James McNeill Whistler
Whistler’s famed Peacock Room, ‘vibrant and revamped’, reopens following major conservation project
The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre
Rejected in 1862, Whistler’s woman in white finally has her day at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
The artist’s portrait of Joanna Hiffernan—once turned down for the RA's Summer Exhibition—is the centrepiece of an exhibition in London, while important works from New York’s Frick Collection head to Paris
Gunpowder, treason and plot: how artists have captured fireworks throughout history
In a special podcast episode we talk to Simon Werrett who has written a book on pyrotechnic arts in European history
Special: Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett
In honour of Bonfire Night in the UK this podcast looks at how artists—from Whistler to Cai Guo-Qiang—have captured fireworks
The score for “turner, whistler, monet”
This show originated last year at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto under the curatorial leadership of Catharine Lochnan, before touring in 2005 to the Grand Palais in Paris and Tate Modern, London. It attracted very large numbers of visitors at all three venues.
Royal Academy and Tate exhibitions heading for top attendance
“Turks: A journey of a thousand years 600-1600” and “Turner, Whistler, Monet” have been wildly successful
Sargent’s women: portraits at the Adelson Galleries
On view 12 November - 13 December
Whistler, women and fashion at the Frick Collection
On view from 22 April to 13 July
Books: a selection of the Art Institute of Chicago's holdings
Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War
From the secret archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum: flinging more than a paint pot
The opening of a file on James McNeill Whistler, embargoed for a century, reveals him to have been a violent brawler, a racist and a gun-runner
Revictorianising Whistler
The artist presented as an eminent contemporary of Ruskin and Morris rather than a prefiguration of abstraction