Experiences : overview

This year has been filled with massive retrospectives and museum opening. These five artists have quieter shows running into the new year, across Miami, London, Paris, Venice, New York and Los Angeles, and each one is worth going out of your way for. Two of them are having their first solo show at a US or French institution, and all five are at a moment where it pays to start paying attention now. Yuko Mohri: In Concert Installation view The Curve. 1 Oct 2026 - 24 Jan 2027, © Thomas Adank / Barb...

This October, Paris becomes one of the art world’s key meeting points, with Art Basel Paris setting the pace alongside major museum and gallery openings across the city. Members can experience the week through intimate artist lunches, private visits and special access. Explore our edit of the exhibitions and moments not to miss while in Paris.

This October, London’s art world comes into full focus for Art Week, as major fairs, museum exhibitions and gallery openings animate the city. Our programme brings members closer to the season through artist lunches, private walkthroughs and before-hours access. Explore our guide to the exhibitions and moments worth making time for across London Art Week.

Paris comes into its own in October, when Art Basel returns to the Grand Palais from 23 to 25 October and the city’s cultural calendar gathers pace around it. Across museums and galleries, the week offers an unusually rich mix: from Gustav Fayet’s singular vision and Cézanne’s enduring influence to four decades of fashion, Lee Krasner’s charged abstractions and Elmgreen & Dragset’s wry interventions. Here are five exhibitions to seek out while in Paris this Art Basel week. Vincent van Gogh,...

October brings the art world to London, but some of the month’s most rewarding encounters happen beyond the major fairs. Across the city, museums and galleries offer plenty of reasons to make room in the diary: Renoir’s crowded dance floors, the Mediterranean light that changed modern painting, and Salman Toor’s intimate scenes of contemporary life. Add Magritte’s enduring capacity to unsettle and Carmen Herrera’s exacting abstractions, and you have five exhibitions worth seeking out across Lond...