Must-See Spring Exhibitions

Installation view, Carol Bove, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photo: David Heald

Spring is here and I am pleased to share some must-see exhibitions, including several that I just recently visited in NYC:


Atlanta: Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a Designer” at the High Museum (Through August 2)

Boston: Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination at MFA Boston (Through June 28)

Dallas: Marisol: A Retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art (Through July 6) Marisol is a fascinating artist who in recent years has gotten due recognition.


Hamptons: Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades at the Parrish Museum of Art (Through July 19)

Houston: Frida: The Making of an Icon at MFA Houston (Through May 17)

Los Angeles: The long anticipated, newly opened David Geffen Galleries at LACMA features ninety exhibition galleries that span the concrete building’s 110,000 square feet. The new construction cost approximately $724 million and will feature new site-specific works by Lauren Halsey, Do Ho Suh and others.

London:

Beatriz Gonzalez at the Barbican (Through May 10)

Henry Moore: Monumental Nature at Kew Gardens (Through January 31, 2027)

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A (Through November 8)

Miami:

Alejandro Piñeiro Bello at KDR (Through May 23)

Anchors of Light at MOCA North Miami, celebrating 30 years of the museum (Through October 4). Fun fact: this is also the museum where I had my first museum internship in 2006.

Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols opens at the Pérez Art Museum Miami on June 25, 2026.

Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense at ICA Miami (Through October 4)

New York:

Carol Bove at the Guggenheim (Through August 2) As I mentioned in my newsletter, Bove’s sculptures are installed all throughout the ramps of the Guggenheim and she has unveiled a part of a hidden Joan Miro mural, as part of her exhibition.

Keith Haring at the Brant Foundation (Through May 31)

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA (Through August 22)

Noguchi’s New York at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City (Through September 13)

Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Met (Through June 28)


Paris: Calder: Rêver en Équilibre at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Through August 16) Alexander Calder is one of my favorite artists of all time and many exhibitions this year will celebrate the centennial since his arrival in Paris in 1926, which proved to be a formative part of his career.

Philadelphia: A Nation of Artists at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Through July 5)



San Francisco:

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Through September 2)

Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Opening April 18, 2026)

Washington D.C.: Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Through July 7)

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