The Toledo Museum of Art made art news recently by acquiring American pictorialist photographer F. Holland Day's landmark 19th-century photographic series "The Seven Words." The piece comprises seven tightly framed platinum prints, set in a single wooden frame, showing Day himself posing as Jesus Christ on the cross in his final moments. The Toledo version is one of three known originals - the others are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will go on view in autumn 2027.

  Thursday, October 7-Sunday, October 11: New York Comic Con at Javitz For its milestone 20th anniversary, New York Comic Con trades some of its sleek corporate sheen for a brilliantly gaudy nod to old-school Gotham, endowing the Javits Center in a celebratory Coney Island theme. While its highly commercial media reach inevitably draw the crowds, the true pulse of the festival remains anchored in the sprawling rows of Artist Alley and the Comic District. Here, away from the Hollywood spe...