Mike Kelley

Mar 31, 2014-Jul 28, 2014
moca.org

Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions—which he set in relation to relentless self and social examinations, both dark and delirious.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kelley lived and worked in Los Angeles from the mid-1970s until his death at the age of fifty-seven. Over his thirty-five year career, he worked in every conceivable medium—drawings on paper, sculpture, performance, music, video, photography, and painting—exploring themes as diverse as American class relations, sexuality, repressed memory, systems of religion and transcendence, and post-punk politics, to which he brought both incisive critique and abundant, self-deprecating humor.

Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist

25th March 2014 - 29th June 2014
www.museodelprado.es

Rubens. The Triumph of the Eucharist is an exhibition opening in late March at the Museo del Prado. It focuses on both a major restoration project at the Museum and on the importance and outstanding quality of Rubens’s paintings. Curated by Alejandro Vergara, Chief Curator of Flemish and Northern Schools Painting at the Prado, the exhibition will analyse one of Rubens’s most important projects: the six panels on “The Triumph of the Eucharist” commissioned from the artist by Isabel Clara Eugenia in 1625 as models for tapestries for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The panels will be shown alongside the tapestries made from these designs, which now belong to Patrimonio Nacional.

In 2011 work started on a meticulous restoration of the six panels in the Prado’s collection, a project funded by Fundación Iberdrola in its capacity as Benefactor Member of the Museum’s Restoration Programme. Restorers at the Museum removed various 18th-century additions to each of the panels, which had prevented a correct visual appreciation of Rubens’s designs and had also damaged the original supports. The exhibition will offer a detailed analysis of this restoration process. In addition, the project involved the training of restorers from museums in Europe and the USA who are specialising in the restoration of wooden supports and who received support from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, which funded the time that they spent in Madrid.

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

www.vam.ac.uk
22nd March 2014 - 13th July 2014

Experience the world of William Kent, the most prominent architect and designer in early Georgian Britain and explore how his versatility and artistic inventiveness set the style for his age when Britain defined itself as a new nation and developed an Italian-inspired style.

This exhibition will bring together over 200 objects including architectural drawings for such prominent buildings as the Treasury and Horse Guards at Whitehall, designs for landscape gardens, sculpture, furniture, silver as well as paintings and illustrated books.

Celebrating Kent’s art over three decades (1719-48) this exhibition will show the breadth and ingenuity of the Kentian style, ranging from spectacular gilt furniture to vivid interiors such as Houghton Hall, Chiswick House and his landscape gardens at Rousham, Holkham Hall and elsewhere.

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting

22nd March 2014 - 14th September 2014
www.nationalgalleries.org

This exhibition celebrates the recent acquisition, jointly with the National Gallery in London, of two outstanding mythological paintings by Titian (c.1485/90–1576). The purchase of the first of these, Diana and Actaeon, was concluded in 2009, and that of its pair,Diana and Callisto, in 2012, and they have only recently gone back on display at the Scottish National Gallery. The exhibition recreates and expands upon a highly successful exhibition which toured to three venues in the United States in 2010-11. It provides the National Galleries of Scotland with an opportunity to recognise and thank the organisations and individuals who contributed so generously to the acquisition of these hugely important and influential pictures. The exhibition draws on the Gallery’s exceptionally rich collection of sixteenth-century Venetian paintings, drawings and prints to showcase and contextualise Titian’s twoDiana canvases. As well as three additional paintings and a drawing by Titian, almost all of the major names in Venetian art of the period are represented, including Lorenzo Lotto, Palma Vecchio, Jacopo Bassano, Jacopo Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese. The loan of one additional, highly important painting by Titian – the Death of Actaeon from the National Gallery, London – has been secured. Technical information, comparative images and other interpretative material will enrich the visitor experience and provide deeper insights into the art of this exceptionally fertile creative period in Venice’s history.

Александр Вертинский. Легенда века

21.03 - 30.05.2014
http://www.goslitmuz.ru

Выставка разместилась в четырех залах Дома И.С.Остроухова в Трубниках. Рассказывает о жизни певца, артиста, поэта: ярко и подробно здесь представлены этапы жизни мастера: дореволюционные события, эмиграция, возвращение в Советский Союз.

Выставка готовилась при поддержке дочери Александра Вертинского народной артистки России Анастасии Вертинской, которая говорит, что на выставке создана атмосфера, в которой жил маэстро. Это атмосфера творчества. Посетители увидят стол, за которым он писал, лампу, которая освещала его комнату, его часы, ноты, сигареты. Здесь представлен концертный костюм Вертинского, книги, пластинки, фотографии. Много портретов, фрагментов из кинофильмов с его участием.

Трогательно выглядят такие семейные реликвии как записки, которые писал Александр Вертинский своей любимой жене Лидии, договор, заключенный между Настей, Марианной и папой о том, что девочки обязуются хорошо кушать взамен на подарочки. Создается впечатление, что посетители пришли не на выставку, а в гости в дом выдающегося артиста.

Сальвадор Дали и художники Ампурдана. Сюрреализм в Каталонии

21 марта - 6 июня 2014
hermitagemuseum.org

Долгожданная выставка «Сальвадор Дали и художники Ампурдана. Сюрреализм в Каталонии», которая должна была начать работу в конце прошлого года, была перенесена, причем причины этого решения обнародованы не были. Выставку, в экспозицию которой войдут картины из коллекций театра-музея Дали в Фигерасе, Фонда Жоана Миро и Национального музея каталонского искусства откроют 21 марта. Музеи, чьи коллекции составили экспозицию выставки, пользуются огромной популярностью на родине в Испании — интерес к сюрреализму, сформировавшемуся во Франции еще 20-х годах прошлого века, не угасает до сих пор. Известно, что поссорившись с представителями течения в Испании, Дали заявил: «Сюрреализм — это я». Именно на его работах сделают основной акцент кураторы выставки в Петербурге.

Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice

19th March 2014 - 15th June 2014
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

The National Gallery invites visitors to experience the key works of Paolo Veronese; one of the most significant, influential and beautiful painters of the Venetian Renaissance, in the first monographic show on the artist to be held in the United Kingdom.

The National Gallery owns ten paintings by Veronese and these will be displayed next to other major works by the artist which have been loaned by European and American museums to form a display of about 50 works. These will offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy his magnificent visions such as ‘The Family of Darius before Alexander’ and the ‘Allegories of Love’; a series of four paintings  which each concentrate on a specific aspect – ‘Unfaithfulness’, ‘Scorn’, ‘Respect’ and‘Happy Union’.

Veronese created works ranging from complex fresco decorations of villas and palaces to large-scale altarpieces, smaller devotional paintings, mythological, allegorical and historical pictures, and portraits. His works were sought after by collectors and studied by artists in the 17th and 18th centuries, with Carracci,Rubens, Tiepolo and Watteau among those indebted to his art.

I, Augustus, Emperor of Rome

19th March 2014 - 13th July 2014
www.grandpalais.fr

To commemorate the two thousandth anniversary of the death of the Emperor Augustus, the Grand Palais brings to life his greatest achievements and the artistic ferment of his reign. Images of the emperor can be found all over Rome and through out the provinces. A selection of statues, sculpted reliefs, frescoes, pieces of furniture and silverware, along with a reconstruction of a villa from the slopes of Vesuvius and tombs uncovered in Gaul reveal the changes in the social environment of the Romans.

Путешествие с шиком и без

14.03.2014—01.06.2014
www.vmdpni.ru

Выставка «Путешествие с шиком и без» похожа на театральные декорации, рассказывающие историю вещей, без которых не обходилась ни одна поездка российской и европейской интеллигенции и «простого люда» с XIX века до наших дней. В пяти залах музея посетители увидят предметы из собрания Давида Якобашвили, знаменитую коллекцию дорожных сумок и чемоданов Александра Петлюры, макеты кораблей, дирижаблей, самолетов, поездов и дилижансов, подлинные карты XIX века из коллекции Андрея Кусакина, а также одежду, обувь и другие аксессуары путешественников. В экспозицию также войдут уникальные предметы из фондов музея: металлические скульптуры Лансере, удивительной красоты сундуки и шкатулки XVII – XIX веков, чайники, самовары, конные принадлежности, плетеные короба и другое. Звуковое и мультимедиа сопровождение поможет погрузиться в волнующую атмосферу приключений.

Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937

13th March 2014 - 30th June 2014
www.neuegalerie.org

The Neue Galerie New York will present “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937.” This will be the first major museum exhibition devoted to the infamous display of modern art by the Nazis since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. The exhibition will contrast so-called “degenerate” art with officially sanctioned art of the period, while providing the historical and intellectual context of the notorious Munich exhibition in 1937.

The show is being organized by Dr. Olaf Peters, a board member of the Neue Galerie, Professor of Art History in Halle, curator of the 2010 exhibition “Otto Dix” at the Neue Galerie, and a distinguished scholar and historian in the field. It will be presented on the third floor of the museum in our special exhibition galleries and will include approximately 40 paintings, 20 works on paper and several posters, photographs, and documents.

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection

13 Mar 2014 to 22 Jun 2014
http://www.ashmolean.org/

This major exhibition includes a matchless group of paintings and watercolours by Paul Cézanne, as well as paintings and sculptures by artists including Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Amedeo Modigliani.

This collection formed by Henry and Rose Pearlman after the Second World War is one of the most important in North America and this will be the first time it has ever been shown in Europe.

The exhibition includes twenty-four works by Cézanne: six oils; two drawings; and sixteen watercolours which constitute one of the finest and best-preserved groups of his watercolours in the world. The majority of these are Provençal landscapes, while others depict characteristic Cézanne motifs including a skull, female bathers, and his beloved Mont Sainte-Victoire.

Cézanne and the Modern also explores the history of twentieth-century private collections of this type. Key to the Pearlman Collection is Henry Pearlman’s own tastes. He collected pictures and sculptures that he liked and his thrill at discovering unknown masterpieces is evident throughout. Star pictures include a colourful and unusual composition by Vincent Van Gogh, Tarascon Diligence (1888); Amedeo Modigliani’s celebrated portrait of Jean Cocteau (1916–17); and among the sculptures are three bronzes by Jacques Lipchitz and one by Wilhelm Lehmbruck; and an extraordinary painted relief, Te Fare Amu (1901-2) by Paul Gauguin.

Vincent van Gogh/ Antonin Artaud. The Man Suicided by Society

11th March 2014 - 15th June 2014
www.musee-orsay.fr/

A few days before the opening of a van Gogh exhibition in Paris in 1947, gallery owner Pierre Loeb suggested that Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) write about the painter. Challenging the thesis of alienation, Artaud was determined to show how van Gogh’s exceptional lucidity made lesser minds uncomfortable.
Wishing to prevent him from uttering certain "intolerable truths", those who were disturbed by his painting drove him to suicide.

Based on the categories and the unusual designations put forward by Artaud in Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society, , the exhibition will comprise some thirty paintings, a selection of van Gogh's drawings and letters, together with graphic works by the poet-illustrator.

Gauguin: Metamorphoses

8th March 2014 - 8th June 2014
www.moma.org

This exhibition focuses on Paul Gauguin’s rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and their relationship to his better-known paintings and his sculptures in wood and ceramic. Comprising approximately 150 works, including some 120 works on paper and a critical selection of some 30 related paintings and sculptures, it is the first exhibition to take an in-depth look at this overall body of work.

Created in several discreet bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin’s experiments with a range of mediums, from radically “primitive” woodcuts that extend from the sculptural gouging of his carved wood reliefs, to jewel-like watercolor monotypes and large, mysterious transfer drawings. Gauguin’s creative process often involved repeating and recombining key motifs from one image to another, allowing them to evolve and metamorphose over time and across mediums. Printmaking, which by definition involves transferring and multiplying images, provided him with many new and fertile possibilities for transposing his imagery. Gauguin embraced the subtly textured surfaces, nuanced colors, and accidental markings that resulted from the unusual processes that he devised, for they projected a darkly mysterious and dreamlike vision of life in the South Pacific, where he spent most of the final 12 years of his life.

Though Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this exhibition showcases a lesser-known but arguably even more innovative aspect of his practice.

Object of Devotion.

Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum

March 07 – June 08, 2014
http://mobia.org/

During the later Middle Ages, England was home to a thriving art industry that produced colorful and delicate alabaster sculptures in large quantities and distributed them throughout Europe, many for use in private homes. This exhibition of an expressive, often-overlooked artistic medium comes from the world’s greatest collection of medieval alabaster sculptures, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and offers a fascinating window into the role of art in the personal devotional practices of the Middle Ages. Object of Devotion is comprised of approximately 60 biblically inspired alabaster relief sculptures from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Vikings: Life and Legend

www.britishmuseum.org
6th March 2014 - 22nd June 2014

In March 2014 the British Museum will open the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery with a major exhibition on the Vikings, supported by BP. The exhibition has been developed with the National Museum of Denmark and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) and focuses on the core period of the Viking Age from the late 8th century to the early 11th century.

The extraordinary Viking expansion from the Scandinavian homelands during this era created a cultural network with contacts from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Vikings will be viewed in a global context that will highlight the multi-faceted influences arising from extensive cultural contacts. The exhibition will capitalise on new research and thousands of recent discoveries by both archaeologists and metal-detectorists, to set the developments of the Viking Age in context. These new finds have changed our understanding of the nature of Viking identity, trade, magic and belief and the role of the warrior in Viking society. Above all, it was the maritime character of Viking society and their extraordinary shipbuilding skills that were key to their achievements. At the centre of the exhibition will be the surviving timbers of a 37-metre-long Viking warship, the longest ever found and never seen before in the UK. Due to its scale and fragility it would not have been possible to display this ship at the British Museum without the new facilities of the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery.

Древний Китай: ритуал и музыка. Бронза и лаки из собрания Музея провинции Хубэй

04.03.2014 – 10.04.2014
http://www.arts-museum.ru/

Впервые в России в ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина будет представлено древнее искусство Китая XVII – III вв. до н.э. из собрания Художественного и археологического Музея провинции Хубэй.

Музей провинции Хубэй выделяется среди других музеев Китая, в которых хранятся бесценные произведения древнекитайского искусства. Он расположен в столице провинции - городе Ухань. Его собрание насчитывает более 260 тысяч памятников, обнаруженных во время археологических раскопок; 812 предметов из его коллекции входят в число наиболее ценных реликвий древнего Китая, а 16 признаны национальным сокровищем страны.

На выставке будет представлено более 100 памятников, большая часть которых происходит из погребений провинции Хубэй. В частности, из большой четырехкамерной гробницы V в. до н. э., принадлежавшей правителю И царства Цзэн, которая была обнаружена археологами в 1978 году. Здесь были открыты уникальные ритуальные предметы, среди которых музыкальные инструменты, ритуальные изделия из бронзы, серебра, золота, яшмы и нефрита, предметы из лака; доспехи, оружие и бамбуковые свитки. Для выставки в Москве было отобрано несколько предметов из этой уникальной гробницы, которые вошли в золотой фонд китайской археологии и снискали мировую известность: это несколько ритуальных сосудов, фигурная стойка с литофонами, бронзовая подставка под барабан с изображением извивающихся змей и знаменитая скульптура мифической птицы.

John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors

Mar 2, 2014 - May 26, 2014
https://www.mfah.org

The expansive exhibition John Singer Sargent: The Watercolors offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to see early 20th-century watercolors by Gilded Age American master John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). The more than 90 watercolors on view—depicting dazzling scenes of landscape, labor, and leisure—are punctuated by selected works in oil to highlight the artist’s experimentation with a variety of techniques and effects.

Sargent’s watercolor technique has been a source of wonderment for the past century. This exhibition unites, for the first time, the two most significant collections of his watercolor paintings: holdings from the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Brooklyn and Boston collections were purchased by the two museums (in 1909 and 1912, respectively) directly from Sargent’s only two American watercolor exhibitions, at the Knoedler Gallery in New York.

Representing Sargent’s departure from the commissioned portraits that made him famous, the compositions in this exhibition were painted in Greece, Italy, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and Syria. The subjects include scenes of Mediterranean sailing vessels, villa gardens, marble quarries, fountains, gondoliers at work, and one of Venice’s greatest churches, as well as explorations of sunlight and shadow.

Expedition Silk Road, Treasures from the Hermitage

1st March 2014 - 5th September 2014
www.hermitage.nl

In 1877 the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen introduced the name ‘Great Silk Road’ for a chain of age-old trade routes through Central Asia that connected the Far East to the West. For some 1,700 years, the Silk Road was the world’s largest trade network. Caravans of up to a thousand camels, horses, oxen and donkeys crossed deserts and high mountains to carry coveted goods from East to West and West to East. The first archaeological digs were carried out in the late nineteenth century, mainly by Russian expeditions. Vanished cities, cave monasteries, and necropolises came to light in Mongolia, western China, the Central Asian republics, and the Caucasus. Many treasures were found beneath the sands, from centuries before Christ and up to the Middle Ages: murals, silver, gold, painted silk, sculptures, and jewellery, all of high artistic quality and bearing witness to astonishing interactions between cultures and religions. Lost cities like Khara-Khoto, Panjakent, and Varakhsha were restored to their former glory. Ancient and sometimes forgotten empires were put back on the map: Sogdia, Parthia, Ustrushana. What the Silk Route revealed to Russian scholars is now waiting to be discovered in Amsterdam, with more than 250 treasures from the Hermitage.