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Weekly Exhibition Guide|Cherry blossom viewing in the museum, stepping spring in Southern Song Dynasty paintings

It is the time of spring and Jingming, and in addition to enjoying the exhibitions launched by the Museum of Fine Arts, flower viewing also becomes part of the art viewing tour. The Tokyo National Museum's special exhibition "Cherry Blossom Viewing at the Museum" features paintings by Utagawa Toyo-e and others, as well as cherry blossom-related porcelain, fabrics, screens, and other utensils.

The Shanghai Museum's "From Botticelli to Van Gogh" exhibition is halfway through, and the craze continues. At present, the matinee performance is postponed and the night performance is added; The special exhibition "Song Yun Jinhui" at the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou is based on the dialogue of the Southern Song "Liu Li Maxia" on the creation of Chinese paintings in later generations, which is also a hot event in the city, and a night show has been added. The Suzhou Museum's "Special Exhibition of Dunhuang Art Copying and Spiritual Inheritance" looks at the desert in the spring light of Jiangnan.

"After Impressionism: Creating Modern Art" at the National Gallery of England looks at how the influence of Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin spread throughout Europe; The Wallace Collection "Portrait of a Dog: From Gainsborough to Hockney", from which you can see the friendship between humans and dogs.

The Paper Art Review combs through the exhibitions worth watching during the week.

Shanghai

From Botticelli to Van Gogh: The National Gallery of England's collection

Venue: Shanghai Museum

Session: January 17 - May 7, 2023 (matinee postponed, open every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday)

This exhibition is the second in the Shanghai Museum's "World in Dialogue" series of cultural relics and art exhibitions, featuring 52 oil paintings, including Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Goset, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Claude, Constable, Cézanne, Manet, Monet and Van Gogh. The exhibition is a distillation of the National Gallery's collection, offering a glimpse into the epitome of European art history spanning more than 400 years.

Dragon and Shi – A special exhibition of Chinese calligraphy and painting art in the Ming Dynasty

Venue: Long Museum (West Bund)

Exhibition period: March 25–June 18, 2023

The exhibition selects 83 pieces (groups) of calligraphy and painting works of the Ming Dynasty, including calligraphy, paintings, letters and other precious cultural relics from the Zhejiang School and the Wumen School to the Songjiang School and their contemporaries, involving nearly 60 creators.

Paintings of the West, Southeast Garden Villa - Special Exhibition by Architect Tong Huan (1900-1983).

Venue: Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum

Exhibition period: March 17–May 14, 2023

Held in the two museums of Jiushi Art Museum and Jiushi Art Salon, the exhibition is guided by two important experiences in Tong Yao's life, through the two themes of "Traveling to the West" and "Southeast Garden Villa", respectively, to show the audience the sketches of Tong Lian during his grand tour in Europe and the relevant materials of his research on Chinese gardens during his time as a professional architect, leading the audience to interpret the secrets of Tong Lian and architecture, art and garden.

Always Know Spring - Special Exhibition to Commemorate the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Zhang Dazhuang, Lai Chusheng and Jiang Hanting

Venue: Shanghai Art Museum of Chinese Academy of Fine Arts

Exhibition period: March 11 – May 14, 2023

More than 90 paintings, calligraphy and seal carvings by Zhang Dazhuang, Lai Chusheng and Jiang Hanting, the first batch of painters of the Shanghai Chinese Art Academy, are exhibited, presenting the artistic achievements and contributions of the three in the field of flower and bird painting. Among them, Zhang Dazhuang's "Sketching Vegetables and Fruits" is the first exhibition, the pen is like fireworks flowing clouds, pure nature, the pen is conscious, and the view is comfortable.

Xun Ba Ji: A Series of Exhibitions on the Integration of Chinese Civilization

Venue: China Maritime Museum

Exhibition period: March 14–June 4, 2023

Based on a number of typical Pakistani civilization artifacts unearthed in the Three Gorges area, the exhibition shows the audience the past and characteristic culture of the Pakistani people lost in the long river of history, and explores the diverse traces of Chinese civilization. The 132 cultural relics on display include the Warring States bronze "Gong Yu Wang" and the Bird-shaped Zun among the ten treasures of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing. Because of its largest size among similar instruments in China, the tiger button is the king of the tiger button. Another piece of the bird-shaped figure is known for its exquisite casting and craftsmanship.

Wuji - Changsha Mawangdui Cultural Relics Exhibition

Venue: Minhang Museum

Exhibition period: March 3–May 3, 2023

Excavated in 1972-1974, the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha is an important discovery in the archaeological history of China and the world. A total of more than 3,000 precious cultural relics were unearthed from the three tombs, including lacquered wood, painted pottery, bronze ware, calligraphy and painting cultural relics and some replicas. This exhibition is the first time that Mawangdui cultural relics have been exhibited in Shanghai.

Stunning beauty: exhibition from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples

Venue: Pudong Art Museum

Exhibition period: December 21, 2022–April 9, 2023

As one of the most important archaeological museums in the world, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, has the world's most complete collection of ancient Roman sculptures and frescoes in Pompeii. This exhibition is not only a display of ancient Roman civilization 2,000 years ago, but many of its national treasures have left Italy for the first time.

The Way of Rock - A series of exhibitions of Sino-Japanese rock art exchanges

Venue: APSMUSEUM (301, 3rd Floor, Lujiazui Center)

Exhibition period: March 17 – June 16, 2023

The exhibition brings together the rock art paintings of 25 Japanese and Chinese artists, including Yuji Kojima, Iwakura Toshi, Asano Jun, Ma Qiang, Miao Tong, and Zhai Jianqun, showing the inheritance and exploration of "rock color painting" in different historical and cultural contexts.

The world is my representation – 2023 Contemporary Women Artists Invitational Exhibition

Venue: Zhu Yizhan Art Museum

Exhibition period: March 7 - April 16, 2023

The exhibition invited more than 50 works/groups of works by 20 female artists, including Jin Weihong, Liu Manwen, Shi Zhiying, Wang Xiaohui and Zhang Leiping. Starting from their own subjective cognition and life experience, they focus on exploring inner resources and exploring the value of art and the meaning of women's existence through the expression of personal experience.

"Han Mo Traces" Feng Yuan Art Exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Art Museum

Exhibition period: March 24–April 23, 2023

The exhibition is a systematic and complete summary of Feng Yuan's creative career, with more than 500 Chinese paintings and calligraphy works created with passion for painting, spanning 40 years, from which we can glimpse the traces and mental journey of his exploration and practice of Chinese and object painting language and paradigm innovation.

She World - The Trail of the Women's Expo

Venue: Expo Museum

Exhibition period: March 8 - May 21, 2023

The exhibition interprets the traces of women's world from the unique cultural perspective of the World Expo, and retells the "she" in the global historical memory through the exhibition of more than 70 works such as related objects and documents, and hopes to bring the audience a series of enlightening thoughts on women's culture, women's development and future vision.

Fenghai Rongguang - Zhelin Site Archaeological Achievements Exhibition

Location: Fengxian District Museum

Exhibition period: February 24–April 6, 2023

The exhibition draws on some of the cultural relics excavated at the Zhelin site in recent years to showcase the latest archaeological achievements. The pottery, jade products, bone horn ware and carved pottery on display show the audience a scene of the grassroots settlement of Liangzhu culture.

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Venue: Star Art Museum

Exhibition period: December 30, 2022–May 21, 2023

This is the first season of the exhibition, which features 85 artists and 88 works from China, the United States, Denmark, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and other countries. The oldest of these artists was born in 1921 and the youngest was born in 1988, and almost all of the most contemporary and representative artists in international contemporary art are listed, and the works on display are strongly representative and recognizable.

Moyuan strange - Mohai Lou color ink exhibition

Venue: Shanghai Pen and Ink Museum

Exhibition period: February 20, 2023 and April 22, 2023

More than 100 exhibits range from raw ore to refined ink and even contemporary pigments; Its year, from the Southern Song Dynasty to the contemporary era, spans nearly a thousand years, including the cinnabar of the Southern Song Dynasty cellars unearthed by archaeology, the "Denglong Yipin" in the late Ming Dynasty, the "Manchu Stone Blue" of the Qing Kang Dynasty, the "Colorful Ink" during the Qianlong Dynasty, and the Shanghai Li pigment of the Republic of China, as well as the color ink of Japan, Britain and other brand trademarks.

Beijing

For example, Fragrant Hills: Gandhara Art Exhibition

Location: Wenhua Hall, Palace Museum

Exhibition period: March 15–June 15, 2023

The exhibition selects a total of 203 cultural relics (sets) from Pakistan and the Palace Museum, most of which were unearthed by archaeological excavations from the 2nd century BC to the 10th century AD. The exhibition mainly focuses on Gandhara stone carvings such as statues of early Buddha and Bodhisattva, stupa architectural components, etc., as well as some gold and silver objects and jewelry, fully demonstrating the diversity of Gandhara art.

Faith in the mountains and forests in the city - the hidden and the sophisticated, the material and the heart of the ancient literati

Venue: Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum

Exhibition period: March 24–May 14, 2023

The exhibition presents 48 sets of ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting since the Yuan Dynasty, gathering works by Zhao Mengfu, Zhou Chen, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, Dai Jin, Chen Chun, Chen Hongshou, Shi Tao and many other famous artists. Taking the perspective of ancient Chinese literati viewing objects and understanding of minds as clues, through the four sections of Lin Quan's Heart, Yayou Shiyi, Heaven and Earth in a Pot, and Poetry and Painting, it tells the material life and spiritual home of Chinese scholars carried by the garden.

Exhibition of ancient Chinese porcelain

Venue: National Museum of China

Duration: Special exhibition, long-term

Through the four parts of the long history, porcelain ingenuity, porcelain charm and style, and porcelain travel, the exhibition integrates the formation and development of ancient Chinese porcelain, the progress of porcelain technology, the evolution of decorative styles, the exchange and interaction between Chinese and foreign cultures, and the social changes and aesthetic imagery behind it, and systematically displays the evolution of ancient Chinese porcelain in terms of glaze, shape, ornamentation and craftsmanship.

Four major discoveries of ancient Chinese documents in the early 20th century

Venue: National Museum of Classics

Session: From 14 January 2023 onwards

The Yin Shang oracle bones, the Juyan Han Jian, the Dunhuang testament, and the archives of the Ming and Qing cabinets are the "four great discoveries" of Chinese scholarship at the beginning of the last century. The exhibition brings together four major documents collected in various places, with an exhibition area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and a total of 249 kinds of precious cultural relics and documents such as oracle bones, simple mu, Dunhuang suicide notes, and Ming and Qing Dynasty archives, a total of 249 kinds and 382 pieces. Through the interpretation of historical materials, dialogue with history, tracing the origin of Chinese history, exploring the Chinese context.

Three Thousand Worlds in the Painting: An Exhibition of Portraits of Ming and Qing Daoist Figures in the Collection of the Capital Museum

Venue: Capital Museum

Exhibition period: January 20–July 23, 2023

"Taoist character painting" refers to the portraits depicting Taoist and Buddhist characters, with a strong artistic style and rich picture content, which is a masterpiece of religious art. This exhibition selects more than 100 portraits of Taoist figures from the Ming and Qing dynasties, exploring the superb painting skills and beautiful spiritual sustenance embodied in these works.

Intertwined trajectories – German Modern Design 1945-1990

Venue: Tsinghua University Art Museum

Exhibition period: January 10–April 16, 2023

The exhibition focuses on the development trajectory of German design from 1945 to 1990, presenting the phased development results of German design through more than 300 exhibits, revealing the design genealogy of East and West Germany born under different cultural perspectives and artistic concepts. The exhibition is entitled "Intertwined Tracks" in East and West Germany, and is divided into "Role Transformation", "Reconstruction and Progress", "Difference and Sharing", "Crisis and Reflection" and other exhibition parts.

Who is he?—— A retrospective of Geng Jianyi's works

Venue: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Exhibition period: March 18–June 11, 2023

Spanning more than 30 years of the artist's career, the exhibition covers more than 90 representative works such as painting, installation, performance and photography, supplemented by a large number of documents on paper, and presents Geng Jianyi's continuous exploration of breaking the boundaries of art through a series of experimental works, and uncompromising challenges to various established art forms. The eponymous exhibition was previously shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

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"Song Yun Jinhui" art special exhibition

Venue: Art Museum of China Academy of Art

Session: March 18 - April 16, 2023 (Open at night on weekends)

The exhibition displays 37 pieces (groups) of Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing calligraphy and paintings, including 13 first-class cultural relics (groups), including 10 pieces (groups) of calligraphy and paintings of the two Song dynasties. Among them, Liu Songnian's "Four Scenic Landscape Map", Xia Gui's "Yanxiu Forest Residence", Li Tang's "Haoliang Autumn Water Map", Ma Yuan's "Tanmei Map" and other famous works in art history are presented one by one, which is also the first time that the four great calligraphy and paintings of the Southern Song Dynasty have gathered in Hangzhou for public display in 800 years.

Yeshan Hook Gu - Huang Binhong's Song Painting Study and Its Inheritance

Venue: Art Museum of China Academy of Art

Exhibition period: March 18–April 16, 2023

The exhibition features nearly 60 works of Huang Binhong from the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art, in three sections: "Chuanji Hook Guan", "Denglinji Tour" and "Chenghuai Guanhua", in order to tell his artistic achievements and painting ideas.

History of Letters and National Craftsmanship: A Special Exhibition of Chinese Ceramic Painting

Venue: Folk Art Museum, China Academy of Art

Exhibition period: March 18–April 16, 2023

With three sections: "Letter History", "National Work" and "Entertainment Art", the exhibition meticulously promotes the combing and arrangement from the development of history and modern art, the teaching law of the college, and the level of continuation and creation. There are 40 artists of all generations, 3 large-scale production enterprises, nearly 100 sets of classic treasures and more than 100 historical specimens.

Jiangsu

This Heart Returns - Dunhuang Art Copying and Spiritual Inheritance Special Exhibition

Venue: Suzhou Museum (West Building)

Exhibition period: March 25–June 25, 2023

The exhibition focuses on three aspects: Dunhuang murals, Dunhuang cave art (275 restored caves), and Dunhuang studies and documents. Zhang Daqian, Chang Shuhong, Xie Zhiliu, Lu Wei, Duan Wenjie, Shi Weixiang, Ouyang Lin, Chang Shana and other artist groups studied and compared Dunhuang art copying and comparative display. Let more audiences visit the exhibition in the way of painting exhibitions, and deeply enjoy the treasure house of thousands of years of history and culture, transcending time and space, and artistic masterpieces full of eternal charm.

Wind and Moon Appreciation - Exhibition of Japanese Antiquities in the Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada

Venue: Suzhou Museum

Exhibition period: March 1–May 21, 2023

The exhibition represents the best of the Royal Ontario Museum's Japanese collection – dozens of works of art and crafts, from stunning woodblock prints to elegant picnic components, spanning the early 17th century to the present.

Great River Ancient Flow - Special Exhibition of Civilization in the Lower Yangtze River

Location: Nanjing Museum

Exhibition period: December 31, 2022–March 31, 2023

The civilization of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River has created the thousand-year-old cultural context of Jiangnan water towns and is an important source for the preservation of Chinese civilization. The exhibition shows the audience the origin and development of civilization in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the physical evidence of material and spiritual civilization at the peak of culture, and the colorful light and shadow of current urban civilization, including the seven-hole stone knife from 56,000 years ago, and the bronze mirror of the polo diagram of the Tang Dynasty.

Qinglian shirt lotus clothes - Luzhishui Township Women's Clothing Exhibition

Venue: Wu Culture Museum

Exhibition period: March 8 – June 11, 2023

This exhibition systematically presents the development of women's clothing in Luzhishui Township from six aspects: what is Luzhi Water Township Women's Clothing, how Luzhi Water Township Women's Clothing was born, the eight major components of clothing, clothing characteristics, and the difference between it and other Water Town Women's Clothing, so as to arouse the audience's local memory.

How to stop the eight monsters - three hundred years of Yangzhou painting

Venue: Grand Canal Museum of China, Yangzhou

Exhibition period: January 2–March 31, 2023

With the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" as the core and the painters who lived in or were born in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, the exhibition displays nearly 90 masterpieces of Yangzhou painting in the Qing Dynasty, telling the magnificent rise and fall of Yangzhou painting in the Qing Dynasty. Among the more than 40 painters, there are not only the well-known "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" such as Jin Nong, Zheng Xie and Li Li, but also the remnant painters such as Cha Shibiao and Shi Tao who had a great influence on the Yangzhou art scene, as well as professional painters such as Gu Fushu and Li Yin who are closely connected with the salt merchant group.

Liaoning

Six hundred years of the Jin Kingdom

Venue: Liaoning Provincial Museum

Exhibition period: January 8 – April 8, 2023

The exhibition tells the story of the rise and fall of the Jin state by displaying cultural relics related to the Jin state in the Zhou Dynasty. A total of 159 cultural relics are exhibited in the exhibition, all from the Shanxi Museum, all of which are exhibited in Liaoning for the first time, among which precious burial objects such as bronzes unearthed in the "Jin Marquis Cemetery" are particularly eye-catching.

Looking and Gaze: A Selection of Western Paintings from the Fuji Museum of Art, Tokyo

Venue: Liaoning Provincial Museum

Exhibition period: December 27, 2022–April 5, 2023

The exhibition selects 52 well-known artists such as Van Dyck, Goya, Louis David, Ingres, Delacroix, Boucher, Miller, Klimt, Magritte, Chagall, Andy Warhol and other 52 well-known artists with a total of 60 classic portrait paintings, from the 16th century to the 20th century, covering the development of Western art history from the Renaissance, Methodism or Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Critical Realism, Impressionism, and all the way to modernism. It can be called a textbook exhibition of Western art history.

Tianjin

A Thousand Years of Sound Movement - A Special Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Music Relics

Venue: Tianjin Museum

Exhibition period: March 21–June 18, 2023

The exhibition gathers nearly 200 precious ancient music relics and related exhibits from the Tianjin Museum and Henan Museum, depicting a brilliant picture of ancient Chinese music over thousands of years in chronological order.

Hunan

Wanli Tea Ceremony - Tea Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition of Nine Provinces (Regions).

Location: Hunan Museum

Exhibition period: March 21–May 7, 2023

The exhibition is jointly organized by the Wanli Tea Ceremony Joint Application Office and the Cultural Relics Bureaus of nine provinces (regions) in Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia, and will display more than 300 cultural relics from 16 cultural and museum units, recreating for the audience the trade road of the busy traffic and tea passing on thousands of miles.

With Tianwuji Brilliant Qinzhong-Shaanxi Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Cultural Relics Essence Exhibition

Location: Hunan Museum

Exhibition period: February 24–June 11, 2023

The exhibition brings together 120 groups of ancient Shaanxi cultural relics from Shaanxi History Museum, Xianyang Museum, Hanjing Diyang Mausoleum Museum, Famen Temple Museum, Qianling Museum, Xi'an Chang'an Museum and other units. The exhibits include Shang Dynasty bronze thunder pattern ding, Western Zhou openwork bronze beans, "Zhongfeng (nán) father" bronze guan, Western Han gold cake, Tang Dynasty secret color porcelain, etc.

Guangdong

The 7th Guangzhou Triennial

Venue: Guangdong Museum of Art

Exhibition period: January 15–April 10, 2023

With the theme of "Turning into Change", this year's Guangzhou Triennial opens up a contemporary landscape of change and refracts the light of the times and its impact. This is also the last triennial to be held on the current site, and the next edition will land in the new hall, with contemporary, video, and design topics, creating an important academic brand.

Zhang Enli: Portrait

Venue: Shunde and Art Museum

Exhibition period: February 17 - May 14, 2023

The exhibition presents more than 50 paintings by Zhang Enli in recent years, as well as installations created for specific sites of the museum's architecture, using the space of lines, objects and abstract figures.

Hong Kong

Jin Changhuacai - Hong Kong Palace Museum and Mengdi Xuan Collection of ancient gold

Venue: Hong Kong Palace Museum

Exhibition period: February 22–September 25, 2023

The exhibition showcases 220 exquisite ancient Chinese gold objects, presenting the artistic and technical achievements of gold products in China's history over the past 3,000 years, and exploring the role of gold in ancient political activities, cultural life and cross-regional interactions. Treasures on display include gold crowns used by Xiongnu nobles, banner ornaments with Central Plains ornaments used by Tubo nobles, and inlaid treasure crowns worn by Tang Dynasty princesses and borrowed from Chinese and Western Asian ornaments.

Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to present

Venue: M+ Museum of Visual Culture

Exhibition period: November 12, 2022–May 14, 2023

The exhibition is Kusama's largest retrospective outside of Japan, with over 200 exhibits in a variety of media, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and archival materials. Starting from the paintings created at the end of World War II to his latest immersive works, this retrospective presents the various stages of Kusama's artistic career around the six themes of "infinity", "accumulation", "comprehensive connection", "biological universe", "death" and "life force".

Taipei

"Vatican Pontifical Library Collection" and "Ming and Qing Court Collection" special exhibition

Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei

Exhibition period: March 11–July 16, 2023

The exhibition includes two parts, "Vatican Pontifical Library Collection" and "Ming and Qing Court Collection", which for the first time displays rare ancient books in the context of Western and Chinese history and culture, hoping that the audience can grasp the progress of Eastern and Western civilizations and the characteristics of book culture from the 15th to the 19th century, and compare the similarities and differences between the Holy See and the Chinese royal book collection culture.

The popular "National Treasure" exhibition

Venue: National Palace Museum, Taipei (South Courtyard)

Exhibition period: February 4–May 7, 2023

In addition to exhibiting popular cultural relics such as jade cabbage and flesh-shaped stones, more than ten cultural relics in the museum's collection with the theme of "Arhat" are also exhibited, such as Song "Liu Songnian Painting Arhat", Yuan's "Yuan Ren Ying Zhen Image", and "Bamboo Carving Fuhu Arhat" in the early Qing Dynasty, presenting the historical changes of Arhat statues in different periods.

"National Treasure" spotlight

Location: National Palace Museum, Taipei

Exhibition period: January 5–March 26, 2023

The exhibition of the "national treasure" level cultural relics in the courtyard - Su Shi's "Zhizhi County Chaofeng Ruler", according to reports, as the last work of the surviving ink blot of Su Dongpo, the literary hero of the Northern Song Dynasty, is known as "the ultimate pen".

overseas

United Kingdom

After Impressionism: Creating Modern Art

Location: National Gallery, UK

Exhibition period: March 25–August 13, 2023

The exhibition presents more than 100 paintings and sculptures by renowned European artists from 1886 to 1914, starting from the artistic styles and achievements of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, and traveling to major European cities such as Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, and Barcelona to explore the influence of the three Impressionists on contemporary and younger artists.

Portrait of a Dog: From Gainsborough to Hockney

Location: The Wallace Collection

Exhibition period: March 29–October 15, 2023

The exhibition explores our love of four-legged friends over the centuries. Through a careful selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, artwork and even taxidermy animals, the exhibition highlights the unique connection between humans and their canine companions.

Donatello: Shaping the Renaissance

Venue: V&A Museum, UK

Exhibition period: February 11–June 11, 2023

Around 130 exhibits are on display, 50 of which debut in the UK. This special exhibition will provide a fresh perspective on the artist's outstanding talent and his influence on the field of culture and art at a pivotal period in art history, as well as on subsequent artists.

Netherlands

"Vermeer" exhibition

Venue: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Exhibition period: February 10–June 4, 2023 

Vermeer was a prominent Dutch painting master of the 17th century, and only 34 paintings attributed to him so far will be exhibited in this exhibition. These include The Young Woman Sitting in front of the Vigina at the National Gallery in London, The Lace Lady at the Louvre in Paris, The Maid Pouring Milk, Side Street, and Love Letters in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and Vermeer's most famous work, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, in the collection of the Maurites Royal Gallery in The Hague.

Freyle, pioneer of Vermeer's style

Venue: Maurites Royal Gallery in The Hague

Exhibition period: February 10–May 29, 2023 

Vermeer's contemporary, Jacobs Freyer (active circa 1640-1660), was also a master of the Serenity style, and currently attributes about 50 paintings to Freyr, but little personal information has survived from the mysterious painter.

Choose Vincent: a portrayal of a family history

Venue: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Exhibition period: February 10–April 10, 2023

Through precious paintings, documents and personal objects, the exhibition presents group portraits of Van Gogh family members, tracing the history of the founding of the Van Gogh Museum and why Van Gogh's works were brought together and preserved. Van Gogh's important paintings include "Harvest" and "Blooming Apricot Blossoms".

Germany

Women in Italian art (1400-1800)

Venue: Berlin State Museum

Exhibition period: March 8 – June 4, 2023

Through the Berlin Museum of Prints and Drawings and collections borrowed from other institutions, the exhibition focuses on the works, stories and influences of women in Italian art from 1400 to 1800, showcasing their active and diverse roles in society.

Sun: Light source in art

Venue: Barberini Museum

Exhibition period: February 25 – June 11, 2023

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Monet's Impressions of Sunrise, the Barberini Museum in Germany and the Musée Mamotan in France jointly curated this exhibition, bringing together about 130 exhibits covering paintings, prints, sculptures, manuscripts and books, exploring the important role of the "sun" in European art history. Works on display include Rubens' The Fall of Phaethon, Turner's Motleck Terrace, and Paul Hynecke's Sunset's Harbor.

France

Picasso and prehistory

Venue: National Museum of Natural History, France

Exhibition period: February 8 – June 12, 2023

This exhibition is part of a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, showcasing the influence of prehistoric art on Picasso.

Picasso was born at a time when excavations of prehistoric remains in Spain flourished, and many of his works—especially during the interwar period—show the influence of prehistoric culture. The exhibition will focus on about 40 works by Picasso, including sculptures, prints, paintings and drawings, presenting the imprint of prehistoric art. Some of the works are on exclusive display.

Picasso Celebration: A Collection from a New Perspective

Venue: Picasso Museum, Paris

Exhibition period: March 7 - August 27, 2023

Artistic director by British fashion designer Paul Smith, the exhibition dialogues Picasso's work and collection with contemporary artists including Mikaline Thomas and Sheri Samba, allowing viewers to reflect not only on Picasso's global heritage, but also on his depictions of women and references to African artistic traditions.

Japan

Depicting Love – Exhibition of the Louvre Collection

Venue: National Art Center, Japan

Exhibition period: March 1–June 12, 2023

The exhibition carefully selects 73 paintings on the theme of "love" from the Louvre collection, spanning the 16th to mid-19th centuries, highlighting the exploration of the representation of "love" and the understanding of "love" by European painters in the art of painting. Highlights include François Boucher's Cupid's Goal, Antoine Watteau's Ninf and Satyr, Sassoferrato's Sleeping Baby Jesus and François Gérard's Cupid and Psyche.

Wang Xizhi and Lanting Order

Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Taito Ward Calligraphy Museum

Exhibition period: January 31–April 23, 2023

Jointly curated by the Tokyo National Museum and the Taitung Ward Calligraphy Museum, the exhibition will be divided into four themes in the two museums, presenting calligraphy and paintings related to Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and "Lanting Xiuyu", as well as literary works. The exhibition focuses on various important versions of the Orchid Pavilion Preface that have been passed down or copied by later generations.

See the flowers at the museum

Venue: Tokyo National Museum

Exhibition period: March 14 – April 9, 2023

Exhibits related to cherry blossoms are presented in various exhibition halls of the museum. In addition to the paintings of the famous ukiyo-e artist Toyokawa Toyokoku and others, there are also porcelain, fabrics, screens and other utensils related to cherry blossoms. Paintings on display include Toyokuni Utagawa's "View of Shin-Yoshiwara Cherry Blossoms", Kano Nagagaku's "Maigakuto Screen", and Okumura Masanobu's "A Boy Riding a Horse Under the Cherry Blossoms".

United States

Lemnschneider and Alabaster sculpture in the Late Middle Ages

Where: Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition period: March 26–July 23, 2023

In the 14th and 16th centuries, alabaster was revered for its luster and ability to handle details. Glittering stones were used for altars and small sculptures, as well as tombs. Despite the abundance of surviving works, medieval alabaster sculptures from continental Europe have not been valued by museums in Europe and North America. The exhibition aims to shed light on this important but understudied topic by collecting some of the most extraordinary snow works surviving on the European continent, showcasing the work of German sculptor Menschneider and his contemporaries.

Hokusai: inspiration and influence

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Exhibition period: March 26–July 16, 2023

Tell the story of this never-ending inventor and versatile Japanese artist in a whole new way, exploring his influence during his lifetime and beyond. More than 100 woodblock prints, drawings and illustrated books by Hokusai, as well as about 200 works by his teachers, students, competitors and admirers, are exhibited, juxtaposing to show his influence in time and space.

Exhibition of Drawings and Prints in the Collection: Innocence and Experience

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Exhibition period: February 9 – May 16, 2023

The theme of the exhibition, "Innocence and Experience", is taken from the British writer William Blake's printmaking poem "Songs of Innocence and Experience", which focuses on prints and drawings by artists from the early Italian Renaissance, the late Georgian era in the United Kingdom, and European and American artists in the 19th century, reviewing the new ways in which artists recorded and shaped visual images.

New York Art World (1870-1890)

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Exhibition period: December 12, 2022–October 29, 2023

Set in New York City in the 70s and 80s of the 19th century, the exhibition investigates the modern art scene in New York after the Civil War, exposing the life of artists during the period of social and economic change through about 50 paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative crafts, and showing the aesthetic trends and innovations of modern art in the United States in the late 19th century.

Pleasing luxury: Chinese lacquerware art

Location: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Duration: Until July 3, 2023

The exhibition is divided into two sections, "Tradition and Technology" and "Symbols and Forms", and displays a total of 27 pieces of Chinese lacquerware in the museum's collection, including court treasures, literati supplies, luxury goods, furniture, etc., clearly and richly presenting the unique luxury and beauty of Chinese lacquerware to the audience.

Anyang: The royal capital of ancient China

Location: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Exhibition period: February 25, 2023 - April 28, 2024

This is the first large-scale exhibition in the United States to be held with the theme of "Anyang Yin Market", and it is one of the activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum. The exhibition displays more than 200 cultural relics, covering various categories such as jade, ceremonial vessels, weapons, wine vessels, musical instruments, carriages and horse harnesses, etc., showing the archaeological achievements of the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty in terms of writing, rituals, sacrifices, tombs and artifacts.

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