Spanish Masters from the Hermitage.

The World of El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo & Goya

28 November 2015 – 29 May 2016
http://www.hermitage.nl

The long-awaited art exhibition Spanish Masters from the Hermitage. The World of El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo & Goya opens at the Hermitage Amsterdam on Saturday 28 November 2015. The exhibition includes more than sixty superior paintings and a rich collection of graphic works and applied arts masterpieces. Never before has the Netherlands hosted such a comprehensive survey of Spanish art, with work that is hardly represented in Dutch museum collections. The exhibition features masterpieces such as The Apostles Peter and Paul (1587–92) by El Greco, Velázquez’s Portrait of the Count Duke of Olivares (c. 1638), Murillo’s Immaculate Conception (c. 1680) and Goya’s Portrait of the Actress Antonia Zárate (1810–11), in addition to paintings by their pupils and later painters, up and including Picasso. Together they tell the story of the rise and glory of Spanish art in the Golden Age, which would continue to influence art into modern times.

CALOUSTE S. GULBENKIAN AND THE ENGLISH TASTE

27 NOVEMBER 2015 TO 28 MARCH 2016
http://museu.gulbenkian.pt/

Although Calouste Gulbenkian was born in the Ottoman Empire (Üsküdar, Turkey), and his ancestry was Armenian for many centuries, he established lifetime connections with the United Kingdom. His graduation at King’s College (c.1884-1887), his marriage in London (1892), the same town where he buys 38 Hyde Park Gardens, one of the family abodes for twenty-five years (1898) and where his second child is born (1900).

He acquires British nationality (1902), develops business and trade links, and establishes many connections with art dealers and experts in Britain. Many of the latter will be key-figures in advising him on his art acquisitions.

The exhibition allows for a different perspective on collecting, and includes works that are usually kept on storage - paintings, sculptures, prints, and books, mainly from his documentation library – will aim to reveal more of his personality and interests.  

Ingres

24 November 2015 - 27 March 2016
https://www.museodelprado.es

The work of Ingres, only seemingly rooted in Academic painting, undoubtedly constitutes an important forerunner of the late 19th- and early 20th-century artistic revolutions. The heir to Raphael and Poussin, Ingres’ work anticipates both Picasso and anatomical distortion in art, inspiring the revitalisation of the 19th-century European art schools, particularly the Spanish.

The exhibition to be shown at the Museo del Prado in 2015, which has benefitted from the special collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, offers a precise chronological presentation of Ingres’ work but will also pay particular attention to his complex relationship with portraiture (characterised byhis simultaneous rejection and admiration for it), which will be juxtaposed with his ongoing aim of being primarily recognised as a history painter

Jackson Pollock: A Survey

November 22, 2015–March 13, 2016
http://www.moma.org/

This exhibition offers a concise but detailed survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). It tracks his artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the radical abstractions for which he is best known by pouring and dripping paint onto canvas or paper. The exhibition features approximately 50 works—paintings, drawings, and prints—from the Museum’s collection, which is unparalleled in the breadth, depth, and quality of its Pollock holdings.

Bejewelled Treasures: The Al Thani Collection

Sat 21 November 2015 – Mon 28 March 2016
http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Discover the evolution and enduring influence of Indian jewellery from the Mughal Empire to the modern day. The exhibition will present over 100 spectacular items of Indian and Indian inspired jewellery, including precious jewels of breath-taking quality, exquisite enamelling and bejewelled ornaments.

Bejewelled Treasures: The Al Thani Collection highlights Indian traditions in design and craftsmanship, focussing on centuries-old techniques and processes. It allows you to see first-hand India’s influence on jewellery made by leading European houses in the 1920s and see contemporary pieces by modern masters, still drawing on those Indian traditions today.

Neue Galerie: The Years of Darkness. Stories of a Collection: 1933–1945

21.11.2015 to: 31.07.2016
http://www.smb.museum/

November 2015 sees the opening of the "Neue Galerie": a new exhibition space at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, designed with the specific purpose of keeping the Nationalgalerie's modern art collection on public display while the Mies van der Rohe building undergoes renovations. The space will host a different modern art exhibition every six months until the re-opening of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The first of these exhibitions, entitled "The Years of Darkness. Stories of a Collection. 1933–1945", is being held from 21 November 2015 until 31 July 2016. It features works from the Nationalgalerie which were either created between 1933 and 1945, acquired by the collection during this period, or seized by the National Socialist regime.

Армения. Легенда бытия.

17 ноября 2015 – 11 апреля 2016.
http://www.shm.ru

Выставка представит многосторонние истоки и пути развития армянской культуры с древнейших времен до ХХ века и покажет феномен армянской культуры, запечатленный в различных материалах и формах, а также вклад Армении в мировую цивилизацию. В выставке принимают участие Музей истории Армении Матенадаран и Музей Св. Кафедрального собора в Эчмиадзине.

Louise Bourgeois: No Exit

November 15, 2015 – May 15, 2016

http://www.nga.gov/

Overview: Louise Bourgeois’s ties to surrealism and existentialism will be explored through 17 works on paper and 4 sculptures. While surrealism informed Bourgeois’s early endeavors, she bristled when critics labeled her a surrealist, preferring instead to identify herself as an existentialist. She often quoted existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and even named one of her sculptures after Sartre’s play No Exit, an act of homage from which this exhibition takes its title. Works presented will include a rare copy of He Disappeared into Complete Silence (1947), early totem-like sculptures, and M is for Mother (1998), a drawing of an imposing letter M that conveys not only maternal comfort but also maternal control.

Art of the Airport Tower

November 11, 2015 – November 2016
airandspace.si.edu

Art of the Airport Tower explores contemporary and historic air traffic control towers in the United States and around the world. This exhibition brings a heightened awareness to the simple beauty of these architectural structures and a call for their preservation. With a collection of 50 original fine art photographs, Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo elevates airport towers to beautiful objects of art, and symbols of technological change and cultural expression within the airport landscape.
It includes such historic towers as the Ford Island Tower, which stood on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, as well as towers at today’s heavily trafficked airports, such as London’s Heathrow Airport. Several of the world’s tallest towers, one of which is the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, are also highlighted. Captions will describe the airports and the towers’ significance. An introduction by F. Robert van der Linden tells the history of airport towers to contextualize Russo’s work.