Friday, March 27, 2026

The Met showcases Italian Renaissance genius Raphael

Installation view of Raphael: Sublime Poetry, on view March 29–June 28, 2026 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Eileen Travell, Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.— Raphael: Sublime Poetry, on view March 29 to June 28, 2026, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States on Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520), considered one of the greatest artists of all time. This landmark exhibition will explore the full breadth of his life and career, from his origins in Urbino to his prolific years in Florence, where he began to emerge as a peer to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to his final decade at the papal court in Rome. Bringing together more than 200 of Raphael’s most important drawings, paintings, tapestries, and decorative arts from public and private collections around the world, the exhibition will offer a fresh perspective on this defining figure of the Italian Renaissance, presenting his renowned masterpieces alongside rarely seen treasures to reveal an extraordinarily creative mind. “This unprecedented exhibition will offer a groundbreaking look at the brilliance and legacy of Raphael, a true titan of the Italian Renaissance,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “Visitors will have an exceptionally rare opportunity to experience the breathtaking range of his creative genius through some of the artist’s most iconic and seldom loaned works from around the globe—many never before shown together.” Among the highlights will be The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) from the National Gallery of Art, one of the most emblematic examples of Raphael’s mastery over High Renaissance ideals of harmony and classical beauty, which will be united with his preparatory drawings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, and Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione, now in the Louvre, widely regarded as one of the greatest portraits of the High Renaissance. Lenders include the Accademia Carrara (Bergamo), Al...
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Work of Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer & Dorothy Hood comes to Ogden Museum of Southern Art

NEW ORLEANS, LA.— Ogden Museum of Southern Art announced Vicinal Visions: Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer & Dorothy Hood, on view March 21 through July 19, 2026. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition highlights three visionary artists whose work expanded the boundaries of abstraction in the American South. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ogden Museum will present a slate of public programs and exclusive exhibition-related merchandise. While Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer and Dorothy Hood each developed her own distinct visual language, their work shares a spirit of experimentation and Modernist sensibilities, refracted through individual lenses of personal experience and place. Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, explains: “This exhibition is not only a focus on regional art history; it is a
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Sophie Calle unveils a massive 300-piece retrospective at Louisiana Museum

HUMLEBÆK.— At first glance, Sophie Calle's works may look as dry as a washing-machine manual. A second later, they whirl you in. From 26 March, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark will present an exhibition of seven major series and other works by the French artist. Totalling more than 300 individual parts – photographs, texts and videos – the exhibition fills the museum’s West Wing. Over five decades, Sophie Calle (b. 1953) has created a prodigious body of work about navigating the world. About being human. About interpersonal connections, the inner and outer worlds, fiction and fact. The exhibition features works spanning nearly 40 years, from 1986-2024. Themes of love, longing, memory, beauty, absence and presence are central to the exhibition and to Calle’s art overall. Another recurring motif is the relationship between the visible and the invisible, sight and
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NGV Australia launches the most comprehensive exhibition on Motherhood in Australian history

MELBOURNE.— Featuring more than 200+ historical and contemporary works from the NGV Collection, MOTHER is the most comprehensive thematic exhibition exploring motherhood ever mounted in an Australian art institution. Opening 27 March 2026 at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the exhibition explores how the experiences of being and having a mother continue to fascinate artists across cultures and generations, including Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Camille Henrot, David Hockney, Tracey Moffat, Iluwanti Ken, Käthe Kollwitz, Patricia Piccinini, Rembrandt van Rijn and more. From the walls of caves to ancient Egyptian tombs, Renaissance frescos and beyond, the depiction of mother and child stands as one of the oldest and most enduring themes in art history. Traversing geographies, cultures and mediums, the
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia unveils 60 years of Shirley Jaffe's works on paper

BRUSSELS.— Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents an exhibition in Brussels devoted to some thirty works on paper by Shirley Jaffe, produced between 1955 and 2012. Ten years after the American artist's death, this presentation carries particular resonance in the wake of the recent passing of her brother, Jerome Sternstein, an unwavering supporter and tireless champion of her work. A parallel presentation devoted to Shirley Jaffe's paintings is on view at the Paris gallery from 30 January to 25 April 2026. These two exhibitions form part of the growing institutional recognition of her work, which has continued to gain visibility since 2016. They follow the major travelling retrospective first presented at the Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou (2022), then at the Kunstmuseum Basel (2023), and subsequently at the Musée Matisse (2023-2024). This momentum has been accompanied by a number of major acquisitions by institutions including the
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Rachel Whiteread unveils new sculptures and photographs in London

LONDON.— Gagosian announced an exhibition of new sculptures and recent photographs by Rachel Whiteread at its Davies Street gallery. The exhibition title, Substitute, resonates with the artist’s use of one medium to echo another, and to the way in which her casting process replaces negative space with physical substance. Substitute features large, wall-mounted sculptural reliefs produced by pressing papier-mâché pulp onto timeworn wooden barn doors and sections of gates, then covering the resultant forms in pigmented silver and copper leaf. In contrast to these opaque metallic surfaces are two transparent resin casts of sash windows in blue and pink hues. In her sculptural practice, Whiteread often uses standard industrial substances such as concrete, resin, and rubber, as well as more traditional materials like plaster and bronze, to produce cast objects with significatory presence that evoke absence, memory, and loss. Building on a
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Masterpieces in April: Impressionists, Modern & Contemporary art at Artcurial

PARIS.— Artcurial will be holding a series of important auctions dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Art. Bringing together major works spanning the entire 20th century, these auctions offer a panorama of the most relevant artistic transformations, from Impressionism to the most contemporary expressions. Among the artists presented are, for Impressionism and post-impressionism, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Pierre Bonnard, Albert Marquet, and Rik Wouters; for Modern Art: Fernand Léger, Marie Vassilieff, Rembrandt Bugatti, and Alberto Giacometti; for the Post-War period: Georges Mathieu, Serge Poliakoff, Chu Teh-Chun, and Josef Sima; and finally, for the contemporary scene: Daniel Buren, Tracey Emin, and George Condo. A highlight of the week, the evening auction on April 16th, brings together several major works, reflecting the richness and diversity of the century’s artistic practices. Among the standout pieces, Walking Horse by Edgar Degas (circa 1919–1937), estimated at €250,000&#
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Cecily Brown's royal homecoming: Landmark solo exhibition "Picture Making" opens at Serpentine

LONDON.— Serpentine presents Picture Making, an exhibition featuring new and recent works by Cecily Brown, one of the most important painters working today. The exhibition will run from 27 March to 6 September 2026 at Serpentine South and marks a homecoming for the British artist who has lived and worked in New York for the past thirty years. Over three decades Brown has gained a reputation for her unique approach to painting, characterised by vigorous brushwork, a vivid sense of colour and dynamic all-over compositions that hold the viewer in an active space of looking. Picture Making brings together works inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist. Themes of nature and park life have long shaped Brown’s formal explorations and, for her exhibition at Serpentine, the artist revisits familiar subjects such as amorous couples, woodland settings and uncanny
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Sotheby's unveils The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

NEW YORK, NY.— This spring, Sotheby’s will present a landmark series of auctions showcasing The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection, among the most significant private holdings of 20th century American and European modernist photography to appear at auction. Formed principally during the 1980s, with shared conviction, discernment, and a passion for the arts, the collection reflects the complementary vision of Jill Kupin Rose’s scholarly eye and Marshall Rose’s enduring dedication to cultural stewardship. Comprising 20 exceptional fresh to market photographs and works on paper, each piece reflects the couple’s bold yet thoughtful choices, resulting in a group distinguished by rarity, quality, and historical significance. Meticulously preserved and cherished privately for decades, the collection is led by Edward Steichen’s rare and monumental Balzac, The Open Sky, 11 P.M. (1908), believed to be one of only three extant
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Pat Steir, pioneering painter of process and perception, dies at 87

NEW YORK, NY.— Pat Steir, the celebrated American painter whose work redefined the role of chance, gesture and control in contemporary abstraction, has died at the age of 87 in Manhattan. Her passing marks the end of a remarkable career that reshaped the language of painting over more than five decades. Steir maintained a close and enduring relationship with her gallery since its founding in 1991, joining its program alongside founding partner Eric Franck. Over the years, that collaboration grew into a lasting bond—one grounded not only in artistic dialogue but in deep mutual respect and friendship. Her loss is felt not only professionally, but personally, by those who worked alongside her. At the heart of Steir’s practice was a radical rethinking of how a painting comes into being. Rather than treating the canvas as a surface to be controlled, she approached it as a site of unfolding events. Her signature works—often monumental cascades of pigment—embody a delicate
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National Portrait Gallery unveils new "Independence" gallery and historic wax diorama

WASHINGTON, DC.— In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the nation, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced two additions to the museum’s “Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900” exhibition: a freshly conserved diorama depicting the signers of the Declaration of Independence and a new gallery titled “Independence: 1765–1789.” Commissioned by the Portrait Gallery in 1968 and completed in 1969, a recently conserved large-scale, wax diorama by Bartlett Frost (1913–1997) depicts key members of the Second Continental Congress witnessing the presentation of the Declaration of Independence. Last displayed at the museum during the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, it is modeled after John Trumbull’s iconic painting, “The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776” (1786–1820), which the artist painted at the urging of Thomas Jefferson.
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Tate Britain opens first major survey of Hurvin Anderson

LONDON.— Today, Tate Britain opened the first major survey exhibition of British artist Hurvin Anderson. Bringing together around 80 works, the show will span the artist’s entire career, from formative work to present day, including a room of never-before-seen paintings. Through colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson’s work weaves back and forth across the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean, reflecting on his experiences of belonging and diaspora, evoking a sense of, as he puts it, ‘being in one place but thinking about another’. Thanks to his profoundly atmospheric use of composition to explore the markers of identity, and his deep-rooted engagement with traditions of British landscape painting, this exhibition confirms Anderson’s standing as one of the most important contemporary painters of his generation. The artist was the first member of his family to be born in England, after his father emigrated from Jamaica in 1961. Anderson’s upbringin
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Jacquemart-André Museum unveils masterpieces from the Hispanic Society

PARIS.— In spring 2026, the Jacquemart-André Museum, in collaboration with the Hispanic Society of America (New York), showcases Hispanic Baroque art. This exhibition is part of the museum’s ongoing programme dedicated to 17th-century masters and masterpieces, following Caravaggio (2018), Artemisia Gentileschi (2025), Georges de La Tour (2025) and the Borghese collection (2024). It offers the public the opportunity to admire some forty works from the prestigious American institution, brought together in France for the first time, including paintings by the great masters of the Spanish Golden Age such as Velázquez, El Greco and Zurbarán. Founded in 1904 by the American scholar and patron Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955), the Hispanic Society of America is the oldest and most important museum institution dedicated to the study and promotion of the arts and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking
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Flashback: On a day like today, Italian painter and architect Raphael was born
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. In this image: Raphael, Self-Portrait, 1506 (detail) © Galleria degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi.

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