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Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Sandbergplein 1 Amstelveen 1181 ZX
Tel: +31 (0)20 547 5050 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 8 Aug 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website

Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 24 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Le Point du Jour 109 Avenue de Paris Cherbourg Octeville 50100
Tel: +33 2 33 22 99 23 Website

Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland 44106-1797
Tel: +1 216 421 7340 Website

A survey of symbolist artist Paul Gauguin opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art before it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam next year. The show partially recreates the exhibition that Gauguin and his contemporaries independently organised in the Café Volpini, Paris, during the Exposition Universelle, or World’s Fair. Around 75 works from that show are reunited for the first time in more than a century, along with works on paper, woodcarvings and ceramics.

Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website

While elements of this show have been exhibited earlier this year at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Kunsthalle Zurich, this version comes in a slightly different guise. The Algerian-born artist has worked closely with the museum’s director, Enrique Juncosa, and head of exhibitions, Rachel Thomas, to make use of the particular architectural spaces to present this show of 14 works. There are site-specific works tailored to the show, such as Orange Bay (After Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment of Future History), 2002-09, “an orange Plexiglas work covering all of the windows in the galleries so that all works will be seen in an orange glow”, said Thomas. The show is supported by L’Ambassade de France en Irelande.

The Boy from Mars, 2003.

Dates: 20 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Corso Ercole I d'Este, 21 Ferrara 35121
Tel: +39 (0)532 244 949 Website

The “Master of Swish” receives a major exhibition in his hometown of Ferrara, focusing largely on works created by the artist in Paris between 1871 and 1886. This show explores how impressionists such as Manet, Degas, Meissonier and Caillebotte influenced the early work of the Italian, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest Belle Epoque portrait painters of 1890s Paris. Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) moved to Paris in 1871, settling in the Place Pigalle, an area popular with artists and writers. He quickly became accustomed to life in the French capital and befriended leading artists of the day including Degas, whom he often accompanied to the theatre and concert halls. It was a prolific and highly experimental period for Boldini, during which he created pieces in several genres including portraiture and landscapes. On view are 100 works of various genres drawn from international public and private collections. The show opens with an early self-portrait made in Florence in 1865 while he was a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti. On loan from the Modern Art Gallery at the Pitti Palace, the painting shows Boldini’s modern take on portraiture by depicting himself in his study rather than opting for a neutral environment. The exhibition is organised into thematic sections including: fanciful paintings created specifically for the American and European art markets; cityscapes that record modern life; landscapes; scenes that capture the vibrant nightlife of Paris including a painting of a singer entiled, La Cantante Mondana, about 1884; scenes of his atelier, including A Woman in Black, about 1888; and finally, for what Boldini is by far best remembered—portraiture. The show ends with his society portraits. Like Sargent, Boldini counted the crème de la crème of high society among his patrons. An 1894 portrait of socialite and author Gertrude Elizabeth Blood, Lady Colin Campbell is on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, London. After its debut in Ferrara, the exhibition will travel across the pond to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts (14 February-25 April 2010). The US presentation will be the first major display of Boldini’s work outside Europe. E.S.

Cléo de Mérode, 1901

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master Decorative
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website

The influence on European furniture culture of the renowned sculptor and cabinet maker to Louis XIV André Charles Boulle is explored in this major show of about 150 pieces of furniture, bronzes, clocks, tapestries, paintings and drawings selected by art historians Jean Nérée Ronfort and Jean Dominique Augarde with Ulrich Schneider, director of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Boulle found success early, being invited by Louis XIV into his workshops at the Palais du Louvre before the age of 30, and his designs soon became symbols of prosperity and success, a position they still hold, with his designs featuring in the world’s leading museums and private collections. The king of Spain and the electors of Saxony and Bavaria were drawn to his elaborate works that combined such materials as gilt bronze, exotic woods, tortoiseshell and brass to create elaborate ornaments and floral marquetry. Objects have been loaned by 44 institutions, including the Hermitage, St Petersburg, Le Mobilier National, Paris, and the Royal Collection of Sweden, signifying Boulle’s widespread and lasting international influence. The show is under the patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and Horst Köhler, President of Germany.

Sphinx, 17th century.

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Old Master
Address: Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606
Tel: +81 (0)75 761 4111 Website

This exhibition of about 50 works from the Galleria Borghese in Rome—including masterpieces by Raphael, Botticelli, Caravaggio and Bernini—gives the Japanese audience a rare opportunity to experience a collection of art from the Italian Renaissance assembled by one of the greatest artistic patrons of any era. Scipione Borghese owed his wealth and influence to his role as favoured nephew of Pope Paul V (pontiff 1605-21), who gave him control of both papal and Borghese family finances. As a result, he was able to put together one of the greatest art collections in Europe. Many of the Borgheses’ Greek and Roman antiquities were transferred to the Louvre in Paris during the Napoleonic occupation of Italy two centuries later, but Scipione’s Renaissance collection has survived intact; it was taken over by the Italian state in 1902, and is still housed in the Villa Borghese. The show, which transfers to Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (16 January-4 April 2010), includes numerous works never shown before in Japan, such as Raphael’s Lady with Unicorn, 1505-06, and one of Caravaggio’s final works, St John the Baptist, 1609-10, acquired from the artist’s estate soon after his death. Also on show is Bernini’s bust portrait in marble of Scipione Borghese, one of a pair commissioned by the patron and executed in 1632. Bruce Millar

Raphael’s Lady with Unicorn, 1505-06

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Biennials
Address: Various Venues Lyon
Tel: Website

For the tenth Biennale de Lyon the Paris and San Francisco-based curator and critic Hou Hanru has focused on the opposing notions of spectacle and the everyday in our society, a theme, he feels, that has a particular resonance at this time. “This biennale happens at a time of financial and economic crisis, but it’s also about questioning the profound roots of the social system that we are in,” he told The Art Newspaper. “I was looking how to put these two opposing notions together to create new energy and new dynamics.” Hou, who is director of exhibitions and public programmes and chair of exhibition and museum studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, curated the 2007 Istanbul Biennale, and lived in France for 16 years before moving to the US in 1990. The works of nearly 60 international artists (see below) are on display in a variety of venues across the city of Lyons and surrounding areas, and arranged in four main chapters across four museums and public spaces in an interactive way to create what Hou describes as an “urban experience” that reflects the dynamism of the themes of spectacle and everyday. “ You go into a space and it’s like you walk through a city. You will bump into the work of artists who are working on different chapters that somehow try to transform everyday objects.” “The Magic of Things” focuses on artists who transform such objects, situations and environments, “Celebrating the Drift” explores urban spaces inspired by the situationist strategy of “drifting” (dérive), and “Another World” is Possible” consists of works that envision new social orders and alternative models of living in an age of globalisation. The fourth section, “Living Together”, which is mainly housed within the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, “reactivates” works from the collection, or which have been exhibited in the museum in the past, to create a platform for discussion within different communities. “I feel a museum is not only a place for conservation and display,” says Hou. “It is about opening its memory up to the public.” For instance, the Paris-based Turkish artist Sarkis is reshowing, with new elements, the central part of his 2002 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, L’Ouverture, in which air is blown into the gallery through a ventilation system scattering pieces of newspapers from around the world. A series of conferences, happenings, readings and dance and musical events will then take place in this space while the ventilation system is closed down. Linked to “Living Together” is a related section, “Veduta”, in which three artists or groups of artists have been invited to take residence in the Lyons suburbs to make new works with the involvement of the largely immigrant inhabitants that will be shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art. Eko Nogroho will create puppet shows with local youths, collective Bik Van der Pol builds a floating platform over a lake for discussions and leisure activities, and French artist Robert Milin, who is making ten light boxes featuring sentences from inhabitants talking about their dreams and desires. About half of the works are new commissions, including a film by Maria Thereza Alves, an installation by Jimmie Durham, two large site specific installations by Pedro Cabrita Reis, a performance piece by Istanbul artist Ha Za Vu Zu and wall drawings by Dan Perjovschi. Michael Lin’s What a Difference a Day Made, shown in the Shanghai Gallery of Art last year, is a ­reconstruction of a Shanghai shop of everyday household objects. The artist has invited magicians and acrobats to perform with the objects, which are then reclassified and stored within the shop. The four main strands of the biennale are shown in two converted warehouses—La Sucriére, the flagship venue of the biennale since 2003, and the Bichat Warehouse, an 800 sq. m former arsenal that is being used for the first time, which houses a single work, a neon drawing by Pedro Cabrita Reis—and the Bullukian Foundation, as well as the city’s Renzo Piano-designed Museum of Contemporary Art. But the city as a whole embraces the event; interventions planned for the city’s streets include a whole series of large-scale murals by San Francisco-based Rigo 23. The biennale is not just the tenth in Lyons, but the first after a trio of themed trilogies, so was there pressure on Hou to mark this edition in some way? “The number is not that important but it’s a conjunction of different elements: the number, the timing and the momentum of now,” he said. “I don’t pretend to have the ambition to say this ­[biennale] will be a revolution...but I think that it is an interesting opportunity for us to think what a biennial, or even in the wider sense a cultural institution, should do in our times” explains the Chinese curator. James Hobbs

Sarkis, Le Monde est Illisible, Mon Coeur Si, installation view at the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyons in 2002

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Biennials
Address: Various venues Moscow
Tel: Website

Moscow’s third biennale of contemporary art is tied, for the first time, to one venue, Dasha Zhukova’s vast Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, under one curator, Frenchman Jean-Hubert Martin. He has chosen “Against Exclusion” as the overarching theme of the core exhibition, a title he sees as encompassing a number of aspects. “One of the references in the background of this title is certainly the issue of civil rights in Russia, the way individual freedom is treated,” Martin told The Art Newspaper. “Of course that is not a point that is addressed by most of the artists in the exhibition, but it is behind the exhibition as a whole.” The title also refers to the breadth of countries represented in the biennale: “In Moscow in the last ten or 15 years there have been a number of exhibitions showing European or North American art, but very little coming from South America, Africa or Asia, with probably a few exceptions for the Chinese because they’re fashionable,” Martin said. “Most of my colleagues show artists that are in the network of galleries and museums and have more or less accepted the mould of modernist and postmodernist work. My understanding of art is much wider—I want to also include artists working for their communities, for example Aboriginal Australians who are not usually included in the network of high art.” Martin was the curator of the renowned “Magiciens de la Terre” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 1989, which brought artists from marginalised areas of the world to the fore. He also said that he wants to include older artists in “Against Exclusion” rather than just focusing on emerging artists, as the two previous biennales did, and that he is against any type of aesthetic exclusion. It will be interesting to see how the city of Moscow reacts to such an influx, but Martin feels confident that at the very least, it will spark debate. “It’s difficult to say beforehand how well an exhibition will be taken, but I have nothing against creating a discussion—it is always very positive in terms of culture,” he told us. Some of the works will directly address the question of politics in the title, with Flemish artist Koen Vanmechelen showing an installation of chickens from various countries that have been crossbred to create hybrids, “physical examples of how racial purity is a fantasy that doesn’t exist”, Martin told us. Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping is also showing work with animal hybrids that explores similar ideas but is also “a metaphor about violence and war”, said Martin. Works incorporating animals seems to be a thread that runs through the show, whether intentional or not, continuing into the pieces ­commissioned specifically for the biennial. There are around 15 of these, including French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation of birds under a net that are enticed to “play” electric guitars, with a special program loaded to interpret the sounds. “It makes a very particular, strange music,” said Martin. Martin is not directly involved with the expansive guest programme and special projects, which were mostly programmed by the biennale commissioner, Joseph Backstein. “I think we were very liberal because there will be an enormous number of annexed exhibitions next to the Garage,” said Martin. He also said that, compared with the previous two years, there will be a much greater proportion of Russian artists in the main exhibition, with 12 invited to take part who he believes need to be better known on an international level. He sees it as important that they are visible in the large Garage show as opposed to just in the peripheral events. “Foreign ­visitors who sometimes come for a very short time don’t have the chance to visit all the annexed exhibitions, they concentrate on the main show,” he said. Rosie Spencer

Huang Yong Ping, Le Pont (Bridge), 1993-95, on show at this year’s Moscow Biennale

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 6 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Barer Strasse Munich D-80333
Tel: +49 (0)89 238 050 Website

In 1514 the Florentine businessman Giovanni Battista Puccini commissioned Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531) to paint a Holy Family with St John the Baptist, St Elizabeth and Two Angels, which he intended as a present for the French king, François I. On completion, he was clearly so taken with the picture that he kept it for himself and had the artist make a second version for the king (one assumes that the king was not made aware that he was getting second best, as it were). Following an extensive restoration, the first version (in the Bavarian State Painting Collections), which has not been on public display for nearly 20 years, is shown alongside the second, which is on loan from the Louvre. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to showing the various stages of the restoration work; another explains the primary version’s travels from Puccini’s hands to Munich, and the main section concerns itself with the differences and similarities of the two paintings, the delicate colouring, sfumato effects and dynamic composition which help one wholly to understand why Puccini was reluctant to let go of it. D.L.

St Elizabeth and Two Angels

Dates: 10 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 919 Broadway Nashville 37203-3822
Tel: +1 615 244 3340 Website

Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 32, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 23 02 77 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 2 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 16, rue Duchefdelaville Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 60 90 30 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: Quai François-Mauriac Paris 75706
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 79 41 18 Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 23 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Photography Video & New Media
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Design Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 23 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master Curious
Address: 14, rue Bonaparte Paris 75272
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 50 00 Website

Dates: 26 Oct 09 - 29 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master Curious
Address: 14, rue Bonaparte Paris 75272
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 50 00 Website

Dates: 7 Jul 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 261, boulevard Raspail Paris 75014
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 18 56 50 Website

Dates: 3 Sep 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 61, rue de Grenelle Paris 75007
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 22 59 58 Website

Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 15 Dec 09
Categories: Photography Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8 rue Bonaparte Paris 75006
Tel: +33(0)1 43 25 84 20 Website

Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 70, rue Bonaparte Paris 75006
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 26 08 68 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, Rue de Saintonge Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 71 90 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, Rue de Saintonge Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 71 90 Website

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 38 87 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 10 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 38 87 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 30, rue Beaubourg Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10 Website

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 30, rue Beaubourg Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10 Website

Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 54, rue de la Verrerie Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 38 00 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 22 rue Charlot Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 87 73 94 Website

Dates: 24 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 22 rue Charlot Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 87 73 94 Website

Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Middle East
Address: 76, rue de Turenne & 10 impasse Saint-Claude Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 16 79 79 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 57, rue Sainte-Anne Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 60 10 01 Website

Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 01 02 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 38, avenue Matignon Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 89 89 00 Website

Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 78, rue Julien-Lacroix Paris 75020
Tel: +33 1 42 03 05 65 Website

Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 15 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5, rue Debelleyme Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 19 37 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 17, rue du Parc Royal Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 27 74 Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 13, rue de Téhéran Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 63 13 19 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 79, rue du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 04 70 52 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 67 68 Website

Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Photography
Address: 3, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 67 68 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 22 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 59, rue Quincampoix Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 74 56 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5, rue Taillandiers Paris 75011
Tel: +33 (0) 1 4700 3235 Website

Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 3, avenue Général Eisenhower Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 13 17 17 Website

Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 3, avenue Général Eisenhower Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 13 17 17 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 20, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 79 07 13 Website

Dates: 23 Jun 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website

This year saw important developments in the field of Middle Eastern contemporary art, as established and up-and-coming artists from the region followed in the footsteps of their Chinese and Russian counterparts in capturing the attention of international collectors and sellers. Charles Saatchi stamped a seal of approval on the field with his exhibition “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East”. Amid the furore, the voice of Palestinian artists is rising. This month, for the first time, the territories will be represented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in an exciting exhibition that, according to curator Salwa Mikdadi, “underscores the chronic impermanence faced by Palestinian artists”. Within this context, the exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) could not be more timely. For 20 years, the IMA has sought to convey the importance and breadth of contemporary Arab art, becoming a crucial platform between two cultures. This show brings together the work of 19 artists, men and women, across generations, working in varying techniques, living and locally or abroad, who commune in a Palestinian aesthetic forged in exile and displacement. Taysir Batniji and Khalil Rabah, two artists who are showing in Venice, explore these themes respectively in a series of 26 photographs, Miradors, 2008 and United States of Palestine Airlines, London Office, 2007, and Mona Hatoum is represented by Every Door a Wall, 2003, which describes through silkscreen the plight of illegal immigrants smuggled inside a truck. The media – from drawings and paintings, photography, video and installation art – mix with ease, and in the breadth of the curatorial choice, we are provided with an interesting overview of the state of Palestinian art in the 21st century. Caroline Cardon

Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, place de la Concorde Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 13 36 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, place de la Concorde Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 13 36 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 30 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website

Dates: 29 Sep 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Photography Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website

Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10, boulevard de la Bastille Paris 75012
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 01 08 81 Website

Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 23, rue de Sévigné Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 58 Website

Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 5-7, rue de Fourcy Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 75 00 Website

Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 11 Jul 10
Categories: African Decorative
Address: 35 bis, rue Paul Valery Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 00 91 75 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website

Dates: 24 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website

Dates: 18 Jun 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website

Dates: 17 Sep 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website

Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website

Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 21 Jun 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website

Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 19, rue de Vaugirard Paris 75006
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 34 25 95 Website

Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Biennials Photography
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website

The second Photoquai biennial of non-western photography has been organised by Iranian curator Anahita Ghabaian- Ettehadieh. The event, held on the embankment of the Seine opposite the Quai Branly museum, includes 50 contemporary photographers from around the world. Within the museum there will also be displays of Iranian photography from the 19th century to today. R.S.

Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art Latin American
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website

Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Curious Contemporary (1970-present) African
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website

Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc) African
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 4 Feb 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website

Dates: 12 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Design
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website

Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 23 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 4 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Design
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website

Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Curious Decorative
Address: 6, place d’Iéna Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 56 52 53 39 Website

Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 6, place d’Iéna Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 56 52 53 39 Website

Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 158, boulevard Haussmann Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 89 04 91 Website

Continuing its series of exhibitions focused on major collectors, the Jacquemart-André Museum presents 50 Flemish, Italian, German and Dutch works amassed by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803). The pieces are drawn from the Brukenthal National Museum in Romania—home to one of the most prestigious art collections in Central Europe. A career politician, Brukenthal was made governor of his native Transylvania by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who considered him a close personal adviser. He began acquiring his collection in Vienna and quickly earned a reputation as an insatiable collector with a discerning eye, purchasing nearly 16,000 books, 800 etchings, 12,000 paintings and a number of objets d’art. Particularly rich in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings—the Golden Age of Art in the Low Countries—the collection was supplemented by a number of works presented to him by Maria Theresa. His baroque palace in Sibiu, central Romania, was constructed as a showcase for his collection and upon his death in 1803 it was opened to the public. The exhibition aims to show the quality of his collection by presenting the very best pieces amassed by Brukenthal. Most of the works are Flemish, a school particularly popular with 18th-century Viennese collectors. The show is arranged in five thematic sections: portraits, landscapes, genre paintings, still-lifes and history painting. The segment dedicated to portraiture is dominated by works by the Flemish Primitives, a group of 15th-century artists concerned with the precise rendering of details such as jewellery, fabrics and furs. The oldest portrait by Van Eyck, Portrait of the Man in a Blue Turban (1430-33), shows the artist’s desire to include details like the sitter’s fur coat and beard, and Hans Memling’s Portrait of Reading Man (1485) shows the careful rendering of the book’s gilded pages. Included in the section devoted to landscapes is one of Bruegel’s best known works, Massacre of the Innocents (1566-67), a piece depicting villagers being slaughtered by soldiers following the orders of Philip II of Spain. Visitors can see genre paintings by Dutch artists David Teniers and Frans Van Mieris, still-lifes by Jan Davidsz de Heem and Erasmus Quellinus and history paintings by Jacob Jordaens. Pieces by Italian masters Lorenzo Lotto and Titian are also included in the display. The show is curated by Flemish art specialist Jan de Maere and Jacquemart-André curator Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot. E.S.

Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents, 1566-67

Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 20 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 2, rue Louis-Boilly Paris 75016
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 96 50 33 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Hôtel de Biron, 79, rue de Varenne Paris 75007
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 18 61 10 Website

Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 13,avenue du President Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 23 3866 Website

Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 28, place de la Madeleine Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 25 71 41 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 28, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 86 20 00 Website

Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Curious
Address: 10, rue Duchefdelaville Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 70 75 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 6 rue de Braque Paris 75003
Tel: +33 1 40 29 08 92 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 108, rue Vielle du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33 Website

Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 108, rue Vielle du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33 Website

Dates: 15 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: arco della Pace, 5 Rome 00186
Tel: +39 (0)6 688 09 036 Website

Dates: 21 Nov 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Art Gallery Road, The Domain Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: +61 (0)2 9225 1700 Website

Dates: 6 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 2445 Monroe Street Toledo 43620
Tel: +1 419 255 8000 Website

Dates: 13 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Musée du Château Versailles 78000
Tel: +33 (0)1 30 83 77 01 Website

As only the second contemporary artist to show works at the Château de Versailles following the Jeff Koons exhibition of 2008, French artist Xavier Veilhan has a hard act to follow in terms of impact. Unlike Koons, who placed existing works within the palace, Paris-based Veilhan is showing seven specially commissioned sculptural pieces in the manicured gardens. Works include a series of statues of famous architects—including Claude Parent, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando—a 100-metre-high fountain in the middle of the Grand Canal that pays homage to Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column sculpture of 1938, and a violet-coloured carriage and horses frozen in motion in the Court of Honour. Rosie Spencer “‘Veilhan Versailles’ is a stroll, an itinerary, a journey through the landscape-territory of Versailles,” says Laurent Le Bon, the exhibition organiser. “Mainly running along the east-west axis outside the château itself, my proposal features a series of works specially produced for this occasion that create a contemporary dotted line which splits in two the masterly garden lay-out of Le Nôtre,” says Veilhan.

Tadao Ando in the Court of Honour