India Art Fair returns to New Delhi with more than 120 exhibitors.
India Art Fair returns to New Delhi’s NSIC Exhibition Grounds for its 18th edition from February 4–7, 2027, with more than 120 exhibitors from galleries, institutions, and design practices in India and abroad. Returning international galleries include David Zwirner, Galleria Continua, Whitestone Gallery, and Sundaram Tagore Gallery. Opera Gallery, which has 16 locations worldwide, joins as a newcomer. Leading Indian galleries Nature Morte, Vadehra Art Gallery, Chemould Prescott Road, Jhaveri Contemporary, Experimenter, and DAG return, while Delhi’s Gallery Vayu, Gallery XXL, and Pristine Contemporary make their debuts. Jitish Kallat will cover the fair’s façade in highway signage, a new architectural version of Here After Here After Here. Outdoor projects include a large-scale Birender Yadav installation presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and a December Design textile work marking 300 years since Jaipur’s founding.
MCA Chicago’s Nolan Jimbo joins The Whitney Museum as associate curator.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Nolan Jimbo as Arnhold Associate Curator. He starts on November 16 and will organize exhibitions, public programs, and publications. Jimbo joins from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he was an assistant curator specializing in Asian diasporic artists and abstraction. Jimbo previously held curatorial posts at MASS MoCA, where he organized the kinship-themed group show “Close to You” (2021), and the Dallas Museum of Art, where he produced a 2016 mural commission by Nicolas Party. He succeeds Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Former Prada designer Fabio Zambernardi and architect Massimiliano Locatelli unveil embroidered furniture in New York.
Fabio Zambernardi, who left his role as design director of Prada and Miu Miu in 2023 after four decades, has resurfaced in collectible design. “Nullus Locus,” his collaboration with architect and designer Massimiliano Locatelli, is on view at Null Object, the hybrid gallery in Dimes Square, through November 22. The pair developed a process called manomachine, Italian for “hand-machine,” in which a modified embroidery machine stitches digital patterns and metal threads into wood veneer while the material is guided by hand. The work draws on the intarsia-paneled studiolo of Renaissance condottiere Federico da Montefeltro, recently reopened at Urbino’s Palazzo Ducale, and on the marquetry of 17th- and 18th-century cabinetmaker Giuseppe Maggiolini. The show also includes vases made with painter Sally J. Han, drawings and samples tracing the technique, and limited-edition wooden holiday ornaments made exclusively for Null Object, founded by Nikki Mirsaeid and Alex Gvojic.
Art Week Tokyo returns with a record 56 venues.
Art Week Tokyo’s centerpiece exhibition platform, AWT Focus, has been reconfigured for its 2026 edition. Rather than a single show, ten curators will each organize an exhibition at a different gallery or art space across the city, in collaboration with the Vienna gallery festival Curated by. The fifth full edition runs November 4–8 with a record 56 museums and galleries. Co-founder and director Atsuko Ninagawa said the aim is “to bring multiple worldviews to Japan.” Highlights include Maria Brewińska’s presentation of 91-year-old Japan-born, Poland-based artist Koji Kamoji at Take Ninagawa, Ekow Eshun’s staging of Julianknxx’s first Japanese exhibition at Space Un, and Jeremy Strick’s first Japan show for Mary Weatherford at Shibunkaku. Attendance rose 33 percent between 2022 and 2023, then another 15 percent in 2024. Ninagawa says the event has helped rebrand a Japanese art scene long overlooked internationally.
An archive of 6,000 fragrances is opening a new exhibition in Versailles.
The Osmothèque, the Versailles-based perfume conservatory, will display a selection of its raw materials and scents in “The Soul of French Perfumery: A Journey to the Heart of Elegance and Savoir Faire,” opening November 4 at the Espace Richaud and running through February 7, 2027. Founded in 1990 by perfumers including Jean Kerléo, Guy Robert, and Jean-Claude Ellena, the nonprofit bills itself as the world’s first perfume conservatory and has stored around 6,000 fragrances over 35 years. It receives up to 300 new releases annually, and houses such as Guerlain and Chanel have recreated scents expressly for its collection, including Chanel’s original No. 5. The exhibition will address topics including how chemistry expanded perfumers’ palettes.
Attractive Distractions:
Renée Levi’s September is the first-ever painting commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Costumes, wedding attire, and birthday outfits lined up at the New York City Marathon.
Cartoonist Peter Kuper’s monarch drawings are now on view at the American Museum of Natural History.
Photographers are capturing the stillness of nature by night.
