|
10th May 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
The Impressionist Figure - Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
11th Sep 2008
to 4th Jan 2009 |
Francis Bacon |
Exhibition
Details |
| An exhibition of the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) opening in September 2008 at Tate Britain will be a major celebration heralding the artist's centenary in 2009. |
|
12th Jul 2008
to 10th Sep 2008 |
Reines D'Egypte |
Exhibition
Details |
| Although endless exhibitions has been devoted to the subject, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco is going one unprecedented step further by being the first to turn the spotlight on those women who were Queens of Egypt through a 4000m exhibition. |
|
14th Aug 2008
to 11th Nov 2008 |
Power of Water |
Exhibition
Details |
| Paintings, graphic works, sculpture and installations with representation of water that is one of the most popular motifs in the Russian art since the XVIII century till now will be presented on the "Power of Water" exhibition. |
|
15th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Van Gogh's Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Rémy |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
16th Aug 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 |
Andy Warhol's Athlete Portraits star in American Pop Exhibition |
Exhibition
Details |
| American Pop: Featuring Andy Warhol's Athletes from the Richard Weisman Collection highlights 36 works drawn from major private collections as well as the Crocker's own. |
|
17th Jun 2008
to 14th Sep 2008 |
Miró: Earth |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
17th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Landscapes |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
18th Aug 2007
to 30th Jun 2011 |
Restaurant Commission: James Aldridge Cold Mouth Prayer |
Exhibition
Details |
Cold Mouth Prayer is a panoramic new painting, specially commissioned for Tate Modern's Restaurant.
Tate Modern, London |
|
18th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910 |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
19th Jul 2008
to 20th Sep 2008 |
Art of the Nude - Artists explore the human form |
Exhibition
Details |
| Art of the Nude frames the artistic genre of the nude and provides an airing for rarely seen works belonging to the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. |
|
1st Jul 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
JMW Turner Opens at Metropolitan Museum |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
1st Jul 2008
to 14th Dec 2008 |
Constructed - 40 Years of the UEA Collection |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
20th Jun 2008
to 5th Jan 2009 |
Great Company: Portraits by European Masters |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
20th Sep 2008
to 4th Jan 2009 |
Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art |
Exhibition
Details |
| Tacoma Art Museum's exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists' responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. |
|
21st Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
22nd Sep 2008
to 1st Mar 2009 |
Beyond Painting: Max Ernst in the Würth Collection |
Exhibition
Details |
| The exhibition brings together fifty-seven works, comprising illustrated books, paintings, collages, sculptures, drawings and engravings. |
|
23rd Aug 2008
to 19th Oct 2008 |
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art |
Exhibition
Details |
| This groundbreaking exhibition will examine plantation images in the American South, plus related slave imagery in the context of the American landscape tradition. |
|
23rd Jun 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
23rd May 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
24th Aug 2008
to 16th Nov 2008 |
Yoko Ono. Between the Sky and My Head |
Exhibition
Details |
| With Yoko Ono, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is showing the works of an artist who has been active for more than fifty years and doubtless should be credited with having founded conceptual art. |
|
24th Jul 2008
to 26th Oct 2008 |
Hadrian: Empire and Conflict |
Exhibition
Details |
| The Roman Emperor Hadrian is best known for his passion for Greek culture, interest in architecture, his love for Antinous, and of course the wall he built between England and Scotland. |
|
24th Jul 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Love |
Exhibition
Details |
| Comprising works of art from the 16th century to the present day, this exhibition explores how artists have represented this most powerful of emotions. |
|
24th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Survey of Adam Chodzko at Tate St Ives |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
24th May 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 |
Moore in America |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
26th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
The Courtauld Cezannes |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
26th Jun 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Landmark exhibition on Buckminster Fuller |
Exhibition
Details |
| Explores the legacy of Buckminster Fuller - visionary American inventor, designer, environmentalist, and humanitarian. |
|
26th Sep 2008
to 1st Feb 2009 |
Rothko |
Exhibition
Details |
| Tate Modern presents an exhibition by one of the world's most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years. |
|
28th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
28th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
29th Jun 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 |
The Impressionists: Master paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago |
Exhibition
Details |
| Some of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters are coming to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. |
|
29th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Gustave Caillebotte - Parisian Impressionist with a passion for water |
Exhibition
Details |
| "Gustave Caillebotte - Parisian Impressionist with a passion for water" is the first individual exhibition of work by the French painter in Germany. |
|
2nd Aug 2008
to 9th Nov 2008 |
Tracey Emin: 20 Years |
Exhibition
Details |
| The first major UK retrospective exhibition of work by Tracey Emin, one of the most celebrated and influential artists of her generation will be the highlight of this year's summer exhibition programme at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. |
|
2nd May 2007
to 30th Apr 2012 |
Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments |
Exhibition
Details |
Discover how Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) revolutionised two different kinds of image-making: watercolour and print.
Tate Britain, London |
|
3rd Jul 2008
to 19th Oct 2008 |
Wyndham Lewis portraits |
Exhibition
Details |
| An important new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, showing the striking portraits of the great British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). |
|
3rd Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 |
The Renaissance Portrait |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
4th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
4th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 |
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 |
Exhibition
Details |
| 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. |
|
5th Sep 2008
to 8th Dec 2008 |
Van Gogh: Heartfelt Lines |
Exhibition
Details |
| The Albertina's large autumn exhibition is presenting Vincent van Gogh from an entirely new perspective: the show unites both the painter and draughtsman Van Gogh, and its 150 works illustrate how much the artist's expressive brush work in the paintings was prepared by his dynamic draughtsmanship. |
|
5th Sep 2008
to 31st Aug 2009 |
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust |
Exhibition
Details |
| Unspeakable is the first opportunity to see together the different artistic responses to the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe, from the Imperial War Museum's Art collection. |
|
6th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 |
Bad Painting - Good Art |
Exhibition
Details |
| '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. |
|
9th Jul 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 |
Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th Century Holland |
Exhibition
Details |
| This beautiful show will be a complete revelation to all lovers of 17th century Dutch art. Jan de Bray was the most important painter in Haarlem in the second half of the 17th century, a mantle he inherited from his father Salomon, who trained him. |
