Ritsue Mishima, frozen garden/ “fruits of fire”
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 30 May 2010
Ritsue Mishima, one of today’s leading glass designers, is filling a Japanese winter garden in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen with glass objects. It will be a garden that plays with the inspiring Dutch light, captured differently each time by the Venetian glass.
Moore Adventures in Wonderland
Rosenbach Museum & Library
September 23, 2009 – June 6, 2010
The Rosenbach Museum & Library’s new exhibition Moore Adventures in Wonderland, currently on view through June 6, 2010, is a Marianne Moore and Alice in Wonderland-inspired installation, created by Rosenbach Artist-in-Residence, Sue Johnson. The exhibition investigates the Rosenbach’s collection of the work of author Lewis Carroll and Modernist American poet and writer Marianne Moore and uncovers the unexpected connections between the two.
Trying is Buying – Jacob Jongert 1883-1942
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
19 December 2009 – 18 April 2010
Jacob Jongert (1883-1942) is one of the first advertising designers in the Netherlands. His career takes flight after he is given the advertising assignment for the tea, coffee and tobacco factories of Wed. J. Van Nelle. This is the start of a series of thousands of designs for the firm, for whom Jongert creates a recognizable image with clear shapes and primary colours.
Pieter Aertsen and the world in disarray
Rijksmuseum
2 February – 19 April 2010
From 2 February through 19 April 2010, the Rijksmuseum will present a small exhibition on the 16th century artist Pieter Aertsen. This marks the first occasion in a long time that his work, including the famous painting The Egg Dance (1552), will once again be on display in the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition is being organised in honour of head curator Wouter Kloek, who is leaving the museum.
Portscapes
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 25 April 2010
In 2009 several national and international artists undertook an artistic journey of discovery into the past, present and future of the Port of Rotterdam under the umbrella title of Portscapes, drawing inspiration from the port. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing ten art projects that resulted from it in a high-profile exhibition.
The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film Fotomuseum Winterthur February 27 – May 23, 2010 From February 27 to May 23, 2010, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting the exhibition The Subversion of Images–Surrealism, Photography, Film, an extraordinarily rich survey of Surrealist photography. The exhibition comprises over 400 photographs, films, and documents: from the most […]
Divided Divided – Carsten Höller Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 6 February – 25 April 2010 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will shortly stage Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided Divided. The contemporary artist is creating a 1,500 m2 installation especially for the museum. What’s more, visitors can spend the night in the Revolving Hotel Room. All the works […]
From stage to painting The magic of theatre in 19th-century painting From David to Delacroix and Fuseli to Degas MartRovereto From 6 February to 23 May 2010 The theatre and the stage as the keys to a fresh view of the development of painting towards modernity. This is the new approach offered by the exhibition, […]
Sunny Skies Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol 22 February – September 2010 Starting on 22 February 2010, the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will be hosting the ‘Sunny Skies’ exhibition. The exhibition will feature nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists taken from the Rijksmuseum’s collection that were inspired by the Italian landscape and the incidence […]
Classic Contemporary: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art from the Singapore Art Museum Collection Singapore Art Museum 29 January – 2 May 2010 With the dawn of a new decade, the Singapore Art Museum is ready to create a new identity for itself. Under the helm of Director, Mr. Tan Boon Hui and armed with a whole […]
Traces: IMMA Limited Editions Irish Museum of Modern Art 29 January – 28 February 2010. An exhibition of 33 prints by leading Irish and international artists from the Irish Museum of Modern Art opens to the public on 1 February at the Blackbird Gallery in Kilkenny. Traces: IMMA Limited Editions, a print series that came […]
In the Vernacular Art Institute of Chicago February 6 – May 31, 2010 For at least a century, vernacular photographs–those ordinary, amateur or professional, “everyday” pictures–both challenged and inspired fine-art photography. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized In the Vernacular , an exhibition that brings together images by artists who-through their choice of content, […]