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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 30 - JUNE 1, 2008 Wooden monkey, 1951-53, toy design by Kay Bojesen, on show in Copenhagen. Amsterdam London festival science “Holland Festival 2008” presents 35 “Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech productions of dance, literature, visual Britain” explores the role of technol- arts, theater, film, opera and music on ogy in shaping postwar Britain the theme of “Heaven and Earth.” through the science-fiction comic hero Greater Until June 22 Dan Dare. % 31-20-788-2100 Until Oct. 25, 2009 www.hollandfestival.nl % 44-870-8704-868 www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Antwerp music history “Spitalfields Festival 2008” in London’s “Antwerp=America=Red Star Line—The East End features musical perfor- Tale of a People” looks at the history mances by Gabrieli Consort & Players, Moscow of the Red Star cruise line, which the Silk String Quartet and the Royal brought more than two million Euro- Academy of Music Sinfonia with pean emigrants to the U.S. between Stephen Hough. 1873 and 1934. Spitalfields Festival National Maritime Museum From June 2 to 20 Cultural treasures Until Dec. 28 % 44-20-7377-0287 % 32-3-201-9340 www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk in the capital’s museum.antwerpen.be/scheepvaart museum theater “Dickens Unplugged,” written and di- suburbs Barcelona rected by Adam Long, is a musical art comedy based on the life and works of Charles Dickens. “Lothar Baumgarten: autofocus retina” Comedy Theatre shows sculptures, wall drawings, Bookings until Sept. 22 books and films by the contemporary % 44-870-0606-637 German artist (born 1944). www.theambassadors.com/comedy MACBA-Museu d’Art Contemporani Barcelona Until June 15 Munich % 34-93-4120-810 music “Richard-Strauss-Days 2008” cele- www.macba.es brates the music of Richard Strauss in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, featuring the Berlin Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; photography the Concert Orchestra Berlin; and the “Gazes and Desire—The Photographer Chamber Orchestra Munich. Herbert Tobias (1924-1982)” exhibits Richard-Strauss-Tage the 1950s and ’60s fashion work of Garmisch-Partenkirchen the German photographer alongside Until June 6 his portraits, cityscapes and erotic im- % 49-8821-9668-480 ages of men. www.strauss-tage.de Berlinische Galerie— Landesmuseum für Moderne Paris Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur photography Until Aug. 25 “Actors in Scene, Glances by Photogra- % 49-30-7890-2600 phers” traces the evolution of stage www.berlinischegalerie.de photography since the 1850s. Bibliothèque Nationale de art France—site Richelieu “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—Master Until Aug. 24 sheets—Drawings from the Brücke-Mu- % 33-1-5379-5959 seum Berlin” shows 100 works of the www.bnf.fr German expressionist artist. Brücke-Museum art Brücke-Museum Berlin © Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Ingeborg Henze Ketterer Until Aug. 31 “ ‘Monumenta 2008’ Richard Serra— % 49-30-8312-029 ‘Man and Female Nude (Self-Portrait with Model),’ 1915, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in Berlin. Promenade” features a new work for www.bruecke-museum.de the monumental nave of the Grand Palais: Mr. Serra’s sculptural installa- tion, “Promenade.” photography Danish Design Centre Until July 27 Until Jan. 11 Galeries Nationales du Grand Until Sept. 7 % 49-351-4914-2000 % 39-055-2388-709 “ ‘Man and Car’—Photography by Brig- Palais % 45-3369-3369 www.skd-dresden.de itte Kraemer” shows 40 black-and- www.polomuseale.firenze.it Until June 15 white and color photographs examin- www.ddc.dk % 33-1-4413-1717 ing the relationship between men and Dublin Frankfurt www.grandpalais.fr their cars. art art art Deutsches Technik Museum “Romantic Encounters: Constable and “Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian “Fire and Spirit—Icons from the Trea- Vienna Until Nov. 2 the School of Eckersberg” exhibits five Andersen and William Seward Bur- sury of the Bulgarian Patriarchy” art % 49-30-9025-40 paintings by the English landscape roughs” shows 124 cut-out and cut-up shows 69 large-format icons, church “Paul Klee—The Play of Forms” shows www.dtmb.de painter John Constable (1776-1837), images and stencils by writers Hans objects and tapestries. 150 works by Swiss painter Paul Klee juxtaposing them with 16 landscape Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and Ikonen-Museum (1879-1940) in a retrospective. paintings from the Glyptotek’s Danish William Seward Burroughs Brussels Until June 15 Albertina Golden Age collection. (1914-1997). art & antique fair % 49-69-2123-6262 Until Aug. 10 “Brussels Oriental Art Fair 2008” fea- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Irish Museum of Modern Art % 43-1-5348-30 www.ikonen-museum.frankfurt.de tures more than 30 exhibitors. Until June 22 Until June 29 www.albertina.at Brussels Oriental Art Fair % 45-3341-8141 % 353-1-6129-900 From June 4 to 8 www.glyptoteket.dk www.imma.ie Liverpool Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, WSJE research. % 32-2-344-4171 art www.boafair.be Dresden Florence “Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and art science Modern Life in Vienna 1900” illus- WSJ.com Copenhagen “Canaletto: Views of the Canal Grande “The Medici and the Sciences—Instru- trates the artist’s role as the founder What’s on in Venice” shows veduta paintings of ments and Machines in the Grand Du- and leader of the Viennese Secession. design WSJ.com subscribers can see an Venice by Canaletto (1697-1768), in- Tate Gallery Liverpool “Living Wood” traces the 20th-century cal Collections” shows scientific instru- expanded version of the European cluding two recently restored works. Until Aug. 31 evolution of the Danish wood and fur- ments, such as sundials and propor- arts-and-culture calendar at tional compasses. % 44-151-7027-400 niture industry, covering toys to win- Gemäldegalerie Alte WSJ.com/Europe dows to luxury wood furniture. Meister—Zwinger Museo degli Argenti—Palazzo Pitti www.tate.org.uk Artistic journeys in Iceland Summer book roundup W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 30 - JUNE 1, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v 8-12 | Cover story Travel 5 | Food & Drink Art A toast to Robert Mondavi Mr. Wirth says he is most excited Contents by the latest addition to his artists’ Top Picks: Goya’s engravings High-stakes selling at Art Basel stable, rising Indian star Subodh 3 | Art Greater Moscow Gupta. Mr. Gupta’s “Still Steal Steel Cultural treasures in the capital’s suburbs ASEL COMMANDS center all media: painting, sculpture, draw- time off on a beach with bikini-clad no. 4” (2008), from a series of dis- | Books stage in the contemporary-art ings, installations, photography, beauties in the foreground torted photorealist paintings of tra- Backstage with Olafur Eliasson 6, 7 Bworld next week when galler- prints, video and computer art. ($50,000); and Canadian Rodney ditional Indian cooking vessels, will ies and collectors converge on the The event has also drawn several Graham’s mesmerizing five-minute ‘Untitled,’ be priced in the range of Œ650,000. Swiss city for the Art Basel fair. satellite fairs into its orbit: Liste for film of a spinning chandelier 2000, by One area of the fair that and Hans-Ulrich Obrist t A summer reading Some 300 galleries will exhibit young artists; Scope and The Volta ($400,000). Louise shouldn’t be missed is Art Unlim- list with a global theme works by more than 2,000 artists at Show for emerging galleries with “The stakes are high at Art Basel Bourgeois. ited, a huge hall within Art Basel fea- 4 | Fashion cutting-edge art; and PrintBasel for because it is the ultimate barometer © Hauser & Wirth Zürich London turing works that are too big or com- graphic editions. of the gallery market,” says Iwan be bringing. plicated for booths in the main area. 13 | Taste Collecting Neil Wenman, director of art Wirth of Hauser & Wirth of Zurich His roster of artists this year in- Among such works this year will be On Style: MARGARET STUDER fairs at London’s Lisson Gallery, and London. cludes California’s Paul McCarthy a captivating video by Swiss artist says that this year Lisson will bring Mr. Wirth says he expects this with his grotesque-comic objects, Pipilotti Rist: an ethereal red- Too sexy for Girls just wanna have fun to Basel such contrasting works as year’s fair to attract an especially in- French-born American Louise Bour- headed woman’s journey out of para- the world’s leading 20th- and 21st- “Intermission” (2008) by Puerto ternational set of visitors, noting geois’s feminist pieces and Ameri- dise through a long graffiti-ridden the office? t century-art fair. Art Basel includes Rico-based duo Jennifer Allora & that his gallery has had an unusually can installation artist Dan Graham tunnel. Projected onto the ceiling, it 15 | Art artists ranging from globally known Guillermo Calzadilla, a study of high number of inquiries from Rus- with his cool, mirrored architec- is best viewed while lying on the Decoding stars to up-and-comers working in American combat soldiers taking sians and Asians about what it will tural constructions. floor. eco fashion claims Collecting: t Art Basel DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES The price thinks big of an 16 | Time Off SOUTH WEST FRANCE Hermès Our arts and culture calendar STUNNING LOCATION beach towel t Ensemble of 2 attractive, renovated stone houses, salt water swimming pool, 39 acres. Panoramic views. On cover, the New Jerusalem Monastery’s Resurrection Cathedral near Moscow. LS207 830 000 Euros Above, Assumption Cathedral at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery. (Photos: ITAR-TASS) WSJ.com tel: 00 33 553 95 97 28 www.lafitescholfield.com Short escapes Walking billboards A wine’s identity Elizabeth Blackshire Editor The best places in Asia Maria Sharapova’s Tiffany Finding melons and Craig Winneker Deputy editor Hamakua Coast, Big Island, Hawaii for a mini-break from earrings, and other sports minerals—or acetate— Carlos Tovar Art director 4.8 acres.