The Art Exhibitions Blog
@blogexhibitions.bsky.social
A blog about art exhibitions around Britain and Europe written by Eddie Buckle and Lydia Lancaster. Read it at https://art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/
Let there be light... from the Anna Ancher exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in south-east London, this is Evening Sun in the Artist's Studio at Markvej in Skagen, northern Denmark (after 1913, Skagens Museum). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Let there be light... from the Anna Ancher exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in south-east London, this is Evening Sun in the Artist's Studio at Markvej in Skagen, northern Denmark (after 1913, Skagens Museum). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
The Alchymist's eureka moment, as he Discovers Phosphorous in the Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery in London. The 1771 painting, reworked 1795, is from Derby Museum & Art Gallery. Read what we thought of the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-me...
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Alchymist's eureka moment, as he Discovers Phosphorous in the Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery in London. The 1771 painting, reworked 1795, is from Derby Museum & Art Gallery. Read what we thought of the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-me...
You can see the Dutch Golden Age influence on Anna Ancher's early Maid in the Kitchen (1883-86, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen). Now in the excellent light-filled exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social. Read about the show here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You can see the Dutch Golden Age influence on Anna Ancher's early Maid in the Kitchen (1883-86, Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen). Now in the excellent light-filled exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social. Read about the show here: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
Some great paintings in the Joseph Wright of Derby show at the National Gallery, but you don't get a lot for your money. Read what we thought: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-me.... Here's a detail from An Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent, 1773, Derby Museum & Art Gallery.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Some great paintings in the Joseph Wright of Derby show at the National Gallery, but you don't get a lot for your money. Read what we thought: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-me.... Here's a detail from An Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent, 1773, Derby Museum & Art Gallery.
A Blue Sunset over Skagen in northern Denmark. This undated sketch from Skagens Museum is part of the light-filled Anna Ancher exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social. Read about it on the blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A Blue Sunset over Skagen in northern Denmark. This undated sketch from Skagens Museum is part of the light-filled Anna Ancher exhibition @dulwichgallery.bsky.social. Read about it on the blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...
The perfect antidote to gloomy winter days? The light-filled paintings of Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social! Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-.... This is Sunlight in the Blue Room, 1891, Skagens Museum.
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The perfect antidote to gloomy winter days? The light-filled paintings of Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social! Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-.... This is Sunlight in the Blue Room, 1891, Skagens Museum.
Just found out that Gladys Hynes is getting an exhibition to herself next year at Charleston in Lewes. This is Morning, 1916, Collection RAW. A lot more astonishing is her 1939 anti-war painting Crucifixion @rafmuseum.bsky.social: collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/collection/o... #artherstory
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just found out that Gladys Hynes is getting an exhibition to herself next year at Charleston in Lewes. This is Morning, 1916, Collection RAW. A lot more astonishing is her 1939 anti-war painting Crucifixion @rafmuseum.bsky.social: collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/collection/o... #artherstory
Still on and worth seeing at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London: Evelyn De Morgan's swirling fabrics, and a surprising amount of bare flesh, as in Boreas and Oreithyia (1896, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/05/evel...
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Still on and worth seeing at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London: Evelyn De Morgan's swirling fabrics, and a surprising amount of bare flesh, as in Boreas and Oreithyia (1896, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/05/evel...
Maria Slavona is one of just a handful of women artists in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. This is Still Life with Red Background, 1911, Schlösschen im Hofgarten, Wertheim. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Maria Slavona is one of just a handful of women artists in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. This is Still Life with Red Background, 1911, Schlösschen im Hofgarten, Wertheim. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
New exhibitions with big names in London this month:
Joseph Wright at the National Gallery
JMW Turner & John Constable at Tate Britain
David Hockney at Annely Juda
November's round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
Joseph Wright at the National Gallery
JMW Turner & John Constable at Tate Britain
David Hockney at Annely Juda
November's round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New exhibitions with big names in London this month:
Joseph Wright at the National Gallery
JMW Turner & John Constable at Tate Britain
David Hockney at Annely Juda
November's round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
Joseph Wright at the National Gallery
JMW Turner & John Constable at Tate Britain
David Hockney at Annely Juda
November's round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Wright's Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
New exhibitions of Nordic artists this month:
Pekka Halonen @petitpalaismusee.bsky.social in Paris
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in London
These & more in our November round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Halonen's Pioneers in Karelia, 1900, Ateneum, Helsinki
Pekka Halonen @petitpalaismusee.bsky.social in Paris
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in London
These & more in our November round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Halonen's Pioneers in Karelia, 1900, Ateneum, Helsinki
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New exhibitions of Nordic artists this month:
Pekka Halonen @petitpalaismusee.bsky.social in Paris
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in London
These & more in our November round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Halonen's Pioneers in Karelia, 1900, Ateneum, Helsinki
Pekka Halonen @petitpalaismusee.bsky.social in Paris
Anna Ancher @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in London
These & more in our November round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Pictured: Halonen's Pioneers in Karelia, 1900, Ateneum, Helsinki
Lesser Ury, a German Impressionist who liked a rainy night; several of his paintings are in the show now on at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Nocturnal Street Scene, Berlin, c. 1915-20, Dr Matthias Wilkening Foundation
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lesser Ury, a German Impressionist who liked a rainy night; several of his paintings are in the show now on at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Nocturnal Street Scene, Berlin, c. 1915-20, Dr Matthias Wilkening Foundation
It's your last chance to catch Scented Visions at Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, looking at how the sense of smell was portrayed in Victorian art: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more.... Closes Nov 9. This is John Everett Millais's The Blind Girl (1856, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery).
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It's your last chance to catch Scented Visions at Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, looking at how the sense of smell was portrayed in Victorian art: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more.... Closes Nov 9. This is John Everett Millais's The Blind Girl (1856, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery).
Another incredibly vibrant Théo van Rysselberghe painting from the splendid Neo-Impressionism show at the National Gallery in London. This is his wife, Maria van Rysselberghe-Monnom (1892, Kröller-Müller Museum). Read about the exhibition on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another incredibly vibrant Théo van Rysselberghe painting from the splendid Neo-Impressionism show at the National Gallery in London. This is his wife, Maria van Rysselberghe-Monnom (1892, Kröller-Müller Museum). Read about the exhibition on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
Max Liebermann's Wannsee garden: the German equivalent of Monet's Giverny. Pictured: Perennials in Front of the Gardener's House to the North, 1928, Private collection. Now in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Max Liebermann's Wannsee garden: the German equivalent of Monet's Giverny. Pictured: Perennials in Front of the Gardener's House to the North, 1928, Private collection. Now in the German Impressionism exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-...
It's all very still despite the fluttering flags and pennants in Georges Seurat's Port-en-Bessin, a Sunday (1888, Kroller-Müller Museum) in the terrific Neo-Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's all very still despite the fluttering flags and pennants in Georges Seurat's Port-en-Bessin, a Sunday (1888, Kroller-Müller Museum) in the terrific Neo-Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
Impressionism, but the later German version, now on at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. Read about it on the blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is The Hollyhock Gardener by Max Slevogt (1920, Kunsthalle Mannheim).
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Impressionism, but the later German version, now on at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. Read about it on the blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is The Hollyhock Gardener by Max Slevogt (1920, Kunsthalle Mannheim).
Hungerford Bridge has never looked as radiant as in Jan Toorop's Bridge in London (Charing Cross), 1888-89, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. It's in the light-filled and hugely enjoyable Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hungerford Bridge has never looked as radiant as in Jan Toorop's Bridge in London (Charing Cross), 1888-89, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. It's in the light-filled and hugely enjoyable Neo-Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
Your last chance to visit the show at Pallant House in Chichester looking at how artists see each other, ending Nov 2: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/know.... This is Clare Shenstone's fascinating if disturbing study for a cloth portrait of Francis Bacon (c. 1980, @sainsburycentre.bsky.social)
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Your last chance to visit the show at Pallant House in Chichester looking at how artists see each other, ending Nov 2: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/know.... This is Clare Shenstone's fascinating if disturbing study for a cloth portrait of Francis Bacon (c. 1980, @sainsburycentre.bsky.social)
It's Impressionism, just not as we know it; the German version, now at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at Museum Barberini in Potsdam: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Lovis Corinth, Woman Reading, 1911, Private collection
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It's Impressionism, just not as we know it; the German version, now at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and next year at Museum Barberini in Potsdam: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-.... This is Lovis Corinth, Woman Reading, 1911, Private collection
Perhaps not the happiest of households in Paul Signac's A Sunday, Opus 201 (1888-90, Private collection). Just look at that cat... Part of the outstanding Neo-Impressionists exhibition
at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Perhaps not the happiest of households in Paul Signac's A Sunday, Opus 201 (1888-90, Private collection). Just look at that cat... Part of the outstanding Neo-Impressionists exhibition
at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
at the National Gallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan...
Weather awful outside? You need to see the Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery in London for a change of climate: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan.... Feel the heat in Théo van Rysselberghe's In July, before Noon (1890, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands).
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Weather awful outside? You need to see the Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery in London for a change of climate: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/10/stan.... Feel the heat in Théo van Rysselberghe's In July, before Noon (1890, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands).
New exhibitions in the Netherlands this month:
Van Gogh & the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum
17C life @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
The enigmatic Master IS at De Lakenhal in Leiden
Our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Pic: Vincent van Gogh, La Berceuse, 1889, MFA Boston
Van Gogh & the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum
17C life @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
The enigmatic Master IS at De Lakenhal in Leiden
Our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Pic: Vincent van Gogh, La Berceuse, 1889, MFA Boston
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
New exhibitions in the Netherlands this month:
Van Gogh & the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum
17C life @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
The enigmatic Master IS at De Lakenhal in Leiden
Our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Pic: Vincent van Gogh, La Berceuse, 1889, MFA Boston
Van Gogh & the Roulins at the Van Gogh Museum
17C life @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
The enigmatic Master IS at De Lakenhal in Leiden
Our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...
Pic: Vincent van Gogh, La Berceuse, 1889, MFA Boston
It's your last chance for Surrealism meets Romanticism at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, ending Oct 12. We encountered some of the Surrealists @centrepompidou.bsky.social last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/surr.... Pictured: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's your last chance for Surrealism meets Romanticism at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, ending Oct 12. We encountered some of the Surrealists @centrepompidou.bsky.social last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/surr.... Pictured: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1817
Last chance to catch the stunning Gustave Caillebotte show @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, ending Oct 5. We saw the exhibition @museeorsay.bsky.social: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/cail.... This is Partie de bateau (c. 1877-78) from the Musée d'Orsay, with the best-dressed rower on the river.
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Last chance to catch the stunning Gustave Caillebotte show @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, ending Oct 5. We saw the exhibition @museeorsay.bsky.social: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2024/11/cail.... This is Partie de bateau (c. 1877-78) from the Musée d'Orsay, with the best-dressed rower on the river.