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14/10/2026

Getty Images Files For Chapter 11 After Shutterstock Merger Collapses https://tinyurl.com/4nztnmsd
Getty Images, the image licensing company whose library runs to hundreds of millions of assets, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The announcement came on Monday. The plan is to restructure and emerge as a private company by the end of the year, with backing from the investment firm of the billionaire Charles Koch, who owns ArtNews, Art Forum, and Art In America. Penske Media Corporation has had an exclusive global media partnership with Getty since the autumn of 2022.

Getty Images files for Chapter 11 after the failed merger with Shutterstock. Discover the details of their restructuring plan.

13/10/2026

Barbara Hepworth Sculpture With Lee Miller Connection Expected to Fetch £8m https://tinyurl.com/ycxrm39s Christie's has chosen a 1946 Barbara Hepworth to lead its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on 21 October. Sculpture with Colour (Eos) carries an estimate of £5m to £8m, a range that puts it among the more expensive Hepworths to come to auction in recent years.

13/10/2026

Spain’s New Museums Three Decades After The Bilbao Effect https://tinyurl.com/be4zhzb7
Nearly thirty years after Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim turned a worn-out industrial port into a destination, Spain is preparing a fresh round of museum openings, and several of them sit well away from the usual circuit. Some are new buildings. More are old ones, convents, churches and warehouses, given a second life as art spaces. Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

13/10/2026

I Just Gotta Do It Alexandra Baraitser – Tiderip London https://tinyurl.com/mv78ejbd
Nearly twenty years after her last solo exhibition with a commercial gallery, Alexandra Baraitser returns with I Just Gotta Do It at Tiderip’s new space on Percy Street. Recently relocated from Battersea, the gallery begins its next chapter by bringing Baraitser’s long-standing practice back into public view.

12/10/2026

Woman Painter: Revelations Rethinks And Retellings – National Museum Norway – Joanna Moorhead https://tinyurl.com/4752uhs7
The show Woman Painter at the National Museum of Norway is another reset of the story of female artists in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. It focuses on the work of 19 women artists, with 51 paintings, revealing not only new information about specific individuals but also broader insights into how women learned, defied convention to make their mark in the art world, and created work more ambitious than previously thought.

12/10/2026

Outside of the the Frieze London fairs, here is a selection of exhibitions not to miss. For more choices see www.artlyst.com

12/10/2026

Tarek Atoui Takes Over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Commission Built On Listening https://tinyurl.com/5fftr6y8
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is a perfect venue for sound art. It is cavernous, echoing, and filled all day with noisy day-trippers and overstimulated schoolkids. From 13 October, the Lebanese artist and composer Tarek Atoui will try to turn it into an orchestra as part of the eleventh Hyundai Commission, which runs until 11 April 2027. Tate

10/10/2026

Annie Trevorah The Dwelling Mandy Zhang Art Nobu Hotel London Annie Trevorah Mandy Zhang Art

09/10/2026

Renoir Paintings: Two Remain Missing Despite Five Arrests In France https://tinyurl.com/3ukppc3d At least five people have been arrested in France in connection with the theft of two Renoir paintings last month, according to local media. The two suspected burglars are reported to be among them. Nice-Matin, which broke the story, puts the number at six, and other French outlets have followed that figure. Local prosecutors have declined to confirm, so the details should be treated with some caution.

09/10/2026

Artlyst Weekender: Your Weekly Art Update - https://mailchi.mp/artlyst/artlyst-weekender-whats-on-whats-up-5373601