
A verified guide to 32 exhibition openings in November 2026, from all nine of Van Eyck's portraits in one room at the National Gallery to the Orsay's Starry Night in Tokyo, each with exact dates, featured works and a flight verdict.
| Verdict | Exhibition | Museum and city | Opens | Why it earns the verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Van Eyck: The Portraits | National Gallery, London | Nov 21 | All nine of his painted portraits, half his surviving work, in one room for the first time in history. 1 |
| Yes | Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector | Royal Academy of Arts, London | Nov 21 | The gallery she ran on Cork Street from 1938 is reassembled, with the first Kandinsky solo show in Britain behind it. 2 |
| Yes | What a Wonderful World: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo | Nov 14 | The Orsay's Van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhône and its Degas dancers, sent to Tokyo for five months. 3 |
| Yes | A Long Shadow: Postwar Japan Through the Lens | The Met, New York | Nov 12 | The Met's first exhibition of Japanese photography since 1995, built from its own collection and new acquisitions. 4 |
| Yes | A truly immense journey | Kanal–Centre Pompidou, Brussels | Nov 28 | More than 350 works opening a new museum, the first chapter of a five-year programme with Paris. 5 |
| Yes, if already in London | Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury | Tate Britain, London | Nov 12 | Over 300 works, with the pair's Charleston studio restaged inside the gallery. 6 |
| Yes, if already in Chicago | Beatriz González: In Series and Full Color | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago | Nov 15 | The first show anywhere devoted to González's works on paper, more than 80 of them, many never exhibited. 7 |
| Yes, if already in Madrid | La Menesunda According to Marta Minujín | Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid | Nov 18 | A walk-through reconstruction of Minujín's 1965 environment, shown in Spain for the first time. 8 |
| Yes, if already in Seoul | Chagall, Ever Crossing | Centre Pompidou Hanwha, Seoul | Nov 24 | A full Chagall retrospective drawn from the Pompidou, in a museum that opened in June. 9 |
| Specialist trip | Gustave Le Gray: Painter and Photographer | Musée d'Orsay, Paris | Nov 10 | The first Le Gray retrospective since 1988, with recent acquisitions shown publicly for the first time. 10 |
| Exhibition | Museum, city | Dates | Featured works and artists | Why it matters | Worth flying out? | Status and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louvre Photo | Louvre, Paris | Nov 4, 2026–May 3, 2027 | The Louvre's spotlight exhibition, whose own image is René Dagron's 1878 photograph of Henri Giffard's steam balloon | The Louvre gives photography a dedicated run through the spring | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 11 |
| Révéler: Photography Collection of the Centre Pompidou | Grand Palais, Paris | Nov 12–15, 2026 | About 100 works by some 30 artists, including recent acquisitions; the poster work is Andrzej Steinbach's Figure I (2015) | Four days only, inside Paris Photo, built around how images are made and reproduced | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 5 |
| Rebecca Moss: Shapeshifter | Tate St Ives, St Ives | Nov 29, 2026–Jan 10, 2027 | A new intervention by Rebecca Moss in the curved gallery overlooking the Atlantic | Tate St Ives hands its best room to a young British artist for six weeks | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 12 |
| Miguel Ángel Rojas: The Night | Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid | Nov 11, 2026–Mar 15, 2027 | Work by Miguel Ángel Rojas, whose Dama Chibcha supplies the exhibition image | The Colombian photographer's first substantial show in Spain | Yes, if already in Madrid | Confirmed. 13 |
| Arnulf Rainer | ALBERTINA, Vienna | Nov 12, 2026–Apr 25, 2027 | About 70 works, from Centralization (1951) and Overpainting: Minium Red on Black Ground (1956) to Sleep (1973–74) and Winter Evening (Cross) (1990/91) | Rainer died late in 2025; the ALBERTINA holds some 600 of his works and this is its tribute | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 14 |
| Franz West: The Revolution of Sculpture | ALBERTINA Modern, Vienna | Nov 6, 2026–Mar 29, 2027 | Sisyphos (2002), Symbol of Sexuality (1999–2000), Two Lemures (2002), Uncle Chair (2001–07), Box on the Ear (c. 1979–84) | Opens ahead of West's 80th birthday, with a second show at the Wien Museum | Yes, if already in Vienna | Confirmed. 15 |
| Unstable Media in the 21st Century | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg | Nov 20, 2026–May 2, 2027 | About 40 works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media collection, across eight themes from digital materiality to colonial history | The Pompidou's media collection travels while Paris is shut | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 5 |
| Tapa: Art of the Gift in Polynesia | The Met, New York | Nov 2, 2026–Dec 12, 2027 | 19th-century bark cloth from Fiji, Samoa and Futuna, a hiapo from Niue lent by Te Papa, a pair of large Fijian masi kesa never shown together, tapa given to Robert Louis Stevenson, and a painting by John Puhiatau Pule | Bark cloth from three island groups, plus a Niuean hiapo lent by Te Papa | Yes, if already in New York | Confirmed. 16 |
| The Modern Window: Sofía Sinibaldi | MoMA, New York | Nov 6, 2026–October 2027 | A new commission, The Long Conversation (2026), for MoMA's street-facing window | Free to passers-by on 53rd Street and up for a year | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 17 |
| Hyundai Card First Look: R. Buckminster Fuller | MoMA, New York | Nov 12, 2026–Spring 2027 | Fuller's Laminar Geodesic Dome, from Inventions: Twelve Around One (1981), with works from the collection | The design collection's Fuller holdings brought out of storage | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 18 |
| Na Mira: NO SMOKING | MoMA, New York | Nov 14, 2026–Feb 15, 2027 | A new installation made with footage shot at Fort Bliss and the White Sands Missile Range, with holographic projection and a soundscape by Chuquimamani-Condori | Extends Nam June Paik's idea of broadcast as two-way signal; commissioned by MoMA | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 19 |
| Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography | National Gallery of Art, Washington | Nov 7, 2026–Mar 14, 2027 | Early photographs of and by Black Americans, drawn from the Gallery's collection | Free, and the Washington complement to the Met's photography month | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 20 |
| Body and Being in African Art | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago | Nov 2, 2026–Mar 1, 2028 | A rotation of the collection's African holdings around the body as subject and material | Long-running and included in general admission | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 21 |
| Neapolitan Crèche | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago | Nov 21, 2026–Jan 4, 2027 | The museum's Neapolitan crèche, brought out as its holiday installation | A six-week holiday installation rather than a loan show | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 22 |
| Furnishing American Synagogues: Jewish Ceremonial Art from the Jewish Museum, New York | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland | Nov 1, 2026–Oct 24, 2027 | Jewish ceremonial art from the Jewish Museum, New York, shown in the context of American synagogue furnishing | A year-long loan partnership rather than a ticketed blockbuster | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 23 |
| Print Revolutions: Chinese Impressions, 1630s–1960s | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland | Nov 15, 2026–Apr 4, 2027 | Around 80 prints, paintings and porcelains, centred on the museum's recent acquisition of 18th-century Suzhou colour prints | Traces Chinese printmaking from the 1600s to the modern woodcut movement; free | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 24 |
| Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living | LACMA, Los Angeles | Nov 15, 2026–May 31, 2027 | Never-exhibited drawings and photographs from Williams's archive, in the Resnick Pavilion | The largest museum presentation of the architect yet, run alongside shows at the Getty Research Institute and USC Fisher | Yes, if already in Los Angeles | Confirmed. 25 |
| Sarah Sze: Forever is Composed of Nows | SFMOMA, San Francisco | Opens Nov 21, 2026; no closing date announced | Three new monumental paintings with video projection and sound, made for the Haas Jr. Atrium; the title comes from Emily Dickinson | A free, permanent-feeling commission across several floors of the building's public space | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 26 |
| Danh Vo: Ships that pass in the night | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | Members Nov 28–29, 2026; public from Dec 1, 2026; no closing date announced | New bronze sculpture alongside found objects, plant cuttings, fish bones, his father's calligraphy, and historical ceramics, in Galleria Italia | Vo's first Canadian museum exhibition, made with The Shen Foundation | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 27 |
| The Forms of Energy | Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | Nov 13, 2026–Feb 27, 2027 | Emblematic Centre Pompidou works on light, colour, matter and movement, including Fontana's Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio (1963) | The Pompidou collection's Latin American-facing tour, from avant-garde to kinetic art | Yes, if already in Mexico City | Confirmed. 5 |
| The Gift of Tongues | Museo Jumex (off-site), Mexico City | Nov 27, 2026–Feb 28, 2027 | An off-site project from Museo Jumex | Runs alongside the museum's Richard Prince, Álvaro Urbano and Raúl Silva shows | No standalone flight | Confirmed. 28 |
| Jesús Soto | MASP, São Paulo | Nov 27, 2026–Apr 4, 2027 | Kinetic works including Metal negro y metal (1969), lent by ISLAA, New York | A survey of Soto's kinetic work, from the collection of the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art | Specialist trip | Confirmed. 29 |
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