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American Museum in Britain

Painted Rooms

The American Museum in Britain is delighted to present Painted Rooms: American Historic Interiors by Michael John Hunt on view at Claverton Manor, Bath, from Saturday 10 March to Sunday 28 October 2012. Forty of Hunt’s exquisite interiors of Winterthur and Wynkoop, treasured historic houses in the USA, will be displayed in the American Museum’s period rooms and Gallery, before travelling to Winterthur later this year.

10 March to 28 October 2012

John James Audubon: Fur and Feather

John James Audubon is known for his remarkable studies of American birds depicted in their natural habitats. His The Birds of North America (1827-1839), in which he identified 25 new species and a number of new sub-species, is considered to be one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. However, his studies of mammals are less well-known. To complement The Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum’s Print Collection, on view in the Exhibition Gallery from 10 March to 1 July 2012, the American Museum in Britain will display twelve folio engravings by this great ornithologist, naturalist and painter, in Claverton Manor at the start of the period room trail from 10 March to 28 October 2012.

10 March to 28 October 2012

The Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print Collection

The Compassionate Eye, an exhibition of prints by American artists depicting the sympathetic relationship between man and beast, will be staged at the American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath, from Saturday 10 March to Sunday 1 July 2012. These images, many of which will be displayed for the first time at the Museum, will be accompanied by early folio engravings after the celebrated drawings of American birds by John James Audubon (1785-1851).

10 March to 1 July 2012

British Museum

TREASURES FROM THE KHALILI COLLECTION ON VIEW AT BRITISH MUSEUM

The earliest known accurate panoramic view of Mecca is one of over forty-five important objects to be loaned by the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art to the British Museum for the exhibition Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam which will be on view in the Round Reading Room from 26 January to 15 April 2012. The Khalili Collection is the biggest single lender to this landmark exhibition, the first devoted to the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca which is central to the Muslim faith.

Ends Sunday 15 April 2012

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Alberto Burri: Form and Matter

Alberto Burri (1915-1995) is a towering figure of abstraction whose work revolutionised the artistic vocabulary of the post-war art world. Burri’s celebration of humble materials such as sacking and tar created a new aesthetic rich in expressive power during the 1950s, and was later to prove decisive for artists associated with the Arte Povera movement. Yet, despite his stature, Alberto Burri: Form and Matter at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from 13 January to 7 April 2012 is the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work to be held in the United Kingdom. It offers a comprehensive overview of Burri’s achievement through some forty powerful works spanning four decades, ranging from rare, early figurative pieces of the late 1940s to the ground-breaking abstract works for which he is best known.

Ends Saturday 7 April 2012

John Eskenazi at Adam Williams, New York

John Eskenazi Presents Hindu Gods and Serene Buddhas in New York

John Eskenazi, the highly-respected London dealer in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and Southeast Asian works of art, will be presenting outstanding sculpture in his annual New York exhibition at Adam Williams Fine Art and Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street. Recent Acquisitions will be on view from 14 to 25 March 2012, as part of Asia Week New York.

14 to 26 March 2012

Moretti Fine Art

Italian Old Masters in New York

Moretti Fine Art will stage their third annual winter exhibition of early Italian Old Masters at their gallery at 24 East 80th Street, New York, from 18 January to 10 February 2012. Entitled The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: Paintings and Sculpture from the Carlo de Carlo Collection and other provenances, the exhibition will comprise twenty-four paintings and two sculptures, all of which are as remarkable for their beauty as they are for their rarity.

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Moretti Fine Art at TEFAF

Moretti Fine Art Celebrates 10 Years at TEFAF MAASTRICHT

Moretti Fine Art will mark ten years at TEFAF Maastricht with some exceptional Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Italian paintings and works of art. The fair, which is the world’s leading art and antiques event, is celebrating its Silver Jubilee and will take place at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) from 16 to 25 March 2012. Stand 384.

16 to 25 March 2012

Palazzo Strozzi

Americans in Florence.

Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from 3 March to 15 July 2012, sets out to illustrate the extremely fertile and multifaceted relationship that the painters of the New World established with Florence and other cities in Tuscany between the mid 19th century and the World War 1. After the end of the American Civil War, there was a substantial increase in the number of American artists travelling to Europe, although, of course, the 18th century Grand Tour tradition had never really died. The painters’ main destinations were Florence, Venice and Rome, cities which the artists idolised in their eagerness to explore their ancient monuments and to take their own measure against the art of the past. They were also attracted by the charm and variety of the landscape, so different from the countryside back home, by the light, by the evocative and atmospheric panoramic views, and by the picturesque charm of the local people.

3 March to 15 July 2012

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Two girls with bouquet of flowers in theatre box

The Clark Adds Japanese Venues to International Tour Schedule

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announced that the international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century French paintings will travel to two venues in Japan in 2013. Its first international tour of paintings from its collection underscores the Clark’s commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange. Tokyo’s Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum will present the Clark exhibition from 9 February to 26 May 2013, followed by an exhibition at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe from 8 June to 1 September 2013.

9 February to 1 September 2013

Stowe House

The Paul Mellon Estate Pledges $250,000

Through World Monuments Fund (WMF), The Paul Mellon Estate has announced a pledge of $250,000 towards the restoration of the State Music Room at Stowe House, the magnificent Grade I listed Neo-Classical palace set in 400 acres of landscaped park in Buckinghamshire. The funding means that the work will begin this year and should be completed by 2012-13.

Ends Sunday 1 April 2012

The Courtauld Gallery

RESTORED RUBENS MASTERPIECE GOES BACK ON PUBLIC VIEW

The newly-conserved masterpiece Cain Slaying Abel by Sir Peter Paul Rubens went back on public display at The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London WC2, on 1 February 2012. The magnificent painting, widely considered to be one of the most important in the Gallery’s world-class collection of works by Rubens, has been restored as part of the Bank of America Art Conservation Project which was launched in 2010.

Ends Friday 1 February 2013

THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART APPOINTS TWO ASIAN ART SCHOLARS

The Courtauld Institute of Art is delighted to announce the appointment of Wenny Teo and Sussan Babaie to two new faculty teaching and research posts in Asian art history. The establishment of these posts marks a major step in the expansion of The Courtauld’s curriculum beyond the Western tradition as part of its engagement with world art history. With these additional posts, The Courtauld will introduce teaching on aspects of Asian art into both the undergraduate courses leading to the BA degree in Art History, the MA in Art History, and in its graduate Diploma by the start of the 2012 academic year.

Ends Saturday 2 February 2013

Black lines on white with red, yellow and blue

Mondrian||Nicholson: In Parallel

This exhibition tells the remarkable story of the creative relationship between Piet Mondrian, one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century, and Ben Nicholson, one of this country’s greatest modern artists. It has been conceived around The Courtauld’s important Nicholson canvas, 1937 (painting), and will unite a group of major paintings and reliefs to explore the parallel artistic paths charted by the two artists during the 1930s. Their friendship culminated with Mondrian moving from Paris to London in 1938, at Nicholson’s invitation, and the two working in neighbouring studios in Parkhill Road, Hampstead, when for a short period London was an international centre of modernist art. The works selected for the exhibition each have a particular historical significance. Paintings and reliefs that were shown together in exhibitions or included in avant-garde publications during the 1930s will be reunited. Other works were originally bought by influential members of their circle in London, or were produced whilst the artists occupied neighbouring studios in Hampstead. In addition, a selection of archival material, including photographs and a group of Mondrian’s and Nicholson’s letters, will offer further insights into this fascinating relationship.

16 February to 20 May 2012

Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collections of drawings in Britain. Numbering some 7,000 works, it ranges from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Organised in collaboration with the Frick Collection in New York, this exhibition presents a magnificent selection of some sixty of the finest works in the collection. It offers a rare opportunity to consider the art of drawing in the hands of its greatest masters, including Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Cézanne and Matisse. The Courtauld last displayed a comparable selection of its masterpieces more than twenty years ago and this exhibition will bring the collection to new audiences nationally and internationally.

14 June to 9 September 2012

The Courtauld Institute of Art

JAMES HUGHES-HALLETT TO SUCCEED NICHOLAS FERGUSON AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART

The Board of The Courtauld Institute of Art is delighted to announce that James Hughes-Hallett has been appointed Chairman as successor to The Courtauld’s first Chairman, Nicholas Ferguson, who retires from the post in July 2012 after ten years of outstanding leadership. James Hughes-Hallett is Chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd, as well as a director of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Swire Pacific Ltd and James Finlay Ltd.

Ends Saturday 1 December 2012

Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at TEFAF

Tomasso Brothers to exhibit at TEFAF Maastricht

A spectacular bronze figure of the Farnese Bull (The Punishment of Dirce) is one of the major pieces of sculpture to be shown by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at TEFAF Maastricht at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) from 16 to 25 March 2012. This will be the first time that Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, the internationally-renowned dealers in European sculpture, has exhibited at TEFAF which celebrates its Silver Jubilee in 2012. Stand 165