ArtLyst

27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama Avant-Garde Japanese Pop Artist Dies Aged 97 https://tinyurl.com/2w7f2jm5
Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026) died in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August 2026 at the age of 97. The announcement came a week after her death, released by her studio. She had continued painting until her final days, never setting down her brush. .polka

26/08/2026

Piet Mondrian’s Composition III, painted in 1920 and never previously offered at auction, will appear at Christie’s 20th/21st Century London Evening Sale on 14 October 2026, carrying an estimate of £20 million to £30 million. The sale takes place during Frieze Week, and the Mondrian is the most significant work by the artist to come to auction in Europe since 2009, when two major paintings from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé sold at Christie’s Paris. https://tinyurl.com/ykh4xuha

26/08/2026

Ten London Art Exhibitions Opening Autumn 2026 https://tinyurl.com/3837d6an Autumn has arrived, and London is preparing for a new season of art exhibitions. First up is the highly anticipated arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry

25/08/2026

Kehinde Wiley Painting Removed From US Embassy For Being ‘Very Woke’ https://tinyurl.com/3nb38daj
The United States State Department has removed a painting by Kehinde Wiley from the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic, with officials describing it as “very woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.’

21/08/2026

Antonello da Messina: Four Panels Stolen From Sicilian Museum
Four paintings by the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina have been stolen from the Accascina Regional Museum in Messina, Sicily, timed to coincide with one of the city’s largest annual religious gatherings.

19/08/2026

Oldest Surviving Fragment of Homer’s Odyssey On Display At The Met https://tinyurl.com/rycj958c
The oldest known surviving written fragment of Homer’s Odyssey has returned to public display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, installed in Gallery 162 after a period away from public view. The timing is apt: Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the epic opened this summer, bringing the story of Odysseus back into the wider cultural conversation, and the Met has taken the opportunity to draw attention to both the fragment and six additional objects from its collection connected to the poem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

18/08/2026

UK Schoolchildren Invited to Complete the Bayeux Tapestry’s Missing Ending https://tinyurl.com/4s2rm79b
Nearly a thousand years after English embroiderers stitched the story of the Norman Conquest into seventy metres of linen, schoolchildren across the United Kingdom are being invited to finish the job. The ending of the Bayeux Tapestry has been missing for centuries, and a new national competition, Beyond the Battle, is asking Key Stage 2 primary school pupils to imagine what it might have shown and to create their own textile response to that historical gap.

16/08/2026

Mary Heilmann Painter Of Bright Perilously Balanced Abstractions Dies At 86
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15/08/2026

Stolen Cézanne Renoir And Matisse Recovered In Parma Five Arrested https://tinyurl.com/36n24tat

Italian authorities have arrested five people in connection with the theft of three paintings from the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Northern Italy and recovered all three works, which were found hidden inside an empty television box in the storage room of a Parma home.

14/08/2026

Guggenheim Sues To Recover Picasso Stolen More Than 60 Years Ago https://tinyurl.com/ydv2exhs
A Picasso painting stolen from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961 has resurfaced, prompting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to take legal action against its current owners. @

The Guggenheim sues to recover a Picasso painting stolen over 60 years ago from the University of Pittsburgh.