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Opening and Closing in February

London's Courtauld Gallery is our first stop this month, for Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection in the Swiss city of Winterthur. Cezanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh are among the artists featured in this show, which is taking place because the villa Am Römerholz, where the collection is usually housed, is being renovated this year. This exhibition is on from February 14 to May 26.  Think of Chelsea, and you may think of the annual flower show. The Saatchi Gallery, right on the King's Road, is picking up on that theme, playing host to some 500 artworks and objects in what looks to be a somewhat overwhelming exhibition entitled Flowers -- Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture . Dozens of artists are listed as being featured -- Pedro Almodóvar, Elizabeth Blackadder, Michael Craig-Martin and Damien Hirst, to name just a handful. It's on from February 12 until May 5. And with a younger audience in mind, Young V...
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Opening and Closing in December

It's the month before Christmas, and all through the house, there's not a lot stirring in terms of new exhibitions.

At the Wallace Collection in London, December 4 sees the opening of Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. Curated by writer and historian William Dalrymple, this is the first show in the UK of works by Indian painters for the trading company that effectively ruled large parts of the subcontinent in the 18th and 19th centuries. Until April 19.

We've seen some superb exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg in the past, and their new show brings together three really big names: Goya, Fragonard, Tiepolo. With around 100 works, the exhibition will examine the disparity of 18th-century art in an age of great political, technological and social change. December 13 to April 13.
And in Italy, the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara is devoting a show to Giuseppe De Nittis, the Italian painter closely associated with the French Impressionists. It's on from December 1 to April 13.

Last chance to see....

Two complementary shows are finishing at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London. December 1 is the last day for Architecture of London, an exhibition that looks back at how artists have viewed the metropolis over four centuries, while The London that Never Was, a quirky free display on the buildings and projects that failed to get constructed, closes a week later.
And in Copenhagen, one of the best exhibitions of the year, a huge retrospective of the Danish Golden Age in the 19th century, ends its run at the National Gallery on December 8. It will be on again at the Petit Palais in Paris from April 28. 

Images

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Don Tomás Pérez Estala, c. 1795. © Hamburger Kunsthalle/bpk, Photo: Elke Walford
Image of Fleet St taken from a 1967 Greater London Council report on the feasibility of introducing monorails in central London, London Metropolitan Archives (City of London)

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