Art news

September 15, 2026 Musée d’Orsay opens a Bartholdi exhibition on the making of Liberty A new exhibition and virtual-reality experience trace Auguste Bartholdi’s long campaign to create and realise the Statue of Liberty. Read more

September 14, 2026 Crystal Bridges opens a major Grandma Moses retrospective “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” brings together about 80 paintings and archival objects to reconsider the artist’s late-blooming career and cultural influence. Read more

September 13, 2026 The Met announces a major exhibition on the cross-cultural roots of ancient Greek art “Across Wine-Dark Seas” will bring loans from 11 countries to New York and examine how exchange across the Mediterranean transformed art and identity. Read more

September 12, 2026 Gala Porras-Kim opens her first institutional exhibition in Colombia The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín presents “The Motion of an Alluvial Record,” a new exhibition about archives, preservation and the authority of museums. Read more

September 8, 2026 Final Week for MoMA’s “Frida and Diego: The Last Dream” MoMA’s collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera brings paintings, photographs, and theatrical design into one final week before the exhibition closes on September 12. Read more

September 5, 2026 Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE opens at MoMA A new first-floor installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art revisits Yoko Ono’s decades-long use of concise public messages as instruments of peace activism. Read more

August 31, 2026 The Met reunites Della Robbia glazed terracottas after decades in storage “Rediscovering Della Robbia at The Met” brings together newly conserved Renaissance sculptures, fresh research, and a digital reconstruction of a monumental altarpiece. Read more

August 30, 2026 MoMA examines how modern architecture shaped independence in Western Africa “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa” brings together hundreds of drawings, models, photographs, and films tracing architecture’s role in the era of decolonization. Read more

August 27, 2026 Yayoi Kusama dies at 97 The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose immersive installations and recurring fields of dots made her one of the most recognisable figures in contemporary art, has died in Tokyo at the age of 97. Read more

August 27, 2026 MoMA traces a century of animation in “It’s Alive!” MoMA’s new collection exhibition “It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection” opened on August 1, 2026 and remains on view through summer 2027. Read more

August 20, 2026 Final days for the National Gallery’s landmark survey of mining and American photography “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography,” a 150-work survey of how resource extraction shaped the medium, closes in Washington on August 23. Read more

July 9, 2026 Whitney Biennial 2026: One of the Major Art Events of the Season One of the most important contemporary art events of this summer is Whitney Biennial 2026, now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York through August 23, 2026. Read more