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 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.
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany) hosts a retrospective devoted to Frank Stella (born 1936), one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s. Stella’s recent works demonstrate yet again his compelling path in the direction of abstraction.
On the 20th anniversary of Rudolf Nureyev’s death, Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance opens on October 6, 2012 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (USA).