We’re midway into March, and the 2025 arts calendar is still filling up fast. A new object-based exhibition at MoMA explores the innovative nature of design, while George Condo’s latest pastel show at Hauser & Wirth focuses on the artist’s improvisational approach to drawing. There’s also Antonio Santín at Marc Straus, Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman Gallery, and Todd Gray at Lehmann Maupin New York—and you aren’t going to want to miss even one of them. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, don’t fret. We’re keeping track of all the must-see art shows in the U.S. and abroad. So whether you want to visit a show that’s popping up in your neighborhood, or plan to take in some culture while traveling, think of this guide as your well-informed pal that will keep you up-to-date on the can’t-miss art shows throughout the year.
Suki Seokyeong Kang at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
The artist Suki Seokyeong Kang organizes space like a composer constructing a musical arrangement. The grid, which is traditional to Korean musical notation, is her muse and perpetual starting point, from which Kang builds out fantastical landscapes populated by different notes and timbers—from abstract paintings and hanging tapestries of woven grass, to bestial sculptures on wheels and multiscreen video projections.
For her largest U.S. show to date, “Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face,” the Korean institutional darling transforms all three floors of the MCA Denver into a metaphorical mountain with a base, a face, and a summit. It is the first time in five years that the museum has invited a single artist to take on all three floors. The intimidating scale of the exhibition lends itself to Kang’s architecturally sized ambitions; it also makes it easy to observe the connections the Korean artist is drawing between the mountainous nature of her homeland and Denver’s famous ridges. It is a show that speaks directly to the American West and to its canonical artists—figures like Agnes Martin—who tried to capture the region’s seemingly infinite horizon in the boundary of a square.
—Kat Herriman
