Category: Exhibitions
From Botticelli to Mucha: Beauty, Nature, Seduction, a Journey through Beauty
April 18 2025
Video: Il Sole 24 ORE
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musei Reali Torino has just opened a new exhibition examining and following representations of beauty from the age to Botticelli to Mucha. Drawing on 100 works, many borrowed from Italian institutions, artists represented in the show include works by Canova, Leonardo, Botticelli, Lorenzo di Credi, Lambert Sustris and others.
It will run until 27th July 2025.
Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet
April 11 2025
Video: Musée Marmottan Monet
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée Marmottan Monet have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection.
According to their website:
Collector Yann Guyonwarc’h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist’s career is represented, from his first paintings in Le Havre to his final trip to Venice; from private sketches to paintings for the Salon (including one of the two largest beach scenes ever painted by Boudin). The works in this prestigious collection are matched with the holdings of the Musée Marmottan Monet, to highlight the dialogue between Boudin and his main pupil, Claude Monet. Thanks to the participation of the Durand-Ruel archives, the relationship between the two artists and their main dealer is also explored.
Art and Power during the Age of the Doges of Genoa
April 10 2025
Picture: Reggia di Venaria
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition has opened in Reggia di Venaria in Turin today which celebrates the artistic produce during the golden age of the Republic of Genoa. Featuring one hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, silverware, furnishings and bronzes, artists featured include Rubens, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Orazio Gentileschi, Carlo Maratti, Luca Giordano, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Angelica Kauffman, and Anton von Maron.
The show will run until 7th September 2025.
Barberini Holbein of Henry VIII on loan to Wadsworth Atheneum
April 9 2025
Video: Wadsworth Atheneum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Tudor fans in Connecticut will have a wonderful opportunity to come face to face with Hans Holbein's Portrait of Henry VIII this spring. The celebrated Barberini portrait (usually on display in Rome) is on temporary loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum, whilst the American institution's Caravaggio is currently off on exhibition in Italy.
Matisse and his daughter Marguerite
April 9 2025
Video: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris have just opened a new show dedicated to Matisse's relationship with his eldest daughter Marguerite.
According to the museum's website:
Bringing together more than 110 works – paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and ceramics – the exhibition shows Matisse's view of his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse (1894–1982), an essential but discreet figure in his family circle.
The exhibition features numerous drawings rarely, if ever, shown to the public, as well as major works from American, Swiss and Japanese collections, now on view in France for the first time. Photographs, archival material and paintings by Marguerite herself fill out the portrait of this little-known personality.
The show will run until 24th August 2025.
Denver borrows Rembrandts from NGA
April 8 2025
Picture: NGA via. CODART
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from CODART (the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art) that the Denver Art Museum has borrowed two Rembrandts from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (NGA). The loan is part of the NGA's “Across the Nation” programme, to celebrate the upcoming 250th Anniversary of the founding of the USA in 2026.
Recently Opened: Barocco Globale at the Scuderie del Quirinale
April 8 2025
Video: Agenzia di Stampa ITALPRESS
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome opened their latest exhibition last week entitled Barocco Globale. Il mondo a Roma nel secolo di Bernini. Organised in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the show focuses on global influences in the works of major seventeenth century artists working in Rome during the Baroque and will run until 13th July 2025.
City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s
April 8 2025
Picture: National Gallery Singapore
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery Singapore have just recently opened this rather intriguing exhibition entitled City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s.
According to their website:
This first ever major comparative exhibition aims to re-read the art history of Paris from an Asian perspective, inviting the public to delve deeper into how Asian artists lived, worked, and exhibited there in a dynamic period of modern art history.
The exhibition transports audiences to an era when Paris was at the height of modernity. The new elegant Art Deco style influenced everything from fashion and furniture to advertising, drawing from Asian inspirations. Migrants from around the world imbued fresh influences into art, music, and dance. Asian artists brought their distinctive heritage to Paris and engaged with the city’s modern art world. At the same time, Paris was the seat of a colonial empire, which had complex and troubling implications for artists from the colonies.
The show will run until 17th August 2025.
YCBA Reopens with Romney Show
April 3 2025
Picture: YCBA
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) reopened to the public last week. I am reliably informed that the redisplay of the center's Long Gallery features no fewer than 205 works of art in a tightly packed format. As images of the space makes clear, this approach does show off the YCBA's rich holdings in a way which is rarely encountered here in British institutions.
To celebrate the reopening the YCBA have even put on a new show at the nearby Yale University Art Gallery entitled Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England. It will run until 14th September 2025.
Attributed Caravaggio on display in Gorizia
April 3 2025
Video: Telequattro
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Italy that a picture of the Taking of Christ attributed to Caravaggio, which relates to the famous painting in the National Gallery of Ireland, has been put on display in the town of Gorizia. The picture caused some controversy when it was unveiled in 2023, the first time it was exhibited in 70 years apparently. It will be on display until 30th June 2025 before it heads back to its vault until 2027.
Bernardo Strozzi in Estonia
April 1 2025
Video: TV3 Eesti
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia, has just opened a new exhibition on Bernardo Strozzi.
According to the museum's website:
The comprehensive exhibition of the works of the Italian painter of the early Baroque Bernardo Strozzi (1582–1644) is being co-curated by Anna Orlando from Genoa, a distinguished scholar on Bernardo Strozzi and 17th century art culture in Genoa, and Greta Koppel, a curator at the Kadriorg Art Museum.
The exhibition brings together around 45 paintings and graphic works by this highly talented and versatile Italian artist, from European museums and from private collections, including masterpieces that have not been publicly displayed before. It is the first time that the two famous masterpieces by Strozzi, The Allegory of Painting (ca 1635, Palazzo Spinola, Genoa) and the Portrait of Barbara Strozzi (?) (ca. 1640, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden) will be shown together.
The show will run until 6th July 2025.
The Duke of Wellington's Dutch Masterpieces at Apsley House
March 31 2025
Picture: English Heritage
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apsley House, the 1st Duke of Wellington's London home, will be putting on a special display of their Dutch masterpieces this spring.
According to English Heritage's website:
From 2 April 2025, discover this exhibition which brings together 18 of the finest Dutch paintings purchased by the 1st Duke of Wellington. During his lifetime, he chose to display them in the principal rooms of Apsley House, where they remain a highlight of the collection today. These works were primarily landscapes and genre scenes – depictions of ordinary people and everyday life. Highly prized by 19th-century collectors, Dutch paintings were admired for their technical brilliance and their compelling narratives. Insightful and amusing, they still engage us with their stories and invite us to reflect on the richness of everyday life.
Jean Honoré Fragonard & Marguerite Gérard at Galerie Hubert Duchemin
March 26 2025
Picture: Galerie Hubert Duchemin
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
For those in Paris this week for Salon du Dessin, the dealers Galerie Hubert Duchemin have an interesting small exhibition focusing on seven works by Jean Honoré Fragonard & Marguerite Gérard. Their display is also accompanied by this rather thorough-looking catalogue too (via the link above), in case you're not in Paris currently.
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Please do let me know if any other members of the Paris art trade are putting on things this week, happy to plug anything interesting!
Joseph Wright of Derby at the National Gallery in Autumn 2025
March 25 2025
Picture: Derby Museums
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery and Derby Museums are collaborating on a new exhibition focusing on Joseph Wright of Derby's candlelight scenes for Autumn 2025.
According to the NG's press release:
In the autumn of 2025, the National Gallery will present Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, the first exhibition dedicated to Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ (1734–1797) at the National Gallery, and the first exhibition to focus on his ‘candlelight’ series. The exhibition is organised in partnership with Derby Museums where it will travel in 2026.
Following on from recent exhibitions such as Turner on Tour (2022) and Discover Constable & The Hay Wain (2024), this exhibition will put the spotlight on a well-known British artist in the National Gallery Collection whose work has come to symbolise an era. Traditionally, Wright of Derby has been viewed as a figurehead of the Enlightenment, a period of scientific, philosophical and artistic development in the 17th and 18th century. Challenging this conventional view, the exhibition contributes to the ongoing re-evaluation of the artist, portraying him not merely as a ‘painter of light’ but as one who deliberately explores the night-time to engage with deeper and more sombre themes, including death, melancholy, morality, scepticism and the sublime.
The show will run at the National Gallery from 7th November 2025 until 10th May 2026.
Nicolas-Guy Brenet at the Musée de la Chartreuse
March 25 2025
Picture: douaisis-agglo-tourisme.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai have just opened a new exhibition exploring the life and career of Nicolas-Guy Brenet (1728-1792). As a painter of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, Brenet undertook allegorical paintings for the city's courthouse and other works in the surrounding areas. The show will run until 23rd June 2025.
Upcoming: Pietro Bellotti at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
March 21 2025
Picture: gallerieaccademia.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia will be opening a large monographic exhibition dedicated to Pietro Bellotti (1625-1700) this September. The show has coincided with the Accademia's acquisition of two works by the artist, including a Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Amazement and another genre scene set in Venice. Supported by loans from major European museums, this is the first exhibition on the artist in Venice since 1959.
It will run from 19th September 2025 until 18th January 2026.
Rediscovering Edith MacDonald-Brown at the MSVU Art Gallery
March 21 2025
Picture: MSVU Art Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Interesting news from Canada that the MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax, connected to Mount Saint Vincent University, opened an exhibition last month dedicated to Edith MacDonald-Brown (1886-1954). Believed to be Canada's first black female artist, Edith was born in Africville, a historic African Nova Scotian enclave in Halifax, and produced many of her paintings throughout her teenage years. The show will run in Halifax until 26th April 2025 and click on the link above to read more about her life and career.
Cornelis de Wael at the Palazzo Bianco
March 19 2025
Picture: museidigenova.it
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo Bianco in Genoa will be opening a new show on the Flemish emigree artist Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667) today. Under the themes of Naturalness and Truth, the artist's unique contribution alongside the busy artistic scene in Genoa (which included the more celebrated Jan Roos, Giacomo Liege and Van Dyck during this period) will be examined.
The show runs until 22nd June 2025.
Andrea Appiani at the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau
March 19 2025
Picture: musees-nationaux-malmaison.fr
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau opened a new exhibition last Sunday on the neoclassical painter Andrea Appiani (1754-1817). With about a hundred paintings, drawings and engravings, the show is the first retrospective on the artist in France.
The exhibition will run until 28th July 2025.
Andrea Solario at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli
March 18 2025
Picture: Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan will be opening their latest exhibition devoted to Andrea Solario later this month (spotted via @Mweilc).
According to the museum's website:
An unprecedented exhibition project dedicated to the painter Andrea Solario (1465-1524), one of the most original interpreters of the Lombard Renaissance, comes to life at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
The exhibition, the result of a scientific collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, brings together for the first time a selection of about 36 works from prestigious collections in Italy, France and England. An unmissable opportunity to admire masterpieces that reveal the technical mastery and stylistic evolution of an artist influenced by great masters such as Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina and Leonardo da Vinci.
The show will run from 26th March until 30th June 2025.
