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BY TEAM CABANA | HAPPENINGS | 1 APRIL 2026
As spring has sprung, we turn our eyes to the colorful and varied exhibitions and events on Cabana's global cultural calendar. Galleries and museums offer vibrant showcases this month, from contemporary to old-masters, craft, fashion, and photography, while the events roster is packed. Most notably for the design world, the much-anticipated Salone del Mobile returns to Milan, with neighborhoods across the city taking part in Design Week (18-26 April) and showcases popping up in both private and public spaces.
Don't miss our full guide to Salone Happenings, and Design Week tips, on Substack.
Meanwhile, New York hosts a constellation of fairs for those eager to discover and trade art, prints, photography and antiques... Read on to discover our April highlights.
EXHIBITIONS
LONDON, UK
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style
Queen Elizabeth II, Baron, 1956. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust.
“Discover the wardrobe that defined a century” at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the highly anticipated new exhibition traces the fashion legacy of Queen Elizabeth II. From early couture as a young princess, to her unmistakable uniform of coat, hat, and pearls, the late monarch's wardrobe unfolds as both a personal archive and an instrument of diplomacy. Drawn from a collection of over 4,000 pieces, the exhibition offers a rare, intimate view of a style that shaped a reign.
April 10, 2026 - October 16, 2026, Buckingham Palace, LONDON, UK
FLORENCE, ITALY
Rothko in Florence
Rothko at the Museo san Marco © photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO studio
The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi devotes a major exhibition to Mark Rothko, tracing his singular exploration of color and space across more than 70 works. Set against the measured grandeur of Florence, the show reveals a painter in dialogue with the city’s classical inheritance. Extending beyond the palazzo to sites such as Museo di San Marco, the show unfolds as a rare encounter between Renaissance architecture and modern abstraction.
Through August 23, 2026, Palazzo Strozzi, FLORENCE, ITALY
NEW YORK, USA
Ruffles and Ribbons
Left: Designed by Pierre-Thomas Le Clerc (French, Paris 1740–1796;) engraved by Nicholas Dupin Gallerie des modes et costumes français, 31e. 1780. Right: Designed by Pierre-Thomas Le Clerc (French, Paris 1740–1796;) engraved by Nicholas Dupin Gallerie des modes et costumes français, ca. 1778. Courtesy of The Frick Art Research Library.
At The Frick Collection, a delicate cabinet display gathers rare eighteenth-century fashion plates from the famed Gallerie des modes et costumes français (1778–87), offering a vivid glimpse into the rococo dress codes of Marie Antoinette’s France.
Presented in dialogue with the Frick's Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture exhibit, Ruffles and Ribbons presents gand-colored and drawn “from life” engravings charting the flourishes and fantasies of a society on the brink of upheaval.
April 1, 2026 - August 3, 2026, The Frick, NEW YORK, USA
LONDON, UK
Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal
Image courtesy of the Freud Museum London. Artworks © 2026 Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, NY and DACS, London. Photography © Lewis Ronald.
Freud Museum London's latest exhibition, Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal, traces the surrealist artist's flight from Nazi-occupied France, her transformative stay in Sanatorium Morales in Santander, and her departure to New York to join the surrealists in exile.
The exhibition, curated by Vanessa Boni, is the most complete collection of fragments of Leonora's Santander sketchbooks, and the debut London showing of Down Below (1941), displayed in Sigmund Freud's final home alongside his collection of antiquities. It is the first museum exhibition of Carrington's work in London in 35 years.
Through June 28, 2026, The Freud Museum, LONDON, UK
NEW YORK, USA
The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics
The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics at The Metropolitan Museum of Art spans over 13,000 years of ceramic production, from Neolithic vessels to contemporary works. Drawing largely from the museum’s holdings, the exhibition brings together more than 350 objects, highlighting the depth and diversity of Japanese ceramic traditions. Organized across thematic rotations, it offers a rare opportunity to encounter both iconic and seldom-seen pieces, revealing ceramics as a vital thread in Japan’s artistic history.
Through August 8, 2026, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NEW YORK, USA
HONG KONG
Treasures of Global Jewellery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed
Brooch Raymond C. Yard (1885 – 1964) ca. 1930 Gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hong Kong Palace Museum presents Treasures of Global Jewellery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Body Transformed, the Met’s debut in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Works from the Met’s collection are shown alongside loans from the Hong Kong Palace Museum and private collectors, spanning 4,000 years of human adornment across five continents and five thematic sections: the divine, regal, transcendent, alluring, and resplendent body.
The museum also hosts Heavenly Horses, celebrating the Year of the Horse, with nearly 100 works tracing the evolution of horse painting in Chinese art, from refined court ateliers to expressive modern interpretations, capturing vitality, loyalty, and grace.
April 15, 2026 - October 19, 2026, The Hong Kong Palace Museum, HONG KONG
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Graphics by Lucrezia Lucas
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