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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 dates and cost, 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

"Salon hang," Frye Art Museum, Seattle

2020 MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES: "12 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context"
Choice of two dates for each topic

*** REGISTRATION IS OPEN! ***

Preregistration is expected; deadline for registration is 5 days in advance of the program
(but all spaces may fill before then; send email to get your name on the attendance list, request a special meal, and to receive a confirmation and other material in advance of the program.

ZOOM MEETINGS, replacing in-person programs at NCHM and Chateau Bellevue:
FREE to season subscribers; all others $20 per person

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)

2020 SCHEDULE of TOPICS:

√ Parthenon, 447BC	Jan 10 @ CB	Jan16 @ NCHM
√ Augustus of Prima Porta, 20BC	Feb 13 @ NCHM	Feb 14 @ CB
√ Pala d'Oro (San Marco, Venice), 976f	Mar 19: Zoom	Mar 20: Zoom
√ Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1434	Apr 23: Zoom	Apr 24: Zoom
√ Bernini, The Ecstasy of Teresa, 1650	May 28: Zoom	May 29: Zoom
√ Michelangelo, Sistine Ceiling, 1508	June 30 via Zoom	July 3 via Zoom
√ David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784	July 16 Zoom 10am	July 17 Zoom 11am
√ Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873	Aug 27 Zoom 10a	Aug 28 Zoom 11a
√ Gauguin, Vision of the Sermon, 1888 Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884ff	Sept 17 Zoom 10am Oct 29 Zoom/NCHM	Sept 18 Zoom 11am Oct 30 Zoom/CB

Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Chicago, Dinner Party, 1974ff

Nov 12 @ NCHM?
Dec 03

Nov 13 @ CB?
Dec 04

We will return to our former gatherings as soon as we can meet the minimums:

40 at Chateau Bellevue

35 at Neill-Cochran House Museum

Thursday Morning Coffees @ Neill-Cochran House Museum (capacity: 45)
(coffee, tea, pastries, free parking behind Museum; complimentary Museum visit)

9:30-11:30am
$30 per person per program --"Series subscription" option: $250 for 9 programs

Friday Luncheons @ Chateau Bellevue (capacity: 100)
Austin Woman's Club, seated luncheon, free parking in AWC lot;
complimentary house tour)

10:30am - 1:00pm

$45 per person per program --"Series subscription" option: $400 for 9 programs

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 2019-20 -- Season 13:
"The Other Mid-Century Modern: 1845-55, Texas Statehood and the International Scene"

Programs postponed because of Corona virus will be rescheduled to the extent possible

See NCHM website for information about Season 14

SPACE LIMITED, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
(Free to current Friends 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 The Friends of the NCHM on the NCHM website: http://www.nchmuseum.org

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS:
"If These Walls Could Talk"

January 15 - May 3, 2020 EXTENDED THROUGH November 22
Neill-Cochran House Museum

Porcelain sculpture by Austin visual artist Ginger Geyer, conceived to explore issues of privilege and servitude, will be installed throughout the Museum; imaginary friends Chlora and Ruby Virginia exist on 16 placards to initiate visitor conversations about what is seen and how it suggests ideas about the house's past. A lively calendar of exhibition-related programs created by Austin minister, songstress, and actor Jennifer Cumberbatch will complement the objects and enrich dialogues about Austin's past and the antebellum realities of the NCH's construction.

"Reckoning with the Past: Slavery, Segregation and Gentrification in Austin"
through the end of the year
Neill-Cochran House Museum

Next public event---

November 19: Exhibition Finale with Jennifer Cumberbatch: "Make AMerica Sing Again"

DETAILS and REGISTRATION FOR ALL EVENTS:
https://www.nchmuseum.org/if-these-walls-could-talk/

NUMEROUS VIDEOS on NCHM YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Neill-Cochran+House+Museum

Fox 7's video: https://www.fox7austin.com/video/646207

UT-Austin College of Fine Arts story:

https://art.utexas.edu/news/if-these-walls-could-talk-collaborative-exhibition-presented-neill-cochran-house-museum-alumna

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"

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
The NCHM's major structural renovation is complete and, for the first time in 50 years, this Greek Revival mansion has bright paint, splendid wallpaper, and Cochran furnishings in new bedroom installations. Changing exhibitions highlight aspects of life in long-ago Austin, and art and artifacts from the House's period of interpretation complement adult lecture series and family programming, offering numerous reasons to visit and return.

If These Walls Could Talk (January 15 - November 22, 2020) OPEN
Ginger Geyer's porcelain trompe-l'oeil sculptures of everyday objects placed throughout the Museum will set the stage for dialogues between Chlora (imaginary resident of the NCHM sometime in the past) and Ruby Virginia, her visiting friend, enacted by performance artist Jennifer Cumberbatch, dialogues between sculptor and actress, etc.
Numerous special one-time events are planned, dependent on the success of fundraising for this milestone museum project that will be followed by a reinterpretation of the Museum's "Dependency," the 9th-oldest building in Austin and the only extant habitation/workspace used by enslaved laborers (who worked on the construction of the Neill-Cochran House Museum).

Watch NCHM website for information about the closing performance, "Make America Sing Again"

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

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)

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

Ginger Geyer, Make America Sing Again, 2018 (glazed porcelain; cf. Aretha Franklin at Obama Inauguration)

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:

• 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

Anders Zorn at The Hague

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

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

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Armchair, 1884 (V&A)

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