She encouraged the senior management team there to develop a new approach by taking them to an exhibition of Cubist paintings, a style of art that forces the viewer to look at the world from a very different perspective.
It was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the wedding of the Winter King and Queen that I came to be in the Hague last week, walking through heavy snow past the Mauritshuis to the grand opening of a glorious exhibition of 17th Century paintings of the couple and their family.
When the exhibition closes on 27 September, about 90 of the paintings will be transferred to London for another exhibition at the Royal Academy.
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The library, in collaboration with the museum, is also putting on an exhibition of Stein's manuscripts, paintings and artefacts next year.
His passion for painting began in May 1922, when the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Savile Row, London, mounted a loan exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings entitled The French School of the Last Hundred Years.
Downstairs is a fine-dining restaurant that not only serves great Cantonese food (try the signature fried fresh lobster with scallion and shallots), but also provides the setting for the exhibition, A Taste of the Masters: Paintings from the M K Lau Collection (running until late 2013).
The Calabrian town of Rende secured an exclusive loan of paintings from Malta for an exhibition at its Museo Civico.
Of the 71 paintings in a new exhibition in London, 21 come from his native Copenhagen, 15 from other Scandinavian collections and 20 from private collections, principally Danish.
Then Redfern singled out twelve of the paintings they believed to be authentic, and sold five of them in a summer exhibition.
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Each set of paintings adds to the enjoyment of the exhibition in which it hangs.
More than 1, 000 paintings were submitted for the awards, and an exhibition of selected works will be held in the Mall Galleries from 19 February - 2 March.
The exhibition, we are told, "considers Braque's paintings within the context of the political and cultural upheaval during the years leading up to and through World War II, " as well as reminding us of the critical reception of his work.
Rather, as seen in the exhibition, Zoffany displays his considerable skills following Hogarth's lead in creating a number of paintings that depict famous actors, among them the star of London's stage, David Garrick, appearing in theatrical roles for which they were noted.
At least the catalog does, in its wide-ranging essays by a variety of scholars and its reprints of critical texts from 1933 and 1954. (It also includes a fascinating technical analysis of Braque's work that reveals much about his methods.) The exhibition allows the paintings to speak for themselves.
The exhibition brings together more than 100 paintings and sculptures and reveals a technique that used a fascinating combination of mathematics, science and architecture.
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The purchase of the two paintings will allow the museum to "forge ahead with plans for a major exhibition and study centre", he said.
Upcoming highlights include the Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool and the Walker gallery's "Art in the Age of Steam", featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Turner and Monet.
Now, "The Path of Nature: French Paintings From the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850, " the first exhibition drawn from the collection, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Met's acquisition with a selection of compelling examples.
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Paintings, photographs, sculptures and digital videos (there are quite a few of these in the exhibition) that trick the eye are one thing.
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Yet this rich exhibition, the first of its kind in France, is still a remarkable coup given that curators fear lending fragile tempera paintings on wood.
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