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March Gallery Updates: A Wave of New Openings🍀
Issue #98
Art Pulse NYC
March 18, 2026
đź“Ś Highlights
🚨 Check out Michael Heizer at Gagosian and Yasumasa Morimura & Charles Atlas at Luhring Augustine before they close at the end of the month.
🎉 It’s the perfect time for some gallery walks, with recent openings including Chuck Close at Pace, David Lamelas at Dia Chelsea, and more. Elizabeth Peyton at David Zwirner and Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian open tomorrow, March 19 with receptions. Many more noted below.
đź“Ł The New Museum is reopening this weekend with four exhibitions!
🎙️ Artist Talk | Paul Chan on March 19, 1pm via Zoom.
🚨 Last Chance
Michael Heizer: Negative Sculpture
đź“Ť Gagosian
⏰ closing March 28
âť“two new negative sculpture installations (as well as related drawings) inquiring into the formal possibilities of line, size, and negative spaces
đź”— see exhibit details.
Michael Heizer, Negative Sculpture, 2026, installation view, Artwork © Michael Heizer, Photo: Maris Hutchinson, Courtesy Gagosian
Yasumasa Morimura & Charles Atlas: Anamneses
đź“Ť Luhring Augustine
⏰ closing March 28
âť“highlighting two artists whose practices explore distinctive and vibrant views related to gender and identity
đź”— see exhibit details.
âśš Zarina: Beyond the Stars is also closing with woodcuts, collages, prints, and more exploring language, memory, and home
If you’re hungry for more…
 Jongsuk Yoon: Azalea Spring is closing at Marian Goodman on March 21 (Soho) | abstract landscapes of memory and nature |  Agnieszka Kurant: Recursion is closing at Marian Goodman on March 21 (Soho) | conceptual works on collective intelligence |
🎉 Just In
Chuck Close: On Paper
đź“Ť Pace
⏰ opened March 12 (through Apr 25)
❓showcasing Close’s innovative, grid-based portraiture practice which redefines large-scale representation
đź”— see exhibit details.
Also opened at Pace:
 Maysha Mohamedi: Maysha the Fool opened March 10 (through Apr 25) | abstract paintings |  Emmet Gowin: Bladwin Street: Photographs 1966-1994 opened March 12 (through Apr 25) | intimate family portraits |  Sam Gilliam: STITCHED opened March 12 (through Apr 25) | geometric stitched, painted canvases |
David Lamelas: The Machine
đź“Ť Dia Chelsea
⏰ opened March 6 (through Jan 16)
❓major survey of Lamelas’s multidisciplinary practice exploring his Ceonceptual work across film, performance, and installation, focusing on time, information, and perception
đź”— see exhibit details.
Elizabeth Peyton: mountains in my heart (the death of Sapedon)
đź“Ť David Zwirner
⏰ opening March 19 (through May 2), with a reception on Mar 19, 6-8pm
âť“contemporary figurative portraiture within an international context of historical and modern influences
đź”— see exhibit details.
 Merrill Wagner: Marking Time opened March 12 (through Apr 18) | geometric works |  Isa Genzken: VACATION opened March 13 (through Apr 18) at Walker St | experimental mixed media |
Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings with Scattered Brushstrokes
đź“Ť Gagosian
⏰ opening March 19, with a reception at 6-8pm
❓centered on Lichtenstein’s iconic brushtroke motif, using Pop aesthetics to reinterpret painterly gesture and the language of Abstract Expressionism
đź”— see exhibit details.
âž• Theaster Gates: Dave: All My Relations is opening March 26
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Peter Saul: Peter Saul’s Art History
đź“Ť Gladstone
⏰ opened March 7 (through April 18)
❓seven of decades of Saul’s vividly colored, satirical paintings reinterpreting major movements of 20th century art history
đź”— see exhibit details.
âž• Robert Mapplethorpe also opened March 5 with new large-scale photographs
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If you’re hungry for more…
 Cinga Samson: Ukuphuthelwa opened on March 6 (through April 18) at White Cube | spiritual dark-toned oil paintings |  Dashiell Manley: Periplums opened on March 5 (through April 18) at Marianne Boesky | textured oil paintings inspired by WWII Japanese American internment |  Ileana GarcĂa Magoda: In the Body of Light opened on March 13 (through Apr 25) | layered paintings with themes of nature and healing |
 Katharina Wulff: Day and Night Before My Eyes opened on March 12 (through April 25) at Greene Naftali | paintings on childhood and memory |  The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli is opening on March 18 (through May 23) | paintings of everyday objects with uncanny detail |  Maria Lassnig opened on March 12 (through Apr 18) at Petzel | figurative paintings on body awareness |
 David Novros opened on March 7 (through April 25) at Paula Cooper Gallery | geometric panel paintings |  mariana castillo deball: serpent disappearances opened March 12 (through April 18) at kurimanzutto | mixed media focused mapping memory across site and process |  Chris “Daze” Ellis: Orchid Rain on the Underground opening March 20 (through April 25) | paintings on NYC graffiti culture |
 Daniel Arsham: Various Thoughts opened on March 5 (through Apr 11) at Perrotin | paintings exploring the psychological connection to a place |  Nicola Tyson: NEED opened on March 12 (through Apr 25) at Petzel | drawings on psychological relationships |
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
đź‘€ In Case You Missed It
Earlier this month, we shared the museum opening for March, including the Whitney Biennial, Carol Bove at the Guggenheim, and Frida and Diego: The Last Dream at the MoMA.
One major update we forgot to note: the New Museum reopens on March 21 with four new exhibitions — New Humans: Memories of the Future, Plaza: Sarah Lucas — Venus Victoria, Facade: Tschabalala Self — Art Lovers, and Atrium Stair: Klára Hosnedlová.
đź“š Further Reading
Eat Pray Bove — Puck News
What to Know About Banksy and the Effort to Unmask Him — NYTimes
A New Brooklyn Art Fair With a Global Outlook Debuts This Spring — Artnet
What New York Is Showing Now That Painting Is Out of Vogue — Cultured Mag
Why Interior Design Magazines Are Booming — NYTimes
Haring is Caring — Puck News
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