The Art Edit: June Must-See Art Shows & Where to Stay
Your Monthly Art & Travel Guide
June is here, and the art world is fully in its “catch flights, not feelings” era.
With shows popping off in every corner of the globe—from museum blockbusters to gallery gems—there’s no shortage of inspiration. This month’s guide is one of my longest yet (I mean, how could I not?). Whether you're city-hopping or gallery-crawling from your own zip code, there’s plenty worth seeing.
Oh—and if you’re tempted to turn that daydream into a boarding pass, I’ve added a few hotel recs along the way. Because great art deserves a great stay.
So pour yourself something cold, get comfortable, and scroll all the way through—your next favorite exhibition might be waiting at the end.
Let’s get into it!
Best Art Exhibitions in New York, NY
Weighted
Artist(s): Tanya Aguiñiga
Location: albertz benda
Dates: Through July 12, 2025
Description: A deeply personal and political exhibition that explores the physical and emotional weight carried by migrants and marginalized communities. Through fiber, sculpture, and performance, Aguiñiga translates pain, resilience, and identity into tactile form.
Why You Should See It: It’s a masterclass in material storytelling—textured, layered, and grounded in lived experience. Learn More
Southern Whips
Artist(s): Auudi Dorsey
Location: Palo Gallery, New York
Dates: Through June 21, 2025
Description: In his New York solo debut, self-taught artist Auudi Dorsey presents Southern Whips, a vivid tribute to Black Southern culture, New Orleans car aesthetics, and the power of self-determination. Through eight new paintings—including life-size depictions of “donk” cars—Dorsey delves into the relationship between Black masculinity, pride, and mobility. His figurative works, rich in earthy tones, honor the cultural and historical legacies of Black communities in the South while celebrating personal agency through style and storytelling.
Why You Should See It: It’s not just about cars—it’s about culture, control, and carving out freedom through the aesthetics of movement. Dorsey’s work drives straight into the heart of Black Southern identity. Learn More
Ever So Present II: Between Home and Elsewhere
Artist(s): Luke Agada, Amoako Boafo, Josèfa Ntjam, Emma Prempeh
Location: Gagosian
Dates: June 25 - July 12, 2025
Description: This expansive group show continues the dialogue on displacement, diaspora, and belonging, bridging artists from across the globe who explore what it means to live between identities.
Why You Should See It: Smartly curated and deeply relevant, it invites you to linger in the liminal. Learn More
Imaginary Country
Artist(s): Christiane Pooley
Location: Perrotin New York
Dates: June 12 – August 1, 2025
Description: Pooley's dreamlike landscapes challenge fixed ideas of territory and nationhood. Her brushwork oscillates between precision and ambiguity, mirroring the instability of borders.
Why You Should See It: For fans of poetic minimalism and politically charged abstraction. Learn More
Clifford Owens
Artist(s): Clifford Owens
Location: David Kordansky Gallery
Dates: Through June 26 - August 8, 2025
Description: Known for performance-infused photography, Owens turns his lens inward in this new body of work confronting Blackness, intimacy, and the performativity of identity.
Why You Should See It: It’s conceptual without being cold—Owens brings emotion into sharp focus. Learn More
How to Win
Artist(s): Sadie Barnette
Location: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Dates: June 27 – August 1, 2025
Description: In this conceptually rigorous presentation, Barnette offers a poetic visual lexicon for navigating contemporary life. Featuring meticulously rendered drawings, candid photography, and text-based sculpture, the exhibition mines the tension between public and private, structure and improvisation, the mundane and the monumental. Barnette’s body of work is an investigation of language and legacy. Her “how-to” manuals—modular compositions that explore how we learn to exist within and in resistance to imposed systems—consider not only what it means to “act normal,” but who defines the metrics of success, and how those judgments are internalized. Presented as polyptychs that combine drawing and photography, these works create layered narratives that span the micro and the macro, the personal and the political. A large text-based wall sculpture fuses the words “winner” and “loser” into a single contranym, emphasizing the layered meanings in language and the arbitrary binaries that shape our lives.
Why You Should See It: Barnette’s work speaks to both internal reflection and broader societal critique. Drawing on the traditions of conceptualism, minimalism, and West Coast vernacular, she distills complex ideas about identity, power, family, and resistance into deceptively simple forms that leave space for doubt, multiplicity, and reinterpretation. Learn More
Where to Stay in New York
• The Ludlow Hotel
• The Marlton
• PUBLIC Hotel
Best Art Exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA
Noah Davis
Artist(s): Noah Davis
Location: Hammer Museum
Dates: June 8 - September 14, 2025
Description: The first institutional survey of the late Noah Davis (1983–2015) charts the breadth and depth of the American artist’s relentless output. Featuring over 50 works made between 2007 and 2015, the exhibition reflects Davis’s wide-ranging interests—spanning current events, family histories, ancient cosmologies, American media, and vernacular archives. With a fluid, experimental style and a palette that toggles between joy and grief, Davis blurred the line between the real and the imagined, creating emotionally resonant tableaux of Black life.
Why You Should See It: This isn’t just a show—it’s a landmark moment for one of the most visionary artists of his generation. Davis’s work is poetic, political, and deeply human. Learn More
Yo Soy
Artist(s): Luchita Hurtado
Location: Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA
Dates: June 29 – October 5, 2025
Description: Hurtado’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles brings together never-before-shown paintings and drawings from a transformative period in her career. Anchored by her Linear Language series—debuted at the Woman’s Building in 1974—this body of work reflects her engagement with feminist activism, mysticism, geometry, and the natural world. The presentation is accompanied by archival materials, including exhibition documentation and ephemera from artist-led spaces like the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists, Womanspace, and the Woman’s Building.
Why You Should See It: This long-overdue spotlight not only revisits Hurtado’s radical aesthetic but also honors her role in LA’s feminist art movement. It’s a rare chance to witness the spiritual, political, and cosmic dimensions of her practice in one sweeping presentation. Learn More
Henry Taylor: Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked
Artist(s): Henry Taylor
Location: Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA
Dates: June 29 – October 5, 2025
Description: This is the first exhibition to place Henry Taylor’s work in direct dialogue with his mentor, the late James Jarvaise. Spanning from the 1950s to the present, the show brings together new paintings by Taylor with rarely seen works by Jarvaise, a California regionalist best known for his abstract landscapes. The exhibition highlights Taylor’s expanding interest in landscape alongside figuration and revisits the formative bond between the two artists. Jarvaise—who exhibited at MoMA in 1959—was the first to recognize Taylor’s talent and encourage him to pursue art seriously, leading Taylor to enroll at CalArts.
Why You Should See It: This is Taylor’s first LA solo with Hauser & Wirth—and a moving tribute to the mentor who saw his gift before the world did. It’s a reminder that behind every great artist, there’s someone who believed first.
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A Tension Worth Keeping Because the Drift is Always There
Artist(s): Nathaniel Oliver
Location: Karma LA
Dates: Through July 2025
Description: This exhibition presents a new series of paintings by Nathaniel Oliver that follows a cast of characters through a single landscape over the course of a day. Drawing on his travels, personal relationships, West African material culture, and speculative fiction, Oliver crafts layered, dreamlike vignettes that explore community, survival, and the threats that hover just beyond the frame. The works unfold like a visual novella—each panel a fleeting moment in a larger, unseen narrative.
Why You Should See It: Oliver’s work is emotionally charged and deeply cinematic. It’s not just about what’s depicted, but what’s implied. You’re invited to imagine what happens in the in-between. Learn More
Back to the Earth
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: Roberts Projects
Dates: Through August 2025
Description: Back to the Earth features Black and Indigenous artists whose work emerges from a deep, reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and video, these artists use raw materials—soil, pigments, found objects—to explore the parallel histories of migration, displacement, and assimilation embedded in both ecological and human narratives. Environmental phenomena like sedimentation and seed dispersal become metaphors for ancestral memory, survival, and the reclamation of land and identity..
Why You Should See It: This is not just an eco-critical exhibition—it’s a lyrical meditation on land, lineage, and resistance. These artists aren’t just responding to the Earth; they’re shaping a dialogue with it. Learn More
Where to Stay in Los Angeles
• Cara Hotel
• The LINE LA
• Hotel Per La
Best Art Exhibitions in San Francisco, CA
To Be Seen
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: Jonathan Carver Moore Gallery
Dates: June 6 – August 16, 2025
Description: Opening to commemorate the start of Pride Month, To Be Seen is a multigenerational group exhibition of all Black queer artists exploring the complexities of assimilation. The show grapples with the duality of Black queer identity and the emotional toll of navigating spaces where parts of oneself are expected to remain hidden. With themes of visibility, presence, and authenticity, this exhibition becomes a powerful act of resistance against cultural erasure.
Why You Should See It: This exhibition is bold, vulnerable, and urgent—a collective act of self-definition through art that reminds us visibility is power, and that Black queer identity deserves not just protection, but celebration.
Cosmic Codes
Artist(s): Michiko Itatani
Location: Rebecca Camacho Presents
Dates: Through July 20, 2025
Description: Cosmic Codes features new paintings by Chicago-based artist Michiko Itatani, whose immersive, detail-rich canvases explore science fiction, cosmology, and cultural history. With a visual language that fuses Baroque architecture, star charts, and futuristic symbols, Itatani constructs imagined worlds that feel both ancient and intergalactic.
Why You Should See It: For anyone intrigued by the intersections of science, symbolism, and the sublime—Itatani’s work is a portal to alternate universes.
Where to Stay in San Francisco
Proper Hotel San Francisco
The LINE San Francisco
Hotel Kabuki (Japantown)
Best Art Exhibitions in Chicago, IL
Pu$h Thru
Artist(s): Yvette Mayorga
Location: Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Dates: June 14 - July 6, 2025
Description: In Mayorga’s first solo show in Chicago since 2018, the artist transforms the gallery into a hyper-feminine battleground of sugar, memory, and political critique. Pu$h Thru features new works that draw from personal archive, Rococo aesthetics, and the material culture of Mexican American domestic life. Piped acrylic, rhinestones, and thrift-store ephemera collide with imagery pulled from family photos, protest, and everyday scenes on the South Side. The result is a maximalist visual diary—both tender and defiant—that reclaims softness as strength and elevates the overlooked through color, care, and craft.
Why You Should See It: This is Latinxoco at its finest—a subversive, sparkling reclamation of softness as strength, femininity as protest, and domestic aesthetics as political memory. Mayorga doesn’t just push through. She pipes, layers, and adorns her way into the canon. Learn More
Where to Stay in Chicago
• The Robey
• Soho House Chicago
• Publishing House B&B
Best Art Exhibitions in Atlanta, GA
Seeing Children
Artist(s): Faith Ringgold
Location: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Dates: June 27 - September 1, 2025
Description: A poignant look at Ringgold’s portraits of children, this exhibition centers on the dignity, joy, and complexity of youth. Through vivid colors and powerful composition, Ringgold offers a tender yet critical reflection on identity, community, and social justice.
Why You Should See It: A rare opportunity to witness Ringgold’s humanistic genius through a focused, emotionally resonant theme that speaks to both innocence and resistance. Learn More
Where to Stay in Atlanta
• Hotel Clermont – retro, vibrant, and close to galleries
• Bellyard – industrial chic meets Southern comfort
• The Darwin – new and stylish in downtown ATL
Best Art Exhibitions in Santa Fe, NM
12th SITE SANTA FE International – Once Within a Time
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: SITE SANTA FE and partnering venues across Santa Fe
Dates: June 27 – January 12, 2026
Description: Inspired by the surreal and allegorical film Once Within a Time (2022) by Godfrey Reggio, this ambitious citywide exhibition reimagines storytelling as a cyclical, lived, and spatial practice. Departing from traditional biennial models, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International transforms Santa Fe into an expanded stage of narrative inquiry, with over 50 contemporary artists engaging local histories, personal myths, and layered identities across museums, historical buildings, storefronts, and nontraditional venues. The show draws inspiration from the lives of both real and imagined characters who have shaped the region, from reclusive artists to charismatic healers, activating archives, artifacts, and memory itself.
Why You Should See It: This is not just an exhibition—it’s a generational time capsule and a collective storytelling ritual that breathes new life into the land and its people. If you want to experience a biennial where art and place coalesce, this is it. Learn More
Douglas Miles: Always and Forever
Artist(s): Douglas Miles
Location: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, NM
Dates: Through August 25, 2025
Description: This solo exhibition by Apache artist Douglas Miles showcases his dynamic blend of street art, photography, and skateboard culture. Miles's work challenges stereotypes and redefines Indigenous identity through contemporary visual narratives. The exhibition features a range of media, including large-scale murals, mixed-media installations, and photographs that reflect the vibrancy and resilience of Native communities.
Why You Should See It: A compelling exploration of modern Indigenous life, Miles's work bridges tradition and contemporary culture, offering a fresh perspective on Native American art. Learn More
Where to Stay in Santa Fe
• El Rey Court
• Inn of the Five Graces
• Hotel Santa Fe
Best Art Exhibitions in Dallas, TX
Somewhere in America
Artist(s): Robert Peterson
Location: Green Family Art Foundation
Dates: June 7 - September 14, 2025
Description: Organized by the Wichita Art Museum, this exhibition centers contemporary Black life and portraiture with cinematic intimacy and formal strength. Peterson’s figures exude presence, tenderness, and cool—portraying everyday moments with painterly precision that’s both accessible and aspirational.
Why You Should See It: Peterson is defining the new era of Black portraiture—quiet, powerful, expansive. Learn More
Higher Ground
Artist(s): Sedrick Huckaby
Location: Talley Dunn Gallery
Dates: Through August 30, 2025
Description: Monumental in both scale and emotion, Huckaby’s portraits are layered with history, spirituality, and familial love. His thick brushwork and reverence for the sitter elevate everyday people into icons—rendered with the intimacy of kin and the grandeur of saints.
Why You Should See It: It’s church, history, and family rolled into paint.
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Where to Stay in Dallas
• The Joule
• Virgin Hotels Dallas
• HALL Arts Hotel
Best Art Exhibitions in Houston, TX
It Takes a Village: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Artist(s): Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Lisa Cain, Mark Francis, Ryan Williams, Zsudayka Nzinga, Kansiime Brian Lister, Terence Byas, Alpha Odhiambo, and Qhamanande Maswana
Location: Mitochondria Gallery
Dates: Through June 21, 2025
Description: A group exhibition spotlighting intergenerational narratives of community-building and cultural survival, featuring artists from across the African diaspora. Through mixed media, photography, and painting, the show honors ancestral wisdom while envisioning new paths forward—blending the past with speculative futures.
Why You Should See It: A necessary space of gathering and imagining futures shaped by collective care. Learn More
Where to Stay in Houston
• Hotel ZaZa Museum District
• Heights House Hotel
• The Laura Hotel
Best Art Exhibitions in Detroit, MI
Beneath Our Feet
Artist(s): LaKela Brown and Mario Moore
Location: Library Street Collective
Dates: Through August 2025
Description: Bringing together sculptural relief and painting, Beneath Our Feet explores the symbolic intersections of land, labor, memory, and authorship. Detroit artists LaKela Brown and Mario Moore root their works in the city’s complex history of migration, ownership, and resilience—while raising broader questions about Black economic agency and cultural inheritance. Brown references hieroglyphics and hip-hop iconography to elevate objects historically excluded from the canon, while Moore reclaims the language of devotional painting to honor Black labor, nourishment, and ancestral ties. Why You Should See It: This is a Detroit story told in bronze, paint, and power. It’s a soulful, subversive meditation on value—where collard greens are currency and community is sacred. Learn More:
Where to Stay in Detroit
• Shinola Hotel
• The Siren Hotel
• The Godfrey
Best Art Exhibitions in Miami, FL
A Miracle Is a Reasonable Thing to Ask For
Artist(s): Fadekemi Ogunsanya
Location: Nina Johnson Gallery
Dates: Through July 2025
Description: In her first U.S. solo exhibition, Nigerian-born artist Fadekemi Ogunsanya unveils a new body of hand-embroidered and beaded Adire textiles, rooted in Yoruba folklore. Centering the legend of Oluronbi—a tale of sacrifice, power, and divine consequence—Ogunsanya’s intricately crafted works trace a visual journey through promises made and broken, and the feminine resilience woven through cultural history. Each textile channels the ancestral tradition of Adire, reimagined through contemporary artistry, quill-drawn patterns, and meticulous beadwork.
Why You Should See It: It’s a rare fusion of narrative, craftsmanship, and cultural reverence—a moving testament to Black womanhood, artistic inheritance, and the spiritual force of textile storytelling. Learn More
Passenger Opportunity
Artist(s): Hurvin Anderson
Location: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Dates: Through September 2025
Description: Passenger Opportunity is a new sixteen-panel installation and the first solo exhibition by British-Jamaican artist Hurvin Anderson at PAMM. Inspired by the monumental murals of Carl Abrahams at Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport, Anderson mirrors their scale and structure to explore themes of migration, memory, and national identity. Drawing from photographs, object studies, and personal experience, Anderson constructs a complex visual language that situates the diasporic condition within both historical and contemporary contexts.
Why You Should See It: This is a masterwork of diasporic abstraction and cultural reflection—Anderson channels personal memory and national narrative into a quietly monumental tribute to movement and place.
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Where to Stay in Miami
• Esmé Hotel
• The Goodtime Hotel
• Arlo Wynwood
Best Art Exhibitions in Washington, D.C.
Passion and Purpose: Black Art from the Thompson Collection
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dates: June 9 – September 28, 2025
Description: Spanning a century of Black artistic brilliance, this sweeping exhibition celebrates the historic gift of 175 works from collectors Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson to the National Gallery of Art—the largest single acquisition of works by Black artists in the museum’s history. Featuring over 60 highlights, the show moves fluidly between themes of music and abstraction, portraiture, civil rights, landscape, and diasporic exchange. Expect landmark pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and Archibald Motley alongside lesser-known but no less compelling artists like Camille Billops, Moe Brooker, and vanessa german.
Why You Should See It: This is more than a collection—it’s a testament to what care, vision, and long-term advocacy for Black art can build. It’s a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the arc of American art through a more expansive and truthful lens. Learn More
My Kind of Protest
Artist(s): Vivian Browne
Location: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Dates: June 28 – September 29, 2025
Description: Drawing on newly unearthed works and archival materials, this landmark exhibition surveys the groundbreaking three-decade career of Vivian Browne—artist, educator, and activist. Featuring paintings, prints, and ephemera spanning seven distinct bodies of work, My Kind of Protest reveals the depth of Browne’s vision and her role as a force in the fight for equity in the arts. A co-founder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and SoHo20, Browne blurred boundaries between abstraction and figuration, aesthetic form and political urgency, and left an indelible mark on American art history.
Why You Should See It: This long-overdue recognition restores Browne’s rightful place in the canon—don’t miss the chance to witness how beauty, resistance, and radical pedagogy coalesce on canvas. Learn More
Where to Stay in Washington, D.C.
• Eaton DC
• The LINE DC
• Hotel Zena
Best Art Exhibitions in Paris, France
Distant Star
Artist(s): Huma Bhabha
Location: David Zwirner Paris
Dates: June 13 – July 26, 2025
Description: In her first solo show in Paris since 2009, Huma Bhabha presents a commanding new body of work at David Zwirner. Known for her reimagining of the human form, Bhabha’s sculptures—crafted from cork, clay, and oxidized cast iron—are visceral, weathered, and uncanny. She gouges, paints, and distresses her materials until they appear both ancient and post-apocalyptic. Also on view are drawings and photographs that push her investigation of portraiture into new terrain. The exhibition coincides with Bhabha’s appearance in Encounters: Giacometti at London’s Barbican Centre, where her work is shown in direct dialogue with Giacometti’s.
Why You Should See It: Bhabha’s hybrid beings are eerie, magnetic, and monumental—offering a glimpse of a world where myth, memory, and ruin coexist. This Paris return is long overdue. Learn More
Au service des rêves (In the Service of Dreams)
Artist(s): Ian Mwesiga
Location: Mariane Ibrahim, Paris
Dates: June 13 – July 26, 2025
Description: In his Paris debut, Ugandan painter Ian Mwesiga unveils a moody, dreamlike body of work that explores the porous boundaries between memory and reality, presence and absence. Influenced by Djibril Diop Mambéty’s cinematic approach to storytelling, these new paintings trade the solidity of the figure for the poetry of the silhouette. In this world of shifting perspectives and suspended time, chairs hold memory, shadows suggest transition, and every surface seems to whisper.
Why You Should See It: A painterly meditation on Black interiority, disappearance, and becoming—this is figuration as liminal space, and Mwesiga’s most poetic work yet. Learn More
Doubles
Artist(s): Rita Ackermann
Location: Hauser & Wirth Paris
Dates: June 11 – October 4, 2025
Description: In her first Paris exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Rita Ackermann presents a new body of paintings and works on paper exploring the concept of the double—not as mirror or alter ego, but as a destabilized image caught between presence and disappearance. Informed by Paul Virilio’s The Aesthetics of Disappearance and Jean-Luc Godard’s recursive film practice, the works distort and layer visual cues, creating ghostlike figures that blur between the abstract and the representational. Forms invert, colors reverse, and images appear and vanish—offering a meditation on perception, memory, and the self fractured by time, technology, and migration.
Why You Should See It: Haunting and conceptually rigorous, Doubles is Ackermann’s most cinematic and self-reflexive work yet—an exhibition that challenges how we see, remember, and construct meaning in an image-saturated world. Learn More
Where to Stay in Paris
• Hôtel Grand Amour
• Le Pigalle
• Hôtel des Grands Boulevards
Best Art Exhibitions in Athens, Greece
A Telegram to my dear Suki
Artist(s): Oscar Murillo
Location: Gagosian, Athens
Dates: June 20 - August 30, 2025
Description: In this poignant solo exhibition, Oscar Murillo weaves together themes of migration, loss, and diasporic connection. Expanding his visual language of abstraction, Murillo integrates text, texture, and ritual into large-scale works that meditate on displacement and remembrance.
Why You Should See It: Murillo continues to redefine what abstraction can carry—memory, protest, ritual—and this is one of his most intimate and urgent offerings yet. Learn More
Where to Stay in Athens
• Shila
• Perianth Hotel
• The Modernist
Best Art Exhibitions in Menorca
THE WOMEN
Artist(s): Cindy Sherman
Location: Hauser & Wirth Menorca
Dates: June 23 – October 26, 2025
Description: In this brand-new body of work, Cindy Sherman returns with a series that explores feminine archetypes through the lens of aging, artifice, and performance. Drawing from the history of portraiture and contemporary visual culture, Sherman crafts unsettling, hyper-stylized personas that blur the boundary between glamor and grotesque.
Why You Should See It: Sherman is still holding up a mirror—and it’s more cracked and revealing than ever. Learn More
Best Art Exhibitions in Seoul, South Korea
The Return
Artist(s): James Turrell
Location: Pace Gallery Seoul
Dates: June 14 - September 27, 2025
Description: Born in Los Angeles and a key figure in the California Light and Space movement, James Turrell has spent decades shaping perception itself. The Return spans all three floors of Pace’s Seoul gallery and includes five recent immersive installations—including a new, site-specific Wedgework never before shown. The exhibition also features photographs and works on paper that illuminate Turrell’s process, including insights into his monumental Roden Crater project.
Why You Should See It: This isn’t just an art show—it’s a sensory encounter. Turrell’s work invites you to experience space, light, and time as materials, and to “see yourself seeing.” A rare opportunity to engage with his most ambitious work in Asia since 2008. Learn More
Where to Stay in Seoul
• RYSE, Autograph Collection
• Mondrian Seoul Itaewon
• Four Points by Sheraton
Best Art Exhibitions in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Flourish: Kehinde Wiley x Museum Van Loon
Artist(s): Kehinde Wiley
Location: Museum Van Loon
Dates: Through August 31, 2025
Description: An exhibition of new portraits by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley, Flourish marks Wiley’s first solo exhibition in The Netherlands. Created in response to the portrait collection and historic interiors of Museum Van Loon, this new body of work engages directly with the legacies of Western portraiture and Dutch colonial history. Featuring models the artist met in Suriname, the exhibition highlights beauty and grace in the 21st century while embedding contemporary Black presence within a traditionally aristocratic European space.
Why You Should See It: It’s a bold reimagining of history. Wiley doesn’t just occupy historical space—he disrupts colonial opulence with sovereign beauty. This is a landmark exhibition of new work that reclaims the language of portraiture on global terms. Learn More
Where to Stay in Amsterdam
• Sir Albert Hotel
• Art’Otel Amsterdam
• CitizenM Amstel
Best Art Event in Mexico City, Mexico
BE-LONGING - An Exhibition of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Mexico City
Artist(s): Emma Adler, Jane Alexander, Farah Al Qasimi, Francis Alÿs, Leonor Antunes, Pia Camil, Nicole Chaput, Clément Cogitore, Cao Fei, David Goldblatt, Wu Hao, Isaac Julien, Alicja Kwade, Enrique López Llamas, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jorge Méndez Blake, Zanele Muholi, Ann-Kathrin Müller, Berenice Olmedo, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Elodie Pong, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Lerato Shadi, Dayanita Singh, Pamela Singh, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Martin Soto Climent, Tercerunquinto, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Theresa Weber
Location: Espacio CDMX, Mexico City
Dates: Through August 31, 2025
Description: This expansive group exhibition brings together works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection and contemporary artists living and working in Mexico to explore identity in all its fluid, multifaceted forms. Themes of memory, geography, origin, and vocation emerge through works by 32 international artists. Designed by Mexico City’s C Cúbica studio, the scenography reflects the show’s emphasis on interconnectedness, dialogue, and the evolving nature of selfhood.
Why You Should See It: It’s not just an exhibition—it’s an invitation to rethink identity as conversation, not conclusion. A landmark launch of a new global art initiative, grounded in local voices. Learn More
Where to Stay in Mexico City, Mexico
• Casa Polanco
• Circulo Mexicano
• Condesa DF
Best Art Event in Basel, Switzerland
Location: Messe Basel, Switzerland
Dates: June 16 – 22, 2025
Description: The original juggernaut of international art fairs returns with 200+ of the world’s leading galleries, showcasing everything from museum-caliber masterpieces to the most talked-about emerging talent. Expect curated sectors like Unlimited, Parcours, and Feature, plus citywide programming that spills into every corner of Basel.
Why You Should See It: For a few electrifying days, the global art world orbits here—whether you’re collecting, critiquing, or simply absorbing the spectacle, Basel is where the past, present, and future of contemporary art collide. Learn More
Where to Stay in Basel
• Hotel Les Trois Rois
• Nomad Design & Lifestyle Hotel
• Der Teufelhof Basel