It takes a split second these days to create an image, and how many millions are recorded daily on mobile phones, possibly never to be looked at again? You can see it all happening in the palatial surroundings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, definitely one of those tick-off destinations on many travellers' bucket lists, where those in search of instant pictorial satisfaction throng the imposing statue-lined staircase for a selfie or pout for a photo in the café under the spectacular cupola. But we're not in Vienna for a quick fix, we're at the KHM to admire something more enduring in the shape of art produced almost 500 years ago by Rembrandt and his pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten that was intended to mislead your eyes into seeing the real in the unreal. Artistic deception is the story at the centre of Rembrandt--Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion , one of the most engrossing and best-staged exhibitions we've seen this year. And, somewhat surprisingly, a show wi...
The first big exhibition of 2023 in London gets under way at the Royal Academy on January 21, and it features paintings by El Greco, Velázquez, Goya and Joaquín Sorolla, as well as textiles, silverware and many other artworks from Spain and Latin America. There are more than 150 objects to discover from the Hispanic Society of America in New York, the most extensive collection of Spanish art outside its homeland. Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library is on until April 10.
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The Singer Laren museum, near Hilversum in the Netherlands, is clearly also expecting a lot of visitors for its Kees van Dongen exhibition, because it's extended opening hours for the show to seven days a week. On from January 17 to May 7, it will feature 100 or so works, focusing on the early years of his career in Holland and his breakthrough in Paris shortly after 1900. Brash colours, thick brushstrokes and quite a lot of nudes will be found in these paintings, which include loans from major museums in the Netherlands and France and numerous private collections.
If Hockney and van Dongen are all colour, the Belgian Léon Spilliaert is very much shades of grey. At the Hermitage in Lausanne from January 27 to May 29, Léon Spilliaert: Avec la mer du Nord will show around 100 works from across his career. We caught a Spilliaert show at the Royal Academy before lockdown struck at the start of 2020 and were quite taken with his ghostly images of the deserted streets and promenade of Ostend by night..jpg)
Closing on the same day at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is an eye-opening exhibition showing how much Golden Boy Gustav Klimt drew his inspiration from a surprising range of other contemporary artists. It's on again at the Belvedere in Vienna from February 3 to May 29.-LR.jpg)
We really enjoyed Hockney's Eye at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which ends on January 29, an intriguing exploration of the artist's attempts to work out alternative approaches to traditional western perspective.
January 29 is also the last day at the Petit Palais in Paris for a fantastic retrospective of Walter Sickert. We saw the show at Tate Britain during the summer and were fascinated by Sickert's innovative music-hall paintings and by the way his late work in the 1920s and 30s presaged Pop Art..jpg)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Portrait of a Little Girl, c. 1638-42, The Hispanic Society of America, New York
Léon Spilliaert, Night, 1908, Property of the Belgian State, Collection of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Photo: Luc Schrobiltgen, Brussels
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David Hockney has achieved the status of a British national treasure, and he's the opening attraction at a whizzy new venue in King's Cross, the Lightroom. From January 25 to April 23, the artist provides his own commentary for David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). In a cycle of six chapters, Hockney takes us through his career and constant experimentation with ways of seeing. The immersive large-scale projection of his work, lasting 45-50 minutes, is accompanied by a specially composed musical score. This is clearly a show that's cost a lot of money to put on, and standard timed tickets start at £25 and appear to go up to as much as £37.50 on the opening weekend for slots with low availability (once in, you can stay as long as you like).
The Singer Laren museum, near Hilversum in the Netherlands, is clearly also expecting a lot of visitors for its Kees van Dongen exhibition, because it's extended opening hours for the show to seven days a week. On from January 17 to May 7, it will feature 100 or so works, focusing on the early years of his career in Holland and his breakthrough in Paris shortly after 1900. Brash colours, thick brushstrokes and quite a lot of nudes will be found in these paintings, which include loans from major museums in the Netherlands and France and numerous private collections.
If Hockney and van Dongen are all colour, the Belgian Léon Spilliaert is very much shades of grey. At the Hermitage in Lausanne from January 27 to May 29, Léon Spilliaert: Avec la mer du Nord will show around 100 works from across his career. We caught a Spilliaert show at the Royal Academy before lockdown struck at the start of 2020 and were quite taken with his ghostly images of the deserted streets and promenade of Ostend by night.
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Last chance to see....
On at the National Gallery in London until January 8 is Winslow Homer: Force of Nature, a show that we couldn't really get enthused about, despite Homer's status as one of the great names in American art.Closing on the same day at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is an eye-opening exhibition showing how much Golden Boy Gustav Klimt drew his inspiration from a surprising range of other contemporary artists. It's on again at the Belvedere in Vienna from February 3 to May 29.
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Also finishing in Holland on January 8, Newcomers, the story of artists of Flemish origin in Haarlem in the Golden Age, at the Frans Hals Museum in that city. Some rarely seen Hals paintings are among the highlights.
You have until January 15 to get to the Mauritshuis in The Hague to see Manhattan Masters, a small but select loan of Dutch Golden Age paintings from the Frick Collection in New York. There's a Vermeer, a Hals and a Rembrandt, and it's beautifully presented.
Art meets social history in Clara the Rhinoceros at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which also ends on January 15. The story of an 18th-century animal celebrity, it's a truly fascinating show.
Closing at the National Gallery on January 15 is Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès, an exhibition that not only introduces you to the art of Gonzalès, Manet's only formal pupil, but also traces self-portraiture by women artists down the centuries. There's no charge to see this surprisingly extensive display.
You have until January 15 to get to the Mauritshuis in The Hague to see Manhattan Masters, a small but select loan of Dutch Golden Age paintings from the Frick Collection in New York. There's a Vermeer, a Hals and a Rembrandt, and it's beautifully presented.
Art meets social history in Clara the Rhinoceros at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which also ends on January 15. The story of an 18th-century animal celebrity, it's a truly fascinating show.
Closing at the National Gallery on January 15 is Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès, an exhibition that not only introduces you to the art of Gonzalès, Manet's only formal pupil, but also traces self-portraiture by women artists down the centuries. There's no charge to see this surprisingly extensive display.
We really enjoyed Hockney's Eye at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, which ends on January 29, an intriguing exploration of the artist's attempts to work out alternative approaches to traditional western perspective.
January 29 is also the last day at the Petit Palais in Paris for a fantastic retrospective of Walter Sickert. We saw the show at Tate Britain during the summer and were fascinated by Sickert's innovative music-hall paintings and by the way his late work in the 1920s and 30s presaged Pop Art.
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Images
Léon Spilliaert, Night, 1908, Property of the Belgian State, Collection of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Photo: Luc Schrobiltgen, Brussels
Gustav Klimt, Life is a Struggle (The Golden Knight), 1903, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Walter Sickert, The P.S. Wings in the O.P. Mirror, c. 1888-89. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
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