The International Museum Calendar
International Museums Calendar
Claude Monet’s. Water Lilies.
1914–26 on display until April 12, 2010 at MoMA in New York
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, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis,
Montreal, Moscow, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, San Francisco, Shanghai,
Singapore, Stuttgart, Sydney NSW, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice, Vienna,
Washington, D.C. Williamstown, Zagreb and Zurich.
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Rijksmuseum of Art
& History
Website: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl
Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age
To February 15, 2010
The Rijksmuseum presents the first exhibition devoted to
Hendrick Avercamp, the
foremost
painter of Dutch winter landscapes in the 17th century. Avercamp was the first
Dutch artist to specialize in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people
enjoying the ice. Some 400 years on, our image of life in the harsh winters of
the Golden Age is still dominated by Avercamp’s ice scenes with their splendid
narrative details of couples skating, children pelting each other with
snowballs and unwary individuals falling through the ice.
The main building of
the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a renovation, which will be complete by the end
of 2009. The museum is showing masterpieces from its collection in the Philips
Wing of the museum and loaning parts of the collection to museums in the
Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as organizing traveling exhibitions
to countries such as the United States, Japan and Australia.
The Riksmuseum is
located at Jan Luijkenstraat 1 (Philips Wing). Tel: +31 (0)20 6747000.
Accessible via public transportation. Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm; on Fridays to 10 pm. Admission.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Schiphol
Brughel in Business
October 28 to February 22, 2010
Nine works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel, sons of the celebrated 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder, are presented. The exhibition examines how they both took advantage in different ways of the popularity that their father’s work enjoyed. The paintings are from the Rijksmuseum collection and have been preserved in the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. Both of Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s sons, Pieter the Younger (1564-1637/38) and Jan (1568-1625), focused on specific aspects of their father’s popular paintings. Pieter the Younger made numerous precise copies of his father’s compositions, particularly of his characteristic peasant scenes. Jan concentrated on the small, delicately detailed landscapes, genre pieces and floral still lifes for which there was a huge demand in the art market. And while Pieter the Younger employed a range of often anonymous assistants in his studio, Jan Brueghel preferred to collaborate with the leading artists of his generation: Rubens, Hans Rottenhammer, Frans Snyders and other outstanding figures of the Antwerp art world at the Dawn of the Golden Age.
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
Paul Gauguin: The breakthrough into modernity
February 19 to June 6, 2010
In
1889, during the Paris World’s Fair, Paul Gauguin showed a series of prints,
which was to become known as the Volpini suite. This exhibition is the first to
examine in depth this series of lithographs, which played such a crucial role
in Gauguin’s development into a modern artist. From 19 February.
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
The Allure of the Automobile
March 21 through June 20, 2010
Presenting
18 of the world's rarest and most brilliantly conceived cars that combine
state-of-the-art engineering, meticulous craftsmanship and groundbreaking
design to create works of "rolling sculpture," including masterpieces
from Bugatti, Duesenberg, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Ferrari.
The Portrait Unbound
January 23 through May 30, 2010
This exhibition of new work by California-based photographer Robert Weingarten will consist of twenty large-scale digitally-created portraits of American icons, and represents a bold departure from traditional camera portraiture.
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
Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
January 23 to April 11, 2010
This
collaboration between the Walters Art Museum and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain
Institute at The Johns Hopkins University is a pioneering study in
neuroesthetics, a new approach to the neural basis of the aesthetic experience.
Beauty and the Brain is both an exhibition and an experiment.
Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum
March 20 to June 13, 2010
This exhibition showcases masterpieces of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts produced in Islamic lands from the ninth to the nineteenth century.
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
Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future. Reality versus Plan
October 20 to February 28, 2010
Few cities have an orderly form that identifies them in the way that Paris, New York, Rome and Barcelona do. In the case of Barcelona, rather than the product of the dictates of an absolute power or monarchy, this order was imposed by the will of the city and its authorities-and, of course, the valuable plan of Ildefons Cerdà. This exhibition immerses itself in today's reality to discover and interpret given forms of urban organization. It sets out to reinterpret the Cerdà plan and its initial ideas, discover the underlying urban and social values, and explain its more general importance as a constantly evolving part of the city.
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/
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty
February 11 to April 25, 2010
This
exhibition is the biggest retrospective mounted in Spain of the work of John
Baldessari (1931), one of the most notable and influential American artists. It
contains over 130 works, some of them little known, and reviews the main
concerns of this legendary artist who lives and works in Santa Monica
(California) and has recently been awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
(2009). With humor and irony, his work dissects the ideas behind artistic
practice and questions the accepted historical rules for making art. Fascinated
by language and its meaning, he has never lost his interest in the relation
between the visual and words. The combination of film, photography and painting
is also a key element in his art. The exhibition opens with the early paintings
that survived the Cremation Project
He burnt all his work earlier than 1966, an action with which he wanted to celebrate his death as a painter, and from the ashes, kept in an urn in the form of a book, the Cremation Project emerged, a symbol of his artistic rebirth), followed by his photography-and-text works, including the combined photographs he took in the eighties from the extensive use of archive images from old films, the irregular, painted over works of the nineties and video. The exhibition concludes with his most recent works.
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
Albert Müller: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures and Prints
February – 9 May 2010
Within a few short years, the Basel painter, draftsman, printmaker and sculptor Albert
Müller (1897–1926) became one of the main exponents of
Expressionism in Switzerland. His extensive oeuvre, devoted primarily to
landscapes and the human figure, emerged within the context of the contemporary
avant-garde, his friendship with Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner
playing a decisive role in this regard. As cofounder of the artists’
association “Rot-Blau” (red-blue), Müller contributed substantially to the
acceptance of modernism in his native city. Three years after his premature
death in 1926, the Kupferstichkabinett acquired a large number of prints and
drawings, holdings that have since grown considerably through further
acquisitions and donations. Complemented with paintings and sculptures
belonging to the Kunstmuseum, the exhibition presents a representative overview
of Müller’s work.
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/
Fritz Bleyl – Founding member of the Brücke
October 10 to April 25, 2010
An exhibition catalogue will be released.
Brücke Museum,
Bussardsteig 9, 14195 Berlin-Zehlendorf. Tel: +49 0(30) 831-2029. Open: daily
(except Tues), 11am-5pm.
New National Gallery
Website: http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=20&p=4
Moderne Zeiten.
Die Sammlung. 1900-1945.
Opens March 12, 2010
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
F.C. Gundlach. The Photographic Work
To March 14, 2010
6 March to 11 April 2010
Cologne in Berlin: After the Collapse: The Historical Archive
March 6 to April 11, 2010
When the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne caved in on March 3, 2009, there was an outcry in the country. Human lives had been lost, and 90 percent of the valuable contents of the archive were buried beneath the ruins. Archives are the memory of a community, and the Cologne Archive had long been considered the flagship of German municipal archives. The earliest mention of it dates from 1322, at a time when the whole archive could fit inside a single chest. Written records covering a period of 800 years were kept, restored and studied there. They include the minutes of town council meetings since 1320, papers from the estates of composers like Jacques Offenbach and Max Bruch, the Fluxus artist Mary Bauermeister, the painter Wilhelm Leibl, and the novelist Heinrich Böll, to name but a few.
The Martin-Gropius-Bau has assembled about 100 loans to afford us an initial glimpse of the archive’s treasures. The exhibition also documents the collapse of the archive caused by construction work on the city’s underground system.
Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum: Masterpieces of Islamic Aart
March 17 to June 6, 2010
This
is the first time the Aga Khan’s collection has been exhibited in Germany. More
than 200 masterpieces have been chosen to document more than one thousand years of cultural history. The works on display in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau are from the collection of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Karim Aga Khan IV is the spiritual head of the Ismaili Muslims. He is also regarded as a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohammed. His collection is considered to be one of the world’s largest and most valuable collections of Islamic art
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and will be housed from 2013 onwards in the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.
The Berlin exhibition will show some of the most important works of art from traditionally Islamic countries, including pages from the Persian heroic epic “Shahnama”, or “Book of Kings” by the poet Firdawsi.
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/
Utopia Matters
January 31 to April 11, 2010
Utopia has long been a subject of investigation for artists, as well as a model for artists’
communities,
where an ideal society has sometimes been more easily realized than in larger
contexts. Though many were short-lived, these collectives functioned as the
catalyst for intense and fecund periods of exchange and creativity. Artistic
movements with utopian foundations emerged in the wake of the
Enlightenment-fueled revolutions in France and America and were nourished by
Romantic principles. Utopia Matters allows for dialogues between a diversity of
these groups from
Edward Bume-Jones’ Elaine
1879
Europe and the United States so that historical movements and avant-gardes with like aims of collectivity and idealism, normally separated by national and chronological divisions, are seen alongside each other. The presentation concludes in the early 1930s, when the ascendancy of fascism brought about the close of the Bauhaus in Berlin in 1933 and Stalinism reframed Russian Constructivist projects in the Soviet Union.
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
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
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts At The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
February 12 to September 12, 2010
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist.
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
Frank Lloyd Wright
October 22 to February 14, 2010
Fifty years after the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Frank Lloyd Wright, celebrating the innovative and poetic work of the legendary architect.
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
Roni Horn Aka Roni Horn
February 19 to June 13, 2010
Using a variety of materials including 24-carat gold, color photographs, and cast glass, Horn creates sensuous works that evoke the mystery inherent to even the most familiar subjects.
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
Terracotta Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
February 25 to May 23, 2010
Website: http://www.gardnermuseum.org
In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning baked earth), this type of sculpture has often been
overlooked
in favor of sculpture carved in marble or cast in bronze. Clay can be handled
easily with material added, removed, or textured as required. This freedom
allowed artists to capture fine details and emotional expression.
In both religious scenes meant to inspire the faithful, as well as in portraits that recorded individual likeness, the naturalism of colored terracotta works conveyed emotions with great power. Isabella
Benedetto da Maiano,
John the Baptist, ca. 1480
Gardner acquired several terracotta sculptures, including large multi-figured compositions.
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
Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
February 2 to May 9, 2010
Luis
Meléndez (1716–1780) was the greatest still life painter of 18th-century
Spain. An
accomplished painter of miniatures, he began creating still lifes as early as 1759. In 1771 he was awarded a commission from the Prince of Asturias (later Charles IV), an avid amateur of the new science of natural history, to paint an extensive series of works documenting "every species of food produced by the Spanish climate." The exhibit features many of the artist's works in American collections, grouping them with relevant works borrowed from abroad, and explores some of the technical aspects of his extraordinarily realistic still life paintings.
Bharat Ratna!: Jewels of Modern Indian Art
November 14 to August 22, 2010
Bharat Rant,” which translates literally to the “Jewel of India,” presents a selection of
outstanding
works by some of India’s most celebrated modern painters. Drawn from the
collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rajiv Jahangir Chaudhri, the exhibition focuses on a
generation of artists that emerged in the years following India’s independence
from British rule in 1947. The divergent works on display highlight the
fascinating dialogue and mediation between the traditional and modern, the
indigenous and foreign, and the sacred and secular as Indian artists sought an
independent identity that could define their country’s new nationhood.
The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC
October 18 to May 16, 2010
The exhibition introduces visitors to the concepts of the afterlife in the Middle Kingdom by taking a journey through the remarkable tomb of the Djehutynakhts and its many objects. It also offers an opportunity to gain insight into the fascinating era in which the couple lived by viewing sculptures, jewelry, furniture and other objects representing high officials of their time.
The contents of Djehutynakht’s tomb were awarded to the MFA by the Egyptian government and transported to Boston in 1920. Following their arrival in Boston, the Museum put the Deir el-Bersha coffin and procession on view in the galleries, but most of the other objects have never been displayed before. Many of the models, in fact, were never fully conserved prior to the preparations for this exhibition.
Cafe and Cabaret: Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris
November 21 to August 8, 2010
This exhibition features posters, prints, and paintings of café, cabaret, and other urban amusements by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries, including Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923).
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 devoted to the
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)
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 Busch-Reisinger — is closed for renovation. This major renovation and 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 one of
three art museums* 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
* The Fogg Museum and the
Busch-Reisinger Museum are the other two museums at the university.
Performing Arts in
Boston
Boston Symphony
Website: www.bso.org
Information on the 2009/10 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.
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
Architectural exhibitions, film and musical events are presented at the Center
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/
Museum of Ancient
and Modern Art
Symbolism In Belgium
March 26 to June 27, 2010
The exhibition will trace the evolution of symbolism, whose origins go back to the romantic painting of the end of the 19th Century. It will follow symbolism’s developments by themes in a broadest range of registers – portrait, landscape, history in the far reaches of dream and reality, of doubt, of the fleeting instant, of religion etc. The close link between poetry and the visual arts as well as the predilection for the total artwork – Gesamtkunstwerk – will dominate the concept of the exhibition, which will not only be based on famous artists such as Fernand Khnopff, Félicien Rops and Jean Delville, but also on other lesser known names who made important contributions to the “fin de siècle” spirit of which Brussels was one of the capitals.
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
Presentations include visual arts exhibitions and musical presentations.
The Borges Cultural
Center is located inside Galerías Pacífico, entrance at the corner of Viamonte
and San Martín, Centre. Tel: +54 (0) 11 5555-5359. Open: Mon-Sat 10am-9pm; Sun
noon to9 pm.
Chicago
Art Institute of
Chicago
Website: http://www.artic.edu/aic
Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s
January 30 to April 4, 2010
Ranging from Edward Hopper’s watercolors of streetwalkers, painted in 1906, to Willem
de Kooning’s black enamel drip drawing of 1950, Modern in America showcases the wide variety of media and subject matter explored by American artists as they sought to respond to the compelling issues of their generations. Iconic images such as George Wesley Bellows’s lithograph A Stag at Sharkey’s and Georgia O’Keeffe’s rich pastel White Shell with Red—true touchstones of American art—stand in contrast to 30 rarely seen working drawings by Peter Blume for his famous painting The Rock, also in the Art Institute’s collection.
Prints and drawings also reveal how American artists responded to their encounters with European Modernism. The wave of interest in formal abstraction in the wake of the Armory Show of 1913 was followed by the distillation of natural forms by artists such as Rockwell Kent, Arthur Dove, O’Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley. Modern in America also considers the influential contributions of European-born American artists such as Arshile Gorky, Yves Tanguy, and László Moholy-Nagy and of Mexican artists who worked extensively in the United States, including Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
The museum is located
at 111 South Michigan Avenue, at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Adams
Street, on the eastern edge of Chicago’s famous downtown Loop. Open weekdays at
10:30 am and at 10 am on Saturdays and Sundays until 5 pm.
The Field Museum
Website: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
The Ancient Americas
Ongoing
The Ancient Americas takes you on a journey through 13,000 years of cultural evolution in the western hemisphere, where hundreds of diverse societies thrived long before the arrival of Europeans. In this 19,000-square-foot exhibition, visitors will relive the epic story of the people of these continents, from the Arctic to the tip of South America. This exhibition allows you to step into the windswept world of Ice-Age mammoth hunters, walk through a replica of an 800-year-old pueblo dwelling, explore the Aztec empire and examine more than 2,200 fascinating artifacts.
The Field Museum is
located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive.
Copenhagen
Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art
Website: http://www.louisiana.dk/
Pipilotti Rist: Homo sapiens sapiens
January 7 to April 25, 2010
A visual feast of the senses - the video installation Homo sapiens sapiens by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist -marks the final part of the past season's large-scale international contemporary art exhibition. Homo sapiens sapiens was shown for the first time in the loft of the San Stae church in connection with the Venice Biennial in 2005. However, apparently its imagery was not considered quite suitable, for the church authorities chose to close it down, allegedly because of technical problems.
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 /
Nature Strikes Back
To April 5, 2010
To coincide with the December 2009 UN climate meeting in Copenhagen, an exhibition based on the museum’s collections, shows humankind’s relationship with nature as seen through Western art. By contemplating art, science, and philosophy within a single context, it is possible to reflect on questions such as Where did things go wrong? How has our relationship to nature changed? How do scientific revolutions leave their mark in art? How does landscape art change, and what does the Apocalypse look like?
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 stones, exquisite bronze statuettes and
objects made of exotic materials like coral and shells from the South Seas are
displayed.
The Residence Castle
is the venue for the Green Vault, located at Taschenberg 2. Tickets are
required and one can call +49(0)351-49192120 or email http://www.dresden.de/dwt/en/experience_dresden/offers_for_your_dresden_trip/exclusive_offer_treasury.php.
Staatlichen
Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Website: http://www.skd-dresden.de/en/besucherservice.html
Wieland Förster
September 23 to March 7, 2010
Wieland
Förster is one of the great German sculptors of the 20th century. To mark the
artist’s 80th birthday, an exhibition is being held featuring the generous
donation of 58 sculptures, which he has bestowed to the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
In his early life, Wieland Förster was strongly influenced by his traumatic experience of the destruction of Dresden and by his imprisonment in Bautzen during his youth. Starting out from these painful ordeals, but also on the basis of his experience of human love, he concentrated on suffering, physical and emotional threats and death as the main subjects of his art. These themes form a leitmotif that runs throughout his oeuvre, being reflected in symbolic figures such as those of “Passion” (1965), “Geschlagener” (Beaten Man) (1989) or “Marsyas – Jahrhundertbilanz” (Marsyas – Taking stock of the century) (1999). As a counterbalance to these works, Förster has also produced energetic female nudes expressing a love of life and self-assertion, such as his five “Daphne” sculptures (1996) and representations of couples. In addition, Förster, who also works as a writer himself, has produced powerful portraits, especially of poets and fellow artists.
The Staatlichen
Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) represents 11 museums
in the area.
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Palazzo Strozzi
Website: http://www.palazzostrozzi.org
De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A look into the invisible
February 26 to July 18, 2010
Starting from the fundamental exhibition organized in Zurich, Berlin and Munich in
1997,
Boecklin, De Chirico, Ernst. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse and the essays written by
Wieland Schmied and David Sylvester towards the end of the Seventies, this
exhibition explores the early years of the career of De Chirico and the
influence of his first works on movements such as Surrealism and the Neue
Sachlichkeit.
De Chirico was born in 1888 in Greece and partly raised there, where his engineer father designed and built railway lines. Having studied in Munich, at the age of 21 and fascinated by the work of the Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, he began to paint a series of strange and oneiric cityscapes. Displayed in Paris after 1911 they were enthusiastically greeted by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Éluard, and very soon De Chirico became one of the heroes of Surrealism. This phase of his work – the so-called metaphysical painting – lasted up to around 1918. Subsequently De Chirico changed direction. He wanted to become a classicist – and almost succeeded.
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
From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern
November 22 to March 21, 2010
The
Kimbell plays host to 100 of the most important European paintings and
sculptures ever held in private collections in Texas. Most of them are works
normally hidden from public view, ranging from glorious Impressionist paintings
that once decorated ranchers' homes in West Texas to gems of Renaissance and
Baroque art owned by the great collectors of Dallas and Houston. Over 40
collectors will be represented, and among the artists to be featured are
Guercino,
Cezanne’s Trees and Rocks,
Near
the Château Noir, c.
1900–1906,
Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, and Mondrian.
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/
Photographer Caj Bremer
February 19 to May 16, 2010
Caj Bremer's retrospective exhibition presents his photographs since the 1950s
In the Spirit of Picasso
To April 4, 2010
In the Spirit of Picasso introduces the work of Finnish artists directly or indirectly influenced by Pablo Picasso's art.
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)
Best Photos of 2009
February 1 to April 4, 2010
Judith Barry, Body Without Limits
February 8 to April 25,2010
Robert Longo, Retrospective
February 15 to April 2 5, 2010
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/
Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals
October 2 to March 21, 2010
In
1988 Tate Liverpool opened it's doors for the very first time with a memorable
display of Mark Rothko’s The Seagram Murals. Over 20 years later the series
will make a welcome return to the gallery. From 2 October 2009 – 21 March
2010 Tate Liverpool's ground floor gallery will be transformed into an emotive
display of these nine significant paintings – the walls will be painted
grey according to Rothko’s specifications and atmospheric lighting
Rothko’s Red on Maroon 1959
will enhance the dramatic qualities of the works. Perceived, as the artist intended, in
reduced light and in a compact space, the subtlety of the layered surfaces slowly emerges, revealing the solemn and meditative character of the works-one not to be missed.
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/
Revolution on paper: Mexican prints 1910–1960
To April 5, 2010
The exhibition is the first in Europe to focus on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the 20th century. It features 130 works by over 40 artists including prints by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa
March 4 to June 6, 2010
This major exhibition presents exquisite examples of brass, copper, stone and terracotta
sculpture from West Africa. The Kingdom of Ife (pronounced ee-feh) was a powerful, cosmopolitan and wealthy city-state in West Africa (in what is now modern south-west Nigeria). Ife flourished as a political, spiritual, cultural and economic centre in the 12th–15th centuries AD, and was an influential hub of local and long-distance trade networks.
The exhibition features superb pieces of Ife sculpture, drawn almost entirely from the t collections of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria.
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
Michelangelo's Dream
February 18 to May 16, 2010
Michelangelo’s
masterpiece The Dream is one of the greatest of all Renaissance drawings. This
complex work shows a nude youth being roused by a winged spirit from the vices
that surround him. The Dream was probably part of the celebrated group of
drawings which Michelangelo made as gifts for Tommaso de' Cavalieri, a young
Roman nobleman with whom he had fallen passionately in love. With loans from
international collections, the exhibition unites The Dream for the first time
with these extraordinary drawings. Michelangelo’s Dream also includes a
selection of previously unexhibited handwritten poems, which the artist
composed for Cavalieri. Further closely related drawings by Michelangelo as
well as works by Albrecht Dürer and others will shed light on the meaning of
Michelangelo’s enigmatic masterpiece.
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
Outbreak 1939
To 6th September 2010
The exhibition examines how Britain’s declaration of war in 1939 shaped the lives of ordinary men and women as well as those making the political decisions behind the scenes. Opens 20 August 2009.
Horrible Histories™: Terrible Trenches Exhibition
To October 31, 2010
The exhibition examines life in the terrible trenches during the First World War.
From
War to Windrush
To April 10, 2010
An exhibition that tells the stories of West Indian men and women in wartime
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
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey
February 24 to May 23, 2010
Paul Delaroche was one of the most celebrated artists of his time. His large history paintings received wide acclaim at the Paris annual exhibition, then dominated by the conflicting influences of Neo-classicism and Romanticism. Such was Delaroche’s success that it often exceeded that of his contemporaries, Ingres and Delacroix. His paintings combine Ingres’s highly finished style with Delacroix’s historical themes to great effect, resembling stage productions where dramatic scenes are being acted.
Kienholz: The Hoerengracht
November 18 to February 21, 2010
The Hoerengracht (1983–88) transforms the Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s red-light district. The artwork by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, explores a theme that has been investigated by artists over many centuries and echoes visual traditions well established within European art. The Kienholzs’ work remains a major reference point for contemporary artists such as Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson and Damien Hirst.
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/
Solar Story: understanding the Sun
January 16 to May 9, 2010
An exhibition of striking images telling the story of our attempts to understand the nature of the Sun and its effects on Earth. From early observations, via key work carried out at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and on to the latest discoveries from NASA's fleet of spacecraft, this exhibition investigates changing answers to questions about the size, structure, life-cycle and energy source of our nearest star, on which all life on Earth depends.
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
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
January 4 to April 18, 2010
The
focus of the exhibition is the artist’s remarkable correspondence. Over 35
original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, are on
display; together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the
principal themes to be found within the correspondence. The first major Van
Gogh exhibition in London for over 40 years, this is a unique opportunity to
gain an insight into the complex mind of Vincent van Gogh.
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 Modern
Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New
World
February 4 to May 16, 2010
Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition in the UK devoted to the Dutch artist and
pivotal
figure of the European avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). This is a
unique and exciting chance for van Doesburg's work to be seen for the first
time in the UK. This follows in the footsteps of a series of exhibitions
looking at different aspects of Modernism, conceived by Vicente Todolí,
Director of Tate Modern.
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
February 10 to May 3, 2010
The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka
October 13 to April 5, 2010
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958, Balka lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. Including installation, sculpture and video, his works explore themes of personal history and common experience, drawing on his Catholic upbringing and the fractured history of Poland. Intimate and self-reflective, his works demonstrate his central concerns of identifying personal memory within the context of historical memory.
Tate Modern is located
on the south bank of the River Thames at Bankside, near Blackfriars Bridge,
opposite St Paul's Cathedral and next to the Globe Theatre. email:
visiting.modern@tate.org.uk. Accessible by the underground, boat, train and
bus—see instructions at the museum website. Open Sunday – Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm; Friday and
Saturday, 10 am to 10 pm. Admission
Tate Britain
Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain
Turner and the Masters
September 23 to January 31, 2010
The
show places beautiful masterpieces by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian
next to some of JMW Turner's most dramatic paintings. It shines light on a
lesser-known side of the British Romantic painter: his obsession to prove he
was just as good, if not better, than the old masters whom he so admired. This
is the first exhibition ever to explore the full range of Turner’s challenges
to the past, and his fierce rivalry with his contemporaries. Many works are
reunited here for the first time in hundreds of years and others have never
been seen together before in this light..
Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments
To April 30, 2012
Turner's experiments is a two-room display featuring works on paper by Turner, with a variety of experiments and interactive displays exploring his working methods and techniques. Learn more about printmaking and see the extraordinary care Turner took to produce the finest prints of his time. You can also experience the scientific experiments with color, which formed a vital background to his work. See the changes in Turner’s watercolor palette as he traveled across Europe, responding to different light effects, and using newly developed colors and paints. The works on display change every 6 months.
Chris Ofili
January 27 to May 16, 2010
Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and lives and works in Trinidad. This mid-career survey is Ofili's most substantial presentation to date, and his first solo exhibition in a public institution in the UK for more than a decade. It brings together around 45 of the artist's paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolors covering the period from the mid 1990s to the present day.
Tate Britain is
located at Millbank in London’s southwest end. Open daily, 10 am to 5:50 pm. More
information at email: visiting.britain@tate.org.uk
The Hayward
Website: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The Hayward Gallery is closed from February to May for essential repairs and renewal. It reopens on June 19 with the exhibition Ernesto Neto.
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
Decode: Digital Design Sensations
December 8 to April 11, 2010
The
exhibition will show the latest developments in digital and interactive design,
from
small screen based graphics to large-scale installations.
Curated in collaboration with leading digital arts organization onedotzero,
there will be works by established international artists and designers
including Daniel Brown, Golan Levin and Daniel Rozin as well as emerging
designers such as Troika and Simon Heijdens.
Prototypes from the Flowers
series, 2009 Daniel Brown
The exhibition will be centered in the Porter Gallery with a
series of interventions throughout the Museum and garden as well as a number of
specially commissioned one-off performances. For the first time, the V&A is
also commissioning a digital work for its website and will provide remote
access to some of the works on display.
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
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://info.royaloperahouse.org.uk /
Check the website for scheduled performances for the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet and other musical events. Tickets can be purchased online.
The ROH is located at
Covent Garden. Main entrance is on Bow Street between Russell and Floral
streets. Accessible by the underground Piccadilly Line to Covent Garden
station.
Royal Albert Hall
Website: http://www.royalalberthall.com
The venue best known for the Royal Albert Hall/BBC Summer Proms. Check the website for current musical events planned.
2010 Summer Proms
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009
No dates posted as yet for the 2010 Summer Proms. However, the 2009 website provides podcasts of some of the concerts at the 2009 Summer Proms.
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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Museo del Prado
Website: www.museodelprado.es
Dutch Painters at the Prado
December 3, 2009 to April 11, 2010
The exhibition Dutch Painters in the Prado has been organized in conjunction with the
publication of the first catalogue of the collection of 17th-century Dutch paintings in the Museo del Prado. The exhibition brings together a sizeable group of works from this practically unknown
collection, which has barely been displayed in the galleries of the Museum since the 1940s.
The Art Of Power: The Royal Armory And Court Portraiture
March 9 to May 23, 2010
Following the exhibition The Art of Power. Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2009, in 2010 the Museo del Prado will be holding The Art of Power. Arms, Armor and Paintings from the Spanish Court. The exhibition will comprise an outstanding selection of objects loaned by the Royal Armoury in Madrid, displayed alongside a major group of paintings that reveal how the great painters of the day emphasized arms and armour when representing the power of the Spanish monarchy from the Renaissance onwards. The Art of Power. Arms, Armor and Paintings from the Spanish Court provides a unique occasion to see a group of masterpieces that could only be brought together in the Prado, set within the context of the armed portrait.
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 (Spanish language)
Monet and Abstraction
February 23 to May 30, 2010
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).
Mexico City
Old College of San
Ildefonso
Website: www.sanildefonso.org.mx (Spanish language)
Old College of San
Ildefonso is located at Justo Sierra 16, Centro. Tel: +52 (55) 5702-3254. Open:
Tue-Sun 10am-5.30pm.Admission: 35 pesos.
Miami
Miami Art Museum
Website: www.miamiartmuseum.org
Space as Medium
November 20 to February 29, 2010
The exhibition brings together work by artists who helped developed space-based artistic practices in the 1960s and 1970s with the younger artists they inspired.
Carlos Bunga: Metamorphosis
November 20 to February 28, 2010
In the Portuguese artist’s first US solo exhibition, two large-scale, site-specific structures created from perishable materials are featured that explore the continuous mutation of architecture and urban space.
Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color
March 20 to June 20, 2010
Cruz Diez creates an interactive environment of lights that challenges visitors’ perceptions as they experience shifting chromatic space and color in movement. The exhibition is presented by SaludArte Foundation.
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
Photography in Italy 1945-1975: Masterpieces from the Morello
collection
February 12 to June 2, 2010
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
Benches & Binoculars
November 21 to August 15, 2010
This
exhibition is inspired both by the Walker's history and the serendipity with
which
works come together in its storage vaults. More than 75 masterpieces, new discoveries, and notable oddities from the Walker collection crowd the gallery walls, with seating and binoculars provided so that visitors can conduct their own close-up investigations of individual works. Contrasting with the minimalist tendencies in the galleries of many contemporary arts organizations, the salon-style installation refers to the 19th- and early 20th-century gallery practices that lumber magnate T.B. Walker emulated in displayed his
personal collection. The result is a lively and unconventional
Chuck Close Self Portrait
narrative of recent art history, and a testament to changing tastes over time. Artists whose work is on view include Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Chuck Close, John Currin, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Sherrie Levine, Franz Marc, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol.
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
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Color
February 12 to May 2, 2010
Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) is famous for the original and spectacular effects of color
and light that he achieved in his blown vases, stained glass windows and lamps. A Canadian first, this exhibition focuses on Tiffany's outstanding contribution to design and the technology of glass.
Inspiria: A Renowned Jewelry Firm Celebrates the Cirque du Soleil
March 31 to August 29, 2010
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting, in a premiere, a spectacular private collection of twenty exceptional pieces of jewelry, the fruit of a collaboration between the Cirque du Soleil and one of the most distinguished firms in the Place Vendôme, Paris.
J. W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment
October 2 to February 7, 2010
This is the largest-ever retrospective of works by the celebrated British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). It is the first large-scale monographic exhibition on Waterhouse’s work since 1978 and the first to feature his entire artistic career. This retrospective features some 80 paintings that are among the finest and most spectacular of the artist’s production, on loan from public and private collections in Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan, the United States and Canada. It will also present many of the artist’s attractive studies in oil, chalk and pencil.
The Museum is located
at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West. Open Tuesdays through Sundays. Admission.
Musée d'art
contemporain de Montréal
Website: www.macm.org
Marcel Dzama: Of Many Turns
February 4 to May 25, 2010
The
multidisciplinary Canadian artist Marcel Dzama (born in Winnipeg in 1974) has
been living and working in New York since 2004. Of Many Turns is the largest
solo exhibition of his works ever organized by a museum. By
taking a closer look at his recent production, this exhibition seeks to highlight some of the artist’s themes—such as nostalgia, early modernism, the relationship between irony and cynicism, politics and subjectivity—to arrive at a different understanding of his work.
Marcel Dzama, The Minotaur, 2008.
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
Butterflies Go Free
February 14 to May 25, 2010
Learn all about the fabulous Monarchs and take part in researching their migratory life.
Insects on Parade
Ongoing
Celebrating its 20th 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
The 2009/2010 season features high-profile soloists and guest conductors such as Michel Plasson, Ton Koopman, Karita Mattila, Bernhard Klee, Maxim Vengerov, Andrew Litton, Sir Andrew Davis, Serge Baudo, Lang Lang, Till Fellner, Vadim Repin, Christian Tetzlaff and many more. Performances by Michael Schade, Marc-André Hamelin, James Ehnes, Alain Lefèvre, Suzie LeBlanc, Hélène Guilmette, Karina Gauvin, Alexandre Da Costa, Jean-François Rivest, Bella Davidovich, Christoph Prégardien, Mari Kodoma, two members of the Beaux Arts Trio and Branford Marsalis are also scheduled. The OSM is under the musical directorship of Kent Nagano
The OSM is located at
Place des Armes. Tickets are on sale at: 514-842-9951 or www.osm.ca
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 collection 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 York
American Museum of
Natural History
Website: www.amnh.org
Traveling The Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World
November 14 to August 15, 2010
Step 1,500 years back in time as this exhibition brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history, showcasing the goods, cultures, and technologies from four representative cities in Asia and the Middle East: Xi'an, China's Tang Dynasty capital; Turfan, a verdant oasis and trading outpost; Samarkland, home of prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and ancient Baghdad, a fertile hub of commerce and scholarship that became the intellectual center of the era. Visitors will watch live silkworms spinning cocoons in the section devoted to Xi’an; wander through a replica of the desert markets of Turfan, complete with the sights, sounds, and smells of exotic spices, luxury goods, and precious raw materials; meet a life-sized camel models and explore the ancient skills of papermaking and weaving. In Baghdad, visitors will track the “stars” using a working model of an Arab astrolabe and discover the achievements of Islamic sciences and engineering as well as view a scaled model of a dhow used to transport goods.
And on Sunday afternoons, visitors will be treated to live performances brought together by the Silk Road Project, a not-for-profit artistic, cultural and educational organization founded in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that takes inspiration from the historic Silk Road trading route as a modern metaphor for multicultural and interdisciplinary exchange.
Butterfly Conservatory
October 10 to May 31, 2010
The butterflies are back! Celebrate the eleventh annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies.
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.
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
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
February 2 to May 2, 2010
This exhibition of ancient and traditional Vietnamese art demonstrates the role of
Vietnam
as an important hub of cultural and commercial interchange from the prehistoric
period in the first millennium BCE through the nineteenth century. Although
Viet Nam has been an important part of United States history in the 20th
century, the country’s rich artistic and cultural heritage remains largely
unknown. The exhibition includes approximately 115 spectacular
Lotus. Fu Nan period,
7th–8th century
examples selected from Vietnamese museums conveying the country’s impressive artistic developments and attesting to its importance in the cultural development of Southeast Asia. Objects range from early burial goods and large bronze ritual drums to gold jewelry with precious stones, Hindu and Buddhist stone sculptures, and beautifully decorated ceramics.
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. The genesis of
the exhibition was a rare doll from the Museum’s collection featuring an elaborate
trousseau made by a woman named Eliza Lefferts and sold at the Brooklyn
Sanitary Fair. During the Civil War, sanitary fairs were held to raise money
for the war effort in major cities in the Northeast.
Kiki Smith: Sojourn
February 12 to September 12, 2010
Acclaimed artist Kiki Smith presents a unique, site-specific installation exploring ideas of
creative
inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists. Kiki Smith:
Sojourn draws on a variety of universal experiences, from the milestones of
birth and death to quotidian experiences such as the daily chores of domestic
life. An important eighteenth-century silk needlework by a young woman named
Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality (Collection
of the Connecticut Historical Society), which provided original inspiration for
Smith’s installation, is included in the exhibition.
To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
February 12 to May 2, 2010
Encompassing more than one hundred objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians’ beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the different types of tombs—answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt.
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
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
October 16 to April 4, 2010
Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.
Cooper -Hewitt is
located at 2 East 91 Street. Open Mondays to Thursdays 10 am to 5 pm; Fridays
to 9 pm, Saturdays and Sundays to 6 pm. Admission.
Frick Museum
Website: www.frick.org
Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
March
9 to May 30, 2010
The exhibition is a loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world. The signature masterpieces, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City, include Rembrandt van Rijn’s (1606–1669) Girl at a Window, 1645 (photo); Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s (1599–1641) Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Thomas Gainsborough’s (1727–1788) The Linley Sisters, probably 1772; and Canaletto’s (1697–1768) Old Walton Bridge over the Thames, 1754.
The Frick is located
at 1 East 70 Street. Open Tuesday to Sunday. Admission.
Guggenheim Museum of
Art
Website: www.guggenheim.org
Anish Kapoor: Memory
October 21 to March 28, 2010
With the inauguration of the Deutsche Guggenheim in 1997, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim
Foundation and Deutsche Bank launched a unique and ambitious program of
contemporary art commissions that has enabled the Guggenheim to act as a
catalyst for artistic production. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the fourteenth
commission project to be completed since the program’s inception and is the
Guggenheim’s first collaboration with Anish Kapoor, an artist celebrated for
his expansive vision and profound aesthetics.
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim
Collection
January 23 to May 12, 2010
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection will feature some thirty paintings from the Guggenheim Collection by such artists as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy, among others, as well as showcase a significant group of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder.
Tino Sehgal
January 29 to March 10, 2010
Tino Sehgal (b. 1976, London) constructs situations that defy the traditional context of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties of lived experience rather than on material objects. Relying exclusively on the human voice, bodily movement, and social interaction, Sehgal’s works nevertheless fulfill all the parameters of a traditional artwork with the exception of its inanimate materiality. Sehgal’s exhibition comprises a mise-en-scène that occupies the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. In dialogue with Wright’s all-encompassing aesthetic, Sehgal fills the rotunda floor and the spiraling ramps with two major works that encapsulate the poles of his practice: conversational and choreographic. To create the context for the exhibition, the entire Guggenheim rotunda is cleared of art objects for the first time in the museum’s history.
Hilla Rebay: Art Educator
January 29 to August 22, 2010
When one thinks of Hilla Rebay, the words artist, curator, founder, and director of the Guggenheim Museum often come to mind. But her interests and initiatives as an art and museum educator have remained largely unrecognized. Hilla Rebay: Art Educator features some of her remarkably progressive efforts to provide a variety of audiences—from youth and teachers to artists and museum visitors—with opportunities to learn about nonobjective art, or art without representational links to the material world.
The Guggenheim is
located at1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th St., 212-423-3500.
Japan Society
Website: www.japansociety.org
Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
from the Arthur R. Miller Collection
March 12 to June 13, 2010
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's vivid scenes from history and legend, wildly popular 150 years ago, are a major influence on the work of today's manga and anime artists. This exhibition features over 130 dramatic depictions of giant spiders, skeletons and toads; Chinese ruffians; women warriors; haggard ghosts; and desperate samurai combat.
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/
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
November 15, to March 14, 2010
Alias Man Ray presents a fresh look at the diversity of Man Ray's body of work, examining it in the context of his lifelong cover-up of his Russian-Jewish immigrant past and his suppression of his background. The project marks the first time that his willful construction of an artistic persona is explored and demonstrates how this personal agenda informs his work and methods.
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
September 13, 2009 - February 07, 2010
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to survey Jewish ritual as a vital site of experimentation in contemporary art and design since the 1990s. Nearly sixty groundbreaking works in diverse media, from jewelry to video to architecture, by 58 leading artists reveal the intersections of creative freedom and ethical practice.
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
The Drawings of Bronzino
January 20 to April 18, 2010
This
exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572),
and will
present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. This monographic exhibition will contain approximately 60 drawings from European and North American collections, many of which have never before been on public view.
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
February 2 to May 9, 2010
Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. The exhibition features forty-eight works from the 1850s and 1860s from public and private collections.
Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997)
February 6 to July 25, 2010
This exhibition will include a selection of around 100 works drawn from a recent gift of more than 300 paintings, sketches and studies, poetry manuscripts, and artist’s seals done by or for Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997), one of modern China’s leading traditional artists and connoisseurs. Together, these studies illustrate how Chinese artists historically have learned both from earlier masterpieces as well as from nature, and provide unique insights into the artistic process.
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
A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy
November 6 to March 14, 2010
This exhibition showcases Jane Austen's (1775–1817) distinctive voice—its development, subjects, context, and physical forms—and explores why she and her writing continue to enthrall and inspire us nearly two hundred years after her death. Beginning with the earliest letter in the Morgan's collection, written in 1796 when Austen was twenty years old, and ending with a short film about her legacy, these works reveal her characteristically sharp observations and irrepressible wit.
Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
January 22 to May 2, 2010
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is the most important and lavish of all Dutch
manuscripts
as well as one of the most beautiful among the Morgan's collection.
Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves around 1440 and illustrated by an artist
known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the work is an illustrated prayer
book containing devotions that Catherine would recite throughout the day. The
manuscript's two volumes have been unbound for the exhibition, which features
nearly a hundred miniatures.
Mouth of Hell
The manuscript is as rich in pictures as it is in prayers: it contains 157 (originally 168) miniatures that reveal colorful landscapes and detailed domestic interiors. Throughout the miniatures are meticulously depicted buildings, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and even fish—painted over silver foil. Many miniatures comprise long elaborate cycles of iconographic and theological complexity. One such cycle includes eight miniatures detailing the legend of the True Cross.
The exhibition also includes manuscripts illuminated by both predecessors and contemporaries of the Master of Catherine of Cleves, who is considered the finest as well as the most original illuminator of the northern Netherlands.
Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves
January 22 to May 2, 2010
This exhibition of eighteen manuscripts illuminated in the area of Flanders in the Southern Netherlands (today part of modern Belgium) celebrates the variety of styles from the great last flowering of Flemish illumination in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Rome After Raphael
January 22 to May 9, 2010
Featuring nearly 80 works almost exclusively drawn from The Morgan Library & Museum's outstanding holdings of Italian drawings, Rome After Raphael illuminates the artistic production in Rome during the Renaissance.
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
Water Lilies
September 13, 2009–April 12, 2010
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring
the
full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a
mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914–26) and a single-panel painting
of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his
property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, 1914–26), as well as The
Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920–22) (photo) and Agapanthus (1914–26),
depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity. These paintings have long
held a special status with the Museum's audiences and, much like MoMA's Abby
Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, they provide a modern oasis in the center
of midtown Manhattan. These works will be complemented by two loans of closely
related paintings.
Paul Sietsema
September 30 to February 15, 2010
The first New York exhibition of the artist’s most recent body of work, system’s films, drawings, and sculptures engage moments in art history and various genres of visual cataloguing. Out-of-print midcentury exhibition catalogues, archaeological manuals, and explorers’ diaries all provide visual source material for direct appropriation and a subtler gleaning of editing, framing, and presentation styles. This exhibition features his third film, Figure 3 (2008), and drawings related to the film, including new works from the series on view for the first time, and selected works from MoMA’s collection. Sietsema (American, b. 1968) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Tim Burton
November 22 to April 26, 2010
Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in
film,
video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative
work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood
drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred
examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs,
moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and
cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before
Christmas, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and
little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist,
illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism.
The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s
theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.
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
Bigger, Better, More: The Art Of Viola Frey
January 26 to May 2, 2010
Viola Frey (1933-2004) was one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth
century.
She emerged in the complex and often contradictory art world of the 1950s where
painting, craft (specifically ceramics) and design often merged and diverged in
dynamic ways. After studying and working in New Orleans and New York, Frey
returned to her native San Francisco in the 1960s to devote herself to
ceramics. This was period of experimentation and innovation on the West Coast.
Frey found her unique style and visual vocabulary in her life-long fascination
with
Non-Endangered Beaver, 1973
mass-produced ceramics figurines which she collected in flea markets. She created what are known as "bricolage" sculptures from assemblages of these knick-knacks, countering their sentimentality and kitschy quality through her engagement of scale. Her gigantic, domineering men and over-wrought women figures allowed her to address issues of gender and power in terms of societal mores in America at mid-twentieth century.
Slash: Paper Under The Knife
October to April 4, 2010
Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations.
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
New York, as a place of opportunity, tolerance, and perpetual transformation.
Legacy: The Preservation Of Wilderness In New York City Parks
October 9 to March 7, 2010
The exhibit presents photos of natural settings in New York’s parks s by Joel Meyerowitz
Charles Adams’ New York
March 4 through May 16, 2010
Quirky cartoons from a quintessentially New York artist that appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
Cars, Culture, And The City
March 17 to August 1, 2010
A look at New York City’s century-long relationship with the car
The Museum of City of
New York is located at 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St. Open Tuesday - Sunday: 10
am to 5 pm. Admission.
Neue Galerie New York
Website: www.neuegalerie.org
From Klimt To Klee: Masterworks From The Serge Sabarsky Collection
October 15 to February 15, 2010
A tireless advocate for German and Austrian art, Sabarsky was the driving force behind the creation of the Neue Galerie New York museum. He was also a dedicated collector, who acquired numerous masterworks by the artists he cherished. The exhibition demonstrates the range and quality of the Sabarsky Collection, with its holdings in works by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, and German artists Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among many others.
Serge Sabarsky (1912-1996) had a colorful life. Born in Vienna, he worked as a clown and set designer for Simplicissimus, the leading cabaret of the era. He fled his native city in 1938 and settled in New York, where he worked successfully as a contractor before establishing a gallery for Austrian and German Expressionist art. In his later years, he left the commercial art world in order to organize touring museum exhibitions of his collection.
Otto Dix
March 11 to August 30, 2010
Otto
Dix is the first one-man museum exhibition of works by this major German artist
ever held in North America. The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Otto Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is Dix’s traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which the artist excelled. The third is sexuality, a
Reclining Woman on a Leopard
Skin, 1927
key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.
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 Imaginary Museum: Dakis Joannou Collection
March 3 to June 6, 2010
Curated by Jeff Koons, “The Imaginary Museum” is a new exhibition series which will periodically feature leading private collections of contemporary art from around the world, providing the opportunity for great works of art to be seen by a broader public, while experimenting with different curatorial models and furthering conversations about collaboration. The first exhibition in this series will feature the Dakis Joannou Collection.
This is the first time that Joannou’s Athens-based collection, one of the very finest collections of contemporary art in the world, will be seen in the United States. Joannou has worked closely with artists and curators over three decades to assemble an unparalleled collection of iconic contemporary works that reflect his distinctive passion and fervor and special focus on figuration. The Dakis Joannou Collection contains 1,500 works by 400 artists, with major concentrations of works by Maurizio Cattelan, Nathalie Djurberg, Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Chris Ofili, Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker, among many others.
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 Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower
February 27 to April 11, 2010
From late February through mid-April, the NYBG’s eighth annual exhibition presents
The
Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower that will feature iconic sites of Old Havana and
the Cuban countryside, reimagined to evoke the history of the island while
engulfing visitors in radiant flowers. This year will present a new theme,
design, and experience by Cuban-reared landscape architect Jorge Sánchez, of the Palm Beach firm
Sánchez & Maddux. Thousands of brilliantly colored orchids set among
architectural vignettes from Havana and the surrounding countryside will be on
view. In the Conservatory’s Palms of the Americas
Gallery, which under its 90-foot dome houses the largest collection of New World palm trees under glass, will stand a handsome replica of the iconic tower and statue La Giraldilla that sits atop the Castillo de la Real Fuerza (Castle of the Royal Force), a defensive structure built after an attack on Havana in 1538 and the oldest stone fortress in the Americas. Species and hybrid Oncidium orchids, commonly known as Dancing Lady, in purple, yellow, and white will surround La Giraldilla and pervade the Palms Gallery reflecting pool.
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
Lincoln and New York
October 9 to March 25, 2010
Abraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York’s impact on him. This exhibition of original artifacts, iconic images, and hand-written period documents, many in Lincoln's own hand, will for the first time fully trace the evolution of Lincoln's relationship with the nation's largest and wealthiest state: from the time of his triumphant Cooper Union address here in 1860, to his efforts to hold the Union together in 1861, to the early challenges of recruitment and investment in the Civil War, to the development of new military technologies, and the challenge to civil liberties in time of rebellion.
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
2010 Whitney Biennial
February 25 to May 30, 2010
Celebrating its 78th anniversary, the biennial takes a look at the latest in American contemporary art. It includes a blend of well-established artists together with a predominance of emerging artists from all over the country. Their works range from film and video to photography, painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance,
and architecture. Performances and events will take place at the Museum throughout the course of the show. This year the events and performances are concentrated on Friday evenings in both the Lobby Gallery and Lower Gallery.
Collecting Biennials
January 16 to November 28, 2010
As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted
to
artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over
the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials, opening on January 16, is
installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the
importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the
formation of its collection.
Paper Bag by Alex Hays, 1968
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
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Juilliard School
Lincoln Center Theater
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
The New York Philharmonic’s in its 2009/2010 season has a new Music Director, Alan Gilbert. The first native New Yorker to hold the post and the son of two Philharmonic musicians—his mother still plays the violin in the orchestra.
Other Performing
Arts Venues:
Carnegie Hall
Website: www.carnegiehall.org
Broadway/Off Broadway Theater Offerings:
http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/
Public Theater
Website: www.publictheater.org
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Centre Georges
Pompidou (Beauborg)
Website: http://www.centrepompidou.fr
Soulages
To March 8, 2010
A large scale retrospective celebrating the work of the major painter on the current French scene, Pierre Soulages, who is recognized as one of abstract art's major figures.
The show looks back over more than 60 years of painting and offers a new reading of the artist's oeuvre, with the emphasis on the more recent developments in his work. It brings together over a hundred major works dating from 1946 to the present day, from the striking walnut stain works painted between 1947 and 1949 to the paintings of recent years, most of them shown for the first time, which display the dynamism and diversity of his constantly evolving approach.
Centre Georges Pompidou is located on Place Georges Pompidou. Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33. Museums open daily 11 am to 9 pm; Atelier Brancusi: daily except Tuesdays, 2-6 p.m. Admission.
Grand Palais
(Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais)
Website: http://www.grandpais.fr/
Turner And His Painters
February 24 to May 24 2010
What The Dinosaurs Ate
December 10 to May 2 2010
This new exhibition, at the Palais de la Decourverte, is set in a spectacular décor with animated, life-size dinosaurs. Visitors will be invited to play the role of the palaeontologist and examine the dietary habits of the strange giants that once roamed the planet. "Vegetarian" dinosaurs thrived on plants but, without grass to feed on, what exactly did they eat? The observation of highly realistic animated models, reconstructed life-size skeletons, and reconstituted archaeological digs with a live demonstration of how dinosaur bones are uncovered are all part of the trail.
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
from 11-26-2009 to 02-22-2010
Masters of European Drawing from the 16th to the 20th Century
To February 22, 2010
In addition to its many splendid examples of French drawing from the 17th to the 19th century, this collection also includes outstanding works from abroad, notably from Germany, Britain, Denmark and Italy. This presentation highlights collector Georges Pébereau's remarkable donation of drawings by Costa, Castiglione, Honthorst, Brébiette, Vouet, Tiepolo, Boilly and Victor Hugo to the Louvre's Department of Prints and Drawings.
Holy Russia
March 5 to May 24, 2010
As part of France's "Year of Russia" celebrations, the Louvre is hosting a major exhibition devoted to the history of Christian Russia, from the 9th to the 18th century.
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
Lisette Model
February 9 to June 6, 2010
If Lisette Model took up photography as a way of earning a living, it is also true that she always fought for her own subjects, rather than simply carry out the assignments given by editors. She believed that for a photograph to be successful its subject had to be something that “hits you in the stomach.” This could be something familiar or something unfamiliar. For Model, the camera was an instrument for probing the world, a way of capturing aspects of a permanently changing reality that otherwise we would fail to see.
This exhibition of some 120 of Lisette Model’s most representative photographs illustrates the very bold and direct approach to reality that made her one of the most singular proponents of street photography, the particular form of documentary photography that developed in New York during the 1940s, through the camerawork of such as Helen Levitt, Roy de Carava and Weegee.
Esther Shalev-Gerz
February 9 to June 6, 2010
Over three decades Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unraveling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal in order to address and interrogate the ways in which the present is understood. Drawing on the fictions of history and speculations on the future, she amplifies the ethics of being invited to speak and being invited to listen. Hers is a powerful artistic practice that complicates how we understand our place in the world.
Shalev-Gerz’s survey exhibition at Jeu de Paume presents an exchange of ideas constructed through acts and encounters of communication. This gathering of works interrogates assumptions and opens the space between understanding and perception, embracing doubt and reframing what operates as a ‘given’ within a particular moment.
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 arrondisement. Open Wednesdays to
Mondays from 11 am to 6 pm. Admission. Metro stop: Rue du bac
Musée de l’Orangerie
Website: http://www.musee-orangerie.fr
Claude Monet’s Les Nymphéas
Ongoing
Monet’s water lilies artworks languished for decades in a gloomy netherworld in the Orangerie after a botched museum renovation in the 1960s. However, a major revamp of the museum, which reopened on May 17th after eight years, has changed all that. The eight works, painted between 1914 and 1926, were donated by the artist and hung at the Orangerie in 1927, a year after his death. Impressive in size—each is two meters high; and one is 17 meters long—the paintings help illustrate Monet's influence on nudging art towards abstraction. Some even capture the mysterious sunset light at Giverny, an effect that could woo even jaded anti-Impressionists.
The museum also houses the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist works by Cézanne, Renoir, Soutine, Picasso, Modigliani and others.
Musée de l’Orangerie, Jardin
des Tuileries. Tel: +33 (0)1 44 77 80 07. Métro: Concorde. Open: Weds-Mon,
12.30pm-7pm (until 9pm on Fridays)
Musée D’Orsay
Website: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html
Crime and Punishment
March 16 to June 27, 2010
The exhibition looks at a period of some two hundred years: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau called for the abolition of the death penalty, to September 30, 1981, the date the bill was passed to abolish it in France. Throughout these years, literature created many criminal characters. The title of the exhibition is itself taken from a work by Dostoyevsky. In the press, particularly the illustrated daily newspapers, the powerful fantasy of violent crime was greatly increased through novels.
Meijer de Haan
March 16 to June 20, 2010
The
painter Meijer de Haan (1852-1895) is mainly known today for the often
mysterious
portraits of him painted by his friend Paul Gauguin. He began painting in his native Holland, then continued mainly in France, but his work remains largely unknown. He was, however, an important figure in Gauguin's circle during the late1880s. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Amsterdam, De Haan revealed his artistic talents at a young age. His early work was influenced by Rembrandt. The scandal provoked by Uriel Acosta, a large painting now lost, forced De Haan to moved to Paris in 1888. It was there that he met Gauguin. His career and his style of painting were radically transformed by this meeting. From April 1889 to October 1890 he painted alongside Gauguin at Le Pouldu and Pont-Aven. Sérusier, Filiger, Schuffenecker, Morgens Ballin and Jan Verkade made up the rest of this more or less tightly knit group. Meijer de Hann's painting embraced and developed the principles of Synthetism championed by Bernard and Gauguin: simplification and flat areas of bright colour to evoke an image of Brittany readily perceived as 'primitive'.
Located in a former
railroad station, the Musée d’Orsay is located at rue de Bellechasse on the
Left Bank across from the Tuileries gardens. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9 am
to 6 pm, till 9:45 pm on Thursdays. Admission. Accessible by public
transportation.
Musée de Quai Branly
Website: http://www.quaibranly.fr
The museum’s permanent collections area presents the great geographical regions in which the Musée de Quai Branly’s remarkable collections originated: Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The visitor makes his way fluidly across them, taking in the major crossroads between civilizations and cultures: Asia-Oceania, Insulindia, and Mashreck-Maghreb. The 3,500 artifacts are presented so as to highlight the historical depth of the cultures that produced them, and the many different meanings that the works themselves possess. The museography encourages the visitor to take the time to inform himself on major thematic areas: masks and tapa in Oceania, costume in Asia, and African musical instruments and textiles form the subjects of a series of fascinating video presentations.
The museum is located
at 27, 37, 51 quai Branly 206, 218 rue de l'Université 75007 Paris. Phone: 01
56 61 70 00. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Admission fee.
Musée de Rodin
Website: www.musee-rodin.fr
Matisse & Rodin
October 23 to February 28, 2010
Matisse & Rodin will put forward some fresh thinking on what Matisse, the master of
Fauvism,
made of Rodin, on what his works can tell us about the affinities,
correspondences or differences between the two artists. On show to the public
will be a wide-ranging selection of Matisse's sculpture, an aspect of his work
to which no specific exhibition has been devoted since 1975.
As well as those of the Musée Rodin, the exhibition is based on the collections of the Musée Matisse in Nice, while also drawing widely
on public and private collections from France and abroad.
Rodin’s Dance Movement
The museum is located
at Place Hôtel Biron. Tel: 33(0)1
44 18 61 10 (Information). Open daily except Mondays from 9.30 am to 5.45 .m
(April 1-Sept.30t; ) and from 9.30 am to 4.45 pm (Oct.1- March 31h)
National Museum of
Natural History
Website: http://www.mnhn.fr
Albatros, Oiseaux De Légende Des Terres Australes
January 13 to March 29, 2010.
The Terres Australes are southern French disconnected islands in the vast Southern Ocean (between 40 ° and 50 ° south). The fauna and flora, isolated for millions of years in specific ecological conditions, have evolved by developing unique adaptations such as loss of flight in certain insects or flies open a morphology adapted to high winds in plants. 8These islands are essential sites for nesting and molting many seabirds. There are a total of 48 bird species including 8 endemic, one of which is land. The diversity of birds of the open sea is remarkable with 20 species of petrels and albatrosses 8.
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
Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris
February 24 to April 25, 2010
Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the
Twentieth
Century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most ferociously
inventive between 1905 and 1945. Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys
his work during these crucial decades, when he transformed the history of art
through his innate virtuosity and protean creativity.
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
Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya
April 5 to January 31, 2010
Around 700 C.E. Chamá and the other towns and villages along Guatemala’s Chixoy River were hubs of activity, crossroads of trade and pilgrimage, channeling the movement of people and ideas at the height of Maya civilization.
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/
Body Worlds 2 and The Brain
October 17 to April 18, 2010
Body Worlds 2 & The Brain presents a broad collection of authentic human specimens, and, for the first time in Philadelphia, a special presentation on the brain. Featuring some of the latest findings in neuroscience on brain development, function and disease, this exhibit will inspire a greater understanding of and respect for the mysterious world of the brain. All specimens in BODY WORLDS exhibitions are preserved by the revolutionary process of plastination, invented by anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens. BODY WORLDS is the only public anatomical exhibition associated with an established body-donation program.
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
Caravaggio
February 13 to July 13, 2010
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
Sandro Chia. Della Pittura, popolare e nobilissima arte.
To February 28, 2010
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
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
June 27 to March 28, 2010
More than 3,000 years after his reign, and 30 years after the original exhibition opened in
San Francisco, Tutankhamun, ancient Egypt’s celebrated “boy king,” returns to the de Young Museum. The exhibition features more than 130 outstanding works from the tomb of Tutankhamun, as well as those of his royal predecessors, his family, and court officials. Many of the works were not seen in previous versions of the exhibition, including a revised version of the catalogue, a new audio tour, and additional artifacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb.
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/
The View From Here
January 16 to June 27, 2010
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has played a key role in the history of photography as an art form. Reflecting this unusually symbiotic relationship, SFMOMA was one of the first museums in the country to treat photography as an equal to painting and sculpture. In celebration of the museum's 75 years of engagement with the medium, this exhibition explores the variety and vitality of California's photographic tradition from the 1840s to the present. Artists include Ansel Adams, Lewis Baltz, Dorothea Lange, Ed Ruscha, Larry Sultan, Carleton Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others.
Luc Tuymans
February 6 to May 2, 2010
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with a mastery of painting to explore issues of history, memory, and the mass media. The artist has addressed the lingering effects of World War II, the postcolonial situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11, topics that have led him to a sustained investigation of the pathological and the conspiratorial. Making ingenious use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing, Tuymans's paintings initially suggest relatively innocuous depictions of everyday life — but other meanings almost always lurk beneath their surfaces. This is the first U.S. retrospective for the Belgian artist and the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date, with approximately 75 key paintings from 1985 to the present.
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
In its 2009-10 season, the San Francisco Symphony and its Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas celebrate 15 years of extraordinary music-making with new artist residencies, composer festivals, and holiday celebrations, along with distinguished guest artists, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Thomas Hampson, and Gustavo Dudamel. At the 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony, the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas's Recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Adagio from Symphony No. 10 Won three Grammies.
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
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/
The Bag: Carrier bags in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s
December 19 to April 18, 2010
This exhibition showcases over 60 paper and plastic bags in the National Museum’s collection, many on display for the first time. Together with contextual photos, the display will highlight different uses of the ubiquitous carrier bag, its role as a mobile advertisement, and also shed light on the paper bag business in Singapore – a much forgotten trade that is still surviving today.
Quest for Immortality - The World of Ancient Egypt
December 22 to April 4, 2010
The exhibition offers an insight to the ancient Egyptian’s attitude to life and the afterlife,
and
the preparations they made to ensure their transition from earthly existence to
immortality. Discover the Egyptians’ means of equipping the dead –
through mummification, provision of sustenance, magic and ritual – and
explore the evolution of their burial rites as well as the changing
relationship between man and ritual through time. With 230 artifacts spanning
from 4000 BCE to 950 CE, this exhibition endeavors to place tomb objects in
their social, religious and artistic context, demonstrating the diversity and
adaptability of an art that has prevailed in both time and space.
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/
Elger Esser. Eigenzeit
November 28 to April 11, 2010
Consciously drawing on Marcel Proust, the Stuttgart-born artist (b. 1967) repeatedly sets out in »search of lost time« in his poetic, melancholic photographs. Esser also defies forgetting in his choice of photographic techniques: he presents his most recently produced heliogravures, an almost forgotten technique from the nineteenth century, for the first time at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and subsequently at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem. This first large survey exhibition will also present around fifty large-format works by the artist. Additionally an approach to his works is offered by impressionist paintings as well as early photographs of the Herzog collection. As one of the last and youngest graduates of the famous class of Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts Elger Esser is one of the most important German photographers today.
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
Hymn to Beauty: The Art of Utamaro
February 13 to May 2, 2010
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) revolutionized the way women were portrayed in
Japanese
visual arts, and his sensuous, insightful portraits of courtesans, housewives,
mothers and lovers have enjoyed unabated popularity ever since. This exhibition
of woodblock prints from the Asian Art Museum, National Museums in Berlin, is
the first extensive survey of his work in Australia.
The Wilderness: Balnaves Contemporary Painting
March 5 to May 23, 2010
This exhibition considers how nature and landscape continue to preoccupy contemporary painters. But not nature based on observation. The 'wild' here is found in the mind of the artists.
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
Medicine and Art
November 28 to February 28, 2010
This exhibition, with its theme of "the human body as the meeting place of science (medicine) and art," was made possible with the cooperation of the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest independent charity funding research into human health. Consisting of around 150 valuable medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection and around 30 works of old Japanese and contemporary art, the exhibition presents an integrated vision of medicine and the arts, science and beauty. The show is a unique attempt to reconsider the science's role in health and happiness and also the meaning of human life and death. A highlight of the exhibition is three anatomical sketches by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection, owned by Queen Elizabeth II.
Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?
March 20 to July 4, 2010
Roppongi Crossing is a series of exhibitions, held once every three years, that introduces the most exciting artists working in Japan and Japanese artists of today. This, the third Roppongi Crossing, includes works of photography, sculpture, installation, video, graffiti art and performance by around 20 artists and artist units.
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/
Arts for Japanese Hospitality from the Suntory Museum of Art Collection
January 27 to March 14, 2010
When you invite guests, you make the effort to do something
special that differs from your everyday approach. That desire to take special
care of your guests-that spirit of hospitality-becomes visible in the form of
beauty. This exhibition examines examples of the beauty that has emerged from
the hospitality associated with annual events and festivals, and of the tools
used for entertaining when hosting tea ceremonies or serving meals. It provides
a deep and thought-provoking look into the esthetics that have developed from
Japan's spirit of hospitality. 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
KING TUT: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs
To April 18, 2010
Rembrandt/Freud: Etchings from Life
January 30 to May 23, 2010
This exhibition creates an opportunity for a visual conversation across the centuries
between
two great masters of the human form, Rembrandt van Rijn and Lucian Freud. Both
artists regarded printmaking as an integral part of their art practice and
created extraordinary images using the etching process. Uncompromising and
direct, their etchings of the human face and the human body go beyond surface
appearance to expose the inner life of their subjects. The exhibition
juxtaposes self-portraits, "naked portraits" (nudes) and portraits of
family and friends. The exhibition includes 20 etchings by Freud on loan from
the Mira Godard Gallery, the McMaster Museum of Art and several private
collectors, and 30 works from the AGO’s extensive collection of etchings by
Rembrandt.
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
Body Worlds & The Story of the Heart
Closes in March 2010
See through the lenses of anatomy, cardiology, psychology and culture how the heart nourishes, regulates and sustains life. The exhibition will give a profound insight into the human body, health and disease, and the intricate world of the cardiovascular system with over 200 human specimens including whole-body plastinates, organs and translucent body slices.
Henry Potter, The Exhibition
April 9 to August 22, 2010
Visitors will experience dramatic environments inspired by the Harry Potter film sets and see the amazing craftsmanship behind more than 200 authentic costumes and film props.
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/
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual
Through April 18, 2010
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual is an extensive two-floor survey of art that represents the diversity and richness of artistic vision in British Columbia. The exhibition highlights key artistic practices that have recorded, communicated and shaped the public perception of this region and defined a collective consciousness of this place. Drawn primarily from the Gallery’s rich permanent collection and supplemented with key loans, this exhibition includes landscapes, cityscapes and portraits in a variety of media that speak to the diversity of British Columbia, its peoples and its histories.
Michael Lin: A Modest Modest Veil
January 23 to May 2, 2010
For his solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Michael Lin has created an enormous hand-painted mural that will cover the Gallery’s Georgia Street façade, bringing his artwork outside the traditional confines of the Gallery space. Expanding on his interest in veiling the institution, he has also conceived a book-wrapping project for the Gallery Store, which will cover Gallery publications in a wrapping paper of his own design.
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 Ultimate Tiziano and the Sensuality of His Painting
To April 8, 2010
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 n. 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 St.
Marks Square
Museo Correr
Website: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?pid=1608&musid=9&sezione=musei
800 Unpublished Drawings from the Venetian 19th Century
To April 11, 2010
The collection of drawings from the Venetian nineteenth century at the Correr is one of the biggest on the graphic scene of that century. It consists in several hundred sheets of different quality and kinds that – maybe because they have been obscured by the fame of the vast collections of drawings from the eighteenth century – have never received the attention they deserved and were thus considered a ‘lesser’ patrimony’ for years and therefore mainly used as a source of documentation. However, the outstanding importance of these collections gradually became clear from various points of view.
The Museo Correr is located
at San Marco 52. Open daily. Admission. Email:
Museo Fortuny
Website: http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?musid=2&sezione=musei
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.
Vienna
Kunsthistorisches
Museum Vienna
Website: http://www.khm.at
Vermeer. The Art of Painting
January 26 to April 25, 2010
The exhibition focuses on a single painting. Vermeer kept “The Art of Painting” in his
studio
as a showpiece for potential buyers, and it is regarded as his artistic legacy.
There was probably no commission for this large masterpiece, and it never left
Vermeer’s studio during his lifetime. Even after his death his widow tried to
avoid having to sell it, despite her pronounced financial difficulties.
For the first time, the painting is now the subject of a comprehensive technological and conservation study. Like a crime-scene analysis, the exhibition studies Vermeer’s use of pigments and binding media, and his technique. We also examine the much-discussed question of whether Vermeer used perspective drawings and/or optical instruments (e.g. a camera obscura) to construct his painting.
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
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age
October 25 to March 14, 2010
This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography. Drawn from the Gallery's permanent collection, the exhibition is organized chronologically and includes some 90 photographs that range from an early photogenic drawing by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography, to Polaroid prints by Andy Warhol. Superb examples of the major photographic processes, including salted paper, albumen, gelatin silver, and chromogenic prints, will be on view, along with examples of photomechanical processes such as photogravure and halftone.
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
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
February 6 to May 9, 2010
Although painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), a central figure in 20th-century art, is best known for simplified images of recognizable objects, her contributions to American abstraction over the course of her long career were radical. Her approach-in paintings, drawings, and watercolors-was determined in 1915, when she decided that her art would record her feelings, rather than the appearance of things. For the remainder of her career, she looked to art, whether abstract or objective, to express emotions for which words seemed inadequate.
Included in the exhibition are more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors by O'Keeffe, dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, and 12 photographic portraits of her by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.
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
Freer/Sackler
Galleries
Perspectives: Anish Kapoor
To February 28, 2010
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.
In The Realm Of The Buddha
March 13 to July 18, 2010
The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection is on public display for the first time. Acknowledged by practicing Buddhists as a sacred space, this shrine room contains hundreds of superb works of Buddhist art created between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, including bronze sculptures, thangkas (scroll paintings), ritual objects, textile banners, and painted furniture, all presented in a religiously correct manner. The room not only reveals how Tibetan Buddhist art was originally intended to be viewed, but it also offers visitors a profound and spiritual experience.
Hirschorn Museum
& Sculpture Garden
Directions: John Gerrard
November 5 to May 31,
2010
John Gerrard’s (Irish, b. Dublin, 1973) works hover between fact and fiction. They present actual scenes from desolate corners of the American landscape and unfold in real time so that patient viewers can experience the progression of the day from morning to night in each setting; however, what looks like a live shot is, in fact, a manipulated, fabricated image. Gerrard photographed every site from 360 degrees and then animated the stills into seamless cinematic panning shots.
Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration
February 11 to April 11, 2010
The Hirshhorn possesses one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of work by Josef Albers (American, b. Bottrop, Germany, 1888; d. New Haven, Connecticut. The exhibit presents nearly 70 works spanning the artist’s 50-year career, many of which are on view for the first time. Supplementing the installation are key objects on loan from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
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
Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris
February 14 to April 25, 2010
Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931), an Italian artist who settled in Paris, is best known for his society portraits, painted around the turn of the twentieth century. He began his career, however, painting a wide range of subjects in varying styles. These genre scenes, landscapes, city views, and casual portraits were inspired by both established artists and the emerging Impressionists. This exhibition will explore Boldini’s artistic development in the first half of his career, before he became known as the quintessential portraitist of the Belle Époque.
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/fondation/e/html_01start/01_sta__main.php
Henri Rousseau
February 7 to May 9, 2010
With his spectacular jungle paintings and intriguing images of France, the "Douanier"
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) became one of the outstanding pathfinders of modern art. To mark the centenary of his death, the Fondation Beyeler is presenting an exhibition that includes 40 major works. On view will be portraits, allegories and landscapes by Rousseau that influenced such artists as Kandinsky, Léger and Picasso. The exhibition will focus on Rousseau's fascination with the contrast between the civilized Western world and a wild, imaginary nature.
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
Van Gogh Cézanne Monet: The Bührle Collection Visits the Kunsthaus
Zurich
February 12 to May 16, 2010
The Bührle Collection is among the most famous collections never seen in Zurich nor worldwide. Two years ago, however, when thieves made off with a major work by each of Cézanne, Degas, Monet and van Gogh (only two works have since re-surfaced), the low-profile Bührle was suddenly all the buzz. As well it might be, since the unique collection of about 180 pictures and sculptures, assembled under the aegis of a foundation, is among the most significant private collections worldwide.
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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calendar updated 2/4/2010