Great Works

View of Harlem (With Bleaching Fields) (c1670)

Great Works: View of Haarlem (with bleaching fields) (c1670) by Jacob van Ruisdael

Kunsthaus, Zurich

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Great works: The Holy Face (14th century), Anon

Friday, 11 June 2010

Church of St Bartholomew of the Armenians, Genoa

Great Works: Penitent St Jerome (1628-30) by Georges de la Tour

Friday, 4 June 2010

National Museum, Stockholm

Great Works: Landscape (The Hare) (1927), Joan Miró

Friday, 28 May 2010

Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

Great works: Vices (1303-6), Giotto

Friday, 21 May 2010

Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

Great works: The Dance of Albion (circa 1795), William Blake

Friday, 7 May 2010

British Museum, London

Great works: Sand dune (1983), Francis Bacon

Friday, 30 April 2010

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel

Great Works: Tobias and the Angel (1607), Adam Elsheimer

Friday, 23 April 2010

Frankfurt Historisches Museum

Great Works: Running Man (circa 1932), Kasimir Malevich

Friday, 16 April 2010

Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Great Work: Stump Speaking (1853-4), George Caleb Bingham

Friday, 9 April 2010

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

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John Cage (Baltic, Gateshead)
The avant-garde musician was famed for his silent composition “4’33”: here are his lesser-known and delicate prints and watercolours on paper. (0191 478 1810) to 5 Sept

The Surreal House (Barbican, London)
An inventive piece of curating: a labyrinth of rooms, celebrating Surrealism and its relationship to the haunted house, from the 1920s to the contemporary. (020 7638 4141) to 12 Sept

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art (Tate Britain, London)
British comic art: farting, obesity, satire, violence, obscenity, absurdity, from Hogarth and Gillray and Cruikshank to Steve Bell and 'Viz'. (020 7887 8888) to 5 Sept

Picasso: Peace and Freedom (Tate Liverpool)
After the Second World War, Picasso threw himself into many progressive causes, including the Communist Party. A survey of his late politics and art. (0151 702 7400) to 30 Aug

Mark Francis (Abbot Hall, Kendal)
New sequence of abstracts by the British painter: loud shuddering grids of wires and bars, like electrified tartan, with dark blobs and interferences. (01908 676900) to 3 Jul

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