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Composer Errollyn Wallen Traveling in Syria FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 - 30, 2008 Amsterdam art “Jacob Backer: Rembrandt’s Opposite” exhibits 40 paintings and 20 drawings © Viviane Sassen/Courtesy Motive Gallery, Amsterdam by Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608/9-1651). Museum Het Rembrandthuis Nov. 29-Feb. 22 % 31-20-5200-400 www.rembrandthuis.nl photography Washington’s “Viviane Sassen—Flamboya” presents recent portraits of young Africans in Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania by Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen. FOAM Until Jan. 18 % 31-20-5516-500 www.foam.nl Woodstock Prague Berlin art art “Jarmila Maranová: Kafka and Prague” “Cult of the Artist: Giacometti, the shows 54 monotypes by the Czech What’s in Egyptian” shows work by Swiss surre- artist Jarmila Maranová (born 1922), alist sculptor and painter Alberto Gia- © VG Bild Kunst, Bonn illustrating literary works by Franz the works cometti (1910-1966). Kafka. Egyptian Museum Jewish Museum Until March 1 Until Jan. 4 for Barack % % 49-30-2090-5577 420-221-7115-11 www.smb.spk-berlin.de www.jewishmuseum.cz Obama’s photography history “Helmut Newton: Fired” exhibits work “The Republic” presents documents, inauguration by German-Australian photographer posters and photography illustrating 90 years of history since the founding Helmut Newton (1920-2004), shot of Czechoslovakia. during the 1960s and ’70s for fashion National Museum magazines Elle, Queen, Nova and Until March 15 Marie Claire after Newton was fired % 420-2-2449-7111 from French Vogue in 1964. © Helmut Newton Estate www.nm.cz Museum für Fotografie Nov. 30-May 17 Above, ‘Nova,’ 1971, by Helmut Newton, Centre d’Art Contemporain opera % 49-30-3186-4825 on show in Berlin; right, ‘Head of a Until Feb. 1 “Monkey: Journey to the West” is an Rome www.smb.museum/smb Cow,’ 1983, by Stephan Balkenhol, in % 41-22-3291-842 opera from the creators of the pop art Hamburg; top right, ‘D.N.A.,’ 2007, by www.centre.ch band Gorillaz and director Chen Shi- “From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Civil Val- Brussels Viviane Sassen, in Amsterdam. Zheng, featuring the Dalian Circus of ues in 17th Century Flemish and Dutch Painting” exhibits 55 major opera China. Hamburg Flemish and Dutch masterpieces from “Rusalka”: Stefan Herheim stages a Millennium Dome—O2 art the 17th century, including paintings contemporary vision of Antonín spective of the work of the British Until Dec. 5 “Stephan Balkenhol” exhibits figurative by Vermeer, Rubens, Hendrickje Stof- Dvorák’s lyric tale of the nymph Rus- fashion designer (1928-1995). % 44-20-7536-2600 sculptures created from soft wood by fels and others. alka and her quest to posess a human National Museum of Scotland www.monkeyjourneytothewest.com German artist Stephan Balkenhol Museo del Corso body and soul in order to express her Until March 15 (born 1957). Until Feb. 15 love for a young prince and be loved % 44-131-225-7534 Deichtorhallen Hamburg Madrid % 39-066-7862-098 www.nms.ac.uk by him. Until Feb. 1 photography www.museodelcorso.it La Monnaie % 49-40-3210-30 “Alberto García-Alix: From Where Dec. 5-21 art www.deichtorhallen.de There Is No Return” showcases pho- Warsaw % 32-7023-3939 “The Art of Italy in the Royal Collec- tography in various formats taken be- photography www.lamonnaie.be tion: The Baroque” features paintings tween 1976 and 2008 by Spanish pho- Lisbon “No Such Thing as Society: Photogra- and drawings from a British court col- tographer Alberto García-Alix (born art phy in Britain 1967-1987” shows 137 Cologne lection of 17th and 18th Italian art. 1956). “Work Art in Focus: The 53 Stations photographs by 33 documentary pho- The Queen’s Gallery Museo Nacional Centro de Arte art of the Tokaido” shows woodblock tographers illustrating life in Britain Until March 8 Reina Sofía “Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, prints depicting legends and tales re- from the late ’60s to the late ’80s. % 44-2078-3913-77 Until Feb. 16 Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art lated to the post stations of the To- Centre for Contemporary Art www.royalcollection.org.uk % 34-91-7741-000 1955-1968” explores art and culture in kaido road between Edo (Tokyo) and Until Jan. 11 San Francisco around 1968, through Kyoto. museoreinasofia.mcu.es % 48-22-6281-2713 art, design, film, poetry and photogra- Florence Museu Calouste Gulbenkian csw.art.pl phy. Includes work by Stan Brakhage, art Until Feb. 28 Oslo Robert Crumb, Lenny Bruce, Peter “Art, Price and Value—Contemporary % 351-21-7823-000 art Zurich Saul and others. Art and the Market” examines links www.museu.gulbenkian.pt “Blowout!” presents highlights from archaeology Museum Ludwig between contemporary art and the in- 30 years of work by the first Norwe- “Roman Treasures Buried and Redis- Until March 1 ternational market through work by London gian glass studio formed by artist Ulla covered” presents late-Roman (260 % 49-221-2212-6165 such artists as Denis Darzacq, Damien art Mari Brantenberg and glass artist A.D.) gold jewelry and silver coins www.museenkoeln.de Hirst, Christian Janowski, Aernout Mik, “Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours Karen Klim. from Lunnern in the canton of Zurich. Antoni Muntadas and Ad Reinhardt. from The Courtauld” shows a collec- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Dublin Palazzo Strozzi tion of 30 works by J.M.W. Turner Until Dec. 20 Until March 22 % art Until Jan. 11 (1775-1851). 47-67-8048-80 % 41-44-2186-511 % “Northern Stars and Southern Lights: 39-055-2776-461 Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery www.hok.no www.musee-suisse.com/e/zuerich The Golden Age of Finnish Art www.palazzostrozzi.org Until Jan. 25 1870-1920” exhibits works by Eero % 44-207-872-0220 Paris Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Ser- Järnefelt, Väinö Blomstedt, Pekka Ha- Geneva www.courtauld.ac.uk music vice, WSJE research. lonen, Juho Rissanen and others. art “Gainsbourg” presents art, music, pho- National Gallery of Ireland “Between Art and Life: Performativity art tography and documentation illustrat- Until Feb. 1 in Japanese Art” presents work by “Bruegel to Rubens Masters of Flem- ing the career of French music per- WSJ.com % 353-1-6615-133 Japanese artists rooted in perform- ish Painting” exhibits 51 Flemish paint- former and icon Serge Gainsbourg www.nationalgallery.ie What’s on ance art. Includes work by Atelier Bow- ings from the 15th to 17th centuries. (1928-1991). WSJ.com subscribers can see an Wow, Taro Izumi, Yayoi Kusama, Yasu- Queen’s Gallery Musée de la Musique expanded version of the European Edinburgh masa Morimura, Yoko Ono, Takako Until April 26 Until March 1 arts-and-culture calendar at % % fashion Saito, Tomoko Sawada, Shimabuku 44-20-7766-7301 33-1-4487-4500 WSJ.com/Europe “Jean Muir: A Fashion Icon” is a retro- and Rikuo Ueda. www.royalcollection.org.uk www.cite-musique.fr Composer Errollyn Wallen Traveling in Syria W12 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 - 30, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL 9 | Cover story Travel 6-7 | Travel Visiting Vancouver, DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES WATERFRONT PROPERTIES Contents before the Games begin t 3 | Fashion Washington’s UNITED STATES Japan’s new style trend: Woodstock the princess look What’s in store for Barack Obama’s inauguration 4 | Arts Composer Errollyn Wallen on music with a message 8 | Travel Collecting: The old masters face a new market Tourists warm up to Syria 5 | Sports 10 | Taste Havel returns to ‘Leaving’ Golf Journal: Playing through Dominican Republic – Ocean Front Spectacular 30.8 acres the hard times (126,000 sqm) ocean front 12 | Time Off parcel, North Shore Dominican Republic. 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