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Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates

Renoir's Double Portrait of Berthe Morisot Joins the Permanent Galleries at Louvre Abu Dhabi

The 1894 painting, the latest addition to the Abu Dhabi Masterpieces Collection, will be on view for a year alongside Monet, Japanese prints and photography that trace Impressionism's cross-cultural roots.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1894 double portrait of Berthe Morisot and her daughter, Julie Manet, is now on display in the permanent galleries of Louvre Abu Dhabi for one year — the latest addition to the Abu Dhabi Masterpieces Collection, placed in dialogue with Monet, Japanese prints and period photography.

Cobh · Ireland

Leanne McDonagh: Community & Connection

At Sirius Arts Centre, the artist's most comprehensive exhibition to date reframes Traveler identity through intimacy and trust

Leanne McDonagh's survey at Sirius Arts Centre centres insider narratives of Ireland's Traveler community, weaving photography and screenprint into a quiet act of reclamation.

Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates

The Rub' al Khali: Inside the Real Desert Where Dune Was Filmed

How the Liwa desert — the Empty Quarter's northern edge, and the real Arrakis — became one of the most filmed, least understood landscapes on Earth.

Denis Villeneuve filmed Dune in Liwa, on the rim of the Rub' al Khali — the largest sand sea on the planet. A desert that has been an ocean, birthed a nation, and is only now being discovered as a subject for art.

Essen · Germany

Gustave Courbet: The Rebel Who Shaped Modern Art

Museum Folkwang presents comprehensive retrospective of the 19th-century realist master

A major survey of Gustave Courbet's work opens at Museum Folkwang, examining how the French painter's revolutionary approach influenced generations of artists and forged new paths between painting and photography.

How to Start an Art Collection: A Beginner's Guide for 2026

A practical handbook for navigating the contemporary art market, training your eye, and buying original works with confidence.

Starting an art collection does not require a fortune or an art history degree. Discover how to identify your taste, set a smart budget, and explore local galleries using Exhibo's contemporary art discovery platform.

Seoul · South Korea

Martin Parr's Candid Gaze: A Comprehensive Retrospective Opens in Seoul

We Are Martin Parr surveys four decades of the late photographer's unflinching documentation of contemporary life

Following the photographer's death in 2025, Seoul Museum of Art presents a major retrospective examining Parr's distinctive approach to photographing everyday consumption and leisure across four decades.

Dubai · United Arab Emirates

The Pioneers of Emirati Art: Hassan Sharif and After

How Hassan Sharif and the artists known as "the Five" built conceptual art in the UAE from nothing

Before the Louvre came to Abu Dhabi and Alserkal filled with galleries, a small group of artists made conceptual art in the UAE with almost no audience and a great deal of ridicule. This is the story of Hassan Sharif and the pioneers who built a scene from nothing — and why their work still anchors Emirati art today.

What Makes a Strong Gallery Profile: A Practical Checklist

Most gallery profiles fail in the same few ways. Here is what separates the ones collectors trust from the ones they scroll past — and a checklist to fix yours in an afternoon.

A collector lands on your profile. They have maybe twenty seconds before they decide whether you are a serious gallery worth an inquiry or a half-finished listing to scroll past. Most of that decision is made before they have read a single word properly — it is made on whether the page looks complete, current, and like someone is actually behind it.

Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates

Louvre Abu Dhabi Unveils Its 2026–2027 Season: Four Exhibitions Spanning Antiquity to the Contemporary

The Saadiyat Island museum announces a year-long programme that moves from ancient board games and Indian Ocean trade routes to conflict-zone heritage preservation and a first-ever GCC–India contemporary art prize.

Louvre Abu Dhabi has announced four major exhibitions for its 2026–2027 season, tracing a single curatorial thread — exchange, movement, and cultural resilience — across ancient board games, Indian Ocean maritime history, a landmark GCC–India contemporary art prize, and heritage preservation in conflict zones.

Dubai · United Arab Emirates

Inside Alserkal Avenue: A Guide to Dubai's Art District

How a row of Al Quoz warehouses became the most serious address in Gulf contemporary art — and how to navigate its galleries, foundations and programme.

Alserkal Avenue sits in Al Quoz Industrial Area 1 — a grid of concrete warehouses and marble workshops wedged between Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Khail Road — and it is, improbably, the most culturally credible square kilometre in the Gulf.

Gwangju · South Korea

OCAD University Brings Kanien'kehá:ka-Led Pavilion to 2026 Gwangju Biennale

Skennen'kó:wa ken? (Do You Carry Great Peace?) features Shelley Niro, Melissa General, and Hannah Claus at the Canada Pavilion

A Kanien'kehá:ka-led exhibition curated by Ryan Rice will represent Canada at the 2026 Gwangju Biennale, exploring Haudenosaunee philosophies of peace, rematriation, and self-governance through interdisciplinary contemporary art.

Doha · Qatar

Somewhere Between a Marble Factory and a Masterpiece

On the art world's transparency problem, the extraordinary markets the world is only beginning to discover, and why we decided to build a map.

February 2026, Doha. Msheireb Downtown — the old business district that Qatar has been quietly transforming into something between a cultural quarter and an ur…

Dubai · United Arab Emirates

World Art Dubai 2026: Dates, Curators and What to Expect at Expo City

The fair's 12th edition moves to a new venue, introduces a dedicated photography section and expands its mentorship programme — here is everything you need to know.

World Art Dubai returns for its 12th edition from 19 to 22 November 2026, this time at a new home — Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo City. With over 10,000 works from 65 countries, a new dedicated photography section and an expanded mentorship programme, here is everything galleries and collectors need to know.

Houston · United States

Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston surveys four decades of the conceptual artist's irreverent, research-driven practice

CAMH presents the first major museum exhibition dedicated to Mary Ellen Carroll, whose multidisciplinary work interrogates art, bureaucracy, and social structures with wit and rigour.

Hamburg · Germany

Melike Kara: Whispers

A garden of ash and memory at Kunsthaus Hamburg

Melike Kara burns her photographic archive to create a fragile, evolving installation that dissolves fixed identity into sensory experience.

London · United Kingdom

London Museum Sets November Opening for Vast Smithfield Site

The £437m Farringdon complex, one of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projects, will debut in two phases

The London Museum has confirmed that its long-anticipated new home at the historic Smithfield market will welcome visitors from 28 November, marking one of the most significant museum developments in the capital in recent memory.

Athens · Greece

EMST Athens Reimagines Its Collection Through a Southeastern Lens

Three new exhibitions opening in June reframe Greece as a cultural crossroads rather than a Western periphery

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens launches a trio of exhibitions that collectively challenge Eurocentric narratives, repositioning the country at the heart of interconnected Mediterranean, Balkan, and Near Eastern histories.

Hamburg · Germany

Melike Kara: Whispers

Burning the archive to reimagine identity at Kunsthaus Hamburg

For her solo show at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Melike Kara incinerates her own photographic archive, transforming the remnants into a garden-like installation that probes memory, heritage and the dissolution of fixed identity.

Basel · Switzerland

Labouring Bodies: Women, Machines and the Work That Never Stops

A Basel exhibition traces a century of art confronting the invisible labour of women—from factory floors to the home

At Museum Tinguely, 36 artists spanning a hundred years reveal how female labour—paid, unpaid, biological and domestic—has been rendered invisible, mechanised and exploited.