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Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good company of companions with similar interests.
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2025 SERIES: "My Nineteenth Century"
A survey of the major movements of the "long nineteenth century"
1780-1920, one at a time, concentrating on a few key works each session
New venue for coffee: St Matthew's Church, Steck @ Mesa--plenty of room,
inside and out! Same schedule (Thursday Zoom, Friday coffee)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Michelle Foa, An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art, 2011 (464 pages)
+ useful website: https://www.19thcenturyart-facos.com/
• Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Nineteenth Century European Art, 2010 (560 pages)
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (period-style topics): https://www.metmuseum.org/toah
Zoom meetings -- Thursdays 10:00-11:00am Austin Time
[pre-Zoom and post-Zoom notes and recording]
$20 per person
Coffee meetings -- Fridays 10:00-11:30am
[coffee and program @ St Matthew's Episcopal Church, B18/B19, acccessible via stair and elevator]
$30 per person
Preregistration is expected--send email to get your name on the attendance list
Registration deadline: Monday of the same week
Registration Options:
• Check, payable to Art inSight, mail to: PO Box 5730, Austin TX 78763-5730
• VENMO, I'll send the identification
SCHEDULE:
√1 Neoclassicism: David & Ingres
January 23 (Zoom) - 24 (Coffee @ St Matthew’s)
√2 Romanticism: Delacroix
February 20 (Zoom) – 21 (Coffee @ St Matthew's)
√3 Nazarenes: Friedrich, Runge
March 20 (Zoom) – 14 (Coffee @ St Matthew’s)
√4 Pre-Raphaelites: Rossetti & Burne-Jones
April 10 (Zoom) – 11 (Coffee @ St Matthew’s)
5 Barbizon School: Rousseau & Millet
May 15 (Zoom) – 16 (Coffee @ St Matthew’s)
6 Luminism: Heade & Lane
June 19 (Zoom) – 20 (Zoom)
7 Impressionism: Monet, Degas, Seurat
July 17 (Zoom) – 18 (Coffee @ St Matthew’s)
8 Post-Impressionism: Cézanne & van Gogh
Aug 21 (Zoom)-- 22 (Zoom)
9 Nabis: Gauguin & Denis
September 18 (Zoom) – 19 (Coffee @ St Matt’s)
10 Intimism: Bonnard & Vuillard
October 16 (Zoom) – 17 (Zoom)
11 Symbolism: Khnopff & Klimt
November 20 (Zoom) – 14 (Coffee @ St Matt’s)
12 Fauves: Matisse & Derain
December 11 (Zoom) – 12 (Zoom)
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| Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna |
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2023 Great Women Artists, Part II
2022 Women Artists in Their Birthday Months, honoring the 50th anniversary of Feminist Art History Studies, f. 1972
2021 Artists in Their Birthday Months
2020 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context
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.)
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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
This is a selective list. Check museum offerings before you go--
you're bound to make some fun discoveries!
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| ABILENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRACE MUSEUM ♦ www.thegracemuseum.org
ALBANY
Old Jail Art Center •
AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
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
"Modern Times" lecture series (free to members): Austin and World Events 1895-1905
Register for events at NCHM website: "Visit" page > Events
UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM) ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.dma.org
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
Jean Shin: The Museum Body (through June 30, 2025)
Site-specific environment by American sculptor who recycles everyday materials with delightful and meaningful results
Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation (through April 20, 2025)
Prints by one of Mexico's most influential artists
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.org
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
Dare to Wear: a spectacular display of designer cowgirl fashion
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
BAYOU BEND A Unique Gathering of Americana ♦ www.mfah.org/bayoubend
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM ♦ www.camh.org
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ♦ www.crafthouston.org
MENIL COLLECTION ♦ www.menil.org
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
Tamara de Lempicka (March 9 - May 26, 2025)
Special exhibititon and first US retrospective exhibition of 100 works including her experiments in Cubism and Expressionism, melancholic street scenes and domestic interiors, and a wide selection of rarely seen drawings that demonstrate her superb draftsmanship. The installation will feature examples of Art Deco fashion and design to place Lempicka's unique achievements in the context of her times. For Houston, this is also a homecoming, as Lempicka made Houston her second home in the 1960s, and the exhibition has been planned with the enthusiastic cooperation of the artist's family.
Picturing Nature: British Landscapes and Beyond (January 12 through July 6, 2025)
Featuring over 70 works of art in a variety of media, explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain. This diverse collection of watercolors, drawings, prints, and oil sketches traces the shift from topographical and picturesque depictions of the natural world to intensely personal ones that align with Romantic poetry of the period. The exceptional Stuart Collection includes standout works by such notable artists as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner, whose innovative approaches to watercolor raised its status as an art form and heralded a golden age for the medium.
THE PEARL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS • www.pearlmfa.org
The Pearl is a non-collecting fine art museum, borrowing from public and private collections. The museum complements its exhibitions with an active schedule of programs and services. Founded on the community center concept, the Pearl reaches beyond traditional museums to enlighten, educate, and entertain. The Pearl is housed in a former county library, leased to the museum and renovated through private funds, grants, and gifts. The Pearl is wholly supported through the community. Over 3,000 donors have given to the museum to date.
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
ORANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
STARK MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.starkmuseum.org/
Steuben Glass: Stories Engraved in Crystal (ongoing)
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
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.samuseum.org
WITTE MUSEUM ♦ www.wittemuseum.org
Historic houses, natural history, and occasional art exhibitions
WACO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas
Not a comprehensive list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
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BIG ANNIVERSARIES/EVENTS in ART HISTORY in 2025:
• "The Four Seasons" 300 composed by Vivaldi in 1725
• Lafayette's "Farewell" Tour of the US 200 [excellent article and schedule of 2024-25 events in July/August 2024 American Spirit DAR Magazine]
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena: 50th anniversary
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AMSTERDAMRijksmuseum • https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/enAnselm Kiefer -- major exhibition displayed jointly at VG Museum and Stedelijk (March 7 - June 9)
ASHEVILLE
Biltmore • https://www.biltmore.com/
ATLANTAHigh Museum • https://high.org/Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection (new installation)
Shaheen Collection of French Works (ongoing)
A family collection focused on French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
BARCELONA
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • https://www.museunacional.cat/en
BASEL
Kunstmuseum Basel • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Fondation Beyeler • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
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/
BERLINAlte Nationalgalerie • https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/alte-nationalgalerie/home/
Art of the Nineteenth Century (permanent exhibition)
Gemäldegalerie • https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/gemaeldegalerie/home/
Paintings from the 13th to 18th Century (permanent exhibition)
Unlocking Christian Art (ongoing)
Martin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.de
Nationalgalerie • https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/nationalgalerie/home/
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
BILBAO Guggenheim Museum Bilbao • www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
BLOOMINGTON Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University) • https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light (February 14 - June 15, 2025)Step-daughter of Claude Monet
BONN
Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de
Museum Reinhard Ernst •
Helen Frankenthaler (16 March - 28 September, 2025)
American Color Field painter presented as "risktaker, spacemaker, groundbreaker
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Museum of Art • brooklynmuseum.org The Dinner Party Today: Conversations on a Landmark Feminist Work: a new pocast . . .
info here: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/stories/the-dinner-party-today-judy-chicago
BRUSSELS
René Magritte Museum & Museum of Abstract Art
BURLINGTON VT Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.org
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum • http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
CHARLESTONBrookgreen Gardens • https://www.brookgreen.org/
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu
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
CLEVELAND Cleveland Museum of Art • https://www.clevelandart.org/
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
COLUMBUS OH
Columbus Museum of Art • http://www.columbusmuseum.org/
DUSSELDORF
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse • www.rct.uk/whatson/
ELK HORN, IOWAMuseum of Danish America • https://www.danishmuseum.org
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
FLORENCE
Palazzo Strozzi
Museu del Bargello • https://www.florence-museum.com/bargello-museum
Uffizi • https://www.uffizi-gallery
FRANKFURTStädel Museum •
GAINESVILLE
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu
GHENTMuseum of Fine Arts (MSK) • https://www.mskgent.be/en
THE HAGUE
Kunstmuseum Den Haag [formerly Gemeentemuseum] • www.kunstmuseum.nlDiscover the Modern (ongoing)
Mauritshuis • https://www.mauritshuis.nl/
Mesdag Panorama • https://panorama-mesdag.nl/en/Always on: The Panorama (1881)
HAMBURGHamburg Kunsthalle • https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/
HELSINKIAteneum • www.ateneum.fi
KASSEL
LONDON
British Library •
Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, to be on loan and display 2025-2027
Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection (through May 26, 2025)
One of the best private collections of Impressionism and modern art in Europe -- a Karen Pope favorite
Edvard Munch Portraits (through June 15, 2025)
Edvard Munch was, contrary to the impression one might get from his most famous painting, a sociable, gregarious character. That is the thesis put forward by the National Portrait Gallery in this exhibition of more than 40 of Munch’s portraits of friends, family, peers, patrons, collectors and himself, which highlights the extensive network of acquaintances the artist made and the ways in which he honed and adapted his painting techniques over the course of his long career
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo (March 21 - June 29, 2025)
William Morris Gallery •
exhibitions celebrating 75 years of WMG
Morris Mania (5 April - 21 September 2025)
Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textile Designs (opening October 2025)
Exploring the Alps (November 12, 2024 - April 27, 2025)
Organized around Giovanni Segantini’s monumental pastel Study for “La Vita” depicting the Alpine peaks that ringed his home in the Engadine Valley in Switzerland, this focused exhibition highlights the different ways in which later 19th-century artists explored and depicted the Alps. Themes include the joys and difficulties of working outdoors and the connections between the land and its inhabitants.
Caillebotte Painting Men (25 February to 25 May 2025)
Exhibition organized by Musée d'Orsay in observance of 130th anniversary of Caillebotte's death
The Speed Collects: Empires to Revolutions, 1700-1825 (ongoing)
Includes Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's portrait of Madame Adélaïde, 1787
MADISON
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
MADRID
Thyssen Bornemisza
Proust and the Arts (through June 8, 2025)
MANCHESTER
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
NEW HAVEN
J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (March 29 - July 27, 2025)
NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans Museum of Art •
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature (through May 11)
MAJOR exhibition of 88 paintings and drawings, organized in observance of Friedrich 250th birthday last year (b. 1774)
Sargent & Paris (April 27 - August 3, 2025)
An in-depth look at a decade of Sargent's arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous success at the Paris Salon.
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy (Fall 2024)
Exhibition devoted to the story of Morgan's "personal librarian," who built the library collection and eventually directed the Library; subject of the acclaimed book by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian, 2021
See video on website: "The Most Fascinating Librarian in American History"
Museum of the City of New York • http://www.mcny.org/
New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org
Gallery of Tiffany Lamps [100 lamps from the museum's spectacular collection]
OMAHA
OXFORD
Fondation Louis Vuitton •
Exquisite collection of French XVIII art and furnishings assembled by Moise da Camondo in memory of his son, Nissim; the Camondo Family were neighbors of the Ephrussi Family close to Parc Monceau, the inspiration behind Edmund de Waal's Letters to Camondo
Petit Palais •
PASADENA
Norton Simon Museum
Retrospect: 50 Years of the Norton Simon Museum (through January 12, 2026)
Exhibition of the Museum's evolution over 50 years
PHILADELPHIA
Firing the Imagination: Japanese Influence on French Ceramics, 1880-1910 (through May 25, 2025)
From glazing techniques to iconography; be sure to look for Hokusai motifs on the tableware designed by Félix Bracquemond for production by Eugène Rousseau
Rodin Museum • rodinmuseum.orgRethinking 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.
PLYMOUTH
The Box • https://www.thebox
PORTLAND (Maine)
Portland Museum of Art • www.portlandmuseum.orgTours 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
PORTLAND (Oregon)
Portland Art Museum • https://portlandartmuseum.org/
POTSDAM
Museum Barberini
Kandinsky's Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century (through May 18, 2025)
RIEHEN
Fondation Beyeler • Northern Lights (through May 25, 2025)Works by Canadan and Scandinavian artists dpicting the beauty of boreal forests
ROME
Scuderie del Quirinale • https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/
SAINT LOUISSaint Louis Art Museum • http://www.slam.org/
Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII (November 8, 2024 - April 20, 2025)
Riotous color at the height of screen-print fever
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts • http://pulitzerarts.org/
SAINT-PAUL DE VENCEFondation Maeght • https://www.fondation-maeght.com/
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah Museum of Fine Arts • umfa.utah.edu
SALTRAM • https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/saltram
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
Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art (March 22 - August 17, 2025)
SAN JOSE
SANTA FE
TORONTO
VENICE
Art Gallery of Ontario • https://ago.ca/
Tissot, Women and Time (December 20, 2024 - June 29, 2025)
Exploring the many ways that the French artist James Tissot represented modern women and envisioned their relationship to time during the last decades of the nineteenth century, this exhibition presents two of the AGO’s most beloved Tissot paintings alongside a selection of more than 40 works on paper donated by Allan and Sondra Gotlieb. The contradiction of the period come alive in these works, as the quickness of modernity, exemplified by the newfound speed of travel, fashion and commodity culture, is juxtaposed against the constrained pace of women’s everyday lives, characterized by the wait to find a husband, caregiving, tending to customers or recovering from illness.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection • http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/
VERSAILLES
VICENZA
VIENNA
The World in Colors: Slovenian Painting 1848-1918 (through May 25, 2025)
Works from Slovenia's era of national emancipation
Vienna 1900: Birth of Modernism (ongoing)
WARWICK
WASHINGTON, DC
Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]
WOOSTER
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