SPECIAL REPORT
There are currently several exhibits taking place around the world that
include works by Vincent van Gogh, including:

Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai, China
Musée d'Orsay exhibition
Through October 31, 2010

Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh, Scotland
Impressionist Gardens
July 31 – October 17, 2010

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Through July 31, 2011

De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the Musée d’Orsay
September 25, 2010 – January 18, 2011

Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
Vincent van Gogh: Timeless Country - Modern City
October 8, 2010 – February 6, 2011

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) – Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Dennis Hopper Double Standard
Through September 26, 2010
This exhibition is the first comprehensive review of Dennis Hopper's artistic career to be mounted by a North American museum. Best known for his work in film, Hopper has produced an oeuvre of remarkable breadth that blurs the boundaries between art, film, and popular culture.
The showing features more than 200 works spanning his prolific 60-year career in a range of media which includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and film installations.

Seattle Art Museum – Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Picasso: Masterpieces From the Musee National Picasso, Paris
October 8, 2010 – January 17, 2011
The Seattle Art Museum in Washington State is presenting a landmark exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso, the most radical and influential artist of the 20th century. More than 150 artworks from each phase of Picasso’s career, documenting the full range of his unceasing inventiveness and prodigious creative process, will be on display in this prestigious traveling exhibition.

Dallas Museum of Art – Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
African Masks: The Art of Disguise
August 22, 2010 – February 13, 2011
The African mask is a highly developed and enduring art form. Masks serve as supports for the spirit of deities, ancestors and culture heroes, which may be personified as a human, animal, or composite. African Masks: The Art of Disguise, an exhibition of approximately fifty objects from the Museum’s collections and on loan from local collectors, will reveal the function, meaning, and aesthetics of African masks.

National Gallery of Art – Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Through September 16, 2010
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg’s photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s “drugstore” prints of his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, to snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, to his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s.

Edvard Munch: Master Prints
Through October 31, 2010
Edvard Munch is renowned for his haunting portrayals of love, alienation, jealousy, and death for which he filtered through events in his own life. By manipulating color, line, texture, and pictorial details, he reworked these images in multiple print variations, continually renewing their power to express his artistic goals. In this fascinating exhibition, the National Gallery of Art brings together nearly 60 of Munch’s most important prints to show how his persistent experimentation and skillful handling of woodcut, lithography, and intaglio endowed different impressions of his primary motifs with new meanings.

From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Through July 31, 2011
Chester Dale was an astute businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street in the bond market. He thrived on forging deals and translated much of this energy and talent into his art collecting. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Art from 1943, and as president from 1955 until his death in 1962. His bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This special exhibition features some 83 of his finest French and American paintings. Portraits of Dale by Salvador Dalí and Diego Rivera are included in the show.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, New York, U.S.A.
Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art
Through November 28, 2010
In Chinese art, the birthday is a celebration of a long and rewarding life. This exhibition, focusing on scenes of splendid celebrations and works incorporating the theme of longevity, draws together examples in many media from the Museum’s collection, as well as some exceptional promised gifts.

Whitney Museum of Modern Art – New York, New York, U.S.A.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
Beginning October 28, 2010
This exhibition will trace the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The highlighted works will be that of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century.

High Museum of Art – Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Salvador Dali: The Late Work
August 7, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Beginning in the late 1930s, Salvador Dali experienced a radical change in which he embraced Catholicism, developed the concept of nuclear mysticism, and ultimately reinvented himself as an artist. This exhibition reevaluates the last half of Dali’s career with several artworks that have not been viewed in the United States in 50 years.

Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection
January 29 - May 1, 2011
The High Museum of Art announces a gift of 47 pieces of artwork, the mass of which are prints and posters by major artists working in fin-de-siecle Paris, from prominent Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective
February 19 - May 29, 2011
This first full retrospective in the U.S. in 30 years will showcase Cartier-Bresson’s inventive work of the early 1930s that helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run.

Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Welcoming the Rijksmuseum: Jacques Villon
Through September 26, 2010
In its annual presentation in the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum will show a selection of works by Marcel Duchamp’s “unknown” brother Gaston Duchamp, who went by the pseudonym of Jacques Villon. Villon was a painter and graphic artist whose work earned international acclaim and his prints became popular collector’s items. The presentation includes over 50 works from the Rijksmuseum’s collection featuring a range of graphic techniques the artist used, such as etching, aquatint, drypoint engraving, and lithography.

Sterling and Francine Clark Institute – Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Picasso Looks At Degas
Through September 12, 2010
Pablo Picasso is said to have remarked that “good artists copy; great artists steal.” This exhibition offers not only the chance to see many fine paintings that Picasso created under the inspiration of Degas, but also an equally rewarding opportunity to examine Degas’s own achievements. Each artist is revealed in new and surprising ways among the approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints on display.

Portland Museum of Art – Portland, Maine, U.S.A.
Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place
Through September 6, 2010
During his lifetime, Winslow Homer exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art, and in the course of the 20th century, the museum has become a symbolic home for the artist. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death, this exhibition will showcase the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas.

J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties
Through November 14, 2010
In the decades following WWII, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to emerge. Its photographers combined their skills as artists as well as reporters, creating comprehensive photographic essays that deeply explore issues of social concern and present distinct personal visions of the world. This exhibition looks in depth at projects by a selection of the most essential photographers who contributed to the development of this approach.

The Spectacular Art of Jean-Leon Gerome
Through September 12, 2010
Jean-Leon Gerome was among the most formally honored and financially successful French artists of the second half of the 19th century. His brilliantly painted, and often provocative pictures, were at the heart of heated debates over the present and future of the great French painting tradition. This exhibition brings together works that span Gerome’s entire career, from his early “Neo-Grec” paintings with their lighthearted take on classical antiquity, to his broad variety of historical scenes that still impress with their dramatic realism.

Tate Britain – London, England
Colours and Lines: Turner’s experiments
Through April 30, 2012
Discover how Joseph Mallord William Turner revolutionized two different kinds of image-making: watercolour and print. Colour and Line: Turner’s experiments is a two-room display featuring works on paper by Turner, with a variety of experiments and interactive displays exploring his working methods and techniques.

Tate Modern – London, England
Gauguin
September 30, 2010 – January 16, 2011
Gauguin is one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists from the early 20th century. For the first time in the UK in over 50 years, Tate Modern presents an exhibition dedicated to this master French Post-Impressionist, featuring paintings and drawings from around the world. His sumptuous, colourful images of women in Tahiti and beautiful landscape images of Brittany in France are some of the most popular images in Modern art.

Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum – Clewiston, Florida, U.S.A.
Postcards and Perceptions: Culture as Tourism
Through January 30, 2011
Postcards provide a glimpse at what is noteworthy about a place, and often depict popular tourist locations. Picture postcards began appearing around 1890, during which time tourists were flocking to South Florida for a chance to come in contact with the “unconquered” Seminole Indians. The postcard was a common souvenir, depicting the Seminole Tribe of Florida in all ranges of flattering and sometimes not so-flattering terms. This significant selection of postcards is an invaluable record of history and a testament to a resilient and resourceful group of people.

Palm Springs Art Museum
Colors of the West: The Paintings of Birger Sandzen
Through September 12, 2010
Swedish-born Sven Birger Sandzen trained in Europe under a pointillist painter who shared a studio with Georges Seurat absorbing instruction on the importance of color, form, and artistic freedom. After settling in Kansas in his early 20s, he began to change his palette to fit the prairie landscape, mountains, and deserts of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. Noted for his individualistic style of high-key color, distinctive brushstrokes, and thickly applied paint, Sandzen has been called “the American Van Gogh.”

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens
August 7 – October 10, 2010
A innovative exhibition featuring photographs by American artist Man Ray, who translated the early 20th-century craze for African art into a modernist aesthetic and spread these ideas to a popular audience. The exhibition explores how Man Ray's photographs and those of his contemporaries played a pivotal role in the process by which African objects, formerly considered ethnographic, came to be perceived as art in the West. Approximately 60 photographs by Man Ray from the 1920s and 1930s, many never before exhibited, and more than 50 photographs by contemporary artists are displayed side-by-side with several of the African objects featured in the images.

National Gallery of Art – Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
January 31, 2010–July 31, 2011
Chester Dale was an astute businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street in the bond market. He thrived on forging deals and translated much of this energy and talent into his art collecting. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Art from 1943, and as president from 1955 until his death in 1962. His bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This special exhibition features some 83 of his finest French and American paintings. Portraits of Dale by Salvador Dalí and Diego Rivera are included in the show.

Smithsonian American Art Museum – Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
Through September 26, 2010
Running Fence, the culmination of 42 months of collaborative efforts, was 24-1/2 miles long and 18 feet high, with one end dropping down to the Pacific Ocean. Paid for entirely by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the completed artwork existed for only two weeks in September of 1976.
The exhibition presents the majority of individual items, more than 350 objects, from the collective archive of artworks and related materials. The exhibition also includes components from the actual project, including a nylon fabric panel and steel pole that visitors can touch.
Visitors to the exhibition can watch three films, The "Running Fence" Revisited, Running Fence, and Running Fence with Commentary, shown daily in a special screening room in the exhibition galleries.

Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
July 2, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Telling Stories is the first core exhibition to explore in-depth the connections between Norman Rockwell’s iconic imagery of American life and the movies. Rockwell’s paintings, along with kindred spirit filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, bring to mind love of country, small town values, childhood memories, unlikely heroes, acts of imagination, and life’s ironies.

Denver Art Museum – Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Exposures: Photos from the Vault
April 30 – October 31, 2010
This exhibit showcases the photographs the museum has been collecting since the 1930s, with works by Diane Arbus, Chuck Close, Ansel Adams, and others.

Tate Modern – London, England
Gauguin
September 30, 2010 – January 16, 2011
Paul Gauguin is one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth century. This is the first major exhibition in London to be devoted to his work in over half a century. Bringing together over one hundred works from public and private collections from around the world, the presentation will take a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern art.

The Museum of Modern Art – New York, New York, U.S.A.
Picasso: Themes and Variations
Through September 30, 2010
Featuring approximately one hundred works, this exhibition explores Picasso’s creative process through the medium of printmaking, tracing his development from the early years of the twentieth century, with depictions of itinerant circus performers in the Blue and Rose periods, to his discovery of Cubism. It follows his evolving artistic vision through decades of experimentation in etching, lithography, and linoleum cut, demonstrating how each technique inspired new directions in his work.

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917
Through October 11, 2010
In the time between Henri Matisse’s return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career ~ paintings that are abstracted and thoroughly cleansed of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical creation and the essential framework of Matisse’s studio practice. The exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints primarily from these years, in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period.

The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
Through November 1, 2010
Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered an extraordinary way to analyze works of art for further study. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up, and lighting, photographers not only interpret the works they record but create stunning reinventions. Through a selection of nearly three hundred outstanding pictures by more than one hundred artists from the dawn of modernism to the present, this exhibition presents a critical examination of the connections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other.

BRIEFLY NOTED:
Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA, U.S.A.
Messages from the Mesozoic
Through September 18, 2010

Challenger Space Center Arizona, Peoria, AZ, U.S.A.
Tohono O’odham Nation My Solar System
Through June 30, 2011