Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) will promote the city on the international stage in 2010, loaning works of art to some of the most significant museums in the world.
Works, including a number taken from Birmingham’s world famous Pre-Raphaelite collection, will go on display in museums and galleries across the globe over the next 12 months.
And Leader of the Council Mike Whitby believes the loans significantly enhance Birmingham’s cultural reputation on the world stage.
He said: “Through the international loans programme Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery really promotes the city across the world, enhancing our reputation as a cultural centre.
“This year we will loan works of art to exhibitions in a number of countries including: USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Japan and China. Last year we even had works on display in the Louvre and Spain’s world famous Alhambra.”
Significant international loans scheduled for 2010
France
Exhibition: A City For Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro and Gaugin in Rouen.
Rouen, Musee Des Beaux Arts
4 Jun 2010 to 26 Sept 2010
Germany
Exhibition: Utopia Matters
Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim
22 Jan 2010 to 11 Apr 2010
Italy
Exhibition: Utopia Matters
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim
30 Apr 2010 to 25 Jul 2010
Exhibition: Les Enfants du Paradis
Rovereto, MART
6 Feb 2010 to 23 May 2010
Exhibition: Pre Raphaelites and Italy
Ravenna, Museo d’Arte della citta di Ravenna
27 Feb to 6 June 2010
Exhibition: Venice and Beijing, Thousand Years of Art
Rome, Palazzo Venezia
19 Nov 2010 to 6 Mar 2011
Spain
Exhibition: Picasso looking at Degas
Barcelona, Museu Picasso
14 Oct 2010 to 16 Jan 2011
Canada
Exhibition: Les Enfants du Paradis
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario
19 Jun 2010 to 30 Oct 2010
Exhibition: Henry Moore
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario
Autumn 2010
Japan Frank Brangwyn
Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art
23 Feb 2010 to 30 May 2010
USA
Exhibition: The Victorian Avant-Garde: Whistler, Godwin & the Aesthetic Movement
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
May 2010
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
October 2010
Exhibition: Picasso looking at Degas
Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute
6 Jun 2010 to 12 Sep 2010
Exhibition: Vorticism
Durhan, N Carolina, Nasher Museum
Sept 2010 to Jan 2011
China
Exhibition: Venice and Beijing, Thousand Years of Art
Beijing, National Art Museum of China
8 Sept to 26 Oct 2010
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