Tate Modern presents Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, on view through May 26, 2008. This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. Duchamp invented the concept of the ‘readymade’: presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia’s use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions. Their shared outlook on life and art, with a taste for jokes, irony and the erotic, forged a friendship that provided support and inspiration. At the heart of the Dada movement and moving in the same artistic circles, they discussed ideas and collaborated, echoing and responding to each other’s works. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia explores their affinities and parallels, uncovering a shared approach to questioning the nature of art. Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives.At the heart of the friendships lay a shared outlook on life, manifested in their works through jokes and a sense of irony, iconoclastic gestures, and a pronounced, if often coded, interest in sexual relations and eroticism. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia aims to explore the various affinities and parallels between the work of these three, showing how they responded to each others’ ideas and innovations.
Vroege Hollanders - Boijmans - Schilderkunst van de late Middeleeuwen.(Dutch primitives: paintings from the late Middle Ages) 16 februari – 25 mei 2008 Met ruim zestig zeldzame en ontroerende werken geeft Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen een indrukwekkend overzicht van de laatmiddeleeuwse Hollandse schilderkunst rond 1500. Vanuit musea van over de hele wereld komen de panelen samen voor deze eenmalige tentoonstelling. Over de Hollandse primitieven is slechts weinig bekend, maar ze doen niet onder voor hun Vlaamse tijdgenoten. De belangrijkste exponent, Geertgen tot Sint Jans uit Haarlem, legde in zijn werk een ongekende expressie aan de dag. Zijn realistische weergave van emoties en oog voor detail waren typisch Hollands.
Arps & Co are dedicated to bringing a wide variety of fine art to as broad a public as possible. 20 Feb 2008: It Ain't Necessarely So at the Gallery, Prinsengracht 444 Photography Elizabeth Kleinveld Poetry Rogi Wieg Vernissage from 6 till 8 p.m. at the Prinsenkelder, Prinsengracht 444, reserveer 020 7781947 On Saturday August 27 2005 Elizabeth Kleinveld was in New Orleans. By the end of the day most of her family and friends had made their way to other parts of the country to escape Hurricane Katrina. Some of their homes were damaged to the point that they can't live in them now, others had houses that were swept away, while others have lost places to sell their work. She and her fellow artists each in their own way has had to rebuild their life.The poetry of Rogi Wieg shines another light on this issue to make us understand what happened with the New Orleans music and how to give all this a place in our hearts.
The Grand Atelier Pathways of Art in Europe (5th - 18th century) Friday 05.10.2007 > Sunday 20.01.2008 - Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels) Long before asserting itself as a political entity, Europe was an area of intense circulation of people and goods. Despite wars and conflicts, this exchange of ideas, goods and innovations established lasting bonds between human communities, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, from the Atlantic to the Urals. We often forget that artists, works of art and even wealthy men seeking to satisfy their hunger for beauty also travelled the trade routes and waterways. Thus, it is through past masterpieces and even modest works, that we can grasp and appreciate what was even at the dawn of the Middle Ages, a European space of art and thought.
Vluchten in schoonheid De Prerafaëlieten en Nederlandse kunstenaars rond 1900. Museum Mesdag - 15 februari 2008 t/m 18 mei 2008 Van 15 februari 2008 t/m 18 mei 2008 organiseert Museum Mesdag in Den Haag de tentoonstelling Vluchten in schoonheid. De Prerafaëlieten en Nederlandse kunstenaars rond 1900. De tentoonstelling gaat in op de invloed van de Engelse Prerafaeliëten op Nederlandse kunstenaars. Naast een groot aantal tekeningen en schilderijen van Haagse Schoolkunstenaar Matthijs Maris, komt ook het werk van een latere generatie Nederlandse kunstenaars aan bod, onder wie Jan Toorop, Richard Roland Holst, Antoon van Welie en Antoon Derkinderen.
