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Opening and Closing in August

Jean-François Millet -- one of the most influential artists of the 19th century with his depictions of toiling country folk -- is the subject of a free exhibition in just one room at London's National Gallery that opens on August 7. Millet: Life on the Land  mainly features work from British museums, but has a star attraction in the shape of  L’Angélus from the Musée d'Orsay. On until October 19.  In eastern Germany, Chemnitz is one of this year's European capitals of culture, and one of the major exhibitions on their programme starts on August 10. Edvard Munch -- Angst  in the Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz will recall, in part, a visit by Munch to Chemnitz 120 years ago. And, of course, there'll be a version of The Scream . Until November 2.  On the other side of the country, a rather different offering at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn: an exhibition devoted to the German filmmaker Wim Wenders, creator of Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas , and marking his 8...
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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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