What a lot of new exhibitions this October! We list well over 20 across Europe below -- many more than usual -- and have still had to leave out quite a few that we'd mention in most other months in order to keep this post to a reasonable length. Let's start at the Royal Academy in London with deep blue seas, cloudless skies, intense light and the heat of the sun. From October 2 to January 31, you can experience the excitement Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and many others felt while Painting the French Riviera . The exhibition features more than 160 exhibits from the 1870s to the 1960s, and a version of the show travels on to the Cleveland Museum of Art in March. Hmm, Renoir. Now perhaps seen as the most chocolate-boxy of the Impressionists, but without doubt the creator of some of the most recognisable images in French art of the late 19th century. Well worth stealing , and clearly the National Gallery is on to a winner with its Renoir and Love ex...
Olafur Eliasson is very of the moment, isn't he? He wants to save the planet, and he hopes that if you go to see Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life at Tate Modern in London, the immersive art he's made that you encounter will heighten your sense of the world around you and make you even more minded to combat climate change. Of course, if you were planning to see this show in the first place, we suspect the chances are that you're already fairly environmentally aware. Eliasson wowed London with The Weather Project in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall back in 2003, and so, many of those flocking to this retrospective on the South Bank will be hoping for just as much wow this time round. Do they get it? Well, the best of the 40 or so works on show really do astonish and delight and surprise.... but to be honest, quite a few fall a bit flat. Perhaps that's because while most of these haven't been on display in Britain before, we have seen a fair number in the past, includ...