Image Galleries from Special Exhibitions in 2010

Includes nearly 300 works from 30 artists, reinstalled over the entire 4th Floor painting and sculpture galleries and the collection galleries for drawings and prints. Abstract Expressionist New York will mark the first time in over 40 years that the AbEx artists have "hung together" at MoMA, so to speak. Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Hoffman,...

Art Nouveau fans worldwide know, love and can't live without the works of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). However, there was much more to Mucha's output than his fabulous Parisian theater posters and advertisements. This exhibition offers a retrospective look at the artist's career through some 250 of his paintings, drawings, pastels, lithographs, book illustrations, tapestries and works.

It's evident that dismissing Norman Rockwell as "merely" an illustrator is foolish. He captured life in the United States through bad times (the Great Depression and World War II) and good (the idyllic 50s), and, with the onset of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, uncomfortable and unjust.

Illustrates the constantly changing ways in which inhabitants of what would become the United States of America viewed themselves from the decade before the Revolutionary War to just before World War I. Scheduled venues are The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 12, 2009-January 24, 2010) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (February 28-May 23, 2010).

Brings together an astounding 400+ works from the tri-citied German school that existed a mere 14 years but forever changed the face of Modernity across the spectrum of visual arts fine, decorative and architectural. "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity" is The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive look at the subject since 1938, and features key US and International loans.

Third in a series of collaborative exhibitions between the Dahesh Museum of Art and the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at Syracuse University's Lubin House in New York City. The show is comprised of 28 paintings, sculptures and graphic works from French Academic artists including William Adolphe Bouguereau, Théodule-Augustin Ribot, Henri Fantin-Latour and Jean-Léon Gérôme amongst oth

Over the course of five years and armed with only paper, ink, correction fluid, Alter's 1996 English translation of the Pentateuch and the King James Version of the Bible, R. Crumb drew some 207 pages of illustrations to accompany the (unedited) text of the Book of Genesis.

On View November 13, 2009–February 28, 2010 at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Maim.

A first look at the fantastic Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, whose long-term loan agreement with SFMOMA was recently extended from 25 to 100 years. In the summer of 2010, some 160 core Collection works of painting, photography, sculpture and video will be on display in the Museum's fourth- and fifth-floor galleries, as well as on the Rooftop Garden that opened in May of 2009.

This major International exhibition aims--and succeeds--in displaying only paintings authenticated to be of Caravaggio's hand. The 24 select pieces illustrate the full scope of his short, brilliant career, and represent a phenomenal amount of goodwill amongst lending museums around the globe.

Spotlights the original meaning of the phrase "conversation piece" (a specific type of genre painting in which the upper echelons of society engage in high-class activities). In this exhibition 36 conversation pieces from the Royal Collection, London depict over 200 years of fashionable royals and nobles dating from the reigns of Charles I to Victoria.

Focuses on the work of Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, b. Greece, 1888-1978) whose "enigma" paintings formed the nucleus of the Pittura Metafisica movement, and subsequently inspired others: Magic Realism, Novecento Italiano and Surrealism. Through the one hundred paintings in the show, viewers will see a linear connection from de Chirico and his contemporary Carlo Carrà, to artists Max Ernst, Ren?…

Demonstrates the development of Italian drawing from the beginning of the 15th-century, which coincides with the start of the Early Renaissance, to roughly 1510, close to the end of the High Renaissance. Along the way, these 101 fragile, 500+ year old drawings allow us to see the introduction of perspective and naturalism.

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection assembles over 80 key pieces of the Dale Collection from throughout the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and has regrouped them. No longer separated by chronology or artist, the exhibition instead imitates the canvases' stylistic placement within the Dale's Manhattan townhouse.

While the spectacular new Frank Gehry-designed, 450,000 square foot Guggenheim Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island will not be completed until 2013, Gallery One of the Emirates Palace is hosting this "taste of things to come" in the first of many planned public programs leading to the museum's opening. On view from November 17, 2009 through February 4, 2010.

April 21, 1509 was the date that a teenaged Prince of Wales became Henry VIII of England. Here, the Royal Collection and the St George’s Chapel archives are marking the 500th anniversary of his ascension with a special exhibition of paintings, drawings, manuscripts and objects created during Henry VIII's lifetime or resulting from his reign.

The first major museum exhibition to focus on portraiture and the representation of gay and lesbian identities in American art, this show explores six eras in a chronological arc.

An aptly-named show focusing on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists' works and working methods. In addition to 137 paintings, the exhibition contains 56 historical painting utensils and objects used by artists in their everyday lives. Further displays allow visitors to study x-ray and infrared scans of some of the works.

The first major retrospective of Wassily Kandinsky's work to be shown in over two decades. Nearly 100 of his most important canvases from 1907 to 1942 are on display, organized chronologically into the artist's training, Blaue Reiter Group, traveling, Bauhaus and Parisian periods. The venues are supplementing the exhibition at each stop with unique archival holdings including works on paper, manu…

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture asks us to re-evaluate the works of beloved "Cowboy Artist" Charlie "Kid" Russell and look for deeper meanings. Though Russell was a cowboy, he also lived with the Blackfoot Blood tribe, and a closer examination of his body of work reveals that he depicted Native Americans three times more often than he did cowboys. Consciously or otherwise, he painted and sculpted for history; he captured an indigenous way of life that, even then, was being pushed into utter obscurity.

Each of the 50+ works on paper, created between 1797 and 2008, in this exhibition directly or indirectly hearkens to Classical mythology for its inspiration. Some, as with Pablo Picasso's "Minotaure" cover (1933), are obvious, while others take more fantastic and Surrealistic routes. Either way, this show will make you think, delight your eye and, possibly, view some of your favorite legendary artists in a new, truly "legendary" light.

Consists of 34 works by 18 artists from the from the Museum's collection. As the show's title implies, all of the painters and sculptors represented lived and worked in Paris in the early 20th-century, where they were exposed to many of the same influences from Paul Cézanne to the various iterations of Cubism. While many of these artists scattered before or with the onset of WWII, the Parisian avant-garde vibe--which now included Surrealism--went with them, significantly to the United States.

Focuses on the single year of Gauguin's career in which he went into full-blown Modernism (and remained there). How do we know 1889 was *the* year? It then that Gauguin staged an avant-garde exhibition at Monsieur Volpini's Cafe des Arts for his own and a few friends' works. This exhibition contains the original show's paintings, carvings, ceramics, works on paper and zincograph prints.

The title of this exhibition says it all. Vincent van Gogh was a prolific correspondent who poured his soul into his words every bit as much as he squeezed his heart onto canvas with impasto-ed enthusiasm. The focus of "The Real Van Gogh..." are over 35 of his original letters--rarely seen due to their fragility--that reference both his works-in-progress and progress as a painter. The letters are augmented by 65 paintings and 30 drawings borrowed from lenders around the world.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection features some fifty-five paintings and five works on paper selected from the National Museum Wales. As its name implies, the exhibition surveys 19th-century art (beginning with eight late works by J. M. W. Turner) and covers styles ranging from Romanticism to Post Impressionism. Other artists represented in this fine show include Corot, …