Paris What's on
21 Sept-29 Jan. The Grand Palais marks the centenary of the birth of important 20th-century photographer Irving Penn with the first major retrospective of the American artist’s work in France since hi...
Madrid What's on
Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion
4 July-15 Oct. The Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde and her multi-disciplinary artistic practice extended to painting, textile design and...
Amsterdam What's on
6 Oct-7 Jan. The Rijksmuseum dedicates an exhibition to the Dutch master Johan Maelwael (c.1370-1415), a pioneering artist who worked at the courts of the Dukes of Guelders and Burgundy around 1400....
Berlin What's on
Fabio Barilari: Architecture and atmosphere
8 Sept-4 Nov. Under the subheading Reading the city: a dialogue between library architecture and urban context in Germany, the Humboldt Library presents Architecture and atmosphere, an exhibition by I...
Oxford What's on
Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art
21 March-22 Oct. Exhibition featuring a range of Chinese paintings, collected by Chinese scholars and artists since the 18th century.
The works are displayed alongside artists' tools such as brush...
Copenhagen What's on
2 Sept-14 Jan. Michael Kvium ia a Danish artist celebrated for his grotesque realistic works, usually featuring brutish caricatures and deformed bodies.
ARKEN hosts a major exhibition dedicated to...
Vienna What's on
21 June-1 Oct. With the subheading Design between Human and Machine, this comprehensive exhibition examines our relationship with new technology and the opportunities and challenges presented by robot...
Barcelona What's on
25 May-30 Oct. The popular David Bowie show comes to Barcelona following successful stints at the Philharmonie in Paris and the V&A in London.
On display is a large collection of archive materi...
Berlin What's on
International Literature Festival
6-16 Sept. The 17th edition of Berlin's International Literature Festival (ILF) is divided into five sections: Literatures of the World; International Children's and Young Adult Literature; Specials;...
Paris What's on
21 June-23 Oct. The Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with the Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, presents a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to David Hockney, one of the 20th cen...
Madrid What's on
NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst
28 June-8 Jan. The Reina Sofía presents Spain's first retrospective dedicated to the artist group NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), which was to the cultural forefront in 1980s Yugoslavia, during the Cold...
Brussels What's on
1 June-3 Sept. The Belgian Comic Book Centre hosts an exhibition cum learning game, centred around the adventures of Asterix among the Belgians by Goscinny and Uderzo. The exhibition makes reference t...
Amsterdam What's on
Jana Euler: High in Amsterdam: The Sky of Amsterdam
20 May-15 Oct. The Stedelijk hosts an exhibition by Jana Euler whose energetic works focus on the interplay of painting, sculpture, words and images.Euler examines contemporary issues, often playing...
London What's on
Until 10 Feb. The Savoy Theatre hosts a new production of Dreamgirls, 35 years after the original musical hit Broadway for the first time.
The show charts the tumultuous journey of The Dreams, a yo...
Madrid What's on
Renaissance Venice: The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting
20 June-24 Sept. This exhibition is dedicated to the central themes that underpinned 16th-century Venetian painting.
Comprising portraits alongside mythological and religious works, the display foc...
Dublin What's on
28 July-19 Aug. Ken Loach's 2014 film Jimmy's Hall has been adapted to the stage in a lively new Abbey production directed by Graham McLaren.
The singing-and-dancing play is based on the true story...
London What's on
21 June-8 Oct. Dulwich Picture Gallery stages the first UK show in almost a century devoted to watercolours by the Anglo-American artist, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).Described as "a triumph and re...
Paris What's on
19 May-5 Nov. The Musée d'art moderne de la Ville evaluates the artistic value of jewellery, a form of decoration whose status is generally considered somewhere between fashion and sculpture.
The ex...
Berlin What's on
Lucian Freud: Closer: Etchings from the UBS Art Collection
22 July-22 Oct. The Martin-Gropius-Bau shows 51 etchings by the important 20th-century British realist painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011) who was born in Berlin and is best known for his intimate, visce...
Copenhagen What's on
8 July-3 Sept. The Louisiana highlights three classical genres of art history: landscape, still life and portraits.
Showing selected works from its permanent collection, the Louisiana's summer exhibi...
