemisza and Mauritshuis Exchange 25 Works

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Mauritshuis in The Hague are simultaneously exchanging twenty-five outstanding works from their permanent collections through a collaboration agreement between the two institutions.

Read full story Madrid · 9 Oct 2026 [REPORT]
Pérez Art Museum Miami and Berlin's Museum Berggruen Bring Picasso, Klee and Matisse to Miami Image: Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Woman Reading), 1953. Oil on wood. Courtesy Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Pérez Art Museum Miami and Berlin's Museum Berggruen Bring Picasso, Klee and Matisse to Miami

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Read full story Miami · 7 Oct 2026 [REPORT]
Restoration Reveals Two Rembrandt Pupils Behind a Pushkin Museum Painting; Display Closes November 22 Image: Pupils of Rembrandt (attributed to Leendert van Beyeren and Reinier van Gherwen), The Beheading of John the Baptist (detail). Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
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Restoration Reveals Two Rembrandt Pupils Behind a Pushkin Museum Painting; Display Closes November 22

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow is presenting the results of a restoration that has changed how one of its more puzzling paintings is understood.

Read full story Moscow · 10 Oct 2026 [REPORT]

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London Frieze London, 1-54 Contemporary African Art, Minor Attractions

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