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WHAT'S ON IN EUROPE 2012

IN THE MUSEUMS OF EUROPE THIS MONTH; FEBRUARY 2012

AMSTERDAM

VAN GOGH MUSEUM 'Van Gogh's studio practice: Canvases re-used'; to 10 Jun 2012

THE HERMITAGE 'Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens'; to 16 Mar 2012

RIJKSMUSEUM 'Nova Zembla'; to 27 Feb 2012

STEDELIJK MUSEUM Closed for renovation

JEWISH MUSEUM 'Saul Leiter; New York Reflections'; to 4 Mar

'My name is Cohen'; to 11 Mar

REMBRANDT HOUSE MUSEUM 'Drawing in Rembrandt's day; to 22 Apr

ANTWERP

MuHKA. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 'Spirits of Internationalism. 6 European Collections 1956-1986'; to 6 May

'Extra Muros: Masterpieces at MAS'; to 30 Dec 2012

BARCELONA

JOAN MIRO FOUNDATION 'Joan Miró; Poster of a time, of a country'; to 18 Mar 2012

CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORANEA 'The Complete Letters'; to 19 Feb 2012

World Press Photo; to 18 Dec

MUSEE BARBIER-MUELLER; The Inca Route, the past of the Andes'; to January 2013

NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CATALONIA 'Gods and Myths of Antiquity. The evidence from Hispanic coins 23 Feb 2012 - 17 Mar 2013

BASEL

MUSEUM TINGUELY 'Der Luminator ist zurück!' to 04. Oct 2013  

'Vera Isler. Face to Face II' From 1. Feb 2012 to 6. May  

KUNSTHALLE 'Pedro Wirz; Sculpture Exquise'; to 30 Apr

KUNSTMUSEUM 'Tim Rollins + K.O.S. On Transfiguration'; to 15. April 2012

'Karlheinz Weinberger; Intimate Stranger'; to 15.04.2012
  

'Róza El Hassan - In Between Drawings and Objects' 11 Feb to 20 May

VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM Rudolf Steiner; Alchemy of the Everyday'; to 1 May 2012

BioMorph; Organic Design; to 8 Jan 2012

FOUNDATION BEYELER 'Pierre Bonnard; to 13 May

BATH

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM Closed till March

THE FASHION MUSEUM( formerly The Costume Museum) 'Behind the scenes at the Fashion Museum - The Historic Collection'; Continuing throughout 2012

MUSEUM OF EAST ASIAN ART Partially closed till early 2012

VICTORIA ART GALLERY 'Earth Works: Peter Burke' to 5 Feb

'Kate Flood: The light within'; to 5 Feb

BELFAST

ULSTER MUSEUM 'A Gift to the City - Lavery Portraits' to Sunday 15 April 
'Street Art' to Sunday 4 March 
 

BERLIN

GUGGENHEIM 'Found in Translaton'; to 9 Apr

HISTORICAL MUSEUM 'Under Trees. The Germans and the Forest'; to 4 Mar

FILMMUSEUM "On the set'; to 29 Apr 2012

HAMBURGER BAHNHOF 'TOMÁS SARACENO. Cloud cities' to  19 Feb

'Yoji Ikeda.DB' to 9 Apr

'Secret Universe II. Paul Laffoley ; to 4 Mar

GEMAELDE GALERIE'Albrecht Altdorfer (ca. 1480-1538); to 19 Feb 2012

NEW NATIONAL GALLERY 'Divided Heaven'; to March 2013

OLD NATIONAL GALLERY No special exhibitions

PERGAMON MUSEUM 'Panorama of the Ancient City'; to 30 Sep 2012

'From Medina to the Jordanian Border; Photographs by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg'; to 6 May 2012

BILBAO

GUGGENHEIM ' Selections from the Bilbao Guggenheim Collection II' to October 28, 2012

'Brancusi-Serra' to April 15, 2012

BOLOGNA

MAMBO (Museum of Modern Art) 'Arte Povera 1968'; to 26 Dec

'Alexandre Hollan. Silences en Couleurs'; to 5 Feb 2012

BRISTOL

CITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year'; to 11 Mar 2012

BRUSSELS

ROYAL MUSEUM OF CENTRAL AFRICA 'Uncensored; Vivid Tales from behind the scenes'; to 8 Jul 2012

'Museum Dwellers'; to 8 Jul 2012

'Africa XL'; to 31 Dec

MUSEE DU CINQUANTENAIRE ''Progress came from the skies; the history of Sabena'; to 26 Feb 2012

ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 'Ferdinand Schirren; to 4 Mar 2012

BUDAPEST

LUDWIG MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (LuMu) BAKOS. Rita Ackermann

to 18 March 2012.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS'El Greco to Rippl-Ronai'; to 19 Feb 2012

CAMBRIDGE

FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM 'Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin'; to 4 Mar 2012

COPENHAGEN

ARKEN - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The Essence of Colour; The Art of Queen Margrethe'; to 1 July

'Damien Hirst Donation'; to 5 Sep

DANISH DESIGN CENTRE ''Challenge Society'; to 19 Feb 2012

Denmark by Design'; to 12 May 2013

STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST ''Toulouse-Lautrec; The Human Comedy'; to 19 Feb 2012

'FOS; one language traveller'; to 20 June 2012

LOUISIANA MUSEUM 'Louisiana Contemporary: Ai Wei wei; to12 Feb 2012

'Andreas Gursky' to13 May

Ellsworth Kelly' to 29 Apr

DRESDEN

ALBERTINUM 'The Art of Enlightenment'; until 31 March 2012

ALTE MEISTER GALERIE No special exhibitions

NEUE MEISTER GALERIE 'New Objectivity in Dresden'; to 8 Jan 2012

RESIDENZSCHLOSS 'Adrian Zingg. Wegbereiter der Romantik' 17 Feb to 6 May

DUBLIN

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND 'Fables and Fairy Tales - Illustrations from the Collection' to 25 March 2012

DURHAM

BOWES MUSEUM

Paquin Winter 1911 - the Centenary of an Evening Gown; to 09 Apr

Study, Design & Create: The 98 Lace Group'; to15 Apr

Charles Dickens' 200th Anniversary: Model House' to Mon 31 Dec 12

'Dutch Landscapes; Paintings from the Royal Collection'; to 11 Mar 2012

EDINBURGH

MODERN ART GALLERIES 'The Scottish Colourist Series: FCB Cadell'; to 18 Mar 2012

The Sculpture Show; to 24th June 2012

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 'Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography and the Modern World'; to 3 Jun

'Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits'; to 31 Dec 2012

FALMOUTH

FALMOUTH ART GALLERY''Fishwick and friends'; to 18 Feb 2012

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM'Lighthouses; life on the rocks; to Feb 2012

FLORENCE

ACCADEMIA No special exhibitions

BARGELLO MUSEUM No special exhibitions

PALAZZO PITTI ''Dante Illustrato'; to 26 Feb 2012

''As if made with the brush'; 6 Dec 2011 - 11 Mar 2012

MUSEUM OF THE MEDICI CHAPELS No special exhibitions

MUSEO DI SAN MARCO Special opening of the Greek Room'; to 28 Apr

MUSEO STIBBERT ''The Rebirth of Italian Majolica; Ginori and Cantagalli'; to 15 Apr 2012

PALAZZO STROZZI No special exhibitions till March

UFFIZI GALLERIES'Carte che paion fatte col pennello'; to 11 Mar

'Dante illustrato'; to 26 Feb

FRANKFURT

MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURES Exhibition space closed till Feb 2012

STAEDEL 'Claude Lorrain; The Enchanted Landscape'; 3 Feb to 6 May

GERMAN ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM 'Great architects photographed by Ingrid von Kruse; to 15 Jan 2012

'WOHA; Architecture breathes'; to 29 Apr 2012

''Schneider + Schumacher'; to 29 Apr 2012

HISTORISCHES MUSEUM 'No special exhibitions until May

GENEVA

ARIANA MUSEUM 'Venetial Glass of the 20th century'; to 8 Apr 2012

'Baldwin / Guggisberg; Beyond Glass'; to 25 Mar 2012

LIBRARY OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 'Made in Geneva; Artists' Books and their Genevan Publisher-Creators'; to 31 May 2012

ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM 'Taste of Arts. From Mughal india to Bollywood'; to 18 Mar 2012

MUSEE BARBIER-MUELLER No special exhibitions till May

LAUSANNE

FONDATION DE L'HERMITAGE 'De Tiepolo ŕ Degas to 20 May

COLLECTION DE L'ART BRUT 'Blackstock'; to 19 Feb 2012

LEEDS

HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE Shelagh Cluett; Drawing in Space; to 11 Mar 2012

LINZ

LENTOS MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 'Markus Schinwald'; to 12 Feb 2012

LISBON

CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION 'L’Hotel Gulbenkian, 51 Avenue d’Iena. Memory of the Place; to 7 Apr

LIVERPOOL

MARITIME MUSEUM No special exhibitions

TATE ‘DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture’; to 1 Apr 2012

WALKER ART GALLERY 'Feathercuts and Flares'; End date TBA

'An Alphabet'; end date TBA

'The Art Books of Henri Matisse' to 15 Apr 2012

LONDON

BARBICAN; 'Song Dong: Waste Not'; 15 Feb to 12 Jun

OMA/Progress; to 19 Feb 2012

BRITISH MUSEUM 'Grayson Perry; the tomb of the unknown craftsman'; to 19 Feb 2012

'Landscape, heroes and folktales'; to 1 Apr 2012

'Manga at the British Museum'l to 8 Apr 2012

COURTAULD INSTITUTE 'Abstract masterpieces in parallel
16 February 2012 – 20 May 2012

DESIGN MUSEUM 'Terence Conran; the way we live now'; to 4 Mar

Design Museum Designs of the Year; 8 Feb to 15 Jul

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY'Nicolas Poussin’s first series of the Seven Sacraments to 26 February 2012

Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song; to 27 May 2012

FAN MUSEUM 'Alexandre; Fan Maker to the Courts of Europe'; to 26 Feb 2012

HAYWARD GALLERY 'David Shrigley: Brain Activity; 1 Feb to 13 May

Jeremy Deller: Joy in People; 22 Feb to 13 May

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM;‘Memory Remains: Francesc Torres'; to 26 Feb

'Outbreak 1939'; to 3 Sep 2012

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Wildlife Photographer of the Year' to 11 Mar 2012

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Sandra Lousada: Work and Performance' to 20 May

Imagined Lives: portraits of unknown people'; to 22 July

Lucien Freud Portraits; 9 Feb to 27 May

ROYAL ACADEMY David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' to 9 April

Contemporary Prints from RA Editions' to 8 March

SAATCHI GALLERY; 'Gesamtkunstwerk; New Art from Germany'; to 30 Apr 2012

SCIENCE MUSEUM 'Cosmos and Culture; how astronomy has shaped our world'; to 30 June

'Stephen Hawking; a 70th Birthday celebration'; to 9 Apr

TATE MODERN; 'Photography: New Documentary Forms' to 31 March

TATE BRITAIN ‘Colour and Line; Turner's Experiments'; to 30 Apr 2012

'Romantics'; to 3 June 2012

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM 'Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton'; 8 Feb to 22 Apr

WALLACE COLLECTION Dazzling arms and armour from the East'; to 26 Mar 2012

Display; Modello for a statue of Hebe'; to 16 Apr 2012

LONDON; WHITE CUBE 'Nikolas Gamberoff to 26 Feb

Gary Hume; the Indifferent Owl; to 26 Feb

Anselm Kieffer; to 26 Feb

 

MADRID

PRADO 'The Hermitage in the Prado' to 25 March

'The miniatures collection of Museo del Prado' to 26 February

REINA SOFIA COLLECTION 'Antoni Muntadas. Entre/Between'; to 26 March

Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel' to 27 February

THYSSEN COLLECTION 'Mondrian, De Stijl y la tradición artística holandesa' From 7 Feb to 6 May

'Chagall' 14 Feb to 20 May

'Berthe Morisot'; to 12 Feb 2012

MANCHESTER

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH 'Tyneside Shipyards, 1943; Photographs by Cecil Beaton'; to 3 Jun 2012

THE LOWRY 'A Flash of light; the dance photography of Chris Nash'; 11 Feb to 13 May

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 'Holland's Pies'; to 12 Feb 2012

WHITWORTH ART GALLERY 'Dark matters'; to 15 April

Cotton; Global Threads'; 11 Feb to 13 May

MILAN

TRIENNALE DI MILANO 'Quarta Edizione; Le Fabbriche dei Sogni'; to 26 Feb 2012

'O'Clock; Time Design, design time'; to 8 Jan 2012

MONACO

MARLBOROUGH GALLERY No information received

MUNICH

HAUS DER KUNST 'Carlo Mollino'; to 8 Jan 2012

'Why I never became a dancer'; to 1 Apr 2012

KUNSTBAU No special exhibitions

LENBACHHAUS Closed for redevelopment until 2012

PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE 'Ellsworth Kelly - Plant Drawings'; to 8 Jan 2012

Building with Timber - Paths into the Future; to 5 Feb

'Of trees and rock. Albert Renger-Patzsch and Ernst Juenger'; to 26 Feb 2012

NEUE PINAKOTEK MUSEUM 'Naples and the South. Photographs 1846-1900'; to 26 Feb

ALTE PINAKOTHEK No special exhibitions

OXFORD

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 'Graham Sutherland; an Unfinished World'; to 18 Mar 2012

ASHMOLEAN; 'Unwrapped; the story of a child mummy'; to 4 Mar 2012

'Yakusha-e: Kabuki prints, a continuing tradition'; to 4 Mar 2012

PARIS

LOUVRE; 'The Relics of St Cesaire of Arles'; to 16 Feb

New Frontier: l'Art américain entre au Louvre.' to 16 Apr

GRAND PALAIS No special exhibitions

ORSAY; Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931). A Passion for Finland'; 7 Feb - 6 May 2012

POMPIDOU CENTRE 'Dancing through Life'; to 2 Apr 2012

'Publishing; the laws of the profession'; to 9 Jan 2012

'Martin Szekely; No More Drawing'; to 2 Jan 2012

'Yayoi Kusama'; to 9 Jan 2012

MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS 'Goudemalion. Jean-Paul Goude une rétrospective' to 18 Mar

'Stefan Sagmeister, Another exhibit about promotion and sales material' to 19 Feb

Les histoires de Babar'; to 2 Sep

MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG 'Cézanne et Paris'; to 26 Feb 2012

MUSEE RODIN 'Capturing the Model; Rodin 300 drawings'; to 1 Apr 2012

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY 'L'invention du Sauvage'; to 3 Jun 2012

PENZANCE

PENLEE HOUSE GALLERY 'Through the Lens: Pictures from a Magic Lantern'; to 17 Mar

PRAGUE

NATIONAL MUSEUM 'Antonin Dvorak'; to 29 Feb 2012

ROME

CHIOSTRO DEL BRAMANTE Marco Lorito - Reflexus; to 12 Feb

MUSEO DI ROMA 'Luoghi Comuni. Vedutisti francesi a Roma tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo' 8 Feb to 27 May

MACRO 'Nucleohistone. Manifesto di Damien Hirst'; to 10 Mar

MACRO 'wall: EIGHTIES ARE BACK! Mario Dellavedova, Daniela De Lorenzo, Massimo Kaufmann, Felice Levini e Marco Tirelli'; to 26 Feb

'Carsten Höller: "Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes"; to 26 Feb

Concorso MACRO 2% - Arthur Duff / Nathalie Junod Ponsard'; to 31 Dec

PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI 'Homo sapiens. La grande storia della diversitŕ umana' to 9 Apr

'Massimo Giannoni. Four Triptychs'; to 26 Feb

LE SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE 'Tintoretto; 25 Feb to 10 Jun

MUSEO DELL'ARA PACIS'Shadows of War'; to 4 Feb 2012

ST. IVES

TATE 'Simon Fujiwara' to 7 May

SHEFFIELD

GRAVES GALLERY ‘'The Blk Art Group';l to 24 March 2012

WESTON PARK 'China: Journey to the East'; to 9 Apr 2012

MILLENNIUM GALLERIES 'under the sea;' to 10 Jun

STOCKHOLM

NATIONAL MUSEUM 'Shimmering Silver'; to March 2012

STUTTGART

STAATSGALERIE 'Russ, Kohle, Bleistift'; to 12 Feb 2012

SWANSEA

GLYNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY No current exhibitions

VENICE

FRANCOIS PINAULT FOUNDATION 'In Praise of Doubt'; to 31 Dec 2012

'The World Belongs to You'; to 31 Dec

GLASS MUSEUM 1861-2011: Un'isola un'arte un museo'; to 30 Apr

Ercole Moretti; un secolo di perle venziane'; to 30 Jun

GUGGENHEIM 'The Avant Garde. From Picasso to Pollock'; to 19 Feb

MUSEO CORRER'Armenia. Impronte di una civilta'; to 10 Apr

PALAZZO MOCENIGO 'Teodolinda Caorlin a Venezia'; to 13 Mar

'Alexandre Vassiliev. L'eleganza in esilio. Tra moda e costume, il tempo di Djagile'; to 29 Feb

CASA GOLDONI No current exhibitions

CA' PESARO 'Gennaro Favai visioni e orizzonti 1879-1958';

MUSEO FORTUNY No current exhibitions

VEVEY

MUSEE JENISCH Closed for renovation until 2012

VIENNA

ALBERTINA Magritte; to 26 Feb

Impressionism; 10 Feb to 13 May

ESSL COLLECTION 'Focus; Abstraktion'; to 12 Feb 2012

KUNSTFORUM 'Herbert Brandl; to 15 Apr

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 'Winter Tales. From Breughel to Beuys'; to 8 Jan 2012

'"Everything has turned out very nicely" (Kaiser Franz Joseph) ; to 8 Jan 2012

' Renessenz; Facetten der Renaissance' Extended until 15 April 2012

KUNST HAUS WIEN 'Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Compass in the eye: America-india-Soviet Union'; to 26 Feb

LEOPOLD MUSEUMN 'Hermann Nitsch- Strukturen'; to 9 Apr

The Excitement continues'; to 27 Feb

'Melancholie und Provokation'; to 16 Apr

MAK MUSEUM OF APPLIED AND CONTEMPORARY ART

'Envisioning Buildings; Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography'; to 22 Apr

Patrick Rampelotto; Adventures in Foam' to 6 May

Michael Wallraff; looking up. vertical public space' to 4 Mar

The Second Skin. Objects for Packing and Preserving' to 1 Apr

The Great Viennese Café; a Laboratory; Phase II &Experimental Design' to 4 Mar

Gripping Diversity! Fans and Gloves from the MAK Collection' to 1 Apr

GÔM SÚ’; Ceramics from Vięt Nam, a 2000-Year History' to 25 Mar

'Artists in Focus; Walter Pichler'; to 26 Feb 2012

WAKEFIELD

WAKEFIELD ART GALLERY Closed

ZURICH

KUNSTHAUS ' Miró, Monet, Matisse; the Monad collection'; to 15 Jan 2012

'Picture Ballot! Encoding Reality'; to 15 Feb 2012

RIETBERG MUSEUMThree generations of artists in north India; to 1 Apr

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