Location: Eritage Studio Gallery, Lisbon Date: October 9, 2026, through February 2027 Project: BREATH, an exhibition on myth, plants and the body Why it Matters: A women-only show at one of Lisbon’s independent galleries BREATH opened this month at Eritage, with three artists from three continents: Brittany Ferns from Australia, Flora Castiglia from Argentina, and Loutje Hoekstra from the Netherlands. Brittany Ferns Ferns is a self-taught painter from Newcastle. The ochres come from the...

Location: Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, North Carolina Date: October 29, 2026 – May 29, 2027 Project: Grounded, a Maya Freelon retrospective Why it Matters: Three generations of Freelons hang in one show Maya Freelon, Photo by Lissa Gotwals The Gregg Museum sits in a 1927 mansion on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, with a glass-and-brick wing added in 2017. The architect was Phil Freelon, and this fall his daughter, Maya Freelon, fills those galleries with her own work. Grounded is...

None of these eight had a traditional art education. They taught themselves, and their work ended up in museums around the world. Ron Mueck Ron Mueck grew up in Melbourne, the son of German-born toymakers, and has no formal art training beyond high school. He worked as a model maker and puppeteer in television and film, including Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. His sculpture Dead Dad made his name in the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition in 1997, and his giant crouching Boy was a centerpiece of...