11/01/2026
Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow at the Philadelphia Art Museum (6 June-11 October) will be top of the bill of exhibitions on the artist in 2026. The Arles Sunflower paintings are very rarely lent, but London’s National Gallery is to loan its version with a yellow background, which will be shown with Philadelphia’s picture with a turquoise background. A few weeks ago we broke the news of this blockbuster show.
Meanwhile, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum will be presenting an exhibition devoted to yellow pigment. Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour (13 February-17 May) will show the work of 15 artists, but of course it will revolve around the Sunflowers (with ten other Van Goghs). The Amsterdam museum has a slightly later version (January 1889) of the London original.
The other great Van Gogh collection is also in the Netherlands, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, set in a national park in the east of the country. It often loans a substantial group of its Van Goghs to East Asian museums, and many are now in Japan (see below). Usually the Kröller-Müller shows around 35 Van Gogh paintings in its own museum, but later this year it will present all its 88 pictures, for the first time since 1984. Van Gogh, All Our Paintings runs from 15 September to 3 January 2027.
Words by Martin Bailey
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/09/van-gogh-shows-in-2026-america-japan-and-the-netherlands
