Festivals and Films
Amsterdam What's on
17 October 2009 - 24 January 2010. This is the latest major exhibition to be staged in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Tracing the work of three revolutionary artists, it follows the influence of C
Copenhagen What's on
RETHINK: Contemporary Art & Climate Change
31 October 2009 - 10 January 2010. Taking place in various locations around Copenhagen, RETHINK is an art project that thematically examines climate changes through Nordic and International contempora...
Paris What's on
Hommages à Toulouse-Lautrec affichiste
18 June 2009 − 3 January 2010. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is famous for his prolific output of iconic post-impressionist paintings and posters, lithographs and art-nouveau illustrations, almost all...
Barcelona What's on
Trabajos de Campo (Field Work)
18 September 2009 - 16 January 2010. Trabajos de Campo is a photographic exhibition which explores the traditions and rural roots of Spanish culture and society through the work of Cristobal Hara and...
Vienna What's on
21 October 2009 - 31 January 2010. Herbert Boeckl (1894-1966) is one of Austria's most well-known 20th century painters. His work encompasses most painting genres, from portraiture to nudes, landscape...
Madrid What's on
Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimate Worlds
29 September 2009 - 10 January 2010. Born in Grenoble, France, the artist Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) was a contemporary of impressionist pioneers such as Degas and Manet. Despite a similarity in...
Dublin What's on
Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty
28 October 2009 - 7 March 2010. 'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty' has been hailed as one of Europe's major cultural events of 2009. Comprising paintings which haven't been seen by the public for many...
Amsterdam What's on
17 Oct 2009 - 24 Jan 2010. This is the latest major exhibition to be staged in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Tracing the work of three revolutionary artists, it follows the influence of C
Paris What's on
22 Sept-22 Nov 2009. Photoquai, the Biennale of World Images, features photography from over 40 non-Western countries.
The festival continues the fundamental mission of Photoquai, namely 'to devel...
Brussels What's on
22 Oct 2009-14 Feb 2010. Hailed as a 'blockbuster' exhibition, 'The Mandarin's Three Dreams' is running parallel to the Europalia Festival of which China is the guest of honour. The exhibition closely...
Barcelona What's on
John Cage and Experimental Art - The Anarchy of Silence
23 Oct 2009 - 4 Jan 2010. John Cage (1912-1992) is credited with changing the course of modern music in the 20th century by shaping a new conceptual horizon for post-war art.
The Museo d'Art Conte...
Oxford What's on
13 Oct 2009-21 Feb 2010. Steampunk is an artform which came in to prominence in the 1980s and combines an unusual combination of Victorian steam power with a Jules Verne type of fantasy and science fi...
Madrid What's on
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
18 Sept-13 Dec 2009. Ife is the ancient city state and native land of the Yoruba culture in Nigeria which, in the 15th century, became the capital city of Benin. This exhibition, which is on loan from...
Vienna What's on
Charles the Bold: Splendour and Fall of the Last Duke of Burgundy
15 Sept 2009-10 Jan 2010. One of the most powerful and wealthy European princes in the late Middle Ages, Charles the Bold was famed during his lifetime for his bravery, his chivalry and his princely s...
Copenhagen What's on
100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear
26 Sept-27 Dec 2009. This outdoor photographic exhibition highlights 100 places that are literally in danger of disappearing within the next few generations due to climatic changes and negative man-ma...
London What's on
13 Oct-10 Jan 2010. A pioneer of conceptual art in the 1960s Baldessari has always been known mainly as a counter culture artist. Even while teaching art to young underprivileged kids in San Diego his...
London What's on
24 Sept-24 Jan 2010. The fourth and last in the series on the lives of great rulers organised by the British Museum. Artefacts from the empire of the last great Aztec despot, who reigned from 1502 to...
Oxford What's on
30 Sept - 29 Nov 2009. Glasgow artist Karla Black (born in 1972) makes process-based sculptural pieces using household materials such as clothing, flour and lipstick, in a style that incorporates aspe...
