{"id":1812791,"date":"2026-03-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1812791"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:00:00","slug":"what-to-see-and-do-in-the-artworld-in-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1812791","title":{"rendered":"What to See and Do in the Artworld in Spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Censorship<\/em> by Ai Weiwei<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Thames & Hudson, London\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAi Weiwei has flaunted, skirted, interrogated, and in countless other ways resisted censorship over the course of a decadeslong career beginning in his native China and transpiring around the world. This book tells the story in his own words, which are likely to be more than a bit barbed. On sale March 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cLet Us Gather in a Flourishing Way\u201d at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Robert Chase Heishman\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tWith a title borrowed from former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, this survey focuses on contemporary Latinx painting by way of 58 artists poking and prodding the medium in different ways. The show\u2019s seven thematic sections were assembled around \u201c(New) Histories,\u201d \u201cBodies & Figures,\u201d \u201cIdentity\/Place,\u201d \u201cLand\/Tierra,\u201d \u201cCommunity,\u201d \u201cAbstractions,\u201d and \u201cPinturx\u201d (the last referring to traditional painting modes such as portraiture and still life). March 6\u2013Sept. 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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The Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Ignacio Gatica\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tNow in its 82nd edition, the newest incarnation of this closely watched survey is curated by Marcela Guerrero (the Whitney\u2019s first curator with a stated focus on Latinx art) and Drew Sawyer (hired by the museum as a photography curator in 2023). Whitney director Scott Rothkopf told The New York Times that the show\u2014which includes 56 artists, many of whom have not shown in New York before\u2014\u201cdoesn\u2019t try to simplify the strangeness of our times.\u201d Opens March 8<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cSandra Gamarra Heshiki: Replica\u201d at the Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy S\u00e3o Paulo Museum of Art\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tOne goal of the Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s \u201cLatin American Histories\u201d program this year is to understand how museums have exhibited the region\u2019s artistic heritage, in ways both historically accurate and not. Consider it apt, then, that one figure being surveyed by the museum is Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, a Peruvian artist whose projects have frequently taken the form of institutions as a commentary on all that is shut out by museum doors. Some 25 years\u2019 worth of projects in this vein will be surveyed in this 80-work show. March 6\u2013June 7<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cArt of Noise\u201d at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Matt Flynn\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u201cArt of Noise\u201d Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Music, and designs inspired by it, are the subjects of this iteration of an exhibition that originated at SFMOMA in 2024. Governmental issues held up the schedule, due to the Cooper Hewitt\u2019s status as part of the Smithsonian, but the show will go on with a mix of products from the dawning hi-fi age (vintage record players, transistor radios) to offerings from the present (iPods, a custom \u201clistening room\u201d by sound-system designer Devon Turnbull, aka \u201cOJAS\u201d). Interspersed with all that are album covers, concert posters, and other kinds of ephemera that make music culture a feast for the eyes as well as the ears. Through Aug. 16<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Carol Bove at the Guggenheim Museum<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Dan Bradica\/\u00a9Carol Bove Studio LLC\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe spiraling rotunda of the Guggenheim will meet its poetically architectonic match when filled with the sculptures of Carol Bove. Using formidable sheets of steel that she paints, polishes, and sometimes leaves plain, the New York\u2013based artist has created her own subtle language of twisting, torquing forms that belie their scale. She\u2019s also worked in smaller registers\u2014via presentations of bookshelves and other elegant modes of display\u2014that show her affection for archives and esoterica. March 5\u2013Aug. 2<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cMatisse: 1941\u20131954\u201d at the Grand Palais<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Centre Pompidou, Paris\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis exhibition in Paris aims to shine new light on the final years of Matisse\u2019s life and career, before he died of a heart attack in Nice at the age of 84. That means there will be a special focus on his cutouts, which the artist plied as a new method for depicting vividly colored flora, fauna, and expressive abstract shapes with a vital spirit that remained until he clipped his last piece of paper. March 24\u2013July 26<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Kim Yun Shin at the Hoam Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Kim Ran\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tNow in her 90s, Kim Yun Shin continues to take a chainsaw to wood to create her sculptures. In her hands, however, those heavy wood blocks seem light and lithe. Hot off an appearance in the 2024 Venice Biennale, Kim is having a retrospective\u2014her second in her native Korea in the past few years\u2014at this institution in Yongin, South Korea, which will survey seven decades\u2019 worth of prints, sculptures, and more. March 17\u2013June 28<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cRaphael: Sublime Poetry\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Polo Museale dell\u2019Emilia Romagna, Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna\/Art Resource, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tMore than 200 works\u2014among them paintings, drawings, and tapestries from collections all over the world\u2014will figure in this blockbuster show for one of the Renaissance\u2019s premier talents. Look out for what an exhibition description calls \u201cparticular attention to Raphael\u2019s portrayal of women\u2014from his use of nude female models for the first time in Western art to his tender depictions of the Madonna and Child,\u201d as well as new technologically abetted discoveries about classic works for the ages. March 29\u2013June 28<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cRenoir and Love\u201d at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay<\/h2>\n
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\n\tPierre-Auguste Renoir\u2019s luminous paintings of French nightlife and bourgeois lifestyles are rarely singled out for their depictions of amorous lovers. But this show presents the Impressionist as a keen observer of shifting social mores surrounding romantic liaisons, focusing on how he pictured the act of seduction and represented what an exhibition description labels \u201cfemale consent\u201d during the 19th century. Though the show is also traveling to London and Boston, there is no better place to see it than Paris, the city that was core to Renoir\u2019s art. March 17\u2013July 19<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Michael Armitage at the Palazzo Grassi<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Theo Christelis\/\u00a9Michael Armitage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tMichael Armitage was one of the breakout stars of the 2019 Venice Biennale, where he showed vast paintings made on lubugo (bark cloth) that offered dreamy visions of life in Nairobi, the city where he was born. Seven years later, the London-based painter makes his return to Venice with this survey, featuring a decade\u2019s worth of paintings contending with the refugee crisis in Europe and realms beyond our own. March 29\u2013Jan. 10<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Jesse Darling at the Palais de Tokyo<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Gr\u00e9gory Copitet\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tTurner Prize\u2013winning sculptor Jesse Darling invests everyday objects\u2014disused barricades, stacked binders, vases full of flowers, and more\u2014with maximal meaning, using his materials to explore states of fragility. The artist\u2019s work is equally about resistance: His chosen items may break or bend, but they still find ways of surviving. This exhibition in Paris will feature an ambitious array of large-scale installations set within a museum known for its monumental size. April 3\u2013Sept. 13<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Allen Lane, London\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis hefty biography published by W. W. Norton & Company tracks the life and work of the great Dutch master as chronicled by the English writer Andrew Graham-Dixon, a former art critic for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and the author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. According to vaunted Australian novelist Peter Carey, \u201cThis book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer.\u201d On sale April 7<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n at the National Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Photographic Archive of the National Prado Museum, Madrid\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tLondoners can lay claim to one of Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n\u2019s masterpieces: Saint Francis in Meditation (1639), featuring the Catholic friar cloaked in shadow as he prays on his knees. With its awestruck religious fervor and dramatic lighting effects, the painting emblematizes the best of both the Spanish painter and the Baroque movement he helped define. Most of the time, there are few other Zurbar\u00e1n paintings of its caliber in the British capital; but that will change with this retrospective\u2014billed as the first of its kind in London\u2014which offers a full view of Zurbar\u00e1n\u2019s career, including his time spent cultivating his son Juan\u2019s painting career. May 2\u2013Aug. 23<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Alex Marks\/Courtesy Prospect New Orleans\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis long-running survey of global art, inaugurated in 1896, attracts lots of eyes to Pittsburgh\u2014a city that will come even more to the fore as the Carnegie Museum partners with other institutions around town (among them the Children\u2019s Museum, the Kamin Science Center, the Mattress Factory, and a YMCA) for the 59th edition. The program also includes 14 commissions by artists including Torkwase Dyson and G. Peter Jemison, so expect to discover work never seen before. May 2\u2013Jan. 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Life in Progress<\/em> by Hans Ulrich Obrist<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Penguin Random House, London\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe US edition of this autobiography, already published overseas, tells the story of the art world\u2019s most omnipresent figure\u2014a curator who knows no bounds and seems to be everywhere, all the time. Promo copy touts the book as \u201cpart unputdownable coming-of-age story, part insider\u2019s tour of the contemporary art world, part user\u2019s manual on how to live a life driven by curiosity, conversation, and coincidence.\u201d On sale April 14<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Aleksandra Kasuba at Tate St. Ives<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Lithuanian National Museum of Art\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAleksandra Kasuba seemed to have no love for 90-degree angles: Nearly all her artworks, many of them unclassifiable pieces that trotted the line between sculpture, installation, and architecture, featured undulating surfaces and curvaceous forms. The Lithuanian-American artist expressed an interest in how environments shape one\u2019s experience of the world, fulfilling her inquiry by crafting mind-bending installations from fabric and tile in the World Trade Center, the New Mexican desert, and even her own home before her death in 2019 at the age of 96. The exhibition, one of Kasuba\u2019s biggest shows to be staged outside Lithuania, will explore how she realized her ambitious projects. May 2\u2013Oct. 4<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Venice Biennale<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Francesco Galli\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u201cIn Minor Keys,\u201d the main exhibition of this year\u2019s edition of the world\u2019s biggest art festival, will take on extra resonance given that its curator, Koyo Kouoh, died in the midst of working on it. But despite the significance of her passing, the show stands to be a somewhat muted affair, with an emphasis on artists who \u201crefuse orchestral bombast,\u201d per an exhibition description. (At press time, the artist list had not yet been revealed.) The Biennale\u2019s accompanying national pavilions, on the other hand, have generated quite a bit of noise, most notably the controversial selection of Alma Allen to represent the United States. May 9\u2013Nov. 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Anni Albers: A Life <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Yale University Press, New Haven\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThough Anni Albers was once forced to share the spotlight with her husband, the painter Josef Albers, she has in recent years emerged as a star in her own right, with a retrospective visiting multiple European cities in 2018. Further sign of her increased fame arrives with this biography by Nicholas Fox Weber, the head of the Albers Foundation. Having more than a little familiarity with his subject, the author charts how Albers moved fluidly across multiple mediums, translating her abstract compositions from paintings to textiles and back again. On sale April 28<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cFelix Gonzalez-Torres: Sweet Revenge\u201d at the Museo Reina Sof\u00eda<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Ben Blackwell\/Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tTitled after a 1990 group exhibition in Madrid that featured him, this exhibition offers a survey of Felix Gonzalez- Torres\u2019s wide-ranging practice, from his \u201cportraits\u201d composed of text and piles of candy to his stacks of posters printed with images of vast skies and seas. What makes this Gonzalez-Torres show especially interesting is its curators: Nancy Spector, who organized the artist\u2019s posthumous US Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and her collaborator, conceptual artist Alejandro Cesarco. May 27\u2013Oct. 12<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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