Museums & Galleries for exhibitions of the Masters

May 15th to November 2nd in London
Jack the Ripper and the East End at Museum in Docklands - Museum in Docklands is returning to the scene of London’s most infamous crimes, with its major new exhibition, Jack the Ripper and the East End. The exhibition will look at the human stories behind the accounts, bringing together the surviving original documents for the first time, including police files, photographs and letters from the public.

May 16th to 19th in Brussels
EURANTICA: If you think furniture has been dethroned, think again. Eurantica Brussels, with its 150 antique dealers and gallery owners focuses this years exhibition on the theme “Symbols in Art”. It is a show not to be missed. Eurantica Brussels - fine art & antiques fair creates a meeting place for fans and collectors of art and antiques. The show is held at Brussels Expo. Brussels, Belgium.

May 16th to 31st in Brussels
From Brueghel to Rubens - The Royal Museum of Fine Arts reassembles fifty outstanding works of art by the Masters of the Low Countries between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Hans Memling, Quinten Metsys, Jan Gossaert, Pieter Breugel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck.The paintings are on loan from the collection held in trust by Queen Elizabeth II. Brussels, Belgium

May 16th to September 14th in London
The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic - The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic which follows Prince Rama’s quest to rescue his beloved wife Sita from the clutches of a demon king with the help of an army of monkeys. For the first time nearly 120 paintings from the British Library’s lavishly illustrated 17th century manuscripts of the story will go on public display in its forthcoming summer exhibition: The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic - London, England

May 24th at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The William and Judith Bollinger Jewelery Gallery - The new gallery, designed by Eva Jiricna, will transform the presentation of the V&As jewelery collection, one of the most celebrated and comprehensive in the world. Over 3500 jewels will tell the story of jewelery from 2000 BC to the present. On display will be jewels from the courts of Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great and Napoleon, including the famous Beauharnais Emeralds. Jewels by the great houses of Boucheron, Chaumet and Cartier, including Lady Mountbatten's tutti frutti bandeau will be on show. Artist jewelers from Lalique and C.R. Ashbee to Wendy Ramshaw and Peter Chang will reflect the 20th century and the present day. London, England

May 28th to August 25th in London
Psycho Buildings – The Hayward Gallery - As part of its 40th birthday celebrations, The Hayward is giving 10 artists from around the world the opportunity to transform its indoor and outdoor spaces. The works include an eerie display of over 250 dolls houses, an exploding room and a 30-seat cinema showing films about artists and architecture. London, England

May 30th to August 31st in Liverpool
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900. The work of Gustav Klimt echoes throughout the modern world, influencing fashion, design, decoration and interiors. Think of Klimt and you think of beautiful women in fine costume - with stunning use of color and gold leaf to embellish these visions. At the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

June 25th to September 28th in Brussels
The prestigious City Hall of Brussels will be hosting a major exhibition entitled "Oriental Fascination - Japanism in Belgium 1889 - 1915". A surprising encounter between an exceptional selection of Japanese prints from the Feliks Jasienski collection preserved in Krakow, one of the most remarkable collections of oriental art in Europe, never before seen in Belgium, and works under the influence of some twenty big names in Belgian art. Brussels

July 3rd to November 9th in Vienna
Jean Tinguely - A Retrospective - We are pleased to be able to present another big exhibition of about 160 works of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925 - 1991) after 17 years. This time, the retrospective shows sculptures, models, drawings, drafts, sketches, posters and photos from the holdings of the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland

July 9th to October 5th
Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th Century Holland. This beautiful show will be a complete revelation to all lovers of 17th century Dutch art. It will feature masterpieces by all four De Brays. Dirck painted bouquets of flowers; Joseph's three surviving paintings all celebrate the herring. The brothers were grand masters of historic storytelling and the portrait historie, a form of portraiture which Jan developed, in which sitters take on the roles of historic or mythological figures. At the Dulwich Picture Gallery - London, England

July 24th to October 26th in London
The British Museum will host an exhibition: “Hadrian: Empire and Conflict” from July 24 through October 26, 2008. It will explore the life, love and legacy of Rome’s most enigmatic emperor, Hadrian (r. AD 117-138). London, England

September 12th to January 11, 2009 in Marseille
Van Gogh and Monticelli - The Centre de la Vieille Charité, in Marseille, will present a joint exhibition of the artwork of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most famous painters in the world, and the lesser-known artist Adolphe Monticelli, a native of Marseille, whose canvases of dazzling dappled colors and textured and glazed surfaces were one of the main reasons Van Gogh moved to Provence - Marseille, France

September 14th in Flanders
Open Monuments Day - Open Monuments Day hundreds of Flemish monuments open their doors to the public, providing the perfect opportunity to discover the Flemish architectural and archaeological heritage. The twentieth edition puts the spotlight on twentieth-century monuments, ranging from municipal amenities and large-scale infrastructure works to the war heritage, post war reconstruction and leisure architecture. Flanders, Belgium

September 25th to January 11th in Stockholm
The Deluded Eye - Five Centuries of Deception - A major exhibition on the trompe l’œil tradition. It will be organised thematically to offer a side-by-side presentation of earlier and contemporary works on the trompe l’œil concept. At the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden

October 1st to 31st in Antwerp
Maison Martin Margiela - In October 2008 Maison Martin Margiela will be celebrating its twentieth birthday and Antwerp Fashion Museum has the honour of marking that date with the very first Maison Martin Margiela retrospective. Antwerp, Belgium

October 19th to 31st in Brussels
Brussels Biennial - The first edition of the Brussels Biennial, a new international exhibition of contemporary art, opens on October 19th 2008. Fifty years earlier Expo '58 in Brussels closed its doors. Brussels Biennial now invites contemporary artists to reflect on the spirit of modernity and optimism which characterized the event fifty years ago. Their work will be shown in institutions and public spaces which typify our modern society: the National Bank, the Royal Library, the national administrative centre and the Brussels train stations. The project will comprise a total of fifty exhibitions, involving some one-hundred artists. Brussels, Belgium

November 21st to 30th in Ghent
Flemish Tapestries for the Burgundian Dukes - Flemish tapestries made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were utilized as ‘mobile frescoes’ by the Burgundian dukes, Emperor Charles V and King Philip II, accompanying them on their travels through Europe to bring comfort, aesthetic pleasure and social prestige. This exhibition brings together magnificent tapestries from the Spanish royal collection, from several Spanish private collections and from the sixteenth-century tapestries from St. Peter’s Abbey. Ghent, Belgium

November 26th to February 15th, 2009
Saul Steinberg Illuminations New Yorker - Saul Steinberg, an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades, is the subject of Dulwich Picture Gallery's latest illustrators exhibition. It's a retrospective which features more than a hundred drawings,, collages and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. This exhibition is the first full scale review of his career. At the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England

May 7th to September 1st in New York
"Superheroes" : Imagery in Fashion - As superheroes enjoy a surge in mass popularity not seen since the golden age of comic books in the 1940's, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between these fictional characters and fashion in Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, an exhibition at the Museum from May 7th through September 1st , 2008. The exhibition will feature approximately 70 ensembles including movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high performance sportswear to reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. The exhibition is made possible by Giorgio Armani. New York, New York

To May 18th in New York
Gustave Courbet, Radical and Rebellious 19th Century Artist, Featured in Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York

May 20th to August 17th at the Metropolitan Museum
Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from London's Victoria and Albert Museum to go on View at the Metropolitan Museum on May 20th. At the Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

To June 8th in Washington D.C.
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Some 100 paintings, pastels, and photographs, as well as artists’ and tourist ephemera will illustrate the revolution that was launched by artists working outdoors in 19th-century France. Spanning half a century, this artistic movement gave rise to the "Barbizon School" and laid the groundwork for impressionism. Formerly a royal hunting ground of kings and emperors, the Forest of Fontainebleau—by decree of Emperor Napoleon III—became the world’s first nature preserve in 1861. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Until June 29th in New York.
Exclusive Showing of an Important Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain - Although the formula for manufacturing true porcelain was developed in China by the sixth century, it remained a consuming mystery in the West until its discovery in 1708 by alchemist Johann Friedrich Bottger (1682 - 1719) under the patronage of August II (1670 - 1733), elector of Saxony and King of Poland. In 1710, the king established a royal manufactory outside Dresden in the town of Meissen, and the porcelain created there has been known by that name ever since. Early Meissein porcelain and its decoration remained experimental into the 1740s. Examples from this period are particularly rare and have always been sought after. At the Frick, New York, New York

To July 13th in Hartford
Making a Splash: American Beach Fashions, 1850 - 1920 - In complement to the exhibition, Impressionists by the Sea, Making a Splash uses original costume items along with period photographs and prints to explore fashions worn at the American seaside in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The exhibition examines the roots of American bathing costumes in reform dress for water cures and private exercise, as well as exploring the beach as a setting for relaxation, public recreation and the promenading the latest fashions on the boardwalk. - Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford Connecticut