Summer Art Lineups

Summer exhibition season is taking shape across regional art spaces, with new programs opening from Nice to Sussex to East Boston in the next six weeks. (goodwoodartfoundation.org) At Goodwood Art Foundation in West Sussex, the 2026 summer programme opens May 2 and runs through November 1 across a 70-acre site. The lineup includes Nancy Holt, Eva Rothschild, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Polly Apfelbaum and Solange Pessoa, with works spread between galleries, a restaurant atrium and the outdoor landscape. (goodwoodartfoundation.org) Goodwood is centering the season on what it calls the first major United Kingdom presentation of American land artist Nancy Holt, best known for *Sun Tunnels* in Utah. The foundation says Holt’s show includes concrete poetry, photography, film and installations, while Rothschild is showing sculptures and two new tapestries woven at West Dean’s Tapestry Studio. (goodwoodartfoundation.org) In Nice, NEO art & culture lab x VogelART opened “Quand la couleur se reflète” on April 22, with work by Alexander Deubl and Christian Muscheid on view through May 3. The gallery’s own schedule lists two more curated shows after that: “Quiet Insistences,” a group exhibition on rituals running May 15 to June 7, and “Mimmo Rotella & Friends,” running June 23 to July 12. (neovogelartlab.com) NEO says “Quiet Insistences” includes more than 30 international artists, and “Mimmo Rotella & Friends” pairs the Italian artist’s work with pieces by Barbara Kruger, Bertrand Lavier, JR, Katharina Grosse and other contemporary artists. A Riviera Buzz preview said the April show’s opening was set for Wednesday, April 22, with visiting hours from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays and Tuesdays. (neovogelartlab.com) (riviera-buzz.com) The pattern is not limited to destination venues. Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston is staging “AWG & Friends” from May 2 to May 23, bringing together gallery members and invited artists instead of its usual summer group show. (eastboston.com) Atlantic Works Gallery said the exhibition will open during the East Boston Artists Group Open Studios on May 2, with early hours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery also scheduled a Third Thursday reception and artist talk for May 21, and said June, July and August solo shows are planned for Kristen Freitas, Walter Kopec and Victoria “Thirteenvic” DelValle. (eastboston.com) In Richmond, the Richmond Art Society is counting down to its Summer Exhibition at the Landmark Arts Centre from June 11 to June 14. The venue says more than 60 artists will show work for sale across watercolours, oils, prints, sculpture, photography and ceramics, with a free opening night on June 11. (richmondartsociety.com) (landmarkartscentre.org) A separate public institution, Richmond Art Gallery in British Columbia, is also filling its calendar with spring and early summer events, including an Artist Salon on April 25, an art-market workshop on May 3, World Collage Day programming on May 9 and an artist talk on June 11. The municipal gallery says it has operated since 1980 and maintains a permanent collection of more than 400 works. (richmondartgallery.org) Taken together, the announcements point to a summer calendar built less around a single blockbuster fair than around staggered local openings, artist talks and group shows. The next dates on that map are close: April 22 in Nice, May 2 at Goodwood and Atlantic Works Gallery, and June 11 in Richmond. (neovogelartlab.com) (goodwoodartfoundation.org) (eastboston.com) (landmarkartscentre.org)