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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 […]

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 […]

26 June
2025