Brussels What's on
18 Dec-31 March. The Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels hosts an exhibition that delves into the fascinating and sometimes scary world of spiders.
The arachnid family has inhabited our pla...
Copenhagen What's on
8 Jan-21 Feb. The Louisiana has become the first museum in the world to show a collection of over 200 of Andy Warhol’s early drawings from the 1950s.
The drawings form part of a cache of...
London What's on
30 Jan-12 May. The Tate Britain presents the first major exhibition dedicated to the late art of German painter and poet Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), an artist central to European Modernism and a driv...
Vienna What's on
Georg Baselitz: Works from 1968-2012
18 Jan-20 May. The Essl Museum in Vienna presents an exhibition of works by Georg Baselitz on the occasion of the German artist's 75th birthday.
The extensive retrospective features 44 works by Ba...
Paris What's on
Until 17 Mar. The Les Arts Décoratifs pays tribute to the hugely successful series of six science-fiction movies, Star Wars, released between 1977 and 2005.
The exhibition features a select...
London What's on
26 Jan-14 April. The Royal Academy of Arts presents a major exhibition dedicated to the portraiture of French impressionist Edouard Manet (1832-1883).
The show spans the artist's career and includ...
Oxford What's on
Triumphant Thames: The Thiess International River Prize
Until 1 April: Oxford's River and Rowing Museum has collaborated with the UK Environment Agency to present an exhibition celebrating the river Thames which was awarded the International Theiss River P...
Amsterdam What's on
10 Jan-20 March. The Amsterdam Photography Museum (FOAM) presents MOAM, a unique combination of photography and fashion involving established names and emerging talent.
15 Dutch fashion photograph...
Dublin What's on
The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin presents a series of six exhibitions, all beginning on 11 January.
Blackshaw at 80. 11 Jan-24 Feb. A major retrospective dedicated to Basil Black...
Copenhagen What's on
Shipwreck: The Coin Hoard of the Six Emperors
12 Oct-24 Feb. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek presents a huge hoard of ancient Roman coins discovered by divers off south-east Sicily after a storm in 1991.
Dating from the latter half of the third century...
Madrid What's on
24 Oct-17 Feb. The Thyssen-Bornemisza presents an exhibition of over 400 items of jewellery and decorative pieces belonging to personalities such as Grace Kelly, Wallis Simpson, Maria Felix, Coco Chan...
Vienna What's on
Loved, Ridiculed, Worshipped. Richard Wagner and the Viennese
23 Nov-10 Feb. The Austrian National Library celebrates the upcoming 200th anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner’s birth on 22 May 1813, with an exhibition in its State Hall dedicated to...
Madrid What's on
Impressionism and Open-air Painting: From Corot to Van Gogh
5 Feb-12 May. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum examines the impact of open-air painting on the transformation and modernisation of 19th-century art.
Although generally associated with Impressionism,...
Paris What's on
Fashioning fashion: Two centuries of European fashion, 1700-1915
13 Dec-14 April. The Musée des Arts décoratifs examines the changing tastes in clothing in Europe between 1700 and 1915. The exhibition comprises almost 100 complete male and female outf...
Brussels What's on
22 Dec-31 May. "Inside the Station" transports visitors on an interactive journey inside Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the world's first zero emission scientific polar research station....
Oxford What's on
Atmospheres: Investigating the Weather from Aristotle to Ozone
20 Nov-7 April. The Museum of the History of Science presents an exhibition that charts the history of meteorology and man's quest to predict the weather accurately.
On show are archival documents...
Amsterdam What's on
15 Dec-17 March. The Huis Marseille presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of award-winning Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen, spanning the last 17 years of her career in artistic and fashion...
Barcelona What's on
Works of art under Examination
23 Nov-24 Feb. This exhibition goes behind the scenes of the scientific and technical study of art at the Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, including the exploration of the differences between forged...
Berlin What's on
30th Council of Europe Art Exhibition: The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945
25 Dec-10 Feb. The German Historical Museum presents an exhibition of work by 113 artists from 28 European countries. Organisers say it is the first attempt to assess art since 1945 in a pan-European...
Dublin What's on
Imagining the Divine: The Holy Family in Art
26 Nov-1 April. The National Gallery presents an exhibition that focuses on how artists through the ages have chosen to depict the early life of Christ.
The show comprises 13 paintings and drawing...
