Art history? No, we're starting this month with an exhibition that we'll be tagging #artherstory on social media. Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 opens at Tate Britain in London on May 16, with the aim of charting the path of women to being recognised as professional artists over the centuries. More than 100 will be represented: relatively widely known names such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffman , Gwen John and Laura Knight , as well as the more obscure or neglected -- Levina Teerlinc, Mary Beale and Sarah Biffin . It's on till October 13, and as we've just seen a show in Germany focused on women artists over much the same timescale, we'll be keen to compare and contrast. Let's stick with a female theme. A short stroll up Millbank and across Lambeth Bridge, and you're at the Garden Museum, where from May 15 to September 29 you can see Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors . The show takes you around the gardens of Vane
"Here she comes/You better watch your step/She's going to break your heart in two/It's true." Lou Reed wrote the song; Now the Kunsthalle in Hamburg brings you the pictures. Femme Fatale: Gaze -- Power -- Gender looks at how painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and Impressionists among them -- developed the image, as well as how modern women artists have attempted to reinterpret it. With around 200 exhibits, it's on from December 9 to April 10.
Our preview this month is very much centred on Germany as that is where most of the openings are this December. In Berlin, the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg is looking back a full century to the premiere of the seminal horror movie with Phantoms of the Night: 100 Years of Nosferatu. The curators explore how FW Murnau's 1922 film drew on sources such as Goya and Caspar David Friedrich and how this silent movie went on to influence the Surrealists as well as popular culture down to the present day. This one runs from December 16 to April 23.
What if German history had turned out differently? Not once but many times over the last two turbulent centuries. What if the 1961 standoff between Soviet and US forces at Checkpoint Charlie had turned violent? What if the East German leadership had used force against mass protests in 1989? These are among the questions being asked at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin from December 9 in Roads Not Taken. And what if you can't make it in 2023? Don't worry, it doesn't close until.... November 24, 2024!
One show outside Germany: Christmas Eve sees the start of an exhibition at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam featuring the work of Dutch women artists from the first half of the 20th century. Charley Toorop is perhaps the best-known of the 24 painters and sculptors in Women's Palette 1900-1950, which runs until April 9.
Last chance to see....
The small free show rediscovering the fascinating story of the severely disabled 19th-century miniature painter Sarah Biffin, "Without Hands", can be seen at London's Philip Mould gallery until December 21 and is well worth a visit.Still on until December 23 at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London is an exhibition devoted to art Inspired! by music, writing and the theatre; alas, it's by no means the best show we've seen at the venue.
Images
John William Waterhouse, Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1891. © Gallery OldhamSir Thomas Lawrence, John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus, 1798, Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London
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