The International Art Guide provides global art community with art resources around the world, including art shows and events, art galleries and museums, art workshops and classes, and many talented professional artists and their works. The International Art Guide hosts and manages the International Gallery Guide, the International Directory of Art Workshops & Classes, and the Online Catalog of International Artists (OCIA).The International Gallery Guide features art galleries and museums around the world. The gallery listing is arranged by the gallery / museum location - U.S. states and other countries. Each gallery listing contains address, phone number, an enlargeable thumbnail image of an exhibition or a picture of the gallery / museum, and a link to the gallery / museum's own website for further information.
The International Directory of Art Workshops & Classes lists art workshops and classes around the world, sorted by workshop dates, locations and medium / genre.
The Online Catalog of International Artists (OCIA) presents participating artists' profiles and artwork samples. The catalog is delivered to art galleries and collectors around the world via email on a daily basis.
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
February 28 - June 3, 2012
Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. This exhibition unites some two hundred works of art to demonstrate the significant impact the Steins' patronage had on the artists of their day and ...
More Info: www.metmuseum.org
The Guggenheim Museum of Art New York, USA
Francesca Woodman
March 16 - June 13, 2012
Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief but extraordinary career to be seen in North America. More than thirty years after her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. ...
More Info: www.guggenheim.org
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, USA
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
February 18 - May 28, 2012
In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether adolescents, soldiers, or new mothers, Dijkstra is fascinated by people in states of significant transition. ...
More Info: www.sfmoma.org
J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, USA
Renaissance Drawings from Germany and Switzerland, 1470–1600
March 27 - June 17, 2012
The Renaissance in German-speaking lands roughly spanned the years 1470–1600, and time in which diverse art forms flourished in this region. On display in this exhibition are drawings from the Museum's collection made as studies for works in other media including sketches for paintings, prints, stained glass, and metalwork, as well as highly finished drawings made as works of art in their own right. ...
More Info: www.getty.edu/museum
National Gallery of Canada Ontario, Canada
Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet
December 17, 2011 - September 3, 2012
Winner of the Millennium Prize 2001, the publicly and critically acclaimed Forty-Part Motet is now back on display at the National Gallery of Canada. This brilliant sound sculpture by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff is a reworking of Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, a 16th-century English composer. Forty separately-recorded choir voices are played back through 40 speakers positioned around the NGC’s Rideau Chapel. ...
More Info: www.gallery.ca
Art Gallery of Ontario Ontario, Canada
Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life
Through May 13, 2012
There were many sides to artist Jack Chambers. He was a passionate defender of artists’ rights, an experimental filmmaker with an international reputation, and a painter who continually reinvented his language of expression. Chambers initially created dreamlike surrealist paintings during an eight-year stay in Spain ...
More Info: www.ago.net
National Museum of Art Mexico City, Mexico
Seventeenth-century Flemish art.
Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
March 1 - May 27, 2012
The National Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the most representative work of the seventeenth century Flemish artists, bringing together a selection of 60 works, of which 45 belong to the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. ...
More Info: www.munal.com.mx
Europe
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Van Gogh's studio practice: reuse of towels
June 10, 2011 - June 10, 2012
Vincent van Gogh made regular painting on a canvas on which he previously had a show once painted. He started this in May 1885, when he was living in Nuenen, but also in his Paris years (1886-1888) he used cloths for half time ...
More Info: www.vangoghmuseum.nl
The British Museum London, United Kingdom
Crowns and ducats
Shakespeare’s money and medals
April 19 - November 25, 2012
This display looks at the role of coins and medals in Shakespeare’s works and his world. Shakespeare’s plays have many references to money. He expected his audience to recognise the numerous different coins that he mentioned and ...
More Info: www.britishmuseum.org
The Belvedere Vienna, Austria
Gold
March 15 - June 17, 2012
The exhibition is devoted to the precious metal gold and its use in art. Displaying 200 works by 125 artists, this comprehensive show staged in the Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables highlights various applications of the shimmering metal. ...
More Info: www.belvedere.at
Musée du Louvre Paris, France
Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci’s ultimate masterpiece
March 29 - June 25, 2012
Leonardo da Vinci’s masterwork The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, restored with the aid of the C2RMF (Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France), is the centerpiece of an exceptional exhibition that reunites all surviving related works for the first time. ...
More Info: www.louvre.fr
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao, Spain
Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao II
November 15, 2011 - October 28, 2012
Second sample of a series of exhibitions scheduled for 2009 to 2012 around funds from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which, on this occasion, delves into the artistic debates of the 1970 and 1980 raised by a generation European artists whose career began in the early sixties, represented here with a selection of works from the late eighties until today ...
More Info: www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
The Uffizi Gallery Florence, Italy
"Cards that seem made with a brush"
December 6, 2011 - November 3, 2012
The introduction of color in the print production is presented as a must have at the opening of the sixteenth century, in parallel with the quest for an ever more faithful reproduction of the designs of the great masters of the Renaissance . The chiaroscuro woodcut, able to evoke the effects of colors and materials of drawing, ...
More Info: www.polomuseale.firenze.it/musei/uffizi
The Hermitage St. Petersburg, Russia
Carlo Crivelli. Annunciation with St Emidius. From the collection of the National Gallery, London
February 15 - May 27, 2012
On February 14th, 2012, the State Hermitage Museum was home to the opening of a new exhibit from the collection of the National Gallery, London, entitled the Annunciation with St. Emidius, which continues the series of exhibits entitled Masterpieces from the World’s Museums in the Hermitage. ...
More Info: www.hermitagemuseum.org
Asia, Africa, Middle East, Oceania
National Museum of Korea Seoul, Korea
Opening the Time Capsule : Wondrous Expedition to the Past
March 20 - May 6, 2012
Relics on display: more than 2,300 pieces of animal bones and the bones of children, and household items discovered in wells from the Silla period, along with over 500 pieces of metal artifacts found in a small cauldron discovered in a historic site in Malheul-ri, Changnyeong ...
More Info: www.museum.go.kr
Tokyo National Museum, Japan
Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
March 20 - June 10, 2012
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been collecting Japanese art since the days of Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin, and is now said to be home to over 100,000 works. This exhibition provides an opportunity to view masterpieces from this collection, with a focus on paintings, including several from the Bigelow Collection. ...
More Info: www.tnm.jp
National Museum of China Beijing, China
The Road of Rejuvenation
Permanent exhibition
The Road of Rejuvenation is one of the museum’s permanent exhibitions that reflects the Opium War of 1840 onward, the consequential downfall into an abyss of semi-imperial and semi-feudal society, the protests of people of all social stratum who have suffered, ...
More Info: www.chnmuseum.cn
National Museum of South Africa Bloemfontein, South Africa
African Cultures
The Anthropology Hall incorporates ten ethnological displays reflecting the region's rich and diverse cultural heritage, and a display of African musical instruments.
More Info: www.nasmus.co.za
The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel
Eugene Atget: As Paris Was
March 23 - June 30, 2012
The photographic oeuvre of Eugene Atget (1857–1927) has become a landmark in the history of the medium, and his works are recognized as an integral part of the canon of documentary photography. His subject matter was Paris with its houses, streets, parks, and castles ...
More Info: www.imj.org.il
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia
Brent Harris
March 10 - August 12, 2012
Brent Harris is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. A prolific painter and printmaker, he is well known for haunting imagery that drifts between abstraction and figuration. Charged with a quiet emotional intensity, his paintings, prints and drawings are often motivated by an exploration of personal memories and the expression of psychological states. ...
More Info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au
National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia
Eugene von Guérard
Nature revealed
April 27 - July 15, 2012
Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901) is arguably Australia’s, and certainly Victoria’s, most important colonial landscape painter. Born in Vienna and trained as a painter in the European art centres of Rome, Naples and Düsseldorf; von Guérard migrated to Australia in 1852. ...
More Info: www.nga.gov.au
