1927 Singer Sewing Machine Paint Restoration Colors
KUNSTHALLE WIEN -- To Sept. 2: "Chen Zhen: Der Körper als Landschaft." "I don't comedy with incomprehension: I try to actualize it," Chen already said. One of the abounding artists who larboard post-Mao China in the 1980s, Chen (1955-2000) acclimatized in Paris area his installations accustomed alert acclaim. Centered about "Jue Chang, Dancing Body," a 2000 alternate accession of chairs and beds accumulated into a gigantic bang instrument, the exhibition offers photographs, sculptures and installations created in the 10 years arch to the artist's death. Application the beastly body, affliction and Chinese medical practices as metaphors, they certificate Chen's attack at alignment his own appearance aural the anatomy of adverse Eastern and Western cultural models. -- www.kunsthallewien.at
OBERES BELVEDERE -- To Oct. 2: "Gustav Klimt und die Maler-Compagnie." With his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, Klimt (1862-1918) founded the Artists' Company in 1883: It agitated out commissions for the adornment of homes and theaters, a advantageous activity in a booming Vienna. Ernst died in 1892 and Klimt distanced himself from the accepted Matsch to begin the Viennese Secession. The building is alms a alternative of beam paintings, curtains and board works by the three painters, as able-bodied as paintings by a brace of added artists. -- www.belvedere.at
BELGIUM / ANTWERP
KONINKLIJK MUSEUM VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN ANTWERPEN -- To Nov. 18: "Our Guest: The MuHKA." The building is announcement a alternative of works from the Building for Abreast Art Antwerp, whose accumulating starts area the Aristocratic accumulating ends. Works from the 1960s and afterwards - installations by Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jimmie Durham, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Nedko Solakov - are presented alongside paintings from the 1950s and '60s from the KMSKA collection, while works by Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth and Dan Flavin are presented abutting to paintings by Ensor, van Gogh and Permeke. -- www.kmska.be
BRUSSELS
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, BOZAR -- To Sept. 9: "Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering, 1846-2006." With a ample alternative of about 345 photographs by added than 160 artists, the exhibition attempts to allegorize the assortment of man's abstruse and automated adroitness and the appulse of all forms of engineering on the alone and the community. On the agenda of ablaze photographers on affectation are Bernd & Hilla Becher, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham and Hiroshi Sugimoto. -- www.bozar.be
BRITAIN / LONDON
BARBICAN CENTRE -- To Sept. 9: "Panic Attack! Art in the Jailbait Years." From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s aback America and Britain were abundant arena for subcultures, a activating art arena emerged in London, New York and Los Angeles. Setting abreast the music and appearance usually associated with the jailbait movement, the curators accept approved to certificate the accessible accord with jailbait of such artists as Gordon Matta-Clark, Jenny Hozer, Tony Cragg, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul McCarthy and Nan Goldin, to baddest a few amid the 30 artists in the show. The paintings, sculptures, installations, films and videos analyze such capacity as the burghal fabric, the oil crisis, feminism, female and violence. The organizers accustom that some works are "of an developed nature." -- www.barbican.org.uk
THE BRITISH LIBRARY -- To Sept. 23: "Sacred." A alternative of Jewish, Christian and Muslim angelic books. Unfortunately somewhat cramped, the exhibition of 200 manuscripts and band altar abstracts how Hebrew beam drew from Islamic and Christian art for inspiration; how Biblical manuscripts, some dating to the 2nd century, accept been preserved; and how the Koran was calligraphed and aflame above the Islamic world, from Spain to South East Asia, from the eighth to the end of the 19th century. -- www.bl.uk
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART -- To Sept. 23: "Temptation in Eden: Lucas Cranach's 'Adam and Eve." The highlight of the exhibition is the "Adam and Eve," kept in the Courtauld's collection, arguably the best of some 50 depictions of the aforementioned affair by the German painter (1472-1553) and his studio. -- www.courtauld.ac.uk
THE ESTORICK COLLECTION OF MODERN ITALIAN ART -- To Sept. 9: "Lucio Fontana: At the Roots of Spatialism." Fontana (1899-1968), who had lived amid Europe and his built-in Argentina until then, alternate to Italy in 1947 and alien "Spazialismo," a new absorption that advocated bringing added ambit of space, time, movement and blush to the two-dimensional collapsed canvas. The exhibition brings calm some 40 works on canvas and paper, including some of his punctured and bargain works. -- www.estorickcollection.com
NATIONAL GALLERY -- To Sept. 16: "Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals." Following its ability from Spain in the 17th century, the Dutch Republic accomplished an era of aberrant wealth, the 'Golden Age.' Merchants and entrepreneurs became the new aggregation of the arts. Portraits were abnormally acceptable to accurate their anew begin aplomb and account for representation, and artists responded by developing new types of portraits to accommodated the demands of this new clientele. The affectation offers 60 works, all corrective amid 1600 and 1680 in the Netherlands, alignment from small, alone portraits meant for the clandestine home to the all-embracing accumulation portraits of associates of accommodating institutions and borough guards. -- www.nationalgallery.gov.uk
THE QUEEN'S GALLERY, BUCKINGHAM PALACE -- To Jan. 20: "The Art of Italy in the Aristocratic Collection." An aggregation of 175 Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings and works on cardboard from the aristocratic residences in Britain. Of Charles I, whose agitated administering was followed by the Commonwealth, Rubens wrote that he was "the greatest abecedarian of paintings amid the princes of the world." The baron congenital up a admired accumulating of works by such Italian masters as Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Dosso Dossi, Lorenzo Lotto and Caravaggio (one of the works was afresh re-attributed to him). Bronzes and books additionally amount in the show. -- www.royalcollection.org.uk
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS -- To Aug. 19: "Summer Exhibition 2007." The anniversary Summer Exhibition is an accessible acquiescence appearance (9,000 submissions this year) that presents a alternative of works in a array of disciplines - painting, printmaking, photography, carve and architectonics - by alien to absolute artists. There are creations to be enjoyed amid the works of Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Andreas Gursky and Julian Opie; the German sculptures alleged by Tony Cragg; the filigree of 50 baby canvases of copse by David Hockney; and in the two galleries adherent to photography and to the accord amid bogus ablaze and art, respectively. -- www.royalacademy.org.uk
-- To Sept. 30: "Impressionists by the Sea." With 60 paintings, the exhibition explores the origins and development of fashionable bank scenes from the 1860s to the '80s in the works of Boudin, Manet and Monet. It added abstracts how, in afterwards years, Impressionists, conspicuously Monet, chose to acrylic the furnishings of acclimate and ablaze on the sea rather than people. A few accepted bank scenes by Whistler and Jean-Charles Cazin highlight their differences with the actor artful innovations. The works will biking to Washington in October. -- www.royalacademy.org.uk
TATE BRITAIN -- To Aug. 27: "Prunella Clough." Whether in her abstruse or allegorical works, Clough has been application the automated and burghal landscapes, which she calls "urbscapes" as her inspiration. The baby exhibition of 30 works by the British artisan (1919-1999) certificate accurate capacity or periods in her artful career: the agreeable realist depictions of workers or automated interiors of the 1940's and '50s, in a chastened palette of greys and ochres, reflect the affectionate accord amid men and machines. They adverse with the added ablaze abstruse canvases of the '90s that can be interpreted as landscapes or still lifes. -- www.tate.org.uk/britain
-- To January 20: "David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape." Over the accomplished four years, the British artisan (b. 1937) has formed on renditions of the mural of East Yorkshire aboriginal in watercolor, again in oil. The bristles board works on display, anniversary about four meters long, were corrective in the aforementioned atom over the advance of a year. -- -- www.tate.org.uk
-- To Feb. 3: "Hockney on Turner Watercolours." An exhibition of 150 watercolors in which Turner (1775-1851) explores architectonics and landscapes, absolute or ideal. In addition, David Hockney has been asked to present his own alternative of Turner's blush studies, or "beginnings," and to animadversion on the artist's techniques. -- www.tate.org.uk
TATE MODERN -- To Aug. 27: "Global Cities." The show, captivated in the Turbine Hall of the museum, compares the changes in London with those in nine added cities worldwide, acclamation the capital issues that face such burghal centers as Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo: migration, agreeable integration, acceptable growth. It additionally offers affidavit on anew commissioned works by acclaimed architects and artists in these cities. -- www.tate.org.uk
-- To Sept. 23: "Hélio Oiticica: The Anatomy of Colour." The use of blush has been at the amount of the Brazilian artist's (1937-1980) abstruse compositions and ecology installations. Oiticica alone the account alike and adopted spatial form, including abeyant paintings, sculptural altar and accouter paintings (capes, tents and banners). About 150 works amount in the show. -- www.tate.org.uk
-- To March 2008: "Popular Painting From Kinshasa." Abreast African art is a curatorial trend. "Africa Remix," a absolute exhibition of African works, catholic throughout Europe and to Japan a brace of years ago. The Guggenheim Bilbao displayed the works of 25 African artists this winter. By contrast, this is a actual baby exhibition of eight paintings, from the Tate collection, by bristles Congolese painters, collectively accepted as the "School of Accepted Painting," who alive and assignment in Kinshasa. The works by Chéri Samba, Chéri Chérin, Bodo, Moke and Cheik Ledy (all built-in in the 1950s and '60s) reflect the artists' absorption in the political and agreeable situations of their bounded communities. -- www.tate.org
CANADA / OTTAWA
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA -- To Sept. 9: "Renoir Landscapes, 1865-1883." Ten years ago, the arcade presented a alternative of the French Impressionist's (1841-1919) portraits that drew crowds. This year, the admirers are arrive to agreement Renoir's eyes of the outdoors, be it in Paris, Algiers or Guernsey. The 60 paintings accommodate works corrective in the 1860s in Charles Gleyre's studio; works of the '70s aback Renoir's experimentations with blush and anatomy became added personal; and the works of the '80s, aggressive by his campaign to Algeria and Italy. The 60 paintings in the appearance will biking to Philadelphia. -- www.gallery.ca
TORONTO
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM -- To Aug. 12: "Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History." The exhibition inaugurates the new Daniel Libeskind-designed addition of the ROM. Conceived and curated by the Japanese columnist (b. 1948), the exhibition offers added than 50 artworks, including Asian blind scrolls, Japanese ritual objects, aged deposit specimens and Sugimoto's own photographs, all fatigued from his claimed collection. Like the artist, the eyewitness will adore the aggregate of age-old altar with abreast images, such as a Buddhist reliquary framing one of Sugimoto's accurate seascapes. -- www.rom.on.ca
-- To Sept. 3: "Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Absent Civilization." The appearance appearance about 120 artworks -- best of them in gold -- that were biconcave from an undisturbed Sicán tomb in the 1990s. The Sicán ability flourished forth the arctic bank of Peru amid the 9th and the 14th centuries, but is bottom accepted than the Inca acculturation which disqualified at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Ceremonial regalia, adornment and ornaments are allotment of the display. -- www.rom.on.ca
CHINA / BEIJING
BEIJING WORLD ART MUSEUM -- To end 2008: "The Abundant Civilizations." All-embracing accord amid European and American institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Building of Archaeology and the Turin Museum, amid others, has resulted in 300 artworks actuality beatific to Beijing. The exhibition, which is declared to accustom the Chinese accessible with apple art, abstracts the arch age-old civilizations from Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome and the Maya acculturation of Mexico.
CAPITAL MUSEUM -- Aug. 12 to Nov. 9: "Classical Greece at the Louvre: Masterpieces of the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C." A collective activity amid a French and a Chinese architectural firm, the Capital Building opened in Beijing about two years ago, one of the abounding museums to be congenital afore the 2008 Olympics. While the Louvre is refurbishing its Greek and Hellenistic rooms, it has loaned about 130 statues, vases, adobe figurines, and gold and argent items to the new museum. Documenting the adventure of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., the appearance expands to portray the way of activity in age-old Greece, absorption on worship, theaters, accessible meetings, and, opportunely, Olympic sports. The exhibits will biking to Singapore and Macao. -- www.capitalmuseum.org.cn
PALACE MUSEUM -- To Sept. 2: "The Hidden Empire." The exhibition - somewhat adapted aback its Brussels adaptation beforehand in the year - offers a chat amid Flemish works by Van Eyck, Brueghel, Rubens, Ensor and Spilliaert and 80 Chinese artworks dating aback to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the ancestry of the Republic. Media (canvases against cottony scrolls, for instance) and artful idioms can appropriately be compared.
COLOMBIA / BOGOTÁ
MUSEO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA -- To Aug. 31: "Sipán, el Último Tesoro de América." Added than 130 artworks in gold, silver, azure and ceramics certificate the composure of the Moche acculturation that bloomed in arctic Peru amid the 1st and 6th centuries. The altar were begin in the tomb of a adjudicator who became accepted as the Lord of Sipán. The burying armpit was apparent in 1987, a analysis that is said to accept the aforementioned archaeological acceptation as the accolade of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. -- www.museonacional.gov.co
DENMARK / HUMLEBAEK
LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOR MODERNE KUNST -- To Aug. 26: "Philip Guston." A admired affiliate of the Abstruse Expressionist accumulation of American painters in the 1940s and '50s, Guston (1913-1980) adapted his artful argot at the end of the 60s, in favor of a figurative, comic-strip appearance of painting, heralding the acknowledgment of apologue in American art. The exhibition focuses on Guston's drawings, a average which Guston declared as "pointing out, suggesting and digging out." -- www.louisiana.dk
FRANCE / BORDEAUX
MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS -- To Sept. 3: "André Lhote: Les Langages de la Modernité." A built-in of Bordeaux, the French painter and analyzer (1885-1962) belonged to the bearing of artists who, aboriginal in the 20th century, accepted change by way of Cubism. Lhote's Cubist address characterizes his anecdotal works. The exhibition assembles paintings and works on paper, complemented by the manuscripts, photographs and added documents, that assume to accept become an advisory charge in displays of the works of a distinct artist. -- www.bordeaux.fr
LILLE
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS -- To Aug. 15: "Philippe de Champaigne: Politique et Spiritualité." An aggregation of about 85 works on accommodation from the Louvre, the Met, the Civic Gallery, London, as able-bodied as churches and clandestine collections. One of the abundant painters of the 17th century, Champaigne (1602-1674) larboard Brussels to achieve in Paris, area he became painter to Marie de' Medici. His works took on a darker ancillary as he came beneath the access of the ascetic Jansenists. The works, chronologically installed, accommodate religious scenes and portraits.
MARSEILLE
MUSEE CANTINI -- To Sept. 2: "Dessins de Pierre Bonnard: Une Accumulating Privée." The exhibition offers a lesser-known ancillary of Bonnard's talent. While the painter's intimist and light-filled oils are able-bodied known, his clear assignment has not been accustomed the aforementioned exposure. The added than 160 works on paper, in assorted techniques (pastel, ink, pencil, gouache), are on accommodation from a clandestine collection, and awning the aforementioned capacity Bonnard advantaged in his paintings: Paris, circadian scenes, window views, still lifes, nudes and portraits. They are complemented by a few paintings.
NICE
MUSEE NATIONAL MARC CHAGALL -- To Oct. 29: "Marc Chagall, Monstres, Chimères et Abstracts Hybrides." About 100 works characterized by bodies who are bisected men, bisected beasts or bisected men, bisected objects. While these admixture abstracts may accept been aggressive by Russian medieval carve or icons, Chagall is in the attitude of those painters who depicted them: Grunewald's Issenheim retable, Hieronymus Bosch and J.H. Füssli. Added assay of the works will acquaint the eyewitness to a apple of religiosity, fantasy and humor. -- www.rmn.fr
PARIS
CENTRE POMPIDOU -- To Sept. 17: "Annette Messager: Les Messagers." With this show, Messager (b. 1943) reiterates her acceptance that forms and materials, such as blimp animals, fabrics, photographs and drawings, are able agency of announcement that affect our feelings. The non-chronological exhibition covers the intimist creations of the 1970s, such as "The Boarders," or array of taxidermied sparrows in small, knitted sweaters. Added contempo installations accommodate "Gonflés/Dégonflés," a boscage of organs, bark and fluids that "breathes" in alternate movements, and the beachcomber of red bolt that flows, floats and collapses (it won the artisan a Golden Lion accolade at the 2005 Venice Biennale). The works will biking to Tokyo and Seoul. -- www.centrepompidou.fr
-- To Oct. 8: "Julio González." The Spanish sculptor (1876-1942) pioneered metal carve in the 1930s but remained absolute from any artful trends. He accomplished Picasso the address and had accessible access on such postwar metal sculptors as David Smith, Eduardo Chillida and Anthony Caro. The centre pays account to González's assignment by accumulating his aboriginal allegorical paintings, his abstruse metal sculptures of the 1930s and his bean heads. -- www.centrepompidou.fr
CITÉ DE L'ARCHITECTURE ET DU PATRIMOINE -- Inaugurated in March, the new museum, amid in the Palais de Chaillot, offers acting exhibitions, symposiums and films absorption on architecture, burghal face-lifting and French architectural heritage. The exhibition galleries opened on March 21, with accent on abreast architecture, as accurate by three acting displays, including an exhibition about Christian de Portzamparc's works and projects. The museum, that will abode the abiding collections, will accessible in September: it will be adherent to French architectonics aback the 12th century. -- www.citechaillot.fr
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE -- To Oct. 21: "Furûsiyya: L'Art des Chevaliers en Pays d'Islam." The Lichtenstein-based Furûsiyya Art Foundation (from the Arabic chat al-furusiyya, connoting horsemanship, courage and the alternate assurance of man and horse) acclimated to specialize in the accumulating of artworks apropos to horsemanship in Islamic countries afore the 16th century. It has now broadcast its acquisitions to accommodate items from the two consecutive centuries. The abreast and advisory affectation appearance the altar that were allotment of the knights' circadian lives: weapons, armors and harnessing equipment. -- www.imarabe.org
MUSÉE JACQUEMART-ANDRÉ -- To Aug. 26: "Masques de Chine, Rites Magiques de Nuo." About 100 Chinese masks from the 17th to the 19th centuries accessible the aperture to the abstruse apple of Chinese angelic rituals. Nuo, an exorcising ritual danced with masks in China for millennia, progressively gave way to afflicted and operatic performances that retained the aforementioned cosmological concepts. Abounding Nuo masks were destroyed as band altar during the Cultural Revolution: Those that were cautiously hidden are now clearly adequate as examples of the Chinese civic heritage. -- www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com
MUSÉE MAILLOL -- To Oct. 15: "Weegee, 1899-1968." Arthur Felligg, aka Weegee, came to acclaim in the 1930s with, amid others, agitated pictures of asleep abyss lying in pools of blood, proving -- if all-important -- the beheld appulse of killings, fires and accidents. The apotheosis of the ambulance chaser, Weegee brought home to the readers of the circadian columnist a altered America: a nation area the poor and abject were far too many. About 200 photographs are on display. -- www.museemaillol.com
MUSÉE D'ORSAY -- To Sept. 16: "De Cézanne à Picasso: Chefs d'Oeuvre de la Galerie Vollard." An affecting Parisian art dealer, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) was the alive force that alien Avant-garde Art to collectors and to the public: He was the aboriginal to affectation Cézanne in 1895. He encouraged Rouault and Derain and gave his aboriginal abandoned appearance to Matisse in 1904. He took absorption in press and block and arise illustrated "artists' books." The 190 paintings and prints on appearance -- abundantly alive by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Derain, Picasso, the Nabis and the Fauves -- were all shown, bought or awash by Vollard and adjure to his above aloof aptitude and acceptable taste.-- www.musee-orsay.fr
MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY -- To Sept. 16: Two baby academic exhibitions. "Ideqqi: Art de Femmes Berbères." In the rural societies of North Africa, women accept commonly been potters, weavers and embroiderers. But migrations to burghal centers and the abridgement of bartering competitiveness of handcrafts are abrasive these artful traditions. The affectation offers Ideqqi, or ceramics in the Berber language, from Algeria and explores its accord with age-old Mediterranean art. To Sept. 16: "Objets Blessés: La Réparation en Afrique." While the apology of altar is accepted in Africa, collectors accept usually larboard abreast artworks that showed the marks of repair. The exhibition brings calm about 150 "repaired" objects, accumulated over the accomplished two centuries. The aliment are visible, become allotment of the article and adjure to its accent in the eyes of an alone or a community. -- www.quaibranly.fr
PINACOTHÈQUE DE PARIS -- To Sept. 23: "Roy Lichtenstein: Evolution." This new museum, in axial Paris, is inaugurating its amplitude with an exhibition adherent to the change of the artful activity of the American Pop artisan (1923-1997). The works acknowledge the array in Lichtenstein's sources of inspiration, from cartoons to well-kwnown works by Matisse or Picasso, and his versatility in the use of altered media.-- www.pinacotheque.com
GERMANY / BERLIN
ALTE NATIONALGALERIE -- To Oct. 7: "Frankreich in der Alten Nationalgalerie: Französische Kunst und Deutscher Impressionismus in der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie." Emulating the exhibition of French masterpieces from the Met currently at the Neue Nationalgalerie (to Oct. 7), the building presents its own accumulating of French paintings and works on paper, centered about the Impressionists (it was one of the aboriginal museums to accommodate Impressionists in its collection). A section, adherent to the Berlin Secession alive about 1900, traces the access of the French archetypal on such German artists as Max Liebermann. -- www.smb.spk-berlin.de
MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU -- To Oct. 1: "Im Zeichen des Goldenen Greifen: Königsgräber der Skythen." The appellation of the exhibition is adopted from Herodotus's "Histories," that acquaint of a "land of the gold-guarding griffins" in southern Siberia. The appearance spotlights the history and ability of the Scythians, and added drifting peoples accompanying to them, who bedeviled the Eurasian steppes from the 8th to the 3rd aeon B.C. The altar on affectation arise from contempo archaeological discoveries abutting to the bound amid Russia and Mongolia. Clothing, horse accessories and paraphernalia, and gold altar from the baronial tombs allegorize the artful bequest of these adrift horsemen. -- www.gropiusbau.de
BONN
KUNST- UND AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND -- To Aug. 26: "Russlands Seele: Ikonen, Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Tretjakow-Galerie, Moskau." Aback Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow merchant, bought his aboriginal painting of a abreast Russian artisan in 1856, the eponymous Moscow account arcade was born. The Bonn building is announcement 170 icons, paintings and assets from its all-inclusive accumulating of Russian art. Of agenda are the works of the realist painters of the added bisected of the 19th aeon who depicted the "true Russia." The exhibition concludes with the works of the Symbolist Mikhail Vrubel. -- www.kah-bonn.de
-- To Jan. 27: "Ägyptens Versunkene Schätze." The hundreds of artifacts -- awe-inspiring statues, adornment and band items -- that were extracted from the seabed off the bank of Alexandria, Egypt, by the French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, accept already captivated abounding in Berlin and Paris. They blueprint 1,500 years of Egyptian history from the Pharaohs, to Alexander the Abundant and to the Roman era. The exhibition additionally offers insights into the apple of underwater archaeology. -- www.kah-bonn.de
DÜSSELDORF
KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN -- TO JAN. 6: "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Retrospektiv." Over the accomplished 30 years, Sugimoto (b. 1948, lives in the United States) has created a stylistically annoying accurate bulk that fuses eastern traditions with western modernism. In contempo years, Sugimoto has gone above the boundaries of black-and-white photography and acclimated the surrounding amplitude in sculptural and architectural terms. The exhibition begins with Sugimoto's large-size "Seascapes" and continues with assorted alternation of works, "Architecture," "Portraits" and "Conceptual Forms," amid others. (Sugimoto's works can additionally be apparent in Toronto through Aug. 12 and in San Francisco through Sept. 13.) -- www.kunstsammlung.de
FRANKFURT
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE -- To Sept. 16: "A.R. Penck Retrospektiv." The analysis presents added than 100 of Penck's (b. 1939) compositions of absent abstracts and artful signs, acutely afflicted by his absorption in aged painting. Penck, who lived in East Germany until he confused to the west in 1980, has produced an bulk which takes its roots in the action amid political systems. The works will biking to Paris. -- www.schirn.de
MUNICH
HAUS DER KUNST -- To Aug. 19: "Georg Petel: Sculptor during the Thirty Years' War." In animosity of political turbulences during the aboriginal Baroque era (17th century), abounding artists pursued their work. Amid them, Petel (1601-1634) who larboard Germany at the alpha of the war, went to Antwerp, Paris and Rome and assuredly acclimatized in Augsburg. Having started as an ivory carver, he began to assignment with bronze. Commissions flowed for the artist, until his abortive afterlife in 1634. Although he achromatic into obscurity in the 19th century, Petel's assignment has emerged in the added allotment of the 20th aeon as a Baroque sculptor. The 25 works on display, in wood, ivory and bronze, represent about bisected of the artist's accepted oeuvre. -- www.hausderkunst.de
NEUE PINAKOTHEK -- To Sept. 2: "Blicke auf Europa: Europa und die Deutsche Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts." The exhibition has catholic from Brussels area it was on appearance beforehand this year. It assembles 150 works by 19th-century German Classicist, Adventurous or Realist painters who bidding their animosity about the European countries they visited or imagined, borrowing their capacity from European literature, history and humanities. While some are able-bodied accepted -- Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph Menzel and Max Liebermann -- others will be a affable discovery.-- www.pinakothek.de/neue-pinakothek
PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE -- To Aug. 19: "William Eggleston: Portfolios." Brought to acclaim by the aboriginal exhibition of his blush photography at MoMA, New York, in the aboriginal '70s, the American columnist (b. 1939) has accurate his accepted journeys in the accomplished four decades with bags of blush photos that almanac the adorableness or anamorphosis of our planet. Four of his portfolios are on display: "14 Pictures, 1974" "Troubled Waters, 1980" "Southern suite, 1981" and "Graceland, 1984," about Presley's following glorification. -- www.pinakothek.de/
GREECE / ATHENS
MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART -- To Aug. 18: "André Kertész: Mirror of a Life." A attendant of the works of the Hungarian columnist (1894-1985). Kertész's acclaim rests on his portraits and "Distortions," the alternation created in 1933, which arise in the show, in archival order, with his aboriginal photos of Hungary, this French photos amid the two Apple Wars, the American and All-embracing photos and the Blush period.-- www.cycladic-m.gr
-- To Sept. 29: "Her(his)tory." Concentrating on capacity fatigued from claimed stories, the appearance offers a alternative of video works by such all-embracing artists as Bruce Nauman, Garry Hill, Doug Aitken, Tony Ousler, amid others. The works can be anapestic or humoristic. -- www.cycladic-m.gr
HONG KONG
FLAGSTAFF HOUSE MUSEUM OF TEA WARE -- To Feb. 18: "2007 Tea Ware by Hong Kong Potters." If your "tea is about accessible and the sun has larboard the sky...," go and adore 90 artful creations by abreast potters who answered a alarm to "promote bowl art and tea-drinking culture." -- www.lcsd.gov.hk
HONG KONG HERITAGE MUSEUM -- To Sept. 9: "Splendour and Mystery of Age-old Shu: Cultural Charcoal From Sanxingdui and Jinsha." In 1986, the analysis of two sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui, Sichuan Province arise a accession of jade, gold, brownish and bean artifacts. Agnate charcoal and ivory items were unearthed in 2001, at addition burying armpit at Jinsha, 50 kilometers away: The Shu Kingdom was actualization some of its 3,000-year old mysteries. On affectation are brownish alive and masks, gold ornaments, afflict items and ceramics biconcave at the two sites. -- http://hk.heritage.museum
HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART -- To end 2008: "Gems of Chinese Ceramics from the Hong Kong Building of Art." Developing from raw ceramics to cellophane porcelain, ceramics accept been an constant art anatomy in China. The artworks displayed awning from the Neolithic aeon (3rd millennium B.C.) to the Qing Absolutism (1644-1911) absorption a array of motifs, shapes and ceramics techniques. -- http://hk.art.museum
-- To Sept. 24: "The Anapestic Spirit: The Art of Henry Wo Yue-kee." The Lingnan School aggregate Chinese painters who advised in Japan in the aboriginal 20th aeon and advocated the admixture of Eastern and Western artful techniques. If the School did not survive in Mao's China, it did in Hong Kong, acknowledgment to the painter Chao Shao-an. Henry Wo (b. 1927), one of his acceptance and a affiliate of the School, now lives in the United States. He uses ink and blush on cardboard to acrylic flowers, animals and birds, landscapes and cityscapes permeated with a adapted and anapestic mood. About 40 works are on display, including Wo's acclaimed depictions of the lotus in altered seasons. -- http://hk.heritage.museum
HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY -- To Sept. 24: "Major Archaeological Discoveries of China in Contempo Years." On accommodation from 10 museums in acreage China, a alternative of 120 sets of cultural charcoal biconcave from assorted archaeological sites. The four sections -- Origins of Chinese Civilization, Brightness of the Imperial Tombs, Delightful Charm of the Tang Absolutism and Underwater Treasures -- accommodate brownish objects, ceramics artworks, lacquerwares, afflict ornaments and attenuate gold and argent items, spanning from the Neolithic aeon to the Qing Dynasty. -- http://hk.history.museum
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG -- To Sept. 2: "Collective Appearance From Cultural Revolution to Abreast Art." Amid the capacity advantaged by abreast Chinese artists are the hysteria, acquiescence and assorted antagonisms (family/society, private/public lives, individual/collective) that prevailed during the Mao era. These themes, issued from the Cultural Revolution, are both a bequest and a burden, as accepted by the works on display: awe-inspiring photography (Chi Peng, Miao Xiaochun); paintings and installations (Liu Dahong, Wu Yiming); video and blur (Yang Zhenzhong and Yang Fudong, featured at the Venice Biennale this year). -- www.hku.hk/hkumag
HUNGARY / BUDAPEST
SZEPMUVESZETI MUZEUM -- To Sept. 9: "And the Incas Arrived: Treasures from Peru afore the Spanish Conquerors." About 200 artworks - ceramics, textiles, and gold and argent adornment - certificate the development of alive art forms in the alternating pre-Columbian civilizations, from the Chavín, the aboriginal above Andean acculturation (900-200 B.C.), to the Moche and to the Inca, the able centralized authority that concluded with the Spanish acquisition in 1532. -- www.szepmuveszeti.hu
IRELAND / DUBLIN
IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART -- To Sept. 9: "William Hogarth Prints from the Madden Arnholz Collection." The Madden Arnholz Accumulating of prints assembles about 2,000 works dating from 1500 to the backward 19th century. The exhibition focuses on the works of Hogarth (1697-1764), acclaimed for his ablaze abusive prints cartoon on the arresting capacity of his time. The Accumulating includes a cardinal of complete sets of his best accepted series, including Marriage-à-la-Mode, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. -- www.modernart.ie
ISRAEL / TEL AVIV
TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART -- To Oct. 20: "Mentalscapes: A Adventure Through Italian Abreast Art." Metaphysical painting of the aboriginal 20th century, best represented by Giorgio de Chirico, serves as the exhibition's focus. The three sections -- Literary Metaphysics, Analytical Metaphysics and Tragic-Ironic Metaphysics -- affection works, from the 1960s to the present, by Francesco Clemente, Lucio Fontana, Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alighiero Boetti, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Mimmo Paladino, Maurizio Cattelan and Vanessa Beecroft, to name a few.-- www.tamuseum.com
ITALY / ROME
COLOSSEO -- To Sept. 16: "Eros: Il più Potente Degli Dei." The exhibition brings together, beneath the arches of the Colosseum, sculptures of the accustomed amount of the Greek god of love. It abstracts the change of the representation from the boyish absurd by the Greeks afore the Christian era to the baby-faced putti of the Renaissance. They adjure to the alternative with which the Greeks lived their female and, often, their homosexuality. A alternative of amative representations on vases is additionally in the show.
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE -- To Sept. 2: "Santiago Calatrava: Dalle Forme all'Architettura." The exhibition is adherent to the sculptural and architectural works of the Spanish artisan (b. 1951) and the way they are related, with carve actuality at the affection of Calatrava's architectural artful process. On appearance are a few sculptures, but mostly sketches and drawings. -- www.scuderiequirinale.it
VENICE
MUSEO CORRER -- To Sept. 30: "Sargent a Venezia." Afterwards authoritative Turner and Venice the accountable of a focused exhibition, the building reiterates with John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and the Serenissima. The catholic artist's aboriginal appointment to Venice took abode in 1879, and he alternate abounding times until 1913, creating about 150 paintings and watercolors of palazzos, churches, canals, piazzas, but additionally capturing Venetians as they formed or entertained themselves in accessible places. The 60 angle in the affectation are complemented by 10 abreast vedute. -- www.museiciviciveneziani.it
PALAZZO DUCALE -- To Nov. 25: "Venezia e l'Islam, 828-1797." The exhibition -- apparent in Paris aftermost winter and in New York afresh -- abstracts the cultural exchanges amid Venice and her Islamic neighbors, the Mamluks in Egypt, the Ottomans in Turkey and the Safavids in Iran. It brings calm about 200 paintings, drawings, glass, textiles, carpets, ceramics, paintings and aflame manuscripts created amid 828, aback the anatomy of St. Mark was brought aback from Alexandria, and 1797, aback the Serenissima fell to Napoleonic troops. However, Venetian exchanges with the Islamic apple were at their aiguille from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Of agenda are the orientalizing depictions Gentile Bellini brought aback from his adept mission to the cloister of Sultan Mehmet II amid 1479 and 1481. -- www.museiciviciveneziani.it
PALAZZO GRASSI -- To Nov. 11: "Sequence 1: Pittura e Scultura nella Collezione François Pinault." Programmed to run at the aforementioned time as the Biennale, this is the aboriginal in a alternation of exhibitions of artworks alleged from the French businessman's collection. The 16 artists who accept been alleged use a advanced ambit of techniques, "expanding," according to the babysitter "the acceptable practices of painting and carve with new twists and inventions." Martial Raysse and Marlene Dumas activity acceptable corrective works. Kristin Baker and Roberto Cuoghi actualize artful works that alternate the bound amid absorption and figuration; and Urs Fisher uses three-dimensional collages and assemblages. David Hammons combines prints of his anatomy with corrective elements; Robert Gober crafts sculptures to attending as absolute as accessible and Anselm Reyle offers sculptures, using, he says, all the clichés of Abstraction. -- www.palazzograssi.it/sequence1
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION -- To Sept. 2: "All in the Present Charge be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys." Although afar by bearing and geography, Barney (American, b. 1967) and Beuys (German, 1921-86) allotment agnate artful and conceptual concerns. The exhibition, bond works on paper, vitrines and sculptures, focuses on their allegorical use of materials, their absorption in metamorphosis, their application of anecdotal structures, and the accord amid activity and affidavit in their work. About 35 works are on display. -- www.guggenheim-venice.it
JAPAN / KYOTO
KYOTO MUNICIPAL MUSEUM -- To Sept. 24: "Masterpieces From the Philadelphia Building of Art: Impressionism and Avant-garde Art." On accommodation from the accumulating of the Philadelphia Building of Art, one of America's capital art institutions, are 62 paintings and sculptures by Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and added artists alive in the 19th and 20th centuries, forth with 15 works by Georgia O'Keefe, Andrew Wyeth and others. -- www.phila2007.jp
NAGOYA
NAGOYA/BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS -- To Aug. 19: "Children in American Art." Abstracts the alteration cachet of accouchement in association as depicted in American paintings from the colonial aeon to the 20th century. Aboriginal accouchement affectation as miniature adults, again as little boys and girls announcement their abundance and agreeable ability (in Copley's works in the 18th c.), to assuredly access beastly and acute expressions aback corrective by Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent at the end of the 19th century. -- www.nagoya-boston.or.jp
OSAKA
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART -- To Sept 17: "The Greatest Treasures of Russian Tsars: Wonders of the Kremlin, a Apple Ancestry Site." Added than 200 artworks from the Armoury Building in the Kremlin are visiting Japan for the aboriginal time. Amid them are jewelry, crafts and icons illustrating the brightness of Moscow from the 12th to the 20th century. -- www.nmao.go.jp
TOKYO
BUNKAMURA MUSEUM -- To Aug. 26: "Les Noirs de Redon: The Aberrant Accompany you See Aback you Abutting Your Eyes." The exhibition focuses on "Mes Noirs," the black-and-white prints that Odilon Redon (1840-1916), a backer of French Symbolist art, created in the 1870s and 1880s. They characterize a awful claimed apple characterized by an dizzying acuteness and a awful developed faculty of spirituality. The alternative is complemented by a few oils and pastels. -- www.bunkamura.co.jp
MORI ART MUSEUM -- To Sept. 24: "Le Corbusier: Art and Architecture, A Activity of Creativity." If Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is able-bodied accepted for his architectural achievements, his adherence to painting and carve generally charcoal ignored. The exhibition abstracts the coaction amid both aspects of his adroitness with paintings, assets and carve as able-bodied as architectural models and drawings. Visitors may airing central all-encompassing reproductions of his painting collapsed and of some his architectural projects. Amplitude is additionally adherent to his abstracted account on burghal planning, and to his affairs for the burghal of Chandigarh in India. -- www.mori.art.museum
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART -- To Aug. 26: "Parma: Italian Arts From Addition Capital City." The appearance focuses on the artful assembly in Parma, Italy, in the 16th and 17th centuries. It offers works by bounded artists who came to assignment in Parma (Cima da Conegliano); paintings by the beastly Correggio and the Mannerist Parmigianino; portraits of the Farneses by the Italian and bearding Flemish artists who formed beneath their advocacy ; and Mannerist and Baroque paintings of the added bisected of the 16th century. A final area is adherent to prints and drawings. -- www.nmwa.go.jp
TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM -- To Sept. 9: " Zen Treasures from the Kyoto Gozan Temples." Gozan refers to the accumulation of highest-ranked Zen temples in Japan, modeled afterwards a Chinese arrangement of monasteries. Formalized in the 14th century, they became a arrangement through the country, affable monks from China and introducing Chinese ability central and alfresco the temples. The exhibition presents added than 200 artworks from the Kyoto temples, spanning from the Kamakura to the Muromachi aeon (13th to 16th centuries), including statues, paintings and calligraphy. The exhibition will biking to the Kyushu Civic Museum, Fukuoka, in January. -- www.tnm.jp
MACAO
MUSEU DE ARTE DE MACAU -- To Aug. 12: "Cerâmics de Shiwan." Shiwan bowl sculptures created in the aftermost aeon of the Qing Absolutism generally arise as high-reliefs on the ridges of roofs of Chinese barrio and temples, their motifs aggressive by myths, legends and accepted operas of the time. The sculptures can additionally booty the appearance of self-standing allegorical characters or animals. The exhibition is organized in three sections: Shiwan ceramics abstracts of animals and plants; appearance sculptures of the 1920s that were acquired at the time by a clandestine collector; and ridges and abstracts from ridges. -- www.artmuseum.gov.mo
-- To Oct. 7: "Edictus Ridiculum: As Mais Recentes Criações de Konstantin Bessmertny." The Russian artisan (b. 1964), who larboard Russia in 1993, draws afflatus for his adroit paintings from his Russian experience, and from Macao area he now lives. The people, who are theatrically accumulated in the scenes of circadian life, appearance a advanced array of affections and can be apparent as agreeable or ridiculous. Not absolutely annoyed with the "flat world" of canvases, Bessmertny additionally paints on ceramics, agreeable instruments or begin objects. The artist's works are allotment of the Macao affectation at this year's Venice Biennale. -- www.artmuseum.gov.mo
MALAYSIA / KUALA LUMPUR
ISLAMIC ARTS MUSEUM MALAYSIA -- To Aug. 30: "Neither East nor West: The Lafayette Accumulating -- Asia in the Age of Monochrome." The appellation of the appearance is adopted from Kipling's Ballad of East and West: ". . . but there is neither East nor West, Bound nor Breed/When two able men angle face to face,/tho' they arise from the ends of the earth." The Lafayette photo studio, created in Dublin in 1880, had broadcast to London and added cities by 1897. On accommodation from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the 45 photographs on affectation appearance Asian and European sitters, who had been complex in the barter of cultures amid Asia and Europe. -- www.iamm.org.my
MEXICO / MEXICO CITY
MUSEO DEL PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES -- To Aug. 19: "Frida Kahlo, 1907-2007: Homenaje Nacional." The exhibition celebrates the Mexican artisan (1907-54) whose self-portraits as a burst anatomy accept won her a pain-filled notoriety. The appearance brings calm about one third of the painter's production: the board works and watercolors accord with Kahlo's admired capacity -- self-portraits, portraits, still lifes and allegories; the assets acknowledge Kahlo's aboriginal sketches for her acclaimed pictures, and the added manuscripts and photographs acquaint the eyewitness to the agitated and artful sociopolitical ambience in which Kahlo and her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, lived. -- www.museobellasartes.artte.com
MUSEO TAMAYO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO -- To Sept. 9: "Tiempos Intensos, Tiempos Difíciles: Pintura en Nueva York, 1967-1975." In the backward 1960s and '70s, New York admiring artists who, reacting to the accepted afterlife of painting, explored new directions: application unstretched canvases, application floors, ceilings, altar and alike their own bodies as canvases. Added than 30 artists amount in the show: Richard Tuttle and Elizabeth Murray are able-bodied accustomed today, but Roy Colmer, Ron Gorchov and others accept collapsed into oblivion. The appearance pays account to their adroitness and inventiveness. -- www.museotamayo.org
THE NETHERLANDS / AMSTERDAM
HERMITAGE AMSTERDAM -- To Sept. 15: "Persia: 30 Centuries of Art & Culture." On accommodation from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, a alternative of artworks that certificate Persian history from the Achaemenids to the Qajars, the absolutism that concluded in 1925 aback Rezah Shah bedeviled ascendancy of Iran. About 300 objects, including a bas-relief from Persepolis, Sasanian silver, Islamic ceramics and calligraphy, and Persian miniatures are in the display. -- www.hermitage.nl
VAN GOGH MUSEUM -- To Aug. 19: "Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947." Afterwards his paintings were branded as "degenerate art" by the Nazis in 1937, Beckmann (1884-1950) confused to Amsterdam area he lived and formed for 10 years, afore clearing in the United States. The aeon was actual productive: The German artisan created bristles of his nine triptychs, as able-bodied as the "Day and Dream" clear alternation in which he empiric every day activity in the Dutch city. The works, including the Carnival, Acrobats, The Actors and Perseus triptychs, will biking to Munich in September. -- www.vangoghmuseum.com
ROTTERDAM
MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN -- To Aug. 12: "Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Wayward Thinker." The all-embracing installations on appearance are a ablaze admixture of paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and wall-mounted texts. Hancock's (b. 1974) artful argot borrows from video games, banana strips and toys, acceptance him to actualize fabulous creatures that action the action amid acceptable and evil, possibly apropos to Biblical belief the African-American painter heard as a adolescent boy. -- www.boijmans.nl
PORTUGAL / LISBON
MUSEU COLECÇÃO BERARDO DE ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORÂNEA --The Portuguese magnate, Jose Berardo, has accustomed from the Portuguese administering the appropriate to use amplitude aural Lisbon's Belem Cultural Center to abode his accumulating of about 850 works of avant-garde and abreast art. About 250 paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations by the brand of Bacon, Warhol and Picasso will be on appearance at all times. -- www.museoberardo.com
RUSSIA / ST PETERSBURG
THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM -- To Sept. 23: "Masterpieces of Chinese Art From the Shanghai Museum." Aback its foundation in 1952, the Shanghai Museum's accumulating has broadcast to accommodate added than a actor items dating to the Neolithic era. The exhibition appearance about 100 works from assorted dynasties and periods: brownish vessels, Tang and Sung ceramics, Jingdezhen porcelain, jades and Ming and Qing absolutism vases. -- www.hermitagemuseum.org
SINGAPORE
ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM -- To Sept. 23: "Beauty in Asia: 200 BCE to Today." An aggressive activity that assembles 300 altar adulatory "all that is beautiful, above Asian cultures, time and space." The exhibition juxtaposes Chinese and Indian paintings, sculptures and miniatures. It additionally abstracts what bodies did or still do with their bodies in their adventure for beauty, from foot-binding in China, continued necks in Thailand and abreast tattoos. It ends on an analysis of airy beauty, with poems, manuscripts, Mandala paintings, and some aberrant images from Asian belief that represent acceptable rather than evil. -- www.acm.org.sg
-- To Nov. 7: "Chinese Snuff Bottles." Added than 350 snuff bottles in jade, porcelain, bottle and ivory, that belonged to the Emperor, aristocrats and advisers of the Qing dynasty, on accommodation from a clandestine collection. Snuff (powdered tobacco alloyed with ambrosial substances), initially the advantage of the rulers, would anon become fashionable with merchants and the blow of the country. -- www.acm.org.sg
SOUTH KOREA / GIMHAE-SI
CLAYARCH GIMHAE MUSEUM -- To Sept. 30: "Spirit of Africa." Some of the best arresting architectonics in Africa is fabricated of clay: adobe houses and mosques can be begin in every sub-Saharan village. The building has reconstructed an adobe abode on its bounds and accompanies it with photographs of the "mud mosques" of Djenné, Mali by the Belgian columnist Sebastian Schutyser. With the addition of new architectonics materials, these mud barrio are in crisis of dematerialization and the Unesco has placed some of them on its Apple Ancestry list. -- www.clayarch.org
SEOUL
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DEOKSUGUNG -- To Sept. 30: "Great Habsburg Collectors: Masterpieces From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna." One of the capital cardinal dynasties in Europe from the 15th aeon to the end of Apple War II, the Habsburgs were additionally agog aggregation and adroit art collectors. Aback the end of the 19th century, their acquisitions accept been housed in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum: They awning the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods in Europe, and accommodate works by Velázquez, Rubens, Titian and Cranach, amid others. The alternative of 64 paintings will biking to Taipei in October.-- www.moca.go.kr
RODIN GALLERY -- To Aug. 19: "Rebecca Horn." A able artisan from Germany, Horn (b. 1944) straddles assorted artful genres: achievement (with her own anatomy as the subject), film, installations, active sculptures and photography. This aboriginal attendant appearance 20 accession and accurate works which, in all their strangeness, back a seductive, adventurous feeling. Additionally included are three films that Horn created with a absolute aggregation and cast: they explore, aural a bedfast space, beastly behaviors and rituals. Admirers are able to adverse their own sensibilities with the artist's affectation of her own. -- www.rodin.co.kr
SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART -- To Sept. 26: "Monet: From Instant to Eternity." Absorption on the alternation of the "Water Lilies," corrective by the French Actor (1840-1926) in his Giverny house, the appearance abstracts how the aforementioned burden could be afflicted by alteration acclimate and light, and how Claude Monet's argot evolved, partly due to his crumbling eyesight, against a added abstruse arrangement of the scene. Portraits of his family, angle of the Seine and a few European scenes annular up the show.-- www.monet.kr
SOMA MUSEUM OF ART -- To Sept. 30: "Les NouveauX Pop." The works of the breezy accumulation of all-embracing artists -- all built-in in the 1950s aback Pop art was arising on the American arena -- borrow from Pop art stylistically (solid colors, use of materials) and conceptually through humoristic and acrid references to comics, manga, announcement and accepted customer association icons. Xiao Fan, Cracking Art (a accumulation of European artists), Sylvie Fajfrowska and MariaManuela are amid the 10 artists in the show.
SPAIN / BARCELONA
CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA -- To Aug. 26: "William Hogarth." The aggressive exhibition -- already apparent in London and Paris -- appearance 200 paintings, drawings, sketches and engraved works. The English painter's (1697-1764) works account and chaff activity in British society, and highlight such capacity as sexuality, crime, alms and bribery in the city. A few works by abreast artists, such as Yinca Shonibare, David Hockney and Paula Rego, who may accept begin afflatus in Hogarth's work, accompaniment the display. -- www.fundacio.lacaixa.es
BILBAO
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO -- To Sept. 3: "Anselm Kiefer" The abreast exhibition showcases a alternative of works from the artist's backing and from clandestine and accessible collections. For these all-embracing works, that amalgamate painting with collage and sculpture, the artisan (b. 1945) uses a apparent monochromatic palette. Through his work, Kiefer reflects on the arrangement of history, on religion, on the role of man in the cosmos, on literature. The works are displayed thematically, generally abiding in a chat with architectonics (either the museum's architecture, or Kiefer's own installations). The appearance appearance friezes of paintings, his able-bodied accepted advance books -- www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
MADRID
BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL -- To Aug. 26: "Ecuador: Tradición y Modernidad." About 180 ceramics, sculptures, paintings and photographs certificate the artful conception in Ecuador during four alternating periods: pre-Hispanic, colonial, and the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibits ambit from pre-Columbian terra cottas to the affecting paintings of Oswaldo Guayasamin (1919-99). Admittedly, the Library hopes to draw the absorption of the Ecuadorian immigrant population, one of the better in Spain. -- www.bne.es
MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO -- To Oct. 7: "Patinir. " Dürer alleged him the "good painter of landscapes." Joachim Patinir (c. 1480-1524) was a advertiser of mural painting as an free genre. The Prado has been able to aggregate 22 works from the 29 attributed to the Flemish painter (only bristles buck his signature) and has abutting them with 27 board works and assets by predecessors (Bosch, Roger Campin, additionally accepted as the Master of Flémalle, and Memling) and aeon (Massys, van Cleve and van Amstel). The religious abstracts in Patinir's paintings, although not consistently small, assume like bald capacity in the intricate landscapes in which they evolve. -- www.museoprado.es
MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA -- To Sept. 16: "Van Gogh: Los Últimos Paisajes." The exhibition abstracts the paintings created during the abrupt aeon Van Gogh backward at Auvers-sur-Oise abreast Paris: from May 20, 1890, afterwards he larboard the brainy cover at St. Rémy de Provence, until July 27, aback he died afterwards cutting himself in a adjacent field. During these 70 days, the painter (1853-90) was awful prolific: about 70 paintings and 30 drawings. The anterior allotment of the exhibition is adherent to Cézanne and Pissarro, who preceded him in Auvers. -- www.museothyssen.org
-- To Sept. 16: "Richard Estes." Application photography as his antecedent of beheld information, the American painter (b. 1932) has been absorption on representations of adroit or burghal scenes, with New York a alternating motif. While added photorealist artists anon alteration a photograph to the canvas, Estes alone uses it as a starting point, arena with assorted viewpoints of the called area until he arrives at an angel that he transforms into a affectionate of optical illusion. The exhibition will biking to Italy. -- www.museothyssen.org
SWITZERLAND/ BASEL
KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL -- To Sept. 23: "Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting. 1955-1965." The exhibition -- apparent in Washington aftermost year -- focuses on Johns's (b. 1930) assignment during his aboriginal decade of creativity. The 70 paintings, assets and clear works in the appearance anatomy four concepts the American Pop artisan consistently referred to: readymade images, best generally a ambition or the American flag; the annular abrading of acrylic with a slat; the names of primary colors stenciled on the canvas; and the banner on the canvas of his easily or face. -- www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
LAUSANNE
FONDATION DE L'HERMITAGE -- To Oct. 28: "Fantin-Latour: De la Réalité au Rêve." He was a abreast and a acquaintance of Manet, Renoir et Degas, but Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1903) did not acrylic like an Impressionist. Giving alternative to collapsed assignment rather than plein-air painting, he aboriginal affected Venetian paintings, again created portraits and adroit still lifes that accompany to apperception Chardin's transparencies. The exhibition brings calm portraits of Fantin's accompany and family, floral compositions and still lifes, and a alternation of allegorical or religious "works of imagination" that are evocative of Symbolist painters such as Gustave Moreau. Fantin himself summed up his artful career: "First I affected the Masters, again life. For a few years, I accept been painting my dreams. Slowly I went from absoluteness to dream, a adventure that lasted about all my life." -- www.fondation-hermitage.ch
MARTIGNY
FONDATION PIERRE GIANADDA -- To Nov. 19: "Chagall: Entre Ciel et Terre." Adulatory the Russian painter's (1887-1985) 120th birthday, the exhibition offers a ample alternative of his works, on accommodation from museums worldwide. The paintings reflect Chagall's artful musings: "I sometimes accept the consequence that I am absolutely addition else, that I accept been born, one could say, amid heaven and apple ... the added I assignment the added I accept approved to adjust these paintings with this abroad dream." Indeed the 200 paintings, works on paper, watercolors, drawings, engravings, collages and illustrations acquaint the eyewitness to a light-filled apple of fantasy area lovers fly, animals dance, and activity resembles a bazaar performance. -- www.gianadda.ch
ZURICH
KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH -- To Aug. 19: "Nicolaes Berchem: In the Ablaze of Italy." While his contemporary, Jacob van Ruisdael has enjoyed constant popularity, the Dutch painter (1622-83), a abounding and advantageous artisan in his time, absent his long-held position as a admired Italianate, or specialist of Italian landscapes, with the acceleration of Impressionism and the renewed acceptance of Dutch landscapes at the end of the 19th century. A able artist, Berchem additionally created religious and fabulous scenes, anchorage scenes, and night and winter angle that complete his landscapes. About 45 paintings, 12 assets and 20 engravings amount in the show. -- www.kunsthaus.ch
-- To Aug. 26: "Alberto Giacometti: Aufbruch zur Avantgarde." The exhibition focuses on the aboriginal carve of the Swiss artisan (1901-66), afore he developed his appropriate idiom. Little survives of Giacometti's assignment in Bourdelle's chic in the aboriginal 1920s aback he approved his duke at figuration. He anon angry to abstruse art, creating Cubist-influenced sculptures and "ethnographic" works, absorption his absorption in arts premiers. To these aboriginal works, the appearance adds a few Surrealist sculptures, including the acclaimed "Boule Suspendue." These works are displayed in the bosom of the accumulating of the Giacometti Foundation, appropriately alms a absolute appearance of the artist's evolution. -- www.kunsthaus.ch
MUSEUM RIETBERG ZÜRICH -- To Sept. 23: "Courtly paintings From India: Masterpieces From the Building Rietberg Collection." Fatigued from its own collection, added than 60 paintings on paper, dating from 1150 to 1850, that were created for the Mogul emperors and the Hindu princes of Rajasthan. The pictures allegorize religious subjects, characterize agreeable gatherings and the activities they generated such as hunting and music recitals. At the time of their creation, these pictures were meant to be displayed abreast on a table top, or looked at on one's lap. -- www.rietberg.ch
TAIWAN / TAIPEI
TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM -- To Sept. 16: "Not a Thing: 2007 Chang Nai-Wen Abandoned Exhibition." The actual accustomed Buddhist statues accept generally been acclimated by abreast artists to accurate their animosity about Eastern philosophies. A self-proclaimed atheist, the Taiwanese sculptor (b. 1966) has begin afflatus in Chinese Buddhist statues, depicting them as aberrant faces, installing them upside bottomward (Baselitz's influence?) and piecing calm bits of their bodies, arduous viewers' behavior with agnostic versions, such as "Garbage Can," assuming a Buddha arch acclimated as a debris bin. -- www.tfam.museum
TURKEY / ISTANBUL
SAKIP SABANCI MÜZESI -- To Aug. 19: "In Praise of God: Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750." About 40 rugs alloyed in Ottoman Anatolia amid the 16th and 18th centuries, on accommodation from churches and museums in Romania and Hungary. Accepted today as "Transylvanian rugs," they were acclimated as adoration rugs by Muslims. They were brought to Europe by Venetian merchants and many, like those in the display, concluded up decorating the walls of Christian churches in Transylvania. -- http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu
UNITED STATES / BOSTON
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS -- To Aug. 19: "Edward Hopper." Hopper's (1882-1967) depictions of the realities of activity in American cities or rural areas accept become iconic. Absorption on the paintings created in the years 1925-50, the affectation offers about 50 board works, 25 watercolors and 12 prints. The acclaimed New York or New England scenes, lit by shadow-casting lights or sun and staged with Hopper's accustomed theatricality, are pervaded by animosity of boiler and isolation. The works will biking to Washington abutting abatement and to Chicago abutting year. -- www.mfa.org
LOS ANGELES
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM -- To Sept. 2: "Oudry's Corrective Menagerie." About 30 life-size paintings and assets by Jean Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), the painter of alien beastly specimens -- cassowary, antelope, leopard, -- in Baron Louis XV of France's menagerie. Oudry acclimated account conventions such as affecting ablaze effects, abstract mural backdrops, and beastly blush to accomplish his paintings added dramatic. -- www.getty.edu/museum/
NEW YORK
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART -- To Aug. 19: "Impressionist and Aboriginal Avant-garde Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collection." The added than 60 paintings on affectation were endemic by Sterling and Stephen Clark, brood to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who rivaled as they aggregate their art collections in the aboriginal bisected of the 20th century. While Sterling concentrated on Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Homer and Sargent, Stephen alleged Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Eakins and Hopper, but they aggregate a accepted account for Renoir. -- www.metmuseum.org
-- To Aug. 26: "Journeys: Mapping the Apple and Apperception in Chinese Art." Absolute and absurd journeys are presented through 60 works of art in altered media -- blind scrolls, handscrolls, fans, books and photographs -- from the 11th aeon to the present. The blind is not archival but thematic, juxtaposing paintings from absolutely altered periods. -- www.metmuseum.org
-- To Sept. 23: "Rauch at the Met: para." Fourteen paintings fabricated distinctively for this exhibition. If the agreement "magical realism" could be activated to painting, again the German artisan (b. 1960 in Leipzig) would be one of its best proponents. Explaining works that, defying classification, amalgamate ablaze colors and caliginosity to date absolute bodies who are affiliated spatially, yet abide alienated and blind of anniversary added in Surrealist landscapes, Neo Rauch said: "For me, painting agency the assiduity of a dream with added means." -- www.metmuseum.org
MOMA, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART -- To Sept. 10: "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years." Admirers who accept enjoyed Serra's (b. 1939) awe-inspiring labyrinthic carve at the Guggenheim in Bilbao will be able to renew the agreeable acquaintance with the 27 works installed throughout the building and gardens. The appearance appearance gigantic animate sculptures (they accept appropriate the accretion of floors) through and about which the eyewitness can airing — "I accede amplitude to be a material," says the artist. Some aboriginal anarchistic sculptures, created in the 1960s, application rubber, neon and advance additionally amount in the exhibition. -- www.moma.org
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART -- To Sept. 16: "Summer of Love: Art of the Consciousness-expanding Era." The 1960s and '70s saw the actualization of a new consciousness-expanding artful in all artforms. The art created -- generally with the advice of consciousness-expanding substances -- alloyed art, technology and music to accurate political and agreeable protest: it was labeled by abounding as the apotheosis of bad taste. The ablaze exhibition, that focuses on film, video and multi-media installations, additionally includes paintings, photographs and sculptures by Richard Avedon, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Jimi Hendrix (his alone accepted watercolor), Yayoi Kusama (whose brand is polka dots), Richard Lindner and John McCracken, amid others, as able-bodied as a affluent alternative of posters, anthology covers and underground magazines. -- www.whitney.org
WASHINGTON
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN -- To Aug. 12: "Wolfgang Tillmans." The 300 photographs of assorted sizes accept been installed by the German-born artisan himself to activate concrete or affecting reactions from the viewer. Tillmans's (b. 1968) capacity accommodate accompany and celebrities, ablaze arrange of aliment and flowers, pieces of accouterment that advance the beastly body, arcadian landscapes and beaming abstractions created by advertisement photo-sensitive cardboard to ablaze sources. -- http://hirshhorn.si.edu
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART -- To Sept. 3: "Eugène Boudin at the Civic Arcade of Art." Because of Boudin's (1824-98) blithesome renditions of ablaze and atmosphere in seascapes and landscapes, the French artisan - who had alien Monet to plein air painting -- was asked to participate in the aboriginal Actor exhibition in 1874. About 40 paintings and watercolors on graphite by the "king of the skies," as Corot declared him, are in the show, including small-scale paintings of bodies on fashionable beaches, assets created in Brittany, and images of peasants and anchorage workers from Normandy and Brittany. -- www.nga.gov
-- To Sept. 16: "Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings." An bearding beneficiary accumulated over 11 years this accumulating of about 100 assets (half of them Italian) by 80 artists, spanning from the 16th through the aboriginal 20th century. The exhibition is abiding chronologically, juxtaposing works by Fra Bartolommeo, Tiepolo, Guardi, Watteau, Gainsborough, Adolph Menzel and added lesser-known artists from Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Britain and Germany. -- www.nga.gov
-- To Sept. 16: "Fabulous Journeys and Absent Places: Campaign on Paper, 1450-1700." The exhibition offers 60 works on cardboard by Martin Schongauer, Dürer and Hendrick Goltzius, amid others, who recorded absolute and absurd places through prints on paper. The works, that are allotment of the Gallery's collection, call pilgrimages to angelic sites and voyages of analysis to real, absent places. -- www.nga.gov
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION -- To Sept. 16: "American Impressionism." As the aboriginal American painters to blot the address and accountable amount of French Impressionism, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Theodore Robinson, Robert Spencer, Augustus John Henry Twachtman, and Julian Alden Weir, amid others, corrective atmospheric landscapes, esplanade and bank scenes, burghal views, and interiors, with accurate absorption in alteration light.-- www.phillipscollection.org
