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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 |
Exhibition
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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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12th Jun 2008
to 18th Jun 2008 |
Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair |
Fair
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| The annual Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair is open to the public between 12th & 18th June 2008. |
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12th Jun 2008
to 15th Jun 2008 |
The Affordable Art Fair: New York City |
Fair
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| The Affordable Art Fair 2008 at the Altman Building. This year the Fair will host more than 70 galleries from the US, Europe, Asia, Canada and South America. |
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15th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Van Gogh's Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Rémy |
Exhibition
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| The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit side by side two of Vincent van Gogh's most renowned paintings, Cypresses and The Starry Night. |
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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 |
Exhibition
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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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17th Jun 2008
to 14th Sep 2008 |
Miró: Earth |
Exhibition
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| This exhibition presents a survey of Miró's work in the period between 1918, the year of his first solo exhibition, and his death in 1983. |
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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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18th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910 |
Exhibition
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| Comprising over fifty works by the most influential Divisionist painters, the exhibition includes rare loans from private and public collections of Europe and North America. |
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1st Jul 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
JMW Turner Opens at Metropolitan Museum |
Exhibition
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| The first major retrospective of the work of celebrated British artist J. M. W. Turner to be presented in the United States in more than 40 years will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning July 1, 2008. |
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1st Jul 2008
to 14th Dec 2008 |
Constructed - 40 Years of the UEA Collection |
Exhibition
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| Constructed, the most extensive exhibition of the UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design, opens at the Sainsbury Centre on Tuesday 1st July and runs until Sunday 14th December. |
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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 |
Exhibition
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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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20th Jun 2008
to 5th Jan 2009 |
Great Company: Portraits by European Masters |
Exhibition
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| A selection of portraits and sculpture by European masters dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century will grace the Coolidge Gallery in the Upper Hemicycle at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the special installation Great Company: Portraits by European Masters. |
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21st Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews |
Exhibition
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| Luminous paintings, stylish furnishings and dazzling decorative objects by the husband and wife team considered to be American Masters of Art Nouveau are featured in California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews. |
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23rd Jun 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art |
Exhibition
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| This summer the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will present the highly acclaimed exhibition Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The works on display in this show have never been to Utah before. |
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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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26th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
The Courtauld Cezannes |
Exhibition
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| The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. This exhibition presents the entire collection for the first time. |
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26th Jun 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Landmark exhibition on Buckminster Fuller |
Exhibition
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| Explores the legacy of Buckminster Fuller - visionary American inventor, designer, environmentalist, and humanitarian. |
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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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28th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s |
Exhibition
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| The selection of works offers a comprehensive look at the major developments in a period of one hundred years, marked by the rise of modernity and by a dramatic change in the physical and social landscape. |
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28th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence |
Exhibition
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| The Royal Academy of Arts will be holding the first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective in the UK this June and feature over 60 paintings spanning the career of this celebrated Danish artist. |
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29th Jun 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 |
The Impressionists: Master paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago |
Exhibition
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| Some of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters are coming to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. |
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29th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Gustave Caillebotte - Parisian Impressionist with a passion for water |
Exhibition
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| "Gustave Caillebotte - Parisian Impressionist with a passion for water" is the first individual exhibition of work by the French painter in Germany. |
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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 |
Exhibition
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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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3rd Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
The Renaissance Portrait |
Exhibition
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| The broad time span covered by this exhibition (1400-1600) and its Europe-wide approach make it the first to provide an overview of Renaissance portraiture. |
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4th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art |
Exhibition
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| The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art" and includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures by many of the most influential artists of the 17th through the mid-20th centuries, such as Luca Giordano, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. |
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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 Jun 2008
to 15th Jun 2008 |
Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair |
Fair
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| Over 250 of the world's most prestigious British and international galleries have been carefully selected to exhibit priceless works of art and antiques from their area of expertise. |
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6th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
Bad Painting - Good Art |
Exhibition
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| 'Personally, I like bad better than good painting' (Asger Jorn) at the MUMOK. This bold exhibition Bad Painting addresses the phenomenon of consciously 'bad' painting which can be found throughout the history of 20th century painting. |
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7th Jun 2008
to 8th Jun 2008 |
London Map Fair 2008 |
Fair
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| The London Map Fair provides a forum for collectors, curators and dealers from all over the world to buy and sell antique atlases, maps, sea charts, town plans, globes, topographical views, panoramas and prints. |
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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 Jun 2008
to 17th Aug 2008 |
Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition 2008 |
Exhibition
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| Now in its 240th year, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2008 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture. |
