Berlin What's on
2 - 30 May 2009. Yang Shaobin is a Chinese painter and sculptor who lives in Beijing. In 1999 he burst onto the international art scene at the Venice Biennale where he showed his trademark blood-red p...
Amsterdam What's on
6 - 31 May 2009. The Melkweg hosts the latest exhibit of photographer Lana Slezic. Focusing on an emotive subject, Slezic's series of disturbing images documents the lives of women in Taliban-controll...
Paris What's on
24 April - 1 June 2009. La Force de l'Art 02, produced by the Etablissement Public du Grand Palais, is the second phase of a major trienial exhibition focusing on French contemporary art. This importa...
Copenhagen What's on
Impressionists and Post-Impressionists at ARKEN
31 Jan - 7 Jun 2009. ARKEN Museum of Modern Art was opened in 1996 by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe. Now firmly established, the museum houses contemporary Danish, Nordic and international art and offer...
Vienna What's on
8 May - 14 June 2009. The Wiener Festwochen was established in 1951 in the aftermath of the Second World War. Seen as both adventurous and reactionary at the time, the organisers were keen to demonstr...
Barcelona What's on
21-27 May 2009. For seven days Barcelona becomes home to millions of written and spoken words, as it celebrates poetry on an enormous scale. Approaching the subject in a readily accessible style, the...
Copenhagen What's on
29 - 31 May 2009. Now in its second decade, the annual Whitsun Carnival is a very colourful street party, with countless free concerts. Aimed at both children and adults, crowds of more than 100,000 t...
Amsterdam What's on
Jan Lievens at the Rembrandt House Museum.
17 May - 9 August 2009 "A Child Prodigy's Career" is the title of this exhibition of Jan Lievens (1607-1674) at The Rembrandt House Museum. Lievens happened to be not only a contemporary and friend o...
Jersey What's on
16-23 May 2009. A series of guided walks which include marine fortifictions, the world of farming, gardens and the micro climate, harbours, beaches and the island
Brussels What's on
9 - 31 May 2009. In its 14th year, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Festival of the Arts) becomes the cultural pulse of Brussels for 24 days every May. Daring, fascinating and innovative are some of the w...
London What's on
Butterfly Jungle at the Natural History Museum
1 May - 27 Sept 2009. The postman butterfly, which manages to follow the same route from flower to flower every day, is just one of the species of tropical butterfly that has been especially flown in...
Oxford What's on
Oxford Fashion Week Exhibition.
29 April - 7 May 2009. Through art and photography, nine artists take a "wholesome, fresh and organic approach" to fashion, addressing environmental and humanitarian issues and highlighting the ethica...
Vienna What's on
7 - 10 May 2009. The annual Vienna Fair, a public art exposition, focuses on the work of over 1,000 rising stars of the artworld as well as promoting 124 galleries from 18 countries. With its comprehe...
Berlin What's on
Black International Film Festival.
7 - 10 May 2009. Under the title " A Complexion Change - International & Intercultural Diplomacy" the annual Black International Film Festival will feature approximately 60 films from Africa and count...
Madrid What's on
Portraits of New York. Photographs from MoMA.
26 March - 14 June 2009. A colloborative project between La Casa Encendia and New York's Museum of Modern Art entitled "Portraits of New York" offers visitors to Madrid a chance to admire 100 photogr...
Barcelona What's on
La Casa dels Cors Trencats by GB Shaw.
9 May - 21 June 2009. The Teatre Nacional de Catalunya stages "La Casa dels Cors Trencats" - a Catalan reworking of George Bernard Shaw's 1919 play "Heartbreak House". A mixture of farce and tragedy,...
Dublin What's on
Thomas Roberts at The National Gallery.
28 March - 28 June 2009. Waterford-born artist Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) is rated amongst the finest Irish landscape painters of the eighteenth century. Visitors to the National Gallery are offered...
Paris What's on
One Image May Hide Another - Dali, Arcimboldo, Raetz.
8 April - 6 July 2009. Are double meanings in art merely fortuitous apparitions or are they deliberate artistic creations? This exhibition seeks to provide some anwers as it delves deep into the ofte...
