From One Extreme to the Other

Nat Finkelstein was one of the most respected photojournalists of modern times. Renowned for his iconic and intimate documentation of Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, and later for his political activism including an allegiance with The Black Panthers that forced him to live abroad for 15 years, Finkelstein remained at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist up until his death aged 76, 2nd October 2009. This retrospective at London’s Idea Generation Gallery from January 20 to February 14, 2010, brings together Finkelstein’s diverse portfolio of work achieved across five decades.
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The path to impressionism

Seventy five masterpieces from Cologne’s Wallraf Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud, and sixty superb works from the Albertina and the Batliner Collection as well as loans from private collections and international museums round out the portfolio of works on display at the exhibition Impressionism. Painting Light you can see in Vienna until February 14, 2010. The exhibition at the Jeanne and Donald Kahn Galleries, Albertina retells the history of impressionism using characteristic works from Courbet, Caillebotte, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Signac and van Gogh, giving equal prominence to art history and technology.
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Love and vampires at Viennese exhibition

Love, death, vampires and lots of darkness star in an art exhibition in Vienna that explores the unsettling images that appear in paintings by artists from Francisco de Goya to expressionist Edvard Munch. The Edvard Munch and the Uncanny main autumn exhibition at the Leopold Museum until January 18, 2010, contains works ranging from the late 18th century (Piranesi, Goya’s Caprichos) up to the early 20th century.
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Major Tsarouchis retrospective in Athens

A major retrospective exhibition showcasing works by one of Greece’s greatest painters is on show at the Piraeus Street annex of the Benaki Museum in Athens until March 13, 2010. This is the first retrospective of Yannis Tsarouchis’ works in Athens, showcasing 680 representative painted works from all the periods of the his oeuvre, as well as a large number of set design models that belong to museums and private collections in Greece and overseas. The exhibition Yannis Tsarouchis 1910-1989 is organized on the occasion of the centenary of the Tsarouchis’ birth.
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Mirό of Majorca in Thessaloniki

The biggest ever exhibition of Joan Mirό works in Greece can be visited in the city of Thessaloniki, at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts until February 5, 2010. The Mirό of Majorca exhibition is a collaboration with the Foundation Pilar i Joan Mirό of Majorca and includes a significant number of Mirό’s more than 400 works and documents of all themes, like painting, sculptures, etchings, drawings, sketches for sculpts or public art, for sobreteixisms, for ballet, for music, as well as material for King Ubu of Jarry, which was of special importance to Mirό.
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Degas bronzes on show in Athens

Seventy-four bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas presented together for the first time in an exhibition that will make visitors travel back in time is an event that should not be missed while in Athens this season. The complete sculptures of Edgar Degas will be running until April 25, 2010 at Athens’ Herakleidon Museum. All works in the show are on loan by the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts, and they include Degas’ most important one The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.
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Neither Appearance nor Illusion

Sentences written in French using neon tubing are suspended along the walls of the medieval Louvre. The influential American artist Joseph Kosuth, a major figure of the contemporary international art scene, temporarily lays claim to the excavated ancient Louvre, offering visitors a dense and luminous work. You can visit his exhibition titled ‘Neither Appearance nor Illusion’ in the Louvre Museum’s Sully Wing until June 21, 2010.
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Enamels of the World, 1700-2000

The inaugural presentation of a remarkable new facet of the Khalili Collections, perhaps best known for the unparalleled collections of Islamic and Japanese art is an event that should not be missed in St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum until March 14, 2010. The exhibition features some 320 pieces selected from the 1,200 works in the enamel collection and coincides with the publication of a major volume on the subject by Haydn Williams, based on this collection.
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‘I Land’ in Cyprus

Opening on December 9 at Diatopos Gallery, I Land, the third solo exhibition of Greek Cypriot artist Melita Couta, is presenting the cartography of an improbable land. The artist is using several media, among them a series of drawings, ink on paper, in which tenuous and innumerable lines intermingle skillfully, spread their plait in various shades, and bring to our mind the memory of Atopos, a non-existing place. You can visit the exhibition up until January 15, 2010.
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First retrospective in Scandinavia for Lee Lozano

The first retrospective exhibition in Scandinavia of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), the American artist whose original and challenging work is still largely unknown in Europe, takes place at the Moderna Museet Stockholm from February 13 to April 25, 2010. This is a unique opportunity to see some sixty paintings and hundreds of works on paper and text-based works created between 1960 and1972 by the quixotic, confounding rebel whose decade-long New York career seemed always to involve pushing one limit or another.
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Tutankhamun: a superstar in Budapest

A sensational discovery in 1922 turned the unknown pharaoh Tutankhamun into a superstar. In 1922, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the burial chambers of the ancient Egyptian king with their vast treasures - an event that caused a worldwide sensation. Eighty-seven years later, a spectacular exhibition makes it possible for everyone to play the role of discoverers and experience Tutankhamun, his tomb and his treasures first hand. The traveling exhibition is visiting Hungary for the first time and you can visit it at Budapest's VAM Design Center until April 25, 2010.
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Cézanne, Picasso, Mondrian: A new perspective

Cézanne is the ‘father of modern art’. Ironically, the painter who frequently found himself turned down for the Paris salons is now regarded as one of the most important artists of his day. Picasso and Mondrian followed the lead he set and the three of them were responsible for what is perhaps the most decisive development in all art history: the inception of abstract art. These three revolutionary artists are now the subject of a major international exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag until January 24, 2010.
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Bullfights, Myth, Eros: The Picasso story

A selection of approximately ninety etchings, aquatints and illustrations created by the Spanish contemporary master Pablo Picasso throughout his whole artistic life, from 1904 to 1972, offering a chronological and thematic cross-section of the his graphics opus, can be seen in a ground-breaking exhibition at the City Museum of Ljubljana from January 21 to April 4, 2010. All works come from the famed collections of Galerie Fetzer in Germany, which houses the work of many grand masters of European art.
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Antoni Clavé life’s work in Ljubljana

An overview of 44 works, such as collages, cinema posters, theatre scene paintings and canvases, created by Catalan artist Antoni Clavé can be seen in a grand exhibition at Ljubljana’s Jakopic Gallery from January 15 until February 28, 2010. The works on view come from private collections and were comprised especially for this show, which has been organized in collaboration with the SEACEX cultural association of Spain and the Spanish Embassy in Slovenia.
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Antoni Clavé life’s work in Ljubljana

An overview of 44 works, such as collages, cinema posters, theatre scene paintings and canvases, created by Catalan artist Antoni Clavé can be seen in a grand exhibition at Ljubljana’s Jakopic Gallery from January 15 until February 28, 2010. The works on view come from private collections and were comprised especially for this show, which has been organized in collaboration with the SEACEX cultural association of Spain and the Spanish Embassy in Slovenia.
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Arts combined in Pärnu

Something important has been taking place every winter in Pärnu, Estonia, and deserves our attention. The Printmaking In Festival combined with the Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music make an enclave of three weeks of explosive creativity and experimentation for artists in various areas of contemporary art: performance, sculpture, painting, audiovisual art, photography, digital media and music, from 9 to 31 of January, 2010.
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