Art

This exhibition features images of Christ in illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

It is impossible to describe Antonio López García simply as a painter in the “realist” school. His masterful paintings of the prosaic, familiar places of his world and of the family and friends comprising it reveal an unusual sensitivity to his subject.

This groundbreaking exhibition examines a fascinating period (1598–1621) bookended by the two giants of Spanish painting: the late works of El Greco and the early paintings of Velázquez. Discover the masterpieces of Philip III’s court and the artists who flourished in his reign.

Sigalit Landau (b. Israel, 1969) has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, primarily through a video trilogy that experiments with circular movements and the act of spinning.

Sverre Fehn is Norway's most renowned architect. In 1997 he was awarded the Pritzker prize, the most prestigious, international award for arhcitects.

Ateneum Art Museum's series on photography begins with an exhibition of the early work of photographer Matti Saanio (1925–2006).

This display from the Department of Prints and Drawings will feature around thirty intricately engraved designs for jewellery, tableware and ornaments.

From 9 May to 10 August 2008 the Albertina will present the most comprehensive Paul Klee retrospective ever in Austria.

The exhibition dissects 36 paintings and calligraphies from the permanent collection, juxtaposing actual artworks with enlarged photographic details that focus on fine points of style or content, in order to elucidate what makes each one a masterpiece.

The Museum of Fine Arts Bern presents one of the most important and extensive Hodler exhibitions with over 150 masterpieces of all the artist's periods. The exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum of Fine Arts Bern and the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest.

For the first time, this exhibition presents (almost) all of the preliminary studies and versions of Hommage à Blériot, allowing viewers to consider and compare them.

Astrid Lovaas and Kirsten Wagle's collaboration has become one of the most distinguished collectives in Norwegian contemporary art. (The exhibition is located in The Museum of Contemporary Art.)

In 2008 it will be 120 years since Ateneum first opened its doors to the public. The anniversary exhibition presents one of the major artists of the Finnish Golden Age, Pekka Halonen (1865–1933).

Kertész to Mapplethorpe through the Eyes of the Greatest Masters of Photography

Grete Prytz Kittelsen (1917-) has been called the Queen of Scandinavian Design, and today she is counted among the Nordic designers who have achieved international acclaim. (The exhibition is located in The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.)

The National Gallery in Prague prepared large monograph retrospective of the hitherto almost ignored representative of the 19th-century Realistic landscape painting – Czech German, Wilhelm Riedel. The exhibition is held on the second floor of the Kinský Palace.

In the Andean regions of ancient South America, the brilliantly colored feathers of Amazonian birds were a luxury that was much treasured and long used.

For more than thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West.

The Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) and the National Gallery (London) will present a major exhibition of European Renaissance Portraits from the 15th and 16th centuries.

The exhibition recently opened at the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace is dedicated to the contacts between the Islamic World with the neighbouring cultures of Europe and China. It is aimed at displaying the immense variety of Islamic art as represented in the State Hermitage Museum collections and at demonstrating that the Islamic World has never been isolated from world culture but, on the contrary, has always remained as a deeply integrated part of it.