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New Exhibitions in November

It's surely an anniversary the Tate has long been counting down to: JMW Turner was born in 1775, John Constable in 1776. To mark the 250 years of two of the country's greatest painters, Turner and Constable  is on at Tate Britain from November 27 to April 12. Rivals with very different approaches to landscape painting, they were both hugely influential. More than 170 works are promised, with Turner's Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons  and Constable's White Horse  coming home from the US for the show. Before those two were even born, Joseph Wright of Derby had already painted his most famous picture, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump . It'll be part of Wright of Derby: From the Shadows   at the National Gallery from November 7 to May 10, which is intended to challenge the view of Wright as just a painter of light and shade and to illustrate how he used the night to explore deeper and more sombre themes. Only 20 or so works, however, making it a disappo...
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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 80th birthday. W.I.M. -- The Art of Seeing runs from August 1 to January 11, and another version of the show will be on at the DFF Film Museum in Frankfurt from March. 

The American painter Lois Dodd has been going even longer than Wenders; she's still working at 98 and will have her first European retrospective at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague from August 30. You can see her observational pictures of her surroundings in Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral until January 4. 

Last chance to see....

You only have until August 3 to catch perhaps the greatest of the old mistresses, Artemisia Gentileschi, at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. It's a show full of Baroque drama, squeezed into a terribly cramped exhibition space. Last few tickets still available as this preview was published.  

Closing at the National Gallery in London on August 17 is José María Velasco: A View of Mexico, a chance to see this chronicler of the Mexican 19th-century landscape whose work is little-known here. Fascinating, if a little overpriced. 

The intimate paintings of Norway's greatest woman artist of the 19th century, Harriet Backer, have been on a European tour, and the last leg winds up at Kode in Bergen on August 24. We saw the show at the Musée d'Orsay last year.
An exhibition that's been immensely popular in London this year is Flowers -- Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea; so much so they brought it back for a second run that ends on August 31. There's a lot to enjoy; advance booking advisable. 

Images

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), L’Angélus, 1857-59, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. © Musée d'Orsay, Dist. Grand Palais Rmn/Patrice Schmidt
Lois Dodd (b. 1927), Sun in Hallway, 1978. © Lois Dodd, Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York
Harriet Backer (1845-1932), Evening, Interior, 1896, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo. Photo: Nasjonalmuseet/Børre Høstland
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