March 2026
March 2026 at a glance: 12 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 14 more were on view across the city.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Past
The first museum survey of Carol Bove (b. 1971) fills Wright's spiral rotunda, tracing 25+ years of work from paperback-book assemblages and paper collages to towering, brightly painted steel sculptures.

Dia Chelsea · Free
A comprehensive survey of Argentine Conceptual artist David Lamelas, tracing his work from 1965 to today across film, sculpture and performance, unfolding as exhibition, film program and live work.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Two of Peggy Weil's immersive underscapes, 88 Cores and 18 Cores, visualize Earth's deep climatic history on the 24-foot screen in MoMA's lobby.

Whitney Museum of American Art · Past
Sculptor Kelly Akashi transforms the Whitney's open-air terrace with glass, bronze and stone works, including Monument (Altadena), a glass-brick response to losses from the 2025 Eaton Fire.

Whitney Museum of American Art
The 82nd edition of the Whitney's landmark survey of contemporary American art, gathering fifty-six artists, duos and collectives exploring interspecies kinship, geopolitics, technology and precarious ecologies.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
A site-specific installation by Kapwani Kiwanga reworking the quilting "flying geese" pattern in natural dyes, evoking the Underground Railroad and histories of Black resistance.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Treasured Korean objects are turned around to reveal their interiors, reverses, and hidden details, offering a fuller view of each work's form across two rotations.

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past
Maurice Sendak's set and costume designs for Mozart's The Magic Flute, with preparatory sketches and watercolors from the 1980 Houston Grand Opera production.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Historic American flags tied to 9/11, including the Ground Zero Flag, paired with personal stories in Foundation Hall to mark the nation's 250th anniversary.

MoMA PS1 · Free · Past
Queens collective Red Canary Song, led by migrant massage and sex workers across the Asian diaspora, presents dim sum dining tables, portraits, and still lifes on migration, care, and mutual aid.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A focused look at MoMA's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera holdings, with six Kahlo paintings plus over a dozen Rivera works, mounted alongside the Met Opera's premiere of El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego.

New Museum · Past
The reopening's museum-wide show gathers more than 200 artists, writers and scientists to trace a century of art reckoning with what it means to be human amid sweeping technological change.
Brooklyn Museum · Past
Inspired by Gloria Steinem, this Center for Feminist Art show pairs new acquisitions with rarely seen collection works by artists such as Beverly Semmes and Sarah Sze.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Past
A focused show on Kisho Kurokawa's landmark 1972 Metabolist tower, centered on a fully restored capsule (A1305) alongside models, drawings, archival film, and tenant interviews tracing the building's 50-year history and 2022 demolition.

National September 11 Memorial & Museum · Past
A special exhibition exploring how young artists from around the world used art to process the trauma of 9/11 and to help heal themselves and others.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Past
Organized with SFMOMA, this exhibition explores a century of design's relationship to music through concert posters, album art, phonographs, radios, digital players, and sound systems.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Past
An immersive listening room by Brooklyn artist and audio engineer Devon Turnbull (OJAS), featuring handcrafted high-fidelity sound systems, daily playlists, and live operator sessions.

The Studio Museum in Harlem · Past
An evolving display drawn from across the Studio Museum's collection, putting works from the 19th century to today in dialogue through themes that rotate over the year.

The Studio Museum in Harlem · Past
A visual timeline of documents, media and ephemera tracing the Studio Museum's nearly sixty-year history, from its first Fifth Avenue loft to its new home on 125th Street.

American Museum of Natural History
Curated by filmmaker Michael Bourquin of Iskut First Nation, featuring multimedia works by Indigenous artists.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
More than 70 large-format photographs by Christopher Payne documenting American factories and craft, from musical instruments and flags to semiconductors and aerospace components.

The Morgan Library & Museum
Nineteenth-century oil sketches from the Thaw Collection exploring how artists captured light and luminosity through color.

Pace Gallery · Free
Nine life-size drawings by Talking Heads' David Byrne line the stairwell landings between the flagship's first and seventh floors, reflecting his surreal, playful sensibility.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Early 20th-century European avant-garde painting drawn from the collection, with works by Kandinsky, Goncharova, Franz Marc and others who reimagined painting for a rapidly changing world.

Brooklyn Museum
Three chapters of longtime favorites and new standouts, bringing fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection's history and future evolution. Marks the Museum's bicentennial.

Brooklyn Museum
A six-year installation of the Rubin Museum's beloved Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room within the Arts of Asia galleries: over 100 thangkas, sculptures, and ritual objects arranged as an elaborate household shrine, with chanted prayers, butter lamps, and incense.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.