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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.

The Exhibition Setting the Tone for 2026: Chiharu Shiota ’s Threads of Life at @haywardgallery, London Shiota’s web-like thread installations engulf everyday objects, shoes, keys, beds, chairs, dresses, turning memory and fragility into architecture. Floor-to-ceiling works respond to the Hayward’s brutalism, building an atmospheric world from woollen thread, sculpture, drawings and early performance documentation. Visitors can also contribute letters of thanks to a communal installation, folding gratitude into the show’s fabric. Entry: £19, Concessions available 📅 17 Feb 2026 – 3 May 2026 📍 Hayward Gallery, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️Chiharu Shiota, The Locked Room, 2016. Installation at KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama, Japan. © DACS, London, 2025 and Chiharu Shiota. Photo by Masanobu Nishino and courtesy of the artist.

New #ArtOpps update now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 🏆 Awards by CIFRA, @NatlAcademy 💼 Commission by @cultureMK 🤝 Collaboration with @RefugeeWeek 🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity at Speculum Artium festival, Untitled Exhibition, Orleans House Gallery, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, @cicamuseum 📊Professional Development with @AoiEsteban More #OpenCalls this way 👇 artrabbit.com/artist-opportu…

✍ Apply now: @CASSART1984 The Cass Art Prize 2026 champions contemporary art from the UK & the Republic of Ireland, with a £10,000 cash main prize. There are additional awards worth over £20,000 including a Students Award, an Art Educators Award and more! Plus a prestigious group exhibition at The Bomb Factory, Marylebone, London in autumn 2026. Enter by midday 12 May. 🔗 cassart.co.uk/thecassartpriz…

Quietly Stealing the Spotlight: Lucian Freud’s Drawing into Painting at @NPGLondon, London The UK’s first museum exhibition devoted to Freud’s works on paper, spanning the 1930s to the early 21st century. Pencil, ink, charcoal, etching, plus a chosen group of paintings, trace the dialogue between drawing and canvas. The NPG’s new acquisitions from Freud’s estate, including etchings new to the collection, sharpen the sense of discovery. Entry: £23; Free for Members 📅 12 Feb 2026 – 4 May 2026 📍 National Portrait Gallery, London 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ Lucian Freud Collage showing Girl in Bed, 1952, Lucian Freud, Oil on canvas, © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas, 2014.

An immersive, after-hours film experience unfolding across six floors in downtown Los Angeles, bringing together cinematic history and avant-garde experimentation in a labyrinth of projected images and intimate viewing rooms. “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” juxtaposes gems from the history of cinema with the avant-garde. Visitors are invited to wander through the six floors of the Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles between 5.00pm and midnight. It would take days to watch everything from start to finish. Some works are projected onto walls or large screens, while others are presented in more intimate settings using smaller, old-fashioned televisions or video monitors. 📅 6 Feb 2026 – 20 Mar 2026 📍 Variety Arts Theater, Los Angeles 🔗 artrabbit.com/events/what-a-… 🖼️ Installation views of What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, Julia Stoschek Foundation at the Variety Arts Theater, © Joshua White and Charles White.

This Is Your Sign to Plan a Trip to Cardiff: Gwen John’s Strange Beauties at National Museum Cardiff A once-in-a-generation gathering for Gwen John’s 150th birthday, bringing rarely seen works from Wales and international collections. It’s her first major presentation in over forty years, promising new ways of telling her story and seeing her modernity. The invitation is simple but radical: slow down, look closer, and let quiet intensity do its work. Entry: £16; Concessions available 📅 7 Feb 2026 – 28 Jun 2026 📍 National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️ The Pilgrim by Gwen John. Photo credit - Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

For the True Art Lovers: Euan Uglow’s An Arc from the Eye at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes A blockbuster by art-historical necessity rather than metropolitan scale. This is the first solo exhibition of Euan Uglow’s work in a UK public institution for 20 years, bringing together over 40 paintings and drawings that reveal his exacting, time-intensive method. Markings left on canvases expose process and time, while radiant colour holds the emotion in check. Entry: £15.95; Concession £10.25 📅 14 Feb 2026 – 31 May 2026 📍 MK Gallery, Milton Keynes 🔗artrabbit.com/network/featur… 🖼️Euan Uglow, Head of Pat (1978-83). Oil on canvas laid on panel, 49.5 x 54.6 m. Courtesy of Bernard Jacobson Gallery

New #ArtOpps update now live on ArtRabbit for you to browse, share, and apply! 🏛️ Residencies at Nowa Szkoła | New School, U-BOOT Lab 🖼️ Exhibition Opportunity at Project 88, Anna Laudel Gallery 🎞️ Screening Opportunity at Deep Focus 💰 Grant by Centre for Public Engagement Practice, @fundacionbotin More #OpenCalls this way 👇 artrabbit.com/artist-opportu…