THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 212, APRIL 2010 23 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009

Japan’s love of exhibitions proves recession-proof Change at the top of the European blockbuster tree in Paris, London and Moscow, but business as usual in New York

n Paris, London and Methodology Moscow young museums have toppled long-estab - All figures were calculated lished ones from the top automatically by our database, of the exhibition tree in which computes the number of each respective city. But days an exhibition was open using globally Japan’s museums the following formula: total number remain in a league of their own of days between start date and end when it comes to organising date, divided by seven, multiplied blockbuster exhibitions. In The by the number of days per week Art Newspaper ’s 15th annual the institution is open, minus excep - Isurvey of attendance figures tional closures. As this formula three Tokyo museums and always produces an imperfect num - one in Nara, 300 miles south ber (a division of seven) all figures west of the capital, fill the top are out by a potential margin of 2%. four places. As the same margin applies uni - As in 2008, the average visi - formly to all averages given, the list tor-per-day statistics from Japan represents a fair comparison, how - are staggering. When the Tokyo ever. All data used was supplied by National Museum displayed the institutions concerned. Many Ashura , one of the nation’s most institutions have one ticket for the famous Buddhist statues, along entire museum and cannot provide with other treasures from the individual attendance for temporary Kohfukuji temple, Nara, on exhibitions. Some institutions offer a average 15,960 people a day number of exhibitions for a single went to see them. In Nara itself, ticket: these are shown as one the capital of Japan in the eighth entry. Institutions with more than century, almost the same num - one building were asked to provide m u e

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g ed from this portion of the survey. a m Museum borrowed treasures I from the Imperial Collection to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tokyo’s top draw: Ashura statue and other national treasures from the Kohfukuji temple, Nara coronation of Emperor Akihito, it attracted a “mere” 9,473 (MoMA) is unrivalled. In 2009 and the Colours of the Night” for Van Gogh, however. Staying Gallery have staged London’s just short of the art museum’s visitors a day. its exhibitions provided seven of attracted more than 436,000 vis - in the US, the Metropolitan crowd-pulling exhibitions. But in record set in 2004 with an The huge crowds flocking to the top 16 shows. Joan Miró itors in total, but when the aver - Museum of Art’s “Vermeer’s 2009, as in Paris, a new kid on the impressionist show. Joaquín see Japan’s spiritual treasures has attracted 6,299 visitors a day, age visitor per day is calculated, Masterpiece The Milkmaid ”, the block jumped to pole position. Sorolla does not rank among the a spiritual as well as artistic and Pipilotti Rist’s “Pour Your the show comes after James latter on loan from the The gallery of collector Charles giants of Spanish art, and yet an dimension—with some people Body Out (7345 Cubic Meters)”, Ensor, Ron Arad, Martin Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, came Saatchi, rehoused in the former exhibition of his narrative paint - praying in front of the objects in a sensuous multi-media Kippenberger and Marlene next after MoMA’s best seven. Duke of York’s barracks, has ings and portraits of the late 19th the museums. This phenomenon makeover of its otherwise chilly Dumas exhibitions. This may be In recent years, the Royal shifted the centre of gravity west - and early 20th century broke a was the subject of a symposium at atrium, attracted almost the same reflection of the effectiveness of Academy of Arts, the British ward in London to fashionable ten-year-old attendance record at the Tokyo National Museum last number of visitors. “Van Gogh MoMA’s timed-entry ticketing Museum, Tate and the National Chelsea. The new gallery’s open - the Museo del Prado, Madrid. month. Greg Irvine, the senior ing exhibition, “The Revolution In Moscow, the new Garage curator in the Japanese depart - Continues: New Art from China”, Centre for Contemporary Art ment of the Victoria and Albert and its follow-up, “Unveiled: was the most visited venue in Museum, London, who attended THE TOP 30 EXHIBITIONS New Art from the Middle East”, the Russian capital, attracting the symposium and the Ashura put it in first and third spot in the three times the number of exhibition, says the popularity of Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates UK list. Tate Modern’s Rothko visitors per day to the Moscow such shows is increasing, and it exhibition, albeit a charging show Biennial than the Tretyakov did mirrors the popularity of open 15,960 946,172 Ashura and Masterpieces from Kohfukuji Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 31 Mar-7 Jun whereas the Saatchi Gallery’s are with a thematic exhibition of days in the temples. “The negoti - 14,965 299,294 61st Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures Nara National Museum Nara 24 Oct-2 Nov free, came eighth in the UK list - flowers in Russian art. ations involved in getting [such 9,473 447,944 Treasures of the Imperial Collections Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 6 Oct-29 Nov ings. The As treasures] to the museum are end - 9,267 851,256 17th-century Painting from the Louvre National Museum of Western Art Tokyo 28 Feb-14 Jun National large- less,” he says. 7,868 419,256 2nd Photoquai Biennale Musée Quai Branly Paris 22 Sep-22 Nov Gallery’s scale European old master paintings 7,270 783,352 Picasso and the Masters Grand Palais Paris 8 Oct 08-2 Feb “Corot to exhibitions remain a big draw in Japan. The 6,553 703,000 Kandinsky Centre Pompidou Paris 8 Apr-10 Aug Monet” show can take National Museum of Western 6,299 377,068 Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting Museum of Modern Art New York 2 Nov 08-12 Jan was ninth. several years Art, Tokyo, borrowed paintings 6,186 391,476 Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out Museum of Modern Art New York 19 Nov 08-2 Feb In second to prepare, the from the Louvre, including work 5,609 390,219 Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 25 Sep-14 Dec place in the effects of the by Rembrandt, Poussin and 5,137 379,408 James Ensor Museum of Modern Art New York 28 Jun-21 Sep UK is a muse - financial Velázquez, to celebrate its 50th 5,128 347,995 Ron Arad: No Discipline Museum of Modern Art New York 2 Aug-19 Oct um never recession—and anniversary. The show attracted 4,945 305,894 Martin Kippenberger: Problem Perspective Museum of Modern Art New York 1 Mar-11 May before ranked in the scarcity of more than 850,000 visitors. 4,939 51,505 12th Japan Media Arts Festival National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 4 Feb-5 Feb our survey. business spon - There is a museum new to the 4,864 266,821 Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Museum of Modern Art New York 14 Dec 08-16 Feb Bristol’s munici - sorship to mount blockbuster list in fifth place: 4,856 436,343 Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night Museum of Modern Art New York 21 Sep 08-5 Jan pal museum and art gallery them—will begin to the Musée Quai Branly in Paris. 4,820 459,267 Joaquín Sorolla Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 26 May-13 Sep was “remixed” by its local become apparent in next The ethnographic museum 4,735 329,446 Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 10 Sep-29 Nov street artist made good: year’s list. The silver lining attracted an average of 7,868 4,735 317,233 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from Kabul Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1 Mar-17 May Banksy. Nearly 4,000 peo - for many museums during visitors a day to the second edi - 4,717 408,990 Frank Lloyd Wright: from Within Outward Guggenheim Museum New York 15 May-23 Aug ple a day turned out to see a tough 2009 funding wise tion of its Photoquai Biennale, a 4,688 474,821 Warhol’s Wide World Grand Palais Paris 18 Mar-13 Jul the results, trumping the has been that total atten - celebration of international pho - 4,533 323,132 Aernout Mik Museum of Modern Art New York 6 May-27 Jul London-based nationals. dance figures have gener - tography, just ahead of “Picasso 4,486 450,521 Picasso-Manet Musée d’Orsay Paris 8 Oct 08-1 Feb In Melbourne, Australia, ally held firm or dipped and the Masters” at the Grand 4,416 473,800 Alexander Calder Centre Pompidou Paris 18 Mar-20 Jul as in Bristol in the west of only slightly. Javier Pes Palais. A third show in Paris, the 4,303 151,833 Masterpieces of Zen Culture from Myoshinji Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 20 Jan-1 Mar England, people who do Pompidou’s “Kandinsky”, 4,178 448,208 Egypt: the Great Civilisation National Museum of Korea Seoul 28 Apr-30 Aug not ordinarily go to muse - Figures compiled by proved almost as popular, which 4,150 256,714 Into the Sunset Museum of Modern Art New York 29 Mar-8 Jun ums were tempted by Emily Sharpe and Helen put the venue in seventh place, a 4,139 405,612 The Revolution Continues Saatchi Gallery London 9 Oct 08-18 Jan Salvador Dalí at the National Stoilas with Rob Curran, rise of 30 places on its 3,927 129,583 Six Billion Others Grand Palais Nave Paris 10 Jan-12 Feb Gallery of Victoria. The Megan Empey, Giacometti show in 2008. 3,859 308,719 Banksy vs Bristol Museum City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol 13 Jun-31 Aug Spanish surrealist Alessandra Franzi, In terms of strength in depth drew 332,000 people, James Hobbs and from one institution, New York’s CONTINUED PP 24-29 Josephine Von Museum of Modern Art Nara’s Ashura Perfal 24 THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 212, APRIL 2010 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 continued THE EXHIBITIONS TOTAL ART MUSEUM NUMBERS Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 8,500,000 Louvre Paris 640,320 Palazzo Pitti Florence 3,859 261,869 In & Out of Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art New York 19 Jul-5 Oct 5,569,981 British Museum London 635,042 Nara National Museum Nara 3,854 241,683 The Studio Sessions SFMoMA San Francisco 3 Jul-13 Sep 4,891,450 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 630,000 Hermitage Amsterdam Amsterdam 3,828 363,702 Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East Saatchi Gallery London 30 Jan-9 May 4,780,030 National Gallery London 625,000 Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 3,762 189,717 In Praise of Shadows Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 5 Nov 08-4 Jan 4,747,537 Tate Modern London 624,936 Albertina Vienna 3,743 221,892 Children in the Louvre Collection National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 25 Mar-1 Jun 4,605,606 National Gallery of Art Washington 610,371 Walker Art Center Minneapolis 3,729 284,444 Paul Gauguin National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 3 Jul-23 Sep 3,530,000 Centre Pompidou Paris 600,833 Moderna Museet Stockholm 3,660 483,156 Juan Muñoz Reina Sofía Madrid 21 Apr-31 Aug 3,022,012 Musée d’Orsay Paris 565,088 Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 3,621 298,459 The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 6 May-9 Aug 2,763,094 Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 564,504 City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol 3,604 277,473 Anish Kapoor Royal Academy of Arts London 26 Sep-11 Dec 2,730,204 National Museum of Korea Seoul 558,471 Reggia di Caserta Caserta 3,592 230,914 Theanyspacewhatever Guggenheim Museum New York 24 Oct 08-7 Jan 2,672,761 Museum of Modern Art New York 552,445 *Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane 3,564 210,304 Avant-gardes ’20-’60 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 26 Jun-23 Aug 2,574,804 Taiwan Palace Museum Taiwan 549,154 National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 3,536 306,661 Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams SFMoMA San Francisco 30 May-7 Sep 2,426,203 State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg 547,935 Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 3,488 123,065 Kayama Matazo Retrospective 1927-2004 National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 21 Jan-2 Mar 2,273,634 Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 545,256 National Gallery of Australia Canberra 3,438 332,520 Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 12 Jun-4 Oct 2,269,900 Victoria and Albert Museum London 541,638 Tate Liverpool Liverpool 3,349 207,636 Return to Manhattan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1 Apr-1 Jun 2,087,415 Reina Sofía Madrid 540,035 Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal 3,345 229,837 The Third Mind Guggenheim Museum New York 30 Jan-19 Apr 1,961,843 National Portrait Gallery London 536,916 Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow 3,315 332,872 Mystery and Brilliance Musée d’Orsay Paris 8 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,846,889 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 535,000 High Museum of Art Atlanta 3,313 284,453 Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” SFMoMA San Francisco 16 May-23 Aug 1,840,812 De Young Museum San Francisco 531,000 Altes Museum Berlin 3,295 251,859 Francis Bacon: a Centenary Retrospective Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 20 May-16 Aug 1,572,171 Moscow Kremlin Museum Moscow 528,781 Musei Capitolini Rome 3,292 560,518 Cai Guo-Qiang Guggenheim Bilbao 17 Mar-20 Sep 1,530,318 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence 526,115 Museum of Modern Art Moscow 3,270 202,276 León Ferrari & Mira Schendel Museum of Modern Art New York 5 Apr-15 Jun 1,513,249 National Museum of Western Art Tokyo 525,617 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis 3,239 289,230 Murakami Guggenheim Bilbao 17 Feb-31 May 1,501,837 Tate Britain London 523,000 Museo Nazionale del Cinema Turin 3,238 205,362 Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus Museum of Modern Art New York 11 Dec 08-23 Feb 1,500,000 Mori Art Museum Tokyo 521,335 Museo Egizio Turin 3,226 100,000 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Garage Centre Moscow 25 Sep-25 Oct 1,496,438 Musée Quai Branly Paris 513,775 Galleria Borghese Rome 3,141 298,420 BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London 18 Jun-20 Sep 1,451,139 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 504,488 Frederik Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids 3,121 387,000 Pollock Pinacothèque Paris 15 Oct 08-15 Feb 1,368,096 Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow 504,100 Museo di San Marco Venice 3,104 403,469 The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army High Museum of Art Atlanta 16 Nov 08-19 Apr 1,312,762 Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 501,837 Triennale di Milano Milan 3,099 303,741 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Serpentine Gallery London 11 Jul-16 Oct 1,300,000 Children’s Museum Indianapolis 487,359 Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 3,090 256,508 Our Guest: Vermeer Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 11 Mar-1 Jun 1,283,401 State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 480,468 National Museum Krakow Krakow 3,074 116,363 Great Treasures of Court Culture Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 10 Jan-22 Feb 1,274,774 Museum of Fine Arts Houston 480,121 *Queensland GoMA Brisbane 3,056 262,800 Accommodating Nature: Frank Gohlke Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington 5 Dec 08-3 Mar 1,267,784 Royal Academy of Arts London 475,045 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek 3,038 107,203 100th Anniversary of Korean Museums National Museum of Korea Seoul 29 Sep-8 Nov 1,263,111 Guggenheim Museum New York 468,963 Museum of Transport Glasgow 3,002 213,987 Pierre Bonnard: the Late Interiors Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 27 Jan-19 Apr 1,260,840 Saatchi Gallery London 455,373 Israel Museum Jerusalem 2,991 274,750 Not New Work: Vincent Fecteau Selects SFMoMA San Francisco 25 Jul-8 Nov 1,216,799 Palazzo Ducale Venice 455,000 Gemeentemuseum The Hague 2,969 442,436 Cy Twombly: the Natural World Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 16 May-11 Oct 1,186,493 National Portrait Gallery Washington 450,000 National Archaeological Museum Athens 2,961 257,600 Jean Shin: Common Threads Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington 1 May-26 Jul 1,153,903 *Getty Museum (Getty Center) Los Angeles 440,711 Musée Magritte Brussels 2,948 356,310 Richard Avedon SFMoMA San Francisco 11 Jul-29 Nov 1,140,959 Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 438,500 Istanbul Modern Istanbul 2,938 314,363 125 Favourites Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 3 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,130,136 Galleria dell’Accademia Florence 433,584 Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide 2,925 664,000 Tutankhamun Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 3 Oct 08-17 May 1,093,000 Pergamonmuseum Berlin 421,282 National Gallery Oslo 2,882 185,252 Francis Bacon Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 3 Feb-19 Apr 1,061,106 Museo Picasso Barcelona 409,585 Saint Louis Art Museum St Louis 2,877 368,283 Tsars and the East Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 9 May-13 Sep 1,002,300 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington 408,469 Manchester Art Gallery Manchester 2,876 529,154 The Tale of Shuten Doji Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 21 Mar-20 Sep 994,307 National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 403,758 Fundaçao Serralves Porto 2,835 323,139 Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba/Fiona Tan Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 14 Mar-5 Jul 972,000 Pinacothèque Paris 400,000 Musée Maillol Paris 2,795 318,653 Shahzia Sikander/Sun Xun Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 18 Jul-8 Nov 968,649 Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 388,063 Palazzo Vecchio Florence 2,793 460,000 Harry Burton and the Tomb of Tutankhamun Michael C. Carlos Museum Atlanta 15 Nov 08-25 May 926,545 Museum of Fine Arts Boston 387,213 Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 2,769 223,521 Sensate: Bodies and Design SFMoMA San Francisco 7 Aug-8 Nov 907,000 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 383,893 Nationalmuseum Stockholm 2,760 273,236 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery London 6 Nov 08-15 Feb 905,048 Guggenheim Bilbao 380,000 Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 2,754 255,322 All the Histories of Art Guggenheim Bilbao 3 Oct 08-18 Jan 900,000 National Art Museum of China Beijing 380,000 Museo Nazionale della Scienza Milan 2,727 332,679 A Day in Pompeii Melbourne Museum Melbourne 26 Jun-25 Oct 894,161 National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 378,254 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis 2,700 150,806 Gauguin Nagoya/Boston Museum Nagoya 18 Apr-21 Jun 864,252 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 377,645 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit 2,699 220,137 Cézanne and Beyond Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 26 Feb-31 May 833,893 Imperial War Museum London 366,755 Galleria Palatina Florence 2,697 323,645 Contemporary Photography Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 16 May-13 Sep 822,537 *NGV International Melbourne 364,269 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 2,651 270,000 The Treasure of Ulysses Davis High Museum of Art Atlanta 6 Dec 08-5 Apr 822,174 Palazzo Reale Milan 357,625 Hamburger Kunsthalle Hamburg 2,647 195,477 The Roman Empire National Museum of Western Art Tokyo 19 Sep-13 Dec 812,479 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 357,069 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 804,282 Museo Castel Sant’Angelo Rome 348,445 Whitechapel Gallery London 801,890 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid 347,183 Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice 800,000 National Portrait Gallery Canberra 343,000 Kulturforum Berlin CONTEMPORARY TOP TEN 782,469 National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 339,612 Legion of Honor San Francisco 768,886 *Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Melbourne 337,044 Pinacoteca di Brera Milan The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, regained its 766,000 Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto 336,142 Kyoto National Museum Kyoto

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a 733,623 Institut Valéncia d’Art Modern Valéncia 331,889 Castello Sforzesco Milan

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s 668,125 Hirshhorn Museum Washington 318,000 Seattle Art Museum Seattle e t Museum of Modern Art, a new media-based show about the machi - r u o C nations of the art world, provided an unexpected ninth place. J.P. 641,625 Museo Centrale del Risorgimento Rome 314,292 Asian Art Museum San Francisco 6,186 391,476 Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out Museum of Modern Art New York 19 Nov 08-2 Feb At the top of the annual museum attendance list for 2009, the world’s great encyclopaedic 4,945 305,894 Martin Kippenberger: Problem Perspective Museum of Modern Art New York 1 Mar-11 May museums, the Louvre, British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stand proud as in 4,939 51,505 12th Japan Media Arts Festival National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 4-15 Feb previous years. Institutions that have unveiled new wings include the Museo del Prado and the Art 4,864 266,821 Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Museum of Modern Art New York 14 Dec 08-16 Feb Institute of Chicago: the Prado’s, which opened in April 2007, increased visitors’ comfort and 4,533 323,132 Aernout Mik Museum of Modern Art New York 6 May-27 Jul convenience more than numbers last year, accommodating an extra 4,100 people. But the 4,139 405,612 The Revolution Continues Saatchi Gallery London 9 Oct 08-18 Jan Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened its doors in May last year, helped 3,927 129,583 Six Billion Others Grand Palais Nave Paris 10 Jan-12 Feb boost the art museum’s attendance by almost 450,000. The Reina Sofía in Madrid also did well, 3,859 308,719 Banksy vs Bristol Museum City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol 13 Jun-1 Aug breaking the two million mark last year. J.P. 3,854 241,683 The Studio Sessions SFMoMA San Francisco 3 Jul-13 Sep Institutions with more than one building such as the National Gallery of Victoria were asked to provide separate total museum attendance figures for 3,828 363,702 Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East Saatchi Gallery London 30 Jan-9 May each venue. These venues are marked above with an asterisk (*).

DECORATIVE ARTS TOP TEN THEMATIC TOP TEN The spirit of Diana Vreeland, who put the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Formerly called “survey”, this category features shows that span time costume collection on the blockbuster map, lives on. The New York muse - periods and/or categories but fall under one theme. Royal treasures um's fashion exhibition “The Model as Muse” tops the 2009 decorative arts once again reign supreme with a display in Tokyo of paintings and list, even though it attracted 2,000 visitors per day fewer than the Met's decorative objects created under the patronage of the Habsburgs 2008 costume extravaganza, “Superheroes”. The commitment of the Fine coming top. Drawn from the collection of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches

s Arts Museums of San Francisco to the decorative arts paid dividends with Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, the exhibition m u e s

u two shows in the top ten. Yves Saint Laurent (fourth) and a triple whammy contained masterpieces by Dürer, Velázquez, El Greco and Titian. Also M

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w collectively drew 3,000 visitors a day. Ornate artefacts, including a helmet Dublin and the other in Madrid (left, Andy Warhol, The Shadow , 1981), o c s o

M from the 16th-century (left), at the Freer and Sackler Gallery’s “Tsars and ranking third and eighth respectively. Two exhibitions of works on loan

e h T the East” lured over 368,000 visitors to the Washington, DC, museum. J.P. from the Louvre's collection also make the top ten. E.S.

3,621 298,459 The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 6 May-9 Aug 5,609 390,219 Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 25 Sep-14 Dec 2,877 368,283 Tsars and the East Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 9 May-13 Sep 3,859 261,869 In & Out of Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art New York 19 Jul-5 Oct 2,107 117,710 “Story of ...”: Memories of Cartier Creations Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 28 Mar-31 May 3,762 189,717 In Praise of Shadows Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 5 Nov 08-4 Jan 1,996 261,214 Yves Saint Laurent De Young Museum San Francisco 1 Nov 08-5 Apr 3,743 221,892 Children in the Louvre Collection National Art Center Tokyo 25 Mar-1 Jun 1,853 120,990 René Lalique: a Retrospective National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 24 Jun-7 Sep 3,349 207,636 Return to Manhattan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1 Apr-1 Jun 1,735 119,199 Louis Vuitton: a Passion for Creation Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 22 May-9 Aug 3,345 229,837 The Third Mind Guggenheim Museum New York 30 Jan-19 Apr 1,561 111,249 Calder Jewellery Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 9 Dec 08-1 Mar 2,754 255,322 All the Histories of Art Guggenheim Bilbao 3 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,391 114,468 Taking Shape Getty Center Los Angeles 31 Mar-5 Jul 2,388 196,485 Shadows Thyssen-Bornemisza/Fundación Caja Madrid 10 Feb-17 May 1,170 114,481 Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique Legion of Honor San Francisco 7 Feb-31 May 1,990 175,655 The Jazz Century Musée Quai Branly Paris 17 Mar-28 Jun 1,074 50,801 Underglaze Blue Porcelain Ware in Asia Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 14 Jul-6 Sep 1,953 545,000 Louvre Atlanta High Museum of Art Atlanta 12 Oct 08-6 Sep THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 212, APRIL 2010 25 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 THE EXHIBITIONS continued

Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN TOP TEN 2,597 327,244 Rothko Tate Modern London 26 Sep 08-1 Feb 2,583 547,138 Paul Klee: Social Creatures SFMoMA San Francisco 7 Mar-8 Nov 2,583 225,443 Matisse 1914-45 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid 9 Jun-20 Sep Paris dominated this category in 2009, hosting five of the top ten shows. 2,569 106,081 The Treasures of Myoshin-ji Temple Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 24 Mar-10 May The Grand Palais holds the coveted first place position for “Picasso and the k r Masters”, a show exploring the influence on Picasso of artists such as Goya o

2,568 200,692 Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 18 Nov 08-16 Feb Y

w e and Van Gogh. The show was one of France’s most popular ever, drawing N

2,526 249,023 The Gates of Heaven Louvre Paris 6 Mar-29 Jun ; m u

e 7,270 people daily, making it the second highest ranking western show in our s

2,484 460,297 Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 28 Apr-29 Nov u M survey. Another Picasso-themed show, at the Musée d’Orsay, which coincided m i

2,446 183,433 Corot to Monet National Gallery London 8 Jul-20 Sep e h n

e with the Grand Palais display, comes in seventh. The Pompidou’s Kandinsky g

2,432 173,351 Rodin Musée d’Orsay Paris 10 Mar-31 May g u G

. retrospective comes in second (left, Blue Mountain , 1908-09) and its other R

2,428 114,796 Ise Jingu and Treasures of Shinto Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 14 Jul-6 Sep n o

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2,422 187,213 Fra Angelico: the Dawn of the Renaissance Musei Capitolini Rome 7 Apr-5 Jul l o 2,395 223,391 Cy Twombly Guggenheim Bilbao 28 Oct 08-15 Feb S postponed because of budget constraints, comes in at eighth. E.S. 2,388 196,485 Shadows Thyssen-Bornemisza/Fundación Caja Madrid 10 Feb-17 May 7,270 783,352 Picasso and the Masters Grand Palais Paris 8 Oct 08-2 Feb 2,324 188,280 Louise Bourgeois Hirshhorn Museum Washington 26 Feb-17 May 6,553 703,000 Kandinsky Centre Pompidou Paris 8 Apr-10 Aug 2,301 351,987 Pompeii and the Roman Villa National Gallery of Art Washington 19 Oct 08-22 Mar 6,299 377,068 Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting Museum of Modern Art New York 2 Nov 08-12 Jan 2,300 342,726 Byzantium 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts London 25 Oct 08-22 Mar 4,856 436,343 Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night Museum of Modern Art New York 21 Sep 08-5 Jan 2,298 314,847 Directions: Walead Beshty Hirshhorn Museum Washington 30 Apr-13 Sep 4,820 459,267 Joaquín Sorolla Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 26 May-13 Sep 2,278 148,695 A Week of Kindness: the Collages Max Ernst Musée d’Orsay Paris 30 Jun-13 Sep 4,688 474,821 Warhol’s Wide World Grand Palais Paris 18 Mar-13 Jul 2,278 88,187 Nichiren and the Treasures of the Lotus Sect Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 10 Oct 09-23 Nov 4,486 450,521 Picasso-Manet Musée d’Orsay Paris 8 Oct 08-1 Feb 2,244 455,632 Black Box: Guido van der Werve Hirshhorn Museum Washington 20 Apr-8 Nov 4,416 473,800 Alexander Calder Centre Pompidou Paris 18 Mar-20 Jul 2,227 160,685 Michelangelo’s First Painting Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 16 Jun-7 Sep 3,729 284,444 Paul Gauguin National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 3 Jul-23 Sep 2,223 375,702 53rd Venice Biennale Giardeni e Arsenale Venice 7 Jun-22 Nov 3,564 210,304 Avant-gardes ’20-’60 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 26 Jun-23 Aug 2,222 221,268 Egypt: Sunken Treasures Reggia di Venaria Reale Venaria 7 Feb-2 Jun 2,212 227,831 Picasso Prints: Challenging the Past National Gallery London 25 Feb-7 Jun 2,197 70,000 National Treasures of Mii-dera Temple Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 7 Feb-15 Mar Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 2,193 205,210 New Work: Ranjani Shettar SFMoMA San Francisco 21 Mar-7 Jul 2,188 152,239 Imagine: the Peace Ballad of John & Yoko Museum of Fine Arts Montreal 2 Apr-21 Jun 1,634 127,676 Nestor Basterretxea Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao 3 Nov 08-1 Feb 2,188 188,193 Lida Abdul/Dinh Q Lé Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 6 Dec 08-1 Mar 1,633 122,000 Edgar Degas: Intimacy and Pose Hamburger Kunsthalle Hamburg 6 Feb-3 May 2,170 212,325 Van Gogh Museo di Santa Giulia Brescia 18 Oct 08-8 Feb 1,632 69,928 James Coleman Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 7 Mar-26 Apr 2,158 183,411 Garden and Cosmos Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 11 Oct 08-4 Jan 1,625 154,418 Alexander Calder 1969 Frederik Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids 5 Jun-7 Sep 2,153 150,735 Summer Exhibition- Royal Academy of Arts London 8 Jun-16 Aug 1,620 143,458 The Deluded Eye Nationalmuseum Stockholm 25 Sep 08-11 Jan 2,152 243,769 Per Kirkeby Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek 2 Sep 08-11 Jan 1,619 129,278 Warhol Live De Young Museum San Francisco 14 Feb-17 May 2,130 80,954 TAG at the Grand Palais Grand Palais Nave Paris 27 Mar-3 May 1,610 115,476 Passageworks SFMoMA San Francisco 25 Oct 08-19 Jan 2,127 152,239 Imagine: the Peace Ballad of John & Yoko Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal 2 Apr-21 Jun 1,607 129,694 Paul Plamper: Ruhe 1, Radio Play in Space Museum Ludwig Cologne 24 Oct 08-25 Jan 2,121 119,677 William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Whitney Museum New York 7 Nov 08-25 Jan 1,606 126,850 J.W. Waterhouse: the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Royal Academy of Arts London 27 Jun-13 Sep 2,110 225,745 Monet and the Impressionists Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 11 Oct 08-26 Jan 1,603 226,000 Venice: Canaletto and Turner to Monet Fondation Beyeler Basel 28 Sep 08-15 Feb 2,107 117,710 “Story of ...”: Memories of Cartier Creations Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 28 Mar-31 May 1,599 205,834 Terracotta Warriors Museum of Natural Science Houston 22 May-18 Oct 2,102 237,505 Francis Bacon Tate Britain London 11 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,587 121,971 The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now SFMoMA San Francisco 8 Nov 08-8 Feb 2,091 93,779 Ganjinwajo National Treasures Nara National Museum Nara 4 Apr-24 May 1,584 110,000 Top Arts: VCE- Ian Potter Centre: NGV Melbourne 25 Mar-14 Jun 2,083 400,000 Tutankhamun: the Golden King Atlanta Civic Center Atlanta 15 Nov 08-25 May 1,582 137,191 Lords of the Samurai Asian Art Museum San Francisco 12 Jun-20 Sep 1,996 261,214 Yves Saint Laurent De Young Museum San Francisco 1 Nov 08-5 Apr 1,566 172,281 Rembrandt Albertina Vienna 4 Mar-21 Jun 1,990 175,655 The Jazz Century Musée Quai Branly Paris 17 Mar-28 Jun 1,562 64,051 Gustav Metzger: Decades Serpentine Gallery London 29 Sep-8 Nov 1,989 204,862 Picasso: Challenging the Past National Gallery London 25 Feb-7 Jun 1,562 242,073 The Art of Power National Gallery of Art Washington 28 Jun-29 Nov 1,987 153,596 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from Kabul Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 23 Jun-20 Sep 1,562 110,711 Brought to Light SFMoMA San Francisco 11 Oct 08-4 Jan 1,980 180,218 Jeff Koons: Popeye Series Serpentine Gallery London 29 Jun-27 Sep 1,561 111,249 Calder Jewellery Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 9 Dec 08-1 Mar 1,966 256,363 Austere: Selections from the Collection SFMoMA San Francisco 6 Feb-7 Jul 1,557 138,989 The Pictures Generation, 1974–84 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 21 Apr-2 Aug 1,966 256,363 Otl Aicher/J Mayer H SFMoMA San Francisco 6 Feb-7 Jul 1,553 160,000 From Siena to Florence: Italian Primitives Musée Jacquemart-Andre Paris 11 Mar-21 Jun 1,957 177,268 Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas SFMoMA San Francisco 18 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,550 202,894 Paul Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook SFMoMA San Francisco 27 Sep 08-1 Mar 1,953 545,000 Louvre Atlanta High Museum of Art Atlanta 12 Oct 08-6 Sep 1,549 129,714 New Work: Mai-Thu Perret SFMoMA San Francisco 21 Nov 08-1 Mar 1,936 195,568 Jonathan Borofsky Frederik Meijer Gardens Grand Rapids 30 Jan-10 May 1,547 171,692 Black Box: Ori Gersht Hirshhorn Museum Washington 22 Dec 08-12 Apr 1,935 168,658 Alexander Calder: the Paris Years, 1926-33 Whitney Museum New York 16 Oct 08-15 Feb 1,537 134,605 Giorgio de Chirico Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris 12 Feb-24 May 1,932 251,150 From Miró to Warhol Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 16 Oct 08-22 Feb 1,534 200,709 The 1,000 Journals Project SFMoMA San Francisco 1 Nov 08-5 Apr 1,924 169,889 Tarzan! Musée Quai Branly Paris 16 Jun-27 Sep 1,530 153,033 Degas: Master of French Art National Gallery of Australia Canberra 12 Dec 08-22 Mar 1,922 177,952 Kees Van Dongen Museo Picasso Barcelona 11 Jun-27 Sep 1,523 130,317 Warhol Live Museum of Fine Arts Montreal 25 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,922 131,824 On View: Candice Breitz SFMoMA San Francisco 1 Oct-20 Dec 1,517 142,551 Gerhard Richter Albertina Vienna 30 Jan-3 May 1,918 162,778 Photography Now/The Provoke Era SFMoMA San Francisco 12 Sep-20 Dec 1,517 99,033 In Situ: Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 19 May-2 Aug 1,907 129,410 William Kentridge: Five Themes SFMoMA San Francisco 14 Mar-31 May 1,514 111,786 Face of Our Time SFMoMA San Francisco 31 Jan-26 Apr 1,906 646,186 Strange Bodies Hirshhorn Museum Washington 11 Dec 08-15 Nov 1,513 108,921 Becoming Edvard Munch Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 14 Feb-26 Apr 1,881 150,986 1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War Thyssen-Bornemisza/Fundación Caja Madrid 7 Oct 08-11 Jan 1,510 112,828 Thomas Bayrle: Looping Museum Ludwig Cologne 24 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,879 186,028 Contemporary Australia: Optimism Queensland GoMA Brisbane 15 Nov 08-22 Feb 1,494 185,227 Gustav Klimt and the Kunstschau 1908 Galerie Belvedere Vienna 1 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,878 148,336 Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 7 Mar-24 May 1,492 133,249 The Room in Pictures Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 31 Mar-2 Jul 1,853 120,990 René Lalique: a Retrospective National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 24 Jun-7 Sep 1,490 148,315 Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek 6 Feb-1 Jun 1,834 174,000 Medieval and Renaissance Treasures High Museum of Art Atlanta 13 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,488 177,478 Reality Check Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 4 Nov 08-22 Mar 1,830 154,009 Sorolla: a Vision of Spain Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao 13 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,485 165,661 Sensual, Feminine, Flemish Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 6 Aug 09-13 Dec 1,817 243,262 The Court of Vanvitelli Reggia di Caserta Caserta 5 Apr-7 Sep 1,485 115,441 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from Kabul Asian Art Museum San Francisco 24 Oct 08-25 Jan 1,804 350,000 Impressionism and the Paris School Pinacothèque Paris 6 Mar-15 Sep 1,483 95,309 Hughie O’Donoghue Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 3 Mar-17 May 1,795 145,388 Melchior d’Hondecoeter Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 18 Dec 08-9 Mar 1,471 84,715 Nicotiana: a Cultural History of Tobacco Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 7 May-12 Jul 1,765 165,939 Futurismo: Avanguardia-Avanguardie Scuderie del Quirinale Rome 20 Feb-24 May 1,467 73,128 Fukuzawa Yukichi: Living the Future Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 10 Jan-8 Mar 1,763 205,020 Dialogue among Giants Getty Center Los Angeles 14 Oct-1 Mar 1,460 188,305 Magritte: Mystery of Nature Palazzo Reale Milan 21 Nov 08-29 Mar 1,762 122,300 Pureblood Reflections: Photography Istanbul Modern Istanbul 4 Feb-26 Apr 1,458 133,904 Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings Museum Ludwig Cologne 18 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,756 156,500 In Praise of Shadows Istanbul Modern Istanbul 22 Jan-6 May 1,456 113,790 Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 24 Feb-25 May 1,735 119,199 Louis Vuitton: a Passion for Creation Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 22 May-9 Aug 1,438 155,319 Arnulf Rainer & Dieter Roth Galerie Belvedere Vienna 26 Sep 08-11 Jan 1,727 132,026 The Myth of Antiquity Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 2 Dec 08-28 Feb 1,433 141,834 Rafael and Urbino Palazzo Ducale Urbino 5 Apr-12 Jul 1,727 208,923 Picasso 1917-37 Complesso del Vittoriano Rome 11 Oct 08-8 Feb 1,418 97,667 Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton New Museum New York 8 Oct 08-11 Jan 1,697 164,600 Telling Tales Victoria and Albert Museum London 14 Jul-18 Oct 1,415 41,440 Here/Not There Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 30 Jun-2 Aug 1,680 215,000 Georges Rouault Pinacothèque Paris 18 Sep 08-23 Jan 1,415 122,686 The Philippe de Montebello Years Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 24 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,666 174,945 Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 24 Feb-8 Jun 1,413 164,946 Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 1 May-13 Sep 1,659 129,396 Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame! Whitechapel Gallery London 5 Apr-21 Jun 1,410 101,700 Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton Whitechapel Gallery London 9 Jul-30 Sep 1,649 106,970 Martin Puryear SFMoMA San Francisco 8 Nov 08-25 Jan 1,409 94,197 Monet Water Lilies High Museum of Art Atlanta 6 Jun-23 Aug 1,649 124,592 2008 SECA Art Award SFMoMA San Francisco 12 Feb-10 May 1,409 94,197 Richard Misrach: On the Beach High Museum of Art Atlanta 6 Jun-23 Aug 1,636 180,000 Van Dyck Musée Jacquemart-Andre Paris 8 Oct 08-25 Jan 1,396 79,000 How to Sustain Culture Well Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Berlin 27 Mar-1 Jun 1,394 82,667 Watteau, Music and Theatre Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 22 Sep-29 Nov

COMBINED TICKET TOP TEN ANTIQUITIES TOP TEN Jeff Koons’s inflatable Lobster (left) was one of many sculptures by the The travelling exhibition of ancient treasures from the National Museum in US artist to adorn the Château de Versailles over a four-month period Kabul takes the top and tenth spot in this category, with the Houston pre - ending in January 2009. They helped draw one million people to the sentation bringing in more than double the number of visitors of the New palace outside Paris during the winter months. Dominique Gonzalez- York leg of the tour (left, Head from a clay temple statue, 2nd century BC). Foerster’s installation in the Tate Modern tops this category, however. The show is organised by National Geographic, which is also responsible r e Admission to the combined-ticket section includes entrance to other i for the King Tutankhamun exhibitions; two variations of these boy-king v i l l O

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MEDIEVAL TOP TEN Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 1,170 114,481 Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique Legion of Honor San Francisco 7 Feb-31 May 1,169 118,091 Futurism Tate Modern London 12 Jun-20 Sep e c i

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e 1,147 175,499 Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Museum of Fine Arts Boston 15 Mar-16 Aug t r u o D.L. C 2008, this time ranking third, at the Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome. 1,143 37,387 Performer Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 13 Feb-22 Mar 1,141 152,894 Giacometti Fondation Beyeler Basel 31 May-11 Oct 2,300 342,726 Byzantium 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts London 25 Oct 08-22 Mar 1,140 50,000 A Glittering Interlude Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 28 Mar-17 May 1,834 174,000 Medieval and Renaissance Treasures High Museum of Art Atlanta 13 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,138 76,258 The Budapest Horse National Gallery of Art Washington 3 Jul-7 Sep 1,374 196,544 Giotto and the 1300s Complesso del Vittoriano Rome 6 Mar-26 Jul 1,135 172,589 Monet: Water Lilies Palazzo Reale Milan 29 Apr-27 Sep 948 114,463 Rome and the Barbarians Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 22 Aug 08-11 Jan 1,133 99,224 Women Artists: Gaining Space Musée National des Beaux-arts Québec 7 May-16 Aug 745 53,118 Pen and Parchment Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2 Jun-23 Aug 1,131 66,726 Rising Tide: Film and Video Works Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 26 Jun-23 Aug 526 42,641 Treasures of the Black Death Wallace Collection London 19 Feb-10 May 1,130 89,298 New Acquisitions- Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 12 Dec 08-1 Mar 393 66,467 Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations National Gallery of Art Washington 1 Mar-16 Aug 1,130 55,380 Prosperous Cities Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 27 Sep-22 Nov 12 1,053 Giovanni Battista Cavalletto Museo Civico Medievale Bologna 8 Nov 08-22 Feb 1,125 82,115 Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy Royal Academy of Arts London 31 Jan-13 Apr 1,123 111,832 Simon Starling Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo 21 May-13 Sep 1,122 163,839 I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Israel Museum Jerusalem 6 Apr-29 Aug 1,120 103,068 Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian National Gallery London 15 Oct 08-18 Jan OLD MASTERS TOP TEN 1,120 103,046 Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes National Gallery of Art Washington 1 Feb-3 May 1,119 35,646 Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 10 Oct-15 Nov 1,118 72,642 Cildo Meireles MACBA Barcelona 11 Feb-26 Apr That Vermeer should score twice in the old masters’ top ten is hardly 1,116 113,065 Beyond Babylon Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 18 Nov 08-15 Mar news, even when shows at the Met and the Rijksmuseum (left, Woman 1,115 56,251 William McKeown Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 5 Nov 08-4 Jan Holding a Balance , around 1664) focused mainly on a single painting. The 1,114 135,906 Futurism 1909-2009 Palazzo Reale Milan 6 Feb-7 Jun Dutch artist also helped lure visitors to the National Museum of Western 1,111 82,838 The Pre-Raphaelites Nationalmuseum Stockholm 26 Feb-24 May Art, Tokyo, which borrowed both of the Louvre’s Vermeers. The Met also 1,109 108,205 Juan Muñoz: a Retrospective Fundaçao Serralves Porto 1 Nov 08-24 Feb drew the crowds with a show focusing on a single painting, the Kimbell 1,106 130,000 Amedeo Modigliani Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 16 Apr-30 Aug Art Museum’s The Temptation of St Anthony by Michelangelo. A growing 1,105 46,398 Thomas Bayrle MACBA Barcelona 6 Feb-19 Mar academic investigation of Renaissance decorative arts translated into an 1,105 58,893 To Clean or Not to Clean Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo 10 Ma-10 May exhibition hit with the public. The New York museum’s “Art and Love in 1,103 98,481 See Italy and Die Musée d’Orsay Paris 7 Apr-19 Jul Renaissance Italy” claimed fourth spot, two above Michelangelo. D.L. 1,100 107,644 Brancusi and Co Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo 11 Jul-1 Nov 1,099 49,160 Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba Fundaçao Serralves Porto 28 Mar-18 May 1,095 33,000 Export Lacquer Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 23 Dec 08-26 Jan 9,267 851,256 17th-century Painting from the Louvre National Museum of Western Art Tokyo 28 Feb-14 Jun 1,088 65,429 Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect Whitney Museum New York 12 Mar-31 May 4,735 329,446 Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 10 Sep-29 Nov 1,080 85,291 Kuniyoshi Royal Academy of Arts London 21 Mar-7 Jun 3,090 256,508 Our Guest: Vermeer Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 11 Mar-1 Jun 1,077 128,105 British Sculptors’ Drawings British Museum London 25 Sep 08-25 Jan 2,568 200,692 Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 18 Nov 08-16 Feb 1,076 120,000 Russian Avant-garde: the Costakis Collection Musée Maillol Paris 13 Nov 08-22 Mar 2,422 187,213 Fra Angelico: the Dawn of the Renaissance Musei Capitolini Rome 7 Apr-5 Jul 1,075 102,155 Rodchenko & Popova Tate Modern London 12 Feb-17 May 2,227 160,685 Michelangelo’s First Painting Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 16 Jun-7 Sep 1,074 50,801 Underglaze Blue Porcelain Ware in Asia Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 14 Jul-6 Sep 1,795 145,388 Melchior d’Hondecoeter Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 18 Dec 08-9 Mar 1,071 81,846 Sickert in Venice Dulwich Picture Gallery London 4 Mar-31 May 1,636 180,000 Van Dyck Musée Jacquemart-Andre Paris 8 Oct 08-25 Jan 1,063 62,856 Interactive Playground Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 16 Feb-26 Apr 1,566 172,281 Rembrandt Albertina Vienna 4 Mar-21 Jun 1,058 78,327 The Power of Dogu British Museum London 10 Sep-22 Nov 1,051 85,104 Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 4 Jun-23 Aug 1,050 68,846 S’abadeb—the Gifts Seattle Art Museum Seattle 23 Oct 08-11 Jan 1,049 72,094 The Dragon’s Gift: the Sacred Arts of Bhutan Asian Art Museum San Francisco 20 Feb-10 May Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 1,043 70,794 In Praise of Women Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 21 Mar-7 Jun 1,391 114,468 Taking Shape Getty Center Los Angeles 31 Mar-5 Jul 1,043 104,276 Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 17 Jan-26 Apr 1,387 111,000 Bugatti: Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean National Gallery Victoria Melbourne 5 Feb-26 Apr 1,037 21,486 108th Annual Student Exhibition Pennsylvania Academy Philadelphia 8 May-31 May 1,380 127,918 Terry Winters Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 12 Jun-27 Sep 1,036 58,753 Flowers-Paradise Rests on the Earth State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 6 Mar-10 May 1,376 94,917 I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 17 Mar-24 May 1,033 92,534 Edward Hopper’s Women Seattle Art Museum Seattle 13 Nov 08-1 Mar 1,374 196,544 Giotto and the 1300s Complesso del Vittoriano Rome 6 Mar-26 Jul 1,030 95,537 Unity: Herman de Vries Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo 20 Feb-7 Jun 1,372 79,000 Restoring Archaeological Treasures Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Berlin 27 Mar-1 Jun 1,019 77,431 Walking in My Mind Hayward Gallery London 23 Jun-6 Sep 1,366 109,265 Panza Collection Hirshhorn Museum Washington 23 Oct 08-11 Jan 1,017 92,585 Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque Royal Academy of Arts London 4 Oct 08-2 Jan 1,365 162,441 Babylon: Myth and Reality British Museum London 13 Nov 08-15 Mar 1,005 141,080 Captured Emotions Getty Center Los Angeles 18 Dec 08-1 Jun 1,363 121,342 Sisley in England and Wales National Gallery London 22 Nov 08-22 Feb 1,005 95,513 Medals of Dishonour British Museum London 25 Jun-27 Sep 1,363 119,351 Québec City and Its Photographers Musée National des Beaux-arts Québec 25 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,003 72,063 Maya Lin: System Systematic Landscapes De Young Museum San Francisco 25 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,352 161,216 Etruscans: the Ancient Metropolis of Lazio Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome 21 Oct 08-8 Mar 1,003 72,063 Asian/American/Modern Art De Young Museum San Francisco 25 Oct 08-18 Jan 1,350 232,655 Exploring a New Donation Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 10 Mar-27 Sep 1,002 83,063 Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 25 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,342 183,873 Terence Gower: Public Spirit Hirshhorn Museum Washington 5 Nov 08-22 Mar 1,002 74,863 Masks: from Carpeaux to Picasso Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 7 Aug-1 Nov 1,341 142,154 Annie Leibovitz: a Photographer’s Life National Portrait Gallery London 16 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,001 152,059 USA Today Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 8 Nov 08-3 May 1,339 98,871 Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 25 Jul-18 Oct 995 153,193 Darwin Natural History Museum London 14 Nov 08-19 Apr 1,334 72,055 Carlo Cardazzo Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice 1 Nov 08-3 Jan 992 159,996 The Essential Art of African Textiles Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 30 Sep 08-5 Apr 1,333 95,000 Significant and Insignificant Events Istanbul Modern Istanbul 26 May-16 Aug 988 94,671 Christopher Wool Fundaçao Serralves Porto 22 Nov 08-15 Mar 1,331 66,360 Themes and Variations Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice 21 Mar-17 May 987 162,584 Julius Caesar Chiostro del Bramante Rome 24 Oct 08-3 May 1,330 222,430 The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece MARQ Alícante 2 Apr-13 Oct 985 95,500 Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones Victoria and Albert Museum London 24 Feb-31 May 1,322 75,000 FotoGraphia Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome 29 May-2 Aug 982 230,440 The Story of the Horse Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 27 Jun 08-29 Mar 1,317 100,473 Cast in Bronze Getty Villa Los Angeles 30 Jun-27 Sep 980 90,000 From Rembrandt to Vermeer Museo Fondazione Roma Rome 1 Nov 08-15 Feb 1,312 109,871 Living Things: Picasso Figure/Still-life Museo Picasso Barcelona 21 Nov 08-1 Mar 977 122,162 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Galerie Belvedere Vienna 9 Jun-11 Oct 1,309 109,000 Room Project: Photography Istanbul Modern Istanbul 26 May-30 Aug 977 61,250 Piraeus; a Sea of Moments Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 19 Jun-30 Aug 1,306 99,227 Jan Lievens: a Dutch Master Rediscovered National Gallery of Art Washington 26 Oct 08-11 Jan 966 150,000 Séraphine de Senlis Musée Maillol Paris 1 Oct-30 Mar 1,297 151,369 Liam Gillick Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 15 May-27 Sep 959 100,665 Henri Cartier-Bresson Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 20 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,284 65,120 Moderna Museet Now: Nina Roos Moderna Museet Stockholm 28 Aug-25 Oct 958 84,271 The Intimate Portrait British Museum London 5 Mar-31 May 1,282 117,948 The China Project Queensland GoMA Brisbane 28 Mar-28 Jun 957 110,000 Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008 Museum of Fine Arts Houston 10 May-20 Sep 1,281 94,450 Rosalie Gascoigne Ian Potter Centre: NGV Melbourne 19 Dec 08-15 Mar 955 125,050 Yinka Shonibare MBE Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 23 Sep 08-1 Feb 1,278 130,317 Warhol Live Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal 25 Sep 08-4 Jan 952 48,272 Hong Kong Art Series IV Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 20 Feb-19 Apr 1,270 89,448 Elizabeth Peyton Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 1 Apr-21 Jun 1,266 87,191 Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone New Museum New York 22 Oct 08-25 Jan 1,259 103,744 Raphael to Renoir Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 21 Jan-26 Apr 1,257 122,970 Jonas Mekas/Looking for Mushrooms Museum Ludwig Cologne 8 Nov 08-1 Mar 1,257 122,978 Buckminster Fuller Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 14 Mar-5 Jul PHOTOGRAPHY TOP TEN 1,249 144,685 One Hundred Years of Noritake Design Nagoya/Boston Museum Nagoya 18 Apr-30 Aug 1,246 132,467 The Sleeping Beauty Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 24 Feb-28 Jun The second edition of Paris’s photography biennial Photoquai, held at the Musée 1,245 103,652 Hiroshige: Master of Nature Museo Fondazione Roma Rome 11 Nov 08-15 Feb Quai Branly, attracted a record number of visitors last year, perhaps drawn by the 1,244 80,131 Target Practice: Painting Under Attack Seattle Art Museum Seattle 25 Jun-7 Sep exhibition’s focus on non-western artists who are relatively unknown in Europe. 1,240 85,360 The Generational: Younger than Jesus New Museum New York 8 Apr-12 Jul The most popular exhibitions in the US focused on more traditionalist fare, such as 1,234 500,519 Classic/Fantastic Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 21 Dec 07-5 Apr the Museum of Modern Art in New York’s romantic visions of the American West, 1,231 51,695 Rebecca Warren Serpentine Gallery London 9 Mar-19 Apr “Into the Sunset”, and Robert Frank’s “Americans” series (left, Political Rally— 1,228 97,018 Floating Life Queensland GoMA Brisbane 1 Aug-18 Oct Chicago , 1956), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney’s 1,227 164,779 Among Gods and Men Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 4 Nov 08-12 Apr survey of William Eggleston was its most popular exhibition last year. And the k n a r Michael C. Carlos museum capitalised on the King Tutankhamun exhibition it F

1,226 65,305 Artists/Heaney/Books Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 14 Apr-14 Jun t r e b

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1,224 113,461 Galileo: Images of the Universe Palazzo Strozzi, CCCS Florence 24 Oct 08-8 Feb 1,222 51,312 Luke Fowler Serpentine Gallery London 4 May-14 Jun © documenting the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb. H.S. 1,220 192,732 Star Wars: the Science Meets Imagination Scienceworks Melbourne 4 Jun-8 Nov 7,868 419,256 2nd Photoquai Biennale Musée Quai Branly Paris 22 Sep-22 Nov 1,211 117,500 Matisse: Humans, Masks, Models Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Stuttgart 27 Sep 08-17 Jan 4,150 256,714 Into the Sunset Museum of Modern Art New York 29 Mar-8 Jun 1,204 128,805 Vanity Fair Portraits LACMA Los Angeles 26 Oct 08-1 Mar 3,313 284,453 Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” SFMoMA San Francisco 16 May-23 Aug 1,202 143,000 J.W. Waterhouse: the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Groninger Museum Groningen 14 Dec 08-3 May 3,056 262,800 Accommodating Nature: Frank Gohlke Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington 5 Dec 08-3 Mar 1,194 115,454 No Standing Only Dancing: Rennie Ellis National Gallery Victoria Melbourne 31 Oct 08-22 Feb 2,948 356,310 Richard Avedon SFMoMA San Francisco 11 Jul-29 Nov 1,190 115,423 North Looks South Museum of Fine Arts Houston 7 Jun-27 Sep 2,793 460,000 Harry Burton and the Tomb of Tutankhamun Michael C. Carlos Museum Atlanta 15 Nov 08-25 May 1,186 212,249 Canaletto: Venice and Its Splendours Casa dei Carraresi Treviso 23 Oct 08-9 Apr 2,760 273,236 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery London 6 Nov 08-15 Feb 1,185 85,156 Post Me: Art through the Mail Fundaçao Serralves Porto 1 Nov 08-25 Jan 2,697 323,645 Contemporary Photography Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 16 May-13 Sep 1,183 51,879 Raoul de Keyser: Watercolours Fundaçao Serralves Porto 14 Mar-3 May 2,121 119,677 William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Whitney Museum New York 7 Nov 08-25 Jan 1,173 92,686 Easton Pearson Queensland GoMA Brisbane 22 Aug-8 Nov 1,918 162,778 Photography Now/The Provoke Era SFMoMA San Francisco 12 Sep-20 Dec 28 THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 212, APRIL 2010 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 THE EXHIBITIONS continued

Daily Total ExhAibitRion CHITECTURE AND DVeEnuSe IGN TOP TECN ity Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 846 97,198 Reality Revisited Moderna Museet Stockholm 9 May-20 Sep a

n 842 70,451 Cobra: the 60th Anniversary Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts Brussels 7 Nov 08-15 Feb o z i r

A The Guggenheim’s self-reflective survey of the museum’s architect, Frank

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, Guggenheim Museum, New York , 1943-59), was beaten to first place in

n 832 59,046 Hearst the Collector LACMA Los Angeles 9 Nov 08-1 Feb o i t a

d our survey for average daily attendance by the Museum of Modern Art’s

n 831 97,193 The Power of Ornament Galerie Belvedere Vienna 21 Jan-17 u o F

t show of contemporary designs by Ron Arad. But the Wright show drew

h 822 127,359 Visual Encounters Fondation Beyeler Basel 25 Jan-28 Jun g i r W

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d 816 42,104 J.S. Bach/Zaha Hadid Architects Manchester Art Gallery Manchester 3 Jul-31 Aug y o l L

Gallery in London, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of

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SANAA, continued to draw the crowds. Nearby, the V&A scored a hit with

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© vey of modern design on both sides of the Iron Curtain after1945. H.S. 812 60,000 Mahjong: the Sigg Collection Peabody Essex Museum Salem 21 Feb-17 May 808 67,889 Year 12 Perspectives Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 8 Apr-30 Jun 5,128 347,995 Ron Arad: No Discipline Museum of Modern Art New York 2 Aug-19 Oct 805 86,955 Oswald Oberhuber Galerie Belvedere Vienna 29 May-3 Sep 4,717 408,990 Frank Lloyd Wright: from Within Outward Guggenheim Museum New York 15 May-23 Aug 804 69,045 Abstract Earth: Richard Woldendorp Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 1 Aug-8 Nov 3,099 303,741 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Serpentine Gallery London 11 Jul-16 Oct 804 72,244 The Age of Imagination LACMA Los Angeles 20 Sep 08-4 Jan 1,817 243,262 The Court of Vanvitelli Reggia di Caserta Caserta 5 Apr-7 Sep 802 62,637 Napoleon III and Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 9 Jun-7 Sep 1,697 164,600 Telling Tales Victoria and Albert Museum London 14 Jul-18 Oct 802 63,158 Strolling in the Fragrant Garden Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 31 Oct 08-1 Feb 1,257 122,978 Buckminster Fuller Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 14 Mar-5 Jul 800 63,163 Thing: Beware the Material World Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 18 Apr-5 Jul 1,249 144,685 One Hundred Years of Noritake Design Nagoya/Boston Museum Nagoya 18 Apr-30 Aug 799 85,768 Raqib Shaw at the Met Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 4 Nov 08-8 Mar 1,234 500,519 Classic/Fantastic Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 21 Dec 07-5 Apr 796 93,925 Temps com a matèria MACBA Barcelona 16 May-31 Aug 863 59,318 Jacques Emile Ruhlmann/Pedro Barateiro Fundaçao Serralves Porto 18 Jul-5 Oct 796 91,500 Frans Hals Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich 13 Feb-7 Jun 859 91,100 Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 Victoria and Albert Museum London 25 Sep 08-11 Jan 790 57,650 Your Bright Future LACMA Los Angeles 28 Jun-20 Sep 789 53,507 Paul Kooiker: Crush Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 5 Sep-22 Nov 789 58,271 Rinus van den Bosch Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 5 Sep-29 Nov 786 38,535 Sámi Magic Drum British Museum London 27 Nov 08-18 Jan Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 786 99,831 Family Traces Israel Museum Jerusalem 24 Jul-28 Nov 951 36,828 Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 6 Feb-22 Mar 786 30,548 Sacred Ningbo Nara National Museum Nara 18 Jul-30 Aug 951 69,426 Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures LACMA Los Angeles 25 Jan-19 Apr 783 31,000 The Timeless Beauty of Japanese Paper Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 19 Sep-3 Nov 950 84,592 Van Dyck and Britain Tate Britain London 18 Feb-17 May 783 72,008 Jacob van Ruisdael Mauritshuis The Hague 26 Feb-1 Jun 949 93,949 Turner and Italy Palazzo dei Diamanti Ferrara 16 Nov 08-22 Feb 782 10,950 A Crucifix Attributed to Michelangelo Civica Galleria d’arte moderna Castiglioncello 22 Mar-4 Apr 948 114,463 Rome and the Barbarians Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 22 Aug 08-11 Jan 781 52,893 Gakona Palais de Tokyo Paris 13 Feb-3 May 945 90,031 Endless Forms: Charles Darwin Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 16 Jun-4 Oct 780 76,306 WA Indigenous Art Awards- Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 25 Jul-15 Nov 945 64,119 One Size, One Concept, Numerous Ideas Fundaçao Serralves Porto 12 Sep-29 Nov 780 156,614 Arts of the Ming Dynasty Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 23 Jan-13 Sep 941 176,267 Provocative Visions: Race and Identity Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 19 Aug 08-22 773 75,461 Revolution of the Other Palais de Tokyo Paris 25 Sep 08-18 Jan 937 70,000 The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes Peabody Essex Museum Salem 13 Jun-7 Sep 770 78,328 Egypt: Back to the Source Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 10 Oct 08-8 Feb 925 93,650 African and Oceanic Art Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2 Jun-27 Sep 769 53,500 Universal Code Power Plant Toronto 11 Jun-30 Aug 922 65,489 Ko-imari in Paris: Enchanting Beauty Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Tokyo 10 Oct-23 Dec 767 181,665 Many Faces Israel Museum Jerusalem 8 Apr-30 Nov 922 119,000 Walt Disney’s Wonderful World Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich 19 Sep 08-25 Jan 763 54,412 Christopher Wool Museum Ludwig Cologne 21 Apr-12 Jul 920 161,025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Natural History Museum London 31 Oct 08-26 Apr 758 47,317 Romy Schneider Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 6 Feb-3 May 920 124,137 St Ives Summer Season Tate St Ives St Ives 16 May-27 Sep 755 65,483 Love! Art! Passion! Gemeentemuseum The Hague 21 Feb-1 Jun 919 69,434 Darwin: Art and the Search for Origins Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 5 Feb-3 May 754 56,356 Henri Cartier-Bresson Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris 19 Jun-13 Sep 918 104,604 American Impressionism & Realism Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane 30 May-20 Sep 753 45,855 Play: Film and Video Moderna Museet Stockholm 7 Feb-19 Apr 915 106,153 Shah Abbas: the Remaking of Iran British Museum London 19 Feb-14 Jun 751 90,000 Jozef & Isaac Israels Gemeentemuseum The Hague 20 Sep 08-8 Feb 913 21,258 Theaster Gates: Temple Exercises Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 6 Jan-1 Feb 749 54,696 Power and Glory Saint Louis Art Museum St Louis 22 Feb-17 May 908 81,893 Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Whitney Museum New York 7 May-6 Sep 748 80,000 Chagall, Kandinsky, Malevich Villa Olmo Como 4 Apr-26 Jul 907 62,822 Whistler in the Frick Collection Frick Collection New York 2 Jun-23 Aug 747 45,441 Andreas Gursky Moderna Museet Stockholm 21 Feb-3 May 905 60,505 Clay Ketter Moderna Museet Stockholm 30 May-16 Aug 746 29,511 Tonny Hørning: Drawings Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 15 Jan-1 Mar 905 96,800 Magnificence of the Tsars Victoria and Albert Museum London 10 Dec 08-29 Mar 745 74,776 Caravaggio in Holland Stadel Museum Frankfurt 1 Apr-26 Jul 904 72,196 River of Gold/Golden Legacy Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 6 Jun-6 Sep 745 58,000 Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes Mauritshuis The Hague 11 Oct 08-11 Jan 902 70,218 Joseph Grigely: St Cecilia Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 22 Nov 08-22 Feb 745 53,118 Pen and Parchment Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2 Jun-23 Aug 900 60,916 Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Manchester Art Gallery Manchester 14 Feb-4 May 744 65,801 Turner and Italy Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 15 Jul-25 Oct 900 98,139 John Brack Ian Potter Centre: NGV Melbourne 23 Apr-9 Aug 744 120,560 Judith Leyster, 1609-1660 National Gallery of Art Washington 21 Jun-29 Nov 899 50,237 Elixir: Pipilotti Rist Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 7 Mar-10 May 743 59,348 Isa Genzken Museum Ludwig Cologne 15 Aug-15 Nov 898 34,000 Tenchijin: Naoe Kanetsugu Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 30 May-12 Jul 742 40,829 Adventures in Modern Art Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 12 Jul-13 Sep 896 98,521 Alfons Mucha Galerie Belvedere Vienna 12 Feb-1 Jun 742 64,364 The Lens and the Mirror Part I Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 3 Apr-12 Jul 893 67,890 Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 19 Oct 08-18 Jan 740 59,727 Sympathy for the Devil Musée d’art contemporain Montreal 10 Oct 08-11 Jan 889 84,475 Dazzling the Enemy: Shields from the Pacific British Museum London 14 May-16 Aug 738 73,039 Luis Melendez National Gallery of Art Washington 17 May-23 Aug 889 71,098 McCubbin: Last Impressions, 1907-17 National Gallery of Australia Canberra 14 Aug-1 Nov 738 55,047 Thomas Bang: States of Locations Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 12 Mar-7 Jun 887 85,285 Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 3 Feb-25 May 737 33,917 Doodle 4 Google Cooper Hewitt New York 21 May-5 Jul 885 63,123 “…Borovikovsky Saved Her Beauty” State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 31 Oct 08-21 Jan 736 64,485 Butchers, Dragons, God & Skeletons Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 16 Jul-25 Oct 876 66,174 Van Dongen: Painting the City Fauve Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal 22 Jan-19 Apr 729 48,739 Moderna Museet Now: Tabaimo Moderna Museet Stockholm 31 Jan-19 Apr 876 69,183 A Century of Retablos Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 5 Jul-4 Oct 726 127,099 Green Architecture for the Future Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek 29 May-18 Dec 876 90,000 Encounters with Modern Art Kunsthalle Bundesrepublik Bonn 24 Apr-23 Aug 722 50,823 The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani Getty Villa Los Angeles 16 Jul-5 Oct 872 33,000 Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art Suntory Museum of Art Tokyo 25 Jul-6 Sep 720 77,079 Larrakitj Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 13 Feb-31 May 871 69,531 Daniel Buren: Books and Other Publications Fundaçao Serralves Porto 30 May-30 Aug 717 55,188 Peter Kogler Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 16 Mar-31 May 869 53,904 Titian’s Triumph of Love National Gallery London 21 Jul-20 Sep 717 92,535 Marc Quinn Casa de Giulietta Verona 22 May-27 Sep 868 111,036 Serralves Collection: Part I Fundaçao Serralves Porto 30 May-25 Oct 715 87,196 Simryn Gill Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 20 Nov 08-22 Mar 867 78,617 No Frontiers: the Art of Ding Yanyong Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 19 Dec 08-5 Apr 712 101,046 French Porcelain for English Palaces The Queen’s Gallery London 23 May-11 Oct 866 74,504 Discovery of Spain National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 18 Jul-11 Oct 710 53,678 Peter Doig Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 9 Oct 08-4 Jan 866 87,694 The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717) Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 9 Sep 08-4 Jan 709 46,277 Echoes of Life National Museum of Korea Seoul 16 Dec 08-1 Mar 863 104,422 An Antiquity of Imagination National Gallery of Art Washington 3 Jul-31 Oct 704 55,626 Cartoons and Coronets: Osbert Lancaster Wallace Collection London 22 Oct 08-11 Jan 863 59,318 Jacques Emile Ruhlmann/Pedro Barateiro Fundaçao Serralves Porto 18 Jul-5 Oct 704 40,949 Saul Steinberg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 13 Mar-1 Jun 862 78,307 Paul Morrison Manchester Art Gallery Manchester 14 Feb-31 May 698 73,131 Jonathan Horowitz/Erik van Lieshout Museum Ludwig Cologne 24 Apr-23 Aug 861 76,858 Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937-40 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 23 Sep 08-4 Jan 697 83,629 Artist in Focus: Everywhen Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 31 Jan-31 May 859 91,100 Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 Victoria and Albert Museum London 25 Sep 08-11 Jan 694 56,000 From Van Dyck to Bellotto Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) Brussels 20 Feb-24 May 859 102,438 The Lens and the Mirror Part II Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 21 Jul-6 Dec 685 52,027 Four Banquet Tables of Catherine the Great Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Tokyo 16 Apr-5 Jul 858 64,214 Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision Manchester Art Gallery Manchester 11 Oct 08-11 Jan 684 68,434 Rachel Whiteread Museum of Fine Arts Boston 15 Oct 08-25 Jan 855 92,332 Turner Prize- Tate Britain London 30 Sep 08-18 Jan 683 44,418 Picturing America Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin 7 Mar-10 May 853 90,000 George Condo Musée Maillol Paris 17 Apr-17 Aug 683 73,100 Baroque 1620-1800 Victoria and Albert Museum London 4 Apr-19 Jul 850 48,681 Looking for Antonio Mak Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 21 Nov 08-28 Jan 680 37,426 Artist File 2009: NACT Annual Show National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 4 Mar-6 May 847 93,000 Surreal Things Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto 9 May-13 Sep 676 53,945 In the Mirror of Possibilities Museum Ludwig Cologne 14 Mar-14 Jun

19TH-CENTURY TOP TEN ASIAN TOP TEN A striking feature of the top 19th-century art shows is that only half of them were monographic; in previous years single-artist Japan’s appetite for blockbuster exhibitions and the richness of its exhibitions have monopolised the list. It is not surprising, given cultural heritage resulted in its museums producing seven of the top ten the media attention accorded him during his bi-centennial, that shows in our Asian category. But China's marching army of terracotta Darwin made what will surely be his unique appearance in the warriors (pictured left) means that a US institution, the High Museum of annals of attendance figures. The Musée d’Orsay made it to the Art, Atlanta, is fifth on the 2009 Asian list. The National Museum of top ten with three hits, albeit rather predictable crowd-pleasers: Korea, Seoul, which is taking part in our survey for the first time, cele - pastels, Rodin and photography. Ensor at MoMA, New York, brated the centenary of Korean museums with an exhibition that put it in appealed to a mood for the macabre, and was an important seventh place. The Tokyo National Museum improves on its runner-up reassessment of the artist’s late career. Left, Hiroshige, 53 ranking in 2008 with a show of temple treasures from Nara, making it Stations of the Tokaido , 1833, at Museo Fondazione Roma. D.L. overall the most visited exhibition our survey. J.P.

5,137 379,408 James Ensor Museum of Modern Art New York 28 Jun-21 Sep 15,960 946,172 Ashura and Masterpieces from Kohfukuji Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 31 Mar-7 Jun 3,315 332,872 Mystery and Brilliance Musée d’Orsay Paris 8 Oct 08-1 Feb 14,965 299,294 61st Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures Nara National Museum Nara 24 Oct-12 Nov 2,432 173,351 Rodin Musée d’Orsay Paris 10 Mar-31 May 9,473 447,944 Treasures of the Imperial Collections Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 6 Oct-29 Nov 1,606 126,850 J.W. Waterhouse: the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Royal Academy of Arts London 27 Jun-13 Sep 4,303 151,833 Masterpieces of Zen Culture from Myoshinji Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 20 Jan-1 Mar 1,246 132,467 The Sleeping Beauty Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid 24 Feb-28 Jun 3,104 403,469 The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army High Museum of Art Atlanta 16 Nov 08-19 Apr 1,245 103,652 Hiroshige: Master of Nature Museo Fondazione Roma Rome 11 Nov 08-15 Feb 3,074 116,363 Great Treasures of Court Culture Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 10 Jan-22 Feb 1,202 143,000 J.W. Waterhouse: the Modern Pre-Raphaelite Groninger Museum Groningen 14 Dec 08-3 May 3,038 107,203 100th Anniversary of Korean Museums National Museum of Korea Seoul 29 Sep-8 Nov 1,111 82,838 The Pre-Raphaelites Nationalmuseum Stockholm 26 Feb-24 May 2,876 529,154 The Tale of Shuten Doji Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington 21 Mar-20 Sep 1,103 98,481 See Italy and Die Musée d’Orsay Paris 7 Apr-19 Jul 2,569 106,081 The Treasures of Myoshin-ji Temple Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 24 Mar-10 May 995 153,193 Darwin Natural History Museum London 14 Nov 08-19 Apr 2,428 114,796 Ise Jingu and Treasures of Shinto Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 14 Jul-6 Sep THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 212, APRIL 2010 29 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 THE EXHIBITIONS continued

Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 675 60,760 Louisa Bufardeci/Zon Ito Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 28 Jul-25 Oct 583 89,233 Oceans, Rivers and Skies National Gallery of Art Washington 12 Oct 08-15 Mar 672 69,226 Art & Empire: Treasures from Assyria Museum of Fine Arts Boston 21 Sep 08-4 Jan 582 33,509 René Magritte 1948: La Période Vache Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 30 Oct 08-4 Jan 672 46,726 Claude Tousignant: a Retrospective Musée d’art contemporain Montreal 5 Feb-26 Apr 580 43,824 Franz West: Work, 1972-2008 LACMA Los Angeles 12 Mar-7 Jun 672 34,272 Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures State Museum of Modern Art Moscow 16 Dec 08-8 Feb 577 42,438 T2 Torino Triennale Tremusei Castello di Rivoli Rivoli 6 Nov 08-1 Feb 667 58,689 Un Certain Etat du Monde? Garage Centre Moscow 19 Mar-14 Jun 576 29,236 In the Wake of Jesus Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 12 Dec 08-8 Feb 665 49,150 Sigmar Polke Museum Ludwig Cologne 4 Jul-27 Sep 576 162,063 Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 16 Sep 08-9 Aug 660 41,185 Roy Lichtenstein Posters Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 19 Dec 08-15 Mar 574 35,830 Bad Habits Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 10 Jul-4 Oct 659 64,508 Mari Funaki/David Walker Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 27 Jun-18 Oct 571 50,782 Art Deco and its Enemies Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 24 Jun-20 Sep 659 70,000 Anthony Ames, Architect High Museum of Art Atlanta 21 Apr-23 Aug 570 16,516 Fantastic Illusion Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai 13 Sep-11 Oct 658 54,842 Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 17 Mar-21 Jun 570 54,038 The Mastercraftsmen of Palekh Miniatures Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 20 Sep 08-11 Jan 657 96,391 Carroll Dunham: Works on Paper Museum Ludwig Cologne 3 Apr-20 Sep 569 38,592 A David Small World Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 7 Mar-24 May 656 50,222 From the Land of the Golden Fleece Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 2 Oct 08-4 Jan 566 31,699 Poiret and Fortuny Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Tokyo 31 Jan-31 Mar 654 75,825 Lucy McKenzie Museum Ludwig Cologne 14 Mar-26 Jul 565 65,499 Hussein Chalayan Design Museum London 22 Jan-17 May 654 44,441 Stitch by Stitch Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Tokyo 18 Jul-27 Sep 565 40,770 Art on Paper VIII: from Cézanne to Léger Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao 23 Mar-14 Jun 654 36,614 Universal Archive Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 9 Mar-3 May 564 58,589 John Baldessari Legion of Honor San Francisco 11 Jul-8 Nov 652 63,272 The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene Museum of Fine Arts Boston 14 Jul-18 Oct 562 56,714 Fantasy Uncoiled: Prints by CoBrA Artists Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 13 Sep 08-11 Jan 650 46,087 Diego Rivera Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 25 Oct 08-18 Jan 561 39,479 Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964 Museo d’Arte Moderna Bologna 22 Jan-13 Apr 646 52,966 Eva Hesse Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh 5 Aug-25 Oct 560 78,709 Fragment to Vase Getty Villa Los Angeles 18 Dec 08-1 Jun 646 28,800 Ulrich Rückriem/The Power of Expression Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 19 Mar-10 May 555 77,896 The Getty Commodus Getty Villa Los Angeles 18 Dec 08-1 Jun 644 144,296 A New Route through the Berardo Collection Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 15 Sep 08-26 Apr 553 18,723 Treasures of Tôdaiji’s Omizutori Ritual Nara National Museum Nara 7 Feb-15 Mar 642 71,245 George de Forest Brush National Gallery of Art Washington 14 Sep 08-4 Jan 551 38,255 Wall Rockets Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 24 Jul-25 Oct 642 34,194 Turn-of-the-Century Gems Nationalmuseum Stockholm 23 Jun-23 Aug 550 40,149 Turner and Italy National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 27 Mar-7 Jun 640 44,320 James Castle: a Retrospective Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 14 Oct 08-4 Jan 549 47,800 The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene Renwick Gallery Washington 13 Mar-7 Jun 640 59,875 Polidori/Davis/Hurlbut Musée d’art contemporain Montreal 22 May-7 Sep 547 58,200 Jean Michel Basquiat: to Repel Ghosts Palazzo Ruspoli Rome 2 Oct 08-2 Feb 638 63,926 Diana & Actaeon Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf 20 Oct-15 Feb 545 61,000 Chagall and the Russian Jewish Theatre Jewish Museum New York 9 Nov 08-22 Mar 638 35,659 Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 21 Mar-24 May 545 101,452 Fashioning Felt/Shahzia Sikander Selects Cooper Hewitt New York 6 Mar-7 Sep 637 61,121 Richard Long: Heaven and Earth Tate Britain London 3 Jun-6 Sep 542 44,407 Per Kirkeby Tate Modern London 17 Jun-6 Sep 637 48,424 Joan Rabascall MACBA Barcelona 23 Jan-19 Apr 541 46,511 Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours Courtauld London 30 Oct 08-25 Jan 633 63,329 Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms Hayward Gallery London 7 Oct 08-18 Jan 540 25,511 On the Trail of Texts Along the Silk Road Kyoto National Museum Kyoto 14 Jul-6 Sep 633 48,903 Baroque Celebrations Palazzo Madama Turin 7 Apr-5 Jul 540 42,631 Lee Friedlander/Art and Power Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1 Mar-31 May 631 50,760 Andrea Riccio Frick Collection New York 15 Oct 08-18 Jan 540 47,000 Vanity Fair Portraits National Portrait Gallery Canberra 4 Jun-30 Aug 630 95,633 Whistler & Haden Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 28 Feb-23 Aug 539 34,241 A Land of Myths: the Art of Gustave Moreau Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 19 Feb-3 May 630 36,153 Pink: Bizarrely Green Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 28 Aug-15 Nov 539 39,820 Grand Scale: Monumental Prints Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 31 Jan-26 Apr 625 27,677 Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from Turin Legion of Honor San Francisco 15 Nov 08-8 Jan 537 50,508 Hubbard/Birchler: No Room To Answer Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 14 Sep 08-4 Jan 625 49,800 The Master of Flémalle and Van der Weyden Gemäldegalerie Berlin 20 Mar-21 Jun 532 71,152 Intervention #10: Tobias Putrih Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 16 May-18 Oct 622 30,377 Streams and Mountains Without End Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 27 Jun-23 Aug 531 48,326 Pancho Guedes: Vitruvius Mozambicanus Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 18 May-16 Aug 616 57,300 Gordon Bennett Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 19 Dec 08-22 Mar 530 45,035 Stanley William Hayter National Gallery of Art Washington 31 May-23 Aug 614 56,465 Gerhard Richter Portraits National Portrait Gallery London 26 Feb-31 May 529 24,870 Indian Xianzai Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai 16 Jul-31 Aug 614 49,356 Strange Brew: the 1960s Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 29 May-20 Sep 529 57,636 Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today Groninger Museum Groningen 17 May-20 Sep 612 44,668 Pollock, de Kooning and American Art Saint Louis Art Museum St Louis 19 Oct 08-11 Jan 529 44,235 The Brave Buffalo Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 13 Feb-10 Jun 612 72,970 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 30 Jun-15 Nov 528 51,700 Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect Renwick Gallery Washington 3 Oct 08-11 Jan 609 38,776 Louise Bourgeois Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 25 Oct 08-25 Jan 527 37,827 Dan Graham: Beyond Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 15 Feb-25 May 608 45,269 Martin Kippenberger: Problem Perspective Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 20 Sep 08-5 Jan 527 50,000 To The Ends of the Earth Peabody Essex Museum Salem 8 Nov 08-1 Mar 606 50,878 Risk the Real Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 8 Jun-30 Aug 526 47,328 Roni Horn aka Roni Horn Tate Modern London 25 Feb -25 May 605 46,493 The State Museums of Berlin Legion of Honor San Francisco 18 Oct 08-18 Jan 526 42,641 Treasures of the Black Death Wallace Collection London 19 Feb-10 May 602 58,437 Avoiding Myth & Message Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 7 Apr-12 Jul 525 21,732 Kahlo through the Lens of Nickolas Muray Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 8 May-5 Jul 595 48,000 Wilhelm Freddie: Stick the Fork in Your Eye! Statens Museum of Art Copenhagen 28 Feb-1 Jun 524 41,378 The Prints of Edvard Munch National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 19 Sep 08-6 Dec 593 16,604 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 26 Sep-25 Oct 522 14,985 Domani: the Art of Tomorrow National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 13 Dec 08-26 Jan 592 49,150 Altermodern: Tate Triennial- Tate Britain London 3 Feb-26 Apr 592 43,189 Indigenous Art Awards- Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 30 Oct 08-11 Jan 587 50,400 The Indian Portrait Gallery Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 7 Mar-14 Jun NEW YORK TOP TEN 6,299 377,068 Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting Museum of Modern Art 2 Nov 08-2 Jan TOKYO TOP TEN 6,186 391,476 Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out Museum of Modern Art 19 Nov 08-2 Feb 5,137 379,408 James Ensor Museum of Modern Art 28 Jun-21 Sep 15,960 946,172 Ashura and Masterpieces from Kohfukuji Tokyo National Museum 31 Mar-7 Jun 5,128 347,995 Ron Arad: No Discipline Museum of Modern Art 2 Aug-19 Oct 9,473 447,944 Treasures of the Imperial Collections Tokyo National Museum 6 Oct-29 Nov 4,945 305,894 Martin Kippenberger: Problem Perspective Museum of Modern Art 1 Mar-11 May 9,267 851,256 17th-century Painting from the Louvre National Museum of Western Art 28 Feb-14 Jun 4,864 266,821 Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Museum of Modern Art 14 Dec 08-16 Feb 5,609 390,219 Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy National Art Center Tokyo 25 Sep-14 Dec 4,856 436,343 Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night Museum of Modern Art 21 Sep 08-5 Jan 4,939 51,505 12th Japan Media Arts Festival National Art Center Tokyo 4-15 Feb 4,735 329,446 Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid Metropolitan Museum of Art 10 Sep-29 Nov 4,303 151,833 Masterpieces of Zen Culture from Myoshinji Tokyo National Museum 20 Jan-1 Mar 4,717 408,990 Frank Lloyd Wright: from Within Outward Guggenheim Museum 15 May-23 Aug 3,743 221,892 Children in the Louvre Collection National Art Center Tokyo 25 Mar-1 Jun 4,533 323,132 Aernout Mik Museum of Modern Art 6 May-27 Jul 3,729 284,444 Paul Gauguin National Museum of Modern Art 3 Jul-23 Sep 3,488 123,065 Kayama Matazo Retrospective 1927-2004 National Art Center Tokyo 21 Jan-2 Mar 2,647 195,477 The Roman Empire National Museum of Western Art 19 Sep-13 Dec COMPARISONS

2008 PARIS TOP TEN 7,868 419,256 2nd Photoquai Biennale Musée Quai Branly 22 Sep-22 Nov 17,926 263,765 60th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures Nara National Museum Nara 25 Oct-10 Nov 7,270 783,352 Picasso and the Masters Grand Palais 8 Oct 08-2 Feb 12,762 794,909 National Treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 25 Mar-8 Jun 6,553 703,000 Kandinsky Centre Pompidou 8 Apr-10 Aug 10,357 145,000 Images in the Night Grand Palais Nave Paris 18-31 Dec 4,688 474,821 Warhol’s Wide World Grand Palais 18 Mar-13 Jul 9,531 326,784 Duelling Geniuses Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 8 Jul-17 Aug 4,486 450,521 Picasso—Manet Musée d’Orsay 8 Oct 08-1 Feb 8,735 308,213 Treasures by Rinpa Masters Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 7 Oct-16 Nov 4,416 473,800 Alexander Calder Centre Pompidou 18 Mar-20 Jul 7,101 547,810 Collection of the Musée National Picasso Reina Sofía Madrid 5 Feb-5 May 3,927 129,583 Six Billion Others Grand Palais Nave 10 Jan-12 Feb 6,725 268,058 Kaii Higashiyama: a Retrospective National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo 29 Mar-18 May 3,315 332,872 Mystery and Brilliance Musée d’Orsay 8 Oct 08-1 Feb 6,624 449,483 Dalí: Painting and Film Museum of Modern Art New York 29 Jun-15 Sep 3,121 387,000 Pollock Pinacothèque 15 Oct 08-15 Feb 6,571 393,322 Martin Puryear Museum of Modern Art New York 4 Nov 07-14 Jan 2,526 249,023 The Gates of Heaven Louvre 6 Mar-29 Jun 6,535 521,871 Home Delivery Museum of Modern Art New York 20 Jul-20 Oct

2007 LONDON TOP TEN 4,139 405,612 The Revolution Continues Saatchi Gallery 9 Oct 08-18 Jan 10,071 796,004 The Mind of Leonardo Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 20 Mar-17 Jun 3,828 363,702 Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East Saatchi Gallery 30 Jan-9 May 9,273 704,420 Monet’s Art and its Posterity National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 7 Apr-2 Jul 3,604 277,473 Anish Kapoor Royal Academy of Arts 26 Sep-11 Dec 9,067 425,492 Legacy of the Tokugawa Tokyo National Museum Tokyo 10 Oct-2 Dec 3,141 298,420 BP Portrait Award 2009 National Portrait Gallery 18 Jun-20 Sep 8,585 737,074 Richard Serra Sculpture: 40 Years Museum of Modern Art New York 3 Jun-10 Sep 3,099 303,741 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Serpentine Gallery 11 Jul-16 Oct 7,268 574,207 Masterpieces of French Painting from the Met Museum of Fine Arts Houston 4 Feb-6 May 2,760 273,236 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery 6 Nov 08-15 Feb 6,856 493,886 Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 26 Sep-17 Dec 2,597 327,244 Rothko Tate Modern 26 Sep 08-1 Feb 6,239 482,179 From Cézanne to Picasso Musée d’Orsay Paris 19 Jun-16 Sep 2,446 183,433 Corot to Monet National Gallery 8 Jul-20 Sep 6,115 677,000 Masterpieces of French Painting from the Met Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 1 Jun-7 Oct 2,300 342,726 Byzantium 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts 25 Oct 08-22 Mar 5,375 1,290,000 Tutankhamun and the Golden Age Franklin Institute Philadelphia 3 Feb-30 Sep 2,212 227,831 Picasso Prints: Challenging the Past National Gallery 25 Feb-7 Jun 5,269 330,446 What is Painting? Museum of Modern Art New York 7 Jul-17 Sep THE ART NEWSPAPER, N o. 189, MARCH 2008 Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 THE EXHIBITIONS continued

Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates Daily Total Exhibition Venue City Dates 522 48,863 Tomas Saraceno: Lighter than Air Walker Art Center Minneapolis 14 May-30 Aug 372 21,126 Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures Galerie Rudolfinium Prague 30 Jan-5 Apr 518 35,000 Stephan Balkenhol Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 13 Nov 08-1 Feb 372 18,514 Jacek Malczewski 1854-1929 National Museum Krahow Krakow 27 Mar-24 May 517 42,947 Tarsila do Amaral Fundacíon Juan March Madrid 6 Feb-3 May 371 4,506 Contrast and Symmetry Castel Nuovo Naples 7 Nov-20 Nov 516 38,096 Brazil Contemporary Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 30 May-23 Aug 366 29,262 Heimo Zobernig Musée d’Art Contemporain, CAPC Bordeaux 16 May-16 Aug 515 97,251 Bruegel to Rubens The Queen’s Gallery London 17 Oct 08-26 Apr- 366 19,031 The Enlightenments National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 7 Aug-27 Sep 514 76,072 Italics: Italian Art, 1968-2008 Palazzo Grassi Venice 27 Sep 08-22 Mar 366 9,469 Elio Marino Castel Nuovo Naples 29 Apr-28 May 512 33,452 The Heritage of the Holy Land Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 23 Jun-6 Sep 366 6,005 Antonella Raio Castel Nuovo Naples 10 Sep-28 Sep 511 30,725 Joaquim Mir: Anthology (1873-1940) Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Bilbao 18 May-26 Jul 366 30,515 Action/Abstraction Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 13 Feb-14 Jun 507 17,022 Rock, Paper, Scissors Kunsthaus Graz Graz 26 Jun-3 Aug 365 63,107 Francis Alys: Fabiola LACMA Los Angeles 7 Sep-29 Mar 506 36,507 Novecentismo and the Avant-garde Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Bilbao 2 Mar-24 May 365 4,120 La Napoli di Maurizio Valenzi Castel Nuovo Naples 16 Nov-28 Nov 504 23,200 Antony Gormley’s Domain Field Garage Centre Moscow 16 Jul-30 Aug 364 31,840 Opera Rock /Jean-Luc Blanc Musée d’Art Contemporain, CAPC Bordeaux 5 Mar-14 Jun 503 55,658 Venus Nagoya/Boston Museum Nagoya 18 Jul-23 Nov 364 37,368 Carlos Cruz-Diez Museu Fundacíon Juan March Palma 25 Feb-27 Jun 502 40,115 Goya, Redon, Ensor: Grotesque Paintings Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 14 Mar-14 Jun 363 31,170 Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection Tate St Ives St Ives 4 Oct-11 Jan 500 39,504 Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 15 Feb-17 May 362 22,715 Orientalism’s Influence The National Museum in Warsaw Warsaw 17 Oct-4 Jan 497 19,874 History of Russian Video Art: Volume 2 Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 25 Mar-3 May 362 26,377 Paint Made Flesh The Phillips Collection Washington, DC 20 Jun-13 Sep 496 43,438 Expanding Horizons Museum of Fine Arts Montreal 18 Jun-27 Sep 362 7,600 Tanatos Banionis; Divine Wind Russian Academy of Arts Moscow 2 Mar-22 Mar 495 67,757 Henry VIII: Man and Monarch British Library London 23 Apr-6 Sep 361 65,734 Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China Cooper Hewitt New York 3 Oct-5 Apr 494 8,545 The Summer Art Cadets Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong 28 Aug-16 Sep 361 65,734 Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpaper and Books Cooper Hewitt New York 3 Oct-5 Apr 493 60,686 Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Design Museum London 12 Feb-14 Jun 360 11,363 Good Expectations Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 22 Jan-1 Mar 493 27,632 BESphoto: Fifth Edition Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 23 Mar-17 May 359 27,913 Alberto Burri Triennale di Milano Milan 7 Nov-8 Feb 492 52,731 Peng Hung-Chih: God Pound Musée Guimet Paris 17 Jun-19 Oct 358 34,038 Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Courtauld London 12 Feb-17 May 491 55,240 The God of Colours Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection Frankfurt 8 Oct-15 Feb 358 6,502 Giuliana Mariniello Castel Nuovo Naples 6 Mar-26 Mar 489 65,426 The Quick and the Dead Walker Art Center Minneapolis 25 Apr-27 Sep 357 42,811 Merging Emerging Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai 3 Mar-30 Jun 488 66,869 Garden and Cosmos British Museum London 28 May-11 Oct 355 54,701 Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions Cooper Hewitt New York 12 Sep-15 Feb 486 49,116 Ben Nicholson/Luke Frost/Bernard Leach Tate St Ives St Ives 24 Jan-4 May 352 12,309 Workshop 2009: My Love, My Friends Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 29 Jun-2 Aug 485 43,438 Expanding Horizons Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal 18 Jun-27 Sep 352 29,433 Arabia Design Museum Helsinki 17 Oct-25 Jan 484 50,220 Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton Walker Art Center Minneapolis 14 Feb-14 Jun 352 37,298 John Moores 25 Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 18 Sep-4 Jan 482 37,826 Cummins Wide Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo 23 Jan-10 May 352 25,122 Paolo Veronese: the Petrobelli Altarpiece Dulwich Picture Gallery London 10 Feb-3 May 480 32,175 Future Depends on You Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 28 May-2 Aug 351 23,211 Theater in the Work of Artists,1920s-30s The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 24 Dec-10 Mar 474 15,168 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Russian Academy of Arts Moscow 22 Sep-25 Oct 351 28,932 Enzo Mari: Artist and Designer GAM Turin 29 Oct-1 Feb 469 4,891 Brat Albert Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 1 Dec-12 Dec 350 26,919 Rubens Revealed: the Adoration of the Magi Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 29 Nov-1 Mar 468 47,291 A Story of Photograph LACMA Los Angeles 5 Oct-1 Feb 346 12,500 Lodz Kaliska Group Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw 19 Jan-1 Mar 467 55,501 The Many Faces of David Diaz Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 4 Oct-22 Feb 345 10,680 How Do You Do…Moscow? Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 21 Aug-20 Sep 467 48,534 Wood Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 24 Jan-24 May 344 14,418 Up Against the Wall Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 6 Dec-25 Jan 466 42,780 Rivoluzione! Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich 26 Sep-11 Jan 342 36,069 Picasso: Graphic Works Museu Fundacíon Juan March Palma 15 Jul-22 Nov 466 63,337 Edward Hopper Kunsthalle Wien Vienna 3 Oct-15 Feb 341 21,509 Couples in Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai 22 Dec-22 Feb 463 43,966 Beyond Bloomsbury Courtauld London 18 Jun-20 Sep 341 37,084 Herbert Brandl/Cecily Brown Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 24 Apr-30 Aug 463 35,000 T2 Torino Triennale Tremusei Fondazione Re Rebaudengo Rovereto 6 Nov-1 Feb 341 12,927 On-Matsuri and the Sacred Art of Kasuga Nara National Museum Nara 6 Dec-18 Jan 463 35,000 T2 Torino Triennale Tremusei Promotrice delle Belle Arti Venice 6 Nov-1 Feb 340 24,491 Imi Knoebel: Enduros/Ich Nicht Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin 23 May-2 Aug 461 29,060 Abstraction and Empathy Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin 15 Aug-16 Oct 339 53,209 Darwin’s Expressions Natural History Museum London 26 Jun-29 Nov 454 33,171 Close Up The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh 24 Oct-11 Jan 339 47,559 Reconstructing Identity Getty Villa Los Angeles 18 Dec-1 Jun 453 18,303 Not Toys The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 23 Sep-8 Nov 337 28,923 Journeys East Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston 21 Feb-31 May 450 16,910 Visual Leader Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 12 Mar-26 Apr 335 23,446 Mikael Levin: Cristina’s History Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 31 Aug-8 Nov 449 44,682 Spy Numbers Palais de Tokyo Paris 28 May-20 Sep 332 26,784 Michelangelo: Drawings and Attributions Stadel Museum Frankfurt 6 Mar-7 Jun 447 36,115 The Making of Art Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 29 May-30 Aug 332 14,000 Isaac Julien, Western Union: Small Boats Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw 27 Apr-14 Jun 446 36,357 E.W. Nay: Works from the 1960s Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 22 Jan-26 Apr 329 28,514 IAO Psychedelic explorations in France Musée d’Art Contemporain, CAPC Bordeaux 28 Nov-8 Mar 446 30,321 William Kentridge: Five Themes Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 12 Jul-27 Sep 328 32,067 Michael Raedecker GEM The Hague 11 Jul-1 Nov 445 25,625 George Tooker: A Retrospective Pennsylvania Academy Philadelphia 29 Jan-5 Apr 328 9,901 Bruno Starita Castel Nuovo Naples 23 Apr-27 May 444 27,388 Doug Aitken Saint Louis Art Museum St. Louis 27 Jun-7 Sep 328 18,867 Mario Giacomelli Forma Milan 15 Jan-22 Mar 442 48,219 Gay Icons National Portrait Gallery London 2 Jul-18 Oct 327 29,774 Collecting History: Recent Acquisitions Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 12 Jul-15 Nov 440 35,124 Sentimental Journey: Alfred Jacob Miller Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 7 Feb-10 May 325 30,200 Thomas Roberts, 1748-77 National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 28 Mar-28 Jun 437 104,967 Artists’ Rooms National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 14 Mar-8 Nov 324 25,559 Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India Moscow Kremlin Museum Moscow 20 Feb-22 May 436 53,190 Elmgreen & Dragset, Núñez, Roestorpff MUSAC Leon 31 Jan-21 Jun 324 24,736 Katharina Fritsch Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich 3 Jun-30 Aug 435 13,495 Rough Cut Nation National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 1 Aug-31 Aug 324 3,102 Giovanna Stefanelli Castel Nuovo Naples 23 Nov-3 Dec 433 65,009 Scapigliatura Palazzo Reale Milan 26 Jun-22 Nov 322 27,992 Cecil Beaton/New Radicals Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 26 Jun-20 Sep 431 49,555 Splendor and Elegance Museum of Fine Arts Boston 22 Jan-17 May 322 6,120 Cristophe Mourey Castel Nuovo Naples 9 Oct-30 Oct 429 32,750 Tapio Wirkkala/Art & Language Espoo Museum of Modern Art Espoo 14 Oct-10 Jan 320 28,554 Where Are The Fairies Gone? Musée d’Art Contemporain, CAPC Bordeaux 19 Sep-31 Dec 429 43,372 French Impressionists Lady Lever Art Gallery Liverpool 20 Feb-31 May 319 43,415 Skyscraper Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 6 Jun-12 Nov 429 34,429 Saenredam Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid 11 Nov-15 Feb 314 29,375 European Design: shaping the New Century Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis 5 Mar-21 Jun 426 41,154 Gandhara Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 21 Nov-15 Mar 312 23,546 Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light Pennsylvania Academy Philadelphia 25 Jun-20 Sep 426 32,899 Chu Teh-Chun and the Manufacture of Sèvres Musée Guimet Paris 10 Jun-7 Sep 309 22,830 Outside the Ordinary Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 20 Jun-13 Sep 426 54,098 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki 24 May-27 Sep 307 15,030 The Fifth Dimension Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai 17 Oct-4 Dec 424 51,705 Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay Walker Art Center Minneapolis 11 Jul-29 Nov 306 34,120 Glenn Brown Fondazione Re Rebaudengo Rovereto 28 May-4 Oct 423 42,734 Invasion of Sound: Music and the Visual Arts Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 6 Apr-2 Aug 305 22,551 Sleeping Beauty Gemeentemuseum The Hague 4 Jul-27 Sep 422 22,844 20 Years of Photography, Gazeta Wyborcza Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 11 May-12 Jul 305 45,700 Fashion V Sport Victoria and Albert Museum London 5 Aug-4 Jan 418 34,110 Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 12 Mar-14 Jun 304 1,781 Courage Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 8 Feb-16 Feb 417 32,810 Andreas Gursky National Gallery Victoria Melbourne 21 Nov-22 Feb 303 10,296 Claudia Rogge: a Retrospective Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 15 May-17 Jun 416 62,694 A Changing Ratio Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1 Mar-28 Sep 303 81,773 Henri Matisse and the French Riviera Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 13 Dec-25 Oct 415 18,246 Dieter Rams & Ergonimocs Design Museum London 18 Nov-31 Dec 301 27,933 Edvard Munch: Prints in the Städel Museum Stadel Museum Frankfurt 3 Jul-18 Oct 413 26,824 Claire Barclay Openwide The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh 7 Feb-12 Apr 300 20,600 Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today Fundaçao Serralves Porto 3 Jul-20 Sep 413 31,948 Artists from the Russian Empire The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 16 Jun-13 Sep 295 26,232 Total Illustration Fundacíon Juan March Madrid 10 Oct-11 Jan 413 23,115 Raúl Perez Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 16 Feb-12 Apr 294 25,411 Hard Targets: Masculinity and Sport LACMA Los Angeles 9 Oct-19 Jan 410 38,727 Armour & Evening Dress Museum Tinguely Basel 13 May-30 Aug 293 24,888 Futuroma Futurist Macro Future Rome 20 Feb-16 May 410 23,271 The Glory of Four Centuries Past, Revived Nagoya/Boston Museum Nagoya 19 Sep-23 Nov 291 28,129 Ryijy! Design Museum Helsinki 5 Jun-27 Sep 409 23,506 Chinetik: a Littmann Project Museum Tinguely Basel 11 Feb-19 Apr 291 6,022 Roger Peeraerts Castel Nuovo Naples 5 Feb-28 Feb 409 40,507 Jaromir Funke and the Amateur Avant Garde National Gallery of Art Washington, DC 3 May-9 Aug 288 3,002 Mary Samele Castel Nuovo Naples 21 Nov-2 Dec 407 27,951 Hot Spots Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich 13 Feb-3 May 287 25,000 Sicily 1968/2008: The Spirit of Time Riso Museo d’arte contemporanea Genoa 21 Feb-31 May 406 36,856 Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 14 Jun-19 Oct 282 15,675 Marek Piasecki: Fragile Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 27 Nov-1 Feb 406 30,043 Intuition and Structure Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon 4 Dec-15 Feb 281 13,434 Le Siecle Français National Museum Warsaw Warsaw 28 Feb-26 Apr 406 32,471 Whistler Lady Lever Art Gallery Liverpool 3 Jul-20 Sep 281 10,407 Running Time National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 17 Oct-22 Nov 405 25,696 SCAPA Memories: a Collection Museum Tinguely Basel 4 Feb-19 Apr 281 19,322 Mara Eggert: Theatre of Images Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 17 Jul-4 Oct 405 128,000 For Your Eyes Only: Ian Flemming and Bond Imperial War Museum London 17 Apr-1 Mar 281 49,080 Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850-1925 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 11 Apr-1 Nov 403 49,983 Mariscal & Kaplickly Design Museum London 1 Jul-1 Nov 280 13,917 Views Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 18 Sep-15 Nov 402 8,035 Vanessa Beecroft VB65 Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea Milan 17 Mar-5 Apr 279 25,092 Life? Biomorpic Forms in Sculpture Kunsthaus Graz Graz 27 Sep-11 Jan 400 40,819 Constable Portraits National Portrait Gallery London 5 Mar-14 Jun 278 9,724 Irina Korina: Installations Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 3 Feb-9 Mar 399 29,489 Isn’t It Great to Be An Artist? Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 31 Jan-26 Apr 278 42,544 The Art of Flying: Melchior d’Hondecoeter Rijksmuseum Schiphol Amsterdam 27 May-26 Oct 397 27,653 Jimmy Durham Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris 30 Jan-12 Apr 277 37,616 Indian Highway Astrup Fearnley Museum Oslo 2 Apr-6 Sep 396 15,146 The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space Tate Liverpool Liverpool 16 Dec-1 Feb 276 20,402 Man Ray Museum of Photography The Hague 24 Jan-19 Apr 395 28,463 David Chipperfield Design Museum London 21 Oct-31 Dec 276 15,462 Gerhard Richter National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 8 Nov-4 Jan 394 24,452 Anish Kapoor: Memory Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin 30 Nov-1 Feb 276 23,597 Herbert Tobias/Wolfgang Zurborn Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hamburg 7 May-16 Aug 393 66,467 Heaven on Earth National Gallery of Art Washington, DC 1 Mar-16 Aug 274 19,999 Sin and Salvation Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis 14 Jun-6 Sep 393 54,986 In-Finitum Museo Fortuny Venice 6 Jun-15 Nov 274 35,054 Pompeo Batoni 1708-87 Palazzo Ducale Lucca 6 Dec-3 May 386 47,922 Super Contemporary Design Museum London 3 Jun-4 Oct 273 7,724 Jam Session: American Jam National Museum Krahow Krakow 4 Aug-6 Sep 386 81,003 Etude to Art Object Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow 9 Feb-6 Sep 270 18,767 Spectacle: Photographs from the Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 18 Jun-7 Sep 385 19,196 V. Vatagin 125 Anniversary The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 20 Dec-15 Feb 268 2,684 Premiums Royal Academy of Arts London 20 Feb-1 Mar 385 16,020 Re:action Museum of Art, Lodz Lodz 2 Apr-24 May 268 6,022 Geometric Art Castel Nuovo Naples 3 Feb-28 Feb 384 55,053 Living Line: the Subhash Kapoor Gift Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 25 Mar-7 Sep 268 40,012 Lucio Fontana: Light and Colour Palazzo Ducale Genoa 22 Oct-13 Apr 381 13,994 Disco Zacheta Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw 12 Dec-25 Jan 265 21,839 American Dream National Museum Krahow Krakow 1 Jul-5 Oct 379 20,188 The Light: Matsumoto Yoko and Noguchi Rika National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo 19 Aug-19 Oct 264 17,916 Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 20 Jun-6 Sep 379 29,153 The Islanders: an Introduction Charles Avery National Gallery Complex Edinburgh 29 Nov-15 Feb 263 5,220 Rino Volpe: Baudelairian Correspondences Castel Nuovo Naples 8 Jun-30 Jun 379 33,000 Jean Dubuffet Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich 19 Jun-13 Sep 261 21,254 Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston 16 Jul-18 Oct 378 18,847 Marcel Maeyer Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 3 Oct-29 Nov 259 5,803 Mario Apuzzo: Archeologie del sogno Castel Nuovo Naples 5 Oct-30 Oct 378 37,040 Samurai Palazzo Reale Milan 25 Feb-2 Jun 256 20,315 The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston 16 Oct-19 Jan 377 19,119 Candice Breitz: Same Same The Power Plant Toronto 18 Sep-15 Nov 254 21,368 Free Imperial City of Augsburg Moscow Kremlin Museum Moscow 17 Jun-22 Sep 376 61,609 House Proud: the Thaw Collection Cooper Hewitt New York 12 Aug-25 Jan 254 21,805 Hans Heysen Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide 14 Nov-8 Feb 376 51,089 Spirit of the Water Palazzo Reale Milan 29 Nov-13 Apr 249 9,000 The Distribution of Avant-garde Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw 10 Aug-20 Sep 374 31,429 The Splendor of the Renaisance in Aragón Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Bilbao 15 Jun-20 Sep 248 16,800 Enzo Cucchi/Santeri Tuori Espoo Museum of Modern Art Espoo 28 Feb-17 May 373 29,776 Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life The Phillips Collection Washington, DC 21 Feb-24 May 248 29,000 Czech Photography of the 20th Century Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Bonn 13 Mar-26 Jul