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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 16 link 5 artists

New York exhibition to explore relationship between instruments and the body

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is set to launch 'Musical Bodies' on June 7, an ambitious exhibition featuring over 130 objects that explore the historical and aesthetic links between musical instruments and the human form. The show integrates a diverse array of items, including Antonio Stradivari’s 1693 ‘Gould’ violin, ancient Egyptian rattles, and contemporary artifacts like one of Prince’s guitars, alongside masterworks by Titian and Degas.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 17, 2026 visibility 23 link 8 artists

Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’ ‘Giants’ art exhibition opens in La Jolla this weekend. Here are 5 things to see.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is debuting "Giants," a major exhibition featuring over 130 works from the private collection of Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean and Alicia Keys. The West Coast premiere showcases monumental paintings, sculptures, and installations by nearly 40 Black artists, including Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Nick Cave. The show is organized around themes of scale and cultural impact, beginning with personal artifacts from the Deans' early careers before transitioning into significant contemporary masterpieces.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 34 link 17 artists

Getty Features Timeless Artifacts with ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement 1955-1985’

The Getty Museum is hosting a comprehensive exhibition titled “Photography and the Black Arts Movement 1955-1985,” featuring over 150 works including paintings, photographs, video art, and archival memorabilia. Developed in partnership with Cal State Northridge, the show highlights the pivotal role of Black photographers and artists in documenting and shaping the Civil Rights era and the subsequent Black Arts Movement. The collection includes iconic imagery from figures like Barkley L. Hendricks and Gordon Parks, as well as local Los Angeles legends such as Betye Saar and Harry Adams.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 22 link 3 artists

Theaster Gates: Contending with the Past and Present

Theaster Gates has transformed the Smart Museum of Art into a personal sanctuary for his first major solo institutional exhibition in Chicago, titled "Unto Thee." The immersive installation features vast archives from Gates's personal collections, including African artifacts, funerary objects, and a significant vinyl record collection that provides a continuous sonic backdrop to the space. Key works on display include the monumental "Black Still Life #3" and the ongoing series "Walking Prayer," which consists of black books embossed with golden phrases that explore the complexities of Black identity and collective memory.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 28 link 26 artists

The best fashion exhibitions to see for spring 2026

Major museums across Europe are launching a series of high-profile fashion retrospectives for the Spring 2026 season. Highlights include the first official exhibition dedicated to Helmut Lang at MAK Vienna, a comparative study of Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior in Paris, and a comprehensive Vivienne Westwood retrospective at The Bowes Museum. Additionally, the V&A in London is hosting the UK’s first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition, while Charleston explores the literary influence of the Hogarth Press through a collaboration with designer Kim Jones.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 22 link 7 artists

Inside de Young Museum’s New Indigenous American Art Galleries

The de Young Museum in San Francisco has unveiled its completely reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries, featuring nearly 2,000 objects from across North, Central, and South America. Developed in close collaboration with Indigenous scholars and community advisors, the new installation moves away from traditional chronological or ethnographic displays. Instead, it integrates historical artifacts with contemporary works to emphasize the continuity and living nature of Indigenous artistic traditions across four regional sections.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 9, 2026 visibility 46 link 7 artists

Lee Miller : a major exhibition devoted to the renowned photographer at the Museum of Modern Art

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris has announced a major retrospective of American photographer Lee Miller, scheduled to run from April 10 to August 2, 2026. Featuring approximately 250 vintage and contemporary prints, the exhibition will survey Miller’s multifaceted career, including her early days as a fashion model, her Surrealist collaborations with Man Ray, and her harrowing work as a war correspondent during World War II. The show arrives in Paris following its premiere at Tate Britain and marks the first significant retrospective of the artist in the French capital since 2008.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 27, 2026 visibility 17 link 3 artists

LGBTQ folks have always engaged with magic, spirituality. Here's why

The Palm Springs Art Museum is launching "A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit," an ambitious exhibition exploring the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities and spiritual practices. Spanning over a century of creative production from 1906 to 2026, the show features 35 artists who have utilized occultism, tarot, and magical traditions to navigate societal oppression and foster community. The collection includes a diverse array of media, ranging from historical occult drawings by Austin Osman Spare to contemporary paintings by Devan Shimoyama and feminist tarot decks.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 16, 2026 visibility 16 link 2 artists

First Constable 250 exhibition to open this month at Christchurch Mansion

Ipswich Borough Council has announced a major year-long celebration marking the 250th anniversary of John Constable's birth, centered at Christchurch Mansion. The program launches on March 28 with 'Constable: A Cast of Characters,' an exhibition featuring over 100 artworks and personal artifacts—including the artist's paint box and his wife's wedding ring—that explore the social circle and patrons who influenced his career. The celebration will culminate in the historic return of 'The Hay Wain' to Suffolk in July 2026, marking the first time the masterpiece will be exhibited in the county it depicts.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 15, 2026 visibility 18 link 5 artists

‘A Room for Animal Intelligence’: There’s never been a SAM exhibition like it

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has unveiled "A Room for Animal Intelligence," a landmark exhibition curated by Pam McClusky that draws almost exclusively from the institution's permanent collection. The show features a diverse array of works—some of which had never been previously unboxed or displayed—ranging from ancient artifacts to contemporary sculptures. A unique narrative device is employed throughout the gallery, where the animal subjects "speak" for themselves on wall labels to foster a direct connection with visitors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 9, 2026 visibility 24 link 3 artists

9 new art museum and gallery exhibits opening in Houston this month

Houston is experiencing a significant surge in artistic activity this month, anchored by the 40th anniversary of FotoFest and major new installations at the city's leading institutions. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is hosting "Buddha/Nature," a dialogue between ancient sculptures and contemporary works, alongside the return of Ernesto Neto’s massive immersive crochet installation, "SunForceOceanLife." Meanwhile, the Menil Collection is showcasing recent gifts, and Artechouse has launched a technology-driven spring celebration featuring AI-assisted sculpting and digital floral environments.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 28 link 22 artists

The Brooklyn Museum Presents North American Debut of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

The Brooklyn Museum will present the North American debut of "Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses" on May 16, 2026, timed with the annual Brooklyn Artists Ball where Van Herpen will be honored. The exhibition features over 140 haute couture creations alongside contemporary art, design pieces, and scientific artifacts, exploring the designer's fusion of craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology, sustainability, and natural phenomena. Previously shown at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, QAGOMA, ArtScience Museum Singapore, and Kunsthal Rotterdam, the show is curated by Cloé Pitiot and Louise Curtis, with the Brooklyn Museum presentation organized by Matthew Yokobosky and Imani Williford.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 14, 2026 visibility 19 link 8 artists

National Museum of African American History and Culture To Open Exhibition Featuring Collections From Five HBCUs

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will open a new traveling exhibition titled “At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at HBCUs” on January 16, 2026. The show features artifacts, artwork, historical documents, and multimedia from five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Clark Atlanta University, Florida A&M University, Jackson State University, Texas Southern University, and Tuskegee University. Highlights include first editions of Margaret Walker’s works, Tuskegee Institute pottery, early scientific journals, archival photographs by Doris Derby and Chester Higgins, and a rare color video of George Washington Carver.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 14, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast

The Studio Museum in Harlem has opened its first-ever purpose-built space, designed by Adjaye Associates, with director Thelma Golden leading the institution into a new era. In Egypt, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has finally opened in Cairo. Meanwhile, the exhibition "Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk" is on view at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, featuring the painting "Tree and Chicken Coops, Wangford" (1925) by Stanley Spencer, with co-curator Amy Lim discussing the work.

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A new hope: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art sets September 2026 opening date

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has announced its opening date of September 22, 2026, more than a decade after the project was first conceived by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson. The museum, which moved from San Francisco to Chicago before settling in Los Angeles's Exposition Park, has grown from a $700 million budget to a reported $1 billion and will house over 40,000 works across 100,000 square feet of exhibition space. The collection spans ancient artifacts, canonical artists like Frida Kahlo and John Singer Sargent, comic book legends such as Jack Kirby and Alison Bechdel, photography by Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, and the Lucas Archives of film memorabilia.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 19 link 8 artists

Inside the Jewish Museum’s $14.5m renovation in New York City

The Jewish Museum in New York City reopened its third and fourth floors on October 24 after a $14.5 million renovation led by United Network Studio and New Affiliates Architecture. The redesigned 20,000-square-foot space features thematic galleries displaying centuries-old artifacts alongside works by Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and contemporary artists, as well as a new Robert and Tracey Pruzan Center for Learning with art studios and a children's archaeological dig. A highlight is the display of 139 Hanukkah lamps from the museum's collection, arranged geographically in a 50-foot vitrine.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 21 link 13 artists

Portland exhibit shows off multifaceted artists’ personal narratives | Column - Portland Press Herald

Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts' installation "The Harvest" (2021) is featured in "otherwise," a thesis exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D in Portland, running through Dec. 13. The show also includes works by Ayana V. Jackson, whose project "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya" was targeted by Donald Trump in his attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition explores how artists use storytelling and worldbuilding to cope with difficult contemporary issues and imagine better futures, serving as a companion to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's "Where the Real Lies."

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A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections

New research by curator Alexandra van Dongen of Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum reveals that a rare Indo-Portuguese jewellery casket depicted in two Johannes Vermeer paintings—Mistress and Maid and A Lady Writing (both 1664-67)—is a real, surviving object. Van Dongen tracked down the sole known example in the Távora Sequeira Pinto collection in Porto, with help from Amsterdam dealer Dickie Zebregs. Her findings, published in the book De tastbare wereld van Johannes Vermeer, suggest the casket likely belonged to Vermeer’s patron Maria de Knuijt, a wealthy Dutch East India Company shareholder who may have asked the artist to include it in her paintings.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

The greatest Cypriot show in Florida: Ringling Museum opens its first permanent ancient-art gallery

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, is opening its first permanent ancient-art gallery nearly a century after John Ringling acquired around 3,300 pieces of ancient Mediterranean art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1928. The collection, which includes Cypriot limestone statues, silver jewelry, and other artifacts dating back to the Early Bronze Age, had largely remained in storage due to the 1929 stock-market crash and Ringling's death in 1936. Guest curator Joanna S. Smith and chief curator Sarah Cartwright spent a decade on conservation and research, recontextualizing the objects and tracing their origins, including the controversial excavations by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the Met's first director.

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A brush with… Suzanne Jackson—podcast

This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with artist Suzanne Jackson, who discusses her multifaceted career spanning drawing, painting, poetry, dance, and theatre. Born in 1944 in St. Louis and raised in San Francisco and Fairbanks, Alaska, Jackson draws on Native American and African American traditions to explore the spiritual connection between people and nature. She reflects on influences including Barbara Chase Riboud, Elizabeth Catlett, and Torkwase Dyson, and shares insights into her studio practice and her view on art's purpose. The episode also highlights her current survey exhibition "What is Love," which travels to SFMOMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through 2027.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 6, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists

How Two New Art Exhibitions Are Spotlighting Black Queer History

Two new art exhibitions are spotlighting Black queer history amid escalating government censorship and threats to federal arts funding. "In the Life: Black Queerness—Looking Back, Moving Forward" at the Carr Center in Detroit traces 80 years of Black queer culture, opening with LeRoy Foster's 1945 self-portrait and featuring works by Zanele Muholi, April Bey, and Pamela Sneed. Co-curated by Patrick Burton and Wayne Northcross, the show is produced by Mighty Real/Queer Detroit and will be part of the Detroit Queer Biennial in June 2026. A second exhibition, "The Gay Harlem Renaissance," runs from October 10 through March at the New York Historical Museum in Manhattan, curated by Allison Robinson, highlighting queer contributions to the Harlem Renaissance through artifacts like rent party tickets and works by Malvin Gray Johnson.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 17 link 19 artists

Cranbrook Art Museum's "Eventually Everything Connects" Is Mid-Century Modern Design History

Cranbrook Art Museum has opened a new design exhibition titled “Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the United States,” showcasing over 200 works by nearly 100 designers, including Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll Bassett, and Charles and Ray Eames. The show draws from the museum's extensive collection of mid-century modern artifacts—furniture, textiles, ceramics, lighting, and graphic design—spanning 1945 to 1970, and is curated by director Andrew Satake Blauvelt and MillerKnoll Curatorial Fellow Bridget Bartal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 14, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health

An exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo, titled "Lifeblood," explores Edvard Munch's lifelong obsession with health and medicine by juxtaposing his paintings, drawings, and prints with historical medical objects. The show opens with Munch's painting "On the Operating Table" (1902-3), inspired by a bullet removal surgery after a dispute with his fiancée Tulla Larsen, paired with an early x-ray of his injured hand. It features works like "The Sick Child" (1885-6) alongside tuberculosis-related artifacts such as stethoscopes, sputum bottles, and a jar of arsenic, drawing from Munch's personal experiences with illness and his family's medical background—his father and brother were doctors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 8 artists

Whiteley showcase reveals struggles with addiction and pursuit of beauty

A touring exhibition from the Brett Whiteley studio in New South Wales, titled *Inside The Studio*, has arrived at the Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria—its final stop and only Victorian venue. The show features drawings, ceramics, sketchbooks, photographs, Whiteley's iconic Sydney Harbour painting, and his 1976 Archibald Prize-winning self-portrait. Wendy Whiteley, the artist's former wife and an artist herself, shares memories of their turbulent marriage, including his struggles with addiction and his intense dedication to his craft. She has also repurchased several of her favorite sketches of her in the bathtub, which had been auctioned off over the years.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists

Beyond Surrealism: Basel show explores the many sides of Meret Oppenheim

A new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Basel, titled 'Beyond Surrealism,' explores the multifaceted career of Meret Oppenheim, best known for her fur-covered teacup 'Object' (1936). The show presents a range of her work, including melancholic wartime oil paintings, elegant abstract sculptures, and later witty pieces like 'Eichhörnchen' (1970) and 'Das Auge der Mona Lisa' (1967), highlighting her refusal to be confined to any single style or movement.

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Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive

Stanford University has acquired the archives of Filipina American artist Pacita Abad, a gift from the Pacita Abad Art Estate that also includes funding to catalog 120 linear feet of archival materials—photographs, correspondence, exhibition records, and personal artifacts. The archive will be stewarded by Stanford University Libraries' Bowes Art and Architecture Library in collaboration with the Cantor Arts Center, and is expected to be available to students and scholars within a year. The acquisition follows Abad's posthumous traveling retrospective that opened at the Walker Art Center in 2023, which brought her prolific 32-year practice to the attention of U.S. institutions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 27, 2025 visibility 19 link 4 artists

‘I feel at home here’: Michael Rakowitz’s Acropolis Museum exhibition locates the lines between stories of lost heritage

The Acropolis Museum in Athens has opened "Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures," the first exhibition in a trilogy organized with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the nonprofit Neon. It is also the first time the museum has presented work by a living artist. The show pairs ancient objects from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture and the Thanos N. Zintilis Collection of Cypriot Antiquities with 14 works by Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz, including pieces from his ongoing series "The invisible enemy should not exist," which recreates artifacts looted or destroyed from the National Museum of Iraq. Rakowitz’s lamassu reliefs, reimagined from the Palace of Nimrud, and a new commission featuring his mother’s recipes explore themes of lost heritage, memory, and diaspora.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

In a new exhibition, the Getty Centre uncovers the mysterious world of medieval codes

The Getty Center in Los Angeles has opened a new exhibition titled "Symbols and Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts," which runs from May 20 to August 10. The show features illuminated manuscripts from the 9th to 17th centuries, including the Rothschild Pentateuch, a 700-year-old Hebrew manuscript with over 1,000 pages. Curator Orsolya Mednyánszky explains that the exhibition aims to demystify the codes—words, images, and schematic symbols—that medieval readers would have understood intuitively, pairing the manuscripts with modern photographs from the Getty’s collection to highlight parallels in visual communication.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 4, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

New Ringling Museum exhibit asks if you believe in magic

The Ringling Museum in Sarasota has opened a new exhibition titled "Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums," which explores the art and artifacts of the Spiritualist movement. The show is structured in two acts, first providing historical context and then displaying images, posters, and objects that spiritualists used to promote their work and communicate with the spirit world.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 19 link 2 artists

Artists Across America Are Creating Stunning Floral Arrangements Inspired by Paintings, Sculptures and Artifacts

Museums across the United States are hosting "Art in Bloom" exhibitions, where floral artists create custom arrangements inspired by artworks in museum collections. The Cincinnati Art Museum recently held its show with 65 arrangements alongside pieces ranging from sculptures to oil portraits, including a sugar flower installation by Amsterdam-based artist Natasja Sadi. Other institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—which started the tradition in 1976—and the Minneapolis Institute of Art also participate, with artists like Amy Kubas drawing inspiration from works such as a Japanese block print.

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