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January's Museum Lineup ❄️

January's Museum Lineup ❄️

Issue #92

Art Pulse NYC
December 26, 2025

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Here’s to an artful 2026 and many great exhibitions ahead 🎉

📌 Highlights

🚨 Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim, Divine Egypt at the Met, and more are closing in mid January.

🎉 Revolution! opens at The Met in mid January.

📖 2025 wrap-up articles have been published, including top art criticism (Cultured), artists we lost (NYTimes), top artworks (artnet), and more below.

🚨 Last Chance

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ closing Jan 19

❓nearly 90 works, including black-soap paintings, text works, large-scale sculptures, film, and a site-specific work

🔗 see exhibit details.

🗓️ Related Events: there are live performances, including Sanguine Piano on Fridays at 4pm and Sundays 1pm and Rotunda Stage on Saturdays at 1pm and Mondays at 4pm

Divine Egypt

📍 The Met

⏰ closing Jan 19

❓almost 250 works of art and objects, many on loan, to examine imagery associated with the most important deities in Ancient Egypt

🔗 see exhibit details.

🗓️ Related Events: Met Expert Talk on Jan 8, 3pm & A Conversation with Filmmaker Sherief Elkatsha on Jan 15, 6pm

Sixties Surreal

📍 The Whitney

⏰ closing Jan 19

❓scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, with work of more than 100 artists including Diane Arbus, Yayoi Kusama, and more

🔗 see exhibit details.

🗓️ Related Events: Contemporaries Curator-Led Tour on Jan 8, 6:30 pm

Linda Lomahaftewa, Untitled Woman's Faces, 1960s. Oil on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm). Heard Museum, Phoenix; Gift of the artist. © Linda Lomahaftewa

Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation

📍 Noguchi Museum

⏰ closing Jan 11

❓works from the Museum’s original second floor installation

🔗 see exhibit details.

If you’re hungry for more…

New Photography 2025 closes at the MoMA on Jan 17

Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds (software-based works) closes on Jan 11 at the Whitney

Shifting Landscapes (commentary on environment challenges) closes on Jan 25 at the Whitney

Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt closes Jan 10 at The Met

Casa Susanna (photographs of cross-dressers at the resorts run by Susanna Valenti) closes Jan 25 at The Met

Ganesha: Lord of New Beginnings (tracing depictions of Ganesha) closes Jan 4 at The Met

🎉 Just In

Revolution!

📍 The Met

⏰ opening Jan 19

❓works tracing the origin, circulation of ideas, and lasting consequences from the American Revolutionary War, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

🔗 see exhibit details.

🗓️ Related Events: The Art of the American Revolution: A Conversation with Ken Burns on Jan 29, 6pm