| Museum Special Exhibitions: Summer 2010 |
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| By Editorial Staff |
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A seasonal guide to the best special exhibitions in museums in the United States and Europe.
USA & CANADA
High Museum of Art "Dali - the Late Work" - 40 paintings from Salvador Dali - August 7 - January 9, 2011 BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts "Cafe and Cabaret - Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris" - through August 8 "Avedon Fashion" - photographs from Richard Avedon - August 10 - January 17, 2011 CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago "Henri Carier-Bresson: The Modern Century" - including nearly 300 images from the photographer MONTREAL Montreal Museum of Fine Arts "We Want Miles" - a multi-media exhibit devoted to Jazz legend Miles Davis Brooklyn Museum "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" - 50 paintings from Warhol's productive last 10 years "American High Style" - Fashion from the Metropolitan Museums fashion collection
"King Tut - Return of the King" featuring over 130 objects - April 23 - January 2, 2011 Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC, Website "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance" - March 26 - September 6
"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" - 250 works from the artist "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" - fashion from 1890 - 1940
"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 - 1917" - 120 works created during World War I - July 18 - October 11
"Heatwaves in a Swamp - the paintings of Charles Burchfield" - through October 17 Philadelphia Museum of Art "Late Renoir" - through September 6 "Vatican Splendor - A Journey Through Faith and Art" - this collections of nearly 200 works of art from the Vatican features objects that have never left the Holy City and tools used by Michelangelo SAN FRANCISCO DeYoung Museum "Birth of Impressionism - Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orasy" - May 22 - September 6 Seattle Art Museum "Kurt Cobain" - artists explore why Kurt Cobain endures - through September 6 Royal Ontario Museum "The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army" - June 26 - January 2, 2011 Tucson Museum of Art "Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends" - photographic silk screen prints from Andy Warhol's 40 year career - through July 5 National Gallery of Art "American Modernism" - works from artists including Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Georgia O'Keefe and Max Weber National Geographic Museum "Da Vinci - the Genius" - drawings, inventions and reproductions of the artist's most famous works - through September 12 EUROPE AMSTERDAM Van Gogh Museum "Masters from the Museum Mesdag" - late 19th Century artists Van Gogh admired - through July 4
"Miro and Jan Steen" - paintings and drawings by Joan Miro inspired by the museum and Jan Steen - through September 13 Berlin Biennale June 11 - August 8 British Museum April 22 - July 25 National Portrait Gallery St. Martin's Place, London, Website "Camille Silvy" - over 100 photographs from the pioneering French photographer "Summer Exhibition 2010" - through August 22 "Henry Moore" - 20th Century sculpture - through August 8 "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera" - through October 3
MADRID Prado "Turner and the Masters" - June 22 - September 19 "Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence" - through October 10 PARIS The LouvreWebsite "Meroe, Empire on the Nile" - Egyptian antiquities - through September 6 Musee d’Orsay "Crime and Punishment" - 200 years of crime and punishment - through June 27 *Note that the museum is being renovated and not all areas are open and some major pieces are being exhibited at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco
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