Feb09 International
Museum Calendar
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(updated 4/12/09)
Cities featured this month include Amsterdam, Atlanta,
Baltimore, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires,
Chicago, Copenhagen, Dresden, Florence, Fort Worth/Dallas, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Liverpool,
London, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, Montreal, Moscow, New
York, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Stuttgart,
Sydney NSW, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna, Washington, D.C. Williamstown, Zagreb and Zurich.
Rijksmuseum of Art
& History
Website: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl
The main building of the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a renovation, which will be complete by the end of 2009. The museum is showing masterpieces from its collection in the Philips Wing of the museum and loaning parts of the collection to museums in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as organizing traveling exhibitions to countries such as the United States, Japan and Australia.
The Riksmuseum is located at Jan Luijkenstraat 1
(Philips Wing). Tel: +31 (0)20 6747000. Accessible via public
transportation. Open daily from 9
am to 6 pm; on Fridays to 10 pm. Admission.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Schiphol
Holland & Japan: 400 Years of Trade
January 11 to May 25, 2009
Marking the four-hundredth anniversary of commercial ties between the Netherlands and Japan. The exhibition examines the privileged position Dutch traders enjoyed on the isolated island of Deshima and the artistic and cultural interchange that resulted from their commercial contacts.
The museum branch is located beyond passport
checkpoint between piers E and F. Open daily from 7 am to 8 pm. The Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam Schiphol is located on Holland Boulevard, in the area beyond passport
checkpoint between the E and F Piers. The museum is open daily from 7 a.m. to 8
p.m. Admission is free.
Van Gogh Museum
Website: http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?lang=nl
Van Gogh? An examination of two
female portraits
October 31, 2008 to
September 20, 2009
This presentation
focuses on two traditional female portraits in the Van Gogh Museum’s
collection. The emphasis lies on the exciting and in-depth research undertaken
into these two portraits, which are barely known to the general public. Which
art-historical and technical investigation can be carried out as regards dating
and attribution? Were these female portraits painted by Van Gogh or not? And in
which period exactly did they originate? Issues such as style and content,
comparison to other works and research into the pigments used are dealt with
extensively.
The Van Gogh Museum is located at Museumplein in
Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum. The museum
entrance is at Paulus Potterstraat 7. Open daily from 10.00 to 18.00 (closed 1
January; until 10 pm on Fridays. Admission.
High Museum of Art
Website: www.high.org
The First Emperor: China's
Terracotta Army
November 16, 2008
through April 19, 2009
Over
100 works from the ongoing excavation of the First Emperor’s terracotta army
will be shown for the first time in the United States. The First Emperor of
China was one of the greatest rulers in history.
The High Museum is located is located at 1280
Peachtree Street between 15th and 16th Streets in Midtown Atlanta. Open Tuesday
through Sundays.
The Walters Art
Museum
Website: http://www.thewalters.org
Mummified
November 15 to November 08, 2009
Discover the ancient secrets of the Walters Museum' mummy, as revealed through the techniques of virtual autopsy.
The Walters Art Museum is located 600 N. Charles
Street; tel: 410-547-9000. Open Wednesdays to Sundays 11 am to 5 pm; Fridays 11
am to 8 pm. Free admission.
Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture (CCCB)
Website: http://www.cccb.org/ca
Lluminations: Visionary Catalonia
February 17 to May 17, 2009
Catalonia's cultural and artistic enterprise
has been marked by an approach both utopian and pragmatic, which, by means of
thought and action, has opened the doors of modernity. By means of the works of
visionary artists and creators from the times of Ramon Llull until the present
day, the exhibition sets out to give an account of the illuminations that have
shaped the view of modern and post-modern Catalonia. The exhibition also
presents some of the sources that have inspired or furthered these views, based
on philosophical, scientific and literary thought, and popular culture.
The CCCB is located at
Montelegre 5. Open Tuesdays
to Sundays from 11am to 8 pm; Thursdays to 11 pm. Admission. Accessible by
public transportation.
The Palace Museum
Website: http://www.dpm.org.cn/English/default.asp
Dynastic Paintings and Calligraphy in the Palace Museum Collection
April 15 to June 15, 2009
The Palace Museum, situated
in the center of Beijing, was established in 1925. Also known as the “Purple”
Forbidden City in Chinese, or the Forbidden City as it is commonly known in
English, it covers 720,000 square meters and was the imperial palace for a
succession of twenty-four emperors and their dynasties during the Ming and Qing
periods of Chinese history. The museum is also China's largest and most
complete architectural grouping of ancient halls. Construction was begun in
1420, the eighteenth year of Yongle, so that the site has existed for the past
580 years.
Brucke Museum
Website: http://www.bruecke-museum.de/
Paintings and sculpture of the artists´ group Brücke (from the museum`s collection)
March 28 to May 3, 2009
Brücke Museum, Bussardsteig 9, 14195
Berlin-Zehlendorf. Tel: +49 0(30) 831-2029. Open: daily (except Tues),
11am-5pm.
New National Gallery
Website: http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=20&p=4
New National Gallery is located on Potsdamer Straße
50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten.
Accessible by public transport: U-Bahn U2 (Potsdamer
Platz); S-Bahn S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz); Bus M29 (Potsdamer Brücke); M41
(Varian-Frey-Straße); M48 (Kulturforum); 200, 347 (Philharmonie). Open Tuesdays
through Sundays. Admission
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Website: www.gropiusbau.de
Turks and Prussians – Turkish Art, the Reforms of the Ottoman
Empire and the German-Turkish Friendship
March 23 to June 14, 2009
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin is located at
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | Corner Stresemannstr. 110; tel: +49 (0)30 254
86-0. Open Wednesdays through
Mondays from 10 am to 8 pm.
Deutsche Guggenheim
Website: http://www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de/e/
Picturing America: Photorealism in the 70s
March 7 to May 10, 2009
By the end of the 1960s, a number of young artists working in the United States had begun making large-scale realist paintings directly from photographs. With often-meticulous detail, they portrayed the objects, places, and people that defined urban and suburban everyday life in America. In contrast to the Pop artists, they did not present their ubiquitous, often mundane, subject matter in a glamorized or ironic
Ralph Goings’ McDonald’s
Pickup 1970
manner. They sought instead to achieve a great degree of objectivity and precision in the execution of their work in an effort to stay more or less faithful to the mechanically generated images that served as their source material. This exhibition seeks to recognize Germany’s important role in the early history of Photorealism through the inclusion of a handful of paintings shown at Documenta 5 and a rich selection of works from the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, who by 1970 began sharing their Photorealist holdings with the public at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen. In the years immediately following Documenta 5, a number of galleries and museums in Germany organized exhibitions of the leading artists associated with Photorealism. Since that time, there has not been a major presentation in Germany. Nearly thirty years later, Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s seeks to recover this historically significant point of connection between this American art and Germany.
Deutsche Guggenheim is located on the ground floor of
the Deutsche Bank premises, a sandstone building constructed in 192, located at
Unter den Linden 13/1; tel: +49 - (0) 30 - 20 20 93-0. Open daily 11 am to 8
pm; till 10 pm on Thursdays during exhibitions. Closed between exhibitions.
Admission.
Jewish Museum
Website: www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
March 13 to July 19,, 2009
The National Socialist regime made the race issue the key theme of its health and demographic policy in 1933. By 1945, 400,000 people had undergone forced sterilization and in Germany and Austria alone, over 210,000 of the handicapped and mentally ill had been murdered. Numerous psychiatric patients died as a result of medical trials. The aim of these interventions and deaths was to create a healthy "Aryan" race in Germany, free of "human ballast." This overview exhibition includes regional examples from Berlin and Brandenburg. The life story of a "euthanasia" victim is presented in detail for the first time in an exhibition through documents, letters, and photos.
Jewish Museum Berlin is located at Lindenstraße 9-14,
10969 Berlin. Open: Monday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m. Admittance will be granted until 7 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays, 9 p.m. on
Mondays. Admission
Transportation: U1, U6 Hallesches Tor; U6 Kochstraße
or Bus M29, M41, 26.5
The Kennedys (Museum)
Website: http://www.thekennedys.de/english/begruessung/gruss1.html
The
Kennedys: Private collection of belonging to the Kennedys
Ongoing exhibition
The Kennedys museum, honoring the life and political career of President John F. Kennedy, displays a private collection of artifacts that include more than 1,000 photographs, historical documents, books and films. A major focus is JFK's visit to Berlin in June 1963, scene of his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech. For information, e-mail info@thekennedys.de.
Located on Pariser Platz 4A, the museum is close to
the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag, Accessible by S-Bahn subway Unter den
Linden. Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm. Admission
Guggenheim Bilbao
Website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.en
Murakami
February 17 to May 31, 2009
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Takashi Murakami is one of the most influential artists to come out of Japan in recent decades. © Murakami is the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work to date. It features more than 90 artworks in various media including painting, sculpture, installation, and film that track the ongoing evolution of Murakami's anime alter ego DOB, otaku-inspired figure projects of the late ‘90s, and an archive of licensed Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. merchandise that span Murakami's entire career.
The Guggenheim
Bilbao is located at Abandoibarra Et. 2. Accessible by public transportation.
Open Tuesdays to Fridays 10 am to 8 pm. Admission. Information: informacion@guggenheim-bilbao.es.
Institute of
Contemporary Arts
Website: www.icaboston.org
Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand
February 6 to August 16, 2009
Fairey is one of today’s best known and most influential street artists. This exhibition will include stenciled stickers from early guerilla art campaigns, screenprints, works on wood and metal, and some of his most recent work.
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is located at 100 Northern Avenue on South Boston’s waterfront. Tel: 617-478-3100. Open Tuesdays to Sundays 10 am to 5 pm; till 9 pm Thursdays and Fridays. Admission.
Isabel Gardner Museum
Website: http://www.gardnermuseum.org
Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia
February 21 to May 31, 2009
In 1883, Isabella and Jack Gardner began a year exploring Asia, visiting Japan, China, India, and venturing to such exotic locales as the temples of Angkor Wat and the Buddhist monument of Borobudur. Along the way, the Gardners recorded their reactions to these marvels in diaries and letters home. And Isabella meticulously assembled photographs and souvenirs into albums chronicling their Asian odyssey.
Journeys East explores the complex interaction of travel, collecting, and museum-formation. The exhibition also attempts to understand Isabella Gardner’s Chinese Room, a personal space filled with Chinese Buddhist sculptures and temple fittings. On display will be Gardner’s travel albums and Asian objects, from Japanese screens to India jewelry to a monumental bronze Buddha.
The Isabel Gardner
Museum is located at 280 The Fenway. Tel: 617 566 1401. Open Tuesdays to
Sundays 11 am to 5 pm. Admission.
Museum of Fine Arts
Website: www.mfa.org
Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s
February 11 to November 9, 2009
The Museum recently acquired seventeen Japanese paintings largely produced and exhibited in Tokyo in the 1930s—the early Shōwa era—an overlooked period in the history of the arts in Japan. In many cases the subject matter, as well as the size, gave these paintings a commanding presence: large, elegant images of skiers, of stylish tea-house attendants in an art deco tea room, of young women in the latest Parisian fashion standing on the prow of a sailboat, and of a traditional Japanese woman standing in front of a decorated Christmas tree. Painted for Japanese audiences, and exhibited at the leading Tokyo annual exhibitions, these paintings expressed a worldview held by large numbers of Japanese during the 1930s. They saw themselves as sophisticated citizens of the world: Their country created a national park system to rival that of the United States, their country sent successful teams to both the winter and summer Olympics (and, in fact, was awarded the right to host the 1940 games by the International Olympic Committee), and they celebrated Christmas exactly as all Western countries did (although in Japan it did not have any religious significance).
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
March 15, 2009 - August 16, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese together created a body of work that defined a “Venetian style” through loose technique, rich coloring, and often pastoral or sensual subject matter. These elements inspired countless later artists, promoting a Venetian current in painting up to the twentieth century. The exhibition includes approximately sixty paintings from the most important museums in Europe and the United States, as well as pictures that have remained over the years in the settings for which they were painted—churches in Venice.
The Fine Arts Museum
is located at 465 Huntington Avenue and easily accessible by the Green Line
"E" train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop, or the Orange Line train
to the Ruggles stop or by the 39 bus to the "Museum of Fine Arts"
stop, or the 8, 47, or CT2 buses to the Ruggles stop. Open daily.
John F Kennedy Presidential
Library & Museum
Website: http://www.jfklibrary.org
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
and Museum is located at Columbia Point, close to Interstate 93. Accessed by
public transportation. Take the MBTA Rapid Transit, Red Line (any red line
train) to JFK/UMASS Station. There is a free shuttle bus to the Library every
20 minutes beginning at 8:00 a.m. and running until Museum closing. Take the
buses marked JFK. Tel: 1.866.JFK.1960 or 1.617.514.1600. Open 7 days per week,
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the exception of New Year’s, Thanksgiving and
Christmas Day. The Research Room is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. by appointment
only and is closed on weekends and federal holidays. To speak to our research
room staff, please call 617.514.1629. Admission: Adults $10, Seniors and
Students (with valid college ID) $8.00, Ages 13-17 $7.00, Children 12 and under
are free. Group visits of 12 or more are eligible for a group visit discount
with advance reservations.
Boston Symphony
Website: www.bso.org
Information on the 2008/09 season’s offerings and tickets at http://www.bso.org.
The Boston Symphony performs at Symphony Hall located
at Symphony Hall
301
Massachusetts Avenue Boston. Accessible by subway. Tel: 617-266-1492
Information on the BSO’s summer season at
Tanglewood: www.tanglewood.org
Centre des Beaux-Arts
Website: http://www.bozar.be
From Van Dyck To Bellotto: Splendor at the Court of Savoy
To May 24, 2009
This extraordinary project, which highlights the interest in the Flemish
masters shown by the family that gave Italy its first king, displays works by
Jan "Velvet" Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens, and Anthony Van Dyck,
alongside those of Italian masters from the 15th to the 18th century. The
latter include Bernardo Bellotto, heir to the photographic vision of his
master, Canaletto, and painter of a splendid View of Turn from the Royal Park.
Check the website for other
musical, theatrical and film presentations
Centre des Beaux-Arts, Rue Ravensteinstraat
23, 1000 Brussels. Open: Tue-Sun 10am-6pm (till 9pm on Thu). Tel: +32 (0)2 507
82 00.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Website: http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/
Royal Museums of Fine Arts consists of four museums—Museum of
Ancient Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, both located at Rue de la Régence 3.
The Antoine Wiertz Museum is located at Rue Vautier 62 and the Constantin Meunier Museum at
Rue de l'Abbaye 59. More museum information at http://www.kmskb.be/site/en/frames/F_infomus.html
Rene Magritte Museum
Website: www.musee-magritte-museum.be
The new Rene Magritte Museum opens June 2, 2009 in Brussels. Located on the Place Royale, the museum will hold 200 works, the largest collection of Magritte paintings, plus archival material, letters written by the painter, photographs and drawings.
Rene Magritte
Museum is located at Place Royale, 1. Tel: +32 2 508.31.11 Open Tuesdays to
Sundays, 9:30 am 5 pm, until 8 pm on Wednesdays
Centro Cultural Borges
Website: http://www.ccborges.org.ar
Presentations include visual arts exhibitions and musical presentations.
The Borges Cultural Center is located
inside Galerías Pacífico, entrance at the corner of Viamonte and San Martín,
Centre. Tel: +54 (0) 11 5555-5359. Open: Mon-Sat 10am-9pm; Sun noon-9pm.
Art Institute of
Chicago
Website: http://www.artic.edu/aic
Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007
May 16to September 13, 2009
The 32 works in this exhibition speak to the artist's abiding concern with the natural world—specifically landscape and seascape. Included here are works in a full range of media made between 2000 and 2007, including an untitled series of seven acrylics with wax, pencil, and collage on paper executed in a floral motif (2001); six sculptures in wood and plaster as well as in bronze; seven dry print photographs examining in detail one of the sculptures; a selection of paintings from A Gathering of Time (2003) and the Untitled (Winter Pictures) (2004); three monumental canvases from the series Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things (2007); and, for the first time in the United States, the three large multipanel paintings that comprise III Notes from Salalah (2005–2007).
The museum is located
at 111 South Michigan Avenue, at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Adams
Street, on the eastern edge of Chicago’s famous downtown Loop. Open weekdays at
10:30 am and at 10 am on Saturdays and Sundays until 5 pm.
The Field Museum
Website: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
The Ancient Americas
Ongoing
The Ancient Americas takes you on a journey through 13,000 years of cultural evolution in the western hemisphere, where hundreds of diverse societies thrived long before the arrival of Europeans. In this 19,000-square-foot exhibition, visitors will relive the epic story of the people of these continents, from the Arctic to the tip of South America. This exhibition allows you to step into the windswept world of Ice-Age mammoth hunters, walk through a replica of an 800-year-old pueblo dwelling, explore the Aztec empire and examine more than 2,200 fascinating artifacts.
The Field Museum is
located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive.
Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art
Website: http://www.louisiana.dk/
Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution
February 6 to June 1, 2009
Louisiana Museum Louisiana is situated 35 kilometers
(22 miles) km north of Copenhagen along the motorway E47 / E55, or the coast
road Strandvejen along the Sound. By train (ask for Kystbanen) 36 minutes from
Copenhagen and a 10-minute walk from Humlebæk/Louisiana Station.
It houses a collection of modern art by international
artists such as Arp, Francis Bacon, Calder, Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Sam Francis,
Giacometti, Kiefer, Henry Moore, Picasso, Rauschenberg and Warhol. Open daily.
Admission
National Museum of
Denmark
Website: http://www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw20379.asp
Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history presents the history of the Danes
The National Museum (The Prince's Palace) is located
at Ny Vestergade 10; Tel.: (+45) 33 13 44 11. Open Tuesdays to Sundays 10 am to
5 pm. Free admission.
National Gallery of
Art
Website: http://www.smk.dk/sk.nsf
Wilhelm Freddie: Stick the Fork
Into Your Eye!
February 28 to June
1, 2009
The exhibition marks
the centenary of the birth of the artist. With some 130 works, it is the first
of its kind to show all sides of Freddie’s life work: paintings, collages and
sculptures. It also includes lesser known aspects of the production of this
controversial and wide-ranging Danish artist, such as his films, ballets, haute
couture, window dressing, happenings, as well as reproductions of lost works.
The National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst ) is
located at Sølvgade 48. Accessible via S-train and Metro Station Nørreport.
Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm; Wednesdays until 8 pm. Free
admission except for special exhibitions.
Royal Danish
Orchestra
Website: http://www.kglteater.dk
Copenhagen Opera
House
Website: www.operaen.dk
Royal Danish Ballet
Website: http://www.kglteater.dk/Forestillinger/Ballet.aspx
Det Kongliege Teater (Royal Danish Theater) is located
at Kongens Nytorv in the center of Copenhagen since 1748. Tickets can be
purchased online.
Royal Palace
Websites: www.dresden-tourist.de or www.skd-dresden.de
The Historic Green Vault
Ongoing
Copyright: SKD; Photo: Jürgen Karpinski
Created by August the Strong (1670 - 1733), the historic Green Vault was restored its ten rooms to its original splendor in the Residence Castle. Nearly 3,000 masterpieces crafted by jewelers and goldsmiths, precious objects made of amber and ivory, vessels made of precious stones, exquisite bronze statuettes and objects made of exotic materials like coral and shells from the South Seas are displayed.
The Residence Castle is the venue for the Green Vault, located at Taschenberg 2. Tickets are required and one can call +49(0)351-49192120 or email http://www.dresden.de/dwt/en/experience_dresden/offers_for_your_dresden_trip/exclusive_offer_treasury.php.
Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Website: http://www.skd-dresden.de/en/ausstellungen/aktuell/gg_khm_wien.html
For information on getting to the museum and hours
open, email Besucherservice@skd-dresden.de.
Palazzo Strozzi
Website: http://www.palazzostrozzi.org
Galileo. Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the telescope
March 13 to August 30, 2009
The exhibition reconstructs the history of the Cosmos, as designed and shown extending the Scientific Revolution, in the context of social and cultural events that have characterized the Mediterranean and European civilization. An exciting journey that starts with the visions and mystical poetry prior to the Greeks, it enriches the complex architecture of Ptolemy, passing through the vital contribution of astronomy and Arab lands to the revolutionary theory of Copernicus shot from Galileo and Kepler, which contributed significantly the affirmation of the final new concept of the universe.
Palazzo Strozzi is
located at Piazza Strozzi, 1 - Florence Phone: 011 39 055 2645155
Open daily from 9 am to 8 pm; Thursday
from 9 am to 11 pm. Admission allowed until one hour before closing time.
Uffizi Gallery
One of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world, its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time, including works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are also well represented with important works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens. The Uffizi Gallery occupies the top floor of the large building erected by Giorgio Vasari between 1560 and 1580 to house the administrative offices of the Tuscan State. All the artwork are divided into rooms in chronological order.
The Uffizi is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 8:15
am to 6: 50 pm. Admission. Tickets may be purchased in advance online to avoid
the long queues awaiting entry.
Kimbell Art Museum
Website: www.kimbellart.org
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
March 15 to June 14, 2009
Key moments in the lives of Italian men and women in the
Renaissance were marked by celebrations of the highest possible degree of
magnificence, and none more lavishly than betrothal, marriage, or the birth of
a child. The exhibition will offer a unique look at approximately 150 paintings
and art objects, dating from 1400 to 1600 that were created to celebrate love
and marriage. It will include marriage portraits and paintings that extol
sensual love and fertility, exquisite examples of jewelry and majolica
(tin-glazed
ceramic) given as gifts to couples, and some
of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone
panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous subjects.
Kimbell Art Museum is located at 3333 Camp Bowie
Boulevard; tel: 817-332-8451
Open Tuesdays to Thursdays at varying times. Free admission
except for special exhibits.
Hong Kong Science
Museum
Hong Kong Science Museum is located at 2 Science
Museum Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon. Tel: +852 2732 3232. Open daily
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1 pm to 9 pm; Saturdays, Sundays
and Public Holidays from 10 am to 9 pm. Admission.
Berardo Collection
Museum
Website: http://www.museuberardo.com
The new Berardo Collection Museum is now open at the Exhibition Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon. Dedicated to modern and contemporary art, the museum displays 862 works in a rotation representing the art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries that compose the Coleccão Berardo Collection. with the greatest names of the national and international art scene from of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Tate Museum/Liverpool
Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
Glenn Brown
February 20 to May 10, 2009
ARTIST ROOMS: Sol LeWitt
May 12 to September 13, 2009
Tate Museum/Liverpool is located at Albert Dock. Open
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 5:30 pm. In June, July and August the museum is
open on Monday as well. Free admission.
British Museum
Website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/
Shah’Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
To June 14, 2009
An Intimate Portrait: Drawings,
Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
To May 31, 2009
This exhibition explores a fascinating but
relatively unknown type of portraiture that flourished in Georgian and Regency
Britain between the 1730s and 1830s. It features intimate portraits by Thomas
Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Downman, Richard Cosway, David Wilkie and
many others, all drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of
Scotland and the British Museum, many never exhibited before.
The main entrance for the British Museum
is located on Great Russell Street, WC1. Galleries open daily from 10 am to
5:30 pm, sometimes later on Thursdays and Fridays. Free admission except for
select exhibitions. Accessible by public transportation.
Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
Website: www.courtauld.ac.uk
Love And Marriage In Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests
February 12 to May 17, 2009
This exhibition explores one of the most important and historically
neglected art forms of Renaissance Florence: pairs of great chests, lavishly
decorated with precious metals and elaborate paintings. These items – now
generally called cassoni – were
often the most expensive of a whole suite of decorative objects commissioned to
celebrate marriage alliances between powerful families. The painted panels set
into them told tales and history from ancient Greece, Rome and Palestine, as
well as from Florentine literature and more recent history. These beautifully
told and highly crafted pictorial narratives were intended to entertain as well
as to instruct the husband and wife, their servants, children and visitors.
The exhibition is focused around two of The Courtauld’s great
treasures: the pair of chests
ordered in 1472 by the Florentine Lorenzo Morelli to celebrate his marriage
with Vaggia Nerli. These are the
only pair of cassoni to be still displayed with their painted backboards (spalliere).
The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery is located in Somerset House,
Strand, London WC2R 0RN, tel. 020 7848 2526. Free admission on Mondays.
Imperial War Museum
Website: http://www.iwm.org.uk
The main museum is located on Lambeth Road. Near the Thames Path (http://www.thamespathlondon.co.uk ). Open daily (except 24, 25 and 26 December) 10.00am - 6.00pm. Entrance fee is
£7 for adults and £5 for concessions.
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
Website: http://cwr.iwm.org.uk/
The Churchill Museum, the world’s first major museum dedicated to life of Winston Churchill, is a permanent exhibition housed within the unique setting of the historic Cabinet War Rooms.
Shortly after becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill visited the Cabinet War Rooms to see for himself what preparations had been made to allow him and his War Cabinet to continue working throughout the expected air raids on London. It was there, in the underground Cabinet Room, he announced “This is the room from which I will direct the war.”
A branch of the Imperial War Museum, the
Churchill Museum is located at Clive Steps, King Charles Street in London’s
Southwest End. Open daily 9:30 am to 6 pm. Admission tickets will admit
visitors to both the Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum.
National Gallery of Art
Website: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Picasso: Challenging the Past
February 25 to June 7, 2009
Displaying some 60 works by the artist, this exhibition invites
visitors to re-explore the National Gallery’s permanent collection in light of
Picasso’s fascination with the Old Masters. The exhibition is organized
thematically, showing how Picasso repeatedly returned to the great subjects of
the European painting tradition, analyzing them as his personal style developed
in myriad directions. Sections include self-portraits, the Spanish tradition of
male portraiture, the female nude, still life, and the seated female figure.
The National Gallery is located at Trafalgar Square, London WC2. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7747 2885. Open: daily 10am-6pm (until 9pm Wed and Sat). Entry: £12. Tube: Charing Cross, Leicester Square.
National Maritime Museum
Website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and
Water Between
January 22 to April 21, 2009
A project by the artist Renée Green, commissioned by the National Maritime Museum, the exhibit brings poetics to the ways that islands shape our understanding of our place in the world by taking us on a journey through the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
International Year of Astronomy
2009
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is a year-long celebration of astronomy and its contribution to society and culture endorsed by UNESCO. The year ties in with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations made using a telescope by Galileo Galilei. Throughout 2009, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, presents a monthly program of astronomy and science-related events, exhibitions and activities including a new exhibition Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
March focuses on exploring the planet Mars; in April, the ROG launches Spring Moonwatch – stargazing sessions through the Observatory’s 28-inch telescope – and events exploring the historical importance of the Royal Observatory. June sees scientists from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft – currently in orbit around Saturn – at the Royal Observatory to talk about the latest discoveries from the ringed planet. Other themes and events throughout the year include a look at the science behind science fiction in books, films and popular TV shows and an exploration of the contemporary debate and the science behind climate change.
The national
Maritime Museum is located in Greenwich, England, about 20 minutes by train from
London, slightly longer by the Thames River boats (www.tfl.gov.uk/river). Open daily from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission free
except for some special exhibitions.
Royal Academy of Arts
Website: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
Kuniyoshi
March 27 to June 7, 2009
An exhibition on one of the greatest Japanese print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), features more than 150 works that present Kuniyoshi as a master of imaginative design. It reveals the graphic power and beauty of his prints across an unprecedented range of subjects highlighting his ingenious use of the triptych format.
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1. Tel: +44 (0)20
7300 8000. Open: daily, 10am-6pm (until 10pm on Fridays). Entrance costs £10, £7 for
students, £3 for 12-18 year olds, £2 for 8-11 year olds and under 7s go free
Somerset House--Hermitage Rooms
Masterpieces from World Museums
at the Hermitage
Ongoing
The series of exhibitions, Masterpieces from World Museums at the Hermitage, presents Correggio’s renowned Danae from the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The exhibit was organized by the State Hermitage in cooperation with the Galleria Borghese and the Association of Museums in Rome with the help of Enel Company.
Website: www.hermitagerooms.com
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, tel. 020 7485 4630
Tate Modern
Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism
February 12 to May 17, 2009
The exhibit will explore the work of Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova between 1917 and 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde’s most influential and important artists, they were integral to the stylistic and theoretical underpinning of Russian Constructivism. With over 350 objects, this exhibition charts the evolution of their aesthetics from abstract painting to graphic design and will include their designs for cinema and theatre as well as numerous posters, books, and costumes.
Tate Modern is located on the south bank of the River
Thames at Bankside, near Blackfriars Bridge, opposite St Paul's Cathedral and
next to the Globe Theatre. email: visiting.modern@tate.org.uk.
Accessible by the underground, boat, train and bus—see instructions at
the museum website. Open Sunday
– Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm; Friday and Saturday, 10 am to 10 pm. Admission
Tate Britain
Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain
Van Dyck and Britain
To May17, 2009
The exhibit presents some of the most magnificent paintings by Belgian-born painter Sir Anthony van Dyck, startlingly portraying many of the leading characters of the Stuart period.
Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments
To April 30, 2012
Turner's experiments is a two-room display featuring works on paper by Turner, with a variety of experiments and interactive displays exploring his working methods and techniques. Learn more about printmaking and see the extraordinary care Turner took to produce the finest prints of his time. You can also experience the scientific experiments with color which formed a vital background to his work. See the changes in Turner’s watercolor palette as he traveled across Europe, responding to different light effects, and using newly-developed colors and paints. The works on display change every 6 months.
Tate Britain is located at Millbank in London’s
southwest end. Open daily, 10 am to 5:50 pm. More information at email: visiting.britain@tate.org.uk
The Hayward
Website: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions
Mark Wallinger’s The Russian Linesman
February 18 to May 4, 2009
2007 Turner prize-winner Mark Wallinger, one of Britain's most original and unpredictable artists, curates this unique exhibition exploring notions of the liminal: thresholds between physical, political or metaphysical realms. Artists include Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Albrecht Dürer, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone and Fred Sandback.
The Hayward is located at the Southbank Centre on the
Thames riverside between Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges, in Central
London. Open daily 10am - 6pm, late nights Friday until 10pm.
Victoria and Albert
Museum
Website: www.vam.ac.uk
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
February 24 to May 31, 2009
This exhibition is collaboration between the V&A and one of the fashion world’s most prolific milliners, Stephen Jones. The exhibition follows the life of a hat through the stages of inspiration, creation, the salon, and on, to the client who wears it.
Victoria and Albert Museum is located on Cromwell
Road, London SW7. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7942 2000. Open daily 10 am to 5:45 pm,
Fridays until 8 pm. Admission.
Getting there: London Underground: South Kensington; Buses: C1, 14, 74 and 414 stop
outside the Cromwell Road entrance.
Performing Arts in
London:
London Philharmonic
Website: http://www.lpo.co.uk
Royal Festival Hall is located at Southbank Centre (http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk)
on the Thames riverside between Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges, in Central
London. The Southbank Centre also includes the performance venues the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, and The Hayward. Accessible by buses on
Waterloo Bridge, in York Road, in Belvedere Road and in Stamford Street and the
underground—- Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo &
City lines); - Embankment (Circle and District lines). Check http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk for the events scheduled for 2007/08.
Royal Opera House
Website: http://info.royaloperahouse.org.uk /
Check the website for scheduled performances for the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet and other musical events. Tickets can be purchased online.
The ROH is located at Covent Garden. Main entrance is
on Bow Street between Russell and Floral streets. Accessible by the underground
Piccadilly Line to Covent Garden station.
Royal Albert Hall
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/
The 2009 Proms season takes place in midsummer. Check the website for information about the concerts.
Royal Albert Hall is located
at Kensington Gore, SW7. Tube: South Kensington.
Royal Festival Hall
Check the website for concerts and other musical events planned.
Caixaforum Madrid
Website: http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/caixaforummadrid_es.html
Maurice Vladink: un instinto
fauve. Paintings from 1900 to 1915
March 11 to June 7,
2009
Photo:
Nature morte au compotier, 1905
The CaixaForum Madrid, located at 36 Paseo del Prado.
Call: 011-34-91-330-73-00. Admission to exhibitions is free.
Museo del Prado
Website: www.museodelprado.es
Francis Bacon
February 3 to April 19, 2009)
The Prado Museum is located on Paseo del Prado, call:
011-34-91-330-28-00, fax: 011-34-91-330-28-56 or e-mail: museo.nacional@prado.mcu.es. Open .daily, except Mondays, from 9 am
to 8pm. Admission is about $8, or
6 euros, except Sundays (9 AM to 7 PM) when it is free. Visitors under 18, over
65 and students from EU countries are admitted free of charge. Students from
non-EU countries pay about $4 or 3 euros
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Museum
Website: www.museothyssen.org
The Shadow
February 10 to May 17, 2009
The aim of this exhibition is to offer a broad overview of the concepts, issues and solutions involved in the depiction of shadows in art from the Renaissance to the present day. The exhibition is organized into two closely related sections. Firstly, it presents a comprehensive survey of the work of artists and movements who have depicted and used the element of shadow in various ways from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. The second part, which will be shown in the exhibition
space of Fundación Caja Madrid, opens with a section on “lights and
Christian Schad’s Portrait of
Dr. Haustein
shadows in modern art” and analyses these elements were represented during the 20th century. This section pays special attention to the manner in which they were projected in Surrealist games and their important role in German Expressionism.
Matisse: 1917-1942
June 9 to September 20, 2009
The exhibition focuses on the work of Matisse
between 1917 and 1941. These two important dates mark the start and finish of
the central period within his career during which time Matisse developed his
most individual and distinctive style but which has been the subject of less
attention than the early and late phases of his activity. Marked by the shadow
of World War I and the menace of the impending conflict, this period was of
crucial importance for the dissemination and consolidation of modern art, a
process in which Matisse undoubtedly played a central role. This is the context
in which the exhibition will analyze the artist’s work with the intention of
showing how Matisse expanded the scope of his pictorial investigations at this
period, focusing on the relationship between line, color, volume and space and
opting for an aesthetic that aspired to the timeless without abandoning its
commitment to modernity.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is located at Paseo del
Prado, 8 and is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 AM to 7 PM and during
July and August the temporary exhibitions will remain open until 11 PM Tuesdays
to Saturdays. (Closed
Mondays.) Admission to the
temporary exhibition is about $5.14 and about $3.85 for students and seniors.
Combined tickets for the temporary and context exhibitions and permanent
collection range from $9 to $14.50 ($6.40 to $10.30 for students and
seniors).
Old College of San
Ildefonso
Website: www.sanildefonso.org.mx
Old College of San Ildefonso is located at Justo
Sierra 16, Centro. Tel: +52 (55) 5702-3254. Open: Tue-Sun
10am-5.30pm.Admission: 35 pesos.
Miami Art Museum
Website: www.miamiartmuseum.org
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
February 22 to May 24, 2009
For centuries, artists have wrestled with how to incorporate spirituality into their work. NeoHooOoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art--with a particular emphasis on sculpture and three-dimensional art. The term HooDoo, which originated in nineteenth-century America, refers to religion and ritual, while in contemporary art, NeoHooDoo is a spiritual practice outside of any definable faith or creed. Challenging conceptions of "insider" and "outsider" art, the artists in the exhibition frequently create work using everyday objects that resonate both within the confines of a gallery or museum and among their own local audiences.
Miami Art Museum is
located at 101 West Flagler Street. Open daily except Mondays from 10 am to
5pm; until 9 pm Thursdays. Admission
Castello Sforzesco
Website: http://www.milanocastello.it
IndoAmerica
December 30 to September 29, 2009
Castello Sforzesco is
located at Piazza Castello, 3. Open: Tues-Sun, 9am-1pm, 2pm-5.30pm.
International Center
For Photography
Website: http://www.formafoto.it
This Is War! Robert Capa at Work
March 28 to June 21, 2009
This monumental exhibition of almost 300 images celebrates Robert Capa and his unique career as a photojournalist. A collection of vintage images, contact sheets, documents, personal letters are on display. A second exhibition devoted to the photographer Gerda Taro. Known principally as Capa’s companion is also being held. Gerda Taro was a pioneering photographer, who spent her short but intense career documenting the impassioned fronts of the Spanish Civil War. Nevertheless, until now, her photographs have rarely been seen and are much undervalued.
International Centre for Photography is located at
Piazza Tito Lucrezio Caro 1. Tel: +39 (0)2 5811 8067. Open: Tues-Sun 11am-9pm
(Thurs until 11pm). Admission: €6.50.
Walker Art Center
Website: www.walkerart.org
The Quick and the Dead
April 24 to September 27, 2009
The Quick and the Dead seeks, in part, to ask what is alive and dead within the legacy of conceptual art. Though the term “conceptual” has been applied to myriad kinds of art, it originally covered works and practices from the 1960s and ‘70s that emphasized the ideas behind or around a work of art, foregrounding language, action, and context rather than visual form. But this basic definition fails to convey the ambitions of many artists who have been variously described as conceptual: as Sol LeWitt asserted in 1969, conceptual artists are “mystics rather than rationalists.” Although some of their work involves unremarkable materials or even borders on the invisible, these artists explore new ways of thinking about time and space, often aspiring to realms and effects that fall far outside of our perceptual limitations. The exhibition brings together more than 90 works, juxtaposing a core group from the 1960s and ‘70s with more recent examples that might only loosely qualify as conceptual. Included in the show are new works made specifically for the exhibition and a number that have not been previously shown or realized.
The Walker Art Center is located is located in
Minneapolis at 1750 Hennepin Avenue, where Lyndale and Hennepin avenues merge.
Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm; Thursday and
Friday, 11 am to 9 pm. Admission
Museum of Fine Arts
(Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion)
Website: http://www.mbam.qc.ca
Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American & Canadian Landscapes
June 18 to September 27, 2009
Expanding Horizons will explore landscape painting and photography in Canada and the United States from the American Civil War and Canadian confederation to the close of World War I. Encompassing renowned artistic figures like Church, Thomson or O’Keeffe, this exhibition of close to 200 works from major public and private collections around the world will examine national and regional identities and the roles of landscape.
The Museum is located
at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West. Open Tuesdays through Sundays. Admission.
Musée d'art
contemporain de Montréal
Website: www.macm.org
Christine Davis, Adad Hannah, Franz West
February 28 to August 16, 2009
Now comprising almost 7,500 works executed mainly between 1939 and today, the Musée Collection offers a relevant panorama of the main trends in contemporary art. Although it is strongest in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs, it also holds a significant number of works of installation art, exemplary pieces by artists whose individual practices combine the personal and the universal.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is at 185
Sainte-Catherine Street West. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: (Can)$8; group rate available. Free admission for all every Wednesday
evening, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Open holiday Mondays. Information: (514) 847-6226 (Telephone) or info@macm.org
Biodôme de Montreal
(Botanical Garden)
Website: www.museumsnature.ca
The Montréal Biodome complex also includes the
Botanical Gardens, the Insectarium, and the Planetarium. Check the website for
exhibitions and events. It is located at 4101 Sherbrooke Street East. Open:
Tuesday to Sunday. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on December 24 and 25.
Information: (514) 872-1400
(Telephone)
Montreal
Performing Arts
Les Grands Ballets
Canadiens de Montréal
Website: www.grandsballets.com
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts at 175
Sainte-Catherine Street West.
Tickets: (CAN) $29 to $95; Group Rate available;
telephone: (514) 842-2112 / 1 866 842-2112 (Toll Free)
Montreal Symphony
Orchestra
Websites: http://www.osm.ca or http://www.osm.ca/index_en.cfm
The OSM is located at Place des Armes. Tickets are on
sale at: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca
Pushkin Museum/Gallery
of European & American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries
Website: http://www.museum.ru/gmii/defengl.htm
Japanese Woodblock Prints
The museum is presenting the Japanese Woodblock Prints on the occasion of the of the two-volume catalogue publication, embodying about 1500 prints of the XVIII – XIX centuries from the Pushkin Museum collection.
European & American Art of 19th & 20th Centuries
Ongoing
In the Pushkin Museum complex, the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th - 20th centuries covers main currents of the period from Romanticism & Barbizon School through Impressionists, Post-impressionist and Avant-Garde painters to the trends of the second half of the last century.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts consists of six
buildings. Four are located on Volkhonka Street and two more in other parts of
the city. The Museum Complex at Volkhonka includes Main Building,
Gallery, Museum of Private Collections & Educational Center
"Museion".
Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 7 pm. Admission.
American Museum of
Natural History
Website: www.amnh.org
Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time
May 16 to January 3, 2010
Extreme Mammals explores the surprising and
sometimes bizarre world of extinct and living mammals. Featuring spectacular
fossils from the Museum's collections, the exhibition will examine the ancestry
and evolution of numerous species, ranging from huge to tiny and speedy to
sloth-like, and will showcase animals with oversized claws, fangs, snouts, and
horns. The exhibit will also explore how some lineages died out
South America’s Spectacle
Bear
while others diversified to form the groups of well-known mammals living today.
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
May 30 to January 3, 2010
This delightful exhibition returns and
introduces visitors to the colorful and richly diverse world of frogs. A
pioneer in modern frog research, the American Museum of Natural History has one
of the largest frog collections in the world. AMNH expeditions to remote
mountaintops, as well as surveys of local wetlands, continue to uncover new populations
and species—but also reveal environmental changes that threaten frogs'
Blue
Dart Poison Frog
existence. Many efforts are underway to reverse this downward trend globally and in our own backyards. As just one example, all of the live frogs displayed in this exhibition have been captive-bred, to protect their populations in the wild.
Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future
October 18, 2009 to August 16, 2009
This comprehensive exhibition addresses one of the most complex and urgent scientific issues of the 21st century: global change. The show explains the science of change to visitors and explores the implications of unchecked climate change for future generations.
Hall of Human Origins
Permanent
See the remarkable history of human evolution, from earth’s earliest ancestors to modern man. The new exhibit combines the most up to date discoveries in the fossil record with the latest in genomic science to explore the most profound mysteries of humankind—who we are, where we came from, and what is in store for the future of man. The new 10,000 square foot Spitzer Hall of Human Origins offers the most comprehensive evidence of hum an evolution ever assembled with over 200 casts of the rarest hominid fossils and artifacts documenting how modern humans evolved over millions of years from earlier species and showing how new DNA evidence reveals how closely related we are to each other and to our primate ancestors. There is an educational center within the Spitzer Hall where hands-on experiments are conducted.
The American Museum of
Natural History is located at Central Park West and between West 77 and 79
Streets. Open daily, 10:00 am to 5:45 pm. Admission.
Asia Society
Website: www.asiasociety.org
Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Postwar America
February 10 to August 9, 2009
Asian Journeys considers husband-and-wife collectors John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906-1978) and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992) in the context of Asian art collecting in postwar America. Exceptional pieces from East, South, and Southeast Asia will be presented within the context of their travels, their personal relationships, and the political status of Asian countries, especially Japan, after World War II.
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals In a Bamboo Forest
March 3 to September 13, 2009
This exhibition is the first US museum presentation of the complete five-part cinematic masterpiece by Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong (born 1971, Beijing). The work references the legendary Seven Sages, a third-century CE group of Chinese intellectuals popularized in traditional East Asian art for centuries Shown sequentially on five screens, Yang's film depicts the new experience of modernity in China while also portraying universal scenes of isolation and alienation.
Asia Society and
Museum is located at 725 Park Avenue at 68th Street. Open Tuesday - Sunday,
11:00 am - 6:00 pm, with extended evening hours Fridays until 9:00 pm. Closed
on Mondays and major holidays. Admission.
Brooklyn Museum of
Art
Website: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
March 27 to July 5, 2009
The first major showing of the artist’s oeuvre
in New York in over thirty years, Caillebotte painted scenes of outdoor life
away from the city on the coast of Normandy and in the villages of Yerres and
Petit Gennevilliers, where he and his family maintained estates. The
approximately forty paintings included in this focused thematic exhibition
reveal Caillebotte’s extraordinary passion for subjects in which water plays a
central role—as an enigmatic, magical element reflecting its
surroundings, as an essential atmospheric ingredient, and as a scene for
sporting activities.
Unearthing the Truth: Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture
To May 10, 2009
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
June 5 to September 6, 2009
This installation features approximately twenty-five objects from the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections related to a mystical branch of Islam known as Sufism. While differing Muslim sects and diverse nationalities of the Islamic world may not always share a single religious or cultural ideology, the mystical and romantic aspects of Sufism tend to appeal to a global audience.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is located on Eastern
Parkway at Washington Street in the borough of Brooklyn. Accessible by public
transportation. Open Thursdays to Sundays 11 am to 6 pm; Wednesdays 10 am to
6pm. Admission.
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum
Website: www.cooperhewitt.org
Fashioning Felt
March 6 to September 7, 2009
This exhibition will explore the varied new uses of felt—an ancient material, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles. Made by matting together wool fibers with humidity and friction, felting requires little technological expertise and is an extremely versatile material. The exhibition will begin with historic examples of felts, showcase innovations in handmade felts, and feature contemporary uses of industrial felt in a range of fields, including product design, fashion, architecture, and home furnishings.
Cooper-Hewitt is located at 2 East 91 Street. Open
Mondays to Thursdays 10 am to 5 pm; Fridays to 9 pm, Saturdays and Sundays to 6
pm. Admission.
Frick Museum
Website: www.frick.org
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum
February 10 to May 10, 2009
The Frick Collection is pleased to present a
selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed
Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. The five featured paintings are
Jacopo Bassano’s (Jacopo da Ponte, 1510–1592) Flight into Egypt, c.
1544–45; Peter Paul Rubens’ (1577–1640)
Francisco de Zurbarán,
1598-1664, Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, oil on canvas,
62.2 x 109.5 cm, The Norton Simon Foundation
Holy Women at the Sepulchre, c. 1611–14; Guercino’s (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591–1666) Aldrovandi Dog, c. 1625; Francisco de Zurbarán’s (1598–1664) Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633; and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s (1617–1682) Birth of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1655. None of these artists is represented in the Frick’s collection, and the outstanding quality of each of these Old Master paintings makes them well suited to be viewed in the company of the Frick’s works.
The Frick is located at 1 East 70 Street. Open Tuesday
to Sunday. Admission.
Guggenheim Museum of
Art
Website: www.guggenheim.org
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
May 15 to August 23, 2009
Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with an exhibition of the architect’s designs.
Vasily Kandinsky: Beginnings
Ongoing
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has the largest collection of works by Vasily Kandinsky in the United States and is one of the three largest collections in the world. His Composition 8 (1923) was among the first paintings purchased for the museum by Solomon R. Guggenheim, and his treatises regarding non-objective painting created the premise upon which the Guggenheim Museum, formerly the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, was founded.
The Guggenheim is
located at1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th St., 212-423-3500.
Japan Society
Website: www.japansociety.org
KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games
March 13 to June 14, 2009
New York’s first major show is dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games—three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire generation of American youth. The exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be presented in an environment designed by cutting-edge architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, featuring life-size blowups of popular figures from the worlds of anime and manga within an intriguing sequence of spaces that evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape. Co-curated by leading North American and Japanese specialists, KRAZY! will give visitors a direct experience of new forms of cultural production and offers fresh insight into the interdependence of three art forms of the future.
Japan Society is located at 333 East 47 Street between
Second and First Avenues. Tel: (212) 832-1155. Gallery hours (during exhibition
dates) are Tuesday through Thursday, 11 am - 6 pm; Friday, 11 am to 9 pm;
Saturday and Sundays from 11 am to 5 pm.
The Jewish Museum
Website: www.jewishmuseum.org/
The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River—by Péter
Forgács and The Labyrinth Project
March 15 to August 02, 2009
An immersive installation about the displacement of ethnic minorities and the possible connections between them, the exhibition interweaves three historical stories. One narrative tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, trying to reach a ship on the Black Sea that will carry them to Palestine. The second story, set in 1940 following the Soviet re-annexation of Bessarabia, tells of émigré German farmers abandoning their adopted homeland to return to the "safety" of the Third Reich, but eventually being relocated in occupied Poland. Both groups were transported along the Danube River by Captain Nándor Andrásovits, an amateur filmmaker who documented these voyages; he and the river are the subjects of the third story.
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in
Poland Before the Holocaust
May 10 to October 01, 2009
May 10 - October 01, 2009
The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue and 92
Street. Open Saturday - Wednesday 11:00 am - 5:45 pm; Thursday 11:00 am - 8:00
pm’ closed Fridays. Admission
Metropolitan Museum
Of Art
Website: www.metmuseum.org
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
February 24 to May 24, 2009
Beginning in the sixteenth-century, a
tradition of bronze sculpture developed in France that was influenced by
achievements of the Italian Renaissance while manifesting its own distinct
refinement and force. Even though French bronzes were among the glories of
royal châteaux, including Versailles, and were always collected eagerly by
connoisseurs, they have received relatively little scrutiny from scholars. This
exhibition, the first to address the subject in many decades, displays
approximately 120 of the finest statuettes, portrait busts, and monuments by
masters such as Germain Pilon, Barthélemy Prieur, Michel Anguier, François
Girardon, Antoine Coysevox, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, and Jean-Antoine Houdon.
Seen together, they reveal the French genius for bronze from the late
Renaissance through the times of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI.
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
April 21 to August 2, 2009
This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation,” a tightly knit group of New York artists who created some of the most important and influential works of the late-twentieth-century. Born into the media culture of postwar America, their overarching subject was how pictures of all kinds not only depict but also shape reality. Highly seductive photographs by Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman reveal the ways in which images from B movies and magazine advertisements determine much of our sense of who we are. Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine examine how the myths and legends of modern art are inextricably tied to the institutions of the museum and art history. Also included are photographs by Laurie Simmons, James Casebere, James Welling, and Allan McCollum, as well as works in other media by Robert Longo, Troy Brauntuch, David Salle, among others.
The Metropolitan
Museum is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at East 82 Street. Museum is open daily
except Mondays from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm; Fridays and Saturdays it remains open
to 9 pm. Parking facilities available.
The Cloisters at Fort
Tryon Park (An extension of the Met Museum)
Website: http://www.metmuseum.org/cloisters/events
The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century. The building and its cloistered gardens located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters’ quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800 with particular emphasis on the twelfth through fifteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.
Recorded Information: 212-923-3700. Open Tuesday–Sunday 9:30
a.m.–4:45 p.m. (November–February) or 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m.
(March–October) To get to the Cloisters, take the M4 public bus a block
east from the Met Museum at Madison Avenue and 93rd Street, or anywhere along
Madison Avenue to the bus’s last stop (Fort Tryon Park–The Cloisters).Or
take the Independent subway line’s A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along
Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or take the northbound M4
bus for one stop.
The Morgan Library
Website: www.themorgan.org
The Thaw Collection of Master
Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002
January 23 through May 31, 2009
Recently acquired drawings from the spectacular private holdings of collector Eugene V. Thaw are the subject of a new exhibition. The show features more than eighty works that have been added to the Thaw collection since 2002, many of them important modern drawings by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jim Dine, and David Smith, among others.
Studying Nature: Oil Sketches
from the Thaw Collection
January 23 to May 31, 2009
Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw
Collection presents more than twenty works drawn from the collection of Eugene
V. and Clare Thaw, which chronicles the history of the genre in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
Jean-Michel
Cels’ Clouds Study, ca. 1838–42
The Morgan Library is located on 225 Madison Avenue at
East 36th Street. Open Tuesdays through Thursdays 10:30 am to 5 pm;
Friday to 9 pm; Saturdays and Sundays to 6 pm. Admission.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Website: www.moma.org
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari
and Mira Schendel
April 5 to June 15, 2009
León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly aspect of human existence through the eloquence of naming and writing. They produced their works in the neighboring countries of Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960s and 1980s, when the question of language was particularly central to Western culture due to the central role taken by post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. Although their drawings, sculptures, and paintings are contemporary with the birth of Conceptualism, they are distinctively different, and have not yet been exhibited in their entirety in the US.
Focus: Sol LeWitt
December 5, to June 29, 2009
Over the course of his prolific, influential career, Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) produced more than 1,200 wall drawings. This installation, which fills a single large gallery, features one of LeWitt's celebrated examples from the Museum's collection, Wall Drawing #260 (1975).
Performance
1: Tehching Hsieh
January 21 to May
18, 2009
This is the
inaugural installation in an ongoing series that will bring performance
documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic
performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be
spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five
One Year Performances: between 1978 and 1986, the artist spent one year locked
inside a cage, one year punching a time clock every hour, one year completely
outdoors, one year tied to another person, and, lastly, one year without
making, viewing, discussing, reading about, or in any other way participating
in art. Hsieh's final performance piece, Thirteen Year Plan, was completed in
1999 after a process lasting thirteen years. This exhibition focuses on the
artist's earliest performance, commonly called his Cage Piece (1978–79),
with 365 photographs meticulously documenting the daily passing of time.
MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street between Fifth
and Sixth Avenues. Open Wednesdays to Mondays 10:30 am to 5: 30 pm; Fridays to
8 pm. Admission
Museum of City of New
York
Website: http://wwwhamcny.org
Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity
February 14 to May 17, 2009
This is the first exhibition to trace the career of this legendary designer and features never-before-exhibited gowns, accessories, photographs, and printed matter from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the Valentina family, and other major collections. Never before exhibited examples from the designer's personal couture collection and other ephemera will be on view, as well as original silver and platinum photographs of her designs by Cecil Beaton, Horst S. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, John Rawlings and others.
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson
April 4 to September 27, 2009
Presented in collaboration with the New Netherland Project, Albany, and the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, will employ rare 16th– and 17th–century objects, images, and documents from major American and Dutch collections to bring the transatlantic world to life and reveal how Henry Hudson’s epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of a modern society that took root and flourished in the New World.
Focusing on the economic, cultural, and ideological connections that ultimately linked two global cities: Amsterdam and New York, Amsterdam/New Amsterdam will illuminate not only the global significance of Hudson’s voyage, but also the creative context out of which the exploration and settlement of New York itself arose, highlighting the Dutch role in creating the very character of New York, as a place of opportunity, tolerance, and perpetual transformation.
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City
May 19 to October 13, 2009
The exhibit will reveal the island of Mannahatta at the time of Henry Hudson's arrival—a fresh, green new world at the moment of discovery. Through cutting edge multi-media and historical artifacts and maps, Mannahatta/Manhattan will re-imagine the quiet, wooded island at the mouth of a great river that was destined to become one of the greatest cities on Earth. Moreover, Mannahatta/Manhattan will challenge visitors to view the city of today as a place where the relationship between nature and people is at its most important and to understand that the principles of diversity, interdependence, and interrelativity operate in a modern mega-city much as they do in nature. In doing so, the exhibition will contribute something new to the history of New York—a view of its ecological origin—and in that contribution, shape the future as well.
The Museum of City of New York is located at 1220
Fifth Avenue at 103rd St. Open Tuesday - Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm. Admission.
Neue Galerie New York
Website: www.neuegalerie.org
Brücke: The Birth Of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913
February 26-June 29, 2009
This exhibition features more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by the pioneering artists’ group known as Brücke. With their emphasis on vivid color and emotional directness, the Brücke artists gave birth to German Expressionism. The exhibition is organized by Reinhold Heller, an internationally recognized scholar in the field.
Neue Galerie is
located at 1048 Fifth Avenue & East 86 Street. Open Thursday to Monday 11
am to 6 pm’ and Friday 11 am to 9 pm. Admission is $15 (students and seniors,
$10), which includes the use of the audio-tour. Children under 12 are not
admitted and those under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
The New York Botanical
Garden
Website www.nybg.org
The Glory of Dutch Bulbs: A Legacy of 400 Years
May 1 to June 7, 2009
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York, the Botanical Garden brings a touch of Holland to the Bronx. Discover indoor and outdoor displays that feature large swaths of bright flowering bulbs and companion plants inspired by the great tulip and lily gardens of Holland.
The Botanical Garden is located in the Bronx and
easily accessible from Manhattan via Metro-North train service from Grand
Central Station. Open Tuesdays to Sundays year round. Admission.
New York Historical
Society
Audubon's Aviary: Some Things Old, Some Things Borrowed, But Most
Things New
February 13 to April 25, 2009
The Society's Audubon collection is the
largest single repository of Auduboniana in the world. The N-YHS holds 435
stunning watercolors preparatory for 433 of the 435 plates in The Birds of
America (1827-38). Each year, N-YHS exhibits a selection of around 40 different
watercolors by Audubon revolving around different themes suggested by the
legendary naturalist artist's work. The 2009 Aviary, the last in the five-part series, will examine
Audubon's debts to his predecessors alongside his radical innovations, to
illuminate his major contributions to the history of ornithological
illustration and to the sophisticated development of watercolor as a medium.
A New President Takes Command: FDR’s First Hundred Days
To May 3, 2009
Presented by the Historical Society in collaboration with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, the exhibition is based on "Action and Action Now": FDR's First Hundred Days, currently on display there through the Fall of 2009. This is the first in a series of collaborative installations drawing upon the rich collections of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park and the New-York Historical Society.
The New York History
Society offers historical lectures, art exhibits, musical explorations and much
more centering on both the city and the state’s rich heritage.
Located at 170 Central
Park West at77 Street. Open Tuesdays to Sundays 10 am to 6pm.
The Whitney Museum of
American Art
Website: www.whitney.org
Sites
February 19 to May 3, 2009
In the postwar period, the traditional notion of art as a discrete object has changed to include environments, places, and sites. In much contemporary practice, the process of making a work of art has become part of the content. Many artists treat their work as a continuous project in which the studio extends into the real world and/ or is brought into traditional spaces. The art itself may become a site or it may create one—a place and a space with its own rules and internal logic. This exhibition, drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, explores how the idea of sites allows for a more experiential role for the spectator as well the creation of new types of spaces, whose qualities might be unbound, drawn in, or otherwise made pliant by their creators.
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
March 12 to May 31, 2009
Jenny Holzer's pioneering approach to
language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public
settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and
significant artists working today. Alternating between fact and fiction, the
public and the private, the universal and the particular, Holzer's work offers
an incisive social and psychological portrait of our times.
The Whitney Museum is located on Madison Avenue and 75th Street. Admission. Open Wednesday–Thursday 11 am–6 pm; Friday
1–9 pm (6–9 pm pay-what-you-wish admission) and
Saturday and Sunday 11 am–6 pm.
New York Performing
Arts Websites
Lincoln Center For
The Performing Arts
Website: www.lincolncenter.org
Websites for other
departments in the center complex are:
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center www.chambermusicsociety.org
The Film Society of Lincoln Center www.filmlinc.com
Jazz at Lincoln Center www.jalc.org
The Juilliard School www.juilliard.edu
Lincoln Center Theater www.lct.org
The Metropolitan
Opera
Website: www.metopera.org
2008/2009 Season
New York City Ballet
Website: www.nycballet.com
New York City Opera
Website: www.nycopera.com
New York Philharmonic
Website: www.nyphil.org
2008/2009 Season
September 18 to June 13, 2008
Carnegie Hall
Website: www.carnegiehall.org
Check the hall’s website for concert listings.
Carnegie Hall is located on West 57 Street and Seventh Avenue.
Websites for
Information on Broadway/Off Broadway Theater Offerings:
http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/
Centre Georges
Pompidou (Beauborg)
Website: http://www.centrepompidou.fr
Kandinsky
April 8 to August 10, 2009
This major retrospective of the work of one
of the 20th century's key figures, Vassili Kandinsky, brings together some
hundred of Kandinsky's finished paintings, particularly the Impressions and the
Improvisations. It offers a unique chance to look through the eyes of this
painter born in 1866 in Moscow under the Czar, who died in 1944 in Neuilly-sur-Seine,
a French citizen.
The Paris exhibit also provides an update on the constant additions to the Kandinsky collection – exceptional watercolors and manuscripts for the "Russian" period 1914-1917, a portfolio from the Bauhaus for his 60th birthday in 1926 – crucial items brought together and presented to the Pompidou Centre by private collectors and by the Société Kandinsky.
Centre Georges Pompidou is located on Place Georges
Pompidou. Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33. Museums open daily 11 am to 9 pm; Atelier
Brancusi: daily except Tuesdays, 2-6 p.m. Admission.
Grand Palais (Galeries
Nationales Du Grand Palais)
Website: http://www.grandpalais.fr/
Né pour sentir (Born with a sense of smell)
October 14 to May 3 2009
Smells and our sense of smell are central to our awareness of our surroundings but are often relegated to a secondary role. The exhibition " offers visitors an opportunity to rediscover their sense of smell by following their noses along an enjoyable route through no fewer than 90 different fragrances. A special young children's corner "Nouveaux nez" (New noses) has been designed for the 3-to-6-age group.
The Grand Palais is located at 3, Avenue du Général
Eisenhower and avenue de Selvres, just off the Champs Elysees. Accessible by
Metro/Champs Elysées Clemenceau. Open daily during exhibitions from10am to 8pm
except Tuesdays (last tickets sold at 7.15pm; till 10 pm Wednesdays.
Louvre
The Gates of Heaven. Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt
March 6 to June 29, 2009
In the Ancient Egyptian language The Gates of
Heaven meant the doors of a sanctuary housing the statue of a divinity.
Symbolizing the passageway into the afterworld this expression also applies to
other points of contact between the different elements of the universe as
conceived by the Egyptians. Containing about 350 artifacts spanning three
millennia, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period, the exhibition endeavors
to place everyday objects in their social, religious and artistic context.
The Louvre located off the Place de la Concorde on the
Right Bank is open daily from 10 am to 6
Musée Carnavalet
Musée Carnavalet is located in the Marais Quarter at 23, rue de Sévigné.
Musée Jeu de Paume
Website: http://www.jeudepaume.org
The New Photographic Vision in France 1920 - 1940
February 10 to May 24, 2009
In the early 1920s Paris emerged as a new centre of avant-garde art and, without a doubt, as the hub for the new photography in Europe. If the French capital became a forum for photographers from so many different countries and backgrounds, this was because it stood as a model of modernity and a beacon of economic hope in the aftermath of the First World War, but also because it was a haven of political and religious freedom for those forced into exile.
This is the first exhibition on this scale of work from this decisive period. It brings together more than 200 vintage prints by some forty-odd photographers who worked in Paris between 1920 and 1939 as well as original documents from the time (magazines, books, etc.). It offers an informed and passionate perspective on the formal richness of this “New Photographic Vision in France.”
Jeu de Paume, 1, place
de la Concorde. Open daily except Mondays.
Musée du Luxembourg
Website: http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/
Filippo Et Filippino Lippi: La Renaissance À Prato
March 25 to August 2, 2009
The exhibition brings together some sixty
paintings and sculptures created between the 14th and the 16th century, which
have never been shown in France (some of them never went out of Italy). Those
works come from the Prato City Museum, housed in the Pretorio Palace, now
closed for refurbishment, as well as from other institutions of the same
region. It provides a unique opportunity to discover the rich artistic heritage
of a city, which I was an important artistic centre during that period, thanks
notably to the stylistic innovations brought about by Filippo, and later by
Filippino, Lippi when they stayed in Prato.
Musée du Luxembourg, 19 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris.
Tel +33 (0) 1 42 34 25 95. Metro: Saint-Sulpice or Mabillon. Open daily
Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays from 10:30 am to 10:00 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday from 10:30 am to 7 pm; Sundays from 9 am to 7 pm. Admission
Musée Maillol
Named after the sculptor Maillol, the museum offers a wide selection of contemporary art from Maillol to Kandinsky.
Musée Maillol is
located at 61 rue de Grenelle in the 7th arrondisement. Open
Wednesdays to Mondays from 11 am to 6 pm. Admission. Metro stop: Rue du bac
Musée de l’Orangerie
Website: http://www.musee-orangerie.fr
Claude Monet’s Les Nymphéas
Ongoing
Monet’s water lilies artworks languished for decades in a gloomy netherworld in the Orangerie after a botched museum renovation in the 1960s. However, a major revamp of the museum, which reopened on May 17th after eight years, has changed all that.
The eight works, painted between 1914 and 1926, were donated by the artist and hung at the Orangerie in 1927, a year after his death. Impressive in size—each is two meters high; and one is 17 meters long—the paintings help illustrate Monet's influence on nudging art towards abstraction. Some even capture the mysterious sunset light at Giverny, an effect that could woo even jaded anti-Impressionists.
The museum also houses the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist works by Cézanne, Renoir, Soutine, Picasso, Modigliani and others.
Musée de l’Orangerie,
Jardin des Tuileries. Tel: +33 (0)1 44 77 80 07. Métro: Concorde. Open:
Weds-Mon, 12.30pm-7pm (until 9pm on Fridays)
Musée D’Orsay
Website: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html
Leaving Rodin behind? Sculpture in Paris, 1905-1914
March 10 to May 31, 2009
As the 20th century dawned, Rodin reigned
supreme in the world of sculpture. In France and elsewhere, new generations
were seeking to free themselves from his influence.
This exhibition, featuring creative artists from all over Europe, will show how experiments into anti-Rodin volumes were appearing in the work of classical artists — Maillol, Bernard, Lehmbruck — as
well as in the work of avant-garde sculptors — Duchamp-Villon,
Archipenko, Brancusi. Rejecting excesses of expression, a whole generation was obsessed with seeking out a feeling for form and line, as these new and original confrontations reveal.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Grosse
Sinnende
Located in a former
railroad station, the Musée d’Orsay is located at rue de Bellechasse on the
Left Bank across from the Tuileries gardens. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9 am
to 6 pm, till 9:45 pm on Thursdays. Admission. Accessible by public
transportation.
Musée de Quai Branly
Website: http://www.quaibranly.fr
The museum’s permanent collections area presents the great geographical regions in which the Musée de quai Branly’s remarkable collections originated: Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The visitor makes his way fluidly across them, taking in the major crossroads between civilizations and cultures: Asia-Oceania, Insulindia, and Mashreck-Maghreb. The 3,500 artifacts are presented so as to highlight the historical depth of the cultures that produced them, and the many different meanings that the works themselves possess. The museography encourages the visitor to take the time to inform himself on major thematic areas: masks and tapa in Oceania, costume in Asia, and African musical instruments and textiles form the subjects of a series of fascinating video presentations.
The museum is located
at 27, 37, 51 quai Branly 206, 218 rue de l'Université 75007 Paris. Phone: 01
56 61 70 00. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Admission fee.
Musée de Rodin
Website: www.musee-rodin.fr
The Making Of The Portrait: Rodin Before His Models
April 10 to August 23, 2009
A creative laboratory but also a social
insight, the exhibition invites one to discover the considerable but
little-known work of Rodin the portraitist. It highlights the artist’s creative
process and approach in building a portrait. Modeled out of the earth itself,
the faces of Baudelaire, Clemenceau and Balzac appear alongside the faces of
the bourgeoisie of the end of the 19th century. For this event, the museum has
taken many restored pieces out of storage, some of which are being shown to the
public for the first time.
The museum is located at Place Hôtel Biron. Tel: 33(0)1 44 18 61 10 (Information).Open
daily except Mondays from 9.30 am to 5.45 .m (April 1-Sept.30t; )
and from 9.30 am to 4.45 pm (Oct.1- March 31h)
National Museum of
Natural History
Or des Amériques
April 8 to January 2010
Amazing Cetaceans!
To May 25, 2009
Bicentenaire De Redouté
January 21 to April
27, 2009
For the 250th
anniversary of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s birth (1759 - 1840), the muséum presents
a selection of the masterpieces of one of the most famous flower painters.
Muséum Nationale de l’Histoire Naturelle, Grande
Galerie de l’Evolution, 36, rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 5th arrondissement.
Métro: Jussieu or Gare d’Austerlitz. Open: Sun-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-8pm. Tel:
+33 (0)1 40 79 30 00.
Philadelphia Museum
of Fine Art
Website: www.philamuseum.org
Cézanne and Beyond
February 26 to May 17, 2009
This exhibition explores the vital role of Paul Cézanne in the history of modernism and as an extraordinarily rich resource for artists into the twenty-first century.
Peaks of Faith: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas
December 20 to May 2009
The masterpieces in this exhibition encompass nearly a
millennium of art from across the Himalayan region (centered on Tibet and
Nepal) and from neighboring areas under its cultural influence. The works on
view range from a sublime North Indian bronze
Ratnasambhava Buddha of about the eleventh
century to the monumental and gruesome eighteenth-century painting Banquet for
Dharmapalas with Mount Meru from Mongolia.
Each of these works was created for the specific type of Buddhism that developed in the area, often called Vajrayana (the indestructible path). Using an elaborate array of symbolically potent images of buddhas, deities, and holy men as well as words and actions, practitioners of Vajrayana evoke within themselves the steps leading toward enlightenment. Whether in metal, paint, or wood, whether beautiful or terrifying, simple or intricate, each is dense with meaning, for each was created as a guide to aid progress along the indestructible path.
Cézanne and Beyond
February 26, 2009 - May 17, 2009
The museum is located at 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Open Tuesdays through Sundays.
University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Website: http://www.museum.upenn.edu
Surviving the Body of Evidence
To May 3, 2009
This exhibition is about you — and all your fellow humans. Your body carries evidence of many distinctively human features that changed in your ancestors through the process of evolution.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology, located at 3260 South Street in Philadelphia. Tel: (215)
898-4000. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.;
Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays, holidays and summer Sundays, Memorial Day
through Labor Day weekends. Admission
Franklin Institute
Science Museum
Galileo, The Medici & The Age of Astronomy
April 4 to September 7, 2009
The Franklin Institute
Science Museum is located at 222 North 20th Street in Center City Philadelphia,
at the intersection of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Open
daily. Admission.
Scuderie Papali al
Quirinale
Website: www.scuderiequirinale.it
Futurismo. Avanguardia Avanguardie
February 20 to May 24, 2009
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto - published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris daily Le Figaro on February 20, 1909 - the Scuderie del Quirinale, in conjunction with the Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and with the Tate Modern in London, is planning to devote a major exhibition to Futurism to celebrate the movement's historical and international role.
Scuderie Papali al
Quirinale is located at 16, Via XXIV Maggio - Rome
Phone: +39 06 69 62 70
National Gallery of
Modern Art/ Galleria Nazionale
d'Arte Moderna
Website: www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it
The National Gallery is located at Viale delle Belle
Arti, 113. Email: ss-gnam@beniculturali.it for information. Open Tuesdays to Sundays 8.30 am to 7:30 pm. Admission.
Accessible via public transportation.
De Young Museum
Warhol Live!
To May 17, 2009
Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) used the medium of music to transform himself from fan, to record album designer, to producer, to celebrity night-clubber, to rock star. Warhol Live presents the first comprehensive exploration of Warhol’s work as seen through the lens of music. This exhibition brings together a wide variety of works depicting pop music royalty, including Elvis Presley, the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Deborah Harry of Blondie, and Michael Jackson.
The de Young museum is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea
Garden Drive in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Open Tuesday
through Sunday, 9:30 .m. to 5:15 pm, Fridays until 8:45 pm. Admission. Tel: 415.750.3600
San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art
Website: http://www.sfmoma.org/
William Kentridge
March 14 to May 31, 2009
Combining the political with the poetic, William Kentridge's work has made an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy, lyrical undertones or comedic bits of self-deprecation, making his powerful messages both alluring and ambivalent. This exhibition explores five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the last three decades through a comprehensive selection of his work from the 1980s to the present. Concentrating on his most recent production and including many pieces that have not been seen in the United States, the exhibition reveals as never before the full arc of his distinguished career. Acknowledging the profound significance of the theater in Kentridge's work, SFMOMA will present his restaging of Monteverdi's opera The Return of Ulysses in conjunction with the exhibition.
Face of Our Time: Four Shows--Yto Barrada, Guy Tillim, Judith Joy Ross,
Leo Rubinfien
January 31 to April 26, 2009
Face of Our Time presents the work of four artists aligned for their shared interest in making pictures about the current condition of our world.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St, San Francisco. Tel: +1 (415) 357-4000. Open: Thurs-Sun 11am-5.45pm (till 8.45pm Thurs).
San Francisco Performing
Arts
San Francisco
Symphony
Website: http://www.sfsymphony.org
San Francisco Symphony’s 2008/09 Season
San Francisco Symphony
performs at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. Tel: +1 (415) 864-6000.
Shanghai Art Museum
Website: www.shanghaimuseum.net/cn/index.jsp
Shanghai Museum possesses a collection of 120,000 precious works of art. Its rich and high-quality collection of ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy.
The Shanghai Art Museum is located at 325, Nanjing
Road West, Shanghai 200003.
Asian Civilisations
Museum
Website: http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/
Singapore History Gallery
To December 31, 2009
Explore Singapore's history from the 14th Century to the modern period in this 2,800-square-meter gallery.
Singapore Living Galleries - Food
To December 31, 2009
Eating on the Street
Singapore Living Galleries - Film & Wayang
To December 31, 2009
Scripting a New Life
Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555. Tel: +65 6332 7791. Entry: S$8. MRT: Raffles Place.
Art Museum Stuttgart
Website: http://www.kunstmuseumstuttgart.com/
THREE. The Triptych in Modern Art
February 7 to June 14, 2009
The triptych as an altarpiece or devotional image played a pivotal role in Western art since the Middle Ages. This religiously motivated artistic tradition came to a halt with Rubens and was first readopted at the close of the 19th century, producing radically new images and focusing on novel, drastic subject matter. The special exhibition shows the transformation of this type of image, its impact and current relevance, and investigates also the demarcation between it and the image series or sequence.
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is located at Kleiner
Schlossplatz 1. Phone: +49 (0) 711 - 216 21 88; email: info@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de.
Open Tuesdays to Sundays 10 am to 6 pm; Wednesdays and Fridays until 9 pm.
Reachable by Bus 42 or 44 to Schlossplatz; Underground lines U5, U6, U7and 15
to Schlossplatz; and S-Bahn transit to Stadtmitte station
Le Corbusier
House/The Weissenhof Museum
Website: www.weissenhof.de
The Weissenhof Settlement has opened its museum in the Le Corbusier House. When it was founded in 1927, the Weissenhof Settlement was considered the most progressive architectural initiative of its time. In 33 houses with 63 apartments, a total of 17 architects from Germany, France, Holland, Belgium and Austria implemented their ideas of "functionalism." Among the architects, all of whom were under 45 years of age, were Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Hans Scharoun and others.
Automobile Museums
Mercedes Benz Museum
Website: http://www.museum-mercedes-benz.com/ www.stuttgart-tourist.de
A prominent local landmark for car lovers of all ages since its opening earlier this year. Nearby is the Gottlieb Daimler Memorial Sight, where one can visit Daimler’s former workshop in his garden house where he and Wilhelm Maybach secretly invented the world’s first sprinting motor in 1883.
Porsche Museum
http://www.porsche.com/international/faq/museum/
The Porsche Musuem is also housed in Stuttgart/Zuffenhausen. About 80 vehicles and many small exhibits will be on display at the new Porsche Museum in a unique ambience. In addition to world-famous, iconic vehicles such as the 356, 550, 911, and 917, the exhibits include some of the outstanding technical achievements of Professor Ferdinand Porsche from the early 20th century.
The museum is located
at Porscheplatz 1D – 70435 Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany. Open daily
except Mondays from 10 am to 6 pm. Admission
Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia
Art Gallery of New
South Wales
Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
Korean Dreams: Paintings and Screens of the Joseon Dynasty
March 5 to June 8, 2009
This exhibition, the first showing of traditional Korean painting in the Gallery, will comprise Korean screens, hanging scrolls and album leaves dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The paintings in this collection represent popular decorative traditions used in Korean homes, rather than the Chinese literati style favored by officials in the Confucianism-dominated society. Themes covered will include calligraphy, landscape, bird-and-flower, mythical animals and portraits. A popular subject represented with some fine examples is the so-called book screen (Chaek’kori), a genre adopted with relish by Koreans, artist and patron alike.
Art Gallery is located
on Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney. Tel: +61 (0)2 9225 1744. Admission:
A$10. Open: daily, 10am-5pm.
Mori Art Museum
Website: http://www.mori.art.museum/eng/index.html
The Kaleidoscopic Eye
April 4 to July 5, 2009
Light, color, sound, language, concept and communication: Contemporary art is much more than just a visual medium. For this exhibition, the Mori Art Museum joins with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), a Vienna-based foundation, drawing on their renowned collection to present a selection of art, including dynamic installation, that stimulates the senses in myriad ways. The artists represented in the exhibition have a unique and original take on human perception and consciousness. Enveloped in their worlds, viewers are made to feel that their very facilities of perception are being questioned, and that everything they have taken for granted is suddenly thrown into doubt.
Mori Art Museum is located at Roppongi Hills Mori
Tower 53F, Roppongi 6-10-1, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 106-6150. Tel: + 81 (0)3
6406-6100. Subway: Hibiya Line to Roppongi station; followed by a 3-5 minute
walk. Open: daily 10 am to 10 pm (Tuesdays 10 am-5 pm).
Suntory Museum of Art
Website: http://www.suntory.com/culture-sports/sma/
A glittering interlude: Visions of Satsuma-kiriko
March 28 to May 17, 2009
The artistic cut glass known as Satsuma-Kiriko had a fleeting existence, with production flourishing and then coming to an end within the last few decades of the Edo period. Cut to produce a prism-like brilliance, this glassware is noted for the exquisite harmony of its rich patterns and colors. This exhibition reveals the whole lifespan of Satsuma-Kiriko, from its origins to final days, revealing an expression of Japanese aesthetics through the medium of glass.
Tenchijin-The Life and Times of Naoe Kanetsugu
Introducing the Background to NHK's Taiga Drama
May 30 to July 12, 2009
Naoe Kanetsugu, the central figure in NHK's historical drama, Tenchijin, was a distinguished scholar as well as a master of military arts. He followed Uesugi Kagekatsu, supporting the Uesugi clan in the Sengoku period upheavals as Japan moved towards unification. This exhibition presents many items associated with Kanetsugu and the Uesugi clan. Following the history of Kanetsugu's involvement in the Toyotomi clan's unification of Japan and the decisive battle of Sekigahara, the exhibition also introduces the magnificent world of the Momoyama period that Kanetsugu lived in.
The new address for the Sentry Museum is Tokyo Midtown
Garden side 9-7-4 Alaska, Minato-key, Tokyo 107-8643. Subway: Hibiya. Open Wednesday
to Saturdays 10 am to 8 pm; Sundays and Mondays 10 is to 6 pm. Admission.
Art Gallery of
Ontario
Website: http://www.ago.net/navigation/flash/frameset.cfm
The museum is closed until fall 2008 as the nearly transformed AGO begins reinstalling more than 5,000 artworks in 110 galleries. Throughout the closure, the AGO’s Gallery School will continue providing a full slate of classes for adults and children at its temporary location just down the street from the AGO at 60 McCaul. The AGO’s permanent collection also can be viewed online through an innovative web project called Collection X (www.collectionx.museum). This fully interactive website allows readers to explore works from the Gallery’s collection.
The Art Gallery of Ontario is located at 317 Dundas
Street West at the corner of Dundas and McCaul streets. Open Wednesdays to
Fridays from noon to 9 pm; Saturdays and Sundays until 5:30 pm. Admission.
Ontario Science
Centre
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
Sultans of Discovery: 1000 Years of Knowledge Rediscovered
February 5 to May 10, 2009
The exhibition celebrates the scientific and technological breakthroughs made by scholars during the Golden Age of the Islamic World (eighth to 18th centuries) and their lasting influence on modern science and technology.
Lizards & Snakes: Alive!
Opens June
An engaging exhibition that features more than 60 live lizards and snakes from five continents and introduces visitors to a diversity of squamates—the group that includes legged and legless lizards, including snakes. Originally presented at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, Lizards & Snakes showcases live animals and their remarkable adaptations, including protractile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion. Representing 25 species occurring in countries such as Australia, Cuba, Egypt, Guatemala, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Sudan, and the United States, the animals are shown in re-created habitats complete with ponds, tree limbs, rock ledges, and live plants.
Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta
Opens February 7, 2009
This new IMAX film tells the story of a young scholar, who leaves Tangier in 1325 on an epic and perilous journey, travelling alone from his home in Morocco to reach Mecca, some 3,000 miles to the east. When he arrives in Mecca, he is a man transformed. We then experience the Hajj as he did over 700 years ago and, in recognition of its timelessness, we dissolve to the Hajj as it is still performed today by millions of pilgrims in some of the most extraordinary and moving IMAX® footage ever presented.
lbn Battuta would not return home for almost 30 years, reaching over 40 countries and revisiting Mecca five more times to perform the Hajj. He would travel three times farther than Marco Polo.
The Ontario Science Centre is located at 770 Don Mills Road (at the corner of Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue East) in Toronto. Open seven days a week except December 25, CAN$17 (adults) / $12.50 (youth / seniors) / $10 (children)
Vancouver Art Gallery
Website: www.vanartgallery.hc.ca
Vermeer, Rembrandt and
the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from The Rijksmuseum
May 10 to September 13, 2009
This exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in collaboration with the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, will highlight the
extraordinary works of art made by Dutch masters of the 17th century, a period
known as the Golden Age of the Netherlands. The exhibition will feature major
paintings and drawings by all of the celebrated masters of the period such as
Albert Cuyp, Gerard Dou, Franz Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael,
Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer, as well as an extraordinary selection of
decorative arts, including furniture, silver, glassware, porcelain and
textiles. Providing an overview of the fascinating political, economic and
social forces that shaped the 17th century, the exhibition will allow the
visitor to view these paintings in the rich context in which they were made.
The Vancouver Art Gallery at
750 Hornby Street occupies an entire city block in the heart of downtown
Vancouver, bounded by Georgia Street, Hornby Street, Robson Street and Howe
Street. Open daily
(Enter the Gallery from
Hornby Street or Robson Street Plaza). Open daily 10 am to 5:30 pm; until 9 pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Admission. Accessible by public transportation.
Gallerie
dell’Accademia
Website: http://www.gallerieaccademia.org/
The Ultimate Titian and the Sensuality of Painting
January 26 to May 4, 2009
Titian painting
The Academia Galleries are
located at Campo della Carità Dorsoduro n. 1050 in Venice. Open daily from 8:15
am to 7:15 pm except Mondays when the museum closes at 2 pm. Admission
Museo Fortuny
Roberto Capucci
To May 4,2009
Museo Fortuny is
located at San Marco 3958 - Campo San Beneto. Tel: Tel. ++390 41 520 0995;
email: mkt.musei@comune.venezia.it.
Open Wednesday to Monday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission.
Kunsthistorisches
Museum Vienna
Website: http://www.khm.at
Rooms in pictures: Interiors from 1500 to 1900
March 31 to July 12, 2009
The depiction of an interior is able to combine portrait with still life, the obviously invented with the meticulously recorded, or the legend of a saint with a mundane workshop. Using carefully devised symbolism it may employ the wealth of objects contained in a house to tell complex stories, or may focus on these objects solely to record them in order to delight the viewer with the beauty of their form and color.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum’s main building is
located at Maria Theresien-Platz. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 6 pm
except Thursdays when it closes at 9 pm. Admission. Note: The Lipizzaner
Museum in the Stallburg as well as Ambras Castle in Innsbruck, although
operated as independent museums, are also part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Since January 2001, the Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum
have also been part of the group.
National Gallery of
Art
Website: www.nga.gov
Caught in the Act: Artists at Work
March 23 to May 17, 2009
In 2008 Paul Katz, an artist and photographer for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, donated more than 1,500 examples of his work to the National Gallery of Art Library's department of image collections—negatives, vintage photographs, and color transparencies that depict his friends in the Manhattan art world from the 1960s to 1980s. Capturing both introspective moments and expressive gestures, Katz took not only posed shots and portraits of artists relaxing with friends and colleagues but also multiple frames of artists in the process of creating works of art. Among the individuals represented in the Paul Katz Archive at the National Gallery are Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, and Robert Motherwell. Augmenting the exhibition of images from the Katz Archive, other photographs on display include Christo, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, and David Smith at work.
The National Gallery
is located on the National Mall between 3rd and 7th Streets at Constitution
Avenue NW. Open: Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and
Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Free admission.
The Phillips
Collection
Website: http://www.phillipscollection.org
Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life
February 21 to May 24, 2009
Working in solitude in Bologna, Italy, Giorgio Morandi made still life the primary focus of his life’s work. His still lifes, in which he obsessively returned to the same bottles, cups, and bowls, are imbued with a profoundly meditative aura. This exhibition of about 45 paintings and a dozen etchings spans the artist’s work from 1913 to 1960. In addition to his early explorations of cubism, futurism, and metaphysical painting, it includes landscapes, a rare self-portrait, and a stunning array of the artist’s mature work.
The Phillips
Collection is located at 1600 21st Street, NW. Open daily except Mondays with
extended hours Thursday and Sundays. Admission
Smithsonian Museum
Website: www.smithsonian.org
American ArtMuseum
1934: A New Deal for Artists
February 27 to January 3, 2010
In 1934, Americans grappled with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration created the Public Works of Art Program—the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. Federal officials in the 1930s understood how essential art was to sustaining America's spirit. Artists from across the United States who participated in the program, which lasted only six months from mid-December 1933 to June 1934, were encouraged to depict "the American Scene." The Public Works of Art Program not only paid artists to embellish public buildings, but also provided them with a sense of pride in serving their country. They painted regional, recognizable subjects—ranging from portraits to cityscapes and images of city life to landscapes and depictions of rural life—that reminded the public of quintessential American values such as hard work, community and optimism.
The exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Program by drawing on the Smithsonian American Art Museum's unparalleled collection of vibrant artworks created for the program. The paintings in this exhibition are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time
Freer/Sackler
Galleries:
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
Through 2010
Hirschorn Museum
& Sculpture Garden
Louise Bourgeois
February 26 to May 17, 2009
The Hirshhorn presents a major survey of the works of Louise Bourgeois, the French-born artist who emigrated to the United States in 1938.
The Smithsonian
Information Center in the institution's first building, popularly known as the
Castle, which is open daily 8:30 am-5:30 pm. The Center serves as the focal
point for information about the Institution's 17 museums and National Zoo in
Washington, D.C., and two museums in New York City. This distinctive red,
sandstone building is centrally located on the National Mall, and may be
entered from either Jefferson Drive on the north or through the Enid A. Haupt
Garden on the south. Admission free at most of the museums.
Williamstown
(Massachusetts)
The Sterling &
Francine Clark Art Institute
Website: www.clarkart.edu
Second Empire Paris: History and Modernity
April 25 to June 21, 2009
In the 1850s and 1860s printmakers and photographers in Paris recorded both the old city in the process of disappearing and the new modern metropolis coming into being, in views ranging from aerial panoramas to underground scenes to humorous commentary on utopian ideals and on the mania for both city views and for photography itself.
Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris
February 1 to April 26, 2009
Take a visual promenade through the spectacle
of late-nineteenth-century Paris as seen through the eyes of Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries. Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris,
highlighting the Clark’s extensive collection of works by this visionary of the
cafés-concerts, will revel in Montmartre’s raucous streets, cabarets, theaters
and circuses, venues frequented by modern artists seeking inspiration in the
heightened reality of the Parisian demimonde.
Clark Institute is
located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Tel. +1 413-458-2303.
Zagreb (Croatia)
Archeological Museum
http://www.amz.hr/eng/index.asp
The ancient and valuable items held by the museum are systematically organized into several collections. The Prehistoric, Classical (Greek and Roman), and Medieval Collections follow the usual chronological system of all European museum departments. The museum also contains an Egyptian Collection, the only one in this region, as well as a Numismatic Collection that is one of the largest in Europe and beyond. As a whole, most of the material is from regions historically belonging to Croatia and also contains rich collections and individual monuments of foreign origin. These include an important collection of Grecian painted vases from southern Italy and Greece, a valuable collection of stone monuments of Italic provenance—sculptures, reliefs, inscriptions; and in particular the famed wrapping of the Zagreb mummy, the Etruscan "linen book" of Zagreb.
The Archeological Museum is located at 19 Nikola Subic
Zrinski Square. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from10 am to 5 pm; Thursday 10
am to 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 1 pm. Admission.
Museum of
Contemporary Art
The Contemporary Art Museum was established on 21 December, 1954, with the purpose of following, documenting, and promoting contemporary art events, styles, and phenomena. The largest part of the museum's c collection consists of the works by both Croatian and foreign artists created after 1950, although there is a small representation of art dating back to the first half of the 20th century.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at
Habdeliceva 2. Open Tuesday to Saturday's 11 am to 7 pm; Sundays and holidays
10 am to 1 pm. Admission.
Beyeler Foundation
http://www.beyeler.com/fondation/e/html_01start/01_sta__main.php
Visual Encounters: Africa, Oceania and Modern Art
January 25 to May 24, 2009
For the first time, a Fondation Beyeler exhibition centers around art works from Africa and Oceania culled from the museum’s collection and enriched by 180 loans from over 50 public and private collections. Each of the thirteen exhibition spaces focuses on an African or Oceanian cultural region, emphasizing its unique character. The exhibition sheds light on the visual force and sensuous presence of the works on view, the source of the unceasing fascination they exert on people from all walks of life around the world.
Giacometti
May 31 to October 11, 2009
This great summer exhibition is devoted to the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who during his career in Paris became one of the most influential artists of modernism. His stark figures, expressive paintings, and poetic drawings have lost none of their power to move us. Giacometti saw himself as part of a cosmos in space and time, in which members of his family formed key points of reference. The exhibition shows over one hundred significant works from every phase of the artist's career, on loan from the family collection and renowned collections around the world. These are supplemented by selected works by his father Giovanni, his brother Diego, and his uncle Augusto.
Beyeler Foundation,
Baselstrasse 101, 4125 Riehen/Basel. Tel: +41 (0)61 645 9700. Tram number 6
from Basel SBB main train station (around an hour’s ride from Zurich). Open:
daily 10am-6pm; Wed until 8pm. Entry: SFr21.
Kunsthaus Zurich
Website: http://www.kunsthaus.ch
Mark Manders
March 20 to June 14,
Mark Manders creates installations-cum-sculptures, fragments of a self-portrait arranged in the form of imaginary rooms. His lyrical, often melancholy objects, installations and drawings function like the components of a poem, to be assembled at will by his observers.
Kunsthaus Zurich is
located at Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zurich. Open: Tue-Thu 10am-9pm; Fri-Sun 10am-5pm.
Tel: +41 (0)44 253 8484. Tickets: SFr16. A museum branch is also located at the
Zurich Airport