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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 30, 2026 visibility 39 link 29 artists, 4 galleries

15 of the Most Anticipated Museum Exhibitions Around the World in 2026

Major museums worldwide have announced their flagship exhibitions for 2026, featuring a diverse array of artists and historical periods. Highlights include a Frida Kahlo retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exploring her rise to icon status; a survey of Ovid's influence on art from Caravaggio to Louise Bourgeois at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum; a centennial exhibition for Mary Cassatt at the National Gallery of Art; and the largest career survey to date for Tracey Emin at Tate Modern. Other key shows feature Carol Bove at the Guggenheim Museum, Korean national treasures at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Louvre.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 31 link 48 artists, 4 galleries

What’s on now at San Francisco museums, January 2026

A roundup of current and upcoming exhibitions at San Francisco museums in January 2026 highlights several shows closing soon, including "Manet and Morisot" at the Legion of Honor and "Suzanne Jackson: What is Love" at SFMOMA, both ending March 1. New exhibitions opening include "The art of Cece Carpio" at SOMArts on Jan. 30, and "Trina Michelle Robinson: Open Your Eyes to Water" at 500 Capp Street and Root Division in February. The de Young Museum features "Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California" and artist Rose B. Simpson's show "LEXICON," part of the newly opened galleries dedicated to Arts of Indigenous America. The Museum of the African Diaspora presents "Unbound: Art, Blackness and the Universe" and "Continuum: MoAD Over Time," while the Asian Art Museum hosts "Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius)."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 9, 2026 visibility 34 link 34 artists, 2 galleries

Must-see New York City museum openings and exhibitions in 2026

The article previews major New York City museum exhibitions opening in 2026, including a Carol Bove survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (March 5–August 2), the first U.S. Marcel Duchamp retrospective since 1973 at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum's inaugural show in its OMA-designed expansion titled "New Humans: Memories of the Future," and a Goya exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library tied to the 250th anniversary of the United States. Each show highlights significant artistic milestones, from Bove's scrap-metal sculptures to Duchamp's readymades and Goya's war commentaries.

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article culture schedule Dec 27, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

How taboo-breaker Robert Crumb’s surreal cartoons mock an absurd world—and himself

A new biography, *Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life* by Dan Nadel, examines the life and work of Robert Crumb, the taboo-breaking underground cartoonist who rose to fame in the 1960s with surreal, satirical comics like *Head Comix*. The book details Crumb's troubled family history, his early career at American Greetings, and his creation of iconic characters such as Fritz the Cat and the Keep On Truckin' images, while also addressing persistent criticisms of sexism and racism in his work.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 6, 2025 visibility 27 link 11 artists, 5 galleries

In pictures: a sculptural celebration at Art Basel Miami Beach

Nora Lawrence, executive director of Storm King Art Center, curated a selection of her favorite three-dimensional works at Art Basel Miami Beach, highlighting sculptures by Thaddeus Mosley, Rashid Johnson, Mary Ann Unger, Paloma Varga Weisz, and Claes Oldenburg, as well as a painting by Saif Azzuz. The tour, published by The Art Newspaper, showcases works from galleries including Karma, Hauser & Wirth, Berry Campbell, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Konrad Fischer Galerie, and Paula Cooper.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 21 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Steely gaze: a look back at Richard Hunt’s early work at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami has opened "Richard Hunt: Pressure," the largest survey to date of American sculptor Richard Hunt (1935-2023), focusing on his work from 1955 to 1989. The exhibition traces Hunt's evolution from self-taught welder at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to a master of welded steel, featuring early pieces like *Telescopic Construction* (1955) and *Hero's Head* (1956), the latter created after attending Emmett Till's open-casket funeral. Co-curated by Gean Moreno and Alex Gartenfeld, the show highlights Hunt's negotiation between formal innovation and social awareness, with works that balance beauty and brutality.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 1, 2025 visibility 35 link 39 artists, 11 galleries

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This December

This December, Los Angeles presents a diverse array of art exhibitions that engage with contemporary social issues, cultural protest, and new possibilities. Highlights include Alan Luna's subversive reinterpretations of Mexican history and American modernism at the new La Plaza Projects, a group show at The Box featuring nearly 200 artists challenging normative sexuality, and Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack's assemblages at Night Gallery that poetically repurpose discarded objects from LA streets. Other notable shows include Edith Dekyndt and Richard Long's dialogue on nature at Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer, and Sam Shoemaker's performance-based mushroom boat project at Fulcrum Arts.

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person people schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 20 link 17 artists, 4 galleries

Gagosian’s Kara Vander Weg On Shaping the Afterlife of an Artist’s Work

Gagosian debuted a show titled “Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience” at its Le Bourget gallery in Paris, featuring The Truck Trilogy—three vintage Chevrolet pickup trucks fitted with the artist’s signature stainless-steel rods. The exhibition is part of the gallery’s “Building a Legacy Program,” launched in 2017 after De Maria’s death without a will threw his estate into turmoil. The program, spearheaded by managing director Kara Vander Weg, aims to preserve and promote artists’ legacies through educational efforts, ambitious shows, symposia, and content in Gagosian Quarterly.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 21, 2025 visibility 17 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

One Fine Show: “Anselm Kiefer, Becoming the Sea” at the Saint Louis Art Museum

The Saint Louis Art Museum has opened “Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea,” an exhibition featuring 40 works by the German artist from the 1970s to the present, including over 20 pieces made in the last five years and five monumental site-specific paintings. The show highlights Kiefer's 1991 journey up the Mississippi River during a visit to St. Louis, a formative trip that inspired new works such as the 30-by-27-foot painting *Missouri, Mississippi* (2024), which depicts the artist encountering the Melvin Price Lock and Dam in Alton, Illinois. The exhibition also includes pieces like *Die Milchstraße* (1985-87) and two works dedicated to beat poet Gregory Corso, whose lines about eternal life gave the show its title.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 19 link 14 artists, 5 galleries

Five Groundbreaking Postwar Women Artists Lead New York’s Fall Art Season

New York's fall art season features five major exhibitions dedicated to groundbreaking postwar women artists, timed with the November auctions. Shows include Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, a Joan Mitchell focus at David Zwirner, and MoMA's long-awaited Ruth Asawa retrospective. The article cites the 2025 Art Basel and UBS Report showing women artist representation in galleries rose to 41% in 2024, with sales growth correlating to higher representation. Artnet data notes 13 women among the top 100 auction sellers in early 2025, up from 10 the prior year.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists, 4 galleries

The Broad Sets Yoko Ono’s First SoCal Solo Exhibition ‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind’ for 2026

The Broad museum in Los Angeles will present 'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind' in spring 2026, marking the artist's first solo museum exhibition in Southern California. Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, the show spans Ono's seven-decade career across visual art, music, and activism, featuring participatory works like 'Wish Trees for Los Angeles' on the East West Bank Plaza and materials from her peace campaigns with John Lennon, including 'Acorn Event' (1968) and 'Bed Peace' (1969).

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article culture schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 21 link 15 artists, 6 galleries

Out of the wrapper and into the gallery: the art of chocolate

Artist Anya Gallaccio discusses her use of chocolate as an art material, tracing her first experiments in 1992 at Rodolphe Janssen gallery in Brussels, where she commissioned chocolate guns, and her 1994 solo show "Brown on White" at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna, where she painted gallery walls with melted couverture chocolate. The work invited visceral audience reactions, including licking the walls, and engaged with themes of desire, decay, and the colonial and class histories of chocolate consumption.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 24 link 31 artists, 8 galleries

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November

This article highlights ten art shows to see in Los Angeles this November, featuring a diverse range of exhibitions. Key shows include Kathleen Ryan's bejeweled rotten fruit, Puppies Puppies's homage to freedom flags, and TJ Shin's bird songs. Historical perspectives are offered through a survey of prints by Robert Rauschenberg at Gemini G.E.L., rarely seen works by Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez at Scripps College, and a tribute to the Brockman Gallery at the Vincent Price Art Museum. The two-venue exhibition 'Monuments' investigates how art reflects national narratives, while Puppies Puppies's dual shows use color and text to address contemporary liberation struggles.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 23, 2025 visibility 30 link 26 artists, 10 galleries

9 Standout Solo Gallery Shows to See in Paris

The article highlights nine standout solo gallery shows currently on view in Paris, coinciding with Art Basel and other art fairs taking place in the city. Featured exhibitions include Elmgreen & Dragset's lifelike office worker installation at MASSIMODECARLO's Piece Unique window, Jessie Makinson's new surreal figurative paintings at Brigitte Mulholland, a tribute to Robert Rauschenberg's 100th birthday at Thaddaeus Ropac, Jeffrey Gibson's first Paris solo show at Hauser & Wirth, and Mickalene Thomas's new portrait series at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 23 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

Five must-see UK exhibitions this Black History Month

Five must-see UK exhibitions for Black History Month 2025 are highlighted, including 'Nigerian Modernism' at Tate Modern (8 Oct 2025–10 May 2026), which explores the development of Modern art in Nigeria through over 250 works by artists like Ben Enwonwu and El Anatsui; 'Stan Douglas: Birth of a Nation and The Enemy of All Mankind' at Victoria Miro (until 1 Nov 2025), a multi-channel video installation confronting racial perception; and 'Jennie Baptiste: Rhythm & Roots' at Somerset House (17 Oct 2025–4 Jan 2026), the photographer's first UK solo exhibition capturing Black diaspora life. Other shows include works addressing the Caribbean Windrush generation in Cambridge.

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person people schedule Oct 3, 2025 visibility 21 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Artist Alicja Kwade Opens the Door of Her Berlin Studio Ahead of a Major Solo Show

Berlin-based Polish artist Alicja Kwade opens her studio ahead of a major solo show, revealing the creative process behind her sculptural works that explore time, uncertainty, and reality. Her studio, a historic industrial complex in Oberschöneweide acquired from musician Bryan Adams, houses a team of a dozen full-time employees and up to 30 freelancers, including stone masons, welders, and architects. Kwade's recent high-profile exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York featured suspended stainless-steel cylinders with clocks and distorted reflections, while her best-known works include 2019 sculptures commissioned for the rooftop of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a contribution to the 2017 Venice Biennale.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 3, 2025 visibility 17 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Van Gogh’s ‘Postman’, and the very chair seen in the painting, go on show in a revelatory Amsterdam exhibition

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has opened "Van Gogh and the Roulins: Together Again at Last," the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's portraits of postman Joseph Roulin and his family. The show, which runs until January 11, 2026, features the artist's first portrait of Roulin on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, alongside the very wicker armchair on which Roulin posed in 1888. The chair, originally bought by Van Gogh for his Yellow House in Arles, was acquired by the museum in 1969 and is exhibited for the first time since then. The exhibition previously drew 280,000 visitors in Boston.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 23 link 17 artists, 3 galleries

8 Must-See Museum Shows Celebrating Overlooked Women Artists

This article highlights eight museum exhibitions scheduled for fall 2025 that focus on historically overlooked women artists. Featured shows include "Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch" at Spelman College, "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within" at the Chazen Museum of Art, and "Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions" at the Cantor Arts Center, among others. Each exhibition aims to bring renewed attention to artists who faced racial and gender barriers, such as Afro-Indigenous sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu, and 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 13 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Exhibition spotlights civic engagement of artists

The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University has opened a new iteration of its Archive Rooms series, featuring two concurrent exhibitions: "Archive Room: Ester Hernandez" and "Archive Room: Ruth Asawa." The Hernandez exhibition showcases seldom-exhibited artwork, ephemera, writing, and family photographs from the artist's archive, including her iconic print "Sun Mad" (1982) addressing pesticide contamination, alongside materials documenting her community-based practice and activism. The Asawa exhibition highlights her arts advocacy through teaching materials, photographs, and projects from the Alvarado School Arts Workshop, an artist-in-residence program she co-founded in 1968 that operated in 50 San Francisco public schools.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 23 link 28 artists, 5 galleries

15 Women-Led Art Shows to See in New York This Fall

The article lists 15 women-led art shows to see in New York this fall, highlighting exhibitions at venues such as the Alice Austen House, David Zwirner, NYU's Grey Art Museum, and others. Featured artists include Meryl Meisler, Sasha Gordon, June Edmonds, June Leaf, Karen Barbour, María Berrío, and Sissi Farassat, with shows running from September through February.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 14, 2025 visibility 12 link 8 artists, 4 galleries

Collection in Focus | Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty

The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation has published a feature titled 'Collection in Focus | Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty,' highlighting the Brazilian artist's vibrant, geometric abstract works held in the Guggenheim collection. The piece examines Milhazes's distinctive visual language, which blends modernist abstraction with Brazilian cultural references, and underscores the rigorous compositional structure underlying her seemingly exuberant patterns.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

Largest-ever Tracey Emin exhibition will be a ‘true celebration of living’, artist says

Tracey Emin's largest-ever exhibition, titled 'A Second Life,' will open at Tate Modern in London in February 2026, featuring over 90 works spanning 40 years. The show includes her iconic installation 'My Bed' (1998), alongside neons, sculptures, paintings, videos, and textiles, tracing her career from her first solo show at White Cube in 1993 to recent works reflecting her recovery from bladder cancer. The exhibition draws heavily on her adolescence in Margate, addressing themes of love, trauma, abortion, and personal growth through an unflinchingly confessional lens.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 7, 2025 visibility 23 link 24 artists, 10 galleries

The Storm Hits the Art Market

The article reports on the severe downturn in the art market during the first half of 2025, focusing on the closure of New York-based Clearing gallery. Despite opting out of Art Basel to host an alternative exhibition in a rented villa to cut costs, the gallery could not survive its financial losses and announced bankruptcy in August. It is one of several prominent galleries—including Blum, Venus Over Manhattan, and Kasmin—that have closed amid falling sales, high overheads, and reduced collector spending.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 6, 2025 visibility 20 link 17 artists, 1 gallery

Adam Dressner’s Portraits Are for the People

Adam Dressner, a self-taught former corporate lawyer, opened his debut solo gallery exhibition "Hello Stranger 2" at 1969 Gallery in Tribeca. The show features large-scale oil paintings and a salon wall of 60 small acrylic portraits, many painted live in public spaces like Washington Square Park and Grand Central Terminal. Subjects range from celebrities like Joyce Carol Oates and Anna Delvey to everyday New Yorkers such as a neighborhood waiter and a 90-year-old park acquaintance. Dressner painted 18 works on-site in the days before the opening, continuing his practice of wheeling an "art cart" of supplies to make expressive plein-air portraits.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 4, 2025 visibility 34 link 35 artists, 4 galleries

The 10 Exhibitions to See in September 2025

The article previews ten major art exhibitions opening in September 2025, highlighting the 36th Bienal de São Paulo curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, which takes inspiration from estuaries and rivers and features artists like Frank Bowling and Huguette Caland. It also covers the Okayama Art Summit 2025, directed by Philippe Parreno, which reimagines the city as a site of balance between nature and construction, and Hayv Kahraman's solo show 'Ghost Fires' at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, reflecting her experience as a refugee from the Gulf War.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 31, 2025 visibility 28 link 86 artists, 5 galleries

Washington, D.C., Museums are Showcasing African American Art, Exhibitions Focus on Photography and the Black Arts Movement, Vivian Browne, Adam Pendleton & More

Museums across Washington, D.C., are currently presenting a robust slate of exhibitions focused on African American art, including major retrospectives, solo shows, and thematic group presentations. Notable shows include "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art, "We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists" at the Renwick Gallery, solo exhibitions for Vivian Browne and Essex Hemphill at The Phillips Collection, Chakaia Booker's "In the Tower" at the National Gallery, and Adam Pendleton's "Love, Queen" at the Hirshhorn Museum. Additionally, collectors Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson have pledged 175 works by Black artists to the National Gallery, with over 60 on view in "With Passion and Purpose."

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 18, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Behind-the-scenes Beatles photographs shot by Paul McCartney to go on sale at Gagosian London

Gagosian London will present 'Rearview Mirror: Liverpool–London–Paris' from August 28 to October 4, showcasing behind-the-scenes photographs taken by Paul McCartney between December 1963 and February 1964. The images, remastered from long-lost negatives and contact sheets, capture pivotal moments in the Beatles' early fame, including their Paris residency at the Olympia Theatre and their appearance on BBC's Juke Box Jury. The prints are signed by McCartney, available in editions of six to ten, and priced between $20,000 and $85,000. The exhibition follows a larger presentation at Gagosian Beverly Hills earlier this year.

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person people schedule Aug 14, 2025 visibility 15 link 16 artists, 6 galleries

Alton Yan

Alton Yan has been appointed as the new director of the Asia Society Museum in New York, effective immediately. Yan, previously a curator at the museum, succeeds the outgoing director and brings extensive experience in Asian contemporary art to the role.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 12, 2025 visibility 23 link 13 artists, 3 galleries

Sotheby’s Unveils Plans for Breuer Building, Announces Opening Date

Sotheby's will open its new global headquarters in the Marcel Breuer–designed building at 945 Madison Avenue on November 8, 2025, after a renovation by Herzog & de Meuron with local partner PBDW Architects. The Brutalist landmark, originally completed in 1966 for the Whitney Museum of American Art, later housed the Met Breuer and the Frick Collection during its renovation. The project restores Breuer's original open gallery floors, adds state-of-the-art lighting and climate control, and preserves period details like the lobby's domed ceiling lights. The opening will feature a free public exhibition of Modern and Contemporary art ahead of marquee auctions starting November 17, with design sales and Luxury Week following on December 5, and a fine-dining restaurant by Roman and Williams opening later in the winter.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 17 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

studio museum in harlem to reopen november 2025 with adjaye-designed building

The Studio Museum in Harlem will reopen in November 2025 after a major renovation and expansion designed by Adjaye Associates. The new building, located on West 125th Street, will feature increased gallery space, a sculpture garden, and improved public amenities. The reopening marks the culmination of a multi-year capital project that began during the museum's temporary closure.

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