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April Museum Updates: The Duchamp Show Is Here 🌸

Issue #99

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Art Pulse NYC
March 27, 2026

📌 Highlights

🚨 Three major shows closing in April: Helene Schjerfbeck at the Met, Wifredo Lam at MoMA, and Gabriele Münter at Guggenheim.

🎉  New arrivals include Marcel Duchamp at MoMA and Gothic by Design at the Met.

✨ Already on view and highly regarded: Reopening of the New Museum, Whitney Biennial, Carol Bove at Guggenheim, and Raphael at the Met. More below.

🚨 Last Chance

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

📍 The Met

⏰ closing April 5

❓nearly 60 works tracing Schjerfbeck’s evolution from traditional, realistic subjects to a bold, spare, and abstract style she developed in isolation

🗓️ Studio Workshop — Self-Portrait Painting on March 29, 1-5pm at Met 5th Ave

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing April 11

❓showcasing how the artist crafted a unique visual language at the confluence of European modernism, African diasporic culture, and Caribbean traditions

Gabriele Münter: Countours of a World

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ closing April 26

❓challenging the historical narratives that have sidelined Münter through 60 of her Expressionist paintings and 20 early photographs from travels in the American South and Midwest

If you’re hungry for more…

Christian Marclay: Doors closes at the Brooklyn Museum on April 12 | cinematic exploration on everyday objects

Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life closes at Whitney on April 27 | playful drawings of everyday spaces and objects

Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea closes at the Brooklyn Museum on April 26 | immersive installation of an underwater world based on a children’s book

🎉 Just In

Marcel Duchamp

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening April 12

❓the first retrospective of Duchamp in the US since 1973, featuring 300 works across his six-decade multifaceted career

🗓️ Artist Party: Marcel Duchamp on April 30, 7-10pm

Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q., 1919. Pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Private Collection

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain, 1950 (replica of 1917 original). Porcelain urinal. Philadelphia Art Museum: 125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift (by exchange) of Mrs. Herbert Cameron Morris

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship

📍 The Met

⏰ opening April 16

❓more than 90 works — drawings and prints alongside goldsmith works, architectural elements, and more — shedding light on how master masons and artists between the 13th and 16th centuries began visualizing their ideas for cathedrals and informed the Gothic building practice

 

If you’re hungry for more…

Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette opens at The Frick Collection on April 1 | fashion plate series

Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait opens at MoMA on April 8 | workshops to connect on photography, community, and archival practices

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👀 In Case You Missed It

In addition to the above, there were plenty of exciting museum openings in March, including the Whitney Biennial, Carol Bove at the Guggenheim, Raphael at the Meta, and Frida and Diego: The Last Dream at the MoMA. Oh, and the New Museum reopened with four new exhibitions.

Plus, ongoing gallery exhibitions worth catching: Chuck Close at Pace, Elizabeth Peyton at David Zwirner, Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian, and more. April gallery roundup to come…

On Instagram, we shared a preview from our interview with sculptor Anaïs De Los Santos — check it out. Full interview coming soon.

 

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