exhibitions

It's more than just a beautiful building. The new Strasbourg Exhibition Centre, inaugurated at the beginning of September, consolidates Strasbourg's ambitions. A major European crossroads, the Eurometropolis between France and Germany is now seeking to become a model for sustainable urban development. "The new Exhibition Centre is a concrete expression of the ambitions of a city that is asserting itself as one of...

Despite the advent of new technologies, getting together with colleagues remains a constant, almost vital need. In fact, over the last fifty years or so, the number of international congresses and meetings has risen steadily throughout the world. According to a study by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) covering the period 1963-2013, the number of regular associative events...

Thalys is once again playing the originality card to encourage the general public to take a voyage of discovery. From September 12 until the end of the week, the rail company is offering Parisians the chance to travel to Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels and Paris, without leaving the Marais or even getting off the train...

Of course, Rothko's abstraction is best remembered for its fields of colour... Combinations of fir green and blood red or ultramarine blue, navy blue and vibrant yellow, dirty greys and whites, deep blacks... a whole festival of bright or powdery colours obtained by superimposing several colours...

Rome is devoting a major retrospective to Hans Memling, a major artist of the second half of the 15th century who became the most important painter in Bruges after the death of his Brussels master, Rogier van der Weyden. At the time, the city of Flanders was a major cultural and financial centre, and commissions were pouring in...

The Brueghel family left their mark on art history with their vision of humanity, beginning with the relationship between Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. Influenced by the latter, he passed on to his sons, Pieter the Younger and Jan the Elder, the art of medieval cartoons and the grotesque. The Seven...

The Louisiana Museum has selected 150 major works from the 20th and 21st centuries from a wide range of international artists who tell the story of self-representation. The artist's expression can be seen in all of them. But is it a dream projection, a fanciful imagination or an interpretation of reality? There's an answer for everyone, but above all it's an opportunity to see...

The photographs, which oscillated between fashion and nude shots, became exhibition prints for the occasion, but never during the lifetime of Newton, who died in 2004. In fact, they had never been exhibited at the same time. The first cult book gives his very personal vision of the world of fashion, money and power,...

Femmes fatales, disappointed lovers or historical icons: they express, beyond male fantasies and passions, the biography of these three creators at the same time as the context in which they lived. And, far from what we might think, the women of Picasso or Beckmann are truly free and emancipated... A hundred of them...

Roy Lichtenstein drew inspiration from comic books, advertising and popular images to explore various painting techniques and assert his style. With over 160 works, ranging from familiar images such as "Look Mickey" and "Whaam!" to lesser-known ones, this is a dazzling display of colour and dynamism that also exudes an ironic eye...

Much of the work has been produced since 2005, when David Hockney returned to live in Bridlington, in the north of England, in the rolling countryside of his childhood. These views are transcended by the light of the different seasons, always from the same angle. It's as if his eye has always been on the lookout for transformations...

Armed with his connections with the police, Weegee would arrive at the scene of a crime and immortalise it with his flashbulbs. It was a speciality that led him to befriend notorious criminals like Lucky Luciano. His photos were sometimes shocking, but they also illustrated the loneliness of the inhabitants of this megalopolis. On show until 2 September. Weegee:...

Back in Munich after a trip to Moscow in the autumn of 1912, Vassily Kandinsky was looking for a way to project visually, but in an abstract way, the "extremely powerful impressions" of his native Russia. For five months, he explored various motifs and compositions, playing freely with pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and oil. After...

Married to Eugène Manet, the brother of the famous Édouard, her work ranged from rural and maritime landscapes to intimate moments and scenes of everyday life. She painted elegant women, portraits and scenes inspired by her sisters and their children; everything she experienced in the second half of her life...

At the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, for example, some forty works by Brancusi are compared with ten minimalist sculptures by Serra, providing an insight into the development of the latter's art. In a different vein, the Hahnloser collection, assembled between 1907 and 1932 in Winterthur by a doctor and his wife, is on show in...

Initially naive and childlike, the painter turned to Surrealism after meeting the poet André Breton, and in the 1930s decided to abandon all conventional methods and let his unbridled creativity shine through. Through more than 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, the Tate revisits the long career of the playful...

The woman who loved the company of women above all else - but who nevertheless married twice - is without doubt the most famous painter of the Art Deco period. In a neocubist style, her portraits are characterised by sensual glances and luscious female mouths, always interpreted in bright colours. In...

It is now thought that the man who revolutionised 17th-century painting with his sometimes brutal realism, his disturbing eroticism and his extraordinary use of clairobscur, used optical instruments based on the scientific knowledge of the time. Here we see mirrors, lenses and works that may have inspired him....

Monuments such as the sculpture Venus de Milo with the drawers or the painting The Infanta Margarita by Velázquez in the courtyard of El Escorial can be seen or seen again. The staging was designed by the architect Oscar Tusquests, a friend and collaborator of Salvador Dalí. Together they designed the Mae West room in the museum...

He plays on themes of physical sensation and psychological states, such as pain and fear (photo: SP2 'New Born' (Python AB), 2007). On view until 27 February 2011. Mori Art Museum 53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku. Internet: www.mori.art.museum [gallery exclude="17005"]