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In 2026, Los Angeles will see a series of major museum openings, including the expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and Refik Anadol’s Dataland, alongside new venues like V&A East and Crystal Bridges expansion, highlighting a significant year for cultural development and architectural innovation.
The article highlights major art exhibitions in 2026 across the world's great art cities, including Paris, New York, Tokyo, Madrid, and London, featuring renowned artists like Renoir, Rousseau, Kandinsky, and contemporary figures, with a focus on diverse themes and lesser-known works.
The article highlights various cultural, historical, and entertainment sites around the world that will be closed or under renovation in 2026, including museums, temples, and theme parks, with alternative suggestions for visitors.
Museums across the U.S., including Smithsonian institutions, are experiencing a chilling effect on programming due to political pressures from the Trump administration, leading to cancellations, alterations, and postponements of exhibitions involving gender, sexuality, and race, raising concerns about artistic freedom and censorship.
Richard Serra, a renowned sculptor known for his monumental metal sculptures, passed away at 85. Born in San Francisco, Serra's work with industrial materials, especially metal, earned him international acclaim. His art, characterized by ambition and vision, has left a lasting impact on the art world, with his sculptures displayed in various prominent locations worldwide.
As part of Frieze Week 2023 in London, over 160 galleries will participate in the 20th anniversary edition of the fair, showcasing a wide range of mediums, subjects, and styles. In addition to the fair, various museums and galleries will present ambitious programs, including exhibitions by artists such as Sylvie Fleury, Marina Rheingantz, Jhonatan Pulido, James Lee Byars, Ernesto Burgos, Anthony Cudahy, Layo Bright, Samuel Levi Jones, Ali Banisadr, Ted Gahl, and Sue Dunkley. These exhibitions explore themes of femininity, landscapes, urban fabric, materials, history, and more.
Amsterdam's Hermitage Museum will be renamed the H'ART Museum from September, following its severance of ties with the St. Petersburg version over Russia's war in Ukraine. The museum also announced partnerships with the British Museum, the Pompidou Centre, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Its first major exhibition under the new name will feature Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky in mid-2024, followed by an exhibition of 17 Rembrandt paintings in 2025 to mark the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam.
The Hermitage Amsterdam, which cut ties with its St. Petersburg mother ship in 2022, has rebranded as H'Art Museum and announced partnerships with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the British Museum. The museum will have separate contracts with each partner institution to receive art loans and share resources. The Pompidou will work with H'Art on five exhibitions over five years, starting in 2024, while the Smithsonian and the British Museum will mount three exhibitions each in the next six years. The museum also received temporary loans from Dutch museums and raised almost $1 million through a crowdfunding campaign.
The Hermitage museum in Amsterdam has renamed itself the H’ART Museum and announced a formal partnership with three international institutions: the British Museum, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The museum will have access to almost 160 million objects from these institutions. The H’ART Museum will continue its children’s and education programme and open a new restaurant in September. The museum has scheduled a major Kandinsky exhibition with the modern art Centre Pompidou mid-2024, a British Museum show Feminine power in 2026, and already has a Smithsonian American Art Museum video installation, Clubbing, by Martine Gutierrez on show in a special room.
The Hermitage Amsterdam museum has been renamed H'ART Museum after cutting ties with St. Petersburg's Hermitage collection following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The museum has announced partnerships with renowned galleries in London, Paris, and Washington, D.C. to bring art to the historic building on the banks of the Dutch capital's Amstel River. The museum's program will range from major art exhibitions to smaller presentations, with the first major show scheduled to open midway through 2024 in partnership with Paris' Centre Pompidou focused on Wassily Kandinsky.
Museums in New York, Paris, and Madrid are hosting exhibitions to mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death. The shows will focus on different periods of the artist's life and work, including his early years in Paris, his time in Fontainebleau, and his transformational year of 1906. One exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum will examine Picasso's work from a feminist perspective. The Musée de l’Homme in Paris will explore the influence of prehistoric art on Picasso's work. The exhibitions will feature a range of paintings, drawings, and archival materials.