On view September 12, 2012–January 7, 2013 at the Getty Villa (Los Ángeles, USA), The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection presents Pompeii and the other Vesuvian sites as a modern fascination rather than focusing on their historical past. Organized around three themes—decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection—this exhibition addresses the potent and continuing legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination.
Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelites constitute Britain’s first modern art movement. Now the Tate Britain (London, United Kingdom) hosts an exhibition that brings together revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to be advanced in their approach to every genre.
Caixaforum Girona (Spain) hosts, through January 5, the exhibition Rusiñol, Monet, Gauguin, Sunyer. Landscapes in Carmen Thyssen’s Collection, which shows paintings from these masters as well as from Joan Miró, Joaquim Mir, Antoni Tàpies, Modest Cuixart, Théodore Rousseau, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse, among others.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (México) presents an exhibition dedicated to the Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. With the name Retrofutura-Rafael Coronel, the show reunites 109 works incluiding paintings, sculptures and drawings that resume the artist's work –from the beginning of his career in the early fifties to the 18 pieces specially produced for this exhibition-.
The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (Spain) is hosting the exhibition Vik Muniz. Comprising more than 100 photographs, the show offers an overview of the artist’s most characteristic work and will be the largest retrospective on Muniz to be shown to date in Europe.
