🚨 Last Chance

Raphael: Sublime Poetry

📍 The Met

⏰ closing June 28

❓the first comprehensive Raphael exhibition ever held in the US — 170+ works including drawings, paintings, tapestries, and decorative arts loaned from collections worldwide, tracing his journey from Urbino through Florence to the papal court in Rome

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson (vibrant large-scale animal sculptures inspired by Indigenous culture) closes June 9 & Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection closes June 14

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing June 21

❓examining how photographers, editors, and publications have collectively constructed the celebrity image as a cultural artifact — spanning decades of popular culture

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🎉 Just In

Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ opening June 5

❓the Guggenheim's own Pop collection gets a landmark summer showcase — Cattelan's Comedian, Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and recent acquisitions by Lucía Hierro and Josh Kline

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Collection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait also opens June 11 — the acclaimed two-screen film portrait of footballer Zinedine Zidane by Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno

American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening June 13

❓50 works from MoMA Founder Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's landmark 1939 gift — paintings and more that helped legitimize folk art within modernist institutional contexts

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Musical Bodies

📍 The Met

⏰ opening June 7

❓the first major exhibition exploring the relationship between musical instruments and the human body — 130+ works from around the world and across time, from Renaissance lutes shaped to suggest the female torso to modernist works interrogating the body as instrument

🔗 see exhibit details.  

🎟️ Museum Mile Festival

On June 9 from 6-9pm, Fifth Avenue is closing to traffic and opening their doors for free with live performances and programming, across the Met, Guggenheim, Neue Galerie, Cooper Hewitt, Jewish Museum, and others. Details.

👀 In Case You Missed It

Last month, New York was alive with Spring Art Week. Christie’s brought in $1.1 billion in a single evening, while Sotheby’s surpassed $700 million. The fairs were buzzing too: we visited Future Fair — check out our footage of the visit here, along with our interview with Isolina Minjeong whose large-scale ceramics were on view at the fair.

We also made the trip up to Storm King for a standout season opening — including a major new commission by Anicka Yi (Message from the Mud) and a beautiful altar built by agency Care of Chan in celebration of Anicka’s new work.

Our May museum update covered new arrivals like Faith Ringgold at the Guggenheim and Iris van Herpen at the Brooklyn Museum (still on view through the summer), along with a flood of spring openings in the galleries — Gerhard Richter and Jasper Johns at David Zwirner, David Hockney at Pace, and more.

Still running and very much worth your time: the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, Carol Bove filling the Guggenheim rotunda, the Whitney Biennial 2026, Frida and Diego: The Last Dream at MoMA.

📚 Further Reading

• The Frick Collection extends free admission program after announcing Louis Vuitton partnership. — Artsy

• Who Won New York's $2.5 Billion Auction Week? — Artnet

• Closing Time — Puck / Marion Maneker

• Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Jerry Gogosian Satirist, Found Dead in São Paulo — Artnet

• What the May Auctions Revealed About Art as an Asset Class — Artnet

• Letting Her Art (and Birds) Do the Talking — NYTimes

• NOMAD art fair to launch first U.S. edition in the Hamptons this summer. — Artsy

• Storm King Art Center's 2026 Season Expands the Meaning of Sculpture — Chronogram

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