An art handler holds Andy Warhol's Self-Portrait on Friday, October 4, 2024 in front of Bridget Riley's Gaillard 2, during a preview for Sotheby's £200 million artwork sale, which includes works by Hockney, Warhol and Picasso. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)





The Oculus installation outside the Grillo Theatre in Essen, Germany on October 2, 2024, whose light festival features 16 large installations across the city. (Photo by Alamy Live News)





A woman visits Infinity Mirror Room, the latest of a series of installations by Yayoi Kusama in London on September 23, 2024. Every Day I Pray for Love is the Japanese artist’s 14th solo exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)





Artist Luke Jerram has created a new sound and light installation, at University of Bristol Botanic Gardens. Tipping Point is a simulated forest fire combining smoke, lights, and sound to create a captivating affect, and raise critical awareness about banks investing our money in destroying forests. Bristol. Photo released October 4 2024. (Photo by Tom Wren/South West News Service)





Leap Year, an exhibition of work by Haegue Yang at the Hayward Gallery in London, on October 7, 2024 offers a visual and sensory experience through installation, sculpture, collage, text, video, wallpaper and sound. It runs until January 5. (Photo by Paul Quezada-Neiman/Alamy Live News)





Alpa explores Eden Dock, a first of its kind urban space, is unveiled in Canary Wharf, London, as part of a partnership with the Eden Project on October 2, 2024. (Photo by David Parry/PA Media Assignment)





Jess Ashley poses with a surfboard on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea on Essex, UK as coloured LED lights are moved to create a light painting during a 11-second exposure on September 27, 2024. (Photo by Kevin Jay/Picture Exclusive)





Show is artist Bill Secunda's sculpture of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Butler, Thursday, September 26, 2024. (Photo by Matt Rourke/AP Photo)





Christie’s unveiled Jeff Koons’s Balloon Monkey sculpture in St James’s Square, London in the last decade of September 2023. The piece is estimated to fetch between £6.5 million and £10 million on October 9. (Phoot by Lucy Young for the Times)





Visitors watch the artwork “A hole” from 2009 by artist Yoko Ono during a preview of the compre­hensive solo exhibition ”MUSIC OF THE MIND” of artist and activist Yoko Ono in cooperation with Tate Modern at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 museum in Duesseldorf, Germany, Thursday, September 26, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





Art handlers arrange “Ria, Naked Portrait” by Lucian Freud as it is displayed at Christie's auction rooms, the painting estimated at 10-15 million UK pounds will be for auction in the 20th/21st Century London Evening Sale at Christie's in London, Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





“Sociomobile” by Jasleen Kaur goes on view as part of the 2024 Turner Prize exhibition at TATE Britain on September 24, 2024 in London, England. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Turner Prize, and it returns to Tate Britain for the first time since 2018. The prestigious award is presented annually to a British artist who has delivered an exceptional exhibition or presentation of their work. The four artists shortlisted for the 2024 Turner Prize are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)





People enjoy the light installation “Back to childhood” created by DNA Group marketing agency during the annual festival of light in Lodz on September 28, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





A visitor poses by an installation inspired by The Scream by Edvard Munch on September 23, 2024. The Royal Palace of Milan is holding an exhibition of work by the Norwegian painter. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People look at British artist Banksy's works at Ground Seoul Exhibition hall in Seoul, South Korea, 23 September 2024. The exhibition is running from 10 May until 20 October 2024 in Seoul under the theme REAL BANKSY: Banksy is NOWHERE, with more than 130 works, including 29 officially licensed “Pest Control” paintings. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA/EFE)