Upcoming Art Exhibitions in New York City (2026)

Despite the ongoing decline in curatorial rigor, which is increasingly subordinated to ideology, a handful of exhibitions in 2026 remain worth marking. Taken together, they suggest that even in a compromised cultural climate, seriousness has not entirely disappeared; it has merely become rarer, and therefore more worth seeking out.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Raphael: Sublime Poetry
March 29 to June 28, 2026

The Met Cloisters

The Museum’s gardens and orchard meadow
Spring—Summer 2026

The Frick Collection

Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture
February 12 to May 11, 2026

The Morgan Library & Museum

Giovanni Bellini’s “Pieta” Restored
January 15 to April 19, 2026

Caravaggio’s “Boy witha Basket of Fruit” in Focus
January 16 to April 19, 2026

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg
March 13 through May 31, 2026

Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions
June 27 to October 4, 2026

Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic
October 23, 2026, to January 31, 2027

Fantasy and Reality: The Art of Johan Tobias Sergel
October 30, 2026, to January 31, 2027

Late Medieval European Blockbooks: The First Printed Picture Books
November 6, 2026, through May 16, 2027

The New York Historical

Old Masters, New Amsterdam
May 1, 2026 - August 30, 2026

Poster House

From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)
April 23–November 1, 2026