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.
This season is a major event for the art world, offering both blockbuster historical shows and contemporary surveys like the Whitney Biennial. The exhibitions provide critical opportunities to reassess canonical figures, explore understudied artistic processes, and engage with current artistic discourse, drawing international visitors and shaping cultural conversations in a key global art capital.