Nicolas Poussin, Satyrs Taking Sleeping Venus by Surprise, ca. 1625 (detail). Oil on canvas, 77 × 100 cm. Photo © Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to ZurbaránJune 18–October 6, 2013Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Featuring contemporary artworks presented alongside 17th-century paintings, this exhibition attempts to extricate the concept of the baroque from established clichés and traditional perceptions. With a clear shift away from pomp, ornament, and gold, it focuses on the baroque as a celebration of the precarious vitality that was hailed, rediscovered, lost, projected, and threatened by death. 
Félix Vallotton, Scène de rue (Street Scene), 1895. Quill pen, india ink, colored pencils, and watercolor on paper, 24 x 38 cm. Private collection The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle ParisSeptember 28, 2013–January 6, 2014Peggy Guggenheim Collection Focusing on avant-garde movements that arose at the end of the 19th century, this exhibition includes approximately 100 paintings, drawings, and prints, and explores the artists Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Félix Vallotton, and Odilon Redon in depth. 
Franz Marc, Stables (Stallungen), 1913. Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 157.5 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 46.1037 The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces from the Guggenheim CollectionNov. 26, 2013–March 2, 2014This fall the Art Gallery of Ontario presents The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, featuring nearly 70 avant-garde works from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s holdings. |