14 Must-See Museum Shows in New York This Spring
New York's spring 2026 museum season features 14 major exhibitions spanning Renaissance masters, modern sculpture, photography, fashion, and architecture. Highlights include the Whitney Biennial, a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, and Raphael's first major U.S. show at the Met. The Noguchi Museum explores the sculptor's unrealized New York projects. The Morgan Library presents Peter Hujar's contact sheets. The Frick displays 18th-century fashion plates. The New Museum unveils Sarah Lucas's 'Venus Victoria' sculpture. The Brooklyn Museum hosts Iris van Herpen's fashion retrospective. ICP surveys Yves Saint Laurent's photographic legacy. MoMA PS1's Greater New York features 53 local artists. The American Folk Art Museum reexamines self-taught artists. Carol Bove fills the Guggenheim rotunda with steel sculptures. The Whitney also opens an Andy Warhol Polaroid exhibition. The Met's Gothic architecture drawings show runs through July 19.
Key facts
- Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA runs through August 22, 2026, co-organized with Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Raphael exhibition at the Met features over 170 works, tracing his career from Urbino to Rome.
- Whitney Biennial 2026 is untitled and organized by two in-house curators.
- Sarah Lucas's 'Venus Victoria' is the first of five $400,000 sculpture prizes at the New Museum.
- Iris van Herpen exhibition at Brooklyn Museum includes 140 haute couture ensembles.
- Greater New York 2026 at MoMA PS1 features 53 New York area-based artists.
- Carol Bove's first museum survey at the Guggenheim includes interactive lounges and chess sets.
- Andy Warhol Family Album at the Whitney reveals 732 Polaroid images from 1972-1973.
Entities
Artists
- Marcel Duchamp
- Raphael
- Isamu Noguchi
- Peter Hujar
- Andy Warhol
- Sarah Lucas
- Iris van Herpen
- Carol Bove
- John Kane
- Gaston Chaissac
- Madge Gill
- Henry Darger
- Horace Pippin
- Janet Sobel
- Zach Blas
- Kelly Akashi
- Carmen de Monteflores
- Louis Osmosis
- Taína Cruz
- Fujikasa Satoko
- Tara Donovan
- Guy Bourdin
- Cecil Beaton
- Richard Avedon
- Annie Leibovitz
- Helmut Newton
- Irving Penn
- Paul Thek
- Jed Johnson
- Ultra Violet
- Diane Von Furstenberg
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Bianca Jagger
- Marie Antoinette
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Michelangelo
- Giorgio Vasari
- Pope Leo X
- Robert Moses
- Femke Speelberg
- Roxanne Smith
- Chrissie Iles
- Meg Onli
- Teresita Fernández
- Joan Jonas
- Julie Mehretu
- Cindy Sherman
- Kiki Smith
- Josh Kline
- John Chamberlain
- Erwin von Steinbach
- Pierre-Thomas Le Clerc
- Charles Emmanuel Patas
Institutions
- Museum of Modern Art
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Noguchi Museum
- Morgan Library and Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- New Museum
- Brooklyn Museum
- International Center of Photography
- MoMA PS1
- American Folk Art Museum
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Frick Collection
- Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture
- Fraenkel Gallery
- Ortuzar
- National Gallery of Art
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- Kallir Research Institute
- Artnet News
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Long Island City
- Queens
- Central Park
- Riverside Park
- Bronx Zoo
- United Nations
- Urbino
- Florence
- Rome
- Vatican
- Carrara
- Italy
- Gifu
- Japan
- France
- Australia
- Singapore
- Netherlands
- East Village
- Freiburg
- Germany
- Notre-Dame
- Cologne Cathedral
- England