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Datebook: The Art World’s Spring 2026 Happenings to Add to Your Calendar

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Ai Weiwei has flaunted, skirted, interrogated, and in countless other ways resisted censorship over the course of a decadeslong career beginning in his native China and transpiring around the world. This book tells the story in his own words, which are likely to be more than a bit barbed. On sale March 3 With a title borrowed from former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, this survey focuses on contemporary Latinx painting by way of 58 artists poking and prodding the medium in different ways. The show’s seven thematic sections were assembled around “(New) Histories,” “Bodies & Figures,” “Identity/Place,” “Land/Tierra,” “Community,” “Abstractions,” and “Pinturx” (the last referring to traditional painting modes such as portraiture and still life). March 6–Sept. 6 Now in its 82nd edition, the newest incarnation of this closely watched survey is curated by Marcela Guerrero (the Whitney’s first curator with a stated focus on Latinx art) and Drew Sawyer (hired by the museum as a photography curator in 2023).…

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