Whistler on show
Whistler is the subject of the first major retrospective in Europe for some 30 years
BRUSK, a new exhibition venue in Bruges
An exhibition on the history of Bruges 900–1550 marks the opening of BRUSK, a new exhibition venue in the city
William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy
‘William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy’ National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 16 April–19 July 2026 Alice Insley, Anne Hodge and Christina Morin William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy, National Gallery of Ireland pp144, €40, ISBN 9781911716129 Roderick Conway Morris All the illustrations are […]
Constable 250
The 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable is being marked by a series of publications and exhibitions under the general title of ‘Constable 250’
Henri Rousseau, l’ambition de la peinture
This Henri Rousseau exhibition spans the entire career of this remarkable maverick artist and brings together for the first time a substantial part of the two largest single collections of the painter’s works
Gwen John in Wales
An outstandingly well-designed retrospective exhibition of the work of Gwen John – in her native land of Wales – marks the 150th anniversary of her birth
‘Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts’
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is now the venue for the first major exhibition of art works from the ancient world and Renaissance to modern times inspired by Ovid’s classic. It features works by Bernini, Brancuşi, Caravaggio, Correggio, Delvaux, Magritte, Poussin, Rodin, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian and Veronese.
Women artists
The primary revelation of two exhibitions of work by women artists is the outstanding quality of so much of it – whose makers were renowned in their lifetimes and celebrated in contemporary written sources, but who have gradually been erased from the record by subsequent generations of (overwhelmingly male) art historians
‘Seurat and the Sea’
The first-ever exhibition devoted to Seurat’s marine subjects – although more than half of his final output was made up of them
‘Samurai’ at the British Museum
The strange world and magnificence of the Samurai culture of Japan is revealed in splendour at this British Museum exhibition