July 26th in Jerusalem
Rare and Newly Restored 18th-Century Synagogue from
Suriname To Be Highlight of Israel Museum’s New Synagogue
Route - New Route will showcase four original Synagogue
interiors from around the world. At the Israel
Museum in Jerusalem
July 31st to October 31st in
Berlin
Luise: The Queens's Clothes - Queen Luise, famous for her
beauty, was quite conscious of her charms. She knew how to
underscore her physical advantages in a natural, sensuous and
occasionally liberal way with graceful, Empire-style dresses
inspired by the forms of antiquity. The exhibition at
Paretz Palace, once the summer residence of the royal family,
shows outfits and accessories that belonged to the queen, as
well as a selection of her portraits and further artifacts in
the form of sculptures, graphic folios and letters. The
intimate surroundings of the royal living spaces with their
precious wallpapers allow the fascination with Luise to come
alive, while simultaneously spanning a panorama of that
epoch's fashions. At Paretz, Palace and Royal Coach
House - Berlin, Germany
July 31st to October 31st
in Washington, D.C.-
Edvard Munch: Master Prints - Haunting images of
love, attraction, alienation, death, and other universal
human experiences in the work of Norwegian artist Edvard
Munch (1865–1944) will be presented in a fascinating
exhibition of nearly 60 of his most important prints. On
view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Edvard Munch: Master Prints examines the artist’s
stylistic approach to each of these themes, a process that
involved transforming ideas into an evocative motif and
exploring that image through numerous variations over a
lifetime. Washington, D.C.
August 1st to October 1st
in London
The Queen’s Year, New exhibition at the Summer
Opening of Buckingham Palace - The Queen’s Year will
give visitors a lively insight into the principal national
and ceremonial events in the royal year. The exhibition
will include displays of ceremonial robes, uniforms and
jewels as well as archive photography and film to evoke
key events in Her Majesty’s diary. For more information
www.royalcollection.org.uk
London, England
Opening August 1st through
February 13th, 2011 in Escondido
Mingei International Museum will present exhibition of
Romanian Folk Art - Between East and West - Folk Art
Treasures of Romania at Mingei International Museum in
Balboa Park. It will showcase the rich and diverse
artistic expression of this ancient territory.
Escondido, California
August 7th to January 9th in
Atlanta
The first major exhibition to reevaluate the last half of
Salvador Dalí’s career will be presented exclusively at
the High Museum of Art this August. Beginning in the late
1930s, Dalí went through a radical change in which he embraced
Catholicism, developed the concept of nuclear mysticism and,
in effect, reinvented himself as an artist. Comprising more
than 100 works including 40 paintings and a related group of
drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, “Salvador Dalí: The
Late Work” will also explore the artist’s enduring fascination
with science, optical effects and illusionism as well as his
connections to such artists of the 1960s and 1970s as Andy
Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.
High Museum of Art - Atlanta, Georgia
September 10th to January 9th
2011 in Denmark
Art and Myth - Anselm Kiefer has long been on the list of
post-war artists that the museum would like to show in the
large, perspectivizing format. There are many good reasons for
this: Kiefer is well represented in Louisiana’s collection,
and his works are unconditionally among the visitors’
favourites. In addition, the museum, with a good 70 works in
the exhibition, can boast of the first major showing of his
work in Scandinavia. And finally, the project rounds off
Louisiana’s showings of the post-war German ‘gang of four’:
Polke, Richter, Baselitz and now Kiefer. At the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Humlebaek, Denmark
From
September 14th to October 26th in Paris
The Ratton-Ladriere Gallery is showing exceptional
sculptures from the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Some of them depict historical scenes, such as the Death of
Cleopatra, while others show religious scenes, such as the
Beheading of Saint Paul, while others still are based on
mythology, such as the Lady with the unicorn or the Faun with
Kid. Located on quai Voltaire, the Ratton-Ladričre
gallery has been one of the must-see antiquity galleries of
the "Carré Rive Gauche" for some thirty years. The
Ratton-Ladriere Gallery - Paris, France
September 14th to December 18th
in London
A major exhibition of works by The Glasgow Boys, the
group of highly influential and internationally-renowned
Scottish-based artists who on occasions enraged Victorian
Britain, is to be held at The Fleming Collection at 13
Berkeley Street, in London. Most of the 50
paintings on show will come from The Fleming Collection’s own
holdings but ten will be loaned by an important private
collection rarely seen by the public. The Glasgow Boys
from The Fleming Collection will complement Pioneering
Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900, which will take
place at The Royal Academy of Arts in London from 30
October 2010 to 23 January 2011 following a successful
showing at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
September
15th, 2010 to November 28th, 2010 in London
Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic
- Salvator Rosa invented a range of new types of painting;
novel allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and
melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and
enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; highly
original philosophical subjects, which bring into painting
some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his
age. No other artist has created windswept landscapes of such
expressive and emotional power, or figures of such dark and
brooding intensity. Unlike Caravaggio, Rosa was truly a
rebel, radical, anti - clerical, associated with libertine
thought, and often in very real danger from the Inquisition.
At the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England
September 25th through December
12th in London
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo
to Schiele - This September the Royal Academy of Arts
will showcase the breadth and wealth of one of the finest
collections in Central Europe. The exhibition will feature
over 200 works and will include paintings, drawings and
sculpture from the early Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Selected works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci,
Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Goya, Manet, Monet, Schiele,
Gauguin and Picasso will be on display, many of which have not
previously been shown in the UK. The exhibition comprises
works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, with additional
key loans from the Hungarian National Gallery. At
the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
September 30th through January
16th in London
Gauguin: Maker of Myth - Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the
most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth
century. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition in
London to be devoted to his work in over half a century.
Gauguin: Maker of Myth will trace the artist’s unique approach
to storytelling. Bringing together over 100 works from public
and private collections from around the world, the exhibition
will take a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern
art. At the Tate Modern in London, England
September 30th to January 23rd
in Sweden
This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents the magnificent
exhibition Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander.
On show will be some 420 items - a collection of portraits,
costumes, jewelry and other art wares – all telling a story of
honor and power. The exhibition is about the art of governing
through art. At the Nationalmuseum in Sweden.
October 7th to February 13th in
Bern
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - The
British navigator James Cook (1728–1779) is considered one of
the greatest explorers of all time. His pioneering discoveries
permanently altered navigation, astronomy, natural history and
art in the age of the Enlightenment and pointed the way to
modern Europe. The exhibition in the Historisches Museum
Bern tells the story of James Cook’s voyages: With over
450 exhibits, including original nautical charts and
navigational instruments and a selection of the finest
paintings and drawings by official expedition painters;
With ethnographic objects from the museum's own collection and
loans from Europe and overseas. For the first time, the
most valuable of the objects brought back from Cook's voyages
will be brought together in an exhibition. With a
particular focus on an English painter with Swiss roots:
John Webber, son of a sculptor from Bern by the name of Waber.
Webber documented cook's third voyage with drawings and
watercolors. Shortly before his death, he bequeathed his
collection of artifacts from the South Seas to his home town,
Bern. With model ships and explanatory animations films.
These visualize the various stages of the voyages, and
show how the degrees of longitude and latitude were measured,
or how a sextant works. Bern, Switzerland
October 9th to 11th in Morocco
Marrakech Art Fair - The first edition of the Marrakech
Art Fair will be held at the Es Saadi Palace. Galleries
from Europe, Morocco and the Arab world are pleased to present
their recent discoveries during a four day event. Modern
art, contemporary art, and emerging scenes will be high on the
agenda, during an ephemeral leisure staged between patio and
garden through art works and creations form the 20th and 21st
centuries. Marrakech, Morocco
October 13th to February 20th,
2011 in London
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography -
This autumn, the V&A will present the first UK museum
exhibition of work by contemporary camera-less photographers.
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography will display images
by five leading artists who, for the past twenty years or
more, have been creating exciting new photography without the
use of a camera: Pierre Cordier (Belgium), Susan Derges (UK),
Adam Fuss (UK/ USA), Garry Fabian Miller (UK) and Floris
Neusüss (Germany). Camera-less techniques were first explored
by the pioneers of photography by blocking light or casting
shadows on light sensitive paper or chemically manipulating
its surface. These experiments were rediscovered by
20th-century artists including Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy and
revived by contemporary image makers. The process of
camera-less photography means each work is completely unique
and created to scale, often offering a direct and unmediated
relationship with the landscape, object, figure or light event
it captures. At the Victoria & Albert Museum, London,
England
October 15th to January 30th,
2011 in Zurich
Kunsthaus Zurich Presents Pablo Picasso - The Kunsthaus
Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to
Pablo Picasso. The 1932 show, personally curated at the
Kunsthaus Zürich and featuring pieces chosen by the artist
himself, covers Picasso’s work from his pink and blue periods
to his Cubist and neo-classical phase and Surrealist
creations, and includes 70 outstanding originals from the
best-known international collections. Zurich,
Switzerland
October 21
to January 2011 in London
Cézanne’s Card Players - The Courtauld Gallery,
Somerset House, London, EnglandOctober 30th to
January 23rd in London
Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900 - Royal
Academy of Arts. This exhibition is the first in over 40 years
to celebrate the major achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the
loosely knit group of around 20 young artists who created such
a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the 19th
century. At the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
England
October 30th to January 23rd in
London
Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900 - Royal
Academy of Arts. This exhibition is the first in over 40 years
to celebrate the major achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the
loosely knit group of around 20 young artists who created such
a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the 19th
century. At the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
England
November 4th to March 6th, 2011
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - Journey through the
afterlife. Follow the ancient Egyptians' journey from
death to the afterlife in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
focusing on the Book of the Dead, a compilation of spells
designed to guide the deceased through the dangers of the
underworld and ensure eternal life. At the British
Museum in London, England
November 17ath to March 6th in
London
Design Museum - Illustrated Fashion presents a remarkable
collection of some of the most recognizable fashion drawings
from the 20th and 21st Century. These original drawings define
the fine art of illustrating fashion and will sit alongside
key garments from couture houses that defined the different
directions and avant-garde designs including Poiret, Chanel,
Dior, but also Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons and Victor & Rolf.
The drawings reflect the spirit of the time and some have
become graphic icons in their own right. At the Design
Museum in London, England
December 16th, 2010 to March
21st, 2011 in Amsterdam
Gabriel Metsu (1629 -1667) - The
son of a Flemish painter, Gabriel Metsu staged his career
over twenty years in both his hometown of Leiden as well as Amsterdam.
Though his life spanned only thirty-eight years, his work was quite
prolific. Metsu's œuvre
focused primarily on genre painting, but this exhibition proposes a catalogue raisonné of Metsu's
works, including market scenes, religious subjects, still lifes, and
portraits. The exhibition will feature approximately forty paintings
from a variety of public and private collections. At the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
December 17th through
April 25th, 2011
Napoleon and Europe - Dream and Trauma - During the
near-twenty-year span of his reign, Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821), more than any other historical figure,
revolutionized the political, social and cultural landscape of
Europe and wrought changes that can be felt to this day – both
positively and negatively. The Art and Exhibition Hall has
been able to secure outstanding loans from all over Europe in
order to draw a comprehensive picture of Napoleon and his
time. Painting and sculpture reached new heights of excellence
in the Napoleonic era – both in the propaganda paintings by
David, Gérard and Ingres and in the work of those who opposed
the French emperor, among them Goya and the German
romanticists. Under Napoleon’s aegis the Louvre was opened as
the first ‘modern’ museum of fine arts. The exhibition will
also shed light on the large-scale plundering of art
collections in the countries occupied by Napoleon. The
Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, Germany
February 27th through June
5th, 2011 in Washington, D.C,
Gauguin: Maker of Myth will explore the role of Paul
Gauguin (1848–1903) as storyteller and mythmaker through
his reinvention or appropriation of narratives and myths
drawn from both his European cultural heritage or from
Maori legend, his use of religious and mythical symbols,
and the manipulation of his own artistic identity. On view
in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, from
February 27 through June 5, 2011, this will be the first
major reappraisal of the artist's career in the United
States in more than 20 years. The exhibition will present
some 200 works by Gauguin reflecting his remarkable
breadth, including examples from every period (circa 1880
to 1903), medium (painting, watercolor, pastel, drawings
and prints, ceramic and wooden sculpture, decorated
functional objects, writings, and books), and genre
(portraiture, still life, and landscape). The
exhibition is co-organized with Tate Modern, London, where
it will be on view from September 30, 2010 through January
16, 2011.
