Opened in January
On
the Move: Visualising Action. Acutely
intelligent, aesthetically challenging, scientifically questioning
and an altogether original-minded man, Jonathan Miller is the
curator of what promises to be a challenging and likely exciting
exhibition devoted to the “representation and analysis of movement
in the visual arts and sciences.” The works he has chosen include
one of John Wootton's 18th century horse-racing scenes, others by the
Italian Futurists Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni, photographs by
Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and more modern
practitioners such as Harold Egerton and Jonathan Shaw – plus
optical toys such as the praxinoscope and examples of movement from
comic books.
Estorick
Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39A Canonbury Square, London N1
2AN. Tel. +44 (0)20 7704 9522. (Open Wed - Sun; late Thurs) 13
January – 18 April.
Zhang
Enli. First
solo exhibition in London of work by important contemporary Chinese
artist who lives and works in Shanghai.
Hauser
& Wirth London, 196A Piccadilly, London W1J 9DY. Tel. +44 (0)207
287 2300. 15
January – 27 February.
The
Drawings of Bronzino.
First
ever exhibition devoted to the Florentine Mannerist artist Agnolo
Bronzino (1503 – 1572) who was the court painter to Duke Cosimo I
de' Medici and a considerable poet.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.
Tel. +1 212 535 7710. (Open Tues - Sun; late Fri & Sat) 20
January - 18 April.
*The
Real Van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters.
By turns
moving and illuminating, though never over-whelming, this remarkable
exhibition
contains more than 35 original hand-written letters by Vincent Van
Gogh (1853 – 1890) many with integral sketches. In several
different ways the contents of these letters relate to larger
drawings (some 30 in all) and some 65 major paintings hung nearby,
compelling us to look at them all closely and in detail. The best of
the large drawings suggest genuinely honest labour as do the
paintings, the latter in particular reveal supremely skilled
paintwork and often extraordinary juxtapositions of colour. Clearly,
Van Gogh was much more complex than his posthumous reputation
suggests and not least, a highly original thinker about the making
and purposes of art. What ever you do, don't miss this amazing
exhibition.
Sponsored
by The Bank of New York Mellon.
Royal
Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WIV 0DS. Tel.
+44 (0)20 7300 8000. (Open daily; late Fri) www.royalacademy.org.uk
23
January – 18 April.
Dexter Dalwood.
Survey exhibition of major paintings and collages made
over the past 12 years by contemporary British artist.
Tate
St. Ives, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG. Tel. +44
(0)1736 796226. (Open daily) www.tate.org.uk
23 January – 3 May.
From the Gothic
Tradition to the Early Renaissance. Selling
exhibition of some 20 old master works by early Italian artists
offering aspiring collectors a rare opportunity to forgo the often
vapid seductions of contemporary art and to consider instead
gold-ground and panel paintings from the 14th
to
the 16th
centuries.
Their subjects are devotional, their artists not well-known today or
even unknown for certain, but their many intrinsic qualities confirm
their enduring attractions as well as the reasons for their
survival.
Moretti
Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075. Tel. +1 212 249
4987. (open Mon - Fri) 19
January – 12 February.
Scottish
Colourists. Back
in 1968 the partners of the London merchant bank Robert Fleming and
Co. were persuaded by one of their number, David Donald, to let him
buy some pictures for the walls; so began what is now recognized as
the most important private collection of Scottish art - from 1770 to
the present. Ten years ago the whole collection was sold to The
Fleming-Wyfold Foundation endowed by the Fleming Family. This
exhibition marks that anniversary by bringing together for the first
time all the works by the Scottish colourists: Samuel John Peploe,
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter and John Duncan
Fergusson, acquired by Fleming's before their prices reached today's
stratospheric heights.
The
Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1. Tel. +44 (0)20
7409 5730. (Open Tues - Sat) 19
January – 1 April.
Where Three
Dreams Cross: 150
Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This,
“the first major survey of historic and contemporary photography
from the subcontinent” promises much and is divided into five
themes: The Streets, Intimate Relationships, Architecture, Points of
Transition, and the Portrait.
Whitechapel
Gallery, 77 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Tel. +44
(0)20 7522 7888. (Open Tues - Sun; late Thurs) whitechapelgallery.org
21 January – 11 April.
George Grosz.
Korrekt und Aranchisch (Correct and Anarchic). From
the art collection and archives of the Akademie, an exhibition of
portfolio works, journals, collages, photographs and written
documents relating to George Grosz with, at its heart, two hundred of
his sketchbooks.
Akademie
der Künste
(Academy of Arts), Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Tel.
+49 30 200 57-1000. (Open Tues – Sun) 24
January – 5 April.
Chris Ofili.
Exhibition of paintings, pencil drawings and
watercolours from the mid 1990s to the present by British-born artist
who now lives and works in Trinidad. He won the Turner Prize in 1998
and represented Great Britain at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Supported
by Louis Vuitton and Guaranty Trust Bank.
Tate
Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8888. (Open
daily) www.tate.org.uk
27 January – 16 May.
Afro-Modern:
Journeys Through the Black Atlantic.
First
ever exhibition aiming for an in depth examination of “the impact
of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the
early twentieth century to the present day.”.
Tate
Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB. Tel. +44 (0)151 702 7400.
(Open Tues – Sun) www.tate.org.uk
29
January – 25 April.
From
Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection. This
special exhibition of some 75 French and American paintings
celebrates the extraordinary range and riches of the collection
bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 by New York
businessman Chester Dale. Also included are two portrait of Dale by
Salvador Dali and Diego Rivera, and two of his wife Maud by Fernand
Leger and Saul Bellows.
Made
possible by United Technologies Corporation.
National
Gallery of Art, Fourth Street at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20565. Tel. +1 202 737 4215. (Open daily) www.nga.gov
31
January 2010 - 31 July 2011.
*especially recommended
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