On July 14, 1862, Gustav Klimt was born. To celebre the 150th anniversary of the artist, the City of Vienna hosts a wide programme of exhibitions that can be visited throughout the summer.
The Loggias room at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres presents an artwork of Salvador Dali entitled Depart. Homage to Fox Newsreel (1926). This is a temporary loan to the Gala-Salvador Dali from a private collection before traveling to the Pompidou Center this fall, on the occasion of a major retrospective of Salvador Dalí.
The Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) has embarked on the restoration of six panels from the so-called Triumph of the Eucharist series, commissioned from Rubens by Isabel Clara Eugenia as models for tapestries for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. This was one of the most important commissions received by Rubens.
The Museo Thyssen-Bornenmisza (Madrid, Spain) presents the project to restore Tintoretto's The Paradise. The project to conserve Tintoretto’s artwork involves the painting’s complete restoration, in the light of the deterioration that it has suffered over the years.
This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) presents Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, a selection of contemporary artworks that consider the form, technology, myth, and message of the modern skyscraper.
