Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
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Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
‘You mustn’t miss it – it closes on Sunday’. How often we have heard this or said it. And how often, having failed to catch some important, revealing or enhancing exhibition, we offer a lame excuse – the queue was too long, there was a train strike – for not having experienced this ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ show. We therefore offer here a selection of museum exhibitions to give readers advance warning of some of the potential delights of 2011. Of course it is not always easy to gauge the scope and depth of future shows. Museum press releases put their best foot forward, not always being strictly accurate in their recommendations of ‘groundbreaking’, ‘iconic’ and ‘innovative’ shows.
An attribution to Jan Gossaert of the drawing of An allegory of filial and parental love (c.1520s) in the British Museum, London.
A newly discovered drawing of a gathering of witches by Jacques de Gheyn II.
The subject-matter of an oil-sketch by Rubens in Sydney.
A newly acquired painting by Dirck van Baburen in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel.
A portrait of the seventeenth-century patrician Conrad Ruysch is here attributed to Ferdinand Voet, who painted the portrait in Rome.
Two newly discovered watercolour portraits by Emil Nolde at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
An extended review of the exhibition Rembrandt and his Pupils, which was shown at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in winter 2009–10.
