Closes 8 Nov
Billy Bain By the River
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
July 4 – November 8, 2026
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Last chance
Closing soon
79 special exhibitions close within the next 45 days at 44 museums in 33 cities — if one of them matters to you, this is the window.
Shows with 45 days or fewer left. Once these come down, the loans go home — most of these groupings won't be assembled again.
Australia
Sydney
Closes 8 Nov
By the River
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
July 4 – November 8, 2026
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada
Toronto
Closes 1 Nov
Picture Space
Art Gallery of Ontario · Toronto
September 1 – November 1, 2026
Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Vancouver
Closes 8 Nov
That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature
Vancouver Art Gallery · Vancouver
February 6 – November 8, 2026
Closes 22 Nov
Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant
Vancouver Art Gallery · Vancouver
August 7 – November 22, 2026
Denmark
Aarhus
Closes 28 Nov
ARoS Samling: 1960 – nu
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum · Aarhus
February 10, 2024 – November 28, 2026
Photo: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Japan
Until 13 Dec
Albert Marquet : A Retrospective
The 50 th Year of the Sompo Museum of Art
Sompo Museum of Art · Tokyo
September 22 – December 13, 2026
Tengusabaki / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Netherlands
Closes 15 Nov
Dichter bij De denker
Spain
Bilbao
Closes 1 Nov
in situ: Igshaan Adams. Unsettling Dust: The Body’s Archive
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao · Bilbao
May 5 – November 1, 2026
Photo: Naotake Murayama / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
United Kingdom
Edinburgh
Closes 1 Nov
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
National Galleries Scotland · Edinburgh
August 8 – November 1, 2026
Klaus with K / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Until 6 Dec
Stanley Cursiter: Artist & Curator
National Galleries Scotland · Edinburgh
June 27 – December 6, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Anne Redpath: Landscapes on Paper
National Galleries Scotland · Edinburgh
June 27 – December 6, 2026
Klaus with K / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
London
Closes 8 Nov
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Victoria and Albert Museum · London
March 28 – November 8, 2026
Oxford
United States
Beacon
Closes 16 Nov
Hélio Oiticica
Dia Beacon · Beacon
December 5, 2025 – November 16, 2026
Rolf Müller ( User:Rolfmueller ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boston
Until 29 Nov
Reality and Imagination
Rembrandt and the Jews in the Dutch Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Boston
December 15, 2025 – November 29, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Maverick Kings
Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt’s Golden Age
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Boston
September 7 – December 6, 2026
Buffalo
Closes 8 Nov
Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind
Buffalo AKG Art Museum · Buffalo
June 26 – November 8, 2026
Chicago
Closes 9 Nov
Self, Made: Fourteen Modern Artists from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago
June 25 – November 9, 2026
Photo: ajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Closes 15 Nov
Saint-Porchaire Ceramics: Rediscovered Treasures of the French Renaissance
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago
March 25 – November 15, 2026
Photo: ajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Closes 15 Nov
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago
June 7, 2025 – November 15, 2026
Photo: ajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Cleveland
Closes 1 Nov
The Renaissance Engraver at Work
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
July 5 – November 1, 2026
Closes 8 Nov
American Printed Silks, 1927–1947
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
November 9, 2025 – November 8, 2026
Closes 8 Nov
The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
May 31 – November 8, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
July 9 – December 6, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Silver, Gold, and Gems: A Spotlight on Jewelry Across Africa
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
December 7, 2025 – December 6, 2026
Until 13 Dec
Native North American Textiles
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
December 19, 2025 – December 13, 2026
Until 13 Dec
Ancient Andean Textiles
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland
December 19, 2025 – December 13, 2026
Detroit
Closes 1 Nov
14th Annual Ofrendas: Celebrating el Día de Muertos
Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit
September 26 – November 1, 2026
SigmaIota / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eugene
Until 6 Dec
Collecting America: Recent Acquisitions
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art · Eugene
June 13 – December 6, 2026
Until 13 Dec
Building the World of Tomorrow: Gordon Gilkey’s 1939 New York World’s Fair
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art · Eugene
August 8 – December 13, 2026
User:Akendall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Los Angeles
Until 30 Nov
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
March 4 – November 30, 2026
Until 1 Dec
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles
February 22 – December 1, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Danse Macabre
Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles
June 12 – December 6, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Pablo Picasso — Portraits in Disguise
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles
June 12 – December 6, 2026
New Haven
Until 6 Dec
W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing
Yale University Art Gallery · New Haven
June 27 – December 6, 2026
Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Until 6 Dec
Print Catalyst @ 30
Yale University Art Gallery · New Haven
June 27 – December 6, 2026
Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
New York
Closes 8 Nov
Luminous Color
The Morgan Library & Museum · New York
February 10 – November 8, 2026
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Closes 8 Nov
Common Sense
Brooklyn Museum · New York
May 1 – November 8, 2026
Jim.henderson / Wikimedia Commons
Closes 15 Nov
In the Making 2026
Museum of Modern Art · New York
September 19 – November 15, 2026
Photo: hibino / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Palm Springs
Closes 16 Nov
Ynez Johnston: Ancient and Modern Tales and Myths
Palm Springs Art Museum · Palm Springs
April 4 – November 16, 2026
Toohool / Wikimedia Commons
Philadelphia
Closes 1 Nov
Americana: Photographs 1850-1950
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia
July 23 – November 1, 2026
Portland
Closes 8 Nov
Inkling Studio: Community and Printmaking in Portland, 1981–2009
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 8, 2026
Closes 15 Nov
Abstraction Since Mark Rothko
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 15, 2026
Closes 15 Nov
Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 15, 2026
Closes 20 Nov
For the Enjoyment of All: Celebrating the Kress Gift
Portland Art Museum · Portland
October 8, 2025 – November 20, 2026
Closes 20 Nov
Marco Brambilla: Maximalist Dreamscapes
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 20, 2026
Closes 20 Nov
Black Arts PDX at the CREATE SPACE
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 20, 2026
Closes 26 Nov
Heaven and Earth: Chinese Art from the Collections
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – November 26, 2026
Until 13 Dec
Shifting the Narrative: 21st Century Acquisitions
Portland Art Museum · Portland
November 20, 2025 – December 13, 2026
Raleigh
Closes 1 Nov
Park Billboards: Jalen Jackson
North Carolina Museum of Art · Raleigh
May 1, 2025 – November 1, 2026
Richmond
Closes 1 Nov
47th Annual Exhibition of the Virginia Watercolor Society
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · Richmond
September 5 – November 1, 2026
Closes 15 Nov
Promise and Peril
Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · Richmond
May 9 – November 15, 2026
San Francisco
Closes 2 Nov
This Asian American Life
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco · San Francisco
September 3 – November 2, 2026
Closes 2 Nov
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco · San Francisco
September 3 – November 2, 2026
Until 29 Nov
Graciela Iturbide
Between Two Worlds
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · San Francisco
July 11 – November 29, 2026
Until 6 Dec
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family
de Young Museum · San Francisco
March 15, 2024 – December 6, 2026
Mark Miller / Wikimedia Commons
Until 6 Dec
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
de Young Museum · San Francisco
August 26, 2025 – December 6, 2026
Santa Fe
Closes 1 Nov
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum · Santa Fe
November 7, 2025 – November 1, 2026
Sheboygan, WI
Closes 8 Nov
Good to See You: Ilana Harris-Babou and Yoshie Sakai
John Michael Kohler Arts Center · Sheboygan, WI
April 18 – November 8, 2026
Until 29 Nov
Guadalupe Maravilla with Emery Blagdon: The star exploding in the body
John Michael Kohler Arts Center · Sheboygan, WI
May 5 – November 29, 2026
Stanford
Until 13 Dec
Carolyn Lazard: Long Take
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University · Stanford
August 6 – December 13, 2026
David Monniaux / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Washington, D.C.
Closes 1 Nov
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden · Washington, D.C.
March 22, 2024 – November 1, 2026
Gryffindor / Wikimedia Commons
Closes 8 Nov
Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post
Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington, D.C.
July 3 – November 8, 2026
Closes 8 Nov
Creative Aging
The Phillips Collection · Washington, D.C.
August 15 – November 8, 2026
Photo: Mariah Miranda Photography / The Phillips Collection
Until 6 Dec
Sky Hopinka
Kicking the Clouds
National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C.
April 11 – December 6, 2026
Until 6 Dec
American Icon: The US Flag in Art
National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C.
June 6 – December 6, 2026