Opens 3 Oct
Nolan: Origins
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
October 3, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Announced
Opening soon
130 special exhibitions open within the next six months at 56 museums in 39 cities, with dates confirmed by the museums themselves.
Confirmed openings in the next six months, soonest first. Worth booking travel around.
Australia
Sydney
Opens 9 Oct
Breath of Faith The Living Sculpture of Pedro de Mena
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
October 9, 2026 – October 9, 2027
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 28 Nov
Paula do Prado
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
November 28, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 5 Dec
Takashi Murakami When the Mountain Is High, the Moon Rises Higher
Art Gallery of New South Wales · Sydney
December 5, 2026 – July 18, 2027
Siegfried Nugent ( talk ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Austria
Vienna
Opens 30 Oct
WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE ALBERTINA
Albertina · Vienna
October 30, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 30 Oct
HER STORY
Women Artists of the ALBERTINA
Albertina · Vienna
October 30, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 6 Nov
FRANZ WEST
The Revolution of Sculpture
Albertina · Vienna
November 6, 2026 – March 29, 2027
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 2 Dec
Bernini, Painter and Sculptor
Kunsthistorisches Museum · Vienna
December 2, 2026 – April 4, 2027
Brazil
São Paulo
Opens 30 Oct
Pablo Delano: Museu da Antiga Colônia
São Paulo Museum of Art · São Paulo
October 30, 2026 – January 31, 2027
ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 30 Oct
Rosa Elena Curruchich: crônicas de Comalapa
São Paulo Museum of Art · São Paulo
October 30, 2026 – April 4, 2027
ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 27 Nov
Manuel Herreros & Mateo Manaure: mi nombre es Venezuela
São Paulo Museum of Art · São Paulo
November 27, 2026 – April 4, 2027
ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 27 Nov
Jesús Soto
São Paulo Museum of Art · São Paulo
November 27, 2026 – April 4, 2027
ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Canada
Montreal
Opens 26 Sept
Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Montreal
September 26, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Thomas Ledl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 9 Oct
Allison Katz : Jeu d'esprit
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Montreal
October 9, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Thomas Ledl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 19 Nov
Anne Kahane: Structures
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Montreal
November 19, 2026 – April 4, 2027
Thomas Ledl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 20 Feb 2027
MARIE CHOUINARD: BECOMING BREATH
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Montreal
February 20 – May 9, 2027
Thomas Ledl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Denmark
Aarhus
Opens 3 Oct
Frihedens Fald Kunsten i Tyskland 1910 – 1945
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum · Aarhus
October 3, 2026 – February 21, 2027
France
Opens 28 Oct
Henri Matisse – Alex Katz
The Silence of Painting
Musée Matisse · Nice
October 28, 2026 – January 18, 2027
takato marui / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Opens 15 Sept
Maurice Denis: Mystical Illustrator
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
September 15, 2026 – January 3, 2027
Opens 15 Sept
A Statue for Liberty, Bartholdi’s dream, from Paris to New York
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
September 15, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 15 Sept
Auguste Bartholdi Liberty Enlightening the World
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
September 15, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 22 Sept
Marie Bracquemond
Opens 24 Sept
Hosts at the Louvre
Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton
Musée du Louvre · Paris
September 24 – December 14, 2026
Opens 29 Sept
Maurice Denis Illustrating Christian mysticism
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
September 29, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 6 Oct
Vertigo Richard Peduzzi at Orsay
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
October 6, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 7 Oct
Sculpting Colour
Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid
Musée du Louvre · Paris
October 7, 2026 – January 25, 2027
Opens 20 Oct
Louise Bourgeois, Extrême tension
Dessins et gravures
BnF – Richelieu · Paris
October 20, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Opens 10 Nov
Gustave Le Gray Painter and Photographer
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
November 10, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 14 Nov
What a Wonderful World Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay · Paris
November 14, 2026 – March 28, 2027
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 15 Dec
Édouard Vuillard
Opens 16 Mar 2027
Family Histories
Greece
Athens
Opens 8 Oct
Alekos Levidis: Painting 1961–2026
A Lifetime of Play
Benaki Museum · Athens
October 8, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Japan
Opens 22 Sept
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
Amsterdam
Opens 1 Oct
Yoshitoshi. Master of the Moon
Van Gogh Museum · Amsterdam
October 1, 2026 – January 4, 2027
Photo: Warrox / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Opens 10 Oct
Adam Pendleton Some Wild Kind of Language
Stedelijk Museum · Amsterdam
October 10, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Photo: John Lewis Marshall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 16 Oct
Whistler. Dandy and Disruptor
Van Gogh Museum · Amsterdam
October 16, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Opens 28 Nov
Collaborative Artistic Practices - Proposals for the Museum Collection
Stedelijk Museum · Amsterdam
November 28, 2026 – April 4, 2027
Photo: John Lewis Marshall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 12 Feb 2027
Eva Gonzalès
Opens 6 Mar 2027
LUC TUYMANS SILENT MUSIC
Stedelijk Museum · Amsterdam
March 6 – July 11, 2027
Photo: John Lewis Marshall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rotterdam
The Hague
Opens 15 Oct
Thyssen-Bornemisza ❤ Mauritshuis
Masterpieces from Madrid
Mauritshuis · The Hague
October 15, 2026 – January 17, 2027
South Korea
Opens 18 Dec
Marie Antoinette Style
National Museum of Korea · Seoul
December 18, 2026 – March 31, 2027
Jinah78 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spain
Barcelona
Opens 9 Oct
Charlotte Perriand. Free to Rethink the World
Fundació Joan Miró · Barcelona
October 9, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Canaan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bilbao
Opens 1 Oct
Ever is Over All. Pipilotti Rist
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao · Bilbao
October 1, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Opens 12 Nov
Dan Flavin
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao · Bilbao
November 12, 2026 – April 4, 2027
Photo: Naotake Murayama / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 19 Nov
in situ: Zadie Xa
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao · Bilbao
November 19, 2026 – April 11, 2027
Photo: Naotake Murayama / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Madrid
Opens 23 Sept
Eli Cortiñas The Machine Dreams of Smoke
Museo Reina Sofía · Madrid
September 23, 2026 – March 8, 2027
Photo: Luis García ( Zaqarbal ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 23 Sept
ELI CORTIÑAS: The Machine Dreams of Smoke
Museo Reina Sofía · Madrid
September 23, 2026 – March 8, 2027
Photo: Luis García ( Zaqarbal ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 11 Nov
MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROJAS: The Night
Museo Reina Sofía · Madrid
November 11, 2026 – March 15, 2027
Photo: Luis García ( Zaqarbal ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 11 Nov
Miguel Ángel Rojas The Night
Museo Reina Sofía · Madrid
November 11, 2026 – March 15, 2027
Photo: Luis García ( Zaqarbal ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 18 Nov
La Menesunda According to Marta Minujín
Museo Reina Sofía · Madrid
November 18, 2026 – March 8, 2027
Photo: Luis García ( Zaqarbal ) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
United Kingdom
London
Opens 22 Sept
Nicole Eisenman
Royal Academy of Arts · London
September 22, 2026 – February 5, 2027
Photo: Bengt Oberger / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 2 Oct
Painting the French Riviera
Royal Academy of Arts · London
October 2, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Opens 14 Oct
Light and Magic
The Birth of Art Photography
Tate Modern · London
October 14, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Opens 15 Oct
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
National Gallery · London
October 15, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Opens 12 Nov
Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury
Opens 21 Nov
Peggy Guggenheim in London
Royal Academy of Arts · London
November 21, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Photo: Bengt Oberger / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 4 Mar 2027
Catharina van Hemessen: Signature Works
National Gallery · London
March 4 – May 30, 2027
St Ives
United States
Atlanta
Opens 9 Oct
Photography as a Way of Life
Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan
High Museum of Art · Atlanta
October 9, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Baltimore
Opens 16 Sept
Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore
September 16, 2026 – May 2, 2027
Nrswanson ( talk ) at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 4 Oct
Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore
October 4, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Nrswanson ( talk ) at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 8 Nov
Diedrick Brackens: lights at the end of the world
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore
November 8, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Nrswanson ( talk ) at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons
Birmingham
Opens 26 Sept
Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art
Birmingham Museum of Art · Birmingham
September 26, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Birmingham Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Chicago
Opens 7 Nov
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago · Chicago
November 7, 2026 – April 25, 2027
User:JeremyA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
Denver
Opens 8 Nov
I Follow Rivers
Indigenous Worlds in Latin America
Denver Art Museum · Denver
November 8, 2026 – July 27, 2027
Detroit
Opens 26 Sept
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
Opens 16 Dec
The Power of Portraits
Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit
December 16, 2026 – June 6, 2027
SigmaIota / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Opens 24 Jan 2027
Velázquez & Olivares: Early Years at Court
Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit
January 24 – July 25, 2027
SigmaIota / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eugene
Opens 19 Sept
Leading the Camino: Latinx Art by Juan de Dios Mora and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art · Eugene
September 19, 2026 – April 11, 2027
User:Akendall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 9 Jan 2027
Frying Pans and Metal Chains: Rethinking the Body in Contemporary Art
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art · Eugene
January 9 – April 25, 2027
User:Akendall / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fort Worth
Opens 4 Oct
Photography's First Century
Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Kimbell Art Museum · Fort Worth
October 4, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Opens 14 Mar 2027Touring
Treasures of the Pharaohs
Kimbell Art Museum · Fort Worth
March 14 – September 19, 2027
Jackson
Opens 10 Oct
Impact and Entanglement: Three Video Works by Christina Seely
National Museum of Wildlife Art · Jackson
October 10, 2026 – January 3, 2027
Anwestov / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 17 Oct
Birds in Art
National Museum of Wildlife Art · Jackson
October 17, 2026 – April 25, 2027
Anwestov / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 31 Oct
Cristina Mittermeier: A Greater Wisdom
National Museum of Wildlife Art · Jackson
October 31, 2026 – May 9, 2027
Anwestov / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kansas City
Opens 3 Oct
American Prospects and Landscape Photography, 1839 to Today
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City
October 3, 2026 – April 11, 2027
Opens 14 Nov
Personal Best
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City
November 14, 2026 – May 9, 2027
User:Charvex / Wikimedia Commons
Los Angeles
Opens 15 Sept
Joshua Reynolds's *Portrait of Mai* and 18th-Century Portraiture
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
September 15, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Jelson25 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 22 Sept
The Holy Family at Home
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
September 22, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Jelson25 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 20 Oct
Reggie Burrows Hodges
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
October 20, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Jelson25 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 24 Nov
A Light in the Dark: Joseph Wright of Derby
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
November 24, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Jelson25 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 15 Dec
Paul R. Williams
The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles
December 15, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Jelson25 / Wikimedia Commons
New York
Opens 18 Sept
Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · New York
September 18, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Opens 19 Sept
Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York
September 19, 2026 – January 18, 2027
Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 27 Sept
Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design
Museum of Modern Art · New York
September 27, 2026 – June 13, 2027
Opens 2 Oct
Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection
Brooklyn Museum · New York
October 2, 2026 – April 18, 2027
Jim.henderson / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 4 Oct
The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors
Museum of Modern Art · New York
October 4, 2026 – January 23, 2027
Opens 4 Oct
Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York
October 4, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Opens 11 Oct
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York
October 11 – December 21, 2026
Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 15 Oct
Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450-1500
The Frick Collection · New York
October 15, 2026 – January 18, 2027
Opens 25 Oct
Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio
Museum of Modern Art · New York
October 25, 2026 – February 27, 2027
Opens 12 Nov
Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl
The Frick Collection · New York
November 12, 2026 – February 22, 2027
Opens 12 Nov
25th Anniversary Exhibition
Masterworks from the Neue Galerie
Neue Galerie · New York
November 12, 2026 – January 11, 2027
Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Palm Springs
Opens 16 Oct
Lita Albuquerque: Cosmic Land
Palm Springs Art Museum · Palm Springs
October 16, 2026 – May 3, 2027
Toohool / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 21 Nov
The Grammar of Jim Dine: Works from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Palm Springs Art Museum · Palm Springs
November 21, 2026 – April 19, 2027
Toohool / Wikimedia Commons
Philadelphia
Opens 20 Sept
Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America
Barnes Foundation · Philadelphia
September 20, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Dmadeo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 10 Oct
Marcel Duchamp
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia
October 10, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Wikimedia Commons
Opens 21 Feb 2027
Rochelle Feinstein: The Today Show
Providence
Opens 21 Nov
In the Making
150 Years of Collecting at RISD Museum
RISD Museum · Providence
November 21, 2026 – June 6, 2027
Infrogmation, New Orleans / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Raleigh
Opens 26 Sept
Nancy Baker Cahill: Ecologies of Scale
North Carolina Museum of Art · Raleigh
September 26, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Justin Doub / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 17 Oct
Ancient Nubia: Excavating Treasures of the Nile from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
North Carolina Museum of Art · Raleigh
October 17, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Justin Doub / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 17 Oct
Ancient Nubia
North Carolina Museum of Art · Raleigh
October 17, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Justin Doub / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Opens 19 Sept
Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer"
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem
September 19, 2026 – January 3, 2027
Fletcher6 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 5 Dec
Origami Unfolded
Peabody Essex Museum · Salem
December 5, 2026 – September 17, 2028
Fletcher6 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Opens 27 Feb 2027
The Stars We Do Not See
San Diego
Opens 6 Mar 2027
Meghann Riepenhoff: Waters of the Americas
San Diego Museum of Art · San Diego
March 6 – September 6, 2027
https://www.flickr.com/photos/97964364@N00/ / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
San Francisco
Opens 18 Sept
Garuda in Bali
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco · San Francisco
September 18, 2026 – January 4, 2027
LPS.1 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 25 Sept
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco · San Francisco
September 25, 2026 – January 25, 2027
LPS.1 / Wikimedia Commons
Opens 3 Oct
RM x SFMOMA
Between You and Me
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · San Francisco
October 3, 2026 – February 7, 2027
Opens 23 Oct
Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco · San Francisco
October 23, 2026 – January 25, 2027
LPS.1 / Wikimedia Commons
Santa Fe
Opens 21 Nov
Spaces of Becoming
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum · Santa Fe
November 21, 2026 – April 15, 2028
John Phelan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Sheboygan
Opens 24 Oct
Greater Than the Sum: Practices of Gathering, Reuse, and Assemblage
John Michael Kohler Arts Center · Sheboygan
October 24, 2026 – February 7, 2027
self / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
Opens 6 Mar 2027
Ann Agee: AGEE MFG
John Michael Kohler Arts Center · Sheboygan
March 6 – August 22, 2027
self / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5