Festivals and Films
Madrid What's on
Don Quixote and Contemporary Spanish Art.
9 Nov 2005-13 Feb 2006. Twenty of Spains most outstanding contemporary artists have been invited to give their personal interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes seminal work Don Quixote de la Mancha in t...
Vienna What's on
The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna.
4 Nov 2005-22 Feb 2006. The Kunsthalle in Vienna, named by Italian magazine ARTE as one of the top six European contemporary art museums in 2002, is hosting an exhibition exploring the phenomenon of S...
Copenhagen What's on
Emil Nolde in the Southern Seas.
12 Nov 2005-26 Feb 2006. Founded in 1825, the GL Strand is the oldest gallery in Denmark and its policy is to present historical themes in art from a contemporary viewpoint. This exhibition of German...
Copenhagen What's on
Beeswax Kings and Queens of Denmark.
15 Oct 2005-27 Feb 2006. The museum in Christian VIII's mansion at Amalienborg Palace has been given a collection of around 100 handmade dolls portraying in miniature generations of the Danish monarch...
London What's on
Beautiful Minds at the British Library.
7 Dec 2005-15 March 2006. Capturing the spirit of Nobel prize winners achievements, this exhibition in the Pearson Gallery of the British Library focuses on 30 winners in all six of the fields designa...
Vienna What's on
Francisco de Goya: Prophet of Modernism.
19 Oct 2005-8 Jan 2006. This is Austrias first monograph exhibition dedicated to the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos 1746 - Bordeaux 1828). Roughly 70 paintings and 35...
Amsterdam What's on
4 Nov 2005-6 Feb 2006. The travelling exhibition of portrait photographs by Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra has arrived at the Stedelijk Museum CS, after showing in Paris, Winterthur and Barcelona....
Dublin What's on
Albrecht Drer at Dublin Castle.
10 Nov 2005-7 Feb 2006. Named European Museum of the year in 2002, the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle already holds over 120 of Drers prints as part of its permanent collection. The library f...
Madrid What's on
Raphael Portrait of a Young Man, 1518-19
18 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museums 17th Contexts exhibition from the permanent collection is dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio, one of the most important artists of the Italian Renais...
London What's on
Until 22 Jan 2006. The Turner Prize is one of Europes most prestigious awards for contemporary visual art. To be eligible you must be British and under 50 and have presented an outstanding exhibition...
Barcelona What's on
Literatures of Exile at the CCCB
28 Sept 2005-29 Jan 2006. The writers, intellectuals and artists who fled Barcelona in January 1939 ahead of Francos advancing troops are given voice in this fascinating exhibition at the Centre de Cu...
Dublin What's on
Northern Nocturnes at the National Gallery.
Until 11 Dec 2005. An exhibition of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish nightscapes is currently on show at the National Gallery of Ireland. Entitled Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt...
Berlin What's on
3-20 Nov 2005. The enchantment of traditional storytelling is celebrated in this festival of "Fairytales, Myth and the Mediterranean World" which sees over 600 events in a variety of venues all round...
Copenhagen What's on
Hans Christian Andersen in 91 languages.
7 Oct-30 Dec 2005. As part of this years bicentenary celebrations of Hans Christian Andersens birth, the Royal Library in Copenhagen Det Kongelige Bibliotek is holding an exhibition which gives the...
Amsterdam What's on
Unknown Paintings by Rembrandt.
22 Sept-4 Dec 2005. During the preparations at the Rembrandt House the Museum Het Rembrandthuis - for a major exhibition of the Dutch artists work to be held next year, four of Rembrandts previously...
Amsterdam What's on
Fifty years of photojournalism
7 Oct-7 Dec 2005. Over 100 nominators from a variety of geographical, cultural and professional backgrounds were asked to chose what they felt was the best or most memorable photo feature published in...
Amsterdam What's on
5 Nov 2005. 43 of Amsterdams museums are throwing open their doors from 19.00 in the evening to 2.00 the following morning for this once-yearly event. Current and permanent exhibitions are on show al...
Copenhagen What's on
8 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. The poetic universe portrayed in the work of Marc Chagall, (1887-1985) is being presented at the Arken Museum of Art from the perspective of the great Jewish-Russian artists be...
Oxford What's on
Spectacular Miracles at the Ashmolean.
19 Oct 2005-29 Jan 2006. The potency of images in modern times is well-documented, but this exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum offers a different perspective. Spectacular Miracles: Images of supernatu...
Berlin What's on
Immendorff. Male Lago Invisible Contribution
23 Sept 2005-22 Jan 2006. One of Germanys brightest lights in contemporary art, Jrg Immendorff, is the focus of this new exhibition at the New National Gallery. The former Beuys pupil, born in 1945, h...
