FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 6 - 8, 2009 Leo Potma Aachen art “The Great Virtuoso from Amsterdam: Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608/09-1651)” shows about 40 paintings and 20 drawings by the Dutch painter. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum March 12-June 7 % 49-241-4798-00 www.jacob-backer.de Amsterdam design “Animal-Inspired Bags” presents bag designs based on animals, including work by Beverly Feldman and Corine Haacke. Museum for Bags and Purses—Tassenmuseum Hendrikje March 16-Aug. 23 % 31-20-5246-452 www.tassenmuseum.nl Antwerp art “Goya, Redon, Ensor—Grotesque Paint- ings and Drawings” shows a selection of works by the three painters. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten March 14-June 14 % 32-3-2387-809 www.kmska.be fashion “Paper Fashion” showcases a collec- tion of 1960s paper dresses from the Atopos collection. Modemuseum Until Aug. 16 % 32-3-4702-770 www.momu.be Berlin Private collection, photo: Lars Engelhardt/Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde art ‘Karin and Esbjörn’ (1909), by Carl Larsson, in Stockholm; above, leopard skin handbag made in Botswana, 1962, by an unknown designer, on show in Amsterdam. “The Art of Interpretation—Italian Re- productive Prints from Mantegna to Carracci” shows drawings, paintings, works by Irish artist James Coleman www.ok-centrum.at by the Irish born painter (1909-1992). exhibits photography by Swedish printing plates and faience works. (born 1941), featuring works from the Museu Nacional del Prado photographer Bengt Wanselius Kupferstichkabinett 1970s up to the early 2000s. Ljubljana Until April 19 (born 1944). Until June 14 Irish Museum of Modern Art archaeology % 34-91-3302-800 Dansmuseet % 49-30-2662-951 March 7-April 26 “Pre-Columbian Mexico: Eternal Life” www.museodelprado.es Until April 19 www.smb.museum % 353-1-6129-900 brings together some of the most im- % 46-8-4417-650 www.modernart.ie portant archaeological finds recently Paris www.dansmuseet.nu art discovered in Mexico. archaeology “Picturing America: Photorealism in Edinburgh Cankarjev dom Cultural and “The Gates of Heaven—Visions of art the 70s” presents 32 large-scale real- photography Congress Centre the World in Ancient Egypt” is a ma- “Carl Larsson” presents 100 works ist paintings by 17 artists. “Helmand: Faces of Conflict” presents March 10-July 24 jor exhibition of 350 ancient Egyp- by the Swedish artist Carl Larsson Deutsche Guggenheim a series of haunting portraits showing % 386-1241-7299 tian artifacts in their social, religious (1853-1919). Until May 10 British soldiers in the Helmand prov- www.cd-cc.si and artistic context. Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde % 49-30-2020-930 ince of Afghanistan by photographer Musée du Louvre Until May 31 www.deutsche-guggenheim.de Robert Wilson. London Until June 29 % Building 46-08-5458-3700 National War Museum, art % 33-1-4020-5050 www.waldemarsudde.se Bonn Edinburgh Castle “Gerhard Richter Portraits” shows por- www.louvre.fr photography Until Jan. 31, 2010 traits by the German artist Gerhard Turin “Czech Photography of the 20th Cen- % 44-131-2257-534 Richter (born 1932) from the 1960s to art film tury” exhibits photographs by Czech www.nms.ac.uk the present. “Italian Primitives” displays 50 “Rodolfo Valentino: The Seduction artists, ranging from avant-garde to National Portrait Gallery works by Italian masters of the of the Myth” pays tribute to the Ital- photojournalism. Until May 31 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Frankfurt ian-American actor (1895-1926). Kunst- und Austellungshalle art % 44-20-7306-0055 Musée Jacquemart-André a new look Museo Nazionale del Cinema March 13-July 26 “Darwin: Art and the Search for Ori- www.npg.org.uk March 11-June 21 Until May 24 % 49-228-9171-0 gins” exhibits 150 paintings, drawings % 33-1-4562-1159 % 39-011-8138-564 www.kah-bonn.de and lithographs by artists with an in- Maastricht www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com www.museonazionaledelcinema.org terest in the natural sciences. art Big-name architects Budapest Schirn Kunsthalle “Jordaens—The Making of a Master- Sofia art Until May 3 piece” exhibits the restored master- film Vienna “A Land of Myths—The Art of Gustave % 49-69-2998-820 piece ‘The Tribute Money: Peter Find- “Sofia International Film Festival design start designing fashion Moreau” displays 120 works by the www.schirn-kunsthalle.de ing the Silver Coin in the Mouth of 2009” shows more than 100 fea- “Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the French symbolist painter (1826-1898) the Fish” by Flemish Baroque painter ture films, 30 documentaries and Technical Object” presents furniture depicting mythological figures. Linz Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). two programs of short films. and architecture by the French de- Museum of Fine Arts art Bonnefanten Museum Sofia International Film Festival signer. Until May 3 “Biennale Cuvée 09” showcases a se- March 13-June 14 March 5-March 15 Hofmobiliendepot % 36-1-4697-100 lection of artistic projects from the % 31-43-3290-190 % 359-2952-6467 March 11-June 21 www.szepmuveszeti.hu most important international biennials www.bonnefanten.nl www.cinema.bg/sff/2009/eng % 43-1-5243-357 of 2008. www.hofmobiliendepot.at Dublin OK Center for Contemporary Art Madrid Stockholm art Until April 26 art photography Source: ArtBase Global Arts News “James Coleman” shows a selection of % 43-732-7841-780 “Francis Bacon” presents 78 paintings “Stockholm—Tokyo and in between” Service, WSJE research. Choreographer Jonathan Burrows Behind the scenes of ‘Watchmen’ W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 6 - 8, 2009 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Taste 8-9 | Cover story Fashion 10-11 | Food & Drink A difficult love affair with Barolo U2’s Latest Experiment in Sound Contents Building a new look 3 | Fashion Sibling rivalry makes great liqueur By Jim Fusilli U2 adds dance beats to fatten the known Caller.” In some songs, the tained guitar. “Unknown Caller” forgiveness where forgiveness is groove on “Achtung Baby” (1991), most prominent lines are played develops patiently to a big cho- not/Only the lamb as white as Big-name architects 12 | Travel As its new album, “No Line on home to the masterpiece “One,” a on synthesizers rather than on the rus, as Bono sings over raw, echo- snow.” Said to be the thoughts of Mixed messages in Milan design fashion the Horizon” (Universal), demon- simmering down-tempo ballad. It Edge’s guitar or Mr. Clayton’s bass, ing guitars and a syncopated per- a dying soldier in Afghanistan, the strates, U2 is the only rock band marries rock and electronica on and at times Bono seems like he’s cussion pattern. “Cedars of Leba- song concludes with “If only a 4 | Top Picks An unsung Florida getaway of its stature and authority that “Zooropa” (1993) and “Pop” fighting the tumult rather than non” is whispered and spoken by heart could be as white as snow.” is so willing to toy with its for- (1997), and with “Rattle and gliding through a cleared, shining Bono over snappy drumming by In “Breathe,” he writes: “Sing your 13 | Books mula for success. Hum” (1988) takes on the Beatles, path. It’s controlled chaos, and Mr. Mullen and whistling strings. heart out, sing my heart out/I’ve Art as interior design By the standards of today’s Bob Dylan, gospel and the blues. when all the pieces fit—as in the It’s easy to comb the lyrics of found grace inside a sound.” iPod shuffle mentality, “No Line” All this is accomplished with extraordinary “Magnificent”—it’s “No Line” for allusions to Bono’s Even when the reference isn’t Translating the Holocaust is a great album, though it has no one of rock’s most inventive exhilarating. globetrotting politi- explicit, the words can be inter- ‘Dr. Atomic’ is hot consistent flow and no musical rhythm sections: bassist Adam The title track, cal adventures. preted as spiritually minded. In Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen which opens the al- When the They’re there in “I’ll Go Crazy,” whose lyrics open | arc. 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