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The Month / 2026-03
2026

March

TEFAF draws the week in Maastricht, ARCO pulls the Spanish spring, and Paris reopens with Nan Goldin and late Matisse in the same building.

March is the last full month before the Biennale consumes everything. ARCOmadrid holds its 45th edition, TEFAF returns to Maastricht with a renewed selection, and the Grand Palais stages two major openings eight days apart. London adds Hockney at Serpentine North and Cecily Brown next door at Serpentine South.

Show of the month
Nan Goldin, Untitled, 1982, featured in This Will Not End Well at the Grand Palais.

Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well

Nan Goldin

18 MAR Grand Palais Paris

Hala Wardé has built a small village of pavilions inside the Grand Palais, one per slideshow, so The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and Sisters, Saints, Sibyls get their own rooms and their own acoustics. The latter extends across town into the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière. France's first retrospective of the slideshows, which Goldin has always called films made of stills. It is, for once, hung that way.

Also this month

Footnote
The ARCO that started slow. Opening morning at ARCOmadrid: by ten the aisles were half-empty and Olympia Tzortzi of Callirrhoe, Athens, was selling a Janis Rafa installation of ten saddles and five pairs of riding boots. By Saturday the crowd had arrived. The slow start may have been the whole point.