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The Art Exhibitions Blog
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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/
Just found out that Gladys Hynes is getting an exhibition to herself next year at Charleston in Lewes. This is Morning, 1916, Collection RAW. A lot more astonishing is her 1939 anti-war painting Crucifixion @rafmuseum.bsky.social: collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/collection/o... #artherstory
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Still on and worth seeing at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London: Evelyn De Morgan's swirling fabrics, and a surprising amount of bare flesh, as in Boreas and Oreithyia (1896, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/05/evel...
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Maria Slavona is one of just a handful of women artists in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. This is Still Life with Red Background, 1911, Schlösschen im Hofgarten, Wertheim. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New exhibitions with big names in London this month:
Joseph Wright at the National Gallery
JMW Turner & John Constable at Tate Britain
David Hockney at Annely Juda
November's round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New exhibitions of Nordic artists this month:
Pekka Halonen @petitpalaismusee.bsky.social in Paris
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in London
These & more in our November round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Halonen's Pioneers in Karelia, 1900, Ateneum, Helsinki
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Lesser Ury, a German Impressionist who liked a rainy night; several of his paintings are in the show now on at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Nocturnal Street Scene, Berlin, c. 1915-20, Dr Matthias Wilkening Foundation
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's your last chance to catch Scented Visions at Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, looking at how the sense of smell was portrayed in Victorian art: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more.... Closes Nov 9. This is John Everett Millais's The Blind Girl (1856, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery).
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Another incredibly vibrant Théo van Rysselberghe painting from the splendid Neo-Impressionism show at the National Gallery in London. This is his wife, Maria van Rysselberghe-Monnom (1892, Kröller-Müller Museum). Read about the exhibition on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Max Liebermann's Wannsee garden: the German equivalent of Monet's Giverny. Pictured: Perennials in Front of the Gardener's House to the North, 1928, Private collection. Now in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's all very still despite the fluttering flags and pennants in Georges Seurat's Port-en-Bessin, a Sunday (1888, Kroller-Müller Museum) in the terrific Neo-Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Impressionism, but the later German version, now on at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. Read about it on the blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is The Hollyhock Gardener by Max Slevogt (1920, Kunsthalle Mannheim).
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hungerford Bridge has never looked as radiant as in Jan Toorop's Bridge in London (Charing Cross), 1888-89, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. It's in the light-filled and hugely enjoyable Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Your last chance to visit the show at Pallant House in Chichester looking at how artists see each other, ending Nov 2: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/know.... This is Clare Shenstone's fascinating if disturbing study for a cloth portrait of Francis Bacon (c. 1980, @sainsburycentre.bsky.social)
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's Impressionism, just not as we know it; the German version, now at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at Museum Barberini in Potsdam: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Lovis Corinth, Woman Reading, 1911, Private collection
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Perhaps not the happiest of households in Paul Signac's A Sunday, Opus 201 (1888-90, Private collection). Just look at that cat... Part of the outstanding Neo-Impressionists exhibition
at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Weather awful outside? You need to see the Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery in London for a change of climate: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan.... Feel the heat in Théo van Rysselberghe's In July, before Noon (1890, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands).
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New exhibitions in the Netherlands this month:
Van Gogh & the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum
17C life @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
The enigmatic Master IS at De Lakenhal in Leiden
Our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Pic: Vincent van Gogh, La Berceuse, 1889, MFA Boston
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's your last chance for Surrealism meets Romanticism at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, ending Oct 12. We encountered some of the Surrealists @centrepompidou.bsky.social last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/surr.... Pictured: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Last chance to catch the stunning Gustave Caillebotte show @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, ending Oct 5. We saw the exhibition @museeorsay.bsky.social: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/cail.... This is Partie de bateau (c. 1877-78) from the Musée d'Orsay, with the best-dressed rower on the river.
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's your very last chance to experience the wonder of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry at the Château de Chantilly; ends Oct 5: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/very.... And this star guest is Profile Portrait of a Lady (c. 1410, NGA, Washington DC) by an anonymous Franco-Flemish artist.
September 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Still on and worth seeing at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London: the Evelyn de Morgan show with pictures from @demorganfoundation.bsky.social. This is Luna from 1885. Read about the exhibition, running till January, on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/05/evel...
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The Duke of Berry - and his bear - from the effigy made by Jean de Cambrai around 1404, normally in Bourges Cathedral, now in the stunning Très Riches Heures exhibition at the Château de Chantilly. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/very....
September 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This gorgeously outfitted sitter is among the star guests in the Très Riches Heures show at the Château de Chantilly. It's Profile Portrait of a Lady (c. 1410, NGA, Washington DC) by an anonymous Franco-Flemish artist. Read about the exhibition: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/very...
September 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Spring in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. This is April, also featuring the sumptuous costumes of an aristocratic betrothal. Painted by the Limbourg brothers in 1411-16, it can be seen up close in the superb exhibition at the Château de Chantilly: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/very...
September 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Duke of Berry's feast, January's calendar image in the Très Riches Heures painted by the Limbourg brothers between 1411 and 1416. Now on show in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the Château de Chantilly. Read about the exhibition: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/very...
September 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM