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  Papa Mike and Marianna from the BBC's much self-admired Disinformation Unit will doubtless confirm that July was named after Kenneth Williams, and that the loudest month of the year, August, was named after Brian Blessed from 1 Clavdivs,  and that May was named after an Abba reject who went on to the UK's PM - immediately prior to Laura Kuenssberg's scandalous wallpaper guy.   Time for a new open thread.  Best wishes to you all, and thank you so much for continuing to comment. And may your May be wonderful.

  Nellie Mae Rowe, Untitled (Dandy), 1978–1982, crayon and pencil on paper, 24 x 18 inches, gift of Harvie and Charles Abney. High Museum of Art Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900-1982), "When I Was a Little Girl," 1978, crayon, marker, colored pencil, and pencil on paper, 19 x 24, inches, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with Folk Art Acquisition Fund, 2002.73. © 2021 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/ARS, NY. Melinda Blauvelt, Nellie Mae Rowe, Vinings, Georgia 1971, printed 2021, silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 inches, gift of the artist. High Museum of Art Nellie Mae Rowe, Real Girl, 1980, color photograph, crayon, ink, and pencil on cardboard, 14 x 11 inches, gift of Judith Alexander. High Museum of Art This fall, the  High Museum of Art  will present "Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe" (Sept. 3, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022), featuring nearly 60 works drawn from the High Museum’s folk and self-taught art collection, which has the largest public h

  DAVID HOCKNEY In the autumn of 2021, BOZAR presents a major double exhibition of one of the most renowned and influential artists of our time. 8 OCTOBER 2021 > 23 JANUARY 2022 Featuring some of the finest works from the Tate Collection, the first exhibition  David Hockney: Works from the Tate Collection, 1954-2017   takes the visitor on a journey through the long career of the 83-year-old British artist. The second exhibition,  David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020  is organised in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts. It introduces us to his most recent work. Under the motto  Do remember they can’t cancel the spring,  Hockney used his iPad to record the blossoming of nature during the first lockdown, in the spring of 2020. These two travelling exhibitions can only be seen together at BOZAR. It is the first time since 1992 that a major exhibition of David Hockney’s work has been organised in Belgium.

18 Oct. 2021 – 17 Apr. 2022  This Autumn, Museo Picasso Málaga will be presenting  The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved . The exhibition will display the work of one of the most famous photographers of the first half of the 20 th  century, whose work helped to create the universal public image of Paris, the Eternal City Brassaï’s photographs invite the observer to wander through Paris, with the Seine, Nôtre Dame, the brothels and the markets. He brilliantly captured the artistic and social scene in his many shots of the politically engaged Parisian intellectual circles of the 30s and 40s, from Sartre to Beckett. The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved  sheds light on the professional relationship and friendship between Brassai and Picasso, who considered Brassaï the best photographer of his work. Estate Brassaï Succession has cooperated with the exhibition, and Fundación Unicaja has provided sponsorship and special collabo

  Property from an Important Private European Collection VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Le pont de Trinquetaille   oil on canvas 25½ x 31¾ in. (65 x 81 cm.) Painted in Arles  circa  17 June 1888. $25,000,000-35,000,000 Christie’s will present  Vincent van Gogh ’s spectacular landscape  Le pont de Trinquetaille  as a highlight of the  20 th  Century Evening Sale  at Christie’s New York on 13 May ($25,000,000-35,000,000). Painted during Van Gogh’s pivotal fifteen-month stay in Arles, situated on the Rhône River in the Provence region of Southern France,  Le pont de Trinquetaille  with its electric color palette and expressive brushwork is emblematic of the artist’s mature period. Inspired by the intense Provençal light while living amidst the rural French landscape, Van Gogh’s work underwent a radical transformation as he produced one modern masterpiece after another. Painted in the summer of 1888,  Le pont de Trinquetaille  dates from this extra

  Dallas Museum of Art  October 17, 2021, to February 6, 2022 Van Gogh Museum,  Amsterdam, March 11 to June 12, 2022 Vincent van Gogh, Olive Grove , July1889, oil on canvas, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Photographer: Rik Klein Gotink Vincent van Gogh, Olive Grove with Two Olive Pickers , December 1889, oil on canvas, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Photographer: Rik Klein Gotink In 2021 and 2022 the  Dallas Museum of Art  (DMA) and the  Van Gogh Museum  (Amsterdam, Netherlands) host the first exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh’s important olive grove series, executed during his yearlong stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Co-organized by the two institutions,  Van Gogh and the Olive Groves  reunites for the first time the series of paintings devoted to the titular motif that the artist produced between June and December 1889. It additionally highlights new discoveries about the artist’s techniques, materials, and p

  Part of the Alexander von Humboldt exhibition, Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865, oil on canvas, 56 x 83 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eleanor Blodgett, 1911.4.1. Photo by Gene Young. The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, reopen to the public Friday, May 14. This is the second reopening of the museum following closures on March 14, 2020 and on Nov. 23, 2020 as a public health precaution due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The museum has negotiated extensions into the summer for its three major exhibitions that were shuttered last fall. “I am overjoyed to welcome visitors back to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and our Renwick Gallery to experience our relevant and impactful exhibitions—from powerful and vibrant prints by Chicanx artists and collaborators to a fossilized mastodon skeleton to a new site-specific artwork that transforms an entire gallery at the Renwick into earthly and heavenly realms,”

Dixon Gallery and Gardens ,  Memphis  (now through May 9, 2021) San Antonio Museum of Art  ( June 11–September 5, 2021)  Brandywine River Museum of Art , Chadds Ford, PA  (October 9, 2021–January 9, 2022) Willard Metcalf (American, 1858 – 1925) Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny) , 1886. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 18 5/16 inches. Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Maire Fox. Image courtesy Questroyal Fine Art Theodore Robinson (1852 – 1896) Yacht Club Basin, Cos Cob Harbor , 1894. Oil on board, 19 x 22 1/2 in. Brandywine River Museum of Art, Richard M. Scaife Bequest Emma Richardson Cherry (American, 1859 – 1954) On the Gallery, at the Pines , 1896. Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches. Collection of Juli and Sam Steven John Leslie Breck (American, 1860 – 1899) Grey Day on the Charles , 1894. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art, 90.151 Photo: Katherine Wetzel/ ©Virginia Museum of Fine Art