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Tate Britain
The EY Exhibition
Van Gogh and Britain
27 March – 11 August 2019
Next March, Tate Britain will host The Ey Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain. This will be the first major retrospective on the Dutch artist and his relationship with Britain, showing how Van Gogh drew inspiration from British culture and how he in turn inspired British artists.
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Bank Austria Kunstforum
Flying High: Women Artists of Art Brut
15 February – 23 June 2019
"Flying High" will present for the first time a comprehensive survey on women artists of Art Brut, in all their diversity, their historical and contemporary dimensions, their international relevance.
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Tate Modern
The C C Land Exhibition
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory
23 January – 6 May 2019
In January 2019 Tate Modern will stage the UK’s first major Pierre Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, showing the work of this innovative French painter in a new light.
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Resistance and Deportation
History Centre – Lyon, France
Génération 40. Les jeunes et la guerre
15 November 2018 – 26 May 2019
History Centre – Lyon, France
The exhibition Generation 40. Young People and War aims to paint a portrait of "J3", the teenagers or young adults who lived their youth during the Occupation.
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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Pose and Variations
Sculpture in Paris in the age of Rodin
26 October 2018 – 4 February 2019
With around thirty sculptures, Pose and Variations at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon celebrates the theme of the pose in 19th century French sculpture.
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Tate Britain
Edward Burne-Jones
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
Tate Britain’s ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition is the first major Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years. It will bring together over 150 works in different media including painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Alberto Giacometti
A Retrospective
19 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective, an exhibition gathering more than 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings, which aims to offer an in-depth perspective on Giacometti’s work, highlighting in particular the extraordinary artistic and documentary collection of the widow of the artist, Annette, now preserved at the Giacometti Foundation in Paris.
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Tate Modern
Anni Albers
11 October 2018 – 27 January 2019
This autumn Tate Modern will present the UK’s first major retrospective of the work of textile artist Anni Albers (1899–1994). This exhibition will bring together her most important works from major collections in the US and Europe, many of which will be shown in the UK for the first time, to highlight Albers’s significance as an artist.
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Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian
Rui Chafes and Alberto Giacometti
Gris, vide, cris
3 October – 16 December 2018
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Paris presents Rui Chafes and Alberto Giacometti. Gris, vide, cris, a highly original project, exploring the common lexicon of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) and contemporary Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes (b. 1966), looking at common themes such as timelessness, dematerialization and the void.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Chagall. The Breakthrough Years, 1911–1919
1 June – 2 September 2018
Featuring more than 80 paintings and drawings from the early career of this unique artist, this exhibition delves into an essential period of Marc Chagall’s work, when his background in Russian folk art intermingled with the most progressive experiments of the Parisian avant-garde, giving birth to the style that would come to characterize his whole production.
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Paris Gallery Weekend 2018
26 – 27 May 2018
Since 2014, Paris Gallery Weekend has established itself as an annual landmark event for art lovers and collectors, whether based in France or abroad. For its fifth edition – held the 25th, 26th, and 27th of May – the 2018 Paris Gallery Weekend is proud to host a total of 44 galleries, representing a 40% increase in the number of participants since 2017.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Art and China after 1989:
Theater of the World
11 May – 23 September 2018
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, a major exhibition on Chinese contemporary art in a context framed by the Tiananmen protests, the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the rise of China as a world power.
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Tate Modern
Joan Jonas
14 March – 5 August 2018
Tate Modern presents the largest UK survey of work by Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York), shedding new light on this pre-eminent figure of performance art who continues to influence a younger generation of artists.
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Tate Modern
The EY Exhibition:
Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
8 March – 9 September 2018
45 years after the artist’s death, Tate Modern stages its first ever solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work, one of the most ambitious shows in the museum’s history. The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy takes visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’.
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Tate Britain
All Too Human
28 February – 27 August 2018
This landmark exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates how artists have captured the intense experience of life in paint. All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life showcases around 100 works by some of the most important modern British artists, with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon at its heart.
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BANK AUSTRIA KUNSTFORUM
MAN RAY
14 FEBRUARY – 24 JUNE 2018
With 150 masterworks lent from collections across the world, including paintings, photographs, objects, works on paper, collages, assemblages and experimental film, this exhibition will explore "the universal Man Ray": his complex, enigmatic personality and his work, which laid the groundwork for what we see as "art" today.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Henri Michaux: The Other Side
2 February to 13 May 2018
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Henri Michaux: The Other Side, an exhibition which brings together a prominent set of works by an unclassifiable figure of the arts and literature of the 20th century. Over the course of his long life, Henri Michaux (1899–1984) greatly influenced the artists and writers of his time, both as a "poets’ poet" and a "painters’ painter", lionized by figures in both fields like André Gide and Francis Bacon.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Art and Space
5 December 2017 – 15 April 2018
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Art and Space, an ambitious exhibition based on the creative partnership established between Basque artist Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969 that resulted in the publication of an eponymous livre d’artiste.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life
10 November 2017 – 25 February 2018
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, an exhibition featuring a remarkable new body of work in which the British artist returns to portraiture with a renewed creative vigor, offering an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path in recent years.
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The New Tate St Ives
14 October 2017
The new Tate St Ives opens on 14 October 2017. A four-year building project has doubled the space for showing art, adding almost 600 square metres of galleries, and created spectacular new studios for learning activities.
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Tate Modern
Modigliani
23 November 2017 – 2 April 2018
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was a ground-breaking artist who pushed the boundaries of the art of his time. With nearly 100 works, this exhibition will re-evaluate this familiar figure, looking afresh at the experimentation that shaped his career.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Anni Albers: Touching Vision
6 October 2017 to 14 January 2018
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Anni Albers: Touching Vision, an in-depth survey of seven decades in the career of a pioneering figure in the field of Fiber Art.
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Lab’Bel and the Bel Group
The Laughing Cow®
collector’s edition box
by Wim Delvoye
After Hans-Peter Feldmann, Thomas Bayrle and Jonathan Monk, Lab’Bel, the artistic laboratory of the Bel Group, has chosen Belgian artist Wim Delvoye to design the fourth Collector’s Edition Box for The Laughing Cow®.
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Tate Britain
THE EY EXHIBITION:
IMPRESSIONISTS IN LONDON,
FRENCH ARTISTS IN EXILE (1870-1904)
2 November 2017 – 29 April 2018
With a selection of 100 major works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, James Tissot and others, this will be the first large-scale exhibition to chart the stories of the French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the turbulent period beginning with the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bill Viola: A Retrospective
30 June – 9 November 2017
A comprehensive overview of the career of this pioneer in the development of video art, this ambitious exhibition offers a thematic and chronological survey of Viola’s oeuvre and the evolution of media art as an art form.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
20th Anniversary
This year, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao celebrates its 20th Anniversary, two decades after it first opened its doors to the public on October 19, 1997. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has been, from its inception, an exceptional project for its singularity, international scope, and artistic and educational ambition.
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Resistance and Deportation
History Centre – Lyon, France
Les Jours Sans
13 April 2017 – 28 January 2018
History Centre – Lyon, France
From 1939 to 1949, the French were subjected to a rationing program that would profoundly impact their relationship to food. Organized at the initiative of the CHRD Lyon, the exhibition LES JOURS SANS plunges visitors in the daily lives of the French during and after the Second World War.
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LAB’BEL
LAËTITIA BADAUT HAUSSMANN
AT THE MAISON LOUIS CARRÉ
Bazoches-sur-Guyonne France
25 June – 3 September 2017
Bazoches-sur-Guyonne France
25 June – 3 September 2017
For the summer of 2017, Lab’Bel, the artistic laboratory of the Bel Group, has invited French artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann to create a site specific project in the spaces of the Maison Louis Carré, conceived by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Paris, Fin de Siècle:
Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec
and Their Contemporaries
12 May – 17 September 2017
Focusing on the radical innovations of the Neo-Impressionists, Symbolists, and the Nabis, and the revival of printmaking in the 1890s, Paris Fin de Siècle includes rarely seen works by artists such as Paul Signac, Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Tate Modern
Alberto Giacometti
10 May – 10 September 2017
The UK’s first major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) in 20 years, this ambitious exhibition will reassert the artist’s place alongside Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the 20th century.
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Tate Modern
Wolfgang Tillmans
15 February – 11 June 2017
Since his rise to prominence in the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has gone on to work in an ever greater range of media, while taking an increasingly innovative approach to staging exhibitions. This show will bring these aspects to the fore, encompassing Tillmans’ photographs, video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Abstract Expressionism
3 February – 4 June 2017
With its exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers a new look at this varied, complex and multifaceted movement that radically altered New York’s painting scene in the 1940s.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf
11 November 2016 – 23 April 2017
This exhibition brings together 70 works by key artists in the history of art during the first half of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, and Vasily Kandinsky, in dialogue with works by contemporary artists dating from the second half of the 20th century until today.
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Alliance Française
Launch of the “One Million Friends
for the Alliance Française” challenge
8 November 2016
For the first time, the 816 satellites of the Alliance Française – the largest cultural network in the world – are coordinating their efforts to use bring together 1 million French speakers from around the world, by means of a new digital platform.
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Lab’Bel and the Bel Group
The Laughing Cow®
collector’s edition box
by Jonathan Monk
The Laughing Cow® continues to prepare for its 100th anniversary in 2021 with a third collector’s edition box designed by British conceptual artist Jonathan Monk.
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Tate Modern
The New Tate Modern
Opens 17 June 2016
The new Tate Modern opens to the public on Friday 17 June 2016. Created by world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, it represents the most important new cultural building to open in the UK for almost twenty years.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Windows on the City:
The School of Paris, 1900–1945
22 April – 23 October 2016
Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900 – 1945 includes some of the most influential paintings and sculptures of the last century, created by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Louise Bourgeois.
Structures of Existence: The Cells
18 March – 4 September 2016
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents this selection of the innovative, sophisticated sculptural works developed by Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) over the course of two decades. The focal point is the Cells: 28 emotionally charged architectural spaces, each an individual microcosm separating the internal from the external world.
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Beirut Art Fair
7th Edition
15 – 18 September 2016
In addition to uncovering the brightest young artistic talents from the ME.NA.SA region (Middle East – North Africa – South Asia), the 2016 BEIRUT ART FAIR (15 – 18 September) will also explore the unique historical trajectory of modernism in the Middle East, all while offering a program rich in visits, encounters and exchanges.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Andy Warhol. Shadows
26 February 2016 – 2 October 2016
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Shadows (1977–78) by Andy Warhol, a monumental artwork of 102 large format, silkscreened panels that reflect some of Warhol’s explorations with abstraction through his signature palette of bright and cheerful hues.
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Lab’Bel and the Bel Group
The Laughing Cow®
collector’s edition box
by Thomas Bayrle
The Laughing Cow® continues to prepare for its 100th anniversary in 2021 with a second collector’s edition box signed by pop artist Thomas Bayrle.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Making Africa
A Continent of Contemporary Design
30 October 2015 – 21 February 2016
This exhibition explores a new approach to the role of contemporary design in Africa in the broadest sense of the term. Design is a fundamental force in the construction of a new, different continent, and this exhibition sheds new light on how design goes along with and even promotes political and economic change, engaging in a close dialogue with other art-related disciplines, such as illustration, film, photography, architecture, and urban planning.
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Tate Modern
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
11 November 2015 – 3 April 2016
Tate Modern presents the UK’s largest ever exhibition of Alexander Calder (1898-1976). Calder was one of the truly ground-breaking artists of the 20th century and as a pioneer of kinetic sculpture, played an essential role in shaping the history of modernism. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture will bring together approximately 100 works to reveal how Calder turned sculpture from a static object into a continually changing work to be experienced in real time.
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Tate Modern
The EY Exhibition:
The World Goes Pop
17 September 2015 – 24 January 2016
The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop is a groundbreaking exhibition revealing how artists around the world engaged with the spirit of Pop, from Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle East. At Tate Modern from 17 September 2015, the show will explode the traditional story of Pop art and show how different cultures contributed, re-thought and responded to the movement.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Jean-Michel Basquiat:
Now’s the Time
3 July 2015 – 1 November 2015
The result of a collaboration with the At Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time includes roughly one hundred large-scale paintings organized around the themes that defined Basquiat’s meteoric career, cut short by his tragic death at the age of 27.
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KATRIN FRIDRIKS
PERCEPTION OF THE STENDHAL SYNDROME
9 MAY – 22 NOVEMBER, 2015
PALAZZO BEMBO – VENICE, ITALY
As part of the exhibition Personal Structures – Crossing Borders organized in Venice’s Palazzo Bembo by the European Cultural Centre, Icelandic artist Katrin Fridriks presents Perception of the Stendhal Syndrome (2014/2015), an installation that marks a point of culmination in her œuvre to date.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
June 9, 2015 – September 27, 2015
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective explores the work of one of the most eminent figures in the art of our time, the inimitable Jeff Koons. This chronological retrospective of Koons’s artistic output has been organized by NewYork’sWhitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Centre National d’Art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris.
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Tate Britain
Barbara Hepworth:
Sculpture for a Modern World
24 June – 25 October 2015
Tate Britain presents the first London museum retrospective in five decades of the work of Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s greatest artists. Hepworth (1903-75) was a leading figure of the international modern art movement in the 1930s, and one of the most successful sculptors in the world during the 1950s and 1960s.
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NEW ZEALAND PAVILION
56th International Art Exhibition of
la Biennale di Venezia
Simon Denny. Secret Power
9 May – 22 November 2015
56th International Art Exhibition of
la Biennale di Venezia
Simon Denny has been commissioned by Creative New Zealand, Arts Council of New Zealand, to exhibit in the New Zealand pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Niki de Saint Phalle
27 February – 11 June 2015
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is proud to present this complete retrospective of the work of Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1930 – San Diego, California, 2002).
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Michael Staab
Lab’Bel
Concertino Unisono
From 8 May 2015
Piazza San Marco – Venice
Lab’Bel
Concertino Unisono
During the opening of the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Lab’Bel, the Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group, will present its latest art project in Venice, Italy: part one in a series of 3 Easy Pieces.
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REOPENING MUSEE COGNACQ-JAY, PARIS
LUMIERES :
CARTE BLANCHE À CHRISTIAN LACROIX
19/11/2014 – 19/04/2015
LUMIERES :
CARTE BLANCHE À CHRISTIAN LACROIX
For its reopening, Musée Cognacq-Jay has given “Carte Blanche” to Christian Lacroix.
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
THE ART OF OUR TIME.
MASTERPIECES FROM THE
GUGGENHEIM COLLECTIONS
23/09/2014 – 25/01/2015 (3rd Floor)
23/10/2014 – 03/05/2015 (1st & 2nd Floors)
This exhibition celebrates 20 years of partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Echoing the museum’s opening exhibition in October 1997, which occupied the entire building, The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections reveals how the collections of the museums in the Guggenheim constellation have grown and flourished over the years, underscores the synergies between them, and shows how their holdings complement each other while retaining their distinctive identities.
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LAB’BEL
ARTISTIC LABORATORY OF THE BEL GROUP
LAB’BEL EXPO:
STORIES WITHOUT WITCHES
21/09/2014 – 8/03/2015
ARTISTIC LABORATORY OF THE BEL GROUP
Following REWIND in 2010, Lab’Bel, The Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group, revisits the theme of childhood with Lab’Bel Expo: Stories without witches, a contemporary art exhibition at La Maison de La vache qui rit (Jura, France). The exhibition will transport visitors to the fantastic world of fairy tales via an ensemble of sculptures, installations and video works by Anna Betbeze, Pierre Ardouvin, Virginie Barré, Oliver Beer, Pierre Huyghe, Pierre Joseph, João Pedro Vale and Virginia Yassef.
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TATE BRITAIN
THE EY EXHIBITION:
LATE TURNER – PAINTING SET FREE
10/09/2014 – 25/01/2015
The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free will be the first major exhibition to survey the achievements of JMW Turner (1775–1851) during his final period (1835–50). The exhibition will reassess Turner’s extraordinary body of work during this period, when some of his most celebrated works were created.
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HANS-PETER FELDMANN’S
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
LAUGHING COW PACKAGE
17/11/2014 – 31/12/2014
COLLECTOR’S EDITION
LAUGHING COW PACKAGE
An exceptional, collector’s edition package designed by a great contemporary artist—that’s how The Laughing Cow ® is already preparing for its 100th anniversary in 2021.
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
GEORGES BRAQUE
13/06/2014 – 21/09/2014
Organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur- Seine, 1882−Paris, 1963), this large retrospective covers all the phases of the career of one of the most important artists of the 20th century. As one of the creators of Cubism, along with Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, and a pioneer of the papiers collés (glued papers), Braque focused his later work on the methodical exploration of still-life and landscape. He was considered the French painter par excellence, inheriting from the classical tradition while also serving as a precursor to the abstraction of the post-war period.
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La Maison de La vache qui rit
DOSSIER DE PRESSE 2014
In 2014, LA MAISON DE LA VACHE QUI RIT in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) celebrates five years of existence and more than 200.000 visitors.
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TATE MODERN
HENRI MATISSE: THE CUT-OUTS
17/04/2014 – 07/09/2014
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist’s paper cut-outs made between 1943 and 1954, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse’s colourful and innovative final works. The exhibition will gather around 120 works, many seen together for the first time.
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TATE BRITAIN
NEW PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST COLLECTION OF BRITISH ART
COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 2013
A new Tate Britain will be unveiled during 2013. In May, a new chronological presentation of the world’s greatest collection of British art opens, and in November, the building project by Caruso St John Architects will be completed.
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