Rembrandt in America
Rembrandt in America, organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is the first major exhibition to explore in depth the collecting history of Rembrandt paintings in America. Consisting of over 50 works, the exhibition brings together autograph works by Rembrandt as well as others thought to be by the artist when they entered American collections but whose attributions can no longer be maintained.
La Gioconda, Leonardo's atelier
A copy of the Mona Lisa was put on display at the Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) yesterday where it will stay until it moves to Paris for its inclusion in the exhibition at the Louvre on Leonardo that opens on 29 March.
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900, hosted by the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, USA), is the first major exhibition to explore the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement.
Red chalk: Raphael to Ramsay
The Scottish National Gallery (United Kingdom) hosts an exhibition that explores the versatile and beautiful drawing medium of red chalk
Picasso and Modern British Art
In a major new exhibition at Tate Britain (London, United Kindom), Picasso and Modern British Art explores his extensive legacy and influence on British art, how this played a role in the acceptance of modern art in Britain, alongside the fascinating story of Picasso's lifelong connections to and affection for this country.
The art meets in ARCOMadrid 2012
Madrid is againt he meeting place for contemporary art professionals worldwide, with the 31st edition of ARCOmadrid, organised by IFEMA and held from 15 to 19 February at Feria de Madrid. A total of 215 galleries from 29 countries will display a wide range of contemporary art to the public, with works by 3,000 artists.
First retrospective on Marc Chagall in Spain
The first retrospective on the Russian artist Marc Chagall to be organised in Spain opens at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid.
Lucian Freud's retrospective
The last work of the late Lucian Freud goes on show for the first time at the most ambitious exhibition of the artist's work for ten years, opening at the National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom).
Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern
Yayoi Kusama’s (b.1929) pioneering work spans over six decades and the artist's exhibition that is now of view at Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom) highlights Kusama's moments of most intense innovatio
Renoir, Impressionism and full-length painting
Nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir are now on view at The Frick Collection (New York, USA) in an exhibition that offers the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format
Van Gogh Up Close
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh up close is a traveling exhibition that features more than 70 works including 46 paintings by the Post-Impressionist artist. The show focuses on radical still lifes and landscapes that challenged tradition.
Cy Twombly the photographer
The Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussels (Belgium) presents Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010, an exhibition with more than 100 dry prints, generated from Polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on July 5th, 2011.
James Rosenquist: War, Consumerism and Pop Art
F-111 is presented at MoMA (New York, USA) as it was first exhibited at the Castelli Gallery in 1965, now also alongside a group of collages the artist made in preparation for this monumental composition.
Vienna celebrates the birthday of Gustav Klimt
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Gustav Klimt on July 14, 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria) showcases its important wall paintings
Delacroix in Barcelona
The exhibition Delacroix (1798-1863) arrives to Barcelona and will be running until May 20, 2012. The show is organized by "la Caixa" Foundation in collaboration with the Louvre Museum.
Hans Haacke. Castles in the air
The Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) organizes the show Hans Haacke. Castles in the air, which will be running until July 23. The exhibition examines the relationships between art, patronage and advertising and is made up of his most recent project, which focuses on the Spanish situation, and some of his pre-existing pieces.
Winter in art
The Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland) is staging a thematic exhibition focusing on depictions of winter from the Renaissance to Impressionism.
Museo Thyssen celebrates its 20th anniversary with the series 'Overlappig gazes'
To coincide with the celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza launches a new exhibition programme with the general title of Overlapping gazes, in which special installations of works from its own collections will be presented on a regular basis.
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), A Passion for Finland
The Musée d'Orsay, together with the Helsinki Art Museum and the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, organizes the exhibition Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), A Passion for Finland.
Antoni Tàpies dies aged 88
Catalan painter,sculptor and art theorist Antoni Tàpies died at the age of 88 in Barcelona, according to media reports. Tàpies, son of a liberal publisher and a bookseller, began his career in Spain as a surrealist painter influenced by such artists as Paul Klee and Joan Miro.
Migrations: Journeys into British Art
Tate Britain (United Kingdom) presents an exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migration.
Paul Cezanne's 'Card Players' sold for a record $250 million
Paul Cezanne's Card Players has been sold for $250 million (€191.6 million). The painting, one in a series of five works depicting French peasants playing cards, was bought by the Gulf kingdom of Qatar
Giandomenico Tiepolo. Ten fantasy portraits
The Juan March Foundation presents Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727–1804). Giandomenico was the brother of Lorenzo Tiepolo, and both were the sons of Giambattista Tiepolo, the patriarch of their artistic dynasty.
The idealized ladscape of Claude Lorrain
"In Claude Lorrain, nature declares itself eternal," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted enthusiastically on the French Baroque artist’s landscape paintings in 1818. Now, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (Germany) shows one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain's (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career, among them thirteen paintings and numerous drawings and prints.
