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First Look: Caspar Wolf at the Kunstmuseum Basel
A new exhibition celebrates the work of Caspar Wolf and ‘the wild, uncivilised world of the mountains’
First Look: ‘Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe’ at the Alte Pinakothek
A new exhibition in Munich explores Bernardo Bellotto’s legacy, and examines his famously detailed work
First Look: ‘ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow’ at the Guggenheim New York
The Guggenheim celebrates the ZERO Group and those they inspired
First Look: ‘Egon Schiele – Jenny Saville’ at the Kunsthaus Zürich
Curator Oliver Wick discusses staging an encounter between Schiele and Saville
First Look: ‘Hokusai (1760–1849)’ at the Grand Palais
Laure Dalon, curator of ‘Hokusai’, talks about the artist’s Manga, his poetic late works, and the curatorial problems posed by fragile pieces
First Look: ‘Rubens and his Legacy’ at BOZAR, Brussels
Without Rubens no rococo, no romanticism, no orientalism. Perhaps even no Impressionism.
First Look: ‘Assyria to Iberia’ at the Metropolitan Museum
The roots of global communication – which has profoundly shaped the modern world – lie deep in our ancient past
First Look: ‘Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s’ at LACMA
The challenges and opportunities of curating a gallery exhibition about film
First Look at the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam
Image makers not image takers: Amsterdam’s photo fair is full of surprises
First Look: Constable at the V&A, London
A new exhibition promises ‘a journey through the training…of the young artist to his most acclaimed exhibition pieces’
First Look: ‘Perugino, Master of Raphael’ at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Perugino takes centre stage in Paris
First Look: ‘Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention’ at the Yale Center for British Art
Martina Droth, curator of ‘Sculpture Victorious’, discusses historical perspective, images of power, and a seven foot tall majolica elephant…
First Look: ‘The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free’ at Tate Britain
Curator David Blayney Brown discusses setting Turner free from reductive critical stereotypes
First Look: ‘Gustave Courbet’ at the Beyeler Foundation
The curator’s introduction to a new exhibition of Courbet’s work, opening in September at the Beyeler Foundation
First Look: ‘Portraiture Now’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington
How is identity staged, constructed and explored in contemporary portraiture?
First Look: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
A new exhibition at Stanford University looks at the changing face of the devil in art
First Look: ‘East of the Wallace Line’ at the Yale University Art Museum
A new exhibition of Indo-Pacific art traces the visual and cultural links between eastern Indonesia and western New Guinea
First Look: ‘Disobedient Objects’ at the V&A
From graffiti writers to puppets, the V&A looks the ingenious objects used as tools for social change
First Look: ‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ at the Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum will offer a new perspective on a famous archaeological find this summer
First Look: ‘Lichtbilder’ at the Städel Museum
The Städel Museum was the first museum to exhibit photographs. This year, it revisits its archive
First Look: From Rococo to Revolution at the Getty Center
French 18th-century drawings from private Los Angeles collections go on display at the Getty
First Look: Barbara Hepworth at Abbot Hall
From Wakefield, to Cornwall, to Greece, Barbara Hepworth was deeply inspired by the landscapes she chose to live and work in
First Look: Fame and Friendship at Waddesdon Manor
Eight versions of Roubiliac’s portrait bust of Alexander Pope have been brought together at Waddesdon Manor
First Look: ‘Making Colour’ at the National Gallery, London
A new exhibition at the National Gallery goes back to basics, to tell the story of the colours and pigments that have shaped art history
Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?