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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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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Bank Austria Kunstforum

Fascination Japan. Monet. Van Gogh. Klimt.

10 October 2018 – 20 January 2019

With around one hundred works from international public and private collections, this exhibition will explore "Japomanie" – the passion of the West for the aesthetics of the Far East – a passion which spread throughout Europe from the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the avant-garde.

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Lab’Bel

Metaphoria III

6 October – 11 November 2018

Metaphoria III is the third edition of a series of travelling exhibitions in Europe that envisions contemporary art as a research platform: a dialogue between the visual arts and poetry, using metaphor as its medium. After Guimarães European Capital of Culture in 2011 and Athens during the ReMap4 Biennale in 2013, Lab’Bel – The Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group – will present the third part of this dialogue at CENTQUATRE-PARIS.

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À Cris Ouverts

LES ATELIERS DE RENNES
BIENNALE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
6th edition

29 September – 2 December 2018

For ten years, Les Ateliers de Rennes have explored art’s relation to the economy and to business. The sixth edition in 2018 aims to outline the possibility of a multiplicity of presences and interactions with the unknown, activating other ways of being and belonging, through dissonances, contestations, and contradictions.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Van Gogh to Picasso
The Thannhauser Legacy

21 September 2018 – 24 March 2019

In 1965, Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser made the outstanding gift of a collection of masterpieces by masters from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

With Van Gogh to Picasso. The Thannhauser Legacy, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents for the first time outside New York a selection of some fifty works related to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as well as early modern masters: Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

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MAMO – Marseille Modulor

Olivier Mosset « Untitled »

7 July 2018 – 30 October 2018

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of its opening in 2013, MAMO (Marseille Modulor) will host an exhibition by Olivier Mosset—the sixth artist invited to MAMO. Mosset’s exhibition will thus offer the sixth unique point of view on Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, as well as its terrace and gymnasium which were transformed into an art center by Ora Ito.

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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Gala Dalí

5 July – 14 October 2018

With this exhibition, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí intend to reveal Gala: muse, artist and a key figure in twentieth-century art.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Joana Vasconcelos. I’m Your Mirror

29 June – 11 November 2018

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Joana Vasconcelos. I’m Your Mirror, a selection of thirty works including a site-specific installation for the museum’s Atrium and various other new works by the internationally renowned Portuguese artist.

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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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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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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.