Exhibitions

SummaryThe Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center team up for joint exhibitions dedicated to Roy LichteinsteinThe exhibitions are anchored by a 50-plus piece gift by the artist’s namesake foundation, featuring prints, drawings, maquettes, prototypes and sculpturesBoth Roy Lichtenstein in Studio exhibitions will be on view until this summerWherever you fall on the art novice-connoisseur spectrum, you know Roy Lichtenstein, the pop art pioneer known for his Ben-Day dot paintings of teary-eyed maidens flanked by an explosive “Whaam!” Courtesy of a landmark gift by the his namesake foundation, in Dallas, the New York artist comes into full focus for a cross-museum showcase.The Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) give the floor(s) to Roy Lichtenstein in Studio, on v...

SummaryThe International Center of Photography in New York presents HARD COPY, a group exhibition curated by Aaron SternOn view until May 4, the show expands on Stern's ongoing project centered on the creative potential of the photocopierThe exhibition features work by 15 artists, including Stephen Shore, Thomas Ruff, Ryan McGinley, Ari Marcopoulos and Shaniqwa JarvisBillions of photos are taken every day. Many are hardly precious and surely most were never meant to be seen again: rogue text screenshots; awkward, aspirational captures; things you forgot you wanted to buy. Faced with our growing pile of “digital detritus,” as Aaron Stern puts it, how do we sort out the good stuff? For Stern, the humble photocopier holds some answers.The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York ...

Summary<The V&A East Museum will host The Music is Black: A British Story, marking its inaugural exhibitionThe show will brings together over 200 artifacts and artworks celebrating 125 years of Black British musicFeatures and appearances include the likes of Little Simz, Jorja Smith, Skepta, Sade and JME, alongside newly commissioned artworks by Frank Bowling and LR VandyFrom jungle and drum and bass to UK garage and grime, Black British music travelled far beyond home shores, making an indelible mark on the global sound stage. With the arrival of the new V&A East in Stratford, the museum’s inaugural exhibition sets out to chart the sounds and scenes that have come to shape this aspect of contemporary British life. Opening on April 18, The Music is Black: A British Story traces ...

SummaryThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will open the first comprehensive showcase dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s depiction of headsFeaturing 45 works, the exhibition centers in on 1981-1983, key years of creation, and offers insight into this prolific motif while unpacking their role in his life and workAfter a childhood car accident left him hospitalized, a seven-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat was gifted a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, a medical reference book, by his mother. Throughout his life and practice, the artist kept a deep fascination with anatomy and science close, so when Basquiat, 22 at the time, was asked how he typically began a painting, his answer was simple: “I suppose I would start with a head.”A new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark puts a spo...

SummaryRenowned artist Ai Weiwei turns his 30-ton button collection into eight massive flags for Button Up!, a new exhibition in ManchesterOpening this summer, the show features “Eight-Nation Alliance Flags,” a new body of textiles, alongside a 2D version of “History of Bombs,” composed of 3.5 million Lego bricksIn 2019, Ai Weiwei bought out the entire stock of A Brown and Co Buttons, a defunct South London textile factory, leaving many to wonder: what was the artist planning to do with 30 tons of buttons? After the standout “F.U.C.K.” installation at Lisson in 2024, Ai’s fascination with the everyday object continues to unravel, and is set to take center stage in the forthcoming, aptly-titled Button Up! exhibition at Manchester’s Factory International come July 2.The ex-warehouse venue wi...

SummaryTino Sehgal opens his first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Museo de Arte de ZapopanThe exhibition features several live works, including the seminal “Kiss,” “Yet Untitled” and “These Associations,” a new work created for the venueTino Sehgal’s works are famously undocumented, save for the odd stray snapshot here and there. While based in sculpture, the Berlin-based artist has built a reputation around what he terms "constructed situations": fleeting encounters shared between visitors and performers; things to be experienced more than witnessed. You just have to be there.Sehgal has landed in Guadalajara for his first-ever solo show Mexico. Staged at the new Estación MAZ at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the eponymous exhibition gives the floor to these ephemeral exchanges in warm-bl...

SummaryDia Beacon presents Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first full retrospective of his durational performancesHighlights include "Cage Piece," "Time Clock Piece," "Outdoor Piece" and "Rope Piece," alongside the monumental "Thirteen Year Plan"Currently on view at Dia Beacon is Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the Taiwanese American artist’s radical durational performances. Enacted over a 21-year period, Hsieh’s oeuvre consists of five iconic One Year Performances followed by his monumental “Thirteen Year Plan,” all of which collapsed the traditional boundaries between art and life. This long-term view marks a significant milestone as it brings together all five year-long works for the first time, including "Rope Piece" and ...

SummaryJacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input/Ouput, his latest solo exhibitionFeaturing a suite of new and recent oil paintings, the showcase explores music as a unifier, bridging generations and genres, eras and placesPress play on your favorite song and, only a matter of measures in, you're already somewhere else — a different time or place, maybe surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. Music, and its immense, connective power, is a central for Jacob Rochester, an artist who translates the warmth and intimacy of sound into a rich, canvas-based language.The Los Angeles-based artist goes bicoastal with Input/Output, his New York solo debut. Now on view at Plato through March 7, the show brings together a family of new and recent works that trace familial ties, eve...

SummaryOpening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRocheThe show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los AngelesFor his third solo presentation with Roberts Projects, contemporary heavyweight Amoako Boafo is blurring the lines between creation and exhibition. Titled I Bring Home with Me, the show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los Angeles by physically recreating the artist’s studio within the gallery walls.Opening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRoche. The installation is more than a backdrop; it is a 1:1 scale exploration of "home" as a mobile concept. Visitors enter through a threshold of vibrant monstera-patterned wallpaper, movi...

SummaryToronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is hosting artist and designer Ranbir Sidhu's first museum solo exhibitionOn view until January 2027, No Limits is a deep dive into Sidhu’s chromatic, futurist landscapes with three new sculptural installationsThe Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents No Limits, Toronto-based artist Ranbir Sidhu’s debut museum solo. With an eye equally fixed on the past and future, Sidhu’s colossal, metal forms bridge this world and the beyond. In his latest sculptural suite, the artist-designer draws us into his futuristic vision, a lustrous landscape unbounded by scale, time and space.“To work with metal is to wrestle with time itself, bending it into forms that speak of possibility,” explained Sidhu. Drawn to its timeless yet enduring poeticism, metal has served a...

In 2026, museums across Europe, North America and Asia are leaning into exhibitions built around reassessment and scale. The year’s programming is anchored by major retrospectives, first-time surveys and focused studies of influential artists from Marcel Duchamp’s long-overdue return to MoMA to career-spanning presentations by Tracey Emin, Daido Moriyama and Anish Kapoor. Elsewhere, institutions are committing space and time to artists whose work reshaped entire disciplines, including Dan Flavin’s architectural light works, Marina Abramović’s performance practice, Mariko Mori’s immersive, science-driven installations and a joint exhibition by Fondazione Prada featuring Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince. Rather than thematic group shows, these exhibitions prioritize depth, historical context a...

SummaryOnassis ONX inaugurates its new, 6,000-square-foot Tribeca home with TECHNE: Homecoming, a new group exhibitionGathering immersive works by seven artists, the showcase explores the many faces of family in a digital landscapeChampioning experimental digital art incubator Onassis ONX heads downtown to christen its new Tribeca home with TECHNE: Homecoming, a multimedia group exhibition. On view until January 18, the showcase gathers a collection of works by seven artists, moving across form and focus, yet all grounded in the connective power of technology.Employing ancient and new mythologies, AI, bio art and immersive environments, the exhibition reconsiders how, in an increasingly digital world, the concept of “family” extends beyond blood to encompass the mythic and computation, rec...