September 10th to January 9th
in Denmark
Art and Myth - Anselm Kiefer has long been on the list of
post-war artists that the museum would like to show in the
large, perspectivizing format. There are many good reasons for
this: Kiefer is well represented in Louisiana’s collection,
and his works are unconditionally among the visitors’
favourites. In addition, the museum, with a good 70 works in
the exhibition, can boast of the first major showing of his
work in Scandinavia. And finally, the project rounds off
Louisiana’s showings of the post-war German ‘gang of four’:
Polke, Richter, Baselitz and now Kiefer. At the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Humlebaek, Denmark
September 11th to January 9th
in Cambridge
Epic of the Persian Kings - 1000 years ago in Persia the
world's longest poem was written: the Shahnameh, or
"Book of Kings." This epic inspired some of the most
exquisite manuscript art ever produced. Nearly 100 rare
miniature paintings from Iran and India spanning almost 800
years, will go on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in the
only showing of this landmark exhibition. Cambridge,
England
From
September 14th to October 26th in Paris
The Ratton-Ladriere Gallery is showing exceptional
sculptures from the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Some of them depict historical scenes, such as the Death of
Cleopatra, while others show religious scenes, such as the
Beheading of Saint Paul, while others still are based on
mythology, such as the Lady with the unicorn or the Faun with
Kid. Located on quai Voltaire, the Ratton-Ladričre
gallery has been one of the must-see antiquity galleries of
the "Carré Rive Gauche" for some thirty years. The
Ratton-Ladriere Gallery - Paris, France
September 11th to December 5th
in London
Science, Religion and Politics: The Royal Society
- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery to mark
the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society
will celebrate a critical moment in the development of modern
science. The display of 20 works, drawing from the Collection
of the National Portrait Gallery and including two loans from
the Royal Society, will show the key figures in the early
history of the Royal Society such as Sir Christopher Wren,
Robert Boyle, Samuel Pepys and Sir Isaac Newton. At the
National Portrait Gallery, London, England
September 14th to December 18th
in London
A major exhibition of works by The Glasgow Boys, the
group of highly influential and internationally-renowned
Scottish-based artists who on occasions enraged Victorian
Britain, is to be held at The Fleming Collection at 13
Berkeley Street, in London. Most of the 50
paintings on show will come from The Fleming Collection’s own
holdings but ten will be loaned by an important private
collection rarely seen by the public. The Glasgow Boys
from The Fleming Collection will complement Pioneering
Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900, which will take
place at The Royal Academy of Arts in London from 30
October 2010 to 23 January 2011 following a successful
showing at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
September
15th to November 28th in London
Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic
- Salvator Rosa invented a range of new types of painting;
novel allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and
melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and
enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; highly
original philosophical subjects, which bring into painting
some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his
age. No other artist has created windswept landscapes of such
expressive and emotional power, or figures of such dark and
brooding intensity. Unlike Caravaggio, Rosa was truly a
rebel, radical, anti - clerical, associated with libertine
thought, and often in very real danger from the Inquisition.
At the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England
September 18th to January 23rd
in York
Hats - Paintings of hats and their wearers from York Art
Gallery's own collection will be displayed alongside hats from
York Castle Museum's costume collection in this delightful
show. The exhibition will explore the etiquette of when and
where to wear hats and the social rules and trends which have
influenced headwear over the last 400 years. Individual styles
of hats will also be highlighted such as the bowler hat, the
fez and the flat cap, as well as the flamboyant ladies'
fashions of the 19th and 20th centuries. Around 30 oil
paintings and works on paper will feature in the show, and
around 20 hats, including Dame Barbara Hepworth's A Surgeon
Waiting and Roger Bissiere's Woman in a Straw Hat. York,
England
September 18th to February 20th
in Rotterdam
Edvard Munch in Rotterdam - Kunsthal Rotterdam brings
together more than 150 paintings and works on paper of
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. He is one of the most
fascinating artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century. Munch paints about life, love and death. Complex
emotions like loneliness, dread and anxiety are the main
themes of his work. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
September 22nd to December 19th
in London
Against Mussolini – Art and the fall of a dictator -
Estorick Collection of Modern Art - Whilst several major
exhibitions have been devoted to exploring the propaganda
imagery of Fascist Italy, art produced by those hostile to the
regime has perhaps received less attention. This exhibition
brings together works produced in Italy and abroad in the
aftermath of Mussolini's initial fall from power in 1943 and
throughout the period of civil war and resistance, chronicling
the demise of a personality cult. Together the collection
offers a unique insight into the way the visual arts responded
to a period of transition that remains controversial today.
At the Estorick Collection of Modern Art. London,
England
September 22nd to January 30th
in London
John Pawson, Plain Space - The Design Museum presents a
major exhibition of the work of British architect, John Pawson.
This is the first UK exhibition of Pawson’s work, whose
diverse commissions include the new Cistercian Monastery of
Novy Dvur in Bohemia, Calvin Klein’s flagship store in
Manhattan and the Sackler Crossing at the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew. Providing an overview of a body of work amassed
over thirty years spent in the pursuit of simplicity, this
exhibition also aims to offer an immersive experience, with
specially commissioned photography and short films,
large-scale models and a 1:1 installation designed
specifically for the show. At the Design Museum -
London, England
September 25th through December
12th in London
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo
to Schiele - This September the Royal Academy of Arts
will showcase the breadth and wealth of one of the finest
collections in Central Europe. The exhibition will feature
over 200 works and will include paintings, drawings and
sculpture from the early Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Selected works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci,
Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Goya, Manet, Monet, Schiele,
Gauguin and Picasso will be on display, many of which have not
previously been shown in the UK. The exhibition comprises
works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, with additional
key loans from the Hungarian National Gallery. At
the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
September 28ath to January 2nd
in New York
Extraordinary Chinese Works from
Dramatic Era of Khubilai Khan - The
Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major international
loan exhibition devoted to the art of the Yuan dynasty
(1271-1368)—one of the most dynamic and culturally rich
periods in Chinese history. Bringing together over 200
works drawn principally from China, with additional loans from
Taiwan, Japan, Europe, Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and
the United States, The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in
the Yuan Dynasty will explore the art and material culture
that flourished during the pivotal and vibrant period in
Chinese culture and history dating from 1215, the year of
Khubilai Khan's birth, to 1368, the fall of the Yuan dynasty.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York
September 30th through January
16th in London
Gauguin: Maker of Myth - Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the
most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth
century. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition in
London to be devoted to his work in over half a century.
Gauguin: Maker of Myth will trace the artist’s unique approach
to storytelling. Bringing together over 100 works from public
and private collections from around the world, the exhibition
will take a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern
art. At the Tate Modern in London, England
September 30th to January 23rd
in Sweden
This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents the magnificent
exhibition Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander.
On show will be some 420 items - a collection of portraits,
costumes, jewelry and other art wares – all telling a story of
honor and power. The exhibition is about the art of governing
through art. At the Nationalmuseum in Sweden.
October 2nd through 31st in
Venice
The Poetic of Written SpaceLa Poetica Dello Spazio Scritto -
Handwriting and Calligraphy. This exhibition
presents an itinerary that is a synthesis of traditional and
contemporary visual communication through handwriting.
The show is organized in four parts:
Historical:
manuals, letters and private documents with handwritings from
the 1500's to the 1900's from the Correr Museum;
Contemporary: artworks on paper and
artist's books by contemporary artists working with Western,
Islamic and Eastern calligraphy. Artists: Kitty
Sabatier (France), Benno Aumann (Italy-Germany), Satsuki
Hatsushima (England-Japan), Adriana Seri (Italy), Xin Ye
(France-China). Hassan Massoudy (France-Iraq), Kolle Torsten
(Germany), Mari Bohley (Germany), Cinzia Scuderi (Italy),
Birgit Nass (Germany), Ewan Clayton (England), Brody
Neuenshwander (Belgium-USA), Carlo Buffa (Italy), Monica Dengo
(Italy-USA), Akar Abdallah (France-Tunisia), Laurent Rebena
(France), Michaela Keller (Switzerland), Norio Nagayama
(Italy-Japan).
Installation by Monica Dengo: I invite you to make the
text your own. Text to touch, smell, listen and feel.
Workshop: The works of students participating in
the calligraphy workshop, held by Monica Dengo, will be
exhibited in the show. At the Correr Museum in Venice,
Italy
October 7th to February 13th in
Bern
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - The
British navigator James Cook (1728–1779) is considered one of
the greatest explorers of all time. His pioneering discoveries
permanently altered navigation, astronomy, natural history and
art in the age of the Enlightenment and pointed the way to
modern Europe. The exhibition in the Historisches Museum
Bern tells the story of James Cook’s voyages: With over
450 exhibits, including original nautical charts and
navigational instruments and a selection of the finest
paintings and drawings by official expedition painters;
With ethnographic objects from the museum's own collection and
loans from Europe and overseas. For the first time, the
most valuable of the objects brought back from Cook's voyages
will be brought together in an exhibition. With a
particular focus on an English painter with Swiss roots:
John Webber, son of a sculptor from Bern by the name of Waber.
Webber documented cook's third voyage with drawings and
watercolors. Shortly before his death, he bequeathed his
collection of artifacts from the South Seas to his home town,
Bern. With model ships and explanatory animations films.
These visualize the various stages of the voyages, and
show how the degrees of longitude and latitude were measured,
or how a sextant works. Bern, Switzerland
October 9th to 11th in Morocco
Marrakech Art Fair - The first edition of the Marrakech
Art Fair will be held at the Es Saadi Palace. Galleries
from Europe, Morocco and the Arab world are pleased to present
their recent discoveries during a four day event. Modern
art, contemporary art, and emerging scenes will be high on the
agenda, during an ephemeral leisure staged between patio and
garden through art works and creations form the 20th and 21st
centuries. Marrakech, Morocco
October 9th to January 24th in
California
Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes
from the Peter Marino Collection. The Huntington is the
first U.S. venue for “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and
Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” a rare look
at approximately 20 bronze statuettes made from about 1500 to
the mid-18th century in Italy, France, Germany, and the
Netherlands. Since antiquity, small bronzes delighted and
engaged viewers who contemplated their beauty, erudite subject
matter, and inventive compositions. The exhibition displays
publicly for the first time New York architect Peter Marino’s
private collection of prime examples by such artists as
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652–1737) and Michel Anguier (ca.
1613–1686). At the Huntington. in the MaryLou and
George Boone Gallery. San Marino,
California
October 13th to February 20th in London
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography -
This autumn, the V&A will present the first UK museum
exhibition of work by contemporary camera-less photographers.
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography will display images
by five leading artists who, for the past twenty years or
more, have been creating exciting new photography without the
use of a camera: Pierre Cordier (Belgium), Susan Derges (UK),
Adam Fuss (UK/ USA), Garry Fabian Miller (UK) and Floris
Neusüss (Germany). Camera-less techniques were first explored
by the pioneers of photography by blocking light or casting
shadows on light sensitive paper or chemically manipulating
its surface. These experiments were rediscovered by
20th-century artists including Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy and
revived by contemporary image makers. The process of
camera-less photography means each work is completely unique
and created to scale, often offering a direct and unmediated
relationship with the landscape, object, figure or light event
it captures. At the Victoria & Albert Museum, London,
England
October 15th to January 30th in Zurich
Kunsthaus Zurich Presents Pablo Picasso - The Kunsthaus
Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to
Pablo Picasso. The 1932 show, personally curated at the
Kunsthaus Zürich and featuring pieces chosen by the artist
himself, covers Picasso’s work from his pink and blue periods
to his Cubist and neo-classical phase and Surrealist
creations, and includes 70 outstanding originals from the
best-known international collections. Zurich,
Switzerland
October 15th to February 20th
in Bern
Lust and Vice. The 7 Deadly Sins. - The Zentrum Paul Klee and
the Museum of Fine Arts of Bern will devote a
comprehensive exhibition to the seven deadly sins, targeting a
fitting documentation of artistic preoccupation with this
theme from medieval times to the present. The exhibition will
address the relevance of the notion of sin in contemporary
society and how our culture justifies changes in values.
Bern, Switzerland
October 19th to February 6th in
Madrid
Passion for Renoir -
The Collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute - During the forthcoming autumn-winter season the
Museo del Prado will be holding the first monographic
exhibition devoted to Renoir in Spain. For the first time in
Europe it will show 31 of the paintings by Renoir housed at
the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts), the
American museum that possesses one of the most important
holdings of Renoir’s works. Through this exceptional loan of
almost all the Institute’s paintings by the artist, and during
the more than three months of the exhibition’s duration, the
Prado will be able to demonstrate the breadth and importance
of Renoir’s artistic ideas through the principal genres in
which he worked: portraiture, the female figure, the nude,
landscape, still life and flowers. Exhibition
co-organized by the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) and the
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown,
Massachusetts) - Curator: Javier Barón, Head of the Department
of 19th-century Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado
- Room 16b Madrid, Spain
October 21
to January 2011 in London
Cézanne’s Card Players - The Courtauld Gallery,
Somerset House, London, EnglandOctober 30th to
January 23rd in London
Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900 - Royal
Academy of Arts. This exhibition is the first in over 40 years
to celebrate the major achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the
loosely knit group of around 20 young artists who created such
a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the 19th
century. At the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
England
October 30th to January 23rd in
London
Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900 - Royal
Academy of Arts. This exhibition is the first in over 40 years
to celebrate the major achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the
loosely knit group of around 20 young artists who created such
a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the 19th
century. At the Royal Academy of Arts, London,
England
November 4th to December 17th
in London
This November, Francesca Galloway is staging an
exceptional exhibition of Indian miniatures from the
collection of the acclaimed American film director James Ivory
in her gallery at 31 Dover Street in London. The
collection comprises 100 miniatures from the Hindu Courts of
Rajasthan, the Hill States and South India and painting made
under East India Company rule. London,
England
November 4th to
January 30th in the Hague
Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection
in America. A selection of highlights from the
remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van
Otterloo will be on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
(The Netherlands) this autumn. The exhibition Made in Holland:
Old Masters from a private collection in America features 44
masterpieces produced by Dutch masters during the Golden Age.
Not only are these works of outstanding quality, their subject
matter is often intriguing. The selection includes works by
Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen and
Hendrick Avercamp. At the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis.
The Hague, Netherlands
www.mauritshuis.nl
November 4th to March 6th
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - Journey through the
afterlife. Follow the ancient Egyptians' journey from
death to the afterlife in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
focusing on the Book of the Dead, a compilation of spells
designed to guide the deceased through the dangers of the
underworld and ensure eternal life. At the British
Museum in London, England
November 5th to January 24th in
California
The Norton Simon Museum is pleased to announce the rare
loan of Raphael’s The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505,
from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. One of
about 12 works by Raphael in U.S. collections, this painting
of the Madonna and Child was executed early in the artist’s
career, during the four years he spent in Florence (1504–08).
This extraordinary loan is part of an exchange program between
the National Gallery of Art and the Norton Simon foundations,
which also brought Vermeer’s A Lady Writing to the Simon in
the fall of 2008. The Small Cowper Madonna is one of five
works by Raphael in the collection of the National Gallery of
Art, and its presentation at the Simon marks the first time it
has been lent to another U.S. museum. Pasadena,
CA
November 17ath to March 6th in
London
Design Museum - Illustrated Fashion presents a remarkable
collection of some of the most recognizable fashion drawings
from the 20th and 21st Century. These original drawings define
the fine art of illustrating fashion and will sit alongside
key garments from couture houses that defined the different
directions and avant-garde designs including Poiret, Chanel,
Dior, but also Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons and Victor & Rolf.
The drawings reflect the spirit of the time and some have
become graphic icons in their own right. At the Design
Museum in London, England
December 16th, 2010 to March
21st in Amsterdam
Gabriel Metsu (1629 -1667) - The
son of a Flemish painter, Gabriel Metsu staged his career
over twenty years in both his hometown of Leiden as well as Amsterdam.
Though his life spanned only thirty-eight years, his work was quite
prolific. Metsu's œuvre
focused primarily on genre painting, but this exhibition proposes a catalogue raisonné of Metsu's
works, including market scenes, religious subjects, still lifes, and
portraits. The exhibition will feature approximately forty paintings
from a variety of public and private collections. At the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
December 17th through
April 25th, 2011
Napoleon and Europe - Dream and Trauma - During the
near-twenty-year span of his reign, Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821), more than any other historical figure,
revolutionized the political, social and cultural landscape of
Europe and wrought changes that can be felt to this day – both
positively and negatively. The Art and Exhibition Hall has
been able to secure outstanding loans from all over Europe in
order to draw a comprehensive picture of Napoleon and his
time. Painting and sculpture reached new heights of excellence
in the Napoleonic era – both in the propaganda paintings by
David, Gérard and Ingres and in the work of those who opposed
the French emperor, among them Goya and the German
romanticists. Under Napoleon’s aegis the Louvre was opened as
the first ‘modern’ museum of fine arts. The exhibition will
also shed light on the large-scale plundering of art
collections in the countries occupied by Napoleon. The
Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, Germany
February 27th through June
5th, 2011 in Washington, D.C,
Gauguin: Maker of Myth will explore the role of Paul
Gauguin (1848–1903) as storyteller and mythmaker through
his reinvention or appropriation of narratives and myths
drawn from both his European cultural heritage or from
Maori legend, his use of religious and mythical symbols,
and the manipulation of his own artistic identity. On view
in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, from
February 27 through June 5, 2011, this will be the first
major reappraisal of the artist's career in the United
States in more than 20 years. The exhibition will present
some 200 works by Gauguin reflecting his remarkable
breadth, including examples from every period (circa 1880
to 1903), medium (painting, watercolor, pastel, drawings
and prints, ceramic and wooden sculpture, decorated
functional objects, writings, and books), and genre
(portraiture, still life, and landscape). The
exhibition is co-organized with Tate Modern, London, where
it will be on view from September 30, 2010 through January
16, 2011.
