Daily Art Brief — 4 October 2026
Three exhibitions offer distinct reasons to look closely this week: Tracey Emin’s radically autobiographical practice arrives in Humlebæk, a wide-ranging British landscape survey approaches its closing date, and Nam June Paik’s Tokyo exhibition remains open into late November.
Image: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Tracey Emin: 'A Second Life' opens at Louisiana on October 08th
Tracey Emin’s A Second Life opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk on 8 October, in what the museum describes as the largest exhibition yet devoted to an artist. Spanning new and rarely shown works, the exhibition presents four decades of Emin’s radically personal and autobiographical practice. Her work is described as wild, violent, self-exposing and brutally honest, as well as fragile and delicate. My Bed, the work that triggered a fierce media debate in the late 1990s, is also included. The exhibition runs until 18 April 2027.
Image: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
'British Landscapes: A Sense of Place' closes 1 November 2026
Pallant House Gallery’s British Landscapes: A Sense of Place brings together more than 100 works before closing on 1 November 2026. The exhibition examines how artists from the 18th to the 20th century represented Britain, moving through Romanticism, Modernism and postwar abstraction. The selection includes painters, printmakers and sculptors, with works shaped by labour, conflict and imagination. Artists represented include Thomas Gainsborough, Spencer Gore, Ivon Hitchens, Paul Nash, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth and Eric Ravilious. A new illustrated catalogue includes writing by director Simon Martin and contributions from contemporary artist Haroun Hayward.
At Tokyo’s Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, 没後20年 ナムジュン・パイク｜じゅげむ展 continues through 23 November. The exhibition marks 20 years since Nam June Paik’s death and includes TV Fish, dated 1975. The museum has also announced a schedule adjustment around Japan’s public holiday on Monday, 12 October: it will open that day and operate normally on Tuesday, 13 October. The presentation remains on view as the museum’s autumn programme continues.