10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2026

Will the New Museum actually reopen?

This year’s 2026 Preview consists of all the entertainment — from TV and movies to classical music — that Vulture writers and editors are excited to consume in the New Year. Below, our art list.

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Caravaggio: Boy With a Basket of Fruit

January 16 

Venue: The Morgan Library & Museum

Get lost in rapture over this masterpiece on loan from Rome’s Galleria Borghese. 

Ceija Stojka: ‘Making Visible’

February 20 

Venue: The Drawing Center

This self-taught Roma artist and Holocaust survivor created searing images of a lost world. 

Paul Chan

March 5 

Venue: Greene Naftali

Chan is a chameleon of strange animation, witty political agitprop, and blow-up sculpture. 

Carol Bove

March 5 

Venue: Guggenheim Museum

The largest presentation to date by an artist of conceptual intrigue and formalist infatuation. 

The Whitney Biennial

March 8 

Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art

The building-filling core-sample biennial exhibition says it will deal with subjects from “interspecies kinships” to “infrastructural supports” and include more than 50 artists. 

Raphael: ‘Sublime Poetry’

March 29 

Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Art

With more than 200 works, this will be the largest-ever show of the divine Raphael in the U.S. 

Marcel Duchamp

April 12 

Venue: Museum of Modern Art

The first Duchamp retrospective in this country since 1973. 

Julie Mehretu

April 14 

Venue: Marian Goodman Gallery

This MacArthur-winning artist will fill the still-new downtown exhibition spaces of the vaunted Goodman. 

Katherine Bernhardt

May 14 

Venue: Canada gallery

Few artists turn up the color to Pop-graffiti intensity than this feral genius. 

The New Museum Reopens (Again)

TBA 

Venue: New Museum

It was supposed to reopen in the fall, but this time it’s allegedly for real.