Category: Exhibitions
Maestras at the Arp Museum
February 26 2024
Picture: arpmuseum.org
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The aforementioned Women Masters exhibition has reopened in the Arp Museum in Remagen, German, yesterday. 51 female artists are represented in the show, including important works by Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun and Mary Cassatt. It will run there until 16th June 2024.
China's First Caravaggio Exhibition
February 23 2024
Video: Yit
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Interesting news from China that the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai opened the country's first-ever Caravaggio exhibition at the end of last year. The exhibition is a collaboration between the museum and the Galleria Borghese in Rome and contains no fewer than six works by the artist (although the video above says 16) on show supplemented by sixty works by other contemporaries. The show runs until 12th April 2024.
Matisse and the Sea in St. Louis
February 23 2024
Video: Krannert Art Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Saint Louis Art Museum opened a new exhibition last week entitled Matisse and the Sea. The inspiration for the show came from the museum's own Matisse known as Bathers with a Turtle, the subject matter and history of which has inspired the themes examined within. In case readers can't make it, the curator Simon Kelly was recorded giving a lecture on the themes of the exhibition (see above).
Burghley Sending Kauffmans to RA
February 23 2024
Picture: burghley.co.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
As part of the building excitement surrounding the Royal Academy's upcoming exhibition on Angelica Kauffman, Burghley House in Lincolnshire has shared some fun pictures of their pictures being packed up for the show. This important collection will be sending four works by the artist to the RA.
Horace Vernet at Versailles
February 23 2024
Video: Château de Versailles
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apologies, I failed to notice that the Château de Versailles has a big Horace Vernet exhibition on at the moment. The show, which brings together around 200 works by the artist, will be finished on 17th March 2024.
Pre-Raphaelites in Forlì
February 23 2024
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A major Pre-Raphaelite exhibition will be opening in the Italian city of Forlì tomorrow. Entitled Pre-Raphaelites. A New Renaissance, the show will contain no less than 300 works by artists of the period, with a particular interest placed on the Italian models which influenced these artworks. The exhibition will run until 30th June 2024.
Twelve Years of Acquisitions at the Fondation Custodia
February 22 2024
Picture: Fondation Custodia
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Fondation Custodia in Paris have announced that they will be opening an exhibition in April dedicated to the acquisitions made by their former director the late Ger Luijten. Between 2010 and 2022 Luijten added around 10,000 works (!) to the organisation's collection, ranging from drawings, paintings and prints. The show will run from 27th April 2024 until 7th July 2024.
Turning Heads at the National Gallery of Ireland
February 21 2024
Video: National Gallery of Ireland
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The latest leg of the Turning Heads exhibition will be opening at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. The show will run there until 26th May 2024.
Great Flemish Drawings at the Ashmolean
February 21 2024
Picture: ashmolean.org
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford will be opening their latest Old Master Drawings exhibition in a few weeks' time. Entitled Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings, this show will run from 23rd March 2024 until 23rd June 2024.
According to the museum's website:
From Pieter Bruegel’s remarkable print designs and landscapes and Rubens’s first sketches to heartfelt friendship albums shared between artists, this major exhibition presents drawings from many of the Flemish masters, rarely seen in public.
The exhibition will show 120 drawings, with over 30 on display for the first time, including some which have only recently been discovered. These are some of the most exquisite drawings kept in Antwerp and Oxford collections by famous artists such as Pieter Bruegel, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens. The artworks will provide insights into how these artists honed their drawing skills throughout their careers.
'Bruegel to Rubens' is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get close to these delicate and often intimate drawings and the objects they inspired.
Directed by Rembrandt
February 19 2024
Picture: Rembrandthuis
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam will be opening their latest exhibition next month. Directed by: Rembrandt will focus on the artist's abilities as a storyteller with images, and will feature loans from several museums and private collections.
According to the website:
Just like theatre directors, Rembrandt manipulated all elements in his artworks at his discretion, aiming to depict a story as captivatingly and convincingly as possible. The main directing techniques he used are:
Choosing the Right Moment
Facial Expression
Hand Gestures
Costumes and Accessories
Posture
Lighting
Composition
A painter can use the expression on a figure’s face to tell an important part of a story. For this, Rembrandt studied actors in the theatre. He also acted himself in front of the mirror in his studio.
The show will run from 3rd March 2024 until 26th May 2024.
Did Frans Hals paint this?
February 19 2024
Picture: Rijksmuseum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Art Newspaper has published a very interesting article regarding several questions of attribution in the Rijksmuseum's current Frans Hals show. In particular, the article has drawn attention to comments by the Hals catalogue raisonné compiler Prof. Claus Grimm who has disagreed with the authorship of some of the works within the exhibition. Grimm's upcoming revised catalogue, to be published in co-ordination with the RKD, has already caused a stir by the fact that it has already reduced Hals oeuvre down to a mere 120 works, compared with the late Seymour Slive's 222 in his 1974 publication.
Among the questions raised is whether Frans Hals painted the entirety of the Rijksmuseum's famous Portrait of a Couple.
According to the article:
The Rijksmuseum believes that it was probably a marriage portrait, in which case it would be dated to 1622. Grimm believes that the style of the faces and the attire suggests that it was painted around 1627. But the disagreement goes beyond the dating.
Although Grimm accepts that the portraits of the couple are from the hand of Hals, he says the landscape—a “Garden of Love”—is not. He argues that “Hals may have presented designs for the [background] scenery, but hardly more than that”.
The verdant landscape represents nearly half the composition. Grimm believes that most of this was painted by Pieter de Molijn, a fellow artist in Haarlem. He sees De Molijn’s style in the distant trees and promenading figures.
The Rijksmuseum disagrees. Taco Dibbits, its director-general, told us that it is “all painted by one hand, by that of Frans Hals”. He points out that Hals and Massa were close friends, so the artist took more liberties with the landscape than he would have done with a normal patron.
Click on the link to read more.
Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum
February 16 2024
Video: Euronews
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Amsterdam's leg of the Frans Hals exhibition has opened at the Rijksmuseum today. Amongst the most interesting pieces of news, which hasn't been that widely reported from what I can see, is that this is the first time that The Wallace Collection's Laughing Cavalier has been back in the Netherlands in a century and a half (or thereabouts).
The show will run until 9th June 2024.
Musée Delacroix Reopening in March
February 15 2024
Picture: musee-delacroix.fr
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée Delacroix in Paris will be reopening after a 6-month renovation on 20th March 2024. The museum will be taking the opportunity to reopen with a brand-new exhibition exploring Artists' Objects that link both Ingres and Delacroix.
Barocci Exhibition in Urbino
February 15 2024
Picture: Finestre sull'Arte
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Italy that the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino will be opening an exhibition dedicated to Federico Barocci later in the summer. The monographic show will feature 76 works by the artist and explore his entire career. Visitors will be able to see the exhibition between 20th June 2024 until 6th October 2024.
2024 Exhibitions at Compton Verney
February 14 2024
Picture: Compton Verney
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Compton Verney in Warwickshire are putting on a very special selection of exhibitions in 2024 to celebrate their 20 year anniversary. Two shows will be opening on 21st March, including Landscape and Imagination: From Gardens to Land Art alongside the Reuniting of the Lamentation Altarpiece, made possible by a loan from the National Galleries of Scotland. Later in September another exhibition will open entitled The Reflected Self: Portrait Miniatures, 1550-1850, which is co-curated with the miniatures specialist Emma Rutherford.
Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino sent to Bologna
February 14 2024
Picture: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid have sent Pompeo Batoni's Portrait of the Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino to the Museo Davia Bargellini in Bologna for a special exhibition on the painting. The loan is part of an ongoing annual programme called Ospiti which aims to broaden the cultural interaction of the city with international organisations. The show will run until 7th April 2024.
Bergognone in Lodi
February 13 2024
Picture: comune.lodi.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition dedicated to the artist Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano, called Bergognone (or Borgognone), has just opened in the Italian city of Lodi. The show entitled Religious Love has been organised on the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
Blake & Botticelli in Cambridge
February 12 2024
Video: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge will be starting off their 2024 exhibition season with William Blake’s Universe next Friday.
According to the website blurb:
Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.
Sometimes seen as an eccentric figure or lone genius, William Blake’s Universe is the first exhibition to explore Blake’s boundless imagination in the context of wider trends and themes in European art including romanticism, mysticism and ideas of spiritual regeneration.
This timely new exhibition brings together the largest-ever display of works by the radical British artist, printmaker and poet from our own collection, alongside artworks by his European contemporaries such as the German romantic painters Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich – many of which have never been displayed publicly in the UK until now.
Secondly, the museum will be opening a Botticelli exhibition later in May, a show which hinges upon the museum's own collection of the artist's works alongside the loan of the famous Venus and Mars from the National Gallery in London.
Musee d'Orsay to send Van Gogh to Cardiff
February 9 2024
Picture: BBC
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musee d'Orsay in Paris will be sending their prized Van Gogh Self Portrait to an upcoming exhibition in Cardiff. Art Of The Selfie will include works by Rembrandt, Brenda Chamberlain, Francis Bacon, Bedwyr Williams, Anya Paintsil and will run from 16th March 2024 until 24 January 2025.
Roelant Savery's Wondrous World at the Mauritshuis
February 9 2024
Video: The Mauritshuis
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Mauritshuis in the Hague opened their latest exhibition yesterday. Roelant Savery's Wondrous World will run until 20th May 2024.
According to the museum's website:
He was a pioneer in many fields, and introduced several new themes to Dutch painting. He made the Netherlands’ first floral still life, and was the most notable painter of the legendary (extinct) dodo. He was also the first artist who went out into the streets to draw ordinary people. His painted landscapes are often like a fairytale, featuring ancient ruins and marvellous vistas. And his animal paintings include so many species that it would be an understatement to describe them as 'crowded'.
Roelant Savery's Wondrous World, featuring over 40 paintings and drawings, including works on loan from museums in the Netherlands and abroad, will introduce visitors to this highly versatile artist.
