On view: ballgowns to ‘Impressionism and Fashion’
“Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950’’
Victoria & Albert Museum
London
Through Jan. 6
To celebrate the renovation of its fashion galleries, the V&A has brought together more than 60 examples of women’s evening wear at its most sumptuous and elegant. Designers with dresses in the show include Victor Stiebel, Zandra Rhodes, Jonathan Saunders, Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, Giles Deacon, Erdem, and Jenny Packham. Among the dresses are several worn by members of the royal family, including a Norman Hartnell gown designed for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Catherine Walker’s “Elvis Dress’’ for Lady Diana, Princess of Wales.
Cromwell Road, 011-44-20-7942-2000, www.vam.ac.uk
“Matisse — Doubles and
Variation’’
National Gallery of Denmark
Copenhagen
Through Oct. 28
Throughout his career, Henri Matisse made paintings in pairs or series. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see numerous examples of those works together. Solvgade 48-50, 011-45-3374-8494,
smk.dk/en
“The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Years’’
Royal Library and Gallery
Windsor, England
Through Oct. 28
To honor Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, this show is just what it says it is: five dozen portraits of her majesty in observance of her five dozen years on the throne. Saxon Tower, Windsor Castle, 011-44-1753-868-286, royalcollection.org.uk
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13th International
Architecture Biennale
Venice
Through Nov. 25
“Common Ground’’ is the theme of this 13th iteration of the biennale. It comprises 69 projects, with contributions from architects, photographers, artists, critics, and scholars. Ca’Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A, 011-39-041-5218711, labiennale.org/en/architecture/exhibition
“Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and ‘The Life Line’ ’’
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sept. 22-Dec. 16
One of Homer’s best-known paintings is put into triple context: other artistic renderings of maritime rescue, the art of his time, and his own career. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100, www.phil
amuseum.org
“The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism’’
de Young Museum
San Francisco
Through Dec. 30
The founder of CBS was a discerning collector of modern art, as amply demonstrated by these 60 paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the holdings of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, 415-750-3600, deyoung.famsf.org
“Regarding Warhol: Sixty
Artists, Fifty Years’’
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Sept. 18-Dec. 31
Andy Warhol is the most influential — certainly the most famous — artist of the past half century. The Met uses his influence as a point of departure for this show in which his work is shown with that of artists who have responded to it in their own work. 1000 Fifth Ave. (at 82d Street), 212-535-7710, met
museum.org
“Lewis Hine’’
Through Jan. 6
Netherlands Photomuseum
Rotterdam
This overview of the photographer’s career draws on the collection of George Eastman House, which has the most extensive holdings of the great US social realist’s work. Wilhelminakade 332, 011-31-10-20304-05, nederlandsfotomuseum.nl
“Impressionism and Fashion’’
Musée d’Orsay
Paris
Sept. 25-Jan. 13
Interested in the world around them, Impressionist painters rendered not just landscapes and still lifes but also styles of contemporary fashion in 19th-century Paris. This exhibition shows just how varied that rendering was. 62 rue de Lille, 011-33-1-40-49-48-14, musee-orsay.fr
MARK FEENEY
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