200 Prints by Francisco de Goya, From His Most Important Series, on View in Valladolid

VALLADOLID.- The Municipal Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Passion in Valladolid, is hosting through 16 January 2011, 200 prints by Francisco de Goya, belonging to the complete series of “Los Caprichos”, “The Disasters of War “and “Bullfight”, in an exhibition titled “Goya, The genius of a writer.” The show delves into the particular interpretation of Spain that the great Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) made at the time. Throughout his career his expertise was evident in all genres ranging from [...]

Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme Exhibition Explores Who Felix Nussbaum Was

PARIS.- Who was Felix Nussbaum? His work has only recently been rediscovered and in France, where he is not well known, his paintings have never been shown before. Through 23 January 2011, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is presenting the first major retrospective of his work organised in France. Felix Nussbaum was a modern German painter, whose work was shaped by the “New Objectivity” and by contact with the European avant-garde of the first decades of the 20th [...]

Masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance Coming to Minneapolis Institute of Arts

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will present an exhibition of 25 Venetian masterpieces—12 paintings and 13 drawings—including two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–59). The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Lotto from the NGS collection. The MIA’s presentation of “Titian [...]

Images Taken in Iceland by British Photographer Dan Holdsworth at BALTIC

GATESHEAD.- Blackout, presented at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art through February 20, brings together a remarkable new sequence of images taken in Iceland by British photographer Dan Holdsworth. Occupying a space between documentary and the make-believe, these photographs, reproduced to a grand scale, transform the elemental terrain of giant Icelandic glaciers as they melt away into a strange, futuristic landscape. Blackout’s awe-striking photographs appear so otherworldly it is almost impossible to believe that these lunar-style landscapes actually exist Blackout’s awe-striking [...]

Van Gogh: The Adventure of Becoming an Artist Opens at Kyusyu National Museum

FUKUOKA.- The exhibition Van Gogh: The adventure of becoming an artist will opens in Japan, featuring masterworks from the Van Gogh Museum and Kröller-Müller Museum collections. The exhibition includes such highlights as The bedroom and The sower (Van Gogh Museum), and The Ravine and Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Kröller-Müller Museum). The exhibition gives an impression of the methods and techniques Van Gogh used in developing his style and technique, and of the artists who influenced him in this development. Paintings [...]