Boston Museum of Fine Art - A New and Native Beauty

'A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene' will open 14 July at the Boston Museum of Fine Art and will continue till 18 October 2009.

The architecture and decorative arts designed by Charles and his brother Henry Greene (1870-1954) a century ago are now recognized internationally as among the best work of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

Highlights include objects representing a variety of media, including beautifully inlaid furniture crafted from exotic hardwoods, artfully executed stained glass and metalwork, as well as rare architectural drawings and photographs.

Location: Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA
Web: http://www.mfa.org/

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Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts - 'Turner and Italy' Exhibition

'Turner and Italy' will open 15 July at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and will continue till 25 October.

This thematic exhibition presents Joseph Mallord William Turner's career in chronological order ranging from early landscapes to the almost abstract pictures of his last period, their motifs dissolving into patches of colour.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was one of the most outstanding landscape painters of the 19th century, perhaps even of the entire history of art. His extensive oeuvre is characterised by a wealth of different themes as well as by incessant technical innovation.

Turner painted realistic landscapes and townscapes - he was particularly fond of portraying the sea - historical and mythological scenes and contemporary events, while at the same time he was greatly inspired by literature. Believing that watercolours had an equal importance to oil paintings, he made many works on paper.

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Web: http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu

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Latvian National Museum of Art - 'Reservoir of Time' Exhibition

'Reservoir of Time' will open 10 July at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga and will continue till 16 August.

The exhibition is a Nele Zirnite solo exhibition. She is one of the best Latvian print artists and working in etching technique.

Zirnite was born in Latvia in 1959. She has been giving a great impact of the development of etching technique not only by making experiments in this field, but also working as pedagogue, teaching the young graphic art students since 1995, performing in “Grafikas Kamera” and leading the Etching Studio in the Union of Latvian Artists.

Location: Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Web: http://www.vmm.lv

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Oxford Museum of Modern Art - 'Silke Otto-Knapp' Exhibition

'Silke Otto-Knapp' will open 04. July at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art and will continue till 13. September 2009.

The exhibition surveys Otto-Knapp's paintings from the past five years, in which staged figures and landscapes are at the centre of her explorations into the construction of pictorial space.

Silke Otto-Knapp works with watercolour and gouache on canvas, repeatedly building up and dissolving the surface to create paintings of subtle effect.

Location: Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Time: 10.00-17.00
Website: http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk

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