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February's Museum Lineup ❤️🔥
Issue #94
Art Pulse NYC
January 20, 2026
📌 Highlights
🚨 Final Days to see Ruth Asawa’s major exhibit at MoMA, Man Ray at the Met, and Monet and Venice at the Brooklyn Museum.
🎉 New exhibits on Egon Schiele and Noguchi are opening this month.
📣 Check out our video of the Joan Semmel exhibit at the Jewish Museum here.
🚨 Last Chance
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
📍 MoMA
⏰ closing Feb 7
❓300 works charting the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms across wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works
Ruth Asawa. Untitled (S.535, Hanging Five-Lobed Continuous Form within a Form with Spheres in the First and Fourth Lobes and a Teardrop Form in the Third Lobe), 1951. Iron and brass wire. 87 × 12 1∕2 × 12 1∕2 in. (221 × 31.8 × 31.8 cm). Private collection. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner.
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
📍 The Met
⏰ closing Feb 1
❓60 rayographs, a technique pioneered by Man Ray in the winter of 1921, situated among 100 paintings, objects, prints, photographs, etc. of the 1910s-20s
Monet and Venice
📍 The Brooklyn Museum
⏰ closing Feb 1
❓100 works focused on Monet’s luminous Venetian paintings, an under-explored chapter of the artist’s career
Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200
📍 Brooklyn Museum
⏰ closing Feb 22
❓three-part exhibition featuring historic and contemporary works in celebration of the institution’s legacy, as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th anniversary
Georgia O’Keeffe. Brooklyn Bridge, 1949. Oil on Masonite. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mary Childs Draper, 77.11. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
If you’re hungry for more…
 Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep (abstract paintings) closes on Feb 8 at the MoMA |  Anish Kapoor: Early Works (pigment sculptures) closes on Feb 1 at the Jewish Museum |  Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (powerful paintings) closes on Feb 8 at The Met |
 Colorful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection closes on Feb 15 at The Met |  Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spikes, Zigzags, Rivers (abstraction rooted in Indigenous symbolism) closes Feb 8 at The Whitney |  Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection closes on Feb 2 at MoMA |
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🎉 Just In
Egon Schiele: Portrait of Dr. Erwin Von Graff
📍 Neue Galerie
⏰ opening Feb 12
❓exhibition considering how Dr. Von Graff’s medical practice and person support of Schiele influenced the artist
🗓️ Related Events: Opening Night Lecture: Dr. Erwin von Graff and Egon Schiele on Feb 13, 10:30am and Film Screening of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass on Feb 24, 10:30am
Egon Schiele
Noguchi’s New York
📍 Noguchi Museum
⏰ opening Feb 4
❓examining Noguchi’s deep relationship with NYC, his on-again, off-again home, and how it transformed his artwork and thinking
Plus, Gainsborough: The Fashion Portraiture opens at The Frick Collection on Feb 12, with over two dozen of Gainsborough’s portraits from North America and the United Kingdom.
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
👀 In Case You Missed It
We visited the Jewish Museum to see the provocative Joan Semmel: In the Flesh. The beautifully curated exhibition traces Semmel’s career, from her iconic early nudes to her recent poignant reflections on aging. Check out the clip below.
The exhibit will be on view through the end of May.
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