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Art Exhibits and Shows
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These are some of many exhibits taking place or scheduled for the immediate future, mostly in Italy. They are arranged in the chronological order of their opening, followed by location. Information is as accurate as possible but before making a special trip please confirm.
Museums Recently Re-opened to the Public
Genoa - Palazzo del Principe
home of the Doria Pamphilj family, has been reopened to the public after a loving restoration by the family. Visitors can admire the Galleria di Ponente with stucco decorations, marble, and frescos, and the famous tapestries of the Battle of Lepanto of 1571. Andrea Doria, the famous admiral, called artists such as Giovan Battista Gaulli, Perin del Vaga, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Agnolo Bronzino to decorate his palace, built at the beginning of the 16th century just outside Genoa with a view of the sea and surrounded by a garden full of statuary and fountains. Tel: +39-010-255509, Hours: Saturday 15-18, Sunday 10-13, closed Christmas day. Groups by appointment.
Rome, Palazzo Altemps
Piazza S. Apollinare 44. Inauguration of the newly restored Palazzo with the magnificent Greek and Roman sculptures from the Ludovisi collection. In the center of Rome, don't miss it if you love sculpture. Tel: +39-06-3724121, Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 9-17, Sunday 9-14. Guided tours in English.
Rome, Museo Nazionale Archeologico
Palazzo Massimo, Largo di villa Peretti 1, newly opened after a 14-year restoration, beautifully illuminated, the museum has one of the finest collections of frescos, mosaics, statues, bronzes, the living room of the Villa di Livia discovered in 1879 along the Tevere river, jewels, and other artifacts. There's also a well-stocked book store. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 20-22, Sunday 9-20, closed Monday. Reseration required to visit the second floor, Tel: +39-06-3724121, hours: Tuesday through Friday 19-13, 14:30-17, Saturday 14:30-17.
January 2005
January 15 - May 29, 2005 - Padova - Palazzo Zabarella, Boldini, more than 100 works by Giovanni Boldini (Born Ferrara 1842, died Paris 1942) , this is the first large exhibit dedicated to the painter who recorded an epoch since the important exhibit which took place in 1963 at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris. He is responsible for the famous portrait of Verdi, and he was beloved for his rendering of that fascinating era, the Belle Epoque. Works come from many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Capodimonti of Naples along with private collections in Europe and America. Hours: Daily except Monday unless it's a holiday. 9:30-19:30. Catalog: Marsilio
February 2005
February 2 - May 1, 2005 - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fra Carnevale, a Renaissance artist from Filippo Libbi to Piero della Francesca
February 13 - May 1, 2005 - Ferrara - Palazzo dei Dimante, Joshua Reynolds and the Invention of Celebrity, paintings by the master. Daily including holidays except Monday 9-19. The exhibit moves to the Tate Gallery in London on May 26, 2005. Tel: +39-0532-244949/209988 Email: diamantiEcomune.fe.it
March 2005
March 10 - June 19 - Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Munch 1863 - 1933, Patronized by Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway and the President of Italy. Hours: Monday through Thursday 9:30-19:30, Friday through Sunday 9:30-23:30, Tel:; +39-06-678-0664. Sponsors include American Express and Siemens.
March 11 through June 19 - Rome - Palazzo Giustiani, Via dei Giustiani 11, Canaletto. Il Trionfo della Veduta (Canaletto, Triumph of Perspective), forty paintings along with forty drawings. Held in the building of Italy's Senate, open daily including holidays. Hours: Sunday through Wednesday 9:30-19:30, Thursday through Saturday 9:30-21. Book tickets: Tel: +39-199-112-112. Groups and schools: +39-06-+3996-7350 Web: http://www.canaletto.it
March 5 through July 3 - Vicenza - Museo Palladio in palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Andrea Palladio e la Villa Veneta da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa, (Andrea Palladio and the Venetian Villa from Petrarch to Carlo Scappa) presented by the Center for Architecture Studies Andrea Palladio, the city of Vicenza in the Veneto region celebrates country living from Medieval times to the present. 300 items including paintings, drawings, antique artifacts, etchings, maps, rare books, and architectural models tell the story of life in the beautiful country villas of the Veneto region. Artists include Francesco Guariî, Tiziano, and Benedetto Caliari. Thomas Jefferson was very much inspired by Palladio when he designed his home Monticello (Villa La Rotonda in Vicenza) and the buildings of the University of Virginia. Hours: Daily including holidays 9:30-18:30, Friday through Sunday and holidays 9:30-20. Tel: + +39-02-4335-3522, E-Mail: servizi@civita.it, Web: http://www.cisapalladio.org
March 19 through July 17 - Como - Villa Olmo, Picasso - Seduction of the Classic, Tel: ++39-031-252402, Web: http://www.picassocomo.it
March 20 through June 19, 2005 - Modena - Foro Boario, Niccolò Dell'Abate - History in the Painting of the 16th century between Modena and Fontainbleau, Tel: ++39-059-200125, Web: http://www.nicolodellabate.it Catalog: SilvanaEditoriale
March 21 through June 20 - Rome - Palazzo Valentini, The Sculptures of Fernando Botero,
March 22 through July 3 - Bergamo - Accademia Carrara, Cézanne - Renoir, 30 masterpieces from the great impressionist painters from the collection of Paul Guillaume, plus one work each from Picasso and Matisse from the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Tuesday through Sunday 10-21, closed Monday. Tel: ++39-035-218041 http://www.cezannerenoir.it
March 25 through June 25 - Pisa - Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Lungarno Mediceo, Cimabue a Pisa, painting from Pisa in the thirteenth century from Giunta to Giotto. Hours: Daily from 10-19. Tel: ++39-050 581-1057. http://www.cimabueapisa.it Catalog: Pacini Editore
April 2005
April 30 through September 30 - Illegio (Tolmezzo, Udine) - Casa delle Esposizione, Mysterium - The Eucharist in Masterpieces of European Art, paintings, sculptures, codes, reliquiaries in gold and wooden tablets by Signorelli, Raffaello, Parth, Carpaccio, Rembrandt, Barocci, Pozzo, Tiepolo, and others. Five centuries of artistic works illustrate the religious message in Europe. Hours: 10-19, closed Monday, 10-22 Friday. Tel: + +39-0433-44445, Web: http://www.floriano2004.it
May 2005
May 26 through September 18, 2005 - London - Tate Gallery, Joshua Reynolds and the Invention of Celebrity, portraits by Sir Joshua.
June 2005
June 16 through September 25, 2005 - Rome - Palazzo Venezia Fernando Botero, Gli Ultimi 15 Anni (Fernando Botero, The Last 15 Years) - he's produced a large amount of works featuring his obese people. They include images evoking the prisoners at Abu Grabi.....
June 22 through November 30, 2005 - Prato (near Florence) - Museo del Tessuto di Prato, Via S. Chiara 24 JEANS! Le origini, il mito americano, il made in Italy, Hours: Daily 10-18, Saturday 10-14, Sunday 16-19, closed Tuesday
Orario: 10-18; 10-14 (sabato); 16-19 (domenica) - chiusa martedì
June 24 through October 16 - Rome - Musei Capitolini La Roma di Leon Battista Alberti, (The Rome of Leon Battista Alberti), architects and humanists looking for antiquity in the city's 1400.
July 2005
July 6 through October 2 - Rome - Scuderie del Quirinale, Passaggi in India Ieri e Oggi (Passages in India Yesterday and Today
through May 15 - Rome - Museo Napoleonico, Piazza di Ponte Umberto 1, Giovanni Spadolini, La Passione per Napoleone fra Storia, Politica e Cultura, the former prime minister and president of the senate was an avid collector of memorabilia of Napoleon and the Museum in Rome devoted to the emperor has displayed his collection. Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 9-20, closed Monday. Tel: ++39-06-68806286
through May 22 - Basel (Switzerland), Beyeler Foundation, The Myth of Flowers, 172 works by artists about flowers are shown in the exhibition hall designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Coubert, Klimt, Manet, Mondrian, Rousseau, Klee, Van Gogh, and Warhol are some of the artists represented. Tel: + 004161-6459700
through June 5 - Rome - Chiostro del Bramante, Via della Pace, Renato Guttuso, Opere 1931-1986, Fondazione Francesco Pellin, Hours: Daily except Monday 10-20, Saturday 10-24, Sunday 10-21:30, Tel: ++39-06-6880-9835
through June 5 - Rome - Scuderie del Quirinale, Masterpieces from the Guggenheim - Great Collections from Renoir to Warhol, Hours: Daily from 10-20, Friday and Saturday until 22:30. Tel: ++39-06-3006-7500
through June 15 - Siena - Palazzo Chigi Saracini, Oltre la Scuola Senese, The collection Chigi Saracini is one of the most important private collections with over 12,000 articles at the end of the 17th century by Galgano Saracini in the family palace. Opened in 1806 for a few years it was possible to see part of the collection. Now newly reopened to the public the paintings from the 17th century show battles, still-lifes, landscapes, portraits, and sacred paintings.
through June 19 - Rome - Complesso del Vittoriano, Via San Pietro in Carcere (Fori Imperiali), Munch 1863-1944, Hours: Monday through Thursday 9:30-19:30, Sunday 9:30-20:30, closed Monday. Tel: ++39-06-678-0664
through July 31 - London - Somerset House, Porcelains from the Russian Revolution, a curious show of porcelains used as propaganda. Manufactured in Russia by Sah Petersburg which was nationalized the objects (300) and drawings (70) by avant-garde artists promoted the new social values (post-revolution) of the country.
Links to Museum and Other Interesting Sites
Organized by Oxford University, a list of most of the museums in the world with a web site
Exhibart, an Italian site devoted to art events(in Italian)
Guide to 3,000 Museums in Italy
All the Museums of the World on Line
Artnet
Musee Online
Museums
Museums in the United States
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia
Accademia Carrara Bergamo, Italy
American Craft MuseumNew York City
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York City
American Philosophical Society and Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago, Illinois
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Asia SocietyNew York City
Astrup Fearnley Musee For Moderne KunstOslo, Norway
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Bergamo Provincial MuseumBergamo, Italy
Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Museum of ArtBrooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Castello di Rivoli Turin, Italy
Cattle Raisers Museum Fort Worth, Texas
Chiostro del Bramante Rome, Italy
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Dada Propart, not really a museum but a site from a provider in Florence, Italy, where you'll find a 3-D reconstruction of the dome of the Brunelleschi chapel at Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, you can navigate to the very top,and then see a panoramic view of the city
Dorddrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Fondation Cartier Paris, France
Fondation de L'HermitageLausanne, Switzerland
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milan,Italy
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Fort Worth, Texas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Rome, Italy
Getty Center Santa Monica, California
Guggenheim Museum - this extensive web covers the main museum in New York, the Soho Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, and the Guggenheim of Bilbao.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
International Center of PhotographyNew York City
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Long Island City, New York
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Kunstforum Der Bank Vienna, Austria
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California
Louvre, Paris, France, said to be the most visited museum site in the world. (Actually back in 1994, a Frenchman created an unofficial site dedicated to the Louvre on his own, years before the official site appeared. Perhaps people got in the habit of visiting the Louvre Museum virtually.)There are 35,000 works from the museum online as well as 130,000 drawings that can only be seen at the museum by appointment. You can also take a virtual visit of the museum using Quicktime.
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York City
Milawaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, /A>Montgomery, Alabama<
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Musee' Guimet, Paris, France
Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of American Folk Art New York City
Museum of Bad Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Floreica
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, considered by the New York Times one of the best web sites devoted to museums in the world, with 1.2 million surfers in 1997 compared to the 1.65 visitors who passed the doors.
National Academy of Design, New York City
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Fort Worth, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Slovenia
National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City
New York Botanical Garden
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Palazzo Grassi ( Venice, Italy
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia
Padua - Palazzo Zabarella, E-mail: mostra.cultura@padovanet.it
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Prado Museum Madrid, Spain
Pompidou CenterParis, France
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan Francisco, California
Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Tate Gallery, London
The British Museum, London
The Jewish Museum New York City
The Morgan Library New York City
The Museum of Television and Radio New York City
The New Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas
The New York Botanical GardenNew York City
The Phillips Collection, (Washington, D.C.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art,
Tokugawa Art Museum Japan
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Triennale, Milan, Italy
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
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