Must-See Museum Shows of 2026

In 2026, museums across Europe, North America and Asia are leaning into exhibitions built around reassessment and scale. The years programming is anchored by major retrospectives, first-time surveys and focused studies of influential artists from Marcel Duchamps long-overdue return to MoMA to career-spanning presentations by Tracey Emin, Daido Moriyama and Anish Kapoor. Elsewhere, institutions are committing space and time to artists whose work reshaped entire disciplines, including Dan Flavins ...