Festivals and Films
Paris What's on
Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou
8 April - 10 August 2009. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky was one of the 20th century's most important artists. Known by some as the "inventor of abstraction" he is more correctly acknowledged by many...
Copenhagen What's on
Egyptian Amulets in Copenhagen.
4 Apr - 13 Sep 2009. Copenhagen's National Museum is currently staging an exhibition featuring a display of Egyptian amulets. Amulets were worn around the necks of the Ancient Egyptians to ward off th...
London What's on
Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence.
4 April- 19 July 2009. Lavish Baroque style is not for the faint-hearted. Favourite of France
Vienna What's on
Gerhard Richter: Retrospective.
30 January - 3 May 2009. Known by many in the artworld as "the greatest living painter," 77 year old Gerhard Richter is Germany's most prominent artist. For six decades he has explored a wide range of...
Berlin What's on
18 Feb - 18 April 2009 Cindy Sherman is internationally renowned for her thought provoking and often disturbing photographs. For more than 30 years she has worked as her own model, disguising herself...
Oxford What's on
The English Telescope from Newton to Herschel.
22 March - 19 April 2009. This latest exhibition at the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science charts the story of the telescope in 18th-century England, from Newton to Herschel. Due...
Barcelona What's on
2 April-17 May. Andalusian painter Rafael Zabaleta is acknowledged as having been to the forefront of Spain's second avant-garde movement. Born in Quesada in 1907, like many artists Zabaleta spent tim...
Amsterdam What's on
Bron at The ABC Treehouse Amsterdam.
5 April - 31 May 2009. The ABC Treehouse is a cultural centre which promotes artistic, literary and political projects between the Dutch and multicultural community. Their latest exhibition is entitle...
Amsterdam What's on
7 March - 24 May 2009. The Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, which was opened ten years ago, presents new exhibitions every three months. On 7 April it launches an extraordinary display of almost...
Dublin What's on
2 - 23 April 2009: Sheila Rennick's latest solo exhibition "Dodgy Heaven" takes place in The Royal Hibernian Academy's Ashford Gallery on 2 April. Her pastel-coloured paintings of animals and people a...
Barcelona What's on
Richard Rogers & Architects at the Caixa Forum.
6 Mar-7 June 2009. First shown at one of Richard Rogers
Paris What's on
18 Mar-13 Jul 2009. From 1962 to his death in 1987, Andy Warhol painted dozens of portraits of the famous and not-so-famous using his now celebrated style of bright colour-highlighting and multiple im...
Vienna What's on
26 March - 23 April 2009. Manfred Peckl's area of artistic endeavour lies in the exploration of the highly scientific and technical process of mapmaking. Cutting maps into tens of thousands of pieces,...
Madrid What's on
6 Feb-3 May 2009. Tarsila Do Amaral (1886-1973) was the one of the leading lights of the Modernist art movement in Brazil, and the first to use avant-garde pictorial forms in her country. This exhibit...
Oxford What's on
Morph at The North Wall Arts Centre.
23 March-11 April 2009. The latest exhibition from The North Wall Arts Centre, entitled "Morph", showcases the work of the students of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. The theme of the show...
Vienna What's on
21 Jan-19 Apr 2009 . Four large wax works by Turner Prize-winning British sculptor Anish Kapoor are on show at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art), three of which were created speciall...
Copenhagen What's on
11 Mar-31 May 2009. The timeless sculptures of Danish artist Astrid Noack (1888-1954) are on display in the first exhibition of a sculptor
Madrid What's on
Maurice de Vlaminck: Paintings 1900-1915
11 Mar-7 Jun 2009. This exhibition of works by Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) centres on the French painter
