2026 in art

Significant events relating to the year 2026 in art are listed below.

• February 5 – Michelangelo's preparatory sketch of a foot for The Libyan Sibyl is sold at Christie’s for $27.2 million including fees.^[1]
• March 2 – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announces the retrieval of the long-lost Rembrandt painting The Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633).^[2]
• March 22 – Paintings Les Poissons by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Paul Cézanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Henri Matisse are stolen from the Italian museum Villa dei Capolavori by four masked men.^[3]
• April 19 - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opens its new David Geffen galleries designed by architect Peter Zumthor, to exhibit its permanent collection.^[4]
• April 29 – Banksy erects a statue in central London overnight.^[5]
• April 30 – The entire Venice Biennale jury resigns, 9 days before the scheduled start of this year's show, over the inclusion of Russia.^[6]
• May 1 – It is announced that a Botticelli painting of The Virgin and Child Enthroned from the 1470s will remain in England, having been purchased for the collection of A. Gary Klesch, and will initially be loaned to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.^[7]
• June - Artist Gavin Snider accuses fellow artist and social media star Devon Rodriguez of presenting images of paintings of triumphant New York Knicks fans outside Madison Square Garden commissioned by the team from him to celebrate their 2026 NBA Championship, victory as his own. Rodriguez summarily removes his social.media post introducing the work as his own.^[8]

• March 5 until August 2 – Carol Bove at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[9]

• March 5 until April 11 – ''Hugo Winder-Lind: Clouds of Limitless and Expanding Joy'' at the Isabel Sullivan Gallery in New York City.^[10]

• March 14 until August 23 - Rothko in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.^[11]

• March 15 until July 26 – Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50 at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey.^[12]

• March 16 until October - Inspired by the Metrocard at the New York City Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal.^[13][14]

• March 24 until July 26 - Matisse: 1941-1954 at the Grand Palais in Paris.^[15]

• March 29 until June 28 – Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[16]

• April 9 until May 22 – MATISSE The Pursuit of Harmony at the Acquavella Galleries in New York City ^[17]

• May 9 until May 23 - Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at Fondazione Prada in Venice.^[18]

• May 9 until November 29 - Wilderness (Tamiko Thiel, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, John Sanborn, Kames Bloom, Will Pappenheimer, Fernanda D'Agostino, Nina Sobell, Terry Flaxton) at the Palazzo Mora in Venice.^[19]

• May 22 until September 30 - Antonia Papatznaki: Unseen Brought to Light at Mosaic Art Space in Long Island City, New York City, New York.^[20]

• May 26 until November 29 - Thomas Dambo: The Garbage Man at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Ishøj, Denmark^[21]

• Banksy - Blind Patriotism at Waterloo Place in London, England. (sculpture)
• Florentina Holzinger - Seaworld Venice at the Austrian pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale at the 2026 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.^[22]
• Tennessee Monument to Unborn Children, Nashville, Tennessee, United States (sculpture)