Long before spiritual and esoteric movements like new age and mindfulness became popular in the West, the open-minded Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) combined the best of different religious movements. A Russian by birth, he moved to Munich where he evolved into one of the foremost German Expressionists. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is presenting Jawlensky’s rich landscape, still-life and portrait work in a major retrospective that emphasises the influence of his modern spiritualism. In collaboration with the Alexej von Jawlensky archive in Switzerland, the museum also explores his love of music and how it inspired him. After graduating from the art academy in 1896 Jawlensky left St. Petersburg to travel through Europe with his patron Marianne von Werefkin – herself a successful painter. Their trip included a visit to the Netherlands. That same year, they settled in Munich, which at the time was the foremost northern

The Musée Marmottan Monet is presenting—until 10 February 2019—an exhibition entitled ‘Collections Privées: un Voyage des Impressionnistes aux Fauves’ (‘Private Collections: From the Impressionists to the Fauves’). The exhibition includes sixty-two paintings, drawings, and sculptures held in private collections (in Europe, the United States, and Latin America)—most of which have never or rarely been exhibited in Paris—in a pictorial itinerary that ranges from Monet to Matisse. The private mansion in Rue Louis Boilly, in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, provides the ideal showcase for this event. It is worth noting that the Musée Marmottan Monet is primarily a ‘collectors’ museum’, that is to say an institution whose permanent collections—including the world’s most extensive collection of Claude Monet’s works—have been privately donated. Hence, the muse

Asti welcomes the elegant and utopian world of Marc Chagall, with paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings. It is a world full of wonder and amazement; artworks in which childhood memories, fairy tales, poetry, religion and war coexist; a universe of brightly coloured dreams, of intense hues bringing to life to landscapes populated by the characters – real or imaginary – that crowd the artist’s imagination. These are works that recreate a dreamlike universe of imagery, where it is difficult to identify the boundary between reality and dreams, the same world that Chagall depicts in his books of etchings. With over 150 works in an exhibition divided into seven sections and curated by Dolores Durán Úcar, Palazzo Mazzetti welcomes Chagall. Colore e magia, an exhibition realized by the Fondazione Asti Musei, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Asti, the Region of Piedmont and the City of Asti, in collaboration with Gruppo

SUE, the world’s biggest, best-preserved, and most complete T. rex, is back on display and better than ever at the Field Museum as of Friday, December 21, 2018. SUE is now up to date with the latest scientific research and is in a new “private suite” that shows what SUE’s world was like. “We’re excited to finally complete our decades-long plan to put SUE in a proper scientific context alongside our other dinosaurs and offer an experience that really shows off why SUE is widely considered the greatest dinosaur fossil in the world,” says Field Museum president Richard Lariviere. SUE’s new home is within the museum’s Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, which, along with Máximo the Titanosaur and the newly reimagined Stanley Field Hall, is part of the Griffin Dinosaur Experience and was funded by the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund. The new

The Birmingham Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition that considers the wide-ranging representation of one of art history’s most pervasive subjects, Jesus. Drawn largely from the Museum’s permanent collection, ​Embodying Faith: Imagining Jesus through the Ages showcases 30 works that span more than six centuries and feature varying depictions of Jesus by artists working across the globe: from Ethiopia to Italy, France to Fayette County, Alabama. The exhibition traces how artists imagined Jesus and includes work in a range of media including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, quilts, flags, and books. For centuries, artistic production in Europe, and elsewhere, was dominated by Christian themes. This religious art served many purposes, from embellishing altars and aiding in private devotion, to educating the faithful and acting as propaganda either for or against the church during the Protestant Reformation. A