Let the show in Vienna on "talking heads", and in Munich - expressive "painting of" Arnulf Rainer, even in Bilbao opened interesting exhibition on the bulls (from myth to the ritual "- read," from antiquity to the present day ") and in Madrid from Paris brought" Turner and the old masters. " All of this workaday background against which the brightly shining star of Pablo Picasso. It seems that Picasso is the "most important artist of our time».
A Picasso exhibition at one end of Europe, has no time to finish as the other begins another. Picasso and Klee in Switzerland, England, Picasso, Picasso in Spain, but if you look at the matter broadly, it is added to the gathering crowd in Russia Picasso and Picasso in the U.S.. Even in a small Istanbul Museum Pery recently held a small exhibition of graphics by Picasso - to keep the same from the Europeans.
Neither Warhol or Miro or Klee or Impressionists or Rembrandt and other old masters , which, admittedly, is also active in the museums of the Old World, can not withstand any rivalry with Picasso. The reasons for sweeping the curators and museum pikassofilii can be judged differently, but also rapid exhibition of Picasso's secure and solid in the status of "most expensive artist" at the last auction - is striking. Most likely, investing in the promotion of Picasso as an artistic brand owners pursue his work is quite tangible goals, increasing the capitalization of their assets.
Learn more about these and other cultural events in Europe in June read in the next issue of our regular column "shows in Europe».

Austria

Talking Heads, 1 June - 12 September, Vienna
The main theme of the new culturogical exhibition opening at the Vienna Art History Museum - picture of a man in a different era. People, whose portrait is on it, shared four goals. "Talking Heads" - the so-called this exhibition, curated by offering peer into the faces of Egyptian pharaohs and sphinxes, Roman emperors and philosophers, as well as see medieval portraits, then the courtiers, heroic and lyrical portraits of the Renaissance, parade and psychological portraits of classicism. Among the exhibits of paintings by Durer, Parmigianino, Titian, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, busts, sculptures, paintings and tombstones, medallions and coins from the main collection and store-KHM. Some exhibits are for the first time to the public.
Details:
Phone: +43 1525 4025 24-
e-mail: info@khm.at
khm.at/
wien

Belgium

Trade Fair for non-European art Bruneaf, 9-13 June, Brussels
This year is already in the 20 th time in the Brussels Exhibition Centre Sablon "will be the traditional fair of non-European primitive art of Africa, Oceania, Indonesia and Australia. The exhibition will feature masks, weapons, jewelry, coins, textiles, sculpture, handicrafts from wood, gold, silver, bronze, ivory and terracotta. Ancient and Modern "naive" art will be represented by 70 galleries from France, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands and the United States.
Details:
phone: +32 (0) 2 514 02 09
e-mail: info @ bruneaf
bruneaf/en/accueil.html

still have time in June:
Austria
retrospective exhibition Lyupertsa Marcus, until June 6, Vienna/Albertina

Belgium
Whales and Dolphins, August 29, Brussels/Natural Science Museum at the Royal Belgian ...


UK

Summer Exhibition 2010, June 14 - August 22, London
Traditional Summer Exhibition-2010 will be held in mid-June at London's Royal Academy. This is one of the largest and most open events in the contemporary art world, which is attended by both renowned artists (Antoni Tapies, Ed Ruscha, Michael Craig-Martin), and beginners, and the work presented in it are different stylistic eclecticism and different levels of skill. This year's Summer Exhibition will be held in the 242-th time on it can be seen around 1500 works - it is painting, photography, sculpture, drawings and models. Most of them will be sold during the summer. The cost of the ticket to the Summer Exhibition - 15 euros.
Details:
phone: +44 (0) 844 209 1919
e-mail: summerexhibition@royalacademy.uk
royalacademy.uk
royalacademy. uk/events/

BP Portrait Award 2010, June 24 - 19 September, London
At the end of June in the National Portrait Gallery opens exhibition of portraits of the most prestigious annual award for obtaining the BP . The exhibition will feature 58 works, selected by a special commission for the finals of the competition. The London show, of course, reflects the latest trends in contemporary portraiture. The short-list this year includes portraits of David Eichenberg ("Team II»), Michael Gaskell ("Harry") and Daphne Todd ("The last portrait of the mother"). The winner will receive 25,000 euros.
The exhibition also kicks off a new two-year project is BP's "Next Generation", timed to coincide with the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in London in 2012.
Details:
phone: +44 (0 ) 20 7306 0055
npg.uk/

Germany

Adolf von Menzel, June 11 - August 8, Berlin
Life and Work of German artist Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905) is closely linked with the traditions of realism, the Berlin of the XIX century, the scope of his interests also included the history, politics, economics, science, philosophy. Menzel's first successes in the arts are connected with the engraving: in 1842, he created 200 illustrations for Life of Frederick the Great "by Franz Kugler. Genre of historical painting will remain primarily in the artist, though his landscapes, interiors and genre scenes, too, deserve attention. Menzel believed that "any subject deserves to be portrayed." The exhibition in Berlin's Old National Gallery will present over 40 paintings, watercolors and graphic works by this artist.
Details:
smb.spk-berlin.de
museumsportal-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/exhibition- details/menzels-extremer-realismus-1.html

Arnulf Rainer, June 10 - September 5, Munich
A retrospective exhibition of Arnulf Rainer (born 1929), which will soon open in the Munich Alte Pinakothek, dedicated to the 80-th anniversary of the Austrian artist. Rainer creativity is closely connected with the strivings of Austrian modernism of the twentieth century, although no formal art education he received. The first graphic works were created by Reiner influenced by surrealism and the Vienna school of fantastic realists. The idea of