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On the 12th of August, the Museum welcomed over 400 visitors who attended the opening event of the new exhibition “Two sculptors: Julia Segal, Vered Aharonovitch”, curated by the artist and museum founder Ilana Goor.

This autumn, alongside the First Open | Post-War and Contemporary Art | London auction, Christie’s will present Young Hearts; works by contemporary artists under 40 and design objects staged by Luke Edward Hall.

Until 25 September, Zurich’s Kunsthaus has a retrospective of one of the greats of modern art, Francis Picabia (1879-1953).

Several works depicting the brilliant writer, inventor, politician, patriot, and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), who has been the subject of hundreds of portraits, will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in a focused exhibition opening on August 22.

Michel Houellebecq, the runaway success of the French publishing world, a writer who is exported across the world, is the subject of an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo that is the talk of Paris this summer.

There once was a Swiss businessman who became the world’s biggest collector of Chinese art before giving almost all of it away to a Hong Kong museum…

Catherine Opie, born in 1961, is an American photographer. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Fred Tomaselli, born in 1956, is an American painter. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez presents a selection of nearly 90 of the Anglo-Irish artist’s most compelling paintings, including many rarely exhibited works, alongside those by artists who influenced his career.