The Art World's Gordon Gekko
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5-7, 2010 Amsterdam explores the portrayal of women on Feb. 13-May 24 photography coins from Antiquity to the present day. % 49-40-3609-960 “Hatra: City of the Sun God” show- Pergamom Museum www.buceriuskunstforum.de cases photographic documentation of Until Dec. 31 the ancient city in Iraq. % 49-30-2090-5577 art Allard Pierson Museum www.smb.spk-berlin.de “Pop Life: Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, Until Feb. 28 …” explores Andy Warhol’s statement % 31-20-5252-556 Bilbao that “good business is the best art” www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl photography with work by Tracey Emin, Keith Har- “Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009” ing, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami Antwerp shows 100 images by Spanish photog- and others. rapher Alberto Schommer. Hamburger Kunsthalle-Gallery of art Contemporary Art “Rubens Revealed—Fury of the Brush” Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao Feb. 8-May 16 Feb. 12-May 9 presents findings of extensive re- % 49-40-4281-3120-0 The art world’s % 34-94-4396-060 search on paintings from the Rubens www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de collection of the Koninklijk Museum www.museobilbao.com voor Schone Kunsten. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Copenhagen London Kunsten art theater Gordon Gekko Feb. 13-April 4 “Colour in Art” examines color sys- “A Man of No Importance” is a musi- % 32-3238-7809 tems used by 20th-century artists in cal based on the book by Terrence Mc- www.kmska.be more than 100 works of art, including Nally about a Dublin bus conductor eight paintings by Kandinsky. with music by Stephen Flaherty. It is A former corporate raider Basel Louisiana Museum of Modern Art directed by Ben De Wynter. The Arts Theatre art Until June 13 shakes up the market % 45-4919-0719 Feb. 10-Feb. 27 “Fasnacht & Art & Tinguely” displays % 44-845-0175-584 www.louisiana.dk art and props from 100 years of Basel www.artstheatrewestend.com Fasnacht, a carnaval celebrated to mark the end of winter. Hamburg photography Museum Tinguely art “Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Until May 16 “Genuine Illusions: Illusion and Reality 2010” shows work by the four artists % 41-61-6819-320 in Art” showcases drawings, paint- shortlisted for the prize. www.tinguely.ch ings and sculptures devoted to trick- The Photographers’ Gallery ing the eye, including work by Lucas Feb. 12-April 18 Berlin Cranach, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper % 44-845-2621-618 currency Johns and Janet Cardiff. www.photonet.org.uk “Strong Women-in Miniature Form” Bucerius Kunst Forum music Foundation E.G. Buhrle Collection “ABBAWorld” is an interactive Above, Jean Willi’s ‘OP-ART-ertieverkalkig,” (Pfluderi Clique) (1967) at Museum exhibition about the Swedish Tinguely in Basel; bottom, Lady Gaga will start her U.K. tour in Manchester. pop band ABBA presenting 25 rooms of memorabilia, mu- sic, footage and images. Earls Court Exhibition Manchester Centre music Damien Hirst” displays 150 art pieces Until March 28 “Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball Tour” representing vanity objects, including % 44-1159-1290-00 starts the U.K. tour of the Grammy early mosaics from Pompeii. www.abbaworld.com Award-winning pop singer. Musée Maillol Feb. 18 M.E.N. Arena, Manchester Until June 28 % Feb. 20-21 The O2, Dublin 33-1-4222-5958 Luxembourg www.museemaillol.com art Feb. 22 The Belfast Odyssey Arena Feb. 24 Liverpool Echo Arena “Everyday(s)” exhibits contem- art Feb. 26-27 The O2, London porary art on the theme of “The Image Factory” presents 160 orig- (continues into March) everyday life, with work by inal objects from different historical www.livenation.co.uk Bruno Baltzer, David Bestué and ethnical backgrounds around the & Marc Vives and others. world, illustrating totemism, natural- Casino Luxembourg Munich ism, animism and analogy. Forum d’Art Contemporain art Musée du Quai Branly Until April 11 “Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Feb. 16-July 15 % 352-2250-45 Royal Courts” explores the culture of % 33-1-5661-7000 www.casino-luxembourg.lu maharajas through Indian and West- www.quaibranly.fr ern works. Lisbon Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Rotterdam art Feb. 12-May 23 art “In the Presence of Things” % 49-89-2244-12 “Inside out: Museum Boijmans Van Be- displays 71 paintings from www.hypo-kunsthalle.de uningen on Show” showcases master- the 17th and 18th centuries, pieces by artists such as Frans Hals including work by Juan art and Jacob van Ruisdael alongside mod- Sanchéz Cotán, Pieter “Peter Loewy: Drawings” presents por- ern work by Giorgio Morandi and Claesz, Rembrandt and Fran- trait photography created from close- Frank Stella. cisco de Goya. ups and distortions of drawings by Kunsthal Museu Calouste the German photographer. Feb. 6-May 24 Gulbenkian Pinakothek der Moderne % 31-10-4400-301 Feb. 12-May 2 Feb. 9-April 11 www.kunsthal.nl % 351-21-7823-000 % 49-89-2380-5360 www.museu.gulbenkian.pt www.pinakothek.de Zurich design Madrid Paris “Global Design” traces the effects of photography photography globalization on the world of design “Saved Art” presents archive “Lisette Model” showcases 120 im- since the 1970s, following develop- photos and video projections ages of New York in the 1940s by the ments in architecture, graphics, media, documenting the fate of fa- Austrian-born American photographer. fashion, product and industrial design. mous works of art during the Jeu de Paume—Concorde Museum of Design Spanish Civil war. Feb. 9-June 6 Feb. 12-May 30 Museo Nacional del Prado % 33-1-4703-1250 % 41-43-4466-767 - Paseo del Prado www.jeudepaume.org www.museum-gestaltung.ch Until March 21 % 34-91-3302-800 art Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Ser- www.museodelprado.es “C’est la Vie! 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