In this capital city, the Van Gogh Museum -which is celebrating its 50th anniversary- will open an exhibition on the work of the Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong, while the National Museum of Amsterdam, also known as the Rijksmuseum, will show the retrospective of the creator Frans Hals.
The Orsay Museum in France will honor the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in the spring with “Paris 1873.Inventer l’impressionisme,” while the Louvre will inaugurate a “Dialogue of Oriental Antiquities” in March with pieces from its collection and the New York Met.
It will also present the restoration of The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin, by the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. For its part, the Pompidou Center will inaugurate a Brancusi retrospective and the Quai Branly will exhibit, for the first time in Europe, an exhibition on the excavations in the Templo Mayor of the Mexican culture.
The National Gallery of London, United Kingdom, joins these invitations to commemorate its 200th anniversary with Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, and thus celebrate the centennial of the museum’s acquisition of two of the artist’s most famous paintings: The Sunflowers and Van Gogh’s Chair.
The Royal Palace of Milan, in Italy, will dedicate an exhibition in September to Pablo Picasso, focused on the issue of welcoming migrants, while the work of Joan Miró will be exhibited at the Palace of Culture in Catania.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium will host the traveling exhibition Imagine, which in collaboration with the Center Pompidou in Paris constitutes an immersion in surrealism with more than 130 works, seen from the brush of Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Max Ernst.
After being exhibited in Brussels and Paris, the exhibit will tour the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, ending at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Meanwhile, the Africa Museum in Brussels will host ReThinking Collections, dedicated to researching the provenance of works of art; and in Antwerp, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) will open a retrospective of the avant-garde painter James Ensor in the autumn.
Spain did not escape this wave of proposals and in February, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid will present, together with the Tàpies Foundation, the most complete exhibition on this Spanish artist held in decades. Meanwhile, the Prado Museum will dedicate a large exhibition to social art.
In another order, the Metropolitan Museum of New York (Met) will open the year with an exhibition of Cycladic art and will also dedicate exhibitions to Renaissance portraits, Indian paintings and the art of the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
Brazil and Mexico also reserved their proposals for the new year, since the São Paulo Art Museum will dedicate an exhibition to the LGBT community in 2024.
Meanwhile, at the Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico, the Mexichrome exhibition will continue until March 3, offering a tour of the country’s history since the first color photographic film was invented.
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