From One Extreme to the Other

Nat Finkelstein was one of the most respected photojournalists of modern times. Renowned for his iconic and intimate documentation of Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, and later for his political activism including an allegiance with The Black Panthers that forced him to live abroad for 15 years, Finkelstein remained at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist up until his death aged 76, 2nd October 2009. This retrospective at London’s Idea Generation Gallery from January 20 to February 14, 2010, brings together Finkelstein’s diverse portfolio of work achieved across five decades.
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The path to impressionism

Seventy five masterpieces from Cologne’s Wallraf Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud, and sixty superb works from the Albertina and the Batliner Collection as well as loans from private collections and international museums round out the portfolio of works on display at the exhibition Impressionism. Painting Light you can see in Vienna until February 14, 2010. The exhibition at the Jeanne and Donald Kahn Galleries, Albertina retells the history of impressionism using characteristic works from Courbet, Caillebotte, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Signac and van Gogh, giving equal prominence to art history and technology.
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Love and vampires at Viennese exhibition

Love, death, vampires and lots of darkness star in an art exhibition in Vienna that explores the unsettling images that appear in paintings by artists from Francisco de Goya to expressionist Edvard Munch. The Edvard Munch and the Uncanny main autumn exhibition at the Leopold Museum until January 18, 2010, contains works ranging from the late 18th century (Piranesi, Goya’s Caprichos) up to the early 20th century.
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Major Tsarouchis retrospective in Athens

A major retrospective exhibition showcasing works by one of Greece’s greatest painters is on show at the Piraeus Street annex of the Benaki Museum in Athens until March 13, 2010. This is the first retrospective of Yannis Tsarouchis’ works in Athens, showcasing 680 representative painted works from all the periods of the his oeuvre, as well as a large number of set design models that belong to museums and private collections in Greece and overseas. The exhibition Yannis Tsarouchis 1910-1989 is organized on the occasion of the centenary of the Tsarouchis’ birth.
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Mirό of Majorca in Thessaloniki

The biggest ever exhibition of Joan Mirό works in Greece can be visited in the city of Thessaloniki, at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts until February 5, 2010. The Mirό of Majorca exhibition is a collaboration with the Foundation Pilar i Joan Mirό of Majorca and includes a significant number of Mirό’s more than 400 works and documents of all themes, like painting, sculptures, etchings, drawings, sketches for sculpts or public art, for sobreteixisms, for ballet, for music, as well as material for King Ubu of Jarry, which was of special importance to Mirό.
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Degas bronzes on show in Athens

Seventy-four bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas presented together for the first time in an exhibition that will make visitors travel back in time is an event that should not be missed while in Athens this season. The complete sculptures of Edgar Degas will be running until April 25, 2010 at Athens’ Herakleidon Museum. All works in the show are on loan by the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts, and they include Degas’ most important one The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.
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Neither Appearance nor Illusion

Sentences written in French using neon tubing are suspended along the walls of the medieval Louvre. The influential American artist Joseph Kosuth, a major figure of the contemporary international art scene, temporarily lays claim to the excavated ancient Louvre, offering visitors a dense and luminous work. You can visit his exhibition titled ‘Neither Appearance nor Illusion’ in the Louvre Museum’s Sully Wing until June 21, 2010.
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Enamels of the World, 1700-2000

The inaugural presentation of a remarkable new facet of the Khalili Collections, perhaps best known for the unparalleled collections of Islamic and Japanese art is an event that should not be missed in St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum until March 14, 2010. The exhibition features some 320 pieces selected from the 1,200 works in the enamel collection and coincides with the publication of a major volume on the subject by Haydn Williams, based on this collection.
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‘I Land’ in Cyprus

Opening on December 9 at Diatopos Gallery, I Land, the third solo exhibition of Greek Cypriot artist Melita Couta, is presenting the cartography of an improbable land. The artist is using several media, among them a series of drawings, ink on paper, in which tenuous and innumerable lines intermingle skillfully, spread their plait in various shades, and bring to our mind the memory of Atopos, a non-existing place. You can visit the exhibition up until January 15, 2010.
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First retrospective in Scandinavia for Lee Lozano

The first retrospective exhibition in Scandinavia of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), the American artist whose original and challenging work is still largely unknown in Europe, takes place at the Moderna Museet Stockholm from February 13 to April 25, 2010. This is a unique opportunity to see some sixty paintings and hundreds of works on paper and text-based works created between 1960 and1972 by the quixotic, confounding rebel whose decade-long New York career seemed always to involve pushing one limit or another.
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