Lucas Collection of French Art

This year the Baltimore Museum of Art celebrates the 10th anniversary of the acquisition of the Lucas Collection and is presenting an exhibition selected from the collection, of approximately 200 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and artist palettes.

George A. Lucas was a Baltimorean expatriate who spent 50 years in Paris as an art dealer, during which time he amassed more than 20,000 works of art, capturing the artistic spirit of the 19th century. A friend to many leading French artists of the time, his collection represents a unique insight into their world accumulated through the eyes of one man.

The exhibition features works by such renowned artists as Édouard Manet, James McNeill Whistler, and Mary Cassatt, Théodore Rousseau and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It runs from October 1 through December 31, 2006

Gustav Klimt at Neue Gallerie

Neue Gallerie is hosting an exhibition entitled Gustav Klimt - Five paintings from the collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer; July 13 through September 18, 2006. The exhibition will include their recently acquired portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

The gallery is located in 86th Street, New York.

Dada at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents Dada, June 18–September 11, 2006.

This major exhibition, premiered at the National Gallery of Art and is the first in the United States to focus exclusively on Dada, regarded as one of the most influential avant-garde art movements in the twentieth century.

Over four hundred works feature in the exhibition, a dynamic multimedia installation that includes collages, films, paintings, photographs, printed matter, sound recordings, and sculpture. Nearly fifty artists are represented, amongst them Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, and Sophie Taeuber.

Hokusai at the Smithsonian

An unprecedented exhibition of works by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), runs at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. , through to May 14, 2006.

Hokusai is probably best known for his woodblock print 'The Great Wave' which is one of the world's most recognized images.

Exhibitions in South Florida

SouthFlorida.com has published some excellent reviews and links to four museum blockbusters to be found in South Florida .

Large-scale contemporary blown glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly are on display in the Fairchild Tropical Garden, Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, through May 31, 2006.

At the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, you can enjoy 'French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts', which runs through March 5, 2006.

'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' is attracting a lot of visitors at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art and runs through April 23, 2006. Following the Fort Lauderdale stop, the exhibition moves on to Chicago's Field Museum (May 19, 2006-January 1, 2007) and Philadelphia's Franklin Institute (January 31-September 30, 2007).

Finally, 'Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition' is a unique re-creation of Tiffany pieces originally displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition (also called the Chicago World's Fair) of 1893. The exhibition running through April 16, 2006, is at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach.

Degas to Picasso then Hockney

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, is mounting a fabulous exhibition from its collection through to July 23, 2006 entitled Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters; it is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s and presents a rare opportunity to see more than 280 works, some of which are newly acquired and others which are rarely on view due to space limitations or sensitivity to light.
Between February 26 and May 14, 2006 there is an added twist because the MFA will be concurrently mounting David Hockney Portraits, the first exhibition devoted solely to Hockney's portraiture, considered to be one of the most significant aspects of his work. Thereby providing a unique opportunity to directly compare Hockney's work with that of his predecessors.
Organized by the MFA and the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'David Hockney Portraits' surveys five decades of the artist's career and reveals his fascination with the human form through depictions of himself as well as important people in his life: family members, lovers and devoted friends.

Following its debut at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the 'David Hockney Portraits' exhibition will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (June 11 – September 4, 2006) and then to the National Portrait Gallery, London (October 12, 2006 – January 21, 2007).

Utah Arts Festival

The 30th annual Utah Arts Festival will be held Thursday, June 22 through Sunday, June 25 in downtown Salt Lake City.

A wide variety of performing, visual, culinary and literary arts are presented during the four day festival, and organizers seeks to present the best Utah artists, together with their worldwide contemporaries. Annual attendance at the event is about 80,000.

Visual artists wishing to exhibit work in more than one medium must apply separately and submit an application and jury fee for each medium. Completed application, slides and a non refundable $30.00 jury fee must be submitted by February 3, 2006.