Passion and Precision in the Age of Revolution is a new exhibition hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston (USA), which features about forty-five works by artists including Ingres, Delacroix, Desprez, Prud'hon, Turner, Blake, Gericault, Girodet, Flaxman, and Schinkel.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in USA is displaying the first major public sculpture by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, titled Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666). The exhibition is organized by Walter Liedtke, curator of the European paintings department, who describes to us the organizing process and selection of works..
If you plan to spend the rest of the summer in the city, remember that many museums open their doors at night to take advantage of the cool summer nights.
CaixaForum Barcelona hosts the exhibition Portraits of the Belle Époque, inaugurated last July 20 at the headquarters of the Catalan foundation in Montjuic and that can be visited until October 9. Thomàs Llorens, art historian and curator of the exhibition, explains us the main points of the show.