🚨 Last Chance

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

📍 The Met Cloisters

⏰ closing March 29

❓exploring often-overlooked themes of desire, sexuality, and gender in the medieval past

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🗓️ Final Met Expert Talk on Medieval Desire on March 5, 3-3:30pm at Met 5th Ave

High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100

📍 Whitney

⏰ closing March 9

❓marking the centennial anniversary of Calder’s most formative work of art, Calder’s Circus — a minitature spectacle of circus animals and characters he would enact live

🔗 see exhibit details. 

If you’re hungry for more…

🎉 Just In

Whitney Biennial 2026

📍 Whitney

⏰ opening March 8

❓82nd edition of the longest running survey of contemporary at in the US, featuring works from 56 artists/duos/collectives reflecting on forms of relationality

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening March 21

❓celebrating two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art in a collaboration with the Met Opera’s new production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego 

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Carol Bove

📍 Guggenheim (Rotunda)

⏰ opening March 5

❓tracing pivotal shifts across the American artist’s 25-year career, ranging from early drawings and assemblages of found objects to new large-scale steel compositions, exploring how objects are transformed by their surroundings

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Raphael: Sublime Poetry

📍 The Met

⏰ opening March 29

❓first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael — a titan of Italian Renaissance — in the United States, with more than 200 of the artists greatest masterpieces

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ opening March 20

❓first American museum show to focus on the late works of the renowned Bauhaus artist, specifically works produced in the last decade of his life when he confronted displacement from his country of birth and effects of a fatal autoimmune disease

🔗 see exhibit details. 

If you’re hungry for more…

👀 In Case You Missed It

Last month, a new Egon Schiele exhibition opened at Neue Galerie and an exhibit focused on Noguchi’s relationship with New York opened at the Noguchi Museum.

We also shared an interview with local artist Rebeca Zimmermann — check out the artworks we featured which are all for sale, including her newest work A permanência de um olhar.  

📚 Further Reading

• With Bends, Crinkles and a Cool Decor Makeover, Carol Bove Takes the Guggenheim — NYTimes

• Behind the Scenes of Gagosian’s Massive Michael Heizer Show — Artnet

• Fit to Print | The Market for Prints Reborn — Puck News

• How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists — Artnet

• Noguchi Envisioned a More Open New York. New York Wasn’t Interested. — NYTimes

• What Will Define Art in 2026? Key Themes From the Big U.S. Shows — Artnet

• Cooper Hewitt Turns It Up to Eleven — Puck News

• The Roma Artist Who Refused to Let the Holocaust Be Forgotten — NYTimes

• Gathering Force in the Art Market: Female Collectors — NYTimes

• Christie’s Launches First New York Auction Devoted to Anime and Manga — Artnet

• Why Ultra-Contemporary Artists Are So Obsessed With Old Masters —Artnet

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