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...
There seems to have been a point about 90 years ago when many of the features of modern life were starting to become if not commonplace, then at least a lot more familiar: the radio, the telephone, aeroplanes, talking pictures, electric trains. And yet amid all that technological progress, an art school in Pimlico was showing that a less sophisticated medium could also be revolutionary. At Dulwich Picture Gallery in south-east London, they're celebrating the emergence of the linocut as a serious art form. Between the wars, a group of artists captured speed and movement in vibrantly coloured prints that tell a story of rapid change. Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking features names you may never have heard of, but it's art that's hugely appealing. The linocut was seen as a basic printmaking technique for children when Claude Flight set up his extremely informal Grosvenor School of Art in Pimlico in 1925. He regarded it as an egalitarian art form in keeping with...