Art Week returns to New York this season with a dynamic programme across the city. Must-see exhibitions at The Met, MoMA, and the recently reopened New Museum set the stage for a vibrant line-up of fairs, spotlighting established and emerging galleries from across the globe.

Raphael: Sublime Poetry at The Met

At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Raphael: Sublime Poetry marks the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Raphael in the United States. Bringing together more than 170 works, the show traces the artist’s meteoric rise from Urbino to Florence and Rome, revealing how his refined, poetic sensibility placed him alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo as one of the defining geniuses of the Renaissance.

The New New Museum

After two years closed, the New Museum has reopened on the Bowery with a striking OMA-designed second building that doubles its size to 120,000 square feet. The space is inaugurated with a new exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, featuring more than 200 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, the exhibition charts a century of shifting visions of identity, progress, and possible futures.

Three Uptown Shows Not to Miss

Uptown galleries bring some of the week’s best shows this year. Gagosian opens its new Madison Avenue space with a major presentation of Marcel Duchamp. Bringing together many of his most celebrated readymades, the exhibition revisits the artist whose provocations changed the course of modern art. Acquavella presents an exhibition featuring fifty paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Henri Matisse on loan from museums, foundations, and private collections. At Di Donna, the final show in their New York location, a landmark exhibition of work by Salvador Dalí is on display.

Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid

Finally, Museum of Modern Art hosts Arthur Jafa, one of the most vital voices in contemporary art today. Known for his powerful use of film, sound, and archival imagery, Jafa’s work confronts race, memory, and visual culture with extraordinary emotional force. For this exhibition—the latest in MoMA’s Artist Choice series—Jafa has selected over 80 objects from the Museum’s collection. A fitting final stop on any Art Week itinerary.