International   Museum   Calendar

                         Gustav Klimt’s, Attersee, 1910, oil on canvas, Now on display at the Beyeler Foundation’s fall                                                   exhibition: Vienna 1900 – Klimt, Schiele And Their Times

Cities featured this month include Amsterdam, Atlanta, Baltimore, Barcelona, Basel, Beijing, Berlin, Bilbao, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dresden, Florence, Fort Worth/Dallas, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Madrid, 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.

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Amsterdam

Hermitage Amsterdam

Website: www.hermitage.nl

The Immortal Alexander the Great: The myth, the reality, his journey, his legacy

September 18 to March 18, 2011

The exhibition The Immortal Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) will be on view from 18

September 2010 until 18 March 2011 in the Hermitage Amsterdam, with over 350 masterpieces, including the famous Gonzaga cameo from the State Museum the Hermitage in St Petersburg (number 46). This is the first time that any Dutch museum has devoted an exhibition to Alexander the Great, his journey to the East, and the influence of Hellenism. The exhibition spans a period of almost 2500 years.

Hermitage Amsterdam is located at Amstel 51. Open daily from 10 am to 5 pm.

Rijksmuseum of Art & History

Website:  http://www.rijksmuseum.nl

Rembrandt & Jan Six

September 7 to November 29, 2010

Rembrandt’s world-famous portrait of Jan Six will be brought to the Rijksmuseum specially for this exhibition. The portrait has been part of the private collection of the Six family from Amsterdam since the 17th century and it is rarely available for public viewing. Twenty works on paper, which tell the story of the development of the portrait, will also be exhibited in the Print Room.

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

Dutch Cows: Cattle Pieces from Rijksmuseum

To November 8, 2010

Nine 17th-century cattle pieces from the Rijksmuseum will be on display at the

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol. Starring in the exhibition is the Dutch cow; brown, black, spotted, lying down or standing up. A symbol of prosperity, fertility and loyalty, cows have dominated the Dutch landscape for centuries and, since the 16th century, they have dominated Dutch paintings to a certain extent too.

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

Welcoming the Rijksmuseum: Jacques Villon

To September 26. 2010

In its annual presentation in the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum will show a selection of works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘unknown’ brother Gaston Duchamp, who went by the pseudonym of Jacques Villon.

Jacques Villon was a painter and graphic artist whose legacy includes almost 700 prints in addition to paintings. From 1950 onward his work earned international acclaim and his prints became popular collector’s items. The presentation features a range of graphic techniques that Jacques Villon used, such as etching, aquatint, drypoint engraving and lithography.

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.

Atlanta

High Museum of Art

Website: www.high.org

Dalí: The Late Work

August 7, through January 9, 2011

The High is the sole venue for the first exhibition to focus on Dalí's art after 1940. The exhibition, featuring more than 100 works including 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dalí ephemera, explores the artist's enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his surprising connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting

October 17, through January 2, 2011

Presenting 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance collection of the National Galleries of Scotland—12 paintings and 13 drawings--the exhibition will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian's Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–1559), which have never before traveled to the United States. The show also includes paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto.

The High Museum is located is located at 1280 Peachtree Street between 15th and 16th Streets in Midtown Atlanta. Open Tuesday through Sundays.

Baltimore

The Walters Art Museum

Website:  http://www.thewalters.org

Checkmate! Medieval People at Play

July 17 to October 10, 2010

Neither stodgy nor perpetually pious, medieval people found time for amusement in the

margins of their lives and their manuscripts. From peasant boys shirking their winter duties in order to lob snowballs at each other to monkeys gleefully dancing to "Ring around the Rosie," their antics have come down to us in art. This exhibit explores a sense of whimsy and fun that is uniquely medieval yet remarkably relevant to today’s world.

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

Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture (CCCB)

Website: http://www.cccb.org/ca

Through Labyrinths

To January 9, 2011

The labyrinth as a construction and a symbol is present in many cultural traditions. As

explained by Umberto Eco (author of the foreword to the exhibition catalogue), the thousands of years of history of this figure reveal the fascination it has always held for humankind, representing as it does an aspect of the human condition: there are countless situations that are very easy to get into, but more difficult to extract oneself from.

This exhibition reviews the concept and representation of the labyrinth throughout history, making a clear distinction between single-path labyrinths and mazes, labyrinths with a choice of paths, and reflecting on the relevance of this element and different practices and uses today. The exhibition comprises a series of very varied spaces illustrated by works with a variety of different sources, formats, authors and periods, such as archaeological pieces, engravings, photographs, maps, screenings and models, plus specially created audiovisual, animated and interactive pieces.

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.

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Website: http://www.macba.es/

Gil J Wolman: I am immortal and alive

To January 1, 2011

The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929–1995) was a pioneer in researching the

intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages. This show, the first monographic exhibition of Wolman’s work ever held in Spain, consists of about 250 works and documents, from L’Anticoncept (1951) to Voir de mémoire (1995). It includes the artist’s most important and fertile pieces, some of them never before exhibited.

Vietnam 1968

The museum is located at Plaça del Angels, 08001 Barcelona. Tel: +34 93 412 08 10.

Open Wednesdays through Sundays (check website for opening hours). Admission

Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel

Website: http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch

Andy Warhol: The Early Sixties. Paintings and Drawings 1961-1964

To January 19, 2011

The exhibition highlights the artist’s seminal years from 1961 to 1964. It was then that

Andy Warhol made the transition, step by step, from an individual visual idiom to meditated, collective visual material and, along with it, to mechanized production. In consequence, he called into question the very foundations of artistic categories in the age of modernism. The exhibition is the first ever to explicitly address this transitional period in Warhol’s oeuvre, demonstrated, for example, by the fact that in 1962 Warhol painted more than one variation on the same picture.

The Kunstmuseum Basel is located at St. Alban-Graben 16; telefon 0041 (0)61 206 62 62. Open Tuesday to Sundays 10 am to 5 pm. Admission.

Beijing

The Palace Museum

Website: http://www.dpm.org.cn/English/default.asp

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.

Berlin

Brucke Museum

Website: http://www.bruecke-museum.de/

Erich Heckel – Setting Out and Tradition. A Retrospective

September 19 to January 16, 2011

The Brücke-Museum Berlin is dedicating its autumn presentation 2010 to Erich Heckel with a large-scale retrospective of his work. Paintings from all of his creative periods provide a comprehensive overview on the evolution and development of the former founding member of the Brücke.

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?objID=20&n=1&lang=en

September 18 to January 2, 2011

Willem de Rooij: Intolerance

The Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (*1969) combines images in media as diverse as sculpture, film and text. While there was a certain sculptural quality to his earlier film installations, his last exhibitions were completed as individual artworks in their own right that often integrated found objects and appropriated works by other artists. 'Intolerance' consists of a temporary installation and a three-volume publication, both completed especially for the New National Gallery.

Who knows Tomorrow

June 4 to September 26, 2010

Who Knows Tomorrow provides the title for a remarkable project held by the National Gallery, for which it has invited five internationally acclaimed artists, whose work is primarily shaped by their African origins, to join together in creating a major exhibition in Berlin.

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

4 September 2010 to 9 January 2011

World Knowledge. 300 Years of Science in Berlin

September 4 to January 9, 2010

In 2010 Berlin is celebrating its science anniversaries: the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt University, the 300th anniversary of the Charité, the 300th anniversary of the opening and first Statute of the Academy of Sciences and, in the following year, the 100th anniversary of the Max-Planck Society and Kaiser-Wilhelm Society respectively as well as the 350th anniversary of the National Library, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

The exhibition will be the high point of Berlin’s Year of Science 2010. For the first time since reunification Berlin is mounting a science exhibition that represents the whole city and presenting itself as an innovative scientific metropolis that is open to the world and mindful of its turbulent history.

Pierre Soulages

October 2 to January 17, 2011

Pierre Soulages is one of the world's foremost abstract painters of recent decades. On the occasion of his 90th birthday this year, he was honored by a Retrospective in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau will be showing this exhibition in an altered form. In 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War, he took part in the then pioneering exhibition French Abstract Painting, which was also shown in Berlin. He was the youngest of a group of masters of abstract art, including such names as Kupka, Doméla, and Herbin. Over 70 pictures of all his creative periods, from the works with walnut stain (1947 to 1949) to the radically black paintings of recent years measuring up three meters high, are being shown, many of them for the first time in Germany. They illustrate the dynamic artistic development of this most famous of contemporary French artists

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/

Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India

June 26 to October 10, 2010

The exhibit is oriented toward coproducing new work, facilitating research, and assembling a community of practitioners. A resolutely heterogeneous and ultimately unresolved exhibition, it attempts to avoid some of the pitfalls of surveying contemporary production in a given region. The exhibition brings together a number of moving-image works by a select group of media practitioners who currently live in India and who are working in film or video rather than “new media.” These images do not serve as windows onto the world, nor point to any transcendent truths, but are presented as they are, distinguished by their evidence.

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 

Two Millennia of German Jewish History

Ongoing

The permanent exhibition chooses an unusual perspective on the history of Germany and German-speaking territories. are told through the eyes of the Jewish minority. This viewpoint alters the focus, presents well-known events in greater complexity, and shows personal fates alongside historical incidents. Special exhibitions illuminate individual aspects of German-Jewish life.

The 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 personal belonging

Ongoing

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.

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

Bilbao

Guggenheim Bilbao

Website: www.guggenheim.org/bilbao

Anish Kapoor

March 16 to October 12, 2010

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a major solo exhibition devoted to the art of Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors working today. The exhibition, which opened to enormous acclaim at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in fall 2009, is the first large-scale survey of Kapoor’s work to be seen in Spain.

Anish Kapoor’s Shooting into the Corner, 2008–09

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.

Boston

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Website: www.icaboston.org

Charles Ledray

July 16 to October 17, 2010

For over 20 years, New York-based artist Charles LeDray has created handmade sculptures in stitched fabric, carved human bone, and wheel-thrown clay. LeDray painstakingly fashions smaller-than-life formal suits, embroidered patches, ties, and hats, as well as scaled-down chests of drawers, doors, thousands of unique, thimble-sized vessels, and even complex models of the solar system. The exhibition gathers approximately 50 sculptures and installations.

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

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

Avedon Fashion 1944–2000

August 10 to January 17, 2011

Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative, spirited portrayals of the "good life” showing beautiful women wearing extraordinary clothes in irresistible settings, as well as memorable portrayals that are both elegant and reserved. Avedon’s career as a fashion photographer is displayed decade by decade in this exceptional traveling exhibition from the International Center of Photography in New York, the first comprehensive survey of Avedon’s fashion photography since 1978.

Luxuries from Japan: Cultural Exchange in the 17th and 18th Centuries

To January 17, 2011

More than 400 years ago, Japan forged strong trading partnerships with China and the West, and Japan’s lacquer and porcelains were among the most sought-after luxuries in the world. Although Japan largely closed itself to the West around 1640 to preserve domestic stability, Chinese and Dutch merchants were allowed to trade goods through a network that extended down the Asian coast to Islamic ports, around Africa, and then to Europe. Presenting works from several private collections and from the Museum’s own holdings, Luxuries from Japan explores these dynamic intercultural exchanges that shaped the creation of Japanese works of art during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Millet and Rural France

September 4 to May 30, 2011

Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) is one of the great French artists of the 19th century. His images of rural life are among the most recognized and beloved in the history of art, and his innovative treatment of light and color anticipates Impressionism. This exhibition features a choice selection of some 46 drawings, pastels, prints, and paintings from the MFA's Millet collection, which is among the finest in the world.

Scaasi: American Couturier

September 25 to June 19, 2011

This exhibition celebrates the designer Arnold Scaasi and the MFA’s recent acquisition of his archive and more than 100 of his designs. The show explores the designer’s relationship with his clients and how the garments created for them suited their lifestyles and helped them to establish a strong public image, whether it was the youthful sophistication of Barbra Streisand, the fashionable and always appropriately dressed first lady Mamie Eisenhower, or the extraordinarily beautiful and feminine Elizabeth Taylor. The exhibition will feature several garments made for his most famous client, Barbra Streisand, including the custom-made and now infamous black sequined pantsuit that, under the lights of the Oscar stage, appeared see-through

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 museum is is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world. Located on a ten-acre park, overlooking the sea that JFK loved and the city that launched him to greatness, the Library stands as a tribute to the life and times of John F. Kennedy, while the Museum conveys his enthusiasm for politics and public service, and illustrates the nature of the office of the President.

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.

Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Harvard Art Museums)

Website: http://www.harvardartmuseum.org

Re-View

Ongoing to December 31, 2013

This survey of approximately 600 works from the Harvard Art Museum’s three museums — the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, and the Arthur M. Sackler — is a unique installation of objects that have historically been exhibited in separate facilities. The Harvard Art Museum has one of the country’s pre-eminent art collections, and Re-View reflects the diversity and richness of these holdings. The exhibition, which includes familiar highlights, features Western art from antiquity to the present as well as Islamic and Asian art.

Re-View is on long-term display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum while the Art Museum’s building at 32 Quincy Street — the former home of the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger museums—is closed for renovation. This major expansion project, designed by architect Renzo Piano with completion anticipated in 2013, will unite the three museums in a single state-of-the-art facility.

The Sackler Museum is located at Harvard University in Cambridge at 485 Broadway. Open Monday–Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday from 1 to 5 pm; closed holidays. Admission

Performing Arts in Boston

Boston Symphony

Website: www.bso.org

Information on the 2010/2011 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. Its summer season is held in Lenox, Massachusetts at Tanglewood. Website: http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/complete_season.jsp?id=bcat12400010

Boston Pops

Website: http://www.bso.org/bso/index.jsp;jsessionid=3ATYQJ33MWVUWCTFQMGCFEQ?id=bcat5220105  

Note: Readers can subscribe for select podcasts of the BSO and the Boston Pops at the above sites.

Brussels

Centre des Beaux-Arts

Website: http://www.bozar.be

Ensor Revealed

October 7 to January 13, 2011

James Ensor, "Prince of Painters", precursor of surrealism but even more akin to Bruegel and Goya, was born 150 years ago, in 1860. To mark the occasion, ING, in a co-production with the KMSKA and the Centre for Fine Arts, sets out to penetrate the mental world of this brilliant, prolific artist and complex human being, equally fascinated by light and by death. For this exceptional project, almost the entire contents of the world's largest collection of Ensor's paintings and drawings are coming to the ING Cultural Centre in Brussels: the priceless collection conserved by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA), which will be closing its doors for extensive renovations in 2011. More than 30 paintings and 150 drawings, as well as dozens of photographs and various private documents never previously exhibited, will reveal the startling secrets of a dreamy child who became a major artist.

Ensor: Composer and Writer

October 7 to January 23, 2011

To complement the Ensor exhibition at the ING Cultural Centre on Koningsplein/place Royale, the Centre for Fine Arts presents, around its main concert hall, the artist's hidden side: Ensor the writer and Ensor the musician. Compiled in 1951 by Walter Vanbeselaere, the then head curator of the Royal Museum in Antwerp, this exceptional collection of manuscripts, publications, documents, and photographs has never been made full use of before. It allows us to fully appreciate the many sides of this extravagant and colorful artist.

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/

From Delacroix to Kandinsky: Orientalism in Europe

October 15 to January 9, 2011

This exhibition presents a survey of European Orientalist art during the long 19th century

(1798-1914). Desert landscapes enduring the heat of the sun, female silhouettes, shown either very discreetly or, on the contrary, in all their sensuality, craftsmen surrounded by an abundance of colors and textures… A broad variety of themes invites visitors on a journey through exotic worlds where fantasy and reality meet. Orientalist paintings, drawings and sculptures were fostered by increased mobility, by contemporary scientific views, by political interests and by a sense of romanticism. All these elements indicate how the West perceived the Eastern world.

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 opened June 2, 2009 in Brussels. 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

Buenos Aires

Centro Cultural Borges

Website: http://www.ccborges.org.ar   

The Borges Cultural Center presentations include visual arts exhibitions and musical performances.

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 to9 pm.

 Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

Website: http://www.artic.edu/aic

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

July 25 to October 3, 2010

The two most important developments in photography in the first half of the 20th century were the emergence of lasting artistic traditions and the rise of mass-circulation picture magazines. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a leading figure in both domains. In the early 1930s, he helped to define photographic modernism, using a handheld camera to snatch beguiling images from fleeting moments of everyday life. After World War II, he turned to photojournalism, and the magic and mystery of his early work gave way to an equally uncanny clarity and completeness. This retrospective exhibition—the first since the photographer’s death in 2004—draws extensively on the collection and generous cooperation of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris.

All works in this exhibition are by Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004) and are gelatin silver prints.

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/

Climate Change

June 25 to November 28, 2010

The show presents the natural evidence for climate change, and its impact on earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land, and societies. Discover how even small changes can add

up to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and find out more about the best hopes

for alternative energy sources.

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.

Copenhagen

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Website:  http://www.louisiana.dk/

Anselm Kiefer

September 10 to January 9, 2011

A powerful and gripping presentation of one of the world's most prominent living classic artists. A journey in time and space, an encounter with huge forces, the sweep of history, myths and narratives.

Sophie Calle – Louisiana Contemporary

To October 24, 2010

Louisiana presents a number of central works by one of France's most known contemporary artists including the monumental Take Care of Yourself, which was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2007.

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 

Bob Dylan: The Brazil Series

September 4 to January 30, 2011

Bob Dylan ( b. 1941) has recorded his impressions and thoughts while travelling in Brazil, capturing people, events, and places in a plethora of sketches. Back in the US, some of these many scraps of paper served as the basis of The Brazil Series.

Experience a whole new aspect of the work of one of the 20th century key cultural personalities. The exhibition presents 40 all-new, never-before-seen paintings created by Bob Dylan specifically for this exhibition. Bob Dylan has been active as a visual artist since the 1960s, or, as he himself puts it: “I have always painted.”

Bjørn Nørgaard: Remodeling the World

April 16 to October 24, 2010

The exhibition presents Bjørn Nørgaard as an uncompromising artist who is always challenging habitual notions about art. His art is overwhelming, and he is immensely productive. The exhibition presents a total of 115 works from his almost 50 years as an active artist, showcasing his life’s work so far in chronological order, beginning in the mid-1960s and leading up to our present day.  The works themselves span the media of sculpture, actions, installations, film, and graphic art.

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.

Copenhagen Performing Arts

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

Dresden, Germany

Royal Palace

Websites: www.dresden-tourist.de or  www.skd-dresden.de 

The Historic Green Vault

Ongoing

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 tones, 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/besucherservice.html

The Young Vermeer

September 3 to October 28, 2010

Until recently, Vermeer´s early work – the starting point of his later style – received little

attention. Within the scope of an international museum cooperation, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the Mauritshuis in Den Haag and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh each present three early works by Vermeer: Diana and Her Companions, around 1653/54; Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (photo) around 1654/55 as well as The Procuress, 1656.

In Dresden, each of the three early works is confronted with other artworks, where Vermeer’s search for his own style as well as his distinction from his role models becomes especially apparent. National and international loans of artworks by famous artists such as Jacob van Loo, Jan van Bijlert, Matteo Rosselli and Simon Peter Tilmann offer views into Vermeer’s early period of picture development.

The Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) represents 11 museums in the area.

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Florence

Palazzo Strozzi

Website: http://www.palazzostrozzi.org

Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici

September 24 to January 23, 2011

One of the greatest painters of the sixteenth century, Agnolo di Cosimo, known as

Bronzino (1503-1572), embodied the fullness of the ‘modern manner’ in the years of the government of Cosimo I de’ Medici.

Florence is clearly the preferential location for a monographic exhibition on Bronzino, since the majority of his paintings are still conserved here, above all in the Uffizi, but also in other city museums and in the churches. This exhibition, the first devoted to Bronzino’s pictorial work, will also display works from museums all over the world.

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

Website: http://www.uffizi.com  

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 artworks 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.

Fort Worth/Dallas

Kimbell Art Museum

Website: www.kimbellart.org

Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea

August 29 to January 2, 2011

This fascinating exhibition will feature over 90 extraordinary works of art, reflecting the broad range of media utilized by Maya artists, including massive carved stone monuments, exquisite painted pottery vessels, charming sculpted human and animal figurines, and a lavish assortment of precious goods crafted from jade, gold, and turquoise.

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.

Helsinki

Ateneum Museum

Website: www.ateneum.fi/

Veikko Vionoj: Master

June 11 to October 3, 2010

An exhibition of the art of Veikko Vionoja (1909–2001), the show celebrates the 100th anniversary of Vionoja's birth last autumn and presents over 70 paintings covering six decades of the artist's career from the 1930s to the 1980s. The focus of the exhibition is on the artist's depiction of Finnish nature and light. Vionoja's most famous works feature fields, gardens and interiors, as well as window scenes, which are included in the exhibition.

The Ateneum is located at Kaivokatu 2. Open, Tuesdays and Fridays 10 am to 6 pm; Wednesdays and Thursdays 10 to 8 pm; Saturdays and Sundays 11 am to 5 pm. Closed Mondays. Admission

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Science Museum

Website: http://hk.science.museum/eindex.php

About 500 exhibits are displayed in the permanent exhibition area. The most prominent exhibit is the 22-meter-high twin-tower Energy Machine that is the largest of its kind in the world. A total of 16 galleries cover a wide range of science and technology topics including light, sound, and motion, electricity and magnetism, mathematics, life science, computer, transportation, communication, food science, energy, occupational safety and health and home technology. About 70 percent of the exhibits are participatory so that visitors may learn through direct involvement.

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.

Lisbon

Berardo Collection Museum

Website: http://www.museuberardo.com (Portuguese language)

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. Works by Warhol, Picasso, Dali, Duchamp, Magritte, Miró, Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons, among others representing dozens of modern movements, are in the collection. The Berardo Museum is located in the city’s historical area of Belem. Free admission.

Liverpool

Tate Museum/Liverpool

Website:  http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/

Liverpool Biennial 2010: Touched

September 18 to November 28, 2010

Liverpool Biennial is the largest contemporary visual arts event in the UK.  Every two years the city of Liverpool comes alive with a wealth of new and exciting artworks; sometimes in galleries (including Tate Liverpool) and always in more surprising, public places throughout the city. Each Biennial is themed – this year the theme is Touched, which explores not only the idea of being emotionally affected by works of art, but also physical contact with works of art. On display at Tate Liverpool will be interactive pieces that can be physically touched by the viewer, such as Franz West's sculptures, which invite visitors to sit or lie on them.

Nam June Paik

December 17 to March 13, 2011

Video artist, performer and composer Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most

Innovative artists of the twentieth century and is widely considered to be the first video artist, paving the way for the 'MTV generation'. From 17 December 2010-13 March 2011, Tate Liverpool presents the first major retrospective of Paik's work in the UK. Representing works from all phases of his career, many shown in the UK for the first time, the exhibition traces the artist's avant-garde and experimental spirit. Photo is of Paik’s work, Uncle (1986).

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.

London

British Museum

Website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/

South African Landscape

To October 10, 2010

South Africa Landscape highlights the rich diversity of plant life from South Africa’s Cape region. The landscape in the Museum’s West Garden includes the Western Cape’s famous fynbos, succulent Karoo vegetation and the coastal flora of the Eastern Cape. It features African lily (Agapanthus), fynbos heather, daisies such as the bright blue marguerite (Felicia amelloides) and the Cape daisy (Osteospermum hyoseroides), the South African geranium (Pelargonium), the Lesotho red hot poker (Kniphofia caulescens) with its bright orange rocket-shaped flowers and the shocking pink fig marigold (Carpobrotus).

The layout is a walk-through landscape with a desert feel of tumbled rocks, scree and sand, interspersed with strangely shaped quiver trees (Aloe dichotoma), swathes of spectacular plant color, and desert annual and perennial plants. Reproductions of famous examples of rock art depicting men and animals, from well-documented sites in South Africa, are incised on to a number of rocks in the landscape.

This botanical exhibit is the third in a series of five landscapes to be developed in partnership with Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

November 4 to March 6, 2011

The exhibition will present and explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death, showcasing the rich textual and visual material from the British Museum’s unparalleled collection of Book of the Dead papyri.  The ‘Book’, used for over 1500 years between c. 1600 BC and 100 AD, is not a single text, but a compilation of spells thought to equip the dead with knowledge and power which would guide them safely through the dangers of the hereafter and ultimately ensure eternal life. The British Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of Book of the Dead manuscripts on papyrus in the world, and this exhibition will be the first opportunity to see so many examples displayed together. The exhibition will include the longest Book of the Dead in the world, the Greenfield Papyrus, which measures 37 meters in length and has never been shown publicly in its

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

Cézanne's Card Players

October 21 to January 16, 2011

Paul Cézanne’s famous series of paintings of peasants playing cards has long been considered among his most important and powerful works. This landmark exhibition will be the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of Cézanne’s closely related portraits of Provençal peasants and rarely seen preparatory oil sketches and drawings. The Courtauld Gallery’s two masterpieces from this series, The Card Players and Man with a Pipe, will be joined by exceptional loans to offer a visual feast of some of Cézanne’s finest paintings.  More

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 

Horrible Histories™: Terrible Trenches Exhibition

To October 31, 2010

The exhibition examines life in the terrible trenches during the First World War.

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 - 6.00 pm. 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

Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

October 13 to January 16, 2011

The exhibition presents the finest assembly of Venetian views since the much-celebrated

display in Venice in 1967. It features works by Canaletto (photo) and all the major practitioners of the genre and is the first exhibition of its kind to be organized in the UK. Bringing together around 50 major loans from public and private collections across Europe and North America, the exhibition highlights the rich variety of Venetian view painting.

In each room, major works by Canaletto are juxtaposed with those of his rivals and associates, to demonstrate different approaches to similar views of the city. Major rivals on display include Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi as well as works by less well-known painters.

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/ Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/

Toy Boats

May 1 to October 31, 2010

Between 1850 and 1950 the development of ships underwent a massive change as steel and steam replaced wood and sail. This ignited the imaginations of children and toy makers and was met by an equivalent ‘Golden Age’ in the development of toy boats.

Borrowing extensively from the collection of the Musée national de la Marine in Paris and some of Britain’s foremost collectors, Toy Boats showcases over 100 colorful and imaginative toys which recall the grand liners, submarines and battleships that defined and defended the nation.

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

Sargent and the Sea

July 10 to September 26, 2010

American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is best known for his glamorous society portraits. Now, for the first time in Britain, the exhibit presents more than 80 paintings, drawings and watercolors that reveal a less familiar side of the artist: the seascapes and coastal scenes subjects produced in his early career during summer journeys from Paris to Brittany, Normandy and Capri, as well as two transatlantic voyages.

Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele

The exhibition comprises works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, with additional key loans from the Hungarian National Gallery. The exhibition will feature over 200 works and will include paintings, drawings and sculpture from the early Renaissance to the twentieth century. Selected works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Goya, Manet, Monet, Schiele, Gauguin and Picasso will be on display, many of which have not previously been shown in the UK.

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

Website: www.hermitagerooms.com

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.

Somerset House, is located on the Strand, London WC2R 1LA, tel. 020 7485 4630

Tate Britain

Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain

Art and the Sublime

To December 31, 2010

The exhibition explores the different meanings of the word “sublime.” During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sublime was associated in particular with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in Western art, sublime landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period, often represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening. Other themes relate to the epic and the supernatural as described in drama, poetry and fiction, for example, by Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Byron and Mary Shelley. Arguably the greatest source of the sublime for European art is the Bible, which begins with the creation of the world and ends with apocalypse and the Last Judgment.

Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments

Ongoing 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 six months.

The Tate Britain museum is devoted to British art from the 16^th century to today. It is located in Millbank in southwest London. Open daily10 am to 5:30 pm except December 24, 25, 26. Free admission. Email: visiting.britain@tate.org.uk

Tate Modern

Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern

Gauguin

September 30 to January 16, 2011

For the first time in the UK in over 50 years, Tate Modern presents an exhibition dedicated to this master French Post-Impressionist, featuring paintings and drawings from around the world. Gauguin’s sumptuous, colorful images of women in Tahiti and beautiful landscape images of Brittany in France are some of the most popular images in Modern art. Gauguin sought to escape European civilization in the South Seas. Inspired by Tahiti's tropical flora, fauna and island life, he immersed himself in its fast-disappearing local culture to invest his art with deeper meaning, ritual and myth.

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

The Hayward

Website: www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Ernesto Neto

June 19 to September 25, 2010

Best known for his sensuous sculptures, Neto creates site-specific installations with an abstract, biomorphic quality – evocative of skin and interior body systems – that investigate the way in which spatial alterations transform the relationships between people. In this, the artist’s most ambitious exhibition to date, visitors experience a sequence of interlinked spaces that skillfully merge sculpture and architecture. Wander through fabric installations, relax in cushioned soft spaces, ascend stairs into artworks overhead and, following on from Neto’s signature ‘nave’ works, venture barefoot through an all-encompassing nylon vessel. Exploring new directions in his practice, Neto also presents his first outdoor installations in the gallery’s sculpture courts. Whether submerged in a sculptural pool or balancing on an undulating path, visitors find themselves becoming active participants in the artwork.

Move: Choreographing You

October 13 to January 9, 2011

Move: Choreographing You explores how dance has been a driving force in the development of contemporary art since the 1960s. Among sculptural works, set pieces and installations, encounter dancers from Laban Contemporary Dance on their own journeys through the galleries. Pick up a hula hoop on the outdoor terrace, watch impromptu performances and go for a spin in the digital archive.

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 10 pm.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Website: www.vam.ac.uk

Grace Kelly: Style Icon

April 17 to September 26, 2010

The spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly will be on display at the V&A. Tracing the

evolution of her style from her days as one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses in the 1950s and as Princess Grace of Monaco, the display will present over 50 of Grace Kelly's outfits together with hats, jeweler and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Dresses from her films, including High Society, will be shown as well as the gown she wore to accept her Oscar award in 1955. These will be accompanied by film clips and posters, photographs and her Oscar statuette. The display will also include the lace ensemble worn by Grace Kelly for her civil marriage ceremony to Prince Rainier in 1956 and 35 haute couture gowns from the 1960s and 70s by her favorite couturiers Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy, and Yves St Laurent.

Fashion Fantasies: fashion plates and fashion satire, 1775-1925

To January 2011

This display juxtaposes two genres of print that fantasize fashion on paper: fashion plates and graphic social satire. The fashion plate communicated changes in fashion but also encouraged viewers to engage with a luxurious fantasy. At the same time fashionable dress was subject to imaginative distortions in the hands of graphic satirists interested in exposing social foibles. From the oversize wigs of the 1770s to the short skirts and fur stoles of the 1920s, the display charts the dialogue between fashion plate and fashion satire.

The 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

Website: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/royal-festival-hall

Check the website for concerts and other musical events planned.

Located at Southbank Centre 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).

Royal Opera House

Website: http://www.roh.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.royalalberthall.com

The venue best known for the Royal Albert Hall/BBC Summer Proms. Check the website for current musical events planned.

Royal Albert Hall is located at Kensington Gore, SW7. Tube: South Kensington. Cadogan Hall is located at 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1 in Chelsea.

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Madrid

Museo del Prado

Website: www.museodelprado.es

Passion for Renoir. The Collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

October 19 to February 6, 2011

The artistic career of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), one of the leading figures of

Impressionism, is characterized by an all-absorbing passion for painting that led him to achieve great renown and popularity among his contemporaries. The outstanding group of 31 works by the artist are on loan from the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (Williamstown. Massachusetts). The core of the collection of paintings from the Clark Institute originates in the large group of Impressionist works assembled by Sterling and Francine Clark over the course of four decades. For the Clarks, Pierre-Auguste Renoir represented the quintessence of Impressionism and as a result they acquired more than 35 of his paintings, including some of his most important creations.

Rubens

November 3 to January 23, 2011

The galleries in the Museum that have housed Rubens’ works for the past ten years are now closed for renovations. The Prado will be devoting a temporary exhibition to its important holdings of the artist with the aim of emphasizing the significance, size and variety of this collection, which includes many of Rubens’ masterpieces. The paintings on display will be shown in a new and original arrangement that will particularly emphasize the boundless and unique creative expressivity of an artist who was the favorite painter of Philip IV throughout his lifetime and one of the great geniuses of art.

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

Ghirlandaio and Renaissance

June 23 to October 10, 2010

The exhibition offers the visitor a unique survey of Quattrocento Florentine art whose starting-point is one of the great paintings in the Museum’s collection, the Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. Within this context the exhibition analyses portraiture in Florence through works by Botticelli and Pollaiuolo as well as Ghirlandaio himself and will focus on masterpieces associated with the marriage between Giovanna degli Albizzi and Lorenzo Tornabuoni. An important section on religious art made for private devotional purposes, bringing together not just panel paintings but also sculptures, manuscripts and other objects of the highest artistic quality are also featured.

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). 

Miami

Miami Art Museum

Website: www.miamiartmuseum.org

New Work Miami 2010

July 18 through October 17, 2010

New Work Miami 2010,conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami’s artistic community, will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment. Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum’s recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition’s run.

Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from Permanent Collection

Ongoing

Miami Art Museum puts its Permanent Collection on long-term display in the museum's largest exhibition space

Miami Art Museum is located at 101 West Flagler Street. Open daily except Mondays from 10 am to 5pm; until 9 pm Thursdays. Admission

Milan

Castello Sforzesco

Website: http://www.milanocastello.it   (Italian language)

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

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.

Minneapolis

Walker Art Center

Website: www.walkerart.org

1964

March 25 to October 24, 2010

The exhibit 1964 focuses on works made during a period of tremendous upheaval and t

transformation politically, socially, and artistically in the US. In the year following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the country saw riots erupt in a number of cities; President Lyndon Johnson ordered the first bombings in North Vietnam, and the Beatles invaded with their first concerts and their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

In the art world, a number of impulses were gaining momentum. Claes Oldenburg and George Segal introduced elements of pop culture in their sculptures, and an explosion of consumerism reverberated in the paintings of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The bravura gestures of 1950s Abstract Expressionism gave way to explorations of distilled forms, colors, and geometries in the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and others. Meanwhile, Fluxus and other artistic movements were fusing together visual art, performance, music, film and graphic design; and a profusion of prints, multiples, artist’s books, and films was creating more open and democratic channels for disseminating art. With nearly 100 works, 1964 shows how the Walker collection mirrors this remarkably fertile moment in contemporary art.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America

September 12 to January 2, 2011

The Walker presents the first U.S. survey of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most compelling voices in contemporary photography, whose offbeat images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, the exhibition includes examples from Soth’s well-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara, a selection of rarely seen early black-and-white work, and a broad range of portraits. Also on view is the Minneapolis-based artist’s newest series, Broken Manual, exploring places of escape in and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life “off the grid.”

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

Montreal

 Museum of Fine Arts (Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion)

Website: http://www.mbam.qc.ca

The Earth is Blue Like an Orange

September 1 to March 27, 2011

Less than a year ago, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts opened new galleries devoted exclusively to contemporary art, doubling the exhibition space, with the intention of

displaying works from the Museum’s collection in unusual theme-based presentations. The Earth is Blue like an Orange is he second of these presentations of the contemporary arts collection. As a counterpoint to the first installation, Global Warming:

Scenes from a Planet under Pressure, the Museum has opted to bring together some 30 works informed with a sense of the marvelous for its second show, which is comprised of photographs, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos and models, by Canadian artists as well as European, American and Japanese artists. Admission to the exhibition is free. The Museum is located at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West. Open Tuesdays through Sundays. Admission.

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Website:  www.macm.org

Borduas: Les frontières de nos rêves ne sont plus les mêmes

To October 3, 2010

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Borduas’s death, the museum spotlights his artistic legacy. In addition to drawing on the Musée’s remarkable Borduas Collection (123 works: 72 paintings, 50 works on paper and 1 sculpture), curator Josée Bélisle invited four contemporary artists who readily recognize the decisive role played by Borduas in the development of their practices. Accordingly, François Lacasse, Guy Pellerin, Roland Poulin and Irene F. Whittome were asked to select pieces by Borduas, as well as some of their own works that are also in the Musée Collection, and to present one or more of their recent works.

The show features 60 some works produced by Borduas between 1924 and 1960. In addition 20 pieces by the guests arts are also presented. This presentation of their art alongside that of the master offers a fresh new look at the legacy left by Borduas.

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

 Insects on Parade

Ongoing

Celebrating its 20^th anniversary in 2010, the Montréal Insectarium is home to a multitude of treasures just waiting to be discovered. Dazzling, jewel-like beetles, giant walking sticks, butterflies with multicolored wings, and furry spiders to enchant visitors young and old. All these different insects are laid out in display cases, vivariums and exhibition modules carefully designed so that everyone can learn more about insects and arthropods. It’s a veritable temple celebrating insects from around the world, with plenty to satisfy the appetites of first-time visitors and keen amateur entomologists alike.          

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

Located at 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

Website: http://www.osm.ca/en/index.cfm

Tickets are now on sale for the MSO’s 2010/2011 Season.

The OSM is located at Place des Armes. Tickets are on sale at: 514-842-

During the week of July 31 to August 8, the MSO will perform at the Orford Festival located in the Orford National Park.

Moscow

Pushkin Museum/Gallery of European & American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries

Website:  http://www.museum.ru/gmii/defengl.htm

European & American Art of 19th & 20th Centuries

Ongoing

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has one of the most representative collections in Russia of foreign art dated from ancient times to modern days. The exposition of the Museum includes today a vast collection of tinted plaster casts of famous ancient, medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a collection of original works of foreign artists, sculptors and graphics together with objects of decorative arts.

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.

New Orleans

National World War II Museum

Website: www.nationalww2museum.org

Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII

July 22 to October 17, 2010

The exhibit focuses on the animals employed and encountered throughout World War II, from the Home Front to the Pacific. Life-size horses and mules, harnessed in authentic World War II saddles and equipment, along with life-size mannequins, dressed in authentic World War II gear, will demonstrate the unique impression made by military animals and their masters. Animals were appreciated both for their labor and love, but unfortunately not all were shown humane treatment when their usefulness was no longer in dire need. This exhibit will focus on each different animal’s specific usefulness and specific role within a campaign.

The exhibit will also include two electronic viewing sections for displaying U.S. servicemen encountering exotic animals from North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Islands. It will also feature a slideshow of beloved military mascots from every service branch. Another electronic element will utilize touch screen technology to allow visitors to explore the contents of a German horse veterinary kit and learn how its contents would have been used to treat these animals.

The museum, designated by the US Congress as the country’s official museum on World War II, is located at 945 Magazine Street. Museum entrance is on Andrew Higgins Drive. Tel: (504) 528-1944; email: info@nationalww2museum.org. Open seven days a week, 9:00 am 5:00 pm. Admission, except for museum members.

New York

American Museum of Natural History

Website: www.amnh.org

Race to the End of the Earth

May 29 through January 2, 2011.

Race to the End of the Earth will recount one of the most stirring tales of Antarctic exploration: the contest to reach the South Pole in 1911-1912. The exhibition will focus on the challenges that the two competing explorers—Norwegian Roald Amundsen and British Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott—had to face as they undertook their 1,800-mile journeys from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole and back. Nutrition, human endurance, equipment, logistics, and Antarctica’s extreme weather conditions were among the many challenges that each team had to face, with outcomes that included both triumph and tragedy. The exhibition also reveals the legacy of these early

expeditions by linking it with modern science in the Antarctic and the latest research on this unique continent’s distant past and its potential future.

Journey to the Stars – In this all-new Space Show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born. Visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise some five billion years in the future..

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

Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool

September 9 to January 2, 2011

This is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (born

1959), and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career in the 1980s to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations. As one of the leading artists of Japan’s influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara’s cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. His popular appeal masks the serious social and personal dimensions of his work—feelings of helplessness and rage, and a sense of isolation in a hyper-networked society.

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/

Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864

January 29 to October 17, 2010

This exhibition presents a selection of artworks and historical objects celebrating the contributions of women to the mid-nineteenth-century Sanitary Movement, particularly the highly important Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864.

Fred Tomaselli

October 8 to January 2, 2011

This focused mid-career survey presents a selection of Fred Tomaselli’s unique hybrid paintings and collages from 1990 to the present. These layered paintings combine cutout images of plants, birds, smiling mouths, and hands (clipped from field guides and magazines) with passages of paint and actual prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants to create highly stylized, eye-popping compositions. Tomaselli’s artwork draws upon a wide range of sources from both popular culture and art history, and from his own hobbies of gardening, kayaking, and bird watching. Growing up near the desert in southern California, Tomaselli moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1980s, where he continues to live and work..

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

Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection

April 23 to Fall 2010

Traditional Design Triennial: Why Design Now?

May 14 to January 9, 2011

Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most innovative

designs at the center of contemporary culture. In this fourth exhibition in the series, the National Design Triennial will explore the work of designers addressing human and environmental problems across many fields of the design practice, from architecture and products to fashion, graphics, new media, and landscapes. The show will present the experimental projects and emerging ideas for the period between 2006 and 2009.

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 

The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya

October 5 through January 9, 2011

The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century —

Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them — created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. The presentation will feature more than fifty of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeast. Opening the show are rare sheets by the early seventeenth-century masters Francisco Pacheco and Vicente Carducho, followed by a number of spectacular red chalk drawings by the celebrated draftsman Jusepe de Ribera whose pen and ink drawing. (Head of a Man With Figures on His Head. is shown in photo.)

The exhibition continues with rapid sketches and painting-like wash drawings from the rich oeuvre of the Andalusian master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, along with lively drawings by Francisco de Herrera the Elder and his son and the Madrid court artist Juan Carreño de Miranda, among others.

The second part of the exhibition will present twenty-two sheets by the great draftsman Francisco de Goya, whose drawings are rarely studied in the illuminating context of the Spanish draftsmen who came before him.

The Frick is located at 1 East 70 Street. Open Tuesday to Sunday. Admission.

Guggenheim Museum of Art

Website: www.guggenheim.org

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936

October 1 to January 9, 2011

Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and

modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century. After the horrors visited upon humanity in the Western hemisphere by new machine-age warfare, a desire reasserted itself to represent the body whole and intact. For the next decade-and-a-half classicism, “return to order,” synthesis, organization, and enduring values, rather than the pre-War emphasis on innovation-at-all-costs, would dominate the discourse of contemporary art. Chaos and Classicism will trace this interwar classical aesthetic as it worked its way from a poetic, mythic idea in the Parisian avant-garde; to a political, historical idea of a revived Roman Empire, under Mussolini; to a neo-Platonic High Modernism at the Bauhaus, and then, chillingly, a pseudo-biological classicism, or Aryanism, in nascent Nazi culture.

(Photo  above is Fernand Léger’s Woman Holding a Vase. Oil on canvas.)

The Guggenheim is located at1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th St., 212-423-3500.

Japan Society

Website: www.japansociety.org

The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin

October 1 to January 9, 2011

Widely acknowledged as the leading Zen master of the last five centuries, Hakuin Ekaku

(1685-1768) was also the most significant Zen artist of his time. He not only expressed the mind and heart of Zen for monks and lay followers (it was he who first asked "What is the sound of one hand?") but also reached out to the entire population with his painting and calligraphy. For this first exhibition in the West devoted to Hakuin, 78 of his scrolls will be gathered from collections in the United States and Japan. Organized in collaboration with New Orleans Museum of Art, and curated by Audrey Yoshiko Seo and Professor Stephen Addiss.

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/

South Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry

August 29 to  October 31, 2010

As part of a design competition sponsored by the Formica Company, internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry created a series of lamps based on the form of a fish which had become something of a personal icon for him. A selection of Gehry’s colorful and luminous lamps will be on view in this exhibition that will also explore the significance of fish imagery in the architect’s work.

Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism

September 12 to January 30, 2011

This exhibition explores the origins and impact of feminism on contemporary painting from the 1960s to now. Eva Hesse, Joan Snyder, Deborah Kass, and many other artists forged new avenues for painting by expanding its subjects and inventing new techniques in abstraction, collage, and realism.

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

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

April 27 to October 31, 2010 (weather permitting)

Twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn (born in New Jersey in 1961) present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop. The monumental bamboo structure, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high, takes the form of a cresting wave that bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, Big Bambú suggests the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism. And the roof affords wonderful views of the park and the city skyline.

The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty

September 28, to January 2, 2011

This exhibition will cover the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and will feature every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition will highlight new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire—with reverberations in Italian art of the fourteenth century.

The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel

September 28 to April 3, 2011

First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod

(formerly Lydda), Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor is believed to belong to a large house owned by a wealthy Roman in about A.D. 300. The mosaic comprises a large square panel with a central medallion depicting various exotic animals and two rectangular end panels, one of which represents a marine scene of fish and ships

Miró: The Dutch Interiors

October 5 to January 17, 2011

A series of three early twentieth-century avant-garde paintings by Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) will be juxtaposed with the two paintings from the Dutch Golden Age that inspired them, providing rare insight into the artist's creative process. Preparatory studies and a fourth related canvas will complete the exhibition.

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   

Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress

September 17 through January 2, 2011

In a joint exhibition with the New York Public Library, Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress explores the life and work of the novelist, short story writer, fabulist, critic, lecturer, and travel-writer, and his impact and enduring

influence upon American literature and humor. The exhibition coincides with the 175th anniversary of Twain's birth in 1835 and includes more than 120 manuscripts and rare books, including original manuscript pages from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and Life on the Mississippi (1883), as well as letters, notebooks, diaries, photographs, and drawings associated with the author's life and work.

Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968

September 24 through January 2, 2011

This exhibition will include over forty-five spectacular drawings borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks

September 24 through January 23, 2011

This selection of more than twenty drawings by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) from the Morgan's collections captures his dynamic and varied use of drawing and includes some of the most quintessential subjects depicted by the artist.

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

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917

July 18 to October 11, 2010

In the time between Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his

departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. Works from this period have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as an aberration within the artist's development, or as a response to Cubism or World War I. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice. Through this shift of focus, the exhibition reveals deep connections among these

Bathers by a River

works and demonstrates their critical role in the artist's development at this time. The exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, primarily from the years of 1913–17, in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period.

Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

September 15 to March 14, 2011

Counter Space explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen and highlights MoMA’s recent acquisition of an unusually complete example of the iconic “Frankfurt Kitchen,” designed in 1926–27 by the architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky. In the aftermath of World War I, thousands of these kitchens were manufactured for public-housing estates being built around the city of Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. Schütte-Lihotzky’s compact and ergonomic design, with its integrated approach to storage, appliances, and work surfaces, reflected a commitment to transforming the lives of ordinary people on an ambitious scale. Previously hidden from view in a basement or annex, the kitchen became a bridgehead of modern thinking in the domestic sphere—a testing ground for new materials, technologies, and power sources, and a springboard for the rational reorganization of space and domestic labor within the home. Since the innovations of Schütte-Lihotzky and her contemporaries in the 1920s, kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and even political ideology in the case of the celebrate

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 Arts And Design

Website: http://madmuseum.org 

Dead or Alive

April 27 to October 24, 2010

The exhibit showcases the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures. In Dead or Alive, the materials transformed by the artists are entirely natural. Once-living parts of flora and fauna are recombined and rearranged into works of art that address the transience of life, and all that is elegant and alarming about the natural world.

The Museum of Arts and Design is located at 2 Columbus Circle. Open Tuesdays to Sundays 11:00 am to 6:00 pm except for Thursdays which closes at 9 pm. Admission

Museum of City of New York

Website: http://www.mcny.org

Notorious & Notable: 20th Century Women of Style

September 14 through January 3, 2011

Co-presented with the National Jewelry Institute, the exhibition highlights 80 prominent New York women who used their style, talent, or wealth to capture the attention of society and the media. The exhibition features a runway of original attire—much of it created by the most important designers of their times—and an impressive selection of jewelry crafted from the dawn of the 20th century to its close.

The exhibition features such celebrated New York women as Mrs. Cornelius Whitney Vanderbilt, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley, and Barbara Walters, as well as women from the arts world, including Isadora Duncan, Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, and Lauren Bacall. The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter many of New York’s leading ladies past and present through their fashion and jewelry.

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

Website: www.neuegalerie.org

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism To Expressionism

September 16 to January 10, 2011

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to this major late 18th-century Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor. It will focus on the artist’s so-called “character heads,” among the most important works of sculpture from their era. The exhibition is organized by Guilhem Scherf, chief curator of sculpture at the Musée du Louvre.

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.

New Museum

Website: www.newmuseum.org

The Last Newspaper

October 6 to January 9, 2011

A major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines, the show will animate the Museum with signature artworks and a constant flow of information-gathering and processing undertaken by organizations and artist groups that have been invited to inhabit offices within the museum’s galleries. Partner organizations will use on-site offices to present their research, engage in rapid prototyping, and stage public dialogues, opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as display. For visitors, “The Last Newspaper” will be a unique site of dialogue, participation, and critical thinking, posing new possibilities for a contemporary art museum experience.

Voice and Wind: Haegue Yang

October 20 to January 23, 2011

The New Museum will present the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). The exhibition will feature the artist’s installation Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Voice and Wind (2009)—a labyrinthine system of stacked venetian blinds, industrial fans, and scent atomizers that will transform the New Museum’s lobby gallery into an immersive experience. Yang’s work is marked by a particular preoccupation with the coexistence of formalism and emotion, determination and meandering.

New Museum is located at 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002. Tel: 212-219-1222.

Open Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 6 pm; Thursdays and Fridays until 9 pm. Admission

The New York Botanical Garden

Website www.nybg.org 

The Edible Garden

June 19–October 17, 2010

Throughout the summer and into autumn, The Edible Garden, celebrates growing and preparing great food. Set throughout the Botanical Garden's spectacular 250-acre landscape, The Edible Garden will feature numerous vegetable gardens and multiple displays, demonstrations from food and gardening experts, celebrity appearances during four festival weekends, and exciting programs that demonstrate the bounty, economy, and nutritional value of edible plants.

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

Website:  www.nyhistory.org

Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin

October 5 to January 31, 2011

Exploring the roles of science, government, higher education and industry in developing and distributing a life-saving drug, the exhibition will bring to life the personalities who discovered insulin and raced to bring it to the world and will tell the story of one extraordinary New York girl—Elizabeth Evans Hughes, daughter of the leading statesman and jurist Charles Evans Hughes—who was among the very first patients to be saved.

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

Paintings of Charles Burchfield

June 24 to October 17, 2010

Although he lived next door to Niagara Falls, artist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967)

chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary

An April Mood, 1946-55

subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature.

Lee Friedlander: America By Car

September 4 to November 28, 2010

Driving across most of the country’s fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master

photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Friedlander’s method allows for fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering wheels, dashboards, and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches, monuments, suspension bridges, essential American landscapes, and often Friedlander’s own image.

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

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

New York City Ballet

Website: www.nycballet.com

New York City Opera

Website: www.nycopera.com

New York Philharmonic

Website: www.nyphil.org 

Other Performing Arts Venues:

Carnegie Hall

Website: www.carnegiehall.org

Broadway/Off Broadway Theater Offerings:

http://www.broadway.com /

 http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/

Public Theater

Website: www.publictheater.org

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Paris

Centre Georges Pompidou (Beauborg)

Website: http://www.centrepompidou.fr

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.

Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais

Website: http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/Homepage/p-617-Homepage.htm

Claude Monet: 1840 -1926

September 22 to January 24 2011

An exhibition of great wealth tracing back the artistic development of one of the most illustrious fathers of impressionism: Claude Monet. The most celebrated representative of the Impressionist movement, Monet painted for more than sixty years: landscapes, figures, still lifes. Masterpieces, rarely loaned by the Orsay Museum, form a unique ensemble within the exhibition, alongside other paintings from major foreign collections. The exhibition is the first monograph devoted to the artist since the major retrospective in 1980. Bringing together 200 paintings, it will feature exclusive loans from countries all over the world including Australia, Brazil, US, the Netherlands, and Russia.

The Grand Palais hosts fine-arts exhibitions at the National Galeries, while the adjoining Palais de la Découverte (Palace of Discovery) focuses on science and natural history. It 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

Website:  http://www.louvre.fr

Roads of Arabia - Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

July 14 to September 27, 2010

Three hundred works reveal the archaeology and the history of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistoric times to the dawn of the modern world. This exhibition offers a journey through the heart of Arabia, orchestrated by photographs of the region's sumptuous landscapes. It takes the form of a series of stopovers in some of the peninsula's extensive oases, which in ancient times were home to powerful states or which, beginning in the 7th century, became Islamic holy places. The 300 items chosen, most of which have never left their country of origin before, provide an original panorama of the different cultures that succeeded each other within the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistoric times through the dawn of the modern world.

The second section of the exhibition highlights the role of Arabia as the cradle of Islam. The roads became crowded with pilgrims as well as traders; a first group of exhibits evokes the pilgrim paths and Al-Rabadha, one of the principal stopping-places. Following this road as far as Mecca, a second group comprises a selection of funerary steles illustrating the evolution of writing and ornamentation between the 10th and 16th century and providing precious information on Meccan society at the time. Muslim sovereigns vied with each other in their generosity towards holy places, with buildings and such ventures into embellishment as this monumental door from the Ka’ba, the gift of an Ottoman sultan.

Antiquity Rediscovered - Innovation and Resistance in the 18th Century

December 2 to February 14, 2011

The “neoclassical” trend emerged in the 18th century not only as a result of the processes

of innovation and emulation, but also in response to Europe’s rediscovery of its ancient heritage. The exhibition will shed light on the origins of the movement and illustrate the diverse manifestations of the new aesthetic. Two hundred works consisting of sculptures, paintings, decorative objects and graphic arts bearing witness to the work of artists during this period, will be on view.

The Louvre located off the Place de la Concorde on the Right Bank is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.

Musée Carnavalet

 Website: www.carnavalet.paris.fr /

The museum is dedicated to the history of Paris. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of the 19th century, the Hôtel Carnavalet was purchased by the Municipal Council of Paris in 1866; it was opened to the public in 1880. By the latter part of the 20th century, the museum was bursting at the seams. The Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau was annexed to the Canavalet and opened to the public in 1989.

The Museum is located in the Marais Quarter at 23, rue de Sévigné (3rd Arrondissement). Tel. 42 72 41 13 (Fax: 42 72 01 61; Métro stop: Saint-Paul, Chemin Vert. Open to the public Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission except for school groups and seniors over 60.

Musée Jeu de Paume

Website: http://www.jeudepaume.org

William Kentridge: Five Themes

June 29 to September 5, 2010

Featuring about 40 works in a range of media —including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures, and books.

Curated by Mark Rosenthal, adjunct curator of modern art at the Norton Museum of Art, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings viewers up to date on the artist’s work over the past decade, exploring how his subject matter has evolved from the specific context of South Africa to more universal stories. In recent years, Kentridge has dramatically expanded both the scope of his projects (such as recent full-scale opera productions) and their thematic concerns, which now include his own studio practice, colonialism in Namibia and Ethiopia, and the cultural history of postrevolutionary Russia. His newer work is based on an intensive exploration of themes connected to his own life experience, as well as the political and social issues that most concern him.

Born in 1955 in Johannesburg, where he continues to live and work, Kentridge has earned international acclaim for his interdisciplinary practice, which often fuses drawing, film, and theater. He first gained recognition in 1997, when his work was included in Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and in the Johannesburg and Havana Biennials, which were followed by prominent solo exhibitions internationally.

Jeu de Paume, 1, place de la Concorde. Open daily except Mondays.

Musée du Luxembourg

Website: http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/

During 2010, the Luxembourg Museum will be closed.

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

Website: http://www.museemaillol.com

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 arrondissement. 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

Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

October 19 to January 23, 2011

For a long time Gérôme was stigmatized as the representative of sterile Academic art, until, in the later decades of his life, there was a profound change in how he was perceived. Today he is recognized as one of the great image creators of the 19th century.

The exhibition is an opportunity to look at all aspects of his work, from his sources to his influence: Gérôme's place in French painting of his time, his theatrical interpretation of history painting, his complex relationship with exoticism, his use of polychromy in sculpture, his role as a teacher and his interest in the Classical model. It also looks at how his personality crystallized the whole anti-Academic struggle of the late 19th century, and finally how he aroused the passionate interest of the general public and American collectors.

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 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.

Fleuve Congo, Arts d'Afrique Centrale

June 22 to October 3, 2010

Baba Bling

October 5 to January 30, 2011

The exhibition explores the unique interior designs from Singapore.

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 am to 6.30 pm.

Admission fee.

Musée de Rodin

Website: www.musee-rodin.fr 

Monet-Rodin: Just The Two Of Us

October 1 to January 30, 2011

In conjunction with the Monet retrospective  taking place this autumn at the Grand Palais, the Rodin Museum is presenting an exhibition-report centering on one of

the masterpieces of its collections: the painting of Belle-Ile, by Claude Monet, that the painter probably gave Rodin (photo)  in 1888, in thanks or exchange for La Jeune Mère à la Grotte, which the sculptor had just given him.

Two years previously, in the fall of 1886, Monet had isolated himself for six weeks to paint the rocky coast of Belle-Ile, struggling against sun, wind, rain and storms to produce a work of great virtuosity, a series of thirty-nine canvases of this wild cliff.

The master of impressionism and the most famous sculptor or his times shared a sincere passion for nature, which united them in their quest for the same artistic ideal. They met regularly in the country, at Giverny, whether on official or social occasions or in more intimate circumstances.

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.30) and from 9.30 am to 4.45 pm (Oct.1- March 31)

National Museum of Natural History

Website: http://www.mnhn.fr

Dans L'ombre des Dinosaures

April 14 to February 14, 2011

Discover the time when dinosaurs and small mammals coexisted on earth, where flying reptiles shared the sky with birds with teeth and when the last marine reptiles hunted the oceans. You can analyze on touchscreen fossils from Argentina, China, and North America. With scientists you seek to understand what was happening, there are 65 million years, to change the system deeply enough to get rid of the dinosaurs that flourished their cousins birds and mammals are being modernized. Nine interactive devices describe the innovations that now allow mammals to fly, swim, run, hunt, graze.

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

Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art

Website: www.philamuseum.org

Art in Revolutionary Philadelphia

April 17 to January 2011

As the political climate in Philadelphia grew increasingly charged throughout the 1770s, art became currency. This presentation allows Museum visitors to see the featured works of art through the lens of a truly seminal period in American history—to consider the unexpected roles art played in the lives of individuals and families during the American Revolution.

Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974

November 2 to January 16, 2011

Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, born 1933) is widely recognized in Europe as one of its most influential contemporary artists and is increasingly gaining recognition in the United States. As the artist’s first focused survey in the U.S. in more than two decades, the exhibition places Pistoletto’s work in the context of the postwar sociocultural transformations of Italy, Western Europe, and North America while also exploring its relationship to Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.

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 

Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands

Opens September 26, 2010

In the late 1800s, the University of Pennsylvania began excavating the ancient city of Nippur, located in present-day Iraq. This marked the first American expedition in the Middle East. Over the period of a decade, the excavation team unearthed a remarkable collection of nearly 30,000 cuneiform tablets. Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands tells the stories of three men whose lives intertwined during the Nippur excavation, as well as the story of Penn’s first excavation. Osman Hamdi Bey, director of the Imperial Museum in Istanbul (now called the Istanbul Archaeological Museum) was the gatekeeper for all excavations in the Ottoman Empire. Also an accomplished painter, Hamdi Bey created a painting of the excavations at Nippur. This painting, along with another Hamdi Bey painting in the Penn Museum’s collection, will be featured in the exhibit.

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

Website: www.fi.edu/

Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt

June 5 to January 2, 2011

The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to the sea and sand for nearly 2,000 years, surfaces in this new exhibition, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt, making its world premiere at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), the exhibition features never before seen artifacts, and takes visitors inside the present-day search for Cleopatra, which extends from the sands of Egypt to the depths of the Bay of Aboukir near Alexandria.

Electricity

Ongoing

Feel the force of electricity by manipulating electrical phenomena, exploring authentic artifacts, and tackling questions of sustainable electricity generation and use. This exhibition is energized, with interactive devices and graphics glowing from within the darkened gallery, illustrated by simple, edgy imagery.

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.

Rome

Scuderie Papali al Quirinale

Website: www.scuderiequirinale.it

Scuderie Papali al Quirinale is located at 16, Via XXIV Maggio. Phone: +39 06 69 62 70

National Gallery of Modern Art/ Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

Website: www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it

Le vie dell’arte attraverso le emozioni

To November 30, 2010

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.

 San Francisco

De Young Museum

Website: http://www.famsf.org/deyoung

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

September 25 to January 18, 2011

The second of two exhibitions from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection, Van

Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay follows on the heels of the first with a selection of the most famous late-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir, as well as works representing the individualist styles of the early modern masters, including Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and the leaders of Les Nabis, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard.

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.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Website:  http://www.sfmoma.org/

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870

October 30 to April 17, 2011

Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, Exposed challenges us to consider how the camera has transformed the very nature of looking. From the time it was possible to make pictures of people in the streets, photographers have been able to capture others without their knowledge. The language of the medium is telling: we say we "catch" or "shoot" someone with the camera, revealing an often unrecognized aggression. Exposed brings together historical and contemporary photographs, films, and video works by both unknown photographers and internationally renowned artists — from Walker Evans and Weegee to Nan Goldin and Sophie Calle — to examine some of the camera's most unsettling uses, including pornography, surveillance, stalking celebrity, and witnessing violence. The exhibition also offers a glimpse of the technology that has made such strategies possible, presenting a selection of cameras designed to be concealed. Timely and provocative, disturbing and compelling, Exposed poses uneasy questions about who is looking at whom, and why.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

October 30 to January 30, 2011

An innovative artist, trailblazing photojournalist, and quintessential world traveler, Henri

Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) ranks among the most accomplished and original figures in the history of photography. His inventive images of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of the medium, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with "the decisive moment" — the title of his first major book. He dispatched urgent visual reportage from India and Indonesia at the time of independence, China during its revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. This major retrospective, the first in the United States in three decades, offers a fresh look at Cartier-Bresson's entire career. It reveals him as one of the great portraitists of the 20th century and one of its keenest observers of the global theater of human affairs.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is located at 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

Tickets are now on sale for the SFS 2010/2011 season.

San Francisco Symphony performs at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. Tel: +1 (415) 864-6000.

Shanghai

Shanghai Art Museum

Website: www.shanghaimuseum.net/cn/index.jsp

Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio:The Katherine and George Fan Collection

To October 19, 2010

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.

Singapore

Asian Civilisations Museum

Website: http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/

Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town 79 AD

October 16 to January 23, 2010

In 79 AD, the cosmopolitan city of Pompeii and much of its surrounding area were buried under volcanic ash and pumice following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy. It was not until the mid-18th century that this city was slowly revealed to the world through archaeological excavations. Pompeii was a bustling and prosperous Roman town with around 20,000 inhabitants at the time of its destruction. Its strategic location, mild climate and fertile soil provided the impetus to the productive agricultural industry as well as the thriving fishing and shipping industries. Over 270 objects from the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei (SANP), including jewels, frescoes, sculptures and household items, will be on display to reconstruct Pompeii. Highlights include body casts of eight victims, who were ‘immortalized’ during their last moments when Mount Vesuvius erupted, gladiators’ gear, a mosaic fountain and frescoes from the House of the Golden Bracelet.

Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555. Tel: +65 6332 7791. Entry: S$8. MRT: Raffles Place.

Stuttgart

Art Museum Stuttgart

Website: http://www.kunstmuseumstuttgart.com/

EAT ART

September 18 to January 9, 2011

The Swiss artist Dieter Roth began experimenting with foodstuffs in the 1960s. For his

art he used materials such as cold cuts, chocolate, or spices like aniseed. Simultaneously his compatriot Daniel Spoerri designed what he referred to as Tableau-piège or snare pictures. In these assemblages he would fix or capture the remains of meals onto a support – a board or tabletop – and hang the whole piece on the wall like a painting. It was also Spoerri who coined the term Eat Art as an edible art that positioned itself at the interface between art and life. The exhibition documents the use of foodstuffs in art from the 1970s up to the present by showing objects, installations, and films. Besides Roth and Spoerri, artists such as Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Arpad Dobriban were engaged in exploring the existential and sensual aspects of eating and preparing food. But we also find numerous younger artists equally fascinated by the subject, among them Sonja Alhäuser, Anya Gallaccio, Elke Krystufek, and Shimabuku. In their works they reflect on food intake as a means of creating identity as well as food production, its processing, and consumption in a globalized society.

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.

Stuttgart Auto Museums

Mercedes Benz Museum

Website: http://www.museum-mercedes-benz.com/ 

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.

The museum is located at Mercedesstrafe 100. Open Tuesdays to Sundays and some public holidays from 9 am to 6 pm.

Porsche Museum

Website: 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.

Porsche Museum is located at Porscheplatz 1 ,D – 70435 Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. E-Mail: info.museum@porsche.de Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9 am to 6 pm. Admission fee.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au 

The Indian Empire: Multiple Realities

August 19 to November 7, 2010

Through prints, photographs, paintings and embroideries, this exhibition presents aspects of the Indian empire when patrons were as diverse as Indian maharajas, East India Company employees, and the military and administrative personnel of the British Raj.

Art Gallery is located on Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney. Tel: +61 (0)2 9225 1744. Admission: A$10. Open: daily, 10am-5pm.

 Tokyo

 Mori Art Museum

Website: http://www.mori.art.museum/eng/index.html

Sensing Nature: Yoshikoa Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashii

July 24 to November 7, 2010

Japan's temperate climate and its mountainous topography gave birth to a unique natural environment, which in turn fostered an ancient cosmology and spirituality, which have greatly influenced our culture and arts. In "Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro, Kuribayashi Takashi" we think about how the innate human ability to perceive nature (to sense nature) and the Japanese view of nature exist in our urbanized and modernized world. We also ask how those views are reflected in contemporary art and design practices. Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Taro and Kuribayashi Takashi are three internationally active artists/designers who give abstract or symbolic expression to immaterial or amorphous concepts as well as natural phenomenon such as snow, water, wind, light, stars, mountains, waterfalls and forests. Their ideas of nature suggest that it is not something that is to be contrasted with the human world, but that it is something that incorporates all life forms, including human beings. The exhibition attempts to stimulate our sense of nature through large-scale installations with visitors’ physical experiences with their entire bodies.

Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb

November 27 to February 27, 2011

With a body of dynamic work using media as diverse as sculpture, photography and video, Odani Motohiko (born 1972) is one of Japan's most acclaimed artists – both at home and abroad. The artist's work tends to arise out of his interest in the sensations of fear, pain and unease, and his way of giving physical and sculptural expression to abstract sensations and psychological conditions is unique and often confronting. At the same time, Odani possesses his own critical view of sculpture as a medium. His approach is influenced by his experience of growing up in Kyoto surrounded by sculptural representations of Buddha and also in his own long-held interest in figurines and Japanese subcultures.

This exhibition brings together new and early works by Odani. It surveys the power of an artistic practice that explores the border between the concrete and the abstract, the traditional and the new and the physical and the spiritual.

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/

Nabeshima Ware—Designs that Inspire Pride

August 11 to October 11, 2010

Nabeshima ware was first made in the second half of the 17th century at Hizen in Saga prefecture, and production of high quality tableware continued throughout the Edo period. The products were used by the feudal lord, notably for purposes such as presentation to the Tokugawa shogun and as gifts. As befits ceramics produced for such sophisticated purposes, the designs on Nabeshima ware were refined and distinctively Japanese. Tracing the history of Nabeshima by examining a series of some of the most outstanding ceramics produced, this exhibition highlights the beauty of their design.

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.

Toronto

Art Gallery of Ontario

Website: www.ago.net

Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre

To September 26, 2010

Featuring artwork inspired by the theatre, presented with live performers, full-scale sets and period lighting. See works by Degas, Delacroix and other masters, from the world’s greatest museums — including the Tate, MoMA, Musee d’Orsay, Louvre and the Met.

Julian Schnabel: Art and Film

September 1 to January 2, 2011

American art superstar Julian Schnabel has spent his life pushing the limits of painting and crossing artistic boundaries as an award-winning filmmaker. Now, for the first time, a major retrospective examines the connections between painting and film in Schnabel’s work, tracing how his paintings exist in dialogue with the cinema and revealing the rich interplay between the two media. The exhibition surveys Schnabel’s work as a painter from the mid-1970s to the present and features more than 25 key works.

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

Website: http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca

Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids

Opens October 9, 2010

This amazing new exhibition traces the natural and cultural roots of some of the world’s most enduring mythological creatures from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond.  It includes eye-popping models, paintings, and textiles, along with other cultural objects from around the world ranging from shadow puppets to Japanese armor.

The exhibition reveals the relationship between nature and legend throughout history from Pliny the Elder, who, in 77 AD asserted that mermaids were “no fabulous tale,” to the current sightings of Scotland’s renowned but unsubstantiated Loch Ness Monster.

Mythic Creatures features preserved specimens from the American Museum of Natural History and other museums’ collections as well as fossils of prehistoric animals to investigate how they could have, through misidentification, speculation, fear, or imagination, inspired the development of some legendary creatures.

Exhibition highlights include a 37 meter-long Chinese parade dragon, recently used in New York City’s Chinatown to perform the traditional dragon dance at the Lunar New Year; a “Feejee mermaid,” of the type made famous by showman P. T. Barnum, created by sewing the head and torso of a monkey to the tail of a fish; and tremendous and “life-size” models of mythical creatures including a 5 meter-long dragon with a wingspan of over 6 meters. 

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, BC

Vancouver Art Gallery

Website: http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/ 

Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs

September 25 to January 16, 2011

Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely regarded as one of the most original and significant chroniclers of the western American landscape. The first large-scale exhibition of Adams’ work to be presented in Canada, The Place We Live traces his longstanding engagement with the degradation of the environment in the face of suburban development. Read more...

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. Accessible by public transportation.

Venice

Gallerie dell’Accademia

Website: http://www.gallerieaccademia.org/

The monumental estate of the Accademia Galleries is located in the prestigious centre of the Scuola Grande of Santa Maria della Carità, one of the most ancient lay fraternal orders of the city. The church of Santa Maria and the monastery of the Canonici Lateranensi, built by Andrea Palladio, are integral parts of the Accademia. A very rich collection of Venetian paintings from Veneto as well, from the Bizantine and Gothic fourteenth century to the artists of the Renaissance, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiziano until Gianbattista Tiepolo and the Vedutisti of the eighteenth century, Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Longhi.   

The Academia Galleries are located at Campo della Carità Dorsoduro 1050 in Venice. Open daily from 8:15 am to 7:15 pm except Mondays when the museum closes at 2 pm. Admission

Museums of Marks Square

Website: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?sezione=mostre

Museo Correr

Website: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?pid=1608&musid=9&sezione=musei

Giacomo Favretto

July 31 to November 21, 2010

The Museo Correr is located at San Marco 52. Open daily. Admission. Email:

info@fmcvenezia.it

Museo Fortuny

Website: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?musid=2&sezione=musei

Marco Tirelli

September 4 to January 9, 2011

Already anticipated by some of the artist’s works on display or “scattered” around the first floor, the exhibition covers all the vast space of the Museum’s second floor and shows large-sized canvases together with sculptures and other smaller sized works conceived by Marco Tirelli (Rome, 1956) especially for the museum.

The paintings portray architectural geometrical abstract elements that refer to states of indeterminateness and transit. Essential forms in which the physical object becomes an excuse to cross the border between light and shadow, thus creating a metaphysical relationship with space: here architecture expands until it disappears in an illusory monochrome that envelops and embraces the viewer, creating an alienating space, a window on perception, a passage way to meditation.

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.

Giorgio Morandi

September 4 to January 9, 2011

Twenty-one still lifes by Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, 1890 – 1964), some of which are from private collections and are on public display for the very first time. Offering a detailed selection of rarely exposed works covering a period of time that goes from 1921 to 1963 the aim of the exhibition is to immerge the visitor inside the same meditative silence that Giorgio Morandi creates during realization of his paintings.

Ca’Pesaro

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Tony Craig: In 4D From Flux to Stabililty

August 29 to January 9, 2011

A project conceived especially for Ca' Pesaro by one of the protagonists of sculpture today, Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949). With an itinerary through the three floors of Ca’ Pesaro, the exhibition offers 40 works of art, in glass, bronze, steel, plastic, wood and stone, but also drawings, preparatory sketches and watercolors, spanning thirty years activity, from the 1980s to today, most of which have never been on show in Italy before.

These are all works that document the versatility of the languages and products of his work, while also establishing a close relation with the permanent works on display in the museum and its rooms.

Ca’Pesaro is located at Santa Croce 2070. Open daily except Mondays from November 1 to March 31 from 10am - 5pm; from April 1st to October 31 from 10am - 6pm.

Vienna

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Website: http://www.khm.at 

A Golden Age: Dutch Group Portraits from the Amsterdam Historisch Museum

September 9 to November 21, 2010

Group portraits are an important topic in seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Better than

any other genre they express the character of Dutch society during the “Golden Age” and reflect the social conditions and bourgeois culture of Dutch cities. Members of the prosperous bourgeoisie regularly sat for full-length portraits in the company of those with whom they performed their civic duties. In order to avoid the stiff uniformity of motionless sitters lined up in a row, artists tried to enliven their compositions by introducing movement and action. The exhibition displays 11 paintings that are being shown outside the Netherlands for the first time.

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.

Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Art

Website: www.nga.gov 

American Modernism: The Shein Collection

May 16 to January 2, 2011

This exhibition explores the advent of modernism a century ago through twenty important paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the first-generation American avant-garde. Among the artists represented are Patrick Henry Bruce, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, John Storrs, and Max Weber. All works are from the Edward and Deborah Shein Collection, which is distinguished by its remarkable quality and rigorous focus on early American modernism.

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection

January 31 to July 31, 2011

Chester Dale's magnificent bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included a generous endowment as well as one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This special exhibition, the first in 45 years to explore the extraordinary legacy left to the nation by this passionate collector, features some 83 of his finest French and American paintings

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

Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Phillips

September 11 to January 16, 2011

The exhibition combines masterworks from the collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum and The Phillips Collection. The 25 works on loan from Oberlin date from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and include stellar works by artists of the British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish schools. Highlights include Hendrick ter Bruggen’s Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625), one of the most important examples of northern baroque painting in the United States; Rubens’s The Finding of Erichthonius (1632–33); and The Fountain of Life, a superb 16th-century painting probably painted in Spain after a work by Jan van Eyck.

The exhibition showcases an unconventional hallmark of The Phillips Collection, the mixing of works of different periods and nationalities in changing installations to reveal new affinities between works of art. This approach reflects the views of museum founder, Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), who saw the history of art as a conversation through the ages among artists and works of art.

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945

October 9 to January 9, 2011

Pictorialist photographers produced some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium and influenced subsequent developments in modernist photography. Comprising over 130 photographs, this exhibition retraces pictorialism’s beginnings with the experiments of Hill and Adamson, and Julia Margaret Cameron; through its mastery by Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Kasebier, and Alvin Langdon Coburn; to its lasting legacy in early works by Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. Organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and Vancouver Art Gallery.

+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

Smithsonian is a museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo.

American Art Museum

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946

March 5 to January 30, 2011

The exhibit showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, almost all ethnic Japanese—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland internment camps for the duration of the war. While in these bleak camps, the internees used scraps and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their surroundings. Arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience.

The exhibition features more than 120 objects, the majority of which are on loan from former internees or their families.

American Indian Museum

Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection

September 25 to August 7, 2011

This exhibition highlights the museum's young but vital collection of contemporary art, with significant works by 25 artists in media ranging from paintings, drawings, and photography to video projection and mixed-media installation. These complex and richly layered works speak to the concerns and experiences of Native people today; they address memory, history, the significance of place for Native communities, and the continuing relevance of cultural traditions. The artists featured include James Lavadour (Walla Walla), Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Mohawk), and Marie Watt (Seneca).

Freer/Sackler Galleries

Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan          

December 19, 2009–January 9, 2011

Around the year 1600, a heightened fascination with the design and uses of ceramics, combined with advances in technology, launched an era of extraordinarily diverse and accomplished ceramic production in Japan. The center of this efflorescence was southern Japan, and in particular the island of Kyushu. Hundreds of kilns produced both stoneware coated in muted glazes and porcelain ornamented with cobalt blue or multicolored enamels for the domestic market (with a focus on utensils for dining and for the tea ceremony) and for export to Europe and Southeast Asia. The wide variety of local styles of glazing and decoration invented by Kyushu potters over three centuries is impressive.

Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

Blackbox: Superflex

August 9, 2010 - November 28, 2010

The Black Box theater showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary artists who use film or video as their creative medium. Films or videos run continuously.

Since 1993, Superflex, the Copenhagen and Rio-based art collective -- members include Jakob Fenger (b. 1968, Roskilde, Denmark), Rasmus Nielsen (b. 1969, Hjoerring, Denmark), and Bjornstjerne Reuter Christiansen (b. 1969, Copenhagen, Denmark) -- has used social intervention to call attention to such issues as democratization, environmentalism, and consumerism.

National History Museum

Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations

September 29 to May 1, 2011

Losing Paradise: Endangered Plants Here and Around the World

August 14 to December 12, 2010

The Smithsonian Information Center in the institution's first building, popularly known as the Castle, which is open daily 8:30 am to 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

Juan Muñoz 

June 13 to October 17, 2010

The Clark Institue’s Stone Hill Center is the site of a new installation of sculpture by the

Spanish artist Juan Muñoz (1953–2001), marking a significant moment in the Clark's broadening embrace of contemporary art.

During his twenty-year career, Muñoz invented a mode of storytelling through objects that spoke to space, memory, and displacement. His very first sculptures used an architectural language of disappearance and loss—wood banisters in unused spaces, metal balconies shrugged off from buildings—while his later works introduced figures that programmatically resist attentiveness in order to push absorption out into the viewer's precarious and lived space.

The Clark's Stone Hill Center provides a contemplative setting in which to encounter Muñoz's works anew and to consider the dialogues that these enigmatic sculptures have with the art of the past. In addition, two special installations within the Clark's permanent collection galleries will provide intriguing considerations of the connections between works done by modern masters and those who came before them.

The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer

November 14 to March 13, 2011

During his lifetime, the German Renaissance painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was celebrated throughout Europe for his virtuosic skills as a printmaker, ability to capture princely commissions, and theoretical writings on perspective and human proportion. This exhibition will explore how and why his imagery was so powerful then and, as importantly, why it remains so visually arresting to us more than five centuries later.

The Clark Institute is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts.  Tel. +1 413-458-2303.

Zagreb (Croatia)

Archeological Museum

Website: http://www.amz.hr/en/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

Website: http://www.mdc.hr/msu

The Contemporary Art Museum was established on December 21, 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.

Zurich

Beyeler Foundation

Website: http://www.beyeler.com

Vienna 1900 – Klimt, Schiele And Their Times

September 26, 2010 – January 16, 2011

At the center of this comprehensive exhibition of Viennese Modernism stand the renowned ornamental portraits and landscapes of Gustav Klimt (photo) and the expressive figure depictions of Egon Schiele – and naturally their legendary erotic drawings.

Klimt and his brilliant protégé Schiele were the leading lights in Vienna of the day. The exhibition brings together an unprecedented selection of their masterworks from great museums and private collections around the world. Portraits by the young Oskar Kokoschka, self-portraits by the tragedy-plagued Richard Gerstl, and works by the composer-painter Arnold Schoenberg, form further highlights. Works by other artists, architects, furniture designers, and artisans of the Viennese Secession and Workshops show how their close collaboration gave rise to a new, interdisciplinary form of art: the gesamtkunstwerk.

The Fondation Beyeler exhibition will comprise approximately 200 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, supplemented by architectural models, furniture, textile designs, glass and silver objects, artists posters, and photographs. These add up to a fascinating picture of Vienna around 1900, of a kind never before shown to the public.

Beyeler Foundation is located at 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

http://www.kunsthaus.ch 

Giant Herbs and Monster Trees: Designs and Prints by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

September 10 to November 28, 2010

C.W. Kolbe (1759–1835) is one of the most intriguing figures in German art at the turn of

marshes, Kolbe exerted a considerable (albeit long underestimated) influence on the graphic arts between Sturm und Drang and Romanticism. Kolbe, who did research in linguistics in addition to his artistic career, was born in Berlin and spent much of his life in Dessau. From 1805 to 1808 he lived in Zurich, where he produced engravings based on aquarelle gouaches by the late Salomon Gessner, celebrated at the time as a painter and poet.

Pablo Picasso

October 15 to January 30, 2011

Pablo Picasso’s first-ever museum retrospective was mounted in Zurich, from September to November 1932 at the Kunsthaus and curated by the artist himself.  The 2010 exhibition will feature some 70 of the major works chosen by the artist for the 1932 exhibit as the museum seeks to reconstruct Picasso’s retrospective presentation of his own oeuvre.

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

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                                                                                    Museum calendar updated 9/17/2010