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.
Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well
Nan Goldin
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
TEFAF Maastricht 2026
A renewed selection of galleries, still the one fair in Europe that treats Old Masters and contemporary design on the same floor and expects you to keep up.
ARCOmadrid 2026
206 galleries, 36 countries, and a central curated section called ARCO2045 by Jose Luis Blondet and Magali Arriola. The aisles were wider than Basel and nobody was embarrassed about it.
Matisse, 1941-1954
Henri Matisse
Three hundred works covering the last thirteen years, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou and the Musee Matisse Nice. The cut-outs get the space they have needed for decades, and the rooms are built to feel like the studio.
David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting
David Hockney
A ninety-metre iPad frieze wrapping the perimeter, plus new still lifes and portraits of family and carers. Free, which is how a Hockney frieze should probably be seen.