Antoine Watteau’s magnificent picture La Surprise has long been deemed a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French painting by scholars and connoisseurs. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), La Surprise: A Couple Embracing While a Figure Dressed as Mezzetin Tunes [Read More]
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The Nationalmuseum Stockholm collection of sculpture has gained a terracotta sculpture by the French artist Claude Michel, known as Clodion. Clodion, Satyr and Nymph, detail. The sculpture of a satyr embracing a nymph typifies Clodion’s [Read More]
The Museum of Art at Brigham Young University presents Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) an exhibition on view December 16, 2011 – April 7, 2012 in the Warren & Alice Jones and [Read More]
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco presents The Cult of Beauty. The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900 open from February 18, 2012, is the first major exhibition to explore the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic [Read More]
The de Young Museum in San Francisco presents Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler an exhibition of approximately 55 ceramic and bronze works spanning the career of sculptor Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011 [Read More]
Artistic San Francisco at the Legion of Honor, on view through, is an installation of prints, drawings, photographs and paintings from the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums that pays tribute to the unique [Read More]
The Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes present Joachim Koester Of Spirits and Empty Spaces. On view 10 December 2011–19 February 2012. Opening: 9 December 2011, 6.30 p.m. The Institut d’art contemporain has invited Joachim Koester for [Read More]
The National Museum of Western Art Presents Goya. Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado, an exhibition on view Sunday 29 January 2012. Francisco de Goya, Clothed Maja ca. 1800-07 Oil on canvas [Read More]
DO OUR VIEWS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY HAVE AN EFFECT ON OUR VIEW OF ART AND HISTORIOGRAPHY? In dialogue with Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art’s architecture, the Danish visual artist Mette Winckelmann sets focus [Read More]
The Katonah Museum of Art is to host Tri-State Juried Exhibition: Art to the Point in the In the Beitzel, Righter, and Project Galleries on January 15 – February 19, 2012. Artists living in the [Read More]
The British Museum announces the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso’s Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by [Read More]
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art presents William Blake and British Visionary Art an exhibition on view at the museum from November 29th through February 19th 2012. William Blake Pit, circa 1795, Tate collection [Read More]
From October 28, 2011 to January 1, 2012 Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg 10, Halle 2) hosts an exhibition The State of Images. The Media Pioneers Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy, organized as part of the [Read More]
Museum Ludwig in Cologne presents Before The Law Post-War Sculptures and Spaces of Contemporary Art. A joint exhibition of Museum Ludwig and Siemens Stiftung. On view 17 December 2011–22 April 2012. Opening: 16 December, 7 [Read More]
The Taft Museum of Art announces the exhibition Old Masters to Monet. Three Centuries of French Painting from the Wadsworth Atheneum. On view May 18–September 16, 2012. Claude Monet, The Beach at Trouville Hartford art [Read More]
The Taft Museum of Art Announces Impressions and Improvisations. The Prints of Romare Bearden an exhibition on view January 27–April 29, 2012. Romare Bearden, Out Chorus, 1979-80, etching, aquatint and serigraph. Exhibition organized by The [Read More]
The Anchorage Museum presents The Andy Warhol Museum’s SuperTrash exhibition features more than 200 pulp film posters from the 1930s to the 1980s. On view through Jan. 8, 2012. Although there are a handful of [Read More]
Anchorage Museum displays rare, complete set of Fred Machetanz prints The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center presents “The Fifty Stone Lithographs of Fred Machetanz” an exhibition on view Nov. 29 through Feb. 26, 2012. Fred [Read More]