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Costume Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

May 10th, 2026 —January 10th, 2027

Where does the body end and clothing begin? This question is explored in a new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which places fashion and art in constant dialogue.

Open until January 10th, 2027, the exhibition pairs garments with artworks from across the museum’s extensive collection, exploring connections from prehistory to the present day. Rather than presenting a linear narrative, the display moves through a series of body types, exploring themes ranging from the aesthetic and political to the intimate and symbolic. The exhibition also inaugurates the Costume Institute’s new galleries: a luminous space designed to bring fashion to the heart of the museum. Highlights include unexpected juxtapositions—couture alongside painting and sculpture—revealing how clothing shapes identity, power, and desire. 

David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis

White Cube

May 1st—June 13th, 2026

This rare encounter between two singular artistic voices unfolds as a dialogue shaped by material, memory, and instinct. The exhibition at White Cube brings together works by David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis, revisiting the creative exchange that they first established in Rome in the early 1990s.

Spanning decades from the 1950s onwards, the exhibition reflects a shared sensitivity to raw materials and the poetics of everyday forms. Highlights include emblematic pieces that reveal their parallel yet distinct approaches, united by a quiet intensity and deeply tactile language.

Carol Bove

The Guggenheim 

March 5th—August 2nd, 2026

The iconic spiral rotunda of the Guggenheim provides an evocative setting for the work of Carol Bove. Her diverse oeuvre, spanning from subtle assemblages and fragile paper objects to towering steel sculptures, interacts dynamically with the museum’s architecture, creating a space for exploring the relationship between objects and their surroundings.
Bove’s sculptures are complemented by other artists’ pieces, including Alicia, a ceramic mural by Joan Miró and Josep Llorens Artigas that was installed in the Guggenheim’s ramps in the 1960s and is now partially revealed for the first time in decades. Together, they invite visitors into moments of amplified imaginative awareness, where the building emerges as a sculpture on its own.

Marcel Duchamp

The Museum of Modern Art

April 12th—August 22nd, 2026

The first retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s work in the United States since 1973, this exhibition at MoMA follows how his practice unfolded from early experiments with visual form to challenging the nature of art, its uniqueness, and originality. Duchamp has become a truly influential figure in modern culture, as his work transformed the definition of art itself, often leaving audiences bewildered, shocked, and asking, “Why is this art?”

Visitors are invited to explore nearly 300 pieces across over 50 years of the artist’s work in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, film, photography, and printed matter. The exhibition traces Duchamp’s path chronologically, opening with early drawings and cartoons, then continuing with monumental painting on glass and invention of the readymade. Among other highlights are his experiments with innovative methods and a fascination with replicas and multiples, often created in collaboration with other artists. The show also chronicles the studies and preparatory work for Duchamp’s final major piece, Étant donnés, which was installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art a year after his death.

The Reflection of Bronze

Gagosian

April 22nd—July 2nd, 2026

In his work, Giuseppe Penone embraces a wide range of materials—from skin to stone. The new exhibition at Gagosian focuses on his bronze sculptures, which extend his earlier exploration of trees into a less conventional medium. Penone examines the connection between human life and the natural world; shifting from wood to metal, he emphasizes the passage of time and the perpetuity of change. 

Curated by Adam D. Weinberg, the exhibition creates a sequence inside the gallery’s three rooms. The first pairs cork and metal; the second presents bronze casts of carved tree trunks. The third room reflects a gradual passage of time with bronze panels transforming from highly polished surfaces to ones laden with the marks of history. Penone draws attention to the details that are usually overlooked—though they have always been there. 

Kishio Suga

Mendes Wood DM

March 13th—May 23rd, 2026

One of the most important figures in Japanese contemporary art, Kishio Suga began his practice by working with elements drawn from reality—whether organic or artificial—using them to convey the essence of the world’s fundamental nature. He seeks to avert the limitations posed by the Western anthropocentric philosophy, making work that exists in a zone between theory and practice. 

Suga explores matter not as a passive or inert substance, but rather as a subject capable of interacting with its surroundings and being sufficient on its own. In both his two- and three-dimensional artworks, geometry plays an indispensable role, allowing for an unconventional form of interiority. The pieces are not mere symbols; instead, they function as agents, activating the space and bringing forth its own qualities and dimensions. 

David Lamelas: The Machine

Dia Chelsea

March 6th, 2026—January 16th, 2027

At Dia Chelsea, a comprehensive exhibition of David Lamelas’ work highlights the key milestones of his varied career. Born in Argentina, Lamelas has a substantial oeuvre—spanning several decades and multiple mediums—which comprises paintings, drawings, installations, performances, films, and sculptures. The show is structured in three parts: a presentation of works, a series of performances, and a film program.

Seamlessly navigating between geographies and media, Lamelas examines space, time, and perception. Together, the parts of The Machine unveil his lifelong exploration of information and communication as malleable sculptural materials, and how these are shaped by the viewer’s perception. He treats the mind as a machine—one capable of constructing and redefining reality. 

Whitney Biennial 2026

Whitney Museum of American Art

March 8th—August 23rd, 2026

The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial captures a moment defined by major cultural and societal shifts. This year, simply highlighting the essence of what artists are making is insufficient. A second, equally pressing question arises: what does it mean to name something “American” today?

Despite the Whitney Museum’s primary focus on American art, this edition of the biennial includes many international voices. An intergenerational and global group of fifty-six artists, duos, and collectives, who are taking part in the event, examines the timely themes of geopolitics and society, ecology and technological development, and shared mythologies—advocating for solidarity and connection while embracing difference. 

Used

Southern Guild

April 24th—May 17th, 2026

At Southern Guild’s new location in Tribeca, Usha Seejarim continues her decades-long exploration of gender, power, and labor. By recontextualizing everyday objects, she reveals the household as a site for creating and maintaining social relations, where domestic work is often feminized, invisible, and structurally oppressive. 

Seejarim reframes the idea of “use”, arising from daily repetition, not as a passive state but as something that demands real effort and quiet resistance. The exhibition maintains a deliberate ambiguity: through abstraction, the artist suggests that domestic labor is omnipresent, yet rarely fully acknowledged or valued. The objects retain the memories and traces of use, which she never attempts to erase. 

CHAIR SHOW

125 Newbury

April 17th—May 23rd, 2026

The CHAIR SHOW exhibition brings together objects that explore how chairs appear in art—across sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography. Varied in form and purpose, they serve as an indelible symbol in our culture. This group show explores the chair in its many dimensions—as a utilitarian piece, a subject of art, and an idea of chair-ness—suggesting a metaphysical meditation on the ponderous presence of the body. 

The exhibition experiments with the chair and strives to reveal its inherent strangeness, placing it in unconventional positions and angles. It features work by several renowned artists, including Urs Fischer’s Midnight, Andy Warhol’s Little Electric Chair, Donald Judd’s Chairs, among many others. René Magritte’s surrealist works are shown alongside Kiki Smith’s papier-mâché airborne chairs and Robert Rauschenberg’s constructivist furniture pieces.  

The Fear of 13

James Earl Jones Theatre

March 19th—July 12th, 2026

A gripping portrait of justice and survival is brought to life on stage, recounting the true story of a man who spent decades on death row before fighting to reclaim his life. Balancing intimacy with urgency, the production delves into themes of memory, truth and the tenuous boundary between conviction and innocence.

Adrien Brody makes a powerful Broadway debut with a performance of rare emotional depth, joined by Tessa Thompson, whose nuanced and intense performance adds depth to the narrative. Directed by David Cromer and written by Lindsey Ferrentino, the play combines the precision of a legal drama with the weight of lived experience.

La Traviata

Metropolitan Opera 

March 20 —June 6, 2026

At the Metropolitan Opera House, La Traviata emerges as a reflection on desire and transience, in which love is inextricably linked to its own destruction. Michael Mayer’s dreamlike restraint allows the emotional architecture of Giuseppe Verdi’s score to unfold with quiet intensity.

The role of Violetta is taken in turn by Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola and Ermonela Jaho, each bringing a different emotional depth to the heroine, who is both luminous and already fading. In contrast, Alfredo’s ardour and fragility are portrayed with sensitivity, prioritising nuance over display.

Dog Day Afternoon

August Wilson Theatre

March 10th—July 18th, 2026

On Broadway, Dog Day Afternoon revisits a real-life 1972 bank robbery, unfolding as a tense portrait of desperation, media spectacle, and a city on edge. Adapted for the stage by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Rupert Goold, the production captures the raw urgency of the events with a contemporary rhythm and sharp focus.

At its heart, Jon Bernthal gives a volatile yet deeply human performance as Sonny, while Ebon Moss-Bachrach brings equal intensity to his role. Both actors, renowned for their screen performances, bring the same emotional precision to the stage with striking immediacy.

What begins as a failed robbery expands into something far more complex: an intimate study of pressure, impulse and the fine line between spectacle and truth.