Daily Brief — 20 October 2026

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Casa Natal Picasso has inaugurated “Picasso. Propaganda y activismo político,” an exhibition running through 7 February 2027. Curated by Rafael Inglada and Carlos Ferrer Barrera, the presentation focuses on Picasso’s relationship with propaganda and political activism. Museo Picasso Málaga is contributing a still life described as a memento mori, painted during the postwar period. The work brings a note of mortality to an exhibition otherwise framed around Picasso’s explicitly political engagement. The show is part of the XXXIX Octubre Picassiano programme at Casa Natal Picasso in Málaga.

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At Vienna’s Secession, Lap-See Lam’s “192 Wing Lok Street” brings together mouth-blown glass, installation and sound in a new body of work shaped by personal and collective stories across generations and places. A large bamboo sculpture occupies the foyer and appears to pierce the building; below, a root-like chandelier lights a room where mandarins sit in the corners. The title refers to a Hong Kong street known for bamboo scaffolding—and to Lam’s family history, as her grandmother worked there as a fruit seller. The exhibition runs through 22 November 2026.

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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art will present “Material Shifts” from 13 November 2026 to 28 February 2027. The international group exhibition examines sculpture as a form of translation, bringing together conceptual works, craft-based material investigations, room-activating installations and existing objects given new functions as art. Its artists include Olga Balema, Katinka Bock, Ludovica Carbotta, Rhea Dillon, Miho Dohi, Vincent Fecteau, Jean-Luc Moulène, Dima Srouji and Diane Simpson. The exhibition considers shifts between two and three dimensions, the ephemeral and the durable, and ideas that acquire physical form.