Category: Exhibitions
Private View of the Velázquez Exhibition
July 3 2021
Video: Scribe Accroupi
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A curator tour of the Velázquez exhibition in Orleans has been uploaded onto YouTube.
Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art
July 1 2021
Picture: Taft Museum of Art
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Cincinati Museum Center will be opening a special exhibition next month featuring 40 works of art loaned from the Taft Museum of Art. Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art was made possible due to a major renovation project at the Taft Museum, a collection bequeathed to the people of Cincinati by Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft in 1927. Artworks on display will include paintings by the likes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles François Daubigny, J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Gainsborough, in addition to decorative arts featuring Qing dynasty Chinese ceramics and 18th-century watches.
The exhibition will run from 27th July 2021 - 21st February 2022.
Monet Exhibition in Seattle
July 1 2021
Video: Seattle Art Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Seattle Art Museum have opened their latest exhibition today. Monet at Étretat will examine artworks created during the artist's trips to the Normandy coast during the 1880s. It contains 10 works by Monet himself, alongside 12 works by other contemporaries.
Here's the review of the exhibition from The Seattle Times.
The show will run until 17th October 2021.
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It seems that these sorts of videos really are in vogue at the moment?!
Courtauld Announces Van Gogh Exhibition for 2022
July 1 2021
Picture: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Courtauld Gallery in London have announced that they will be hosting an exhibition of Van Gogh's Self-Portraits in 2022. The show, which will open in February 2022, will feature 15 of the artist's works including major loans from the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery, London.
The exhibition is expected to run from 3rd February - 8th May 2022.
A newly Rediscovered Saint Simon by Velázquez
June 30 2021
Picture: @carolblumenfeld
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News is emerging from France that a rediscovered painting of Saint Simon by Diego Velázquez has been unveiled at the aforementioned exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans. It seems that the painting was discovered in a private collection and had been placed in front of Guillaume Kientz, director of the Hispanic Society Museum in New York and former head of Spanish painting at the Louvre. The painting will be the subject of an upcoming article in a Spanish scientific journal.
Here are some quotes from curator Corentin Dury:
From infrared and an X-ray, the “examinations reveal a density of pigments and also of white lines of positioning of various contours, which may be consistent with what could be observed in the other apostles and various pictures of the young Velázquez."
The apostle “has very close characteristics, a posture (…), other elements, such as the texture of the painting, the spelling of the letters, the dimensions”
Virtual Opening: The Medici: Portraits and Politics
June 30 2021
Video: MET
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
For those who are unable to fly across to New York at the moment, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be hosting a virtual opening of their latest exhibition The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 on 2nd July 2021 at 12.00AM (BST).
The virtual tour will be taken by Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, and guest curator Carlo Falciani, Professor of Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
The Blue Boy is Coming Home
June 30 2021
Picture: The Guardian
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy will be returning to the UK for a special exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in January 2022. The painting was purchased by the American railway magnate Henry E Huntington a century ago for $728,000. It will feature within a free exhibition exploring Gainsborough's reaction to the legacy of Van Dyck, which is sure to be of great interest to many readers of AHN.
Mode schauen in Schloss Ambras
June 30 2021
Picture: schlossambras-innsbruck.at
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, Austria, is the latest museum to put on an exhibition dedicated to the history of fashion and painting. Mode schauen examines the relationship between clothing and art using Renaissance and Baroque portraits from the Habsburg Portrait Gallery in the castle and loans from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
It is well worth having a look at the exhibition's website (you'll need to use a translator if you don't speak German), which is filled with lots of information and images which deal with the main themes of the show.
Mode schauen will run from 17th June - 3rd October 2021.
Evelyn de Morgan Exhibition in Burnley
June 29 2021
Video: De Morgan Foundation
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The De Morgan Foundation are opening a new exhibition next month in Burnley, Lancashire, entitled Pre-Raphaelite Artist of Hope: Evelyn De Morgan. The show will open in the Towneley Hall on 17th July 2021 and feature 45 works loaned by the foundation.
Bernardo Zenale's Musical Angels Exhibited in Brera
June 29 2021
Picture: ilgiornaledellarte.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A set of musical angels by Bernardo Zenale (c.1460-1526), painted in 1500 to decorate the parapet of the organ in the church of Santa Maria di Brera, have returned for a special exhibition in the city. The paintings were torn out of their original location when the church was demolished in 1808. The works, then attributed to Leonardo, came into the collection of Andreani Sormani in 1838 and only received their current attribution to Zenale in 1960.
An exhibition dedicated to these pictures will open at the Pinacoteca di Brera on 6th July 2021.
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This painting is a real celebration of the many diverse musical instruments the angels are holding, as much as anything else...!
Online Exhibition: Thomas Lawrence Coming of Age
June 24 2021
Video: Holburne Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apologies if I'm a little late to this, but, the Holburne Museum in Bath have uploaded a very useful online exhibition Thomas Lawrence Coming of Age. The online catalogue notes are particularly helpful, and will hopefully provide admirers of Lawrence's work with a handy list of collections to see his works in person.
Dürer Was Here - A Journey Becomes Legend
June 22 2021
Picture: Stadt Aachen
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany, will be opening their latest exhibition next month. Dürer was here - A Journey Becomes Legend will chart the artist's journey to the Netherlands made in 1520/21 and will contain 65 drawings and paintings alongside 35 prints. The show will open on 15th July 2021 and run until 24th October 2021.
Meet The Masters
June 22 2021
Video: conge
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apologies that I'm rather late to this, but here's a rather interesting 360° multimedia exhibition that opened last year. Meet The Masters is a 50 minute projection experience hosted by the Palais de la Dynastie, Mont des Arts, in Brussels. In particular, the projections feature the works of the three Flemish masters Van Eyck, Bruegel and Rubens.
If it gets visitors into a museum afterwards, to see paintings in the flesh, then it has done its job!
Making a Mark at the Barber Institute
June 22 2021
Video: Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham has recently opened its latest exhibition entitled Making a Mark: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Royal Collection. The video above features a welcome from the curators of the Institute including 'Student Curators' from the University of Birmingham who have contributed to the exhibition.
The free show will run until 26th September 2021.
National Gallery's Raphael Exhibition for April 2022
June 15 2021
Picture: The National Gallery, London
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery in London have announced that their highly anticipated Raphael exhibition will be opening on 9th April 2022 and run till 31 July 2022. The ongoing virus crisis had delayed the planned opening in October 2020.
According to the gallery's website:
This exhibition, one of the first ever to explore Raphael's complete career, looks at his celebrated paintings and drawings as well as his work in architecture, poetry, and design for sculpture, tapestry and prints.
With loans from the Hermitage, the Louvre, National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Prado Museum, Uffizi Museum, and the Vatican Museum this is an unprecedented opportunity to see the breadth of Raphael’s skill, creativity, and ingenuity.
Orazio Riminaldi Exhibition opens in Pisa
May 28 2021
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Palazzo dell'Opera in Pisa have opened their latest exhibition today focusing on the life and work of Orazio Riminaldi (1593-1630). This monograph exhibition was conceived during the recent restoration of Riminaldi's frescos in the dome of the Cathedral of Pisa. Visitors will be able to view a large selection of the artist's works, loaned in from around the country, and also have the opportunity to visit the Cathedral as part of the exhibition route.
The show will run until 5th September 2021.
Late Gothic in Berlin
May 27 2021
Video: smb.museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie opened its latest exhibition earlier this month entitled Late Gothic The Birth of Modernity. They created this rather fun video to promote the exhibition and accompanied it with a soundtrack which I approve of.
According to the museum's website:
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie is holding the first ever comprehensive exhibition in the German-speaking world on late Gothic art. Featuring some 130 objects – including impressive loans and key works from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – the show will juxtapose various artistic genres and media, revealing the full breadth of the media innovations of the 15th century and the art of the late Gothic era.
The exhibition will revolve around the progressive tendencies of the long transition period between the Middle Ages and the early modern age. Like perhaps no other epoch, in German-speaking regions, the period between 1430 and 1500 was marked by profound changes that continue to influence our understanding of art and images to this day. The exhibition includes a broad selection of works by well-known proponents of late Gothic art, such as Stefan Lochner, Konrad Witz, Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden, and Tilman Riemenschneider.
The show will run until 5th September 2021 and their exhibition catalogue is available in English too.
Juana Romani (1867-1923), modèle et peintre. A rêve d'absolu
May 26 2021
Picture: finestresullarte.info
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It seems that 2021 really is the year of exhibitions dedicated to female artists.
The Musée Roybet Fould in Courbevoie, North Central France, has just opened a new exhibition dedicated to the nineteenth century artist Juana Romani (1867-1923). Although born in Italy, Romani made her fame in Paris with works that looked towards the symbolists and Pre Raphaelites. The exhibition features over one hundred pieces including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, prints, vintage newspapers and clothes from French museums and private collections. Furthermore, it will be the first show dedicated to the artist inside France.
The exhibition will run until 19th September 2021.
Velázquez's Saint Thomas in Orleans
May 25 2021
Picture: Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans will be opening their latest exhibition next month dedicated to Diego Velázquez's Saint Thomas. The show will chart the painting's interesting history, including the change of attribution from Murillo to Velázquez made in 1920 by the Italian art historian Robert Longhi. Two other apostles from the same series have also been loaned in from museums in Barcelona and Seville.
The exhibition will run until 14th November 2021.
Jan Matejko's Copernicus at the National Gallery
May 24 2021
Picture: The National Gallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery in London have opened a small free exhibition on Jan Matejko's painting Copernicus. This masterpiece of nineteenth century Polish painting is on loan from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. To celebrate, the gallery are running a few free events including an online talk on 3rd June 2021.
The work will be on display for visitors until 22nd August 2021.
