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Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

This autumn, 9 October – 12 January 2014, the National Gallery presents the UK’s first major exhibition devoted to the portrait in Vienna - Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900.Portraiture is...

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Zurbarán (1598-1664)

For the first time in Italy, an exhibition dedicated to Francisco de Zurbarán, one of the main charachters of the XVI Century in Spain - a contemporary of Velázquez, Murillo, Rembrandt and Hals. A...

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Pablo Picasso Women - Bulls - Old Masters

Kupferstichkabinett, BerlinFri 13 September 2013 - Sun 12 January 2014Pablo Picasso–Women, Bulls, Old Masters from Gestalten on Vimeo.Picasso created the most important oeuvre in 20th-century art not...

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Jordaens: the Pride of Antwerp

Jordaens: the Pride of Antwerp19 September 2013 – 19 January 2014Petit Palais Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678)The Painter’s Family, 1621-1622© Madrid, Museo Nacional del PradoBacked up by superb...

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Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting

Rogier van der Weyden (ca. 1400–1464). The Virgin and Child, ca. 1460, oil on panel transferred to canvas transferred to masonite, 19 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and...

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Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine

American art with the opening of the major exhibition Exploring the many meanings and interpretations of eating in Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine on view from November 12,...

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Impressionists on the Water

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) opens an exhibition that demonstrates why Impressionism continues to fascinate and intrigue over a century later. With more than 90 paintings, prints, models and...

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Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance

National Gallery, London 19 February – 11 May 2014'Beauty: a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, which please the aesthetic senses, especially the sight'Oxford English Dictionary,...

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Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter, November 9, 2013–February 2, 2014, bringing together one hundred of the artist’s oil paintings, watercolors,...

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Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes

An exceptional loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Artemisia Gentileschi’s shocking Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620), comes to the Art Institute of Chicago as the centerpiece of Violence and...

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David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, on view at the de Young Museum from October 26, 2013 through January 20, 2014. Assembled by Hockney exclusively for...

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American Adversaries: West and Copley

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is presenting American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic Worldy , an extensive exhibition charting the rise and spectacular success of contemporary...

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Paris on Stage. 1889-1914

Ah, Belle Époque Paris, the effervescent city of boulevards, Les Halles, the circus, cinema, theater, salons d’artistes, gardens, and world fair! With its incomparable art and entertainment, thanks to...

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Alex Colville

Nearly 100 works by Canadian icon Alex Colville (1920-2013) will be presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) this summer, marking the largest exhibition of the late artist’s work to date. Curated...

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Eric Fischl

Albertina : 14 February to 18 May 2014The American painter, graphic artist and sculptor Eric Fischl is one ofthe most important representatives of contemporary figuration. His work is characterisedby a...

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Dark Romanticism. From Goya to Max Ernst

The Städel Museum’s major special exhibition “Dark Romanticism. From Goya to Max Ernst“ was on view from September 26th, 2012 until January 20th, 2013. It was the first German exhibition to focus on...

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The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and...

On December 22, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), will present The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, showcasing the Clark’s...

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Matisse from SFMOMA

Jointly organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Matisse from SFMOMA brings together the work of Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954) from...

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Unflinching Vision: Goya’s Rare Prints and Masterpiece: Don Pedro, Duque de...

In celebration of the rare loan of The Frick Collection’s Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna by Spanish master Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)Don...

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LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings

Bernardo BELLOTO, Venice 1722-1780 Warsaw, ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO WITH A SELF PORTRAIT in the costume of a Venetian Nobleman, c1762-65, oil on canvas. A major exhibition of Italian paintings will open...

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