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Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Photography
Address: One South High Akron 44308
Tel: +1 330 376 9185 Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: One South High Akron 44308
Tel: +1 330 376 9185 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: One South High Akron 44308
Tel: +1 330 376 9185 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Sandbergplein 1 Amstelveen 1181 ZX
Tel: +31 (0)20 547 5050 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Sandbergplein 1 Amstelveen 1181 ZX
Tel: +31 (0)20 547 5050 Website

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 9 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Address: Keizergracht 609 Amsterdam 1017
Tel: +31 (0)20 551 6500 Website

Dates: 20 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design Decorative
Address: Amstel 51 Amsterdam 11675
Tel: +31-20-5308755 Website

This huge exhibition—featuring more than 2,000 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg—inaugurates the Russian museum’s Amsterdam’s home in the newly restored 17th-century Amstelhof (now the Hermitage’s sole foreign exhibition centre). The space has been designed by the architectural firm Merkx+Girod to give an impression of the splendour of public rooms in which the court met in the royal palaces in St Petersburg and Moscow. Russia vacillated in the 19th century between Francophile and “native” Slavic and Byzantine poles: the court fashioned its taste on European or national styles and more often than not a combination of the two. The tsars patronised artists and craftsmen from Italy, France and Germany, and British gardeners to ensure that the Russian court kept pace with developments in western Europe, and a succession of German tsarinas ensured a regular flow of works by Romantic and Nazarene artists. In the court costumes and furniture we see the native adaptation of the same sequence of styles seen elsewhere—neo-classical, Egyptian, Gothic revival and art nouveau. In this show are ball gowns and uniforms, jewellery by Fabergé, court paintings, furniture, silver, clocks and watches and Sèvres and other porcelain dinner services. D.L.

A. Malyukov, after original by Franz Krüger, Alexandra Feodorovna, 1836.

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Keizersgracht 672 Amsterdam 1017 ET
Tel: Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: Jodenbreestraat 4-6 Amsterdam 1011 NK
Tel: +31 (0)20 520 0400 Website

Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 1 Amsterdam 107 ZD
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website

Forty-five of Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings and drawings have been assembled for this show of chaotic and bustling winter scenes of people enjoying the frozen rivers and canals that came to typify 17th-century Dutch winter landscapes. The 20 paintings on show are supplemented by 25 of Avercamp’s drawings, the works having been loaned by such museums as the National Gallery, London, the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is the first to be devoted to Avercamp’s works. After studying with the Danish portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625) in Amsterdam, Avercamp (1585-1634) moved to Kampen in 1608 where his winter scenes found great popularity. This exhibition, however, also includes works that shed light on other more surprising areas of his oeuvre. The drawings on show include summer landscape studies, depictions of 17th-century workers and costume sketches that often appear in subsequent paintings. These less well known graphic works show Avercamp, say the show’s organisers, at his “most varied and adventurous”. The show, which travels to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (21 March-5 July 2010), is accompanied by the publication of Hendrick Avercamp, Master of the Ice Scene, edited by Pieter Roelofs, and published by Nieuw Amsterdam (€29.95). The museum is launching a special programme for deaf and hard of hearing visitors to coincide with the exhibition. Hendrick Avercamp was himself deaf and mute.

Winter Landscape with Skaters (detail), about 1608.

Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website

Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website

This exhibition celebrates the publication of definitive, six-volume edition of the artist’s correspondence (see p49). The Van Gogh Museum is marking the book launch by showing 120 letters, nearly all from the family collection. These are rarely exhibited, for conservation reasons, and never have so many been on show before. Three recently acquired letters with sketches addressed to Van Gogh’s artist friend Emile Bernard are being lent by the Morgan Library in New York. Presented in the museum’s original Rietveld building, the letters are shown alongside paintings from the permanent collection. Altogether there are 340 artworks, including The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom. Light levels will be lowered for the works on paper, with the paintings spotlit, giving a different feel to a museum that is normally filled with daylight. The display of letters will also flow over into the print gallery. Some of the letters include small drawings (above). Once Van Gogh became a full-time artist he would make rough sketches of his pictures to show his brother Theo what he was working on. The letters, mostly in Dutch and French, provide an intimate and revealing account of his development as an artist. Another show (with almost completely different artworks) will be presented at the Royal Academy, London (“The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters”), from 23 January- 18 April 2010. Martin Bailey

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: Leuvenstraat 32 Antwerp B-2000
Tel: +32 (0)3 260 99 99 Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Leuvenstraat 32 Antwerp B-2000
Tel: +32 (0)3 260 99 99 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Waalse Kaai 47 Antwerp B-2000
Tel: +32 (0)3 242 9305 Website

Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Waalse Kaai 47 Antwerp B-2000
Tel: +32 (0)3 242 9305 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Leopold de Waelplaats Antwerp B-2000
Tel: +32 (0)3 238 7809 Website

Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, Koumbari Street and Vasilissis Sofias Avenue Athens 10674
Tel: +30 210 367 1000 Website

Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 1 Dec 09
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, Koumbari Street and Vasilissis Sofias Avenue Athens 10674
Tel: +30 210 367 1000 Website

Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 31 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3 and 7 Monis Asteriou at Kydathineon Street Athens
Tel: +30 210 323 4678 Website

Dates: 20 Jul 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 44 Patission Street Athens 10682
Tel: +30 210 821 7717 Website

Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: The Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias and Kokkali Avenues Athens 11743
Tel: +30 210 924 2111 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: The Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias and Kokkali Avenues Athens 11743
Tel: +30 210 924 2111 Website

Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention
Address: 1280 Peachtree Northeast Street, Atlanta 30309
Tel: +1 404 733 4437 Website

Dates: 8 Aug 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1280 Peachtree Northeast Street, Atlanta 30309
Tel: +1 404 733 4437 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 18 Apr 10
Categories: Design Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1280 Peachtree Northeast Street, Atlanta 30309
Tel: +1 404 733 4437 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Emory University, 571 South Kilgo Street Atlanta 30322
Tel: +1 404 727 4282 Website

Dates: 21 Jun 09 - 31 Dec 09

Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master Decorative
Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10

Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Curious Latin American
Address: University of Texas at Austin Austin 78712-1205
Tel: +1 512 471 7324 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lichtentaler Allee 8b Baden-Baden 76530
Tel: +49 (0)7221 39898 0 Website

This exhibition is the last of three major retrospectives at the Museum Frieder Burda to feature significant German artists. After Polke and Richter, the Baselitz retrospective, curated by Goetz Adriani, consists of 75 large paintings and 50 works on paper, celebrating 50 years of the artist’s oeuvre. The first exhibition is divided into four main categories: works from the early 60s; diptychs from the 70s; the “Heroes” series; and the late “Remix” paintings. Chronologically organised, they trace Baselitz’s painting career from 1959 to the present. The show aims to offer new insights by focusing on the role of the past in his work. According to Adriani, the artist’s East German heritage plays an essential part in the works shown: “Already in his early work Baselitz revolted against the political and painterly restrictions of social realism, introducing scandalous sexual themes to his art.” The “Heroes” series critically deals with “broken German heroes rather than brave German soldiers”, Adriani notes. A highlight of the show is the “Remix” series, which Baselitz began in 2005. Engaging anew with his works from the early 1960s, he manoeuvres the past into the present. What were dark and depressed works are now repainted with a “rococo lightness” said Adriani, In “Baselitz: 30 Years of Sculpture” at the neighbouring Staatliche Kunsthalle, which consists of 15 sculptures shown alongside eight paintings, curator Karoline Kraus explores the relationship between the artist’s sculpture and painting. Works of different media from the same creative period are displayed to offer a new perspective on the Baselitz’s three-dimensional work. Among the works on show is the new sculpture Volks Ding Zero, 2009, which is being shown for the first time.

Volks Ding Zero, 2009

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lichtentaler Allee, 8a Baden-Baden D-76530
Tel: +49 (0)722 130 0763 Website

Dates: 29 Jun 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore 21218-3898
Tel: +1 410 396 6300 Website

Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore 21218-3898
Tel: +1 410 396 6300 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: 10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore 21218-3898
Tel: +1 410 396 6300 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon Curious
Address: 10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore 21218-3898
Tel: +1 410 396 6300 Website

Dates: 11 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 600 North Charles Street Baltimore 21201
Tel: +1 410 547 9000 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Art on Purpose: Heroes in our Midst
Address: 600 North Charles Street Baltimore 21201
Tel: +1 410 547 9000 Website

Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 9 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Plaza dels Àngels, 1 Barcelona 08001
Tel: +34 (0)93 412 0810 Website

This show brings together 15 international artists to present their views on the role of text and narrative in contemporary art. The exhibition consists of proposals from each of the artists that will, along with talks and seminars, create a forum in which words and their relationship to the modern art production are discussed. Artists including Will Holder, the founder of DotDotDot magazine, Falke Pisano, whose work engages with problems of language and text, conceptual New York artist Seth Price, and the Bernadette Corporation collective, whose work investigates strategies of art production, all present text pieces. The museum has created an “active space for reading” where visitors will be able to take in the written proposals from the artists involved. Rob Curran

Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Baselstrasse 101 Basel CH-4125
Tel: +41 (0)61 645 97 00 Website

US artist Jenny Holzer’s text works are so prolific she even has a regular Twitter feed, posting in uppercase (as with her other text works). The exhibition of her works at Fondation Beyeler shows pieces from various phases of her career, and she has been closely involved in its presentation. The show was first displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, last year, and its basic structure remains the same, but some works have been added here, including early paintings and painted signs. The show includes text works from the late 1970s onwards and objects from the early 1980s to the present. The majority of works are LED installations, shown alongside new paintings and sculptural works that are not well known in Europe. “Another topic of the exhibition is the presentation of these works in the exceptional museum space created by Renzo Piano,” said curator Philippe Büttner. “Great art will meet great architecture.” The exhibition will extend beyond the gallery, said Büttner: “Together with the artist we are planning a number of projections onto different buildings and sites in Basel and Zurich.” Among these is a projection onto the historic Basel City Hall. Holzer is also curating her own room within the Fondation Beyeler. “We have invited the artist to select works from our collection to be shown in two rooms just beside the first room of her exhibition,” said Büttner, adding that a work of hers may be displayed within the collection. “This special presentation will establish a link between the Beyeler collection and the Holzer exhibition. The artist has a very rich knowledge of the history of art and it is an important opportunity and challenge for her to get into a dialogue with works by former great artists of our time,” he said.

Monument, 2008

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: St Alban-Graben 16 Basel CH-4010
Tel: +41 (0)61 206 62 62 Website

This exhibition focuses on the newly restored Adoration of the Magi by Frans II Francken (1581-1642). The work, bequeathed to the museum in 2004, required restoration due to the risk of damage from nails used to secure the painting. This show heralds its return to the collection after the restoration work, where it sits alongside works from Francken’s Antwerp contemporaries to put the work in context. Although Francken created many altarpieces and panels, it is for his smaller cabinet works that he is most celebrated and this Adoration together with 12 lesser-known pieces loaned by private collectors exemplifies his characteristic attention to detail. According to curator Bodo Brinkmann, the Kunstmuseum’s curator of old master paintings, these lesser-known works are perfect examples of the work that gave Francken such a reputation as a “gifted story-teller”. A recently discovered panel by Francken is also included in the show. Belshazzar’s Feast, around 1610, has been loaned by the Hermann Beyeler Collection and according to Brinkmann the panel provides ample evidence as to why the “elite of connoisseurs and art collectors have never ceased to admire Francken’s work”

Adoration of the Magi

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: St Alban-Rheinweg 60 Basel CH-4010
Tel: +41 (0)61 206 62 62 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Paul Sacher-Anglage 1 Basel CH-3255
Tel: +41 (0)61 681 93 20 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Paul Sacher-Anglage 1 Basel CH-3255
Tel: +41 (0)61 681 93 20 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Paul Sacher-Anglage 1 Basel CH-3255
Tel: +41 (0)61 681 93 20 Website

Dates: 1 Aug 09 - 24 Dec 09
Categories: Far East
Address: Market Place Basingstoke RG21 1QD
Tel: +44 (0)1256 46 59 02 Website

Dates: 26 Aug 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Old Master
Address: 12 Bennet Street Bath BA1 2QL
Tel: +44 (0)1225 464 640 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art Far East
Address: 4 Jingshan Qianjie Beijing 100009
Tel: Website

Dates: 26 Aug 09 - 20 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: University of California at Berkeley 2625 Durant Avenue, #2250 Berkeley 94720-2250
Tel: +1 510 642 1295 Website

Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Photography Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bodestrasse 1-3 Berlin D-10178
Tel: +49 (0)3 2090 5801 Website

Dates: 10 Jul 09 - 6 Jun 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Bodestrasse 1-3, Museumsinsel Berlin D-10178
Tel: +49 (0)30 2035 5259 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Schlobstrasse 1a Berlin D-14059
Tel: +49 (0)30 3269 06 00 Website

Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 25 Apr 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Bussardsteig 9 Berlin D-14195
Tel: +49 (0)30 831 2029 Website

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Pei-building, Unter den Linden 2 Berlin D-10117
Tel: +49 - (0)30 - 20304 - 0 Website

Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Pei-building, Unter den Linden 2 Berlin D-10117
Tel: +49 - (0)30 - 20304 - 0 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Curious Design
Address: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstrasse 8 Berlin D-14195
Tel: +49 (0)30 830 1438 Website

Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Niederkirchnerstrasse, 7 Berlin D-10963
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 860 Website

Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Niederkirchnerstrasse, 7 Berlin D-10963
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 860 Website

Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Middle East
Address: Niederkirchnerstrasse, 7 Berlin D-10963
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 860 Website

Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Niederkirchnerstrasse, 7 Berlin D-10963
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 860 Website

This exhibition is part of a series of three celebrating the 20th anniversary of the twinning of Istanbul and Berlin. The series, which continues at the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, and the Akademie Pariser Platz, presents a comprehensive presentation of work from a variety of Turkish contemporary artists. Artists included in the Martin Gropius Bau show include sculptor and abstract modernist Kemal Önsoy, the figurative and painterly Temür Köran, Aydan Murtezaoglu, who makes films, photographs and installations, and the abstract painter Ekrem Yalcindag. Curated by Çetin Güzelhan, Beral Madra, Levent Çalikoglu and Johannes Odenthal, this section of the series consists of work dating from 1928 to the present day. The Akademie Pariser Platz shows work by female artists, and the Akademie Hanseatenweg shows work by artists engaging with the socio-political issues of modern Turkey. Included in the Martin Gropius show is a six-minute film by Sener Özmen, who lives and works in the south-east of Turkey, entitled The Road to Tate Modern, 2003, in which two men ride horses through a bleak mountainous landscape asking farmers for directions to Tate Modern. Rob Curran

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Niederkirchnerstrasse, 7 Berlin D-10963
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 860 Website

Dates: 17 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Far East
Address: Takustrasse 40 Berlin 14195
Tel: +49(0)30 - 8301-382 Website

Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 31 Oct 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Takustrasse 40 Berlin 14195
Tel: +49(0)30 - 8301-382 Website

Dates: 3 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Far East
Address: Takustrasse 40 Berlin 14195
Tel: +49(0)30 - 8301-382 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Address: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lansstrasse 8 Berlin D-14195
Tel: +49 (0)30 8301 382 Website

Dates: 26 Jun 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Avenida Adandoibarra, 2 Bilbao 48001
Tel: +34 (0)94 435 90 80 Website

Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Design Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Avenida Adandoibarra, 2 Bilbao 48001
Tel: +34 (0)94 435 90 80 Website

Dates: 15 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Avenida Adandoibarra, 2 Bilbao 48001
Tel: +34 (0)94 435 90 80 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Chamberlain Square Birmingham B3 3DH
Tel: +44 (0)121 303 2834 Website

Dates: 12 Sep 09 - 9 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Chamberlain Square Birmingham B3 3DH
Tel: +44 (0)121 303 2834 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Chamberlain Square Birmingham B3 3DH
Tel: +44 (0)121 303 2834 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc) Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 2000 Eighth Avenue Birmingham 35203
Tel: +1 205 254 2566 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museum Street Blackburn BB1 7AJ
Tel: 01254 667130 Website

Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 280 The Fenway Boston 02115
Tel: +1 617 566 1401 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Boston 02467
Tel: +1 617 552 8100 Website

Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 16 May 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 1 Jul 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 8 Aug 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 3 Jul 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 3 Jul 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 22 Aug 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Modern (1900-1945) Curious
Address: Royal Pavilion Gardens Brighton BN1 1EE
Tel: +44 (0)1273 292882 Website

Dates: 10 Sep 09 - 25 Apr 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Dijver 12 Bruges B-8000
Tel: +32 (0)5 044 8711 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Palatul Parlamentului, aripa E4 Bucharest
Tel: +40 21 411 1040 Website

Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Dózsa György út 41 Budapest 1146
Tel: +36 (0)1469 7100 Website

Szépmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest 28 October-14 February 2010 www.szepmuveszeti.hu This is the second exhibition (the first was the Spanish 16th- to 19th-century painting show in 2006) of a series presented by the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts that aims to present a canonical overview of a national school of a specific period, in this case the early and high Italian Renaissance. On view are more than 130 works, about half of which are on loan from the Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, and Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, the rest being complemented by works from the museum’s own collection. This exhibition will not only provide the Hungarian public with an excellent opportunity to see masterpieces that would otherwise be beyond view, but also to afford the museum the chance to stage a much-needed money-making blockbuster, a goal its publicity department is vigorously exploiting with an international media campaign, hoping to attract at least 300,000 visitors. On view are works by such artists as Botticelli, the Bellinis, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, and many others. Above, Raphael, The Esterházy Madonna, 1508. D.L.

Raphael, The Esterházy Madonna, 1508

Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332900 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332900 Website

Dates: 27 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332900 Website

Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 21 Mar 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332900 Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula Canberra 2600
Tel: +61 (0)2 6208 5000 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NP
Tel: +44 (0)29 2039 7951 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NP
Tel: +44 (0)29 2039 7951 Website

Dates: 25 Jul 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 2730 Randolph Road Charlotte 28207
Tel: +1 704 337 2000 Website

Dates: 25 Jul 09 - 6 Feb 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Modern (1900-1945) 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 2730 Randolph Road Charlotte 28207
Tel: +1 704 337 2000 Website

Dates: 22 Aug 09 - 30 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 2730 Randolph Road Charlotte 28207
Tel: +1 704 337 2000 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago 60605-2496
Tel: +1 312 922 9410 Website

Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008 Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website

Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Photography Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Columbia College 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60605-1996
Tel: +1 312 663 5554 Website

Dates: 3 Nov 09 - 11 Apr 10
Categories: Old Master 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: University of Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago 60637
Tel: +1 773 702 0200 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: University of Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago 60637
Tel: +1 773 702 0200 Website

The Smart Museum of Art delves into the heart of middle America and comes up with surprising results in this two-part exhibition, organised with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. The Dutch segment, on view last year, presented to a European audience a broad survey of the Midwest’s culture, art and music. The Smart’s version looks at independent artist communities in centres such as Detroit and Kansas City. Design 99 (Gina Reichert & Mitch Cope) have been towing an old speedboat through the Midwest. “By the time they arrive in Chicago, they’ll have transformed it into a portable, carnivalesque sculpture,” says curator Stephanie Smith. Kansas City’s dance and variety show Whoop Dee Doo performs in Chicago in its first ever museum commission. H.S.

Whoop Dee Doo

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 953 Eden Park Cincinnati 45202-1596
Tel: +1 513 639 2924 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 953 Eden Park Cincinnati 45202-1596
Tel: +1 513 639 2924 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 16 Jan 11
Categories: Matter of Faith: Relics, Art, and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
Address: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland 44106-1797
Tel: +1 216 421 7340 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland 44106-1797
Tel: +1 216 421 7340 Website

A survey of symbolist artist Paul Gauguin opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art before it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam next year. The show partially recreates the exhibition that Gauguin and his contemporaries independently organised in the Café Volpini, Paris, during the Exposition Universelle, or World’s Fair. Around 75 works from that show are reunited for the first time in more than a century, along with works on paper, woodcarvings and ceramics.

Dates: 29 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: An der Rechtschule Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221-221-26714 Website

Dates: 29 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Decorative
Address: An der Rechtschule Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221-221-26714 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Video & New Media
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 26 165 Website

Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Bischofgartenstraße 1 Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 2372 Website

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Medieval
Address: Bischofgartenstraße 1 Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 2372 Website

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Middle East 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Bischofgartenstraße 1 Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 2372 Website

Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 15 Mar 10
Categories: Decorative Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 480 East Broad Street Columbus 43215-3886
Tel: +1 614 221 6801 Website

Dates: 28 Aug 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Bredgade 68 Copenhagen DK-1260
Tel: +45 33 185 656 Website

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Bredgade 68 Copenhagen DK-1260
Tel: +45 33 185 656 Website

Dates: 3 Sep 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Vilvordevej 110 Copenhagen DK-2920
Tel: +45 39 64 11 83 Website

Dates: 4 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Vilvordevej 110 Copenhagen DK-2920
Tel: +45 39 64 11 83 Website

Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Sølvgade 48-50 Copenhagen DK-1307
Tel: +45 33 74 84 94 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Sølvgade 48-50 Copenhagen DK-1307
Tel: +45 33 74 84 94 Website

Dates: 29 Aug 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Sølvgade 48-50 Copenhagen DK-1307
Tel: +45 33 74 84 94 Website

Nicolai Abildgaard (1743-1809) is little known outside Denmark. Although his years of study in Rome (1772-77) brought him into contact with artists such as Füssli and with the early Romantic currents that prized Shakespeare, Homer, Ossian and Norse mythology, his style throughout his career remained committedly classical. His early training at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, his study tour of Italy and his tenure as professor (and intermittently as director) of the academy from 1778 until his death, were dedicated to the ideals of Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, the Carraccis, Poussin and Claude. The peaks of his career were the commission in 1780 to decorate the Knights’ Hall of the Christiansborg Palace with 10 monumental history paintings (seven were destroyed by a fire in 1794) and a decorative project at what is now Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg (1794-98). Abildgaard’s success was, however, frustrated by his uninhibited expressions of liberal, anti-monarchical and anti-religious views and his endorsement of the French Revolution—even after the Terror (summed up in Jupiter Weighs the Fate of Mankind, 1794) when many European supporters were disillusioned. Unlike Goethe or David, he was unable to make the necessary adjustments to adapt his thinking to a changed world nor to temper his classicising style with the insights afforded by Romantic interiority and emotional expressiveness. Nevertheless, in this show of 150 of his paintings, his technical mastery is obvious, especially in his handling of colour, his harmonious tones and the power of some of his subjects (shown above, The Wounded Philoctetes, 1775). The fact that Abildgaard doesn’t quite make it to the first 11, the fact that he was the teacher of such stars as Bertel Thorvaldsen, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Philipp Otto Runge, warrants our recognition and attention. This is the final leg of a three-stop tour, having been seen at the Louvre and the Hamburger Kunsthalle. It will be interesting to see if the artist undergoes a more favourable reassessment in the wake of this extensive European exposure. Donald Lee

The Wounded Philoctetes, 1775

Dates: 20 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Decorative Design
Address: 1717 North Harwood Street Dallas 75201
Tel: +1 214 922 1200 Website

Dates: 30 Aug 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1717 North Harwood Street Dallas 75201
Tel: +1 214 922 1200 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 21 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1717 North Harwood Street Dallas 75201
Tel: +1 214 922 1200 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 456 Belmonte Park North Dayton 45405-4700
Tel: +1 937 223 5277 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 4 Apr 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Curious
Address: 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Denver 80204
Tel: +1 720 865 5000 Website

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Denver 80204
Tel: +1 720 865 5000 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway Denver 80204
Tel: +1 720 865 5000 Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 4454 Woodward Avenue Detroit 48201
Tel: +1 313 832 6622 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 1 Dec 09
Categories: Curious
Address: The Corniche Doha
Tel: +974 422 4444 Website

Dates: 23 Aug 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Schlossplatz, Georgenbau Dresden 01067
Tel: + 49 (0)3 51 49 14 2000 Website

News of arranged marriages causes outrage in the western media: the very idea of an involuntary wedding flies in the face of the bien-pensant orthodoxies of feminism and romantic love. Meanwhile, the west’s own history of arranged marriages goes largely unacknowledged (apart from anachronistic condemnations) and with it any recognition that these arrangements are largely responsible not only for the political shape of our nations today, but that they resulted in a vast and rich European artistic and cultural heritage. Should there be any doubt about the positive effects of diplomatic unions, this exhibition of 260 objects and works of art from eight of the Dresden State Museums and another 100 loaned by the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg Castle (whither the show will travel next year), Fredericksborg Castle, the National Museum of Denmark, the Royal Library and the Statens Museum for Kunst, will convince the severest cultural critic. Following the establishment of Lutheranism as the state religion of Saxony and Denmark (in 1527 and 1537 respectively), it was imperative for their rulers to find brides of the right religion to create political bonds. The international diplomatic approaches, the marriage negotiations and contractual terms, the weddings and the ensuing relationships—personal, public and political—were all commemorated by the production, exchange and collection of a vast array of works of art. Paintings (mainly portraits) and drawings (many of the diplomatic and state occasions) by artists such as Lucas Cranach the Younger and Karel van Mander, jewellery (including spectacular Saxon and Danish chivalric orders), silver, ceremonial arms and armour, highly wrought objets de vertu in silver and gold by Johann Melchior Dinglinger, among others, commemorative coins and medals, textiles including uniforms and court dress, printed texts and images, ceramics and glass have been assembled to illustrate and provide a backdrop to four marriages over five generations and 150 years of Saxon and Danish marriages—first, of the Saxon Elector August to Anna, the daughter of King Christian III of Denmark in 1548; of the Elector Christian II to Hedwig, the daughter of the Danish King Frederick II in 1602; of Magdalene Sibylle, daughter of the Elector Johann Georg I, to Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, in 1634; and of the Elector Johann Georg III to Anna Sophie, daughter of King Frederick II in 1666. (There is, incidentally, a British connection in all this: Hedwig’s sister, Anna, was the wife of King James VI and I of Scotland and England, and Anna Sophie was the sister of Prince Georg, the husband of the fecund but fruitless Queen Anne of England.) The objects on display relate directly to these unions; for example, we are shown the Elector Augustus’s wedding uniform, objects collected by Hedwig during her long widowhood, illustrated prints of the wedding of Magdalene Sibylle, the silver wedding armour of the Elector Johann Georg III, and much, much more. This exhibition has been long in the making. Its principal curator, Jutta Kappel, deputy director of the Grünes Gewölbe, told The Art Newspaper: “It has long been my dream to curate this exhibition. When I started work at the Grünes Gewölbe 20 years ago, I wanted to write about the women of the Saxon court and I found Jorgen Heim [curator of the Royal Danish Collections] had a similar idea. So, ‘Crossing the Sea with Fortuna’ is literally a dream come true.” The 320-page catalogue, edited by Dr Kappel and the exhibition’s specialist curator, Claudia Brink, is published by Deutscher Kunstverlag (€34.90, ISBN 9783422069091). D.L.

A 16th-century Milanese crystal nef or salt, in the form of a ship mounted in gold, enamel, emeralds and rubies

Dates: 11 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website

Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website

Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website

While elements of this show have been exhibited earlier this year at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Kunsthalle Zurich, this version comes in a slightly different guise. The Algerian-born artist has worked closely with the museum’s director, Enrique Juncosa, and head of exhibitions, Rachel Thomas, to make use of the particular architectural spaces to present this show of 14 works. There are site-specific works tailored to the show, such as Orange Bay (After Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment of Future History), 2002-09, “an orange Plexiglas work covering all of the windows in the galleries so that all works will be seen in an orange glow”, said Thomas. The show is supported by L’Ambassade de France en Irelande.

The Boy from Mars, 2003.

Dates: 20 Aug 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Buchanan Boulevard at Trinity Durham 27708
Tel: +1 919 684 5135 Website

Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Buchanan Boulevard at Trinity Durham 27708
Tel: +1 919 684 5135 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Ständehausstrasse, 1 Düsseldorf D-40217
Tel: +49 (0)211 83 81 600 Website

A decade of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s (b1972) creative output is presented in this major retrospective consisting of more than 75 paintings in the contemporary art wing of the museum. The show, the first of its kind outside his native Poland, is heavily influenced by Sasnal’s Polish lineage. Paintings of family members are prominent, as are images that feature his hometown of Krakow. Sasnal’s painting developed during the first post-communist decade in Poland, when he was quick to join forces with artists who wanted to buck established academic trends in Polish culture. This has lead to a marked presence of everyday, recognisable images in his work, such as the clergyman’s collar in A Priest 4, 2006. Sasnal’s recent foray into the moving image is reflected in the inclusion of his Super 8 and 16mm film work, which, like his painting, is often steeped in subtle and brazen allusions. R.C.

A Priest 4, 2006

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Ehrenhof 4-5 Düsseldorf D-40479
Tel: +49 (0)211 899 2460 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Ehrenhof 4-5 Düsseldorf D-40479
Tel: +49 (0)211 899 2460 Website

Dates: 13 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Ehrenhof 4-5 Düsseldorf D-40479
Tel: +49 (0)211 899 2460 Website

Dates: 11 Nov 09 - 30 Jun 11
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Curious
Address: Bilderdijklaan 10 Eindhoven 5611 NH
Tel: +31 (0)40 238 1019 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: WeeGee House, Ahertajantie 5 Espoo 02100
Tel: +358 (0)9 8165 7512 Website

Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth 76107
Tel: +1 817 738 9215 Website

Dates: 22 Aug 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Photography Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present) Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Amt 45G, Schaumainkai 29-37 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: (0)69 212 359 13 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Oct 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art African
Address: Amt 45G, Schaumainkai 29-37 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: (0)69 212 359 13 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Amt 45G, Schaumainkai 29-37 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: (0)69 212 359 13 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative Far East
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Photography Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Decorative Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master Decorative
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

The influence on European furniture culture of the renowned sculptor and cabinet maker to Louis XIV André Charles Boulle is explored in this major show of about 150 pieces of furniture, bronzes, clocks, tapestries, paintings and drawings selected by art historians Jean Nérée Ronfort and Jean Dominique Augarde with Ulrich Schneider, director of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Boulle found success early, being invited by Louis XIV into his workshops at the Palais du Louvre before the age of 30, and his designs soon became symbols of prosperity and success, a position they still hold, with his designs featuring in the world’s leading museums and private collections. The king of Spain and the electors of Saxony and Bavaria were drawn to his elaborate works that combined such materials as gilt bronze, exotic woods, tortoiseshell and brass to create elaborate ornaments and floral marquetry. Objects have been loaned by 44 institutions, including the Hermitage, St Petersburg, Le Mobilier National, Paris, and the Royal Collection of Sweden, signifying Boulle’s widespread and lasting international influence. The show is under the patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and Horst Köhler, President of Germany.

Sphinx, 17th century.

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Domstrasse, 10 Frankfurt D-60311
Tel: +49 (0)69 21 23 0447 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 7 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Durerstrasse 2 Frankfurt D-60596
Tel: +49 (0)69 605 09 80 Website

Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Durerstrasse 2 Frankfurt D-60596
Tel: +49 (0)69 605 09 80 Website

It is a commonplace that some artists reach in their old age a “late style” characterised by loose, free expression and a distillation of experience (for example, Michelangelo and Titian) while others wither and decay (for example, Pontormo and Domenichino). Botticelli is reckoned, however, to have taken a different trajectory by turning, in his old age, from a mature style and content to the manner and concerns of his youth. The life and work of Sandro Botticelli is, like Caesar’s Gaul, divided in partes tres: his Florentine early training and career, from his birth in 1444/45 to around 1478, covering the years of his apprenticeship under Fra Filippo Lippi and in which he produced works such as St Sebastian, 1473-74, and a number of frescoes in Florence and Pisa, most of which are now lost. During the years of his maturity, around 1478 to 1490, he painted most of the works for which he is famous: frescoes in Florence and Rome, altarpieces, portraits, allegories and mythological narratives. Here he perfected his personal style, perhaps best described as a combination of International Gothic and classical prototypes, an assimilation of the stile nuovo and antico, in which figures are presented in supple contours, contrapposto, graceful proportions, most memorably exemplified in the Primavera, around 1478, and The Birth of Venus, 1482-86. This high courtly style also informed his religious paintings (shown, The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, about 1490), which may have incurred the censure of the charismatic Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola, who, it is believed, came to influence Botticelli as, from the 1490s until his death, the artist turned back to the simplicity and affective expression of his early work. This maniera devota, inspired by moral and religious sentiment, resulted in works such as the Mystic Nativity, around 1500, and the illuminations for a luxurious, unfinished manuscript edition of The Divine Comedy, 1490s. Following his death, Botticelli fell from favour and it was not until 19th-century art historians began to resurrect and elevate Florentine artists that he came again into favour. This process was initiated mainly by German art historians and collectors: the Berlin museum acquired the St Sebastian and the Bardi altarpiece in the 1820s; Walter Ullmann produced the first Botticelli monograph in 1893 and Aby Warburg produced his influential dissertation in the same year. Thus it comes as something of a surprise that this is the first Botticelli show to take place in the German-speaking world (pace the exhibition of the Divine Comedy illuminations in Berlin in 2000-01). The exhibition is curated by Andreas Schumacher, the director of the pre-1800 Italian, French and Spanish paintings collections, and is the first in line to celebrate the quincentenary of the artist’s death (1510). The show, like Botticelli’s life, is in three parts: his portraits and allegorical paintings, the mythologies and, finally, his religious œuvre. Although many of the works have recently been seen in the shows at the Palais de Luxembourg (2003-04) and at the Palazzo Strozzi (2004)—the fragility, the renown and the limited number of his works make it impossible to transport many of them—this exhibition includes workshop pieces and drawings from private lenders never seen before in public. Special attention is given to the unrequited love Botticelli bore for the celebrated beauty Simonetta Vespucci (around 1453-76), wife of a Florentine nobleman, who is thought have been his model for his Venuses (and with whom he was buried), and to his works commissioned by the Medici. In addition to the 40 Botticelli paintings, there are 40 by Verrocchio, Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Filippino to put Botticelli’s work into a historical context. The show is sponsored by the Commerzbank-Stiftung with support from Alnatura Produktions- und Handels, the Italian National Tourist Board, Weleda and Ikarus design. The catalogue is edited by Dr Schumacher and published by Hatje Cantz (€49.80).

The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, about 1490

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 23 Nov 09
Categories: Biennials
Address: Hakata Riverain 7-8F, Shimokawabata-machi Hakata-ku Fukuoka 812 0027
Tel: Website

Dates: 25 Aug 09 - 1 Aug 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Southwest 34th Street and Hull Road Gainesville 32611-2700
Tel: +1 352 392 9826 Website

Dates: 15 Sep 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Southwest 34th Street and Hull Road Gainesville 32611-2700
Tel: +1 352 392 9826 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Citadelpark, N. De Liemaeckereplein 3 Ghent B-9000
Tel: +32 (0) 9 2221703 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Citadelpark 1 Ghent B-9000
Tel: +32 (0)9 221 1703 Website

Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Citadelpark 1 Ghent B-9000
Tel: +32 (0)9 221 1703 Website

Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10

Address: 155 Division North Grand Rapids 49503-3154
Tel: +1 616 831 1000 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lendkai 1 Graz A-8020
Tel: +43 (0) 316 8017 9200 Website

The place of Andy Warhol as the leading figure of late 20th century art is explored in this show of 20 works by the late American artist dating from the 1960s, which are shown with art by Barnett Newman and Christopher Wool. Curator Peter Pakesch has focused on a period in the 1960s when Warhol was looking particularly towards work from the previous decade by Newman. The works on show include Warhol’s disaster paintings, which are seen as owing a debt to Newman’s monochrome pieces. Chicago-born artist Christopher Wool is represented by about 20 word paintings seen as being influenced by Warhol. Items have been loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate, London, and private collections. James Hobbs

Andy Warhol, Flowers (Large Flowers 1 Orange, One Purple), 1964

Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Paulustorgasse 11-13a Graz 8010
Tel: +43 316/80 17-9899 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: 1 Museum Drive Greenwich 06830-7100
Tel: +1 203 869 0376 Website

Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1 Museum Drive Greenwich 06830-7100
Tel: +1 203 869 0376 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1 Museum Drive Greenwich 06830-7100
Tel: +1 203 869 0376 Website

Dates: 27 Jun 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museumeiland 1 Groningen 9700 ME
Tel: +31 (0)50 366 6555 Website

Dates: 13 Jun 09 - 22 Nov 09

Address: Museumeiland 1 Groningen 9700 ME
Tel: +31 (0)50 366 6555 Website

Dates: 11 Oct 09 - 11 Apr 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Museumeiland 1 Groningen 9700 ME
Tel: +31 (0)50 366 6555 Website

Dates: 18 Jul 09 - 2 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 26 Shabbetai Levi Street Haifa 33043
Tel: 04-8523255 Website

Dates: 6 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Design
Address: Steintorplatz 1 Hamburg d-20099
Tel: +49 (0)40 42 81 34 27 32 Website

Dates: 30 Aug 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Kurt-Schwitters-Platz Hanover D-30169
Tel: +49 (0)511 168 - 4 38 75 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Kurt-Schwitters-Platz Hanover D-30169
Tel: +49 (0)511 168 - 4 38 75 Website

Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 6 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Kaivokatu 2 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 (0)9 1733 6401 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 6 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Tallberginkatu 1 G Helsinki FIN 00180
Tel: +358 9 6866 3613 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 6 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc) Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Tallberginkatu 1 G Helsinki FIN 00180
Tel: +358 9 6866 3613 Website

Dates: 15 Sep 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Mannerheiminaukio 2 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 1733 6501 Website

Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Mannerheiminaukio 2 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 1733 6501 Website

Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Mannerheiminaukio 2 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 1733 6501 Website

Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Helsinki City Art Museum Unioninkatu 28 B Helsinki 00100
Tel: +358 9 310 87039 Website

Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc) Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Helsinki City Art Museum Tamminiementie 6 Helsinki 00205
Tel: +358 9 310 87031 Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Old Master
Address: Bulevardi 40 Helsinki 00120
Tel: +358 (0)9 1733 6460 Website

Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Salomonkatu 15 Helsinki 00100
Tel: +35 (0) 89 310 87001 Website

Dates: 4 Jun 09 - 25 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 40 Macquarie Street Hobart 7000
Tel: +61 (0) 3 6211 4177 Website