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50 stories across Contemporary, London, Sculpture, and Paris. Latest: Tate Modern's 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' Opens as Highest Pre-Selling Exhibition in Museum's History.
Tate Modern opened 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' on June 25, 2026, becoming the highest pre-selling exhibition in the museum's history with more than 50,000 tickets sold.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, will open "The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing The Art of Flight" on July 1, 2026.
Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an inaugural exhibition that brings together artists who have accompanied Jean-Marc Bustamante’s path or whose works share particular affinities with his own. The gallery has organized the show around these connections to the artist.
On June 24, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago features over 28 commissioned art installations, including works by Lisson artists Jack Pierson and Spencer Finch.
Lisson Gallery and Absent Gallery have initiated a space exchange for summer 2026, with each venue presenting exhibitions in the other's location.
M+, Asia's global museum of contemporary visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, will open the interactive family-friendly exhibition 'Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday Design' on June 27, 2026, running through January 10, 2027.
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On June 24, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that an adapted version of Florentina Holzinger's "Seaworld Venice"—created for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale—will tour three venues.
On June 18, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced the permanent installation of Hans Josephsohn's 1968 brass sculpture 'Untitled (Ruth)' at the Bibliothek Günther Förg, on view from July 2026. The half-figure work is based on the artist's longtime partner Ruth.
On June 18, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the exhibition 'For Theresa' by artist N. El-Sayegh at its London gallery at 37 Dover Street.
Getty announced on June 16, 2026, the launch of its first video podcast, "OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation," hosted by gallery educator Lilit Sadoyan.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) welcomed nearly 80,000 visitors over a five-day period from June 18 through June 22, 2026, as part of the Grand Opening Weekend for the David Geffen Galleries, the museum's transformative new building.
Lisson Gallery has presented a new iteration of 'Zanzibar' (1999-2023), a mixed-media installation by Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska, as part of its ongoing Lisson Street programme.
Château La Coste presents "Rashid, Sheree and Friends," a group exhibition cocurated by artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian in conjunction with their solo shows at the venue.
The Van Gogh Museum delivered a Van Gogh Museum Edition — a high-quality 3D replica of one of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces — to primary school Syncope in Almere on June 24, 2026, as part of its educational programme Van Gogh Goes to School, made possible by partner DHL Express.
On June 24, 2026, the Barbican Centre announced further programme details for "Repercussions," a multi-day takeover led by Turner Prize-winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his nonprofit Earshot.
Kunsthaus Zürich has received a CHF 30 million initial endowment from Marianne and Martin Haefner to establish the Förderstiftung für bedeutende Ausstellungen des Kunsthauses Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich announced on May 20, 2026, its expanded role as a site of societal participation through programs linking art with health and community engagement.
On June 23, 2026, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced a five-day pop-up display of Jordyn Woods’s Tux Clutch Mini bag at the Guggenheim New York’s Café Rebay.
On June 23, 2026, the Getty Research Institute opened the exhibition “Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles,” on view through October 18, 2026.
On June 17, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that KAWS’s work is included in the group exhibition HARD EDGE(D) at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg. The show is installed in the museum’s historic Haupteingang and Rittersaal and examines the evolution of hard edge painting over six decades.
On June 15, 2026, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) presents an exhibition of works by Antony Gormley curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
June 18, 2026, New York-based photographer Jack Pierson has installed a Word Collage spelling “Hope” using vintage signage along a prominent corridor leading into the center’s museum.
On June 24, 2026, the Mori Art Museum announced an exhibition of work by Katayama Mari, winner of the inaugural Mori Art Award Grand Prize. The show runs from October 31, 2026, to March 28, 2027, in the Small Exhibition Gallery at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
On June 23, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that Barry Flanagan’s work is the subject of solo exhibitions at Fundació J. Llorens Artigas in Gallifa and at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, the latter curated by Dr. Jo Melvin and accompanied by public events on 22 February and 18 April.
The Dora Maar Cultural Center at the historic Hôtel de Tingry presents Joanna Pousette-Dart: Shaping Light from 25 June to 27 September 2026. The solo exhibition features new paintings created for the show along with works on paper that respond to the light and color of the space.
June 23, 2026 — The Centre Pompidou presents Fabrice Hyber's La Vallée in Vendée as part of the Hors Pistes / Hors Champs festival. The artist opens his 100-hectare site, planted with 100,000 trees since age 16, to the public for the first time.
New Museum has made June and July tickets available for purchase. Visitors are encouraged to buy tickets and plan their visits.
On June 16, 2026, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection in Paris installed Cloud #07156 by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya in the Rotonde as part of the Clair-Obscur exhibition.
On June 22, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the exhibition “The Sky in the Cave” by Oliver Beer at its Dover Street location.
On June 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac opened the exhibition Barceló Printmaker, which presents around thirty prints by Miquel Barceló, most of them recent and produced at the Barcelona workshop of Joan Roma and Takeshi Motomiya.
On June 13, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the collection presentation 'Various Signs', which runs alongside the 'Pierre Huyghe' exhibition. It brings together works from the collection that each engage with signs and meaning in their own way.
On June 23, 2026, Centre Pompidou released painter Jean-Philippe Delhomme's reflections on the Matisse, 1941-1954 exhibition at the Grand Palais.
The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, presents Mariko Mori: All That Shines from October 31, 2026 to March 28, 2027. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist in Japan since 2002 and is organized in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
On June 20, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the exhibition Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs at its Milan gallery.
Kunsthaus Zürich will present the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Eye That Listens' from July 3 to October 25, 2026. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916).
The Kunsthaus Zürich recorded 539,500 visitors in 2025, the second-highest annual total in its history and the highest among Swiss art museums.
Tate Modern opens Frida: The Making of an Icon on June 25, 2026, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
On June 22, 2026, The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation features works by Julian Opie. The exhibition occupies the heart of downtown New Orleans along Poydras Street from Convention Center Boulevard to North Galvez Street.
On June 16, 2026, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection opened the exhibition 'Clair-obscur,' presenting around 100 works from the collection, including modern pieces shown for the first time.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia will host the exhibition titled 'Leiko Ikemura: TransLucent - The Form of Light' from 10 September to 22 November during the ninth edition of The Venice Glass Week 2026.
On June 21, 2026, Urs Fischer opened a pair of exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch’s two Los Angeles galleries in collaboration with Gagosian.
On June 21, 2026, Tate unveiled its first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Tate Britain Garden, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, centers on Barbara Hepworth’s Bicentric Form 1949 and previews the Clore Garden due to open at Tate Britain in 2027.
The National Portrait Gallery announced the shortlist for the 44th edition of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award on 18 May 2026.
On June 19, 2026, Pace Gallery announced its global representation of the Constantin Brancusi Estate. The gallery’s first major project will be an exhibition in London this fall curated by Dr. Jérôme Neutres.
On June 18, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the exhibition “For Theresa” by Theresa El-Sayegh. The show is arranged in four sections of varying density and opens with the artist’s Net-Grid canvases (2010–) alongside the new Grand Collection of World Art tableaux (2026).
On June 17, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that its Paris Marais gallery is hosting "Earthsongs," the first solo exhibition in France by Joan Snyder.
On June 19, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Inge Mahn’s work is included in FORCE FIELDS, a new collection presentation at the Kunstmuseum Bonn that transforms the upper floor into a dynamic parcours.
On June 12, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released an interview with a performance artist exploring solidarity through the collective presence of women of various ages and body types.
June 19, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released a text by Catherine Millet on new paintings by Adrian Ghenie.
On June 19, 2026, the Centre Pompidou opened a retrospective of Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis coinciding with his receipt of the Jean Vigo d'honneur prize for his body of work.
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