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8 February
2025
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Working in the vanguard of the German Romantic movement, which championed a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self, Friedrich developed pictorial subjects and strategies that emphasize the individuality, intimacy, […]

12 February
2025
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Henri Michaux: Mescaline Drawings

The Courtauld Gallery The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, United Kingdom

The Courtauld Gallery

This display celebrates the unique Mescaline Drawings by the Franco-Belgian poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux (1899 -1984).   In January 1955, as part of an experiment prompted by his publisher, Michaux tried the psychedelic drug mescaline, a product derived from the Mexican peyote cactus. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the effect of […]

18 February
2025
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A Brush with Nature: Romantic Landscape Drawings

Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, LOS ANGELES, CA, United States

Getty Center

Artists in the Romantic period found endless inspiration in the beauty and power of nature. This exhibition highlights how these artists depicted the landscape, from detailed botanical studies to vast vistas. Important Romantic motifs are explored, including the melancholic appeal of ruins and the threat of destructive natural forces. Drawing upon the strengths of the […]

15 March
2025
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Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking

Art Institute of Chicago 159 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL +1 more

Art Institute of Chicago

The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, this presentation brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to uncover the inner workings of their creative process and offer new ways to think about the links between the two mediums. […]

21 March
2025
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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

The Royal Academy of Art Burlington House, Piccadilly, Longdon, United Kingdom

The Royal Academy of Art

Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France’s most famous writers, at this exhibition of his rarely-seen works on paper. Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a leading public figure in 19th-century France. His books Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were printed worldwide. As both a poet and a politician, during his […]

11 May
2025
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Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United States

MoMA

In the spring and summer of 1919 and 1920, during a period of intense engagement with nature, artist Hilma af Klint drew flowers almost every day. “I will try,” she wrote, “to grasp the flowers of the earth.” This exhibition focuses on a recently discovered portfolio of drawings—jewel-toned watercolors made by a keen-eyed naturalist, attuned […]

1 June
2025
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Reform to Restoration: French Art from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII from the Horvitz Collection

Crocker Art Museum 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA, United States

Crocker Art Museum

French Art from Louis XVI to Louis XVIII from the Horvitz Collection The 125 drawings and 20 paintings in this exhibition reveal the ways that more than 70 artists engaged with artistic debates, archaeological discoveries, and sweeping political changes from the final decades of the ancien régime through the French Revolution, Empire, and Restoration. The […]

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