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London

Alan Cristea.Gillian Ayres at 80: New Paintings and Works on Paper is on view at 31 and 34 Cork Street to 13th March.

Alison Jacques. An exhibition of works by Ana Mendieta (1948–85) runs here to 20th March. Thereafter an exhibition of abstract paintings by Tomory Dodge is on view from 26th March to 24th April.

Ambika P3. At this large new venue located at the University of Westminster, the exhibition From Floor to Sky. British Sculpture and the Studio Experience, brings together a broad range of contemporary British sculpture; 5th March to 4th April.

Barbican. The first major survey in Britain of work by the designer Ron Arad is on view here to 16th May.

A new commission by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot can be seen in The Curve to 23rd May.

British Library. Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs; to 7th March; it is reviewed on p.194 above.

British Museum. An exhibition examining printmaking in Mexico in the first half of the twentieth century; to 5th April.

The exhibition Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa runs from 4th March to 6th June.

Camden Arts Centre. A solo exhibition of work by Eva Hesse is on view here to 7th March; to be reviewed.

Chisenhale Gallery. Work by Florian Hecker, comprising four computer-generated sound pieces; to 28th March.

Courtauld Gallery. Michelangelo’s Dream explores the making and meaning of the celebrated drawing of this name in the permanent collection through related works by Michelangelo and his contemporaries; to 16th May.

Dulwich Picture Gallery. Paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Nash spanning his entire career are on show to 9th May; to be reviewed.

Estorick Collection. An exhibition exploring the representation and analysis of movement in the visual arts and science; to 18th April.

Fleming Collection. Paintings by the Scottish Colourists from the Collection are here to 1st April.

Gagosian Gallery. At Davies St., work by Arshile Gorky is on view to 1st April (see also Tate Modern).

At Britannia St. an exhibition following on from last year’s exhibition of Pop art and its legacy, titled Crash, runs to 1st April.

Haunch of Venison. Video, sculpture, installations and photographs by Jitish Kallat, reflecting on the urban environment of Mumbai, are here to 27th March.

Works by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota are displayed to 27th March.

Hauser & Wirth. An exhibition of works by Bharti Kher is on display from 20th March to 15th May.

ICA. An exhibition of works by Billy Childish is here to 18th April.

Karsten Schubert. New paintings by Dan Perfect from the ‘Dæmonology’ series are here to 9th April.

Marlborough Fine Art. Works by Thérèse Oulton are on view to 13th March.

Maureen Paley. Works by Kaye Donachie are on display here to 4th April.

National Gallery. An exhibition here focuses on the Gallery’s famous painting of the Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche; to 23rd May. In Room 1 is a concurrent display A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted.

A monographic exhibition devoted to Christen Købke runs here from 17th March to 13th June (then in Edinburgh).

National Portrait Gallery. The Indian Portrait 1560–1860 runs from 11th March to 20th June.

Parasol Unit. A major solo exhibition of works by Eija-Liisa Ahtila; to 25th April.

Pilar Corrias. Works by Charles Avery are on view to 31st March.

Purdy Hicks. New paintings by the Irish artist Claire Kerr are on view here to 20th March.

Queen’s Gallery. An exhibition focusing on Queen Victoria’s and Prince Albert’s shared enthusiasm for art runs from 19th March to 31st October.

Raven Row. A History of Irritated Material includes works by artists, collectives and archives from the latter half of the twentieth century; to 2nd May.

Royal Academy. A landmark exhibition of work by Van Gogh, the first in London for over forty years, centres on the artist’s letters, some 35 of which are on display; to 18th April.

The exhibition devoted to Paul Sandby, already seen in Nottingham and Edinburgh and reviewed in the November issue, runs here from 13th March to 13th June.

Saatchi Gallery. An exhibition of contemporary Indian art runs to 7th May.

Sadie Coles. New drawings by Matthew Barney are on view at 69 South Audley St.; to 6th March.

Serpentine Gallery. A solo exhibition of works by Richard Hamilton focuses on the artist’s political output; 3rd March to 25th April.

Simon Lee. Paintings by Bernard Frize can be seen here to 24th March.

Sir John Soane’s Museum. A bouquet of botanical delights: the life and art of Mary Delany, seen previously in New Haven, runs here to 1st May.

South London Gallery. An installation by Michael Landy in which people can apply to discard failed works of art in a giant bin runs here to 14th March.

Stephen Friedman. Works by Wayne Gonzalez are shown here from 12th March to 17th April.

Tate Britain. A major exhibition of work by Henry Moore brings together the most comprehensive selection of his work for a generation; to 15th August.

A major survey of paintings by Chris Ofili is on view here to 16th May.

Tate has acquired eight hand-coloured etchings by William Blake.

Tate Modern. Seen earlier in Leiden, the exhibition Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World presents works by the Dutch artist in the context of his time; to 16th May.

The exhibition of works by Arshile Gorky, previously in Philadelphia, is here to 3rd May (see also Gagosian Gallery).

Timothy Taylor. An exhibition of paintings by Alex Katz is on view here from 4th March to 9th April.

Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition devoted to Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, seen previously in New Haven, runs here from 6th March to 4th July.

An exhibition devoted to quilts includes examples spanning the early 18th century to Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin; 20th March to 4th July.

Waddington. Works by Barry Flanagan 1966–2008 are here from 17th March to 17th April.

Wallace Collection. To complement the exhibition at the National Gallery, the Wallace has mounted a display of its ten oils and two watercolours by Paul Delaroche, which are shown in the context of works by contemporaries such as Bonington, Delacroix, Wilkie and others; to 23rd May.

Whitechapel. An exhibition of photography from 1840 to the present from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh is on view to 11th April.

White Cube. At Mason’s Yard, paintings by Franz Ackermann are on view to 1st April; works by Candice Breitz are at Hoxton Square; to 20th March.

Great Britain and Ireland

Birmingham, Ikon Gallery. The first UK exhibition of works by the American artist Clare Rojas and an exhibition of work by the Portuguese duo João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva; both to 21st March.

Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery. Works by Bridget Riley from the collection of the Arts Council are on view (in the Gas Hall) in the exhibition Flashback, running to 23rd May.

The collection-based exhibition Turner to Samuel Palmer: British Watercolours 1800–1850 runs to 2nd May.

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. A collection-based exhibition explores the work of Sargent, Sickert and Spencer; to 5th April.

Also collection-based, Netsuke: Japanese Art in Miniature brings together examples of miniature sculpture originating in 17th-century Japan; to 30th May.

Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard. The first in a series of exhibitions reflecting on ‘Modern Times’ explores the theme of chaos; to 14th March.

Chichester, Pallant House. John Tunnard: Inner Space and Outer Space is the first substantial retrospective to be devoted to the artist for thirty years; 15th March to 6th June.

Compton Verney. The exhibition exploring the work of Bacon in relation to film and photography, previously in Dublin and reviewed in the June issue, runs from 27th March to 20th June.

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Works by Jorge Pardo and Anne Tallentire are here to 3rd May.

Works by the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs from the ongoing series Le Temps du Sommeil, are on display in an exhibition running to 23rd May. The work will travel to Tate Modern, London, for a retrospective of Alÿs’s work opening in the summer.

Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland. An exhibition of acquisitions made over the last decade runs here from 13th March to 25th July.

Edinburgh, Dean Gallery. Photographs by Diane Arbus are on display from 13th March to 13th June.

Edinburgh, Inverleith House. An exhibition of paintings by Victoria Morton is on view from 14th March to 2nd May.

Edinburgh, Queen’s Gallery. An exhibition of photographs by Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley of Scott and Shackleton in the Antarctic mark the centenary of Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole; to 11th April.

Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery. Featuring items from the Polish national collection, Amber: Treasures from Poland brings together artefacts which represent both natural history and northern European craftsmanship; to 17th April.

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery. A survey exhibition of works by the Irish artist Mark Francis is on view from 20th March to 3rd July.

Leeds, Temple Newsam House. Wonderwall: 300 Years of Wallpaper; to 9th May.

Liverpool, Tate. Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic traces in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to the present; to 25th April.

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery. An exhibition of paintings by Aubrey Williams reflects on the meeting of Atlantic and black Atlantic cultures in Europe, the Caribbean, North and South America; to 11th April.

Manchester Art Gallery. An exhibition of works by Ron Mueck; to 11th April.

Middlesbrough, Institute of Modern Art. A certain distance, endless light brings together works by the Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the Irish artist William McKeown; 5th March to 4th July.

Milton Keynes Gallery. The first survey exhibition of work by Marcus Coates in a public gallery in Britain, runs here to 4th April.

Nottingham Contemporary. Star City. The future under Communism features work by a generation of artists who grew up in Eastern Bloc countries before the fall of Communism; to 17th April (then in Warsaw).

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. An exhibition here explores the watercolour in British art from Girtin and Turner to Burra, Piper, Sutherland and Kapoor; to 18th April.

Norwich, Sainsbury Centre. Seen earlier in Compton Verney and reviewed in the January issue, The Artist’s Studio is here to 16th May.

Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery. After Michelangelo brings together 35 drawings from the permanent collection to trace Michelangelo’s genius through his followers, imitators and admirers; to 16th May.

Oxford, Museum of Modern Art. A survey of video works by Mirosław Bałka and an installation by Pawel Althamer are both on view to 7th March.

St Ives, Tate. The first major survey of paintings by Dexter Dalwood; to 3rd May.

Sheffield, Graves Gallery. An exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe; to 27th March.

Windsor, Windsor Castle, Drawings Gallery. An exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne includes works by Holbein; to 18th April.

York Art Gallery. 100 Years of Gifts: the Centenary of the Contemporary Art Society; to 9th May.

Europe

Amelia, Complesso ex-Collegio Boccarini di Amelia. Piermatteo d’Amelia is celebrated in exhibitions here and at Terni; to 2nd May.

Amsterdam, Hermitage Amsterdam. This revamped Hermitage outpost hosts the exhibition Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage; 6th March to 17th September.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. On the occasion of the retirement of Wouter Kloek, a small exhibition devoted to Pieter Aertsen runs here to 19th April.

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum. Seen earlier in Cleveland,Paul Gauguin. The Breakthrough to Modernity examines the artist’s Volpini suite of lithographs; to 6th June.

Athens, Herakleidon. The exhibition The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas is on view here to 24th April.

Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda. Georg Baselitz. 50 Years of Painting runs here to 14th March.

Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró. An exhibition of works by artists who make murals is on view here to 6th July.

Barcelona, Museu d’Art Contemporani. A survey exhibition of works by Rodney Graham is on view here to 18th May (then in Basel and Hamburg).

Seen earlier in London, the John Baldessari exhibition is on view here to 25th April.

Basel, Fondation Beyeler. An exhibition marking the centenary of the death of Henri Rousseau; to 9th May.

Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico. While the exact birthdate of Jacopo Bassano is uncertain, his home town is celebrating his 500th birthday with an exhibition of his and his family’s work; to 3rd May.

Berlin, Akademie der Künste. An exhibition of work by George Grosz draws on the Academy’s extensive holdings; to 5th April.

Berlin, Brücke-Museum. An exhibition focusing on the work of Fritz Bleyl runs here to 25th April.

Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim. An exhibition examining the concept of utopia from the Nazarenes to the Bauhaus; to 11th April.

Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie. A new presentation of the collection is unveiled on 1st March and will be on view to 1st March 2011.

Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts, previously in Venice, is on display here to 3rd October.

Bregenz, Kunsthaus. A retrospective of works by Candice Breitz; to 11th April.

Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia. The exhibitions Inca and Beyond Baroque: Signs of Identity in Latin American art document the Pre- and Post-Columbian civilisations in Peru; to 27th June.

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts. An exhibition tracing the evolution of Symbolism is on view here from 26th March to 27th June.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts. An exhibition drawn from the collections of the Museo del Greco and the Museo de Santa Cruz in Toledo explores the work of El Greco; to 9th May.

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition The Alchemy of Beauty: Parmigianino – Drawings and Prints runs to 15th March.

Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Selected Treasures for the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo; 27th March to 19th September.

Castelfranco Veneto, Museo Casa Giorgione. On the 500th anniversary of his death, Giorgione is being celebrated with an exhibition of ‘about half his works’, together with works by Bellini, Cima, Sebastiano, Titian et al.; to 11th April.

Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazzo Valle. Burri e Fontana: Materia e Spazio confronts the work of these two artists; to 14th March.

Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the inauguration by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, of the Meissen manufactory, an exhibition here explores the history of porcelain; to 25th April.

Cologne, Museum Ludwig. Drawings and prints by Mary Heilmann are on view to 11th April.

Ways to Abstraction and Back Again: Kasimir Malevich and his Circle draws on the Museum’s extensive holding of works by the artist; to 22nd August.

Conegliano, Palazzo Sarcinelli. A major monographic exhibition commemorates the 500th anniversary of Cima da Conegliano’s death in 1510; to 22nd June.

Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum. A major exhibition devoted to Alberto Giacometti comprises some 120 of the sculptor’s works; to 18th April.

Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum. An ambitious, three-part exhibition examining the work of El Lissitzky; to 5th September.

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti. From Braque to Kandinsky to Chagall: Aimé Maeght and his artists, previously shown in London, runs here to 2nd June.

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. During an exhibition of medical manuscripts both the library and Michelangelo’s vestibule will be open to the public; to 26th June.

Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti. A selection of the Medici family’s collection of cut gems and cameos is shown together with works of art inspired by them by artists ranging from Ghiberti to Michelangelo; 25th March to 27th June.

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi. Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical paintings are shown with works by Magritte, Balthus, Ernst, Carrà and Morandi; to 18th July.

Florence, Uffizi. The recent refurbishment and arrangement of the Tribuna is the focus of a show running to 30th June.

Forlì, Musei di San Domenico. Flowers: Nature and Symbol from the Seicento to Van Gogh; to 20th June.

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle. The exhibition of works by Seurat, recently on view in Zürich, is on display here to 9th May.

Fratta Polesine, Villa Badoer. An exhibition of porcelain and maiolica from the collections of the Musei Civici of Treviso is on show to 13th June.

Gallarate, MAGa. To inaugurate the new seat of this Museum an exhibition of works by Amedeo Modigliani runs here from 19th March to 19th June.

Geneva, MAMCO. Three monographic exhibitions of works by Franz Erhard Walther, Victor Burgin and Marcia Hafif are on display to 2nd May.

Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire. Art and its markets: Flemish and Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th century, reviewed in the February issue, runs to 29th August.

Genoa, Musei di Strada Nuova, Palazzo Rosso. Francesco Hayez’s The kiss is shown with other works alluding to the Risorgimento; to 31st May.

Genoa, Wolfsoniana. An exhibition of Futurist ceramics and graphic work runs here to 11th April.

Gothenburg, Eriksburghallen. A drawing of a woman’s head in profile purporting to be by Leonardo is shown incongruously with architectural plans by Michelangelo and a preparatory drawing by Raphael for his Transfiguration; 20th March to 15th August.

Grenoble, Musée. An exhibition devoted to 15th- to 18th-century Italian drawings from the permanent collection runs here from 6th March to 30th May.

Groningen, Groninger Museum. Highlights from the collection of the Brücke Museum in Berlin are on display in the Ploeg Pavilion; to 11th April.

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum. A small display focusing on Judith Leyster’s Self-portrait from Washington includes additional loans of works by the artist; to 9th May.

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum. A large retrospective of works by artists associated with the Blaue Reiter group; to 24th May.

A retrospective of works by Georges Vantongerloo, is on display to 16th May.

An exhibition exploring the world of haute couture including the latest creations of Dior, Lacroix and Gaultier is on view to 6th June.

The Hague, Mauritshuis. Room for Art in 17th-century Antwerp, previously in Antwerp, explores art collecting in 17th-century Antwerp through three paintings by Willem van Haecht depicting the collection of Cornelis van der Geest; 25th March to 27th June.

Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum. Deceptively real: the art of trompe l’œil; to 24th May.

Hamburg, Kunsthalle. Seen earlier in London, the controversial exhibition Pop Life, tracing the influence of Pop art and the cult of celebrity, is on view here to 9th May.

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The video installation Homo Sapiens Sapiens by Pipilotti Rist is on view here to 25th April.

Colour in Art is drawn from the collection of Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher, and contains works by Kandinsky, Nolde, Matisse, Miró, Hockney, Kusama and others; to 13th June.

Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage. Some 100 paintings spanning Corot to Beckmann are on loan here from the Städel Museum, Frankfurt; to 24th May.

Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The first instalment of a two-part loan exhibition devoted to European still life brings together 71 17th- and 18th-century paintings; to 2nd May.

Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna. A survey of works by Jane and Louise Wilson is on view here to 18th April.

Lisbon, Museu Colecção Berardo. Seen earlier in Nice, a survey exhibition of work by Robert Longo is here to 25th April.

Madrid, Museo del Prado.Dutch Painters in the Prado runs to 15th April.

The Art of Power: The Royal Armoury and Court Portraiture, seen previously in Washington and reviewed in the September issue, runs here from 9th March to 23rd May.

John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 16th March to 30th May.

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. A major retrospective of works by Thomas Schütte is on view to 17th May.

An exhibition of works by Tacita Dean is on view to 31st May.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.Monet y la Abstracción; to 30th May.

Málaga, CAC. An exhibition of paintings by Eric Fischl runs here to 4th April.

Works by Gilbert & George are on view to 9th May.

Málaga, Museo Picasso. Seen earlier in Barcelona, the exhibition of works by Frantisek Kupka, drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, runs here to 15th April.

Mantua, Palazzo Te. A major exhibition of Renaissance tapestries ordered by the Gonzaga family, some on designs by Mantegna, Raphael and Giulio Romano and woven in Brussels and Paris, runs here and at the Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga from 13th March to 27th June; to be reviewed.

Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera. Crivelli and the Brera concentrates on the artist’s great pale of the 1480s; to 28th March.

Milan, Triennale di Milano. Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on art; to 30th May.

Mondovì, Chiesa della Missione. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Andrea Pozzo’s death, the frescos in this church will be visible from close by; to 30th April (see also Trento and Rome); to be reviewed.

Montpellier, Musée Fabre. An exhibition devoted to Jean Raoux runs to 14th April.

The international loan exhibition exploring the work of Houdon and his contemporaries, seen previously in Frankfurt, runs here from 16th March to 27th June.

Moscow, The Garage. Two exhibitions open on the 5th March; Futurologia explores the legacy of early 20th-century Russian avant-garde art movements; Russian Utopias examines art made in Russia over the past two decades; both to 23rd May.

Munich, Alte Pinakothek. The Art of the Frame: Exploring the Holdings of the Alte Pinakothek; to 18th April.

Munich, Haus der Kunst. Seen earlier in London, and reviewed in the January issue, the exhibition of paintings by Ed Ruscha is on view here to 2nd May.

Munich, Neue Pinakothek. Johann Georg von Dillis (1759–1841): Painter and Gallery Director; to 22nd March.

Naples, Museo d’arte contemporanea Donna-regina (MADRE).Barok: Arte, Scienza, Fede e Tecnologia nell’­età contemporanea draws parallels between artists of the seicento and the present day and includes Hirst’s Heaven; to 5th April.

An exhibition devoted to Cindy Sherman runs to 31st May.

Naples, Museo di Capodimonte. Here and at the Certosa di S. Martino, the Castel S. Elmo, the Museo Duca di Martina, the Museo Pignatelli and the Palazzo Reale, Return to the Baroque: from Caravaggio to Vanvitelli, runs to 11th April.

Nîmes, Carré d’Art. Seen earlier in London, the exhibition of paintings by Michael Raedecker runs here to 18th April. Concurrently, an exhibition of textile works by Isa Melsheimer.

Nuoro, Man. A loan exhibition from Rovereto MART of 20th-century Italian paintings from the Futurists to Morandi and Sironi is on show here from 5th March to 6th June.

Also here are recent works by Emanuele Becheri; 5th March to 11th April.

Padua, Civici Musei agli Eremitani. A loan exhibition of paintings from the Fondazione Longhi, Florence, runs to 28th March.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou. The work of Pierre Soulages is celebrated in an exhibition running to 8th March.

Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.Le Baroque en Flandres: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens. Une exposition du Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna; to 7th May.

Paris, Galerie des Gobelins. Trésors des Habsbourgs d’Espagne, chefs-d’œuvre de la tapisserie de la Renaissance; to 7th March.

Paris, Grand Palais. Turner and the Masters, reviewed at its London showing in the December issue, runs here to 24th May.

Paris, Institut Néerlandais. Previously in New York, Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection runs here to 11th April.

Paris, Jeu de Paume. Exhibitions of work by Lisette Model, Esther Shalev-Gerz and Mathilde Rosier are on view to 6th June.

Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. An international loan exhibition devoted to 19th-century oriental art runs from 26th March to 4th July.

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. An exhibition of work by Elaine Sturtevant is on display to 25th April.

Exhibitions of work by the Dutch artists Charley Toorop and Jan Dibbets are here to 9th May.

Paris, Musée du Louvre. An exhibition devoted to Russian religious art spanning the 9th to 18th centuries runs here from 5th March to 24th May.

An exhibition of drawings by Toussaint Dubreuil (1561–1602) runs from 25th March to 21st June.

Paintings from the private collection of 17th- and 18th-century French and Italian paintings formed since the 1980s by Héléna and Guy Motais de Narbonne are here from 25th March to 21st June.

Through 200 works of art Meroë, Empire on the Nile explores this ancient civilisation and its intermingling of African, Egyptian and Greco-Roman influences; 26th March to 6th September.

Paris, Musée Eugène Delacroix. Une passion pour Delacroix: la collection Karen B. Cohen; to 5th April.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André. Du Greco à Dalí. Les grands maîtres espagnols. La collection Pérez Simón; 12th March to 1st August.

Paris, Pinacothèque. An exhibition of work by Edvard Munch; to 18th July.

Piacenza, Galleria d’arte moderna Ricci Oddi. An exhibition devoted to small-scale paintings by the Macchiaioli and post-Macchiaioli; to 2nd May.

Pont-Aven, Musée. An exhibition of paintings by Serge Poliakoff is on view here to 30th May.

Ravenna, Museo d’Arte della Città. The 15th-century Pre-Raphaelites – Fra Angelico, Perugino et al. – are shown together with their 19th-century
admirers in The Pre-Raphaelites and the Italian Dream; to 6th June (then in Oxford).

Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano. The form of the Renaissance: Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo and sculpture in Rome in the 15th century; to 9th May.

Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (Palazzo Fontana di Trevi). Padre Pozzo’s treatise on perspective and his illusionistic frescos in the Gesù and S. Ignazio are the focus of an exhibition running from 5th March to 2nd May (see also Mondovì and Trento).

Rome, Museo del Corso. Previously in Milan, the exhibition devoted to Edward Hopper runs here to 13th June.

Rome, Palazzo Caffarelli. Greek works of art brought to Rome between the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD are shown here from 5th March to 5th September.

Rome, Scuderie Papali al Quirinale. The 400th anniversary of Caravaggio’s death is commemorated in a plethora of exhibitions; the first runs here to 17th June.

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. An exhibition of works by Carsten Höller is on display here to 25th April.

Rotterdam, Witte de With. An exhibition of work by Isa Genzken is on view here to 11th April.

Rovereto, Museo d’Arte moderna e contemporanea. Previously in Marseille and later moving to Toronto, the exhibition From the stage to painting explores the links between the two arts in the 18th and 19th centuries from David to Vuillard; to 23rd May.

Rovigo, Museo dei Grandi Fiumi. One hundred paintings from historic houses of the Veneto, dating from the 13th century (Guariento) to the 18th (Tiepolo et al.), are on show here to 13th June.

Rovigo, Palazzo Roverella. Easel paintings by the Venetian Mattia Bortoloni (1696–1750) are shown with those by contemporaries such as Tiepolo, Piazzetta, Balestra and others; to 13th June.

Seville, Museo de Bellas Artes. Previously in Bilbao, the exhibition devoted to the early work of Murillo is here to 30th May.

Siena, S. Maria della Scala. The Arts in Siena in the Early Renaissance is a major exhibition that runs from 26th March to 11th July.

Stockholm, Bonniers Konsthall. Tomás Saraceno’s room-size spider’s web, made from black elastic in collaboration with arachnologists and astrophysicists, shown at the Venice Biennale to great acclaim, is reinstalled here in an exhibition running to 15th June (then in Gateshead).

Stockholm, Moderna Museet. A retrospective survey of works by Lee Lozano runs here to 25th April.

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum. The in-focus show 2 x Caravaggio juxtaposes two versions of St Francis, one from the S. Maria della Concezione, Rome, the other from the Carpineto Romano, and argues that the latter is by Caravaggio himself; to 14th March.

Also on show are a number loans from museums in Europe and the United States to put the Nationalmuseum’s own collection of Flemish paintings into context; to 23rd May.

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie. An exhibition devoted to the prints and drawings of Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (1609–82/83) runs here to 7th March.

Terni, Centro per le Arti Opificio Siri (CAOS). Piermatteo d’Amelia is celebrated in exhibitions here and at Amelia; to 2nd May.

Toulouse, Musée des Augustins.Antonio Verrio (1636–1707), un italien entre Toulouse et Londres; 27th March to 27th June.

Trento, MART, Palazzo delle Albere.Eugenio Prati (1842–1907), between Scapigliatura and Symbolism runs to 25th April.

Trento, Museo Diocesano Tridentino. Padre Andrea Pozzo’s early work is celebrated in an exhibition running to 5th April (see also Mondovì and Rome).

Udine, Villa Manin a Passariano. The brothers Dino, Mirko and Afro Basaldella are shown together in a retrospective running here from 27th March to 29th August.

Venice, Museo Correr. 19th-century drawings of Venice, many hitherto unpublished, and including works by Giacomo Guardi and Ippolito Caffi, are on show here to 11th April.

Venice, Palazzo Grassi.Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Pinault collection runs to 6th June.

Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia. The idea that Corot can be seen as the ‘father’ of modern art is explored here in an exhibition of 115 works spanning Poussin to Picasso; to 7th March.

Verona, Palazzo della Ragione. 20th-century Italian paintings and sculpture in the collections of Fondazione Cariverona and UniCredit Group are on show here to 3rd June.

Vienna, Albertina. The exhibition devoted to the watercolours of Jakob and Rudolf von Alt runs to 24th May.

Vienna, Belvedere. An exhibition here focuses on Prince Eugene of Savoy ‘as philosopher and art lover’; to 6th June.

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. After having clocked up countless air miles over the last decade, Vermeer’s Art of Painting is enjoying time at home at the Museum in a display with loans that puts it into context; to 25th April.

Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum. An exhibition here presents recent acquisitions; to 24th August.

Zaragoza, Museo de Zaragoza.Valencia, The Splendour of the Renaissance in Aragon, previously in Bilbao and Valencia, runs here to 31st May.

Zürich, Kunsthaus. A loan exhibition from the Bührle collection of paintings spanning Frans Hals to Picasso runs here to 16th May.

New York

Acquavella Galleries. ‘Motorised paintings that spin’ by James Rosenquist are on view here to 19th March.

Brooklyn Museum. A unique, site-specific installation by Kiki Smith is on view to 12th September.

David Zwirner. Works by Thomas Ruff and Diana Thater are here to 13th March. Thereafter, paintings by Marlene Dumas (18th March to 24th April), and photographs by James Welling (24th March to 24th April).

Frick Collection. A loan exhibition of European paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, is on view here from 9th March to 30th May.

Gagosian. At Madison Avenue, works by Ed Paschke, and by Alberto di Fabio; both from 18th March to 24th April.

Sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, from 25th March to 26th June.

Gladstone Gallery. At 530 W. 21st St., works by Banks Violette are on view to 15th March; at 515 W. 24th St., works by Jan Dibbets are here to 13th March.

Jewish Museum. An exhibition examining how Man Ray’s work was shaped by his turn-of-the-century American-Jewish immigrant experience runs here to 14th March.

Knoedler & Company. Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations shows paintings and works on paper, many not previously exhibited; to 1st May.

Luhring Augustine. Works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller; 20th March to 24th April.

Matthew Marks. At 523 W. 24th St., photographs by Robert Adams; at 522 W. 22nd St., 16 sculptures by Ken Price all made in 2009; both to 17th April.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Belles Heures (c.1405–09) of Jean de Berry is currently unbound, so that it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves in a show running from 2nd March to 13th June.

The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the loan of the alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, carved by Jean de La Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier between 1443–1456 for the ducal tomb originally in the church of Champmol; 2nd March to 23rd May.

An exhibition devoted to Bronzino’s drawings; to 18th April.

From 16th March to 29th August 20 works from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, will be on loan while that Museum is closed for renovation; they include Ter Brugghen’s St Sebastian, Cézanne’s Viaduct at l’Estaque and Kirchner’s Self-portrait as a soldier.

Michael Werner. An exhibition of portraits of women, largely nudes, by Felix Vallotton; to 10th April.

Morgan Library. The Library’s Hours of Catherine of Cleves, disbound for the occasion so that more than 100 pages can be viewed separately, is on show in an exhibition seen earlier in Nijmegen; to 2nd May. There is a concurrent display of Flemish manuscripts from the Morgan.

16th-century drawings from the permanent collection are on display to 9th May.

Museum of Modern Art. A display of six late paintings by Monet, made at Giverny, including four from the collection, are on show for the first time since the Museum’s reopening in 2004; to 12th April; it was reviewed in the November issue.

A survey exhibition of works by William Kentridge is on view here to 17th May; to be reviewed.

Neue Galerie. The first solo exhibition of works by Otto Dix in North America, curated by Olaf Peters, is on display here from 11th March to 30th August (then in Montreal).

New Museum. An exhibition of works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, whose One ball equilibrium tank (1985) was one of the first works bought by the Greek Cypriot industrialist,  can be seen here to 6th June.

Pace Wildenstein. At 545 W. 22nd St., new work by Stirling Ruby (to 20th March); at 32 E. 57th St., new paintings by Robert Ryman (to 27th March).

Solomon Guggenheim Museum. A newly commissioned work by Anish Kapoor, Memory, is on display to 28th March.

Organised as part of the Museum’s 50th anniversary celebrations, two major projects by Tino Sehgal involving interactive performances within the rotunda, run to 10th March.

Whitney Museum of American Art. The 75th Whitney Biennial, a ‘panoramic survey of the latest American art’ including works by 55 artists, runs here to 30th May.

North America

Baltimore, Museum of Art. Seen earlier in New Jersey, the first exhibition to examine Cézanne’s influence on American artists is here to 23rd May.

Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum.Thomas Chambers (1808–1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter; 27th March to 30th May.

Boston, ICA. Seen earlier in London, the retrospective of works by Roni Horn is here to 13th June.

Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A collection-based exhibition devoted to Italian Renaissance terracotta sculpture runs to 23rd May.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. The monographic show devoted to Luis Meléndez, previously in Washington and Los Angeles, runs here to 9th May.

Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art.Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880–1914 includes works by artists such as William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, John Twachtman and others; to 2nd May.

Chicago, Art Institute.Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917 examines the years in which the artist worked on the painting Bathers by a river, in the Ins-titute’s collection; 20th March to 20th June (then in New York).

Chicago, Smart Museum. Seen earlier in Los Angeles and Washington, the exhibition The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy 1850–1900 run here to 13th June.

Cleveland Museum of Art.Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection; 7th March to 30th May.

Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts. Photographs and video by Cyprien Gaillard; to 11th April.

Dallas Museum of Art. Seen earlier in Michigan, an exhibition exploring the response of Impressionist painting to photography, focusing on works made on the coast of Normandy from 1850 to 1874, runs here to 23rd May.

Evanstone, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. The exhibition A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections is here to 14th March.

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum.From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern; to 21st March.

Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum.Andy Warhol: The Last Decade runs to 16th May.

Houston, Menil Collection. An exhibition of works by Maurizio Cattelan is on view to 15th August.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition Sargent and the Sea runs here to 23rd May (then in London).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Seen earlier in Paris, Renoir in the 20th Century runs here to 9th May.

The exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 is on view here to 23rd May.

Los Angeles, Hammer Museum. The first museum exhibition of drawings by Rachel Whiteread offers a comprehensive survey of her work in this medium, complemented by a number of sculptures; to 25th April (then in Dallas and London).

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum.Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts runs from 2nd March to 16th May.

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention, previously in Atlanta, runs here from 23rd March to 20th June.

The Museum has acquired Louis-Léopold Boilly’s Entrance to the Jardin Turc, a view outside one of the most celebrated cafés in Napoleonic Paris.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The touring show Venice in the Age of Canaletto runs here to 9th May.

Montreal, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. Separate exhibitions of work by the contemporary artists Luanne Martineau, Etienne Zack and Marcel Dzama are on view here to 30th April.

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art.Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp is on view here to 25th April.

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada.Maurice Denis: Journeys examines the artist’s work as a book illustrator; to 30th April.

Philadelphia, Museum of Art.Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys the artist’s work during the period 1905 to 1945; to 25th April; to be reviewed.

A sound work by Bruce Nauman, presented at the Venice Biennale last year, is on view to 4th April.

San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art. Paintings by Luc Tuymans; to 2nd May.

Seattle Art Museum.Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti is on view here to 11th April.

Vancouver Art Gallery.Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man is an exhibition of drawings from the Royal Collection; to 2nd May.

Venice, L.A. Louvre. An exhibition of paintings by Jonathan Lasker runs here to 3rd April.

Washington, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Previously in Syracuse, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales is on view here to 25th April (then in Albuquerque).

Washington, National Gallery of Art. The exhibition The Sacred Made Real, reviewed at its London showing in the January issue, is here to 31st May.

The survey of winter landscapes by Hendrick Avercamp, reviewed at its Amsterdam showing in the February issue, runs here from 21st March to 5th July.

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection; to 31st July.

45 proofs for lithographs, etchings and screenprints by Jasper Johns are on display to 4th April.

Washington, Phillips Collection. Seen earlier in New York, and reviewed in the January issue, the exhibition of works by Georgia O’Keeffe is on view here to 9th May (then in Santa Fe).

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The Boldini exhibition, reviewed at its Ferrara showing in the December issue, runs here to 25th April.

Rest of the world

Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia. The 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art runs to 2nd May.

Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery. The Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is on view here to 5th April.

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia.Masterpieces from Paris; to 5th April.

Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. A large exhibition of works by Olafur Eliasson is on view to 22nd March.

Melbourne, Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition Cubism and Australian Art is on display here to 8th April.

Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson is on view here to 11th April.

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art. An exhibition of paintings by Frank Brangwyn centres on his relationship with the collector Matsukata Kojiro; to 30th May.

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This month's sales

London, Bonhams (New Bond St.). English furniture and works of art (3rd); Post-War and contemporary art and design (10th); Ceramic design from 1860 (17th); 20th-century British art (17th); Marine works of art and paintings (24th); The South African sale (24th); The Crane Collection of 18th-century English porcelain (31st).

London, Bonhams (Knightsbridge). British and Continental pictures (2nd); Chinese and other Asian works of art (3rd); Furniture, works of art and sculpture (9th); Modern pictures (23rd); The South African sale (23rd); Frames (31st).

London, Christie’s (King St.). Old-master, modern and contemporary prints (31st).

London, Christie’s (South Kensington). Victorian and British Impressionist art (17th); Prints and multiples (23rd); 20th-century decorative art and design (24th); Post-War and contemporary art (25th); 20th-century British art (31st).

London, Sotheby’s. Old-master, modern and contemporary prints (30th).

New York, Christie’s. American paintings, drawings and sculpture (4th); Impressionist and modern (10th); Post-War and contemporary art (11th); 20th-century decorative art and design (16th); South Asian modern and contemporary art (23rd); Indian and Southeast Asian art (23rd); Japanese and Korean art (24th);
Chinese ceramics and works of art including property from the Arthur M. Sackler collections (25th
and 26th).

New York, Sotheby’s. American paintings, drawings and sculpture (3rd); Contemporary art (9th); 20th-century design (17th); Chinese works of art (23rd); Indian and Southeast Asian art (24th); Impressionist and modern art (25th).

Forthcoming Fairs

London, BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair; 17th to 23rd March.

Madrid, Almoneda, Art and Antiques Fair; 10th to 18th April.

Maastricht, TEFAF; 12th to 21st March.

New York, The Armory Show; 4th to 7th March.

New York, Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art (SOFA); 16th to 19th April.

Paris, Salon du Dessin; 23rd to 29th March.

Announcements

A day seminar will be held under the auspices of the Association of Art Historians on 18th March at Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, exploring collaboration on exhibitions between academics and gallery curators; for details and tickets for ‘Don’t Ask for the Mona Lisa’, see www.aah.org.uk/museums-and-exhibitions.

With reference to the Editorial on the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in the January issue, visitors wishing for admittance to the Print Room should first go to the Museum’s Information Desk (Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm); to see the Michelangelo and Raphael drawings an appointment must be made.

 

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