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Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window, c. 1820
Join art historian Karen Pope for study tours, day trips, and informal luncheon programs to expand your horizons or fill gaps in your world of art. No background or experience is necessary--just curiosity!

Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good company of companions with similar interests.
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    COVID-19's IMPACT ON ART inSIGHT:
    Given the recent increases in cases and hospitalizations, we need to keep staying home.  Although Zooming doesn't offer the pleasant social benefits of our gatherings, it has its advantages, and I'll keep working via this medium untll we feel safe to gather again.  Personally, I will be eager to resume gatherings at the Neill-Cochran House Museum and the Chateau Bellevue because it means support for two of Austin's oldest houses.  The Chateau has set a minimum of 40 (with social distancing and all possible precautions involved in seating and table service) and the NCHM is encouraging outdoor gatherings . . . I will be watching for indications of interest in these options.  Meanwhile, I'm grateful for Zoom!  For information about the 2021 series, scroll down.

    SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR NOW:
    • Explore museums who are offering expanded internet access, e.g. Rijksmuseum, "Cooped Up with the Carter" (American Art Museum in Fort Worth) -- many links are posted farther down this page.

    https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours

    "Armchair Travel" via MFA Houston:
    https://www.mfah.org/blogs/inside-mfah/armchair-travel-world-class-art-your-living-room?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VE%2021%20-%206.17.20&utm_content=version_A

    • Explore individual artists, movements, etc., via the Met's 
    Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History  https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/  
    Example: Click on their American Art 19th century and see a long list of sub-topics that make it easy to build understanding in manageable chunks

    Another solid searchable comprehensive source:
    https://www.theartstory.org/

    • Click around museum collections via virtual tours online: 
    https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours


    • PBS "Masterpiece" sponsor Viking offers diverse, interesting programs online:
    https://viking.tv/


    • Frick Collection, "Cocktails with a Curator" on Fridays, 4:00pm CST
    https://www.frick.org/interact/miniseries/cocktails_curator

    • An impressive series on NOVA/PBS: "A to Z: The First Alphabet" 
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/a-to-z-the-first-alphabet/
    participation of world-famous calligrapher, Brody Neuenschwander, animates the series brilliantly






    WATCH FOR THESE SPECIAL EVENTS IN 2021!

    PrintAustin: January 19 through February 26 
    For Printmakers, Collectors, the Curious
    Annual Print Fair -- February 5
    Virtual Conference, including printmakers -- February 6
    Drive-through Print Sale
    Contemporary Print 5 x 5 Juried Competition (tiny prints, 5 inches square)
    More info: https://printaustin.org/upcoming-events/


     


    2021 Art inSight Program Series--THEME & SCHEDULE:  
    ARTISTS in Their BIRTHDAY MONTHS
    Not quite a book club, but relevant book recommendations offered!

    January through May:
    ZOOM at 10am on 4th Thursday, repeated 10am on 4th Friday of each month (except*)
    $20 per person; you are welcome to pay for the first 5 months at once!

    Preregistration is expected; deadline for registration is 5 days in advance of the program.
    To register: send email to 
    get your name on the attendance list and to receive a confirmation and other material in advance of the program.

    All registrants for a Zoom meeting will receive the recording along with follow-up material

    Make checks payable to Art inSight and mail to:
         PO Box 5730
         Austin  TX   78763-5730

    Or pay by credit card via PayPal link (below)

    Whether check or credit card, please include your chosen date.
    DATES & TOPICS:

    January 21/22   . .   John Singer Sargent         
                                 Read: Erica Hirshler, Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting, 2009
    February 25/26  . .   Auguste Renoir
                                  Read: Susan Vreeland, The Luncheon of the Boating Party, 2008
    March 25/26   . . .    Piet Mondrian
    April 22/23    . . . .   Archibald Knox
                                  Perilla Kinchin, Taking Tea with Mackintosh: . . . Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms
    May 27/28  . . . . .    Mary Cassatt
                                    Robin Oliveira, I've Always Loved You: A Novel, 2014

    * June 17/18    . . . . Frank Lloyd Wright
                                    Nancy Horan, Loving Frank, 2008
    July 22/23  . . . . .    Artemisia Gentileschi
                                    Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia: A Novel, 2002
    August 26/27 . . .     Gustave Caillebotte
                                    Emile Zola, The Masterpiece, 1866
    * Sept 30-Oct 1  . . . Mark Rothko
                                    B. A. Shapiro, The Muralist: A Novel
    Oct 28/29 . . . . . . .  Katsushika Hokusai
                                  Katherine Govier, The Printmaker's Daughter, 2010
    Nov 18/19  . . . . . .  Georgia O'Keeffe
                                    Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1980
    * Dec 9/10 . . . . . .  Camille Claudel
                                  Heather Webb, Rodin's Lover, 2015

    We will try to return to our former gatherings when we can meet the minimums:
    40 at Chateau Bellevue
    35 at Neill-Cochran House Museum

    One Artist Each Month
    $20.00


    Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna

    Past series:

    2019  Great Art Museums, part 2
    2018  Great Art Museums, part 1
    2017  Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 2
    2016  Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 1
    2015  Japan & the West
    2014  9 Great Cities and Their Depiction by Artists
    2013  Back to the Birthdays, Artists in Their Birthday Months
    2012  The World's Great Buildings: Milestones in Architecture
    2011  Women in Art/Art of Women
    2010  Art of Nations: Survey of Art History, One Country at a Time
    2009  Angels, Saints and Their Friends in Art History
    2008  Time Capsules: A Survey of Seven Centuries
    2007  Un-Birthday Parties (for great artists with inconvenient birthdates)
    1995-2006 Birthday Parties for great artists, on their true birthdays

    Potential Future Series Topics:

    Key Works of World Architecture, Stonehenge to Safdie
    Great Moments in Art History, Antiquity to Modern
    Perspectives on Movies about Great Artists
    A Year with Prints: Basics of the major printmaking processes, handling examples, studio and collection visits
    Art History Survey: Prehistory through the Present
    Great Works in each medium, one medium at a time, emphasis on process and effect (marble, etching, tempera, etc.)




    Special Events of Note: 
    Neill-Cochran House Museum (Austin landmark, Abner Cook 1855)  

    "Modern Times" Speaker Series 2020-21 -- Season 15: America at War 1855-1865
    Individual Programs and Schedule: https://www.nchmuseum.org/modern-times

    SPACE LIMITED, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
    (Free to current Members of the NCHM; $10 per person per event otherwise):
    REGISTER FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS ONLINE or call the Museum: 512-478-2335
    and find information on Membership on the NCHM website: http://www.nchmuseum.org


     


    Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events

    NOTE: Some museums, closed because of the COVID-19 virus, may have negotiated extensions of their temporary exhibitions.  I'm not aware of all such plans, so have left exhibitions posted below, even though the exhibitions' official dates have "expired"

    Document
    Worldwide list of special exhibitions 2019-2020
     

    ABILENE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  GRACE MUSEUM  ♦ www.thegracemuseum.orgM


    AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art)  ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org


    BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART  ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org

    Weekly livestreamed “Curated Conversations” at 5 p.m. Tuesdays. These Zoom sessions — for more info, go to bit.ly/35RAaG4 — feature cultivated Blanton curators and other staff members who give short thematic presentations followed by questions from viewers in real time.

    Watch past episodes of “Curated Conversations” on YouTube at bit. ly/3dDlgWp. Among the topics: a woman’s place in the artistic canon, mail art in Latin America and behind the scenes at Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin.”


    BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY • www.cah.utexas.edu
    From Commemoration to Education: Pompeo Coppini's Statue of Jefferson Davis
    Commissioned in 1919 by university regent Major George W. Littlefield the statue was envisioned as part of a much larger allegorical memorial, the Littlefield Fountain, intended to honor Texans who died in the Civil War and World War I while also addressing the reconciliation of the northern and southern states between those wars. However, the memorial and its campus setting and cultural context changed significantly over the course of its development. No longer an object of commemoration, the statue was moved in 2015 and now forms part of a new exhibition that explores the statue's history, as well as its significance as both a work of art and evidence of the past.

    HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN  • http://www.hrc.utexas.edu


    NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM 
    ♦   www.nchmuseum.org
    Crazy Quilts exhibition: Remembered by Hand: Family Histories Illuminated (January 6 - February 7, 2021)
    Jan. 14, 5:00-7:00pm: Embroidery Workshop with Shannon Downey  REGISTRATION REQUIRED

    Jan. 21, 5:00-7:00pm: "Craftivist" Shannon Downey will discuss her "Rita's Quilt" project, which will be on display as a complement to the NCHM exhibition of crazy quilts  REGISTRATION REQUIRED

    Register on the NCHM website

    UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM)  ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org


    CORPUS CHRISTI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS  ♦ www.stia.org


    DALLAS   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
    DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART  ♦ www.dallasmuseumofart.org
    Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection (May 17 - August 23, 2020)
    A century of American art


    CROW COLLECTION OF 
    ASIAN ART  ♦ www.crowcollection.org

    MAC: McKINNEY AVENUE CONTEMPORARY 
    ♦ www.the-mac.org


    MEADOWS MUSEUM @ SMU (Southern Methodist University)  ♦  smu.edu/meadows/museum

    NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER  ♦ www.nashersculpturecenter.org


    FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART  ♦ www.cartermuseum.org 
    Mythmakers: the Art of WInslow Homer and Frederic Remington (through February 28, 2021)
    the first exhibition to explore the unexpected resonances and moments of convergence between the themes, artistic sensibilities, and technical processes of these two artists.

    James Surls: Seven and Seven Flower (through Fall 2022)


    KIMBELL ART MUSEUM  ♦  www.kimbellart.org
    Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum (March 1 - June 14, 2020)
    Renowned Renaissance artists such as Titian and Raphael join Baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera, Guido Reni, and Bernardo Cavallino to reveal the aspirations and limitations of the human body and the many ways it can express love and devotion, physical labor, and tragic suffering

    Queen Nefertari's Egypt (November 15, 2020 - March 28, 2021)

    Turner's Modern World (May 9 - September 5, 2021)
    The exhibition explores Turner’s lifelong interest in the inventions, events, politics, society, culture and science of his time, which resulted in many of his most original works and transformed his way of painting.

    Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon: The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection (October 17, 2021 – January 16, 2022)
    nearly 70 of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States


    MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH  ♦ www.themodern.org
    Ruckus Rodeo (Jan 17 - Mar 29, 2020)
    Red Grooms' big work of 1975–76 is presented at the Modern to coincide with the 2020 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Grooms’s immense, walk-through work of art covers 1,237 square feet of gallery space. This “sculpto-pictorama,” as Grooms has referred to it, consists of painted two-dimensional surfaces and sculptural three-dimensional figures that celebrate the Fort Worth rodeo.

    NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME 
    ♦ www.cowgirl.net

    SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM
    Celebrating Remington & Russell  ♦  
    www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org


    SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ♦ www.swbts.edu/
     

    HOUSTON   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
     
    ♦ www.mfah.org
    Norman Rockwell: American Freedom (December 15, 2019 - March 22, 2020)
    Rockwell's response to Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms


    Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library (March 1 - May 25, 2020)
    200 objects—spanning more than 4,000 years of Hispanic art and culture—from the renowned collections in New York City, founded by Anna Hyatt and Archer M. Huntington, founders of UT's art museum


    BAYOU BEND A Unique Gathering of Americana  ♦ www.mfah.org/bayoubend


    RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts  ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi


    ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS
    ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas



    MENIL COLLECTION
     
    ♦ www.menil.org


    CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM
    ♦ www.camh.org


    HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
     
    ♦ www.crafthouston.org

    THE PEARL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 
    ♦ www.pearlmfa.org
    Stitched: Contemporary Quilt Art from the International Quilt Festival Collection (February 1 - May 16, 2020)

    ORANGE   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

    STARK MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.starkmuseum.org/

    THE W. H. STARK HOUSE ♦  http://www.whstarkhouse.org/

    The 14,000 square-foot three-story house built in 1894 by William Henry Stark and his wife, Miriam M. Lutcher Stark, prominent philanthropists who occupied the home until 1936, was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style.  It house features a distinctive turret, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork in cypress and long leaf yellow pine.

    As a historic house museum (National Register of Historic Places) it is interpreted to c. 1900 with fifteen rooms of original family furnishings, personal effects and decorative arts, including antique rugs, original textiles, silver, cut glass, and antique porcelain. Also featured are the Stark family’s impressive collections of American Brilliant Period cut glass, pressed and pattern glass, milk glass, porcelains, and other 18th and 19th century decorative accessories.


    SAN ANGELO   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS  ♦  www.samfa.org


    SAN ANTONIO   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    McNAY ART MUSEUM  ♦ www.mcnayart.org
    Los Tres Grandes: Obras de Rivera, Siqueiros y Orozco (September 17, 2020 - January 3, 2021)

    Nearly all of the prints in the McNay's permanent collection by “the three greats” of Mexican modernism


    SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART  ♦  www.samuseum.org 

    Hollywood's Sistine Chapel: Sacred Sets for Stage & Screen (September 10, 2020 - April 4, 2021)
    The title doesn't convey . . . . take a look at some pictures!  
    http://www.mcnayart.org/exhibitions/upcoming/hollywoods-sistine-chapel-sacred-sets-for-stage-scene

    ? Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce (October 09, 2020 - January 03, 2021)


    WITTE MUSEUM 
    ♦ www.wittemuseum.org
    Historic houses at the Witte:
    • The Ruiz House was the home of the city’s first schoolmaster
    • The Twohig House was built in 1841 by Irishman John Twohig
    • The Navarro House was built  in 1835 by Jose Antonio Navarro
    • The Log Cabin was constructed in 1939 by 30 youths participating in President Roosevelt’s National Youth Administration program. The “dog trot” style cabin represents the type of cabin built by many Texas pioneers.


    WACO   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART •
    www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/

    The Floating World (March 10- April 9, 2020)
    Japanese woodblock prints


    James Surls, Seven and Seven Flower, 1998
    Diego Rivera, Sleep, 1932 Ilithograph)


    Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas 
    Not meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
    NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...

    Joaquin Sorolla, Valencia, 1909
    BIG ANNIVERSARIES in ART HISTORY in 2020-2021:
    • Jan van Eyck (1390 - 1441) Flemish Gothic painter
      Belgium has declared 2020 the Van Eyck Year with the unveiling of the restored Ghent Altarpiece and 
      attendant studies (down to the age of the tree from which the panels came!)
      http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/
      https://www.jan-van-eyck.org


    • Raphael (1483-1520) One of the three most feted artists of the Italian High Renaissance
      An exhibition in Rome opening March 5 (tentatively lasting through 14 June) will celebrate the          500th anniversary of Raphael's death
      https://lookingfortheconnoisseusse.net/2019/06/06/raphael-for-the-500th-anniversary-of-his-death/

       Excellent 14-minute narrated look at the exhibition: 
     
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s58gYvvNrKQ
       
       "In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael" (New York Times article):
        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/travel/in-the-virtual-and-actual-footsteps-of-raphael.html?smid=em-share 


    • Dante (1265-1321) 
      "To Rebehold the Stars: Dante Illustrated" exhibition, Uffizi, Florence (online)
      a virtual survey of Federico Zuccari's drawings marking 700 years since Dante's death



    The Covid-19 Pandemic has upended special exhibition calendar postings and most of what you see below has been cancelled or revised.  It may disappear altogether and be replaced by a simpler arrangement.  

    In the meantime, here is a two-part list from November 2020 (US exhibitions + European exhibitions) from the AHNCA newsletter (Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art).  Enjoy! 

    Document
    5-page exhibitions listing, alphabetical by state (US); country (Europe)


     
    AMSTERDAM
    Rijksmuseum •  https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en    REOPENING JUNE !
    Caravaggio-Bernini: Baroque in Rome (through September 13, 2020)

    Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en


    BALTIMORE
    Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/

    BARCELONA
    Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • www.mnac.cat/


    BASEL
    Kunstmuseum Basel •  
    www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
    Rembrandt's Orient (October 31, 2020 - February 14, 2021)
    The Dutch master never left the Netherlands, but travelled far afield in his imagination


    BENTONVILLE
    Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art •
    crystalbridges.org
    including Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House, 1957


    BERKELEY
    Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • https://bampfa.org/
    Brave Warriors and Fantastic Tales: The World According to Yoshitoshi (through May 31)
    Subject of a "rave" article in the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2020

    BERLIN
    Alte Galerie •
    Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism (September 18, 2020 - January 17, 2021)
    Paintings from fin-de-siècle Brussels
    Martin Gropius Bau •  www.gropiusbau.de


    BERN 
    Kunstmuseum •  www.kunstmuseumbern.ch


    BILBAO  •
    www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
    Guggenheim Museum Bilbao


    BLOOMINGTON 
    Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University) • https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/
    Facing the Revolution: Portraits of Women in France and the United States (March 25 - July 26, 2020)
    New artistic approaches to portraiture in the context of shifts from monarchical rule to republic

    Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural
    (September 3 - December 20, 2020)
    The museum's 1938 mural, examined closely in the context of abstract murals in the Depression era.


    BONN
    Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de


    BOSTON

    Museum of Fine Arts Boston •
     
    www.mfa.org/
    Boston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork (through March 29, 2020)

    Quilts and the American Experience (working title) (October 11, 2020 - January 18, 2021)

    Strong Women in Renaissance Italy (working title) (October 28, 2020-February 21, 2021)


    BREMEN

    Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de


    BROOKLYN 
    Brooklyn Museum of Art • brooklynmuseum.org

    Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley (through May 10, 2020)
    David's iconic portrait of Napoleon leading his army through the Alps is hung to make a direct comparison with Kehinde Wiley's "appropriation," by which he update traditions of ornament and how they poke at Enlightenment promises of universalism and freedom

    BURLINGTON VT 
    Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.org


    CAMBRIDGE
    Fitzwilliam Museum •   
    http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/


    CHICAGO
    Art Institute of Chicago •
    http://www.artic.edu
    Monet and Chicago (May 10 - September 7, 2020)

    El Greco: Ambition and Defiance
    (through June 21, 2020)

    Fabricating Fashion: Textiles for Dress, 1700–1825 (March 28 - July 26, 2020)

    Driehaus Museum • www.driehausmuseum.org 


    CINCINNATI

    Taft Museum of Art
    •
    http://www.taftmuseum.org/
    Twisted: Patrick Dougherty Entwined at the Taft (ongoing, front lawn)
    a cluster of Dougherty's signature willow-sapling forms, involving 6 tons of material and the help of 150 volunteers

    COLORADO
    SPRINGS
    Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College •
    http://www.csfineartscenter.org/


    COLUMBUS OH
    Columbus Museum of Art • 
    http://www.columbusmuseum.org/


    COPENHAGEN
    National Gallery of Denmark •
    http://www.smk.dk/en/


    DENVER
    Denver Art Museum •  www.denverartmuseum.org/



    DETROIT  
    Detroit Institute of Arts • 
    https://www.dia.org/


    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND 
    Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse •  www.rct.uk/whatson/


    ELK HORN, IOWA
    Museum of Danish America •  https://www.danishmuseum.org

    FLINT, MICHIGAN
    Flint Institute of Arts •
    www.flintarts.org



    FLORENCE
    Uffizi •  
    • Dante (1265-1321) 
      To Rebehold the Stars: Dante Illustrated (online)
      a virtual survey of Federico Zuccari's drawings marking 700 years since Dante's death


    GAINESVILLE
     
    Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu


    GHENT
    Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) • https://www.mskgent.be/en
    Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution (February 1 - April 30, 2020)
    A worldwide tribute to Jan van Eyck (ca. 1390-1441) will exhibit most of Eyck's 20 known works alongside works by his most talented peers.


    HAGUE
    Kunstmuseum Den Haag [formerly Gemeentemuseum] • www.kunstmuseum.nl
    Anders Zorn: The Swedish Idyll (October 10, 2020 - January 31, 2021)
    Zorn is known as a society painter for his glamorous portraits; this exhibition explores the paintings that record the customs of his homeland, including "genre" pictures of everyday life among the people of the countryside

    Mauritshuis •  https://www.mauritshuis.nl/
    Only with Vermeer: The Most Beautiful Painting in the World (through January 3, 2021)


    HELSINKI
    Ateneum •
    www.ateneum.fi



    INDIANAPOLIS

    Indianapolis Museum of Art • www.imamuseum.org‎
    Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art • https://artmuseum.indiana.edu


    LONDON
    British Museum •
    http://www.britishmuseum.org
    Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, loan and display projected to occur in 2022
    https://www.thecrownchronicles.co.uk/history/historical-news/bayeux-tapestry-will-loaned-uk-exhibition/


    Courtauld Institute of Art • http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays


    Leighton House Museum • https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum1.aspx

    National Gallery • www.nationalgallery.org.uk
    Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age (February 22 - May 31, 2020)

    Titian: Love, Desire, Death (March 16 - June 14, 2020)

    Artemisia (April 6 - July 26, 2020)
    Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi and follower of Caravaggio, made famous in historical fiction and film
    Raphael (October 3, 2020 - January 24, 2021)

    Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace • 

    Tate Britain • www.tate.org.uk
    Baroque in Britain (February 5 - April 19, 2020)

    Tate Modern • http://www.tate.org


    LOS ANGELES
    The Getty Center •
    www.getty.edu

    LOUISVILLE
    Speed Art Museum • 
    http://www.speedmuseum.org/


    MILWAUKEE
    Milwaukee Art Museum •
    mam.org


    MINNEAPOLIS
    Minneapolis Institute of Art • 
    https://new.artsmia.org/
    Yoshitoshi: Master Draftsman Transformed (through April 12)
    Subject of a "rave" article in the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2020


    MONTCLAIR
    Montclair Art Museum •
    https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/


    NASHVILLE

    Frist Center for the Visual Arts •
    fristcenter.org


    NEW YORK CITY

    Dahesh Museum of Art • www.daheshmuseum.org

    Guggenheim Museum
    •  
    http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york

    Metropolitan Museum of Art •  www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions 
    About Time: Fashion and Duration (October 29, 2020 - February 7, 2021)

    Epic Abstraction (ongoing)
    See thoughtful overview by Karen Wilkin, WSJ: 
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/epic-abstraction-review-high-expectations-and-trepidations-11547294400


    Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (through February 28, 2021)

    Morgan Library and Museum •  https://www.themorgan.org

    Museum of the City of New York
    •
      http://www.mcny.org/

    Neue Galerie •
    http://www.neuegalerie.org/home
    Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I ("The Woman in Gold") is on permanent display

    New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org
    Gallery of Tiffany Lamps  [100 lamps from the museum's spectacular collection]


    Whitney Museum of American Art •  www.whitney.org/
    Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 (through May 17, 2020)
    A huge topic in 20th-century American art history, beautifully reviewed: 
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/the-lasting-influence-of-mexicos-great-muralists



    NOGENT-SUR-SEINE
    [1 hour by train from Paris]
    Camille Claudel Museum • http://www.museecamilleclaudel.fr/


    NORFOLK
    Chrysler Museum of Art •
    https://chrysler.org/


    OKLAHOMA
     CITY
    Oklahoma City Museum of Art • 
    www.okcmoa.com


    OMAHA
    Joslyn Art Museum •  www.joslyn.org


    OSLO
    National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design •
      http://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/



    OXFORD
    Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology • 
    https://www.ashmolean.org


    PALO ALTO
    Stanford University: Cantor Arts Center • museum.stanford.edu


    PARIS
    Musée du Louvre •
    https://www.louvre.fr/en
    Albrecht Altdorfer, A German Renaissance Master (through January 4 2021)
    This Bavarian artist was a key figure in the evolution of landscape painting


    Musée Jacquemart Andre • www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com


    Musée National Eugène Delacroix • http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/en/


    Musée d'Orsay • www.musee-orsay.fr
    Museé de l'Orangerie • https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en
    Giorgio de Chirico: Metaphysical Painting (Sepember 16 - December 14, 2020)


    Musee Rodin
    • 
    http://www.musee-rodin.fr/

    PHILADELPHIA
    Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art •
    https://www.pafa.org

    Philadelphia Museum of Art •
    www.philamuseum.org
    Horace Pippin: From War to Peace (ongoing)

    Rodin Museum •  rodinmuseum.org
    Rethinking the Modern Monument  (ongoing)
    Applauded and despised in equal measure, Rodin’s public sculptures were viewed as a shocking departure from the methods used for centuries to pay homage to famous figures, and he changed the form forever. See many of the artist’s best-known sculptures alongside works by artists who came after, inspired by the radical intimacy of his public monuments.


    PORTLAND (Maine)  
    Portland Museum of Art • 
    www.portlandmuseum.org
    Tours of the Winslow Homer studio at Prout's Neck:
    Available from April through October, twice a day, on select days of the week (207) 775-6148


    ROME
    Scuderie del Quirinale • https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/
    Raphael 500 (5 March-14 June 2020)
    One of numerous international observances of the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian High Renaissance painter; other exhibitions: Urbino, London, Paris, Milan
    https://lookingfortheconnoisseusse.net/2019/06/06/raphael-for-the-500th-anniversary-of-his-death/

    SAINT LOUIS
    Saint Louis Art Museum •  http://www.slam.org/
    Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dali (through May 17, 2020)

    Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts • http://pulitzerarts.org/


    SALT LAKE CITY
    Utah Museum of Fine Arts
    • umfa.utah.edu


    SAN DIEGO
    San Diego Museum of Art • sdmart.org‎



    SAN FRANCISCO
    Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org

    De Young/Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    •
    http://deyoung.famsf.org


    SAN JOSE
    San Jose Museum of Art • http://sjmusart.org
    SAVANNAH •  telfair.org


    SEATTLE
    Frye Art Museum •
    fryemuseum.org

    Seattle Art Museum • http://seattleartmuseum.org


    SHELBURNE VT
    Shelburne Museum • 
    shelburnemuseum.org

    STOCKHOLM
    Nationalmuseum •  
    https://www.nationalmuseum.se/
    Arcadia: A Paradise Lost (September 17, 2020 - January 17, 2021)

    VENICE
    Peggy Guggenheim Collection •
    http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/
    VIENNA
    Albertina •
    Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler: The Hahnloser Collection (through May 24, 2020)
    120-work exhibition presents an overview of this internationally unique collection of modern art, with works on loan from the fine art museums Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunst Museum Winterthur additionally serving to illuminate this collection’s exemplary cultural policy aspect.

    Belvedere • https://www.belvedere.at/

    Kunstforum Wien • www.kunstforumwien.at/en

    Kunsthistorisches Museum • https://www.khm.at/

    Leopold Museum • https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/
    Hundertwasser/Schiele: Imagine Tomorrow (February 21 - August 31, 2020)

    MAK Museum of Applied Arts • http://www.mak.at/


    WASHINGTON, DC
    Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]

    Kreeger Museum • https://www.kreegermuseum.org/

    National Gallery of Art
    • www.nga.gov
    True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780-1870 (Februrary 2 - May 3, 2020)
    100 oil sketches made en plein air, the modern discipline that created a foundation for Impressionism

    Raphael and His Circle (February 16 - June 14, 2020)
    25 prints and drawings illustrating Raphael's art and influence; the NGA's five paintings by Raphael--the largest and most important group outside Europe--will be on view separately to complement the group of works on paper

    Degas at the Opera (March 1 - July 5, 2020)
    100 works in a range of media celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Opera's founding

    A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 (May 3 - August 16, 2020)
    International loan exhibition of 130 paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, drawings, prints

    National Museum of Women in the Arts •
    www.nmwa.org/


    Renwick Gallery
    Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (through May 17, 2020)
    82 works from ancient times to the present, made in a variety of media and communicating the pwer of the colaborative process

    Smithsonian American Art Museum • http://americanart.si.edu/
    Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, andulture (March 20 - August 16, 2020)
    100 paintings, sculptures, maps, artifacts examinging Humboldt's impact on 5 spheres of American cultural development between 1804 and 1903: visual arts, sciences, literature, politics, exploration

    Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists (through April 12, 2020)

    Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (February 21 - May 17, 2020) [Renwick Gallery]


    WATERVILLE, MAINE
    Colby College Museum of Art • www.colby.edu/museum/
    WILLIAMSTOWN
    Clark Art Institute, now called "The Clark" •
    http://www.clarkart.edu/

    WILMINGTON
    Delaware Art Museum • 
    http://www.delart.org/
    Howard Pyle Murals (through December 31, 2020)
    The complete set of nine mural panels painted by Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) for the drawing room of his home at 907 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware, semi-permanently installed in one of the Vinton Illustration galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

    WINTERTHUR (Switzerland)
    Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" •
    www.bundesmuseen.ch/roemerholz/

    Villa Flora Winterthur: Sammlung Hahnloser • https://www.villaflora.ch
    Closed for renovations, opening in 2022


    WOOSTER
    Wooster Art Museum • https://www.worcesterart.org/
    The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Art and Design (March 28 - June 28, 2020)


    YERRES, FRANCE--new museum:
    La Propriété Caillebotte à Yerres • http://proprietecaillebotte.com/en/
    Part of a nice long day SE of Paris: Yerres, Barbizon, Moret-sur-Loing, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau

    ZURICH
    Kunsthaus • 
    https://www.kunsthaus.ch/
    Romanticism in Switzerland (through February 14, 2021)
    A look at the spectacularly beautiful landscape art of Switzerland; "for Byron, the landscape of Switzerland made it 'the most Romantic region in the world'"

     
     
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