From 16th May 2019 until 12th January 2020, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, the Sala delle Asse has been reopened to the public. The most important room in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan is once again accessible to the public after 6 years of investigations and restoration works, that have brought Leonardo’s paintings back to light on its walls. After the Sala itself was found at the end of the 19th century, this is yet again another discovery, revealing a new geography of the decoration project conceived by Leonardo. In turn, it lays the basis for new investigations on Leonardo da Vinci’s uniquely ingenious work. Through the amazing multimedia installation “Sotto l’ombra del Moro. La Sala delle Asse”, visitors will be guided through a better understanding of the whole room, shifting their attention from the vault to the side walls, to learn more about the

Tate Britain will present the first major retrospective of work by Frank Bowling. Since the early 1960s Bowling (b.1934) has explored and expanded the possibilities of paint, influencing generations of artists through his spectacular kaleidoscopic paintings. This long overdue celebration of his work will be the first exhibition to span the full breadth of Bowling’s practice, bringing together rarely seen works and iconic series that highlight the quality and range of the artist’s remarkable six-decade career. Tate Britain will chart Frank Bowling’s rise to becoming one of Britain’s most visionary painters. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) Bowling moved to London in 1953, and while serving in the RAF he met Keith Critchlow who introduced him to the London art scene. He went on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B Kitaj and became the first Black artist nominated as a Royal Academician. Living and wo

Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance, an exhibition sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, analyses the artistic importance of the early Florentine Renaissance between approximately 1420 to 1430, with a particular focus on the figure of Fra Angelico, one of the great masters of this period. The exhibition, which includes 82 works loaned by more than 40 institutions in Europe and America, centres on The Annunciation in the collection of the Museo del Prado, which is now presented in all its splendour following its recent restoration. Shown alongside it are The Virgin of the Pomegranate, which recently entered the Museum’s collection, and an extensive group of works by the artist and by other painters of this period such as Masaccio, Masolino and Filippo Lippi, as well as sculptors including Donatello and Ghiberti.

Kathryn Hart presents New Dawn, a solo exhibition at Palazzo Mora during the 2019 Venice Art Biennale. At the invitation of the European Cultural Centre and the GAA Foundation, Kathryn Hart (USA) is exhibiting New Dawn as part of Personal Structures – Identities, an official event of the 2019 Venice Biennale. Personal Structures is presented by the GAA Foundation and is hosted and supported by the European Cultural Centre at the Palazzo Mora, and Palazzo Bembo in the center of Venice and Giardini della Marinaressa. The exhibition is on view until 24 November 2019. Hart’s, New Dawn, a site-specific exhibition of sculpture and photography, reflects on the simultaneous organic processes of regeneration and degradation and questions if there is a point of homeostasis. Each sculpture sways towards either becoming or eroding. Expand or contract, develop, remake or become anew individually or collectively prompted by inter

From May 24 to September 8, 2019, the National Gallery of Canada presents Gauguin: Portraits, offering the opportunity to see the work of French artist Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) from a unique perspective, bringing new insights into his vision of portraiture. Gauguin’s work has been the subject of many exhibitions, but Gauguin: Portraits is the first exhibition dedicated to his portraiture. One of the most important and fascinating artists of the nineteenth century, Gauguin expanded the traditional practice of portraiture in groundbreaking ways and had a fundamental influence on the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The exhibition highlights the way in which the artist used self-portraits and portraits of others to construct his own narrative, express himself and his ideas about art, and to pursue his ambitions as a leader of the avant-garde in Paris. Gauguin challenged the traditional functions of portraiture, giving