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National Gallery, London 9 October 2021 – 2 January 2022   J.Paul Getty Museum,  Los Angeles  15 February – 8 May 2022 The National Gallery’s new exhibition  Poussin and the Dance , co-organised with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, will include wild, raucous and surprisingly joyous scenes, showing whirling, cavorting figures. It will cast the French Classical artist in a completely new light, showing how he grappled with the challenges of arresting movement and capturing the expressive potential of the body. For the first time in its 121-year history, the Wallace Collection will lend Nicolas Poussin’s painting 'Dance to the Music of Time' (about 1634–6). His most celebrated dance picture will be included in 'Poussin and the Dance', the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition of works by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) – the first ever to focus on his pictures of dancers and revellers – opening in autumn 2021. Image: Nicolas Poussin, 'A Dance to the Mus

Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471–1528). The Four Horsemen, Plate 4 from the Apocalypse, published 1498. Woodcut on paper, image: 15 5/8 x 11 3/16 in., sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 ¾ in. Collection of George Amos Poole, Jr., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced the summer opening ( Thursday, July 1, through Sunday, December 19, 2021,)  of   Albrecht Dürer:  Apocalypse  and Other Masterworks from Indiana University Collections , the first-ever exhibition to survey the university’s impressive holdings by this important and perennially popular Old Master. Soon after assuming his post in 1896 as Indiana University’s first art instructor, Alfred Mansfield Brooks acquired a small selection of prints by the Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471–1528) for study and exhibition in his classroom. Today, these works are among more than fifty by the pioneering Renaissance printmaker in IU collections. Drawing on the collections of both

  It's got to the stage where whenever I read a BBC News online report I automatically think, ''Has the BBC fact-checked this?''.  I don't trust their basic competence these days.  A whole new blog might be devoted to correcting basic errors in BBC website reports.  A fresh case in point... As you'd expect the Twitter-obsessed BBC picked up on the Twitter furore over Lord [Digby] Jones's criticisms of BBC sports presenter Alex Scott for doin' a Beth Rigby and droppin' her 'g's.  Alex Scott proud of accent amid criticism from Lord Jones - BBC News I immediately spotted something that didn't look right and Googled to fact-check myself. The BBC writes: Digby was never a Labour transport minister. He was a trade minister under Gordon Brown. 

  The National Academy of Design has announced the launch of the virtual Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné on July 29, in recognition of the anniversary of the artist’s birthday. In this first phase, the catalogue raisonné is focused on American artist Eastman Johnson’s paintings. Subsequent phases will include the artist’s drawings and prints.   Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), The Hatch Family, ca. 1870–71. Oil on canvas, 48 x 73 3/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Frederic H. Hatch, 1926 (26.97). Founded and directed by Dr. Patricia Hills, project managed by Abigael MacGibeny, and stewarded by the National Academy of Design, the Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné (EJCR) is based on Dr. Hills’s decades-long research on Johnson’s artwork, which dates to the 1972 monographic exhibition of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.  Celebrating the artist’s substantial contributions to the development of American genre and portrait painting throughout the latter half

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA  July 4 to October 3, 2021) Oklahoma City Museum of Art  November 6, 2021 to January 30, 2022 For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design  is the first exhibition to highlight a pivotal aspect of the collection of the National Academy of Design—the joint presentation of an artist’s portrait with his or her diploma work.   For America  is the first exhibition to highlight the fundamental characteristic of the National Academy’s collection: the joint presentation of an artist’s portrait with her or his representative work. The exhibition’s one hundred extraordinary paintings present not only a visual document of the Academy’s membership but a unique history of American painting from 1809 to the present. The exhibition will tour to eight venues across the United States, bringing important paintings to audiences across the country while also enriching the dialogue of scholars, students, and artists of all ages with the firsthand e

Desperately specialist subject territory perhaps, but as discussed on the open thread... Forget plummeting through sci-fi wormholes, the BBC's  Doctor Who 's ratings have in scientific reality hurtled down the plughole in recent years.  As Buzz BBC would say - ''To infinity and wherever what we flush away goes to and below!'' Departing box-ticking, white, middle-aged, big-boned 'woke bloke' Chris Chibnall's unsuccessful reign as showrunner, with Jodie Whittaker as his Doctor [The First Female Doctor], saw the gradual fall-off under their immediate predecessors [Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi] haemorrhage into an either-switch-off-or-turn-over avalanche of desertification of Biblical proportions.  [Not that they had avalanches in the Bible.]  Episode 1 of the first Jodie series began with well over 10 million viewers while the final episode of series 2 ended up sinking under 4 million.  Many have claimed that this is classic 'Go wok

  Clark Art Institute July 17 through October 3, 2021 Drawing from its extensive holdings of works by—and inspired by—Albrecht Dürer, the Clark presents   Dürer & After , on view July 17 through October 3, 2021. Original prints appear alongside faithful imitations and freer interpretations by artists including Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, Marcantonio Raimondi, Hieronymus Hopfer, and Jan Wierix, offering a unique opportunity to assess Dürer’s centuries-long artistic legacy.  “Albrecht Dürer’s mastery is unquestioned. While it’s a delight to study his exceptional prints, the opportunity to look at these works through a different lens—that of his influence on other artists—helps us to appreciate Dürer anew,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “It has been more than ten years since we last showed Dürer’s prints in our galleries, and we look forward to sharing a wide selection of them with our visitors. He will always surprise you—you will always find somethi

  Tate Liverpool 24 July 2021 – 16 January 2022 Lucian Freud,  Girl with a White Dog  1950-1 © Tate This summer, Tate Liverpool will stage a significant presentation of Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) artworks, the first in the North West in over thirty years. Widely considered a master of modern portraiture, Freud was an artist who continued to expand his exploration of paint throughout his career. This focused exhibition will feature some of the artist’s most iconic paintings and etchings as well as photographs that provide an intimate glimpse into Freud’s life.  Lucian Freud: Real Lives  concentrates on the artist’s sitters who were often friends and family, creating clusters of portraits of those he captured over time, and thereby illuminating Freud’s technical virtuosity and stylistic development. Deeply private and guarded, it is through his work that we get to know Freud the man, and this exhibition tracks the personal and artistic changes he went through, reveali