16th Mar 2008
to 3rd Aug 2008 | Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits ReconsideredWhen it premiered in 1980, Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century was met with both admiration and hostility. The series depicts such luminaries of Jewish culture as Sarah Bernhardt, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Franz Kafka, among others. |
20th Apr 2008
to 27th Jul 2008 | El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip IIIThis groundbreaking exhibition examines a fascinating period (1598-1621) bracketed by the two giants of Spanish painting, El Greco and Velázquez. |
30th Apr 2008
to 17th Aug 2008 | Bharti Kher at the Baltic CentreRaised in London, Bharti Kher studied Fine Art and Painting at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Now living and working in New Delhi, she has a growing international reputation for creating fantastical, surreal environments. |
4th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 | Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976In the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed, fifty key works by 31 artists - among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko - will be viewed from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture. |
10th May 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 | The Impressionist Figure - Selections from the Albright-Knox Art GalleryPresented exclusively by the Paine Art Center and Gardens, this exceptional exhibition features depictions of the human figure and scenes of everyday life in French art from the 1850s through the turn of the 20th century. |
10th May 2008
to 1st Sep 2008 | Impressionist Edgar Degas on view at the Art Gallery of HamiltonThree outstanding oil paintings by famed French artist Edgar Degas are on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in The Japonisme of Edgar Degas and James Tissot. The exhibition is part of Inspiration East, the Gallery's year-long celebration of Asian arts and culture. |
16th May 2008
to 24th Aug 2008 | Mark Rothko: The RetrospectiveThe American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism. Twenty years after the last retrospective in a German museum this show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle offers the opportunity to discover his outstanding oeuvre anew. |
23rd May 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | Anglo-Saxon Art in the RoundThis exhibition will show for the first time early Anglo-Saxon coins from the De Wit collection, recently purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum. These gold shillings and silver pennies display the most innovative range of pictorial and geometric designs. |
24th May 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 | Survey of Adam Chodzko at Tate St IvesTate St Ives is the first public gallery in the UK to present a selected survey of Chodzko's work from the past seventeen years, alongside a major new commission produced especially for this show. |
24th May 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 | Moore in AmericaMoore in America: Monumental Sculpture at The New York Botanical Garden is the largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore's sculpture ever presented in a single venue in the United States. |
30th May 2008
to 31st Aug 2008 | Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900This summer, Tate Liverpool will present a full-scale reconstruction of The Beethoven Frieze (1901-2 / 1984) a monumental installation by Gustav Klimt, the first comprehensive exhibition of Klimt's work ever staged in the UK and a key event in Liverpool's programme for European Capital of Culture 2008. |
3rd Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | The Renaissance PortraitThe broad time span covered by this exhibition (1400-1600) and its Europe-wide approach make it the first to provide an overview of Renaissance portraiture. |
4th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 | Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of ArtThe Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art" and includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures by many of the most influential artists of the 17th through the mid-20th centuries, such as Luca Giordano, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. |
6th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 | Bad Painting - Good Art'Personally, I like bad better than good painting' (Asger Jorn) at the MUMOK. This bold exhibition Bad Painting addresses the phenomenon of consciously 'bad' painting which can be found throughout the history of 20th century painting. |
9th Jun 2008
to 17th Aug 2008 | Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition 2008Now in its 240th year, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2008 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture. |
15th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | Van Gogh's Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-RémyThe Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit side by side two of Vincent van Gogh's most renowned paintings, Cypresses and The Starry Night. |
17th Jun 2008
to 14th Sep 2008 | Miró: EarthThis exhibition presents a survey of Miró's work in the period between 1918, the year of his first solo exhibition, and his death in 1983. |
18th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910Comprising over fifty works by the most influential Divisionist painters, the exhibition includes rare loans from private and public collections of Europe and North America. |
20th Jun 2008
to 5th Jan 2009 | Great Company: Portraits by European MastersA selection of portraits and sculpture by European masters dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century will grace the Coolidge Gallery in the Upper Hemicycle at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the special installation Great Company: Portraits by European Masters. |
21st Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia MathewsLuminous paintings, stylish furnishings and dazzling decorative objects by the husband and wife team considered to be American Masters of Art Nouveau are featured in California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews. |
26th Jun 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 | The Courtauld CezannesThe Courtauld Gallery holds the most important group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. This exhibition presents the entire collection for the first time. |
26th Jun 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 | Landmark exhibition on Buckminster FullerExplores the legacy of Buckminster Fuller - visionary American inventor, designer, environmentalist, and humanitarian. |
28th Jun 2008
to 12th Oct 2008 | Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950sThe selection of works offers a comprehensive look at the major developments in a period of one hundred years, marked by the rise of modernity and by a dramatic change in the physical and social landscape. |
28th Jun 2008
to 7th Sep 2008 | Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of SilenceThe Royal Academy of Arts will be holding the first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective in the UK this June and feature over 60 paintings spanning the career of this celebrated Danish artist. |
29th Jun 2008
to 2nd Nov 2008 | The Impressionists: Master paintings from the Art Institute of ChicagoSome of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters are coming to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. |
1st Jul 2008
to 21st Sep 2008 | JMW Turner Opens at Metropolitan MuseumThe first major retrospective of the work of celebrated British artist J. M. W. Turner to be presented in the United States in more than 40 years will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning July 1, 2008. |
1st Jul 2008
to 14th Dec 2008 | Constructed - 40 Years of the UEA CollectionConstructed, the most extensive exhibition of the UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design, opens at the Sainsbury Centre on Tuesday 1st July and runs until Sunday 14th December. |
3rd Jul 2008
to 19th Oct 2008 | Wyndham Lewis portraitsAn important new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, showing the striking portraits of the great British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). |
9th Jul 2008
to 5th Oct 2008 | Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th Century HollandThis beautiful show will be a complete revelation to all lovers of 17th century Dutch art. Jan de Bray was the most important painter in Haarlem in the second half of the 17th century, a mantle he inherited from his father Salomon, who trained him. |
19th Jul 2008
to 20th Sep 2008 | Art of the Nude - Artists explore the human formArt of the Nude frames the artistic genre of the nude and provides an airing for rarely seen works belonging to the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. |
24th Jul 2008
to 27th Jul 2008 | 'Antiques for Everyone' returns to the NECThe Midlands is soon to host Britain's premier dedicated antiques event, 'Antiques for Everyone' when the fair opens at the NEC for four days from 24th - 27th July 2008. |
24th Jul 2008
to 26th Oct 2008 | Hadrian: Empire and ConflictThe Roman Emperor Hadrian is best known for his passion for Greek culture, interest in architecture, his love for Antinous, and of course the wall he built between England and Scotland. |
