Travel
- 'the Great Designers' Exhibition Opens In New York
Orange silk gown by Christian Lacroix If you are a fashion lover and you happen to visit New York in the following months, you are in luck. It's not only because The Big Apple is one of the hot spots of the fashion industry but also because...
- Passion For Renoir Bursts At Prado
“The Letter” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir In 1892, Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited Prado Museum in Madrid seeking inspiration. Now, over a century later, 31 of his paintings made it to El Prado Museum in "A Passion for Renoir" exhibition, including the...
- Stuffed Animals Exhibition Passes As Art
"Artists must continue the conquest of new territory and new taboos" - Norman Rosenthal, Director of the Royal Academy of Arts, London I will not pretend to fully understand contemporary art. I'm more of a classical art admirer, maybe because it comes...
- One Monet Exhibition, Two Monet Exhibitions
Terrace at Saint-Adresse by MonetIt's been over 30 years since Paris hosted a Monet exhibition. But in 2010 the 'Father of Impressionism' is back in the warm Parisian spotlight with not one, but two rival exhibitions - one from the 22nd of...
- Fake Art On Display At National Gallery, London
Bravery lays in admitting ones mistakes. And that's exactly what National Gallery from London, mainly shaped by private donations, is doing this summer with the exhibition "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries", the first major...
Travel
3 London Exhibitions Not To Be Missed This Autumn
If you are an art lover like me and you happen to be in London this autumn, I'm sure you won't want to miss these three exhibitions. When I visited Budapest, in spring, I was overwelmed with the fabulous paintings the Hungarian museums host; and Canaletto is one of my favorite Italian painters. I haven't decided yet about my relationship with Gauguin though. Some days we are good friends, other days we simply can't stand each other. It's all about priorities.
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| Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael-and-Sisera |
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele
Royal Academy Of Arts, London
25 September - 12 December 2010
The exhibition comprises works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and loans from the Hungarian National Gallery, many of which have never been shown in UK before. Over 200 works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Goya, Manet, Monet, Schiele, Gauguin and Picasso and some lesser-known Hungarian artists are on display. The tremendous breath of work includes religious painting, mythological work, landscapes and contemporary masterpiece, stretching from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Arguably the greatest work, however, is Raphael’s Esterházy Madonna, a stunning example of Renaissance painting at its finest.
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| Gauguin, Nevermore O Tahiti |
Gauguin: Maker of Myth
Tate Modern, London
30 September 2010 - 16 January 2011
This first major exhibition in London dedicated to the French Post-Impressionist artist in half a century features more than 100 paintings and drawings from both public and private collections gathered from around the world. Gauguin, the stockbroker and family man who transformed himself into a bohemian artist, was the ultimate global traveler. He sailed to the South Sea to escape European civilisation and lived in Peru, Martinique, Tahiti and Paris among other places. The highlights of the exhibition include a roomful dedicated to Gauguin's self portraits, which explore his role playing as a victim, saint, martyr and sinner and some of Gauguin's famous portraits of Tahitian women.
Note: After the exhibition closes, it will move on to the National Gallery of Art in Washington (February 27–June 5, 2011)
Note: After the exhibition closes, it will move on to the National Gallery of Art in Washington (February 27–June 5, 2011)
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| Canaletto, The Reception of the French Ambassador Jacques–Vincent Languet |
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
National Gallery, London
13 October 2010 – 16 January 2011
The exhibition brings together some 55 works by Canaletto and all the major practitioners of the genre in the eighteenth century. Loaned from public and private collections around the world, the exhibition includes key works of Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi among others. In each room, major works by Canaletto are juxtaposed with those of his rivals and associates, to demonstrate different approaches to similar views of Venice.
Note: After the exhibition closes, it will move on to the National Gallery of Art in Washington (February 20–May 30, 2011)
Note: After the exhibition closes, it will move on to the National Gallery of Art in Washington (February 20–May 30, 2011)
- 'the Great Designers' Exhibition Opens In New York
Orange silk gown by Christian Lacroix If you are a fashion lover and you happen to visit New York in the following months, you are in luck. It's not only because The Big Apple is one of the hot spots of the fashion industry but also because...
- Passion For Renoir Bursts At Prado
“The Letter” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir In 1892, Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited Prado Museum in Madrid seeking inspiration. Now, over a century later, 31 of his paintings made it to El Prado Museum in "A Passion for Renoir" exhibition, including the...
- Stuffed Animals Exhibition Passes As Art
"Artists must continue the conquest of new territory and new taboos" - Norman Rosenthal, Director of the Royal Academy of Arts, London I will not pretend to fully understand contemporary art. I'm more of a classical art admirer, maybe because it comes...
- One Monet Exhibition, Two Monet Exhibitions
Terrace at Saint-Adresse by MonetIt's been over 30 years since Paris hosted a Monet exhibition. But in 2010 the 'Father of Impressionism' is back in the warm Parisian spotlight with not one, but two rival exhibitions - one from the 22nd of...
- Fake Art On Display At National Gallery, London
Bravery lays in admitting ones mistakes. And that's exactly what National Gallery from London, mainly shaped by private donations, is doing this summer with the exhibition "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries", the first major...