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May 6, 2008 – Jul 27, 2008
Imagining Christ
Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
This exhibition features images of Christ in illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Apr 13, 2008 – Jul 27, 2008
Antonio Lopez Garcia
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA)
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.
Apr 20, 2008 – Jul 27, 2008
El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA)
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.
Mar 19, 2008 – Jul 28, 2008
Projects 87: Sigalit Landau
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
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.
Mar 7, 2008 – Aug 3, 2008
Architect SVERRE FEHN Intuition - Reflection - Construction
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway)
Sverre Fehn is Norway's most renowned architect. In 1997 he was awarded the Pritzker prize, the most prestigious, international award for arhcitects.
Apr 11, 2008 – Aug 3, 2008
Shared Life – Matti Saanio's Early Photographs
Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland)
Ateneum Art Museum's series on photography begins with an exhibition of the early work of photographer Matti Saanio (1925–2006).
May 3, 2008 – Aug 3, 2008
Fantasy and Function - Design for Goldsmiths
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
This display from the Department of Prints and Drawings will feature around thirty intricately engraved designs for jewellery, tableware and ornaments.
May 9, 2008 – Aug 10, 2008
Paul Klee: The play of forms
Albertina Wien (Vienna, Austria)
From 9 May to 10 August 2008 the Albertina will present the most comprehensive Paul Klee retrospective ever in Austria.
Mar 1, 2008 – Aug 10, 2008
Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, USA)
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.
Apr 9, 2008 – Aug 10, 2008
Ferdinand Hodler - A symbolist vision
Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
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.
Apr 27, 2008 – Aug 17, 2008
Robert Delaunay - Hommage à Blériot
Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
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.
Apr 4, 2008 – Aug 17, 2008
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.)
Mar 7, 2008 – Aug 24, 2008
Pekka Halonen
Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland)
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).
Jun 6, 2008 – Aug 24, 2008
Soul and Body
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)Jan 18, 2008 – Aug 31, 2008
Grete Prytz Kittelsen. Enamel and Design
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway)
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.)
Feb 15, 2008 – Aug 31, 2008
Wilhelm Riedel
Narodni Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
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.
Feb 26, 2008 – Sep 1, 2008
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, USA)
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.
May 25, 2008 – Sep 1, 2008
Richard Misrach: On the Beach
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA)
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.
Jun 3, 2008 – Sep 7, 2008
The Renaissance Portrait. From Pisanello to Rubens
Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)
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.
Feb 14, 2008 – Sep 7, 2008
In Palaces and Tents: The Islamic World from China to Europe
Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia)
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.