14 Must-See Museum Shows in New York This Spring

New York museums are launching a significant slate of spring exhibitions, featuring major retrospectives and thematic surveys. Highlights include "Noguchi's New York" at the Noguchi Museum, exploring the sculptor's unrealized urban projects; "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a comprehensive look at the Renaissance master; and "Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship," also at the Met, focusing on medieval architectural drawings.

The exhibitions to see in New York during Art Week 2026

Le mostre da vedere a New York durante l’Art Week 2026

The article highlights a selection of must-see exhibitions in New York during the 2026 Art Week, spanning major museums and galleries. At MoMA, three shows explore memory, identity, and artistic experimentation: Elizabeth Murray's retrospective on fragmented painting, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa's works addressing Guatemala's civil war, and Arthur Jafa's curated connections across the museum's collection. The Whitney Museum presents the 82nd Whitney Biennial, featuring 56 artists questioning what it means to be 'American,' alongside an Andy Warhol exhibition of rarely seen polaroids from 1972-73. Hauser & Wirth debuts its first Carol Rama show, highlighting six decades of her experimental, anticonformist art.

Exhibitions at High Museum on Tuesdays

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has announced a diverse slate of upcoming exhibitions featuring folk art, experimental photography, and avant-garde fashion. Key highlights include a retrospective of Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf, a showcase of Minnie Evans' surrealistic paintings inspired by her dreams, and an exploration of Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s gothic and abstract photography. These exhibitions are scheduled to roll out between October 2026 and May 2027.

Francis Kéré's design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed

The Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has revealed renderings for its new 60,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Set to open in 2029 at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas, the four-floor museum features a stone mosaic façade sourced from the Red Rock Mountains, a shaded front porch, a canyon-like grand staircase, and galleries inspired by Modernist architect Paul R. Williams. Baobab trees, symbolizing community, inform the design. The $200 million capital campaign, supported by the late Elaine Wynn and other trustees, has passed the halfway mark. The museum is a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) and will showcase works from its collection, with Lacma director Michael Govan serving as a founding trustee. A satellite exhibition, Family Album, is currently on view, and a 15,000-square-foot gallery and media lab will open next year.

Dans un champ près de Toulouse, l’artiste Almudena Romero signe la plus grande œuvre photographique jamais réalisée

Anglo-Spanish photographer Almudena Romero has created "Farming Photographs," a 11,000-square-meter photographic work in a field near Toulouse, France, making it the largest photograph ever made. Using the 19th-century anthotype process, the image—a giant eye composed of traits from various races, genders, and ages—was planted as a crop of wheat and winter grasses, with each pixel corresponding to a tractor-width plot. The work emerges in spring, is visible from May to June, transforms until harvest, and ultimately becomes edible flour. Romero collaborated with France's INRAE agricultural research institute, dividing the image into 1,350 pixels and assigning different plant varieties to each based on color and density.

City announces art exhibition for Las Vegas Civic Center Art Gallery

The City of Las Vegas is partnering with the future Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) to present a contemporary art exhibition titled "Family Album" at the newly unveiled Las Vegas Civic Center Art Gallery. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the show features family photographs from over 20 intergenerational artists, including Dannielle Bowman and Janna Ireland, and runs from September 4, 2025 through January 9, 2026. This marks the first public-facing program for LVMA, which has been in development since 2023 and is expected to break ground on a $150 million facility in Symphony Park as early as 2026, with a projected 2028 opening.

Art exhibition in Damascus explores family roots and identity

An art exhibition titled 'The Family Album' opened at the Mustafa Ali Gallery in Damascus, Syria. The show features works by contemporary Syrian artists who use family photographs, documents, and personal archives to examine themes of lineage, memory, and belonging.