Vienna, Austria -- Michelangelo Buonarroti Three Men Standing in Wide Coats Turned Towards the Left, around 1492-96 In a major exhibition scheduled for autumn and winter 2010, the Albertina will present around one hundred of the most beautiful drawings by Michelangelo. Precious works from the Graphic Arts Collection of the Albertina, as well as important loans from museums and private collections in Europe and the United States, will offer a hitherto unparalleled overview of the great Florentine’s entire oeuvre.
The focus will be on the figural drawings by Michelangelo, who will be introduced here as the genius of a period of change, with his versatile talents as a draftsman, painter, architect, and sculptor.
The show traces Michelangelo’s career from the artist’s juvenile works and designs for The Battle of Cascina to the world-famous frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the ingenious drawings he presented to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, and the Crucifixion scenes dating from the artist’s late period, when he was almost eighty years old. At the same time, new clues as to the dating of individual works will be provided. Projections of the monumental ceiling frescoes, the incorporation of plaster casts of Michelangelo’s sculptures, as well as paintings by other artists based on the master’s designs are meant to illustrate the dimensions and impact of his art. New paths of didactic presentation will be forged through a documentation of contemporary history and the artist’s environment. Dates: October 8, 2010 to January 9, 2011 For further information, please follow this link ....
The focus will be on the figural drawings by Michelangelo, who will be introduced here as the genius of a period of change, with his versatile talents as a draftsman, painter, architect, and sculptor.
The show traces Michelangelo’s career from the artist’s juvenile works and designs for The Battle of Cascina to the world-famous frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the ingenious drawings he presented to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, and the Crucifixion scenes dating from the artist’s late period, when he was almost eighty years old. At the same time, new clues as to the dating of individual works will be provided. Projections of the monumental ceiling frescoes, the incorporation of plaster casts of Michelangelo’s sculptures, as well as paintings by other artists based on the master’s designs are meant to illustrate the dimensions and impact of his art. New paths of didactic presentation will be forged through a documentation of contemporary history and the artist’s environment. Dates: October 8, 2010 to January 9, 2011 For further information, please follow this link ....
31/08: At The Fitzwilliam in
Cambridge, England -- Objects of Affection: Pre-Raphaelite Portraits by John Brett 14 September – 28 November 2010 John Brett (1831-1902) is best known for his luminous Pre-Raphaelite landscape paintings The Stonebreaker and Val d’Aosta, and his late depictions of the coasts of the British Isles. This exhibition focuses on a less familiar aspect of his work: his portraits of family, friends, lovers and patrons. Drawn extensively from private collections, with key loans from the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain, this fascinating selection of paintings and drawings celebrates his meticulous and delicate portrait style, and invites us into his intimate domestic world, as well as the artistic and literary circles he frequented. A selection of his portrait photography – a medium in which Brett was an enthusiastic pioneer – will also be on display, alongside archival material. For more information please follow this link .....
Cambridge, England -- Galileo and his Contemporaries: Portraits by Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630) 2 November 2010 - 13 February 2011 The Fitzwilliam Museum owns almost all of Ottavio Leoni’s portrait prints, made in Rome in the last decade of his life. According to his biographer, ‘in all Rome there was no one who had not his portrait by Ottavio – whether prince, princess, gentlemen, or persons of private rank – and not a house in which some portrait from the hand of the cavaliere was not to be seen’ (Giovanni Baglione, 1642). As this selection of prints will show, Leoni used a subtle technique of stippled dots to convey every nuance of flesh and detail of feature in his closely-observed portraits, bringing to life the personalities of contemporary artists, poets, mathematicians and dignitaries. So naturalistic are his depictions, that his print of Galileo has recently been used as evidence to investigate the astronomer’s deteriorating eyesight. Part of the Fitzwilliam’s Hidden Depths series exploring aspects of the permanent collection. For more information, please follow this link .....
Edinburgh, Scotland -- A comprehensive survey of surrealist art, bringing together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, will be the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's 50th anniversary celebrations, will offer a fascinating overview of one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century.
The exhibition will include major loans from public and private collections and will offer visitors the chance to see the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's world-famous collection of surrealist art in its entirety for the first time. Dates Oct 07, 2010 to Sep 07, 2011 at National Galleries of Scotland - Modern Art Galleries, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR, Scotland Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. Follow this link for further information . . . .
The exhibition will include major loans from public and private collections and will offer visitors the chance to see the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's world-famous collection of surrealist art in its entirety for the first time. Dates Oct 07, 2010 to Sep 07, 2011 at National Galleries of Scotland - Modern Art Galleries, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR, Scotland Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. Follow this link for further information . . . .
WEEKEND EDITION
Edinburgh, Scotland -- This important exhibition brings together the most exhaustive selection of paintings by Christen Købke (1810-1848) ever to be shown outside Denmark. Købke was a pre-eminent painter in his country and one of the foremost talents of Denmark's Golden Age. The exhibition features around 40 of Købke's most celebrated works, spanning a variety of genres. Giving an overview of Købke's achievement within its cultural context, the exhibition emphasises his exquisite originality and experimental outlook while focusing on the most innovative aspects of his work. Købke's paintings demonstrate his ability to endow ordinary people and places and simple motifs with a universal significance, creating a world in microcosm for the viewer. Runs to October 3rd, 2010 | Royal Scottish Academy Building Lower Galleries , Edinburgh
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London, England -- Exhibition organised by the Jeu de Paume, Paris in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. This first retrospective exhibition devoted to Camille Silvy, pioneer of street photography, early image manipulation and photographic mass production Includes photographs not seen for over 150 years
The first retrospective exhibition of work by Camille Silvy, one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century, will open at the National Portrait Gallery this summer. Marking the centenary of Silvy’s death, Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910, includes over a hundred objects, many of which have not been exhibited since 1860. The portraits on display offer a unique glimpse into nineteenth-century Paris and Victorian London through the eyes of one of photography’s greatest innovators.
20/08: Impressionist Gardens
Edinburgh, Scotland -- Monet once said "My garden is my greatest work of art". Visit this ground-breaking exhibition and discover how he and other Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, were inspired by their gardens. This is the only UK showing of this major exhibition
Impressionist Gardens is a major international exhibition of over 90 works including loans from collections around the world, and is the first ever to be devoted to this subject. The famous names of Impressionism are well represented, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley. The exhibition also examines the continued significance of the Impressionist garden to the generation of artists working immediately after the Impressionists, such as Cézanne and Bonnard.
A final section examines the spread of the Impressionist garden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. European and American artists such Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt and John Singer Sargent feature in this section. The exhibition is organised by the National Galleries of Scotland and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid and runs to October 17, 2010.
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Impressionist Gardens is a major international exhibition of over 90 works including loans from collections around the world, and is the first ever to be devoted to this subject. The famous names of Impressionism are well represented, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley. The exhibition also examines the continued significance of the Impressionist garden to the generation of artists working immediately after the Impressionists, such as Cézanne and Bonnard.
A final section examines the spread of the Impressionist garden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. European and American artists such Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt and John Singer Sargent feature in this section. The exhibition is organised by the National Galleries of Scotland and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid and runs to October 17, 2010.
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London, England -- International art dealer Agnew’s of London has confirmed that it will be opening a new gallery at 35 Albemarle Street in early September. The UK’s oldest family-owned art dealership will feature contemporary and modern art in its purpose-built street-level gallery, with more traditional works such as Old Masters painting and British watercolours will be exhibited in a dedicated first-floor space. The opening exhibition on 8 September is devoted to Australian 20th century artist Sir Sidney Nolan. For more information concerning Agnew's please follow this link . . . .
London, England -- Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine will be on display for the first time in the United Kingdom at the National Portrait Gallery. Since the early 1960s Kasterine has photographed some of the most eminent cultural figures of the twentieth century. In September, twenty newly-acquired photographs, including studies of Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, Stanley Kubrick and David Hockney, will be shown here for the first time.
One of Kasterine’s most famous sittings was with Samuel Beckett in 1965 at a rehearsal for Beginning to End. This remarkable portrait of Beckett was one of the twenty photographs acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2009 and is included in this display. Other important photographs on display will include Kasterine’s portrait of the late Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1972), David Hockney (1974) photographed in Paris at the time of his major exhibition at the Louvre, and his frequently reproduced double portrait of Kingsley and Martin Amis (1975), most recently published in Martin Amis’s autobiography Experience: A Memoir. Later photographs include Roald Dahl (1976), Francis Bacon (1978), David Niven (1979), and portraits taken on location of Robert Graves at home in Majorca (1980), Lawrence Durrell at home in Provence (1976), and Dame Muriel Spark (1978) outside her Tuscan farm house.
The son of a White Russian army officer and his British wife, Dmitri Kasterine was born in London in 1932. Following early careers as a wine salesman, Lloyd’s broker, racing driver and pilot, Kasterine’s photographic career began in 1961 when his work began appearing in the leading publications of the time, including Queen magazine. He began a long association with film director Stanley Kubrick in 1964, when he began shooting stills on his film Dr Strangelove and later era-defining projects, A Clockwork Orange (1968) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1971). In the 1970s and 1980s Kasterine was commissioned to take portraits for magazines including the Daily Telegraph Magazine, Harpers & Queen and a variety of his work was published in The Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, and The New York Times.
In 1986, he left Britain to move to the United States. In addition to his professional career, Kasterine has produced important personal photographic surveys including England and the English (1981). Kasterine is currently working on a book documenting the residents of Newburgh, New York; his series of portraits of Brooklyn residents are published on-line at www.kasterine.com. A selection of his portraits are also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Venue: National Portrait Gallery • Exhibition dates: From September 11, 2010 to April 3, 2011 • Room 33 • Admission free
One of Kasterine’s most famous sittings was with Samuel Beckett in 1965 at a rehearsal for Beginning to End. This remarkable portrait of Beckett was one of the twenty photographs acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2009 and is included in this display. Other important photographs on display will include Kasterine’s portrait of the late Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1972), David Hockney (1974) photographed in Paris at the time of his major exhibition at the Louvre, and his frequently reproduced double portrait of Kingsley and Martin Amis (1975), most recently published in Martin Amis’s autobiography Experience: A Memoir. Later photographs include Roald Dahl (1976), Francis Bacon (1978), David Niven (1979), and portraits taken on location of Robert Graves at home in Majorca (1980), Lawrence Durrell at home in Provence (1976), and Dame Muriel Spark (1978) outside her Tuscan farm house.
The son of a White Russian army officer and his British wife, Dmitri Kasterine was born in London in 1932. Following early careers as a wine salesman, Lloyd’s broker, racing driver and pilot, Kasterine’s photographic career began in 1961 when his work began appearing in the leading publications of the time, including Queen magazine. He began a long association with film director Stanley Kubrick in 1964, when he began shooting stills on his film Dr Strangelove and later era-defining projects, A Clockwork Orange (1968) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1971). In the 1970s and 1980s Kasterine was commissioned to take portraits for magazines including the Daily Telegraph Magazine, Harpers & Queen and a variety of his work was published in The Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, and The New York Times.
In 1986, he left Britain to move to the United States. In addition to his professional career, Kasterine has produced important personal photographic surveys including England and the English (1981). Kasterine is currently working on a book documenting the residents of Newburgh, New York; his series of portraits of Brooklyn residents are published on-line at www.kasterine.com. A selection of his portraits are also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Venue: National Portrait Gallery • Exhibition dates: From September 11, 2010 to April 3, 2011 • Room 33 • Admission free
Dublin, Ireland -- One of the most remarkable painters of the Dutch seventeenth century, Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), will be the subject of the National Gallery of Ireland’s major autumn presentation. Metsu died at the age of 37, having painted a large number of exquisite scenes of daily life that rank among the finest of the Dutch Golden Age. Metsu was a contemporary of Vermeer, and although Metsu worked in Leiden and Vermeer in Delft, both shared an admiration for one another’s work. Favourite subjects were interior scenes with attractive young women, ranging from kitchen maids to elegant damsels, but other genres were explored too.
Curated by Dr. Adriaan Waiboer (NGI Curator of Northern European Art), this special tribute to Metsu will feature approximately 40 of the artist’s paintings drawn from public and private collections around the world, among them: A Man and a Woman at the Virginals, c. 1664–6 (The National Gallery, London); ‘A Woman Artist’ (Le Corset rouge), c.1661-4 (Private Collection); The Sick Child, c.1664-6 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam); A Baker Blowing his Horn, c.1660-3 (Private Collection); The Intruder, c.1661-3 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and ‘An Old Man Selling Poultry and Game’ (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen).
Some of Metsu’s lesser known achievements in the fields of religious painting, portraiture and still life will also be highlighted. The National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, is fortunate to have in its collection two outstanding companion pieces (A Woman Reading a Letter; A Man Writing a Letter, c.1664-6), which are arguably the artist’s most well known paintings. Dates: September 4 to December 5, 2010 at National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Link to more information online ......
Curated by Dr. Adriaan Waiboer (NGI Curator of Northern European Art), this special tribute to Metsu will feature approximately 40 of the artist’s paintings drawn from public and private collections around the world, among them: A Man and a Woman at the Virginals, c. 1664–6 (The National Gallery, London); ‘A Woman Artist’ (Le Corset rouge), c.1661-4 (Private Collection); The Sick Child, c.1664-6 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam); A Baker Blowing his Horn, c.1660-3 (Private Collection); The Intruder, c.1661-3 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and ‘An Old Man Selling Poultry and Game’ (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen).
Some of Metsu’s lesser known achievements in the fields of religious painting, portraiture and still life will also be highlighted. The National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, is fortunate to have in its collection two outstanding companion pieces (A Woman Reading a Letter; A Man Writing a Letter, c.1664-6), which are arguably the artist’s most well known paintings. Dates: September 4 to December 5, 2010 at National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Link to more information online ......
