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Main Character Energy: Marina Abramović’s Transforming Energy at Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice A historic first: the Accademia’s first major exhibition honouring a living woman artist, timed to the Venice Biennale and Abramović’s 80th birthday. Her performance legacy enters dialogue with Renaissance masterpieces across permanent and temporary galleries. Visitors activate interactive Transitory Objects by lying, sitting, standing, while iconic works and new commissions sharpen the encounter between body and spirit. The headline pairing is Pietà (with Ulay) beside Titian’s unfinished Pietà, reframing grief and transcendence across centuries. Entry: €20; Concessions €17; Free for under 18 📅 6 May 2026 – 19 Oct 2026 📍 Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Marina Abramović. Photo by Clara Melchiorre 🖼️ Installation views, Marina Abramović, Transforming Energy at Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. Image credit ©Yu Jieyu

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting – final weeks The Times ★★★★ ‘This spellbinding show will win you over’ Don’t miss your chance to see Lucian Freud like never before and discover his extraordinary mastery of drawing in all its forms. From pencil, pen, and ink to charcoal and etching, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s works on paper, and includes some works seen on display for the first time. 📅12 February 2026 – 4 May 2026 📍 @NPGLondon 🔗npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibi… 🖼️ Double Portrait by Lucian Freud, 1985–6 © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 / Bridgeman Images. Private Collection.

Save the date: James McNeill Whistler at @Tate Britain, London A major retrospective, and the first big European Whistler exhibition in 30 years. The rule-breaker appears as experimental artist and cosmopolitan celebrity, rewriting what it meant to be an artist while disrupting Victorian conventions in pursuit of truth, beauty and progress. World-famous paintings sit with rarely or never seen works, from early drawings and designs to enigmatic late self-portraits. Expect ethereal modernity and hard-won technique in equal measure. Entry: £18; Free for Members; Concessions available; £5 for Tate Collective 📅 21 May 2026 – 27 Sep 2026 📍 Tate Britain, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ James Abbott McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 1871 Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France 🖼️ James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, 1864, Tate Collection

Save the date: Zurbarán at @NationalGallery, London The first UK exhibition devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán, a giant of 17th-century Spanish painting. From small still lifes to soaring altarpieces, his naturalism and intense spirituality are anchored by an extraordinary gift for fabric, from extravagant clothing to austere monastic robes. Works arrive from around the world, spanning his career, including rare still lifes by his son Juan, and reunions of large religious commissions alongside domestic-scale pictures. Entry: TBC 📅 2 May 2026 – 23 Aug 2026 📍 The National Gallery, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Casilda, about 1635, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

It’s Michaelina Wautier at @royalacademy, London A reintroduction, and a restoration. Active in 17th-century Brussels, Wautier defied gendered conventions by working across flowers, portraits, and monumental history painting. Her Triumph of Bacchus places her own likeness at monumental scale, asserting authorship with startling directness. Successful in her time, then nearly lost to the 18th century, she returns here in collaboration with Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, claimed again as a major European artist. Entry: £15 📅 27 Mar 2026 – 21 Jun 2026 📍 Royal Academy of Arts, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Michaelina Wautier The Triumph of Bacchus, c. 1655–59 Oil on canvas. 271.5 x 355.5 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. 3548 Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband

New #ArtOpps update now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 🏛️ Residencies at Rentang Art Lab, @resicorazon 🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity at Miguel Martin, South Square Centre, Silicon Valley Consulting, the Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, @artembassynet 💼 Commission by @LBHF 🏢 Studio Space at ACME STUDIOS 🎓 Fellowship with Tucson Museum Of Art and Historic Block More #OpenCalls this way 👇 artrabbit.com/artist-opportu…

Kunié Sugiura’s Reading the Rooms at Moskowitz Bayse Six decades of Kunié Sugiura’s work come into focus through X-rays, photograms and shifts in scale, revealing a practice that moves between abstraction, documentation and the unseen. Kunié Sugiura: X-Ray Island at Moskowitz Bayse offers a concise overview of the artist’s six-decade practice, bringing together works that explore the boundaries of photography through X-rays, photograms and shifts in scale. Born in Japan in 1942 and based in New York since the late 1960s, Sugiura has developed a distinctive approach that moves between abstraction and documentation, often revealing what sits just beyond ordinary perception. The exhibition traces these ideas across works that range from enlarged natural forms to fragmented studies of the body, consistently balancing distortion with a sense of clarity and light. 📅 24 Jan 2026 – 28 Mar 2026 📍 Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Installation view of Kunié Sugiura, X-ray Island at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles 2026. ©Moskowitz Bayse 🖼️ Installation view of Kunié Sugiura, X-ray Island at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles 2026. ©Moskowitz Bayse 🖼️ Kunié Sugiura, Vertebra, 2021, Photo emulsion, Acrylic on canvas, 96 3/4 x 65 1/2 x 1 inches (overall). ©Moskowitz Bayse

Rochelle Voyles Is Suspicious of Certainty In Unreliable Narrators, Rochelle Voyles turns found images into shaped collages that hold labor and pleasure, gender and myth, softness and dread, without forcing any of it to resolve. Rochelle Voyles does not make work that settles. In Unreliable Narrators, her solo exhibition on view through April 11th, shaped wood collages built from found paper ephemera become a way of thinking through gender, labor, history, and the instability of images themselves. The works are materially dense and visually active, but what gives them their edge is something quieter: a refusal to land. Voyles is not trying to deliver a clear message or resolve a tension. Instead, she lets fragments collide, then steps back just enough for the viewer to feel implicated in the act of making meaning. “I’m attempting to describe a narrative,” she says. “But I recognize it’s unreliable.” That admission is not a limitation. It is the structure of the work. 📅 12 Mar 2026 – 11 Apr 2026 📍 81 Leonard Gallery, New York 🔗artrabbit.com/events/unrelia… 🖼️ Installation view of Rochelle Voyles: Unreliable Narrators. Image courtesy Elliott Desai. 🖼️ Installation view of Rochelle Voyles: Unreliable Narrators. Image courtesy Elliott Desai. 🖼️ Rochelle Voyles, Pincer Movement, 2026, Mixed media; collage, paper, and wood, 90 x 60 in.Documentation by KC Crow Maddux. 🖼️ Rochelle Voyles, Shadowed Passage, 2025, Mixed media; collage, paper, wood, 15 x 14 in. Photo by KC Crow Maddux.

One We’ve Been Waiting For: Raphael’s Sublime Poetry at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The first comprehensive Raphael exhibition ever staged in the United States, bringing together more than 200 works from international collections. Drawings, paintings, and tapestries trace a meteoric career that reshaped Renaissance art. Rarely seen loans and new technical research deepen the picture of an artist long mythologized as perfection incarnate. Entry: $30; Concessions available 📅 29 Mar 2026 — 28 Jun 2026 📍The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (detail), ca. 1509–11. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.24

This one should be on your radar: David Hockney at Serpentine North Gallery, London Hockney’s first exhibition at Serpentine, conceived with the artist and centred on new paintings and the ninety-metre frieze A Year in Normandie, shown in London for the first time. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, it captures the seasons at his former Normandy studio and opens a dialogue with Kensington Gardens. At heart, the exhibition asks you to slow down, pay attention, and notice how much is there in the everyday. Entry: Free admission 📅 12 Mar 2026 – 23 Aug 2026 📍 Serpentine North Gallery, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ David Hockney, A Year in Normandie (detail), 2020-2021, Composite iPad painting © David Hockney

One for your diaries: Matisse at @GrandPalaisRmn, Paris More than 230 works map Matisse’s late reinvention, paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles, stained glass. The cut-out becomes a language in its own right, yet painting remains central, expanding in intensity and colour. The exhibition brings together major bodies of work from Matisse’s final years, including Intérieurs de Vence, Jazz, Thèmes et variations, elements of the Chapelle de Vence, and several of the great cut-out figures, rarely seen together. Entry: €19; Concessions €16; Free for under 18 📅 24 Mar 2026 – 26 Jul 2026 📍 Grand Palais, Paris 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI Henri Matisse, Nu bleu II, 1952

Soft Power, Strong Presence: The Making of an Icon, Frida Kahlo at @Tate Modern, London Frida Kahlo as artist, phenomenon, and commercial icon, traced through more than 130 works alongside documents, photographs and memorabilia from her archives. The exhibition introduces her many selves, wife, intellectual, modern artist, political activist, while placing her amid over 80 contemporaries and later artists she inspired. It asks pointed questions about women artists, fandom, and the multiple communities that claim Frida as their own. Entry: £20; Free for Members; Concessions available; £5 for Tate Collective 📅 25 Jun 2026 – 3 Jan 2027 📍 Tate Modern, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird], 1940. Oil on canvas mounted to board. Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art, 66.6. Harry Ransom Center

Among the Year’s Most Anticipated: New Humans: Memories of the Future at the @newmuseum, New York Opening the New Museum’s expanded building, this ambitious group exhibition brings together more than 150 artists, writers, scientists, and filmmakers to chart evolving ideas of the human. From early modernist visions to speculative futures, it treats art as a form of collective forecasting in an era of accelerating technological change. Entry: TBC 📅 New Museum, New York 📍21 Mar 2026 — 31 Dec 2026 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️Daria Martin, Soft Materials, 2004 (still). © Daria Martin. Courtesy the artist

A landmark survey show: @TraceyEmin's A Second Life at @Tate Modern, London A landmark survey of 40 years, mixing career-defining works with pieces never shown before. Across painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture and installation, Emin uses the female body to explore passion, pain and healing, refusing any clean line between personal and public. It broadens her story while insisting on painting as a lifelong commitment, with recent works shown as the result of decades of emotional and artistic reckoning. Entry: £20; Free for Members; Concessions available; £5 for Tate Collective 📅 27 Feb 2026 – 31 Aug 2026 📍 Tate Modern, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️Tracey Emin My Bed 1998 © Tracey Emin. Photo credit: Courtesy The Saatchi Gallery, London / Photograph by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

New #ArtOpps update now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 🏛️ Residencies at Locoto, Forgan Arts Centre, @olympicmuseum @AOS_ALB 🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity at Galeria Azur Berlin, Photobook Cafe, @mmumalaysia 🎞️ Screening Opportunity at @GasworksArts 💼 Commission by Royal College of Nursing More #OpenCalls this way 👇 artrabbit.com/artist-opportu…

With Tō — The Climb, @GinaKeatley Enters a New Phase of Abstraction In Tō — The Climb, Gina Keatley presents a distilled new series of abstract paintings shaped by reflection, discipline, and risk, marking a pivotal moment in the artist’s evolving practice. At certain moments in an artist’s trajectory, the work shifts with unusual clarity. With Tō — The Climb, a focused body of five paintings, Gina Keatley presents an abstract language that is increasingly distilled, deliberate, and oriented toward expansion rather than arrival. 📍 @BushwickGallery, Brooklyn 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Gina Keatley, Tō — The Climb, 2025. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Bushwick Gallery.

📢 #ArtOpps Alert: Public Art Project Seeking Newham Based Artists 👩‍🎨 Unite Students (@UNITEGroup) is seeking a Newham based creative practitioner to design and deliver a permanent public artwork for the pocket park at Hawthorne House in Stratford. This £55k commission seeks a site-specific piece celebrating Stratford’s diverse communities, co-created through workshops with local people. 🔗drive.google.com/file/d/1Oa8Z91… 📅 Apply by 7 April 2026 🗿 £55k commission site-specific work

Quietly Stealing the Spotlight: Seurat and the Sea at @TheCourtauld, London The first-ever exhibition dedicated to Seurat’s seascapes, and the first UK show on him in almost 30 years. The Courtauld, home to the country’s largest Seurat collection, brings together 27 paintings, oil sketches and drawings made across five summers on the northern coast of France. Rare works, small oeuvre, big reassessment: Seurat away from Paris, washing his eyes with light. Entry: £18; Free for Courtauld Friends 📅 13 Feb 2026 – 17 May 2026 📍 The Courtauld, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Georges Seurat, 1859–1891, Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Consider This Your Official Reminder: Beatriz González at @BarbicanCentre, London The first UK retrospective of the Colombian artist, with over 150 works charting her practice from the 1960s to today. Monumental paintings sit alongside repurposed furniture, wallpaper and installations drawn from postcards, Western art reproductions and newspaper clippings. In vivid graphic style she questions taste, critiques power, and bears witness to violence, grief, displacement and community, often for UK audiences for the first time. Entry: Free admission 📅 25 Feb 2026 – 10 May 2026 📍 Barbican Centre, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Installation views, Beatriz González at the Barbican, London, 25 Feb - 10 May 2026. Image credit - Barbican Art Gallery, David Parry © Beatriz González

John Rock's Architectural Compositions at the @CAHeritageMus Architect and photographer John Rock explores the visual language of the built environment, creating precise photographic compositions that draw on architectural form, color relationships, and the legacy of the New Topographics. Although trained and practicing as an architect, John Rock is also an accomplished photographer. He frames the built environment with an architect’s eye, creating elegant and complex images that balance color and form. Drawing on techniques from commercial architectural photography, as well as the work of the New Topographics photographers (unromanticized views of human-impacted industrial landscapes), Rock has developed a body of color photographs that transform the urban landscape into geometric compositions rich with contrasting textures and patterns. 📅 8 Feb 2026 – 12 Apr 2026 📍 California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ All photos by John Rock.