Festivals and Films
Amsterdam What's on
Caspar David Friedrich and the German Romantic Landscape.
20 Sept 2008-18 Jan 2009. On display is the entire collection of paintings and drawings by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), loaned from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Land...
Dublin What's on
Strangers to Citizens: The Irish in Europe 1600-1800.
The 400th anniversary of The Flight of the Earls is celebrated by exploring over 200 years of Irish migration to mainland Europe in this exciting exhibition illuminated by legend, treasure, manuscript...
London What's on
2 Aug- 9 Nov 2008. This is the first major retrospective by Tracey Emin, one of Britain
Amsterdam What's on
11 July-9 Nov 2008. Sixteen paintings have been selected from the rich collection of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum to provide an overview of the works of Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), considered a pion...
Berlin What's on
6 Sept-5 Oct 2008. The International Forum for Visual Dialogues displays In Principio, a photographic voyage through coffee plantations in Brazil, India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Colombia. On show are...
London What's on
29 Sept-31 Oct 2008. For the 150th anniversary of the opening of the diplomatic relations between Japan and the UK. On show are rare photo panels, original documents and artefacts, which commemorate 2...
Dublin What's on
Posters: Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.
24-29 August 2008. This exhibition offers a selection of outstanding wartime posters from the Pablo Iglesias Foundation Collection as well as providing a powerful testimony to the Republican propagand...
Oxford What's on
16 Aug-14 Sept 2008. Twenty local artists present their personal interpretations of Oxford in the O3 Gallery
Madrid What's on
Until 28 Sept 2008. The secrets of human anatomy are on show in this unique exhibition featuring real human specimens and body parts including internal organs, foetuses and embryos. More than 260 orga...
Madrid What's on
10 June-7 Sept 2008. The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza dedicates a retrospective exhibition to the Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha. On show are 95 oils, drawings, and pastels, which offer the visitors a com...
Vienna What's on
6 June-12 Oct 2008. The MUMOK dedicates this exhibition to bad painting. On show are bad, ugly and malicious paintings, which contain nevertheless elements of irony, protest, trash, kitsch and shock....
London What's on
Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons.
19 June-14 Sept 2008. The Tate Modern dedicates a solo retrospective to Cy Twombly, providing an overview of his work from the 1950s to the present. Twombly emerged at the height of Abstract Expressio...
London What's on
Boucher and Chardin: Masters of Modern Manners.
12 June-7 Sept 2008. The Wallace Collection dedicates this exhibition to the French painters Fran
Dublin What's on
18 July-23 Aug 2008. Group show regarding extinction, "factual myths", hybrids, evolution and imaginative escapism. With Tim Braden, Ryan Gander, Martino Gamper, Sven Johne, Irene Kopelman, Eoin McHug...
Dublin What's on
Until 28 Sept. Extensive show featuring many of the works shown in the Municipal Gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1908, including all 39 of the Continental pictures from the Hugh Lane Bequest, includ...
Dublin What's on
07 June-16 Aug 2008. Decisive moves in works by Carl Andre, Stephane Calais, Thomas Joshua Cooper, AK Dolven, Thomas Nozkowski, Robert Orchardson and Rafael Rozendaal, in a show curated by Caroline Ha...
