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10th May 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
The Impressionist Figure - Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery |
Exhibition
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| Presented exclusively by the Paine Art Center and Gardens, this exceptional exhibition features depictions of the human figure and scenes of everyday life in French art from the 1850s through the turn of the 20th century. |
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10th May 2008
to 1st Sep 2008 |
Impressionist Edgar Degas on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton |
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| Three outstanding oil paintings by famed French artist Edgar Degas are on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in The Japonisme of Edgar Degas and James Tissot. The exhibition is part of Inspiration East, the Gallery's year-long celebration of Asian arts and culture. |
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16th Feb 2008
to 8th Jun 2008 |
Lucian Freud at the Haag |
Exhibition
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| The first ever Dutch retrospective of this extraordinary and unconventional artist opens on 16th February at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and runs until 8th June 2008. |
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16th Mar 2008
to 3rd Aug 2008 |
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered |
Exhibition
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| When it premiered in 1980, Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century was met with both admiration and hostility. The series depicts such luminaries of Jewish culture as Sarah Bernhardt, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Franz Kafka, among others. |
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16th May 2008
to 24th Aug 2008 |
Mark Rothko: The Retrospective |
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| The American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism. Twenty years after the last retrospective in a German museum this show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle offers the opportunity to discover his outstanding oeuvre anew. |
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16th Nov 2007
to 11th May 2008 |
Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s |
Exhibition
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| The Wolfsonian-Florida International University will present an exciting exhibition that offers an innovative, in-depth look at the promotion and dissemination of design. Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s opens on 16th November 2007. |
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17th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Landscapes |
Exhibition
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| The work of Alfred Sisley is now on show at The Bowes Museum; the first major exhibition devoted to this leading Impressionist to take place outside London in half a century. |
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18th Aug 2007
to 30th Jun 2011 |
Restaurant Commission: James Aldridge Cold Mouth Prayer |
Exhibition
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Cold Mouth Prayer is a panoramic new painting, specially commissioned for Tate Modern's Restaurant.
Tate Modern, London |
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20th Apr 2008
to 27th Jul 2008 |
El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III |
Exhibition
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| This groundbreaking exhibition examines a fascinating period (1598-1621) bracketed by the two giants of Spanish painting, El Greco and Velázquez. |
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20th Feb 2008
to 3rd Jun 2008 |
Orphaned Art: Looted Art from the Holocaust |
Exhibition
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| The Israel Museum is showcasing some forty paintings, drawings, prints, and books, together with two dozen examples of recovered Jewish ceremonial objects. |
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20th Feb 2008
to 20th Jul 2008 |
Vlaminck - a Fauvist Instinct |
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| This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck's (1876-1958) earliest known paintings. |
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21st Feb 2008
to 25th May 2008 |
Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at 'La Loge' |
Exhibition
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| In celebration of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary, the exhibition Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at 'La Loge' unites La Loge for the first time with Renoir's other treatments of the subject and loge paintings by contemporaries, including Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. |
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21st Feb 2008
to 26th May 2008 |
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia |
Exhibition
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| Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. |
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21st Feb 2008
to 24th May 2008 |
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Nationalmuseum |
Exhibition
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| The exhibition features some 200 works: drawings, posters and oil paintings. It is the first comprehensive presentation of Toulouse Lautrec in Sweden for 40 years. |
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22nd Feb 2008
to 11th May 2008 |
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism |
Exhibition
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| This exhibition of forty French and American paintings represents some of the finest examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century landscapes from the renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum. |
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22nd Feb 2008
to 1st Jun 2008 |
Women Impressionists |
Exhibition
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| The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Women Artists' Contribution to the Impressionist Movement, for the first time in Germany. |
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23rd May 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round |
Exhibition
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| This exhibition will show for the first time early Anglo-Saxon coins from the De Wit collection, recently purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum. These gold shillings and silver pennies display the most innovative range of pictorial and geometric designs. |
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24th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Survey of Adam Chodzko at Tate St Ives |
Exhibition
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| Tate St Ives is the first public gallery in the UK to present a selected survey of Chodzko's work from the past seventeen years, alongside a major new commission produced especially for this show. |
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24th May 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 |
Moore in America |
Exhibition
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| Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at The New York Botanical Garden is the largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore's sculpture ever presented in a single venue in the United States. |
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27th May 2008
to 2nd Jun 2008 |
Moscow World Fine Art Fair |
Fair
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| The Moscow World Fine Art Fair celebrates its fifth edition in May with a return to the historic Manège, the Russian capital's largest cultural complex. |
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2nd Mar 2008
to 8th Jun 2008 |
Plein-Air Practice In The Forest Of Fontainebleau |
Exhibition
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| The quiet but significant revolution that was launched by artists working outdoors in 19th-century France is explored through some 100 paintings, pastels, and photographs assembled for the exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. |
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2nd May 2007
to 30th Apr 2012 |
Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments |
Exhibition
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Discover how Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) revolutionised two different kinds of image-making: watercolour and print.
Tate Britain, London |
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30th Apr 2008
to 17th Aug 2008 |
Bharti Kher at the Baltic Centre |
Exhibition
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| Raised in London, Bharti Kher studied Fine Art and Painting at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Now living and working in New Delhi, she has a growing international reputation for creating fantastical, surreal environments. |
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30th May 2008
to 31st Aug 2008 |
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900 |
Exhibition
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| This summer, Tate Liverpool will present a full-scale reconstruction of The Beethoven Frieze (1901-2 / 1984) a monumental installation by Gustav Klimt, the first comprehensive exhibition of Klimt's work ever staged in the UK and a key event in Liverpool's programme for European Capital of Culture 2008. |
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30th May 2008
to 31st Aug 2008 |
'The trial of strength': 200 years Haus der Kunst |
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| This year the Munich Art Academy of Fine Arts is celebrating its 200th anniversary - on this occasion the Haus der Kunst has brought together exemplary works by its professors and students in a large exhibition. |
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4th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 |
Exhibition
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| In the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed, fifty key works by 31 artists - among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko - will be viewed from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture. |
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5th Apr 2008
to 8th Jun 2008 |
Peter Brown: Bath and Beyond |
Exhibition
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| Over thirty new oil paintings celebrating the streets of Bath and nearest beaches, captured in all sorts of weather by Bath-based artist Peter Brown, will be on display at Bath and North East Somerset Council's Victoria Art Gallery. |
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5th Feb 2008
to 18th May 2008 |
Modigliani And His Times |
Exhibition
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| Modigliani and His Times presents a survey of the work of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) from the moment of his arrival in Paris in 1906 up to his premature death at the age of 35. |
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8th Mar 2008
to 21st May 2008 |
Three Rembrandt masterpieces at the Cincinnati Art Museum |
Exhibition
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| Three extraordinary self-portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the greatest masters in the history of Western art, will be presented together for the first time at the Cincinnati Art Museum. |
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8th Mar 2008
to 8th Jun 2008 |
Cranach |
Exhibition
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| The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in Britain devoted to Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553). A collaboration between the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main and the Royal Academy, the exhibition brings together some 70 works. |
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9th May 2008
to 14th May 2008 |
The International Fine Art Fair |
Fair
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| Many of the world's leading fine art dealers will participate once again in The International Fine Art Fair, taking place in New York City, Haughton International Fairs has announced. |
