The Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France) organizes, in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the exhibition Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde, a show that explores the extraordinary 19th century movement that set out to move away from the ugliness and materialism of the time by proposing a new idealisation of art and beauty.
Commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) hosts a major exhibition reflecting upon the attacks of September 11, 2001, The exhibition brings together nearly 70 works of art, mostly made prior to 9/11, to reflect upon how the attacks have altered the ways in which we see and experience the world.
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) presents, within its program Fisuras, the latest project by the Viennese artist Andreas Fogarasi (1977). Awarded with the Golden Lion for his installation at the Hungarian pavilion in the last Venice Biennale, Fogarasi is considered one of the most promising young Austrian artists.
Gli anni folli describes the Paris of Modigliani, Picasso and Dalí, when the city was the art capital of the world, from the end of the Great War to the beginning of the Thirties. This period is now told at the Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy) in an exhibition that brings together not only paintings, but also sculptures, theatrical costumes, photographs, ready-mades, and drawings.
The Loredan Palace in Venice (Italy) hosts, until November 6, an exhibition of works from Giuseppe Merlini’s collection, which is on public display for the first time.The works travel from the "figure" to the "figuration" as emblems of a metamorphosis.