Posts for February, 2026

In 2026, the Figuratives will present a small exhibition. The 23 members of the permanent group, including ARC Living Master Joke Frima, will display their work this time in an 'XS exhibition' in the intimate Klinkenberg Galleries. At the end of 2027, they will return with the large-scale 'Figuratives XL' in the Mesdag and Weissenbruch rooms.

The exhibition runs from February 28 – March 22, 2026 at Pulchri Studio, Lange Voorhout 15, The Hague, 2514 EA, Netherlands.

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Celebrating the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit is an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio.

The exhibition juxtaposes this remarkable work with some precedents for its naturalism, including earlier paintings from Milan and by Caravaggio’s slightly older contemporary Annibale Carracci. The installation will also include a selection of works that document the powerful impact Caravaggio had on Roman art. It concludes with Gianlorenzo Bernini’s portrait drawing of Scipione Borghese, the early owner of the Boy with a Basket of Fruit painting and the collector largely responsible for the Galleria Borghese.

Running from January 16 through April 19, 2026, the exhibition is being held at the Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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This exhibition will explore the symbolic and allegorical implications of sleep, its importance in secular and sacred imagery, and the ways in which sleep-related scientific, philosophical, and psychoanalytical research have influenced art.

Artworks dating from 1800 – 1920 will be shown together with significant works from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern and contemporary eras in order to highlight certain key enduring themes: the sleep of the innocent, dreams in Bible stories, the ambivalence of the notion of sleep, the Eros of the sleeping figure, and dreams and nightmares.

The exhibition runs from October 9, 2025 to March 1, 2026 at The Musee Marmottan Monet, 2, Rue Louis-Boilly, Paris, France.

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The Americans in Paris fine art project started 10 years ago in 2016 by curator, writer, lecturer, artist Vanessa Françoise Rothe and has since become an international success, now celebrating it's 10 year anniversary.  

The innovative project continues to make art history by directly inspiring artists with new subjects discovered on travel to France, educating collectors and students on art history, and encouraging patrons of the arts to discover contemporary artists work by curating and presenting exciting international fine art exhibitions in New York, Paris and Los Angeles.

 Follow the Americans in Paris @vanessarothe on social for the most recent updates, or check in at VanessaRotheFineArt.com for exhibition opportunities and updates. 

This plein air workshop by ARC Living Master Mary Pettis is open to all artists, but especially designed for those who have a basic knowledge of oil painting and are now ready to move towards more personally expressive and masterful landscapes. 

Embrace the adventure and joy of plein air painting as we immerse ourselves in the beauty of the dramatic Mendocino Coast and awe-inspiring redwoods! Now, envision doing all this while indulging in unparalleled luxury accommodations and savoring nourishing, gourmet cuisine at The Inn at Newport Ranch, Fort Bragg, CA.

Each day Mary provides students with hands-on guidance through live demonstrations, personalized one-on-one instruction, and thoughtful critiques. Embracing both classical principles and proven plein air techniques from the greatest contemporary schools of thought, she is devoted to helping painters open their hearts and minds to their artistic purpose.

Artists arrive on Sunday, September 13th and depart on Friday, September 18th - with 4 full workshop days (M-TH) in between. This exclusive experience is limited to 10 artists, so reserve your spot today!

Visit The Inn's website to get more information about the ranch: www.theinnatnewportranch.com

This exhibition tells the story of artists from India, Britain, and China who worked in the era of one of the most powerful corporations in history. The British East India Company began in 1600 as a private trading enterprise but grew into a military and political force during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It waged war to rule India and sell opium in China. To support its commercial and imperial goals, the Company encouraged its agents to commission art. Works of art depicted commodities, functioned as gifts to ease trade deals and build alliances, and visually recorded the places and societies where the Company traded and governed. 

The artists featured here trained in Indian courts, in art and military institutes in Britain, and in Chinese workshops. In their artistic exchanges, they combined regional methods with new materials and techniques. This exhibition, of more than one hundred objects, is mostly drawn from the YCBA’s rich collection of works from Asia, including rich opaque watercolors, large-scale oil portraits, evocative architectural drafts and a spectacular thirty-seven-foot-long scroll. It takes visitors on a journey through port cities and into the worlds of artists, showing how artists shaped, and were shaped by, the Company’s ruthless ventures while creating artworks of great beauty and innovation.

The exhibition runs from January 8 – June 21, 2026 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT.

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Golden Hour - Charles Courtney Curran and the Romance of American Impressionism, traces the celebrated American painter’s journey from his Ohio roots to New York, Paris, and the mountaintop artists’ colony of Cragsmoor, New York, where he spent four decades capturing sunlit gardens, breezy mountaintops, and moments of quiet grace. Blending the elegance of the Gilded Age with the airy brushwork of American Impressionism, Curran’s paintings, filled with women in flowing white dresses, playful children, and lush floral landscapes, offer a luminous vision of summer at its most poetic. Drawn from public and private collections, the exhibition includes rarely seen works, early portraits, and period fashions that bring his idyllic worlds to life.

The exhibition runs from February 10 – May 24, 2026 at the Flagler Museum, One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, FL 33480.

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