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The São Paulo Bienal Mexico City exhibition opens at the Museo Tamayo on 15 November — the first time the 75-year-old biennial's travelling programme has come to Mexico, with 26 artists reframed around abstraction.
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The Exploring Calvin and Hobbes exhibition opens 14 November at the Norman Rockwell Museum — the first touring show of Bill Watterson's original drawings — paired with a George Herriman Krazy Kat exhibition tracing the path between the two cartoonists.
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The Centre Pompidou exhibition Mexico City opens at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in November, bringing Schöffer, Fontana and Vasarely to Mexico City while the Paris building is closed for renovation until 2030.
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The Arab Design Now 2026 Design Doha exhibition opens with 81 designers, 78 new commissions and 16 films that put makers beside finished objects, at the centre of the Design Doha Biennial 2026 programme.
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The David Bowie On Tour exhibition opens at V&A Dundee with more than 100 archive objects — a Ziggy Stardust guitar, Berlin apartment keys and Blackstar lyrics — as the David Bowie archive tour reaches Scotland for the first time.
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The Constantinople to Istanbul V&A exhibition opens at V&A South Kensington on 7 November 2026 with more than 200 objects across 1,600 years — the Veroli Casket, Iznik tiles, Bursa velvets and Osman Hamdi Bey among the V&A Istanbul exhibition highlights.
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The Tapa: Art of the Gift in Polynesia exhibition opens at the Met with 13 bark-cloth works from Fiji, Samoa, Futuna and Niue — cloth as diplomacy, including gifts to Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The Powerhouse Parramatta opening festival runs 7–29 November 2026 with 179 events and five exhibitions — Task Eternal, The Mall, Overflow, The Dark and Es Devlin: The Turning — in western Sydney's first state cultural institution.
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The norton museum mimi plumb and gertrude abercrombie pairing opens 31 October 2026 in West Palm Beach: 107 photographs spanning 1971-2025 beside some 70 dreamlike paintings, both on view through March 2027.
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The Berlin portraits exhibition Botticelli to Lempicka at the Gemäldegalerie pairs some 80–90 portraits across five centuries — Botticelli beside Lempicka, Dürer beside Giorgione — through 14 March 2027.
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