Brussels What's on
Andres Serrano: Uncensored photographs
18 March-21 Aug. The contemporary American artist Andres Serrano is known as much for the "shock value" of his disturbing photographs, as his desire to push the boundaries of censorship.
The centr...
Dublin What's on
9 March-23 April. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising, Seán O'Casey's play focuses on the upheaval facing the residents of a Dublin tenement shelter as they are encircled by...
Vienna What's on
Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant-Gardes
26 Feb-26 June. The Albertina examines Russia's contribution to the avant-garde period, between 1910 and 1920, when modernism advanced at a rapid pace and embraced numerous styles.
The exhibition...
Paris What's on
16 Dec-18 April. The Centre Pompidou presents France's first retrospective in over 30 years dedicated to the leading German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer.
One of Germany's first post-war artis...
Brussels What's on
12 Feb-17 April. The Belgian comic author Ben Gijesmans began working in the rooms of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium to gain inspiration for his new stories.
As time went by the museum...
Oxford What's on
25 Feb-19 Feb 2017. Described as a selection of the "most magnificent items" of the Bodleian Libraries, this exhibition features treasures including J. R. R. Tolkien's illustrations from The Hobbit, M...
Amsterdam What's on
20 Feb-22 May. For the first time the entire 14 versions of Girl in a Kimono by the Dutch painter and photographer George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) will be displayed alongside each other.
An im...
Madrid What's on
Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio
1 March-19 June. In conjunction with the Denver Art Museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Europe's first retrospective on Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, leading figures of 20th-century American reali...
London What's on
Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection
12 Feb-29 May. The Pre-Raphealite movement, founded in London in 1848, rejected what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael. The Pr...
Dublin What's on
16 Feb-16 April. The Gate Theatre stages a production of Seán O'Casey's classic play set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish civil war era.
Following its p...
Madrid What's on
9 Feb-22 May. The Thyssen-Bornemisza shows 90 works by a group of 20th-century realist painters and sculptors who lived and worked in Madrid, including Amalia Avia, Richard Estes (see Telephone Booths...
Oxford What's on
1 Jan-6 March. Exhibition displaying 26 albumen prints by the Burton Brothers who ran a successful commercial photography studio in New Zealand in the late 19th century.
The Dunedin studio was kno...
Berlin What's on
Neue Galerie: The Black Years: Histories of a Collection: 1933–1945
21 Nov-31 July. Exhibition showing works which were either created or acquired by the Nationalgalerie between 1933 and 1945, or else seized by the Nazi regime during this dark period in German art....
Barcelona What's on
11 Dec-20 March. Retrospective focusing on the work of Spanish painter and illustrator Xavier Gosé who worked in the Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles and is described by exhibition organisers as one of...
Brussels What's on
20 Jan-15 May. With the subheading Master drawings from a Belgian private collection, this exhibition at the Belgian Fine Arts Museum features 90 drawings dating from the 16th- and early-17th century....
Amsterdam What's on
Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art
12 Dec-17 April. The Stedelijk presents a retrospective dedicated to the life and pioneering work of the American art dealer, curator, author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) who is often ref...
London What's on
1 Jan-17 April. The British Library celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Lewis Carroll children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with an exhibition featuring the author...
Vienna What's on
16 Dec-3 April. Exhibition dedicated to the creations of modernist architect, designer and design critic Josef Frank whose prodigious body of work is still considered "contemporary" in today's design...
Vienna What's on
19 Nov-29 Feb. The artwork from Austrian cigarette advertising in the 1920s is the subject of this exhibition at the Leopold Museum.
In 1928 the JTI tobacco company invited celebrated Secession ar...
Barcelona What's on
HUMAN+: The future of our species
7 Oct-10 April. The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) looks ahead to an era of (possible) cyborgs, superhumans and clones.
The futuristic exhibition examines what lies in store f...
