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A blog about art exhibitions around Britain and Europe written by Eddie Buckle and Lydia Lancaster. Read it at https://art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/
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Self-portrait, c.1650, by #LouiseHollandine, Princess of the Palatine (German, 1622-1709), who died #otd, Feb 11. Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Se... #womenartists #artherstory
February 11, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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✨Making Her Mark: A Celebration of Women in Art✨
Discover a powerful new exhibition at Penlee House (30 April – 27 September 2026) celebrating the impact and legacy of women artists - over 50 remarkable works spanning from the 1850s to today.

Find out more: penleehouse.org.uk/exhibition/m...
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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New post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

The Possibility of #MichaelinaWautier
Thoughts on "Michaelina Wautier: Painter" at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
by Allison van den Hoek, author of INDELICATE: Michaelina Wautier’s Untold Story
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The Possibility of Michaelina Wautier
Allison van den Hoek presents her thoughts on "Michaelina Wautier: Painter," a 2025-26 art exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Fire & water, sun & sky: It's all in this JMW Turner painting of the Tyne - Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight - first exhibited in 1835 and now in the stunning Turner & Constable show at Tate Britain: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/fire.... Picture from National Gallery of Art, Washington
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Fire & water, sun & sky: It's all in this JMW Turner painting of the Tyne - Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight - first exhibited in 1835 and now in the stunning Turner & Constable show at Tate Britain: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/fire.... Picture from National Gallery of Art, Washington
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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New exhibitions in London, Paris & Milton Keynes this month:
Georges Seurat at the Courtauld
Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
Leonora Carrington at the Musée du Luxembourg
Euan Uglow at MK Gallery
These & lots more in our February round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
New Exhibitions in February
A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.
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February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
New exhibitions in London, Paris & Milton Keynes this month:
Georges Seurat at the Courtauld
Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
Leonora Carrington at the Musée du Luxembourg
Euan Uglow at MK Gallery
These & lots more in our February round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
New Exhibitions in February
A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.
art-exhibitions.blogspot.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Paula Modersohn Becker born #OTD 150 years ago. One of a group of women German Expressionists who have seen their work recognised in last few years. Starting today in her home city of Dresden, slightly unexpected double header with Edvard Munch albertinum.skd.museum/en/exhibitio...
February 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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Plus que 15 jours pour visiter la première rétrospective française consacrée à Pekka Halonen, figure majeure de l’âge d’or finlandais !

❄️ Plus de 130 œuvres, retraçant toute sa carrière, des scènes rurales aux paysages d’hiver

📆 Jusqu’au 22 février
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February 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Starting today in Cardiff, Gwen John exh. Seems like two minutes since Pallant House's excellent show, but this is a bigger retrospective (later touring to Scotland and US). Can't wait to see it. museum.wales/cardiff/what...
Gwen John: Strange Beauties | Museum Wales
The Pilgrim by Gwen John. Photo credit - Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionGwen Joh...
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February 7, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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The sands of time are running out for the stunning Félix Vallotton retrospective at MCBA Lausanne, our favourite exhibition of the past 12 months: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro.... You've only got until Feb 15 to see it. This is La grève blanche, Vasouy (1913, Private collection)
February 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude
In a superb, mystical retrospective, the painter sheds social trappings – and her clothes – as she uses her enormous intelligence to paint purely
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February 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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The final touches are being put in place... It's almost time for BIRDS to take off! 🐦🪶

From Thursday, 12 February, everyone is welcome to visit our new exhibition BIRDS - Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama.
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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New exhibitions opening in Vienna this month:
Gustave Courbet at the Leopold Museum
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller at the Belvedere
These shows and lots more art round Britain and Europe in our February round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
New Exhibitions in February
A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.
art-exhibitions.blogspot.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Recently started @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social It's a beautiful venue anyway and this is a great sounding exhibition on British portraiture from 1915 www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/peo...
People Watching – Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Over a hundred years of British portraiture with The Ingram Collection and Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
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February 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
The sands of time are running out for the stunning Félix Vallotton retrospective at MCBA Lausanne, our favourite exhibition of the past 12 months: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro.... You've only got until Feb 15 to see it. This is La grève blanche, Vasouy (1913, Private collection)
February 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
New exhibitions opening in Vienna this month:
Gustave Courbet at the Leopold Museum
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller at the Belvedere
These shows and lots more art round Britain and Europe in our February round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
New Exhibitions in February
A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.
art-exhibitions.blogspot.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Some big Scandinavian-themed exhibitions in Madrid this month:
Vilhelm Hammershøi @museothyssen.org
Anders Zorn at the Mapfre Foundation
February's preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
Pictured: Hammershøi, Portrait of Ida Ilsted, Later the Artist’s Wife, 1890, SMK, Copenhagen
February 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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New shows in Germany this month:
German Impressionism at Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Paula Modersohn-Becker at Museen Böttcherstrasse, Bremen & Albertinum, Dresden (with Munch)
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Pic: Eva Stort, View from the Window (Schöneberg), 1890, David Ragusa Collection
February 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Caravaggio’s masterpiece has been installed in our new exhibition Metamorphoses. The story of Narcissus tells of a man who fell in love with his own reflection, a fatal illusion that led to his transformation into a flower.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphoses
February 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
New shows in Germany this month:
German Impressionism at Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Paula Modersohn-Becker at Museen Böttcherstrasse, Bremen & Albertinum, Dresden (with Munch)
art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
Pic: Eva Stort, View from the Window (Schöneberg), 1890, David Ragusa Collection
February 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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"What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock." This is late John Constable: Stoke-by-Nayland (c. 1835-37, @artinstitutechi.bsky.social) in the splendid Turner & Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. Read about it here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/fire...
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
"What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock." This is late John Constable: Stoke-by-Nayland (c. 1835-37, @artinstitutechi.bsky.social) in the splendid Turner & Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. Read about it here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/fire...
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Some big Scandinavian-themed exhibitions in Madrid this month:
Vilhelm Hammershøi @museothyssen.org
Anders Zorn at the Mapfre Foundation
February's preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
Pictured: Hammershøi, Portrait of Ida Ilsted, Later the Artist’s Wife, 1890, SMK, Copenhagen
February 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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New exhibitions in Cardiff, Paris and Milton Keynes this month:
Gwen John at Amgueddfa Cymru
Leonora Carrington at the Musée du Luxembourg
Euan Uglow at MK Gallery
Our February preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
Pic: John's The Convalescent, c. 1923-24, Fitzwilliam Museum
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM