annhig

I had an unexpected brush with dutch art this week at the Courtauld Institute which I visited for the first time despite having walked past it probably hundreds of times en route to what used to be a Family court in Somerset House on the Strand.

with 2 or so hours to fill before we needed to get our flight home to Cornwall, we enjoyed the permanent exhibition very much, especially their collection of impressionists [including Manet's Bar at the Folie Bergere which I first saw at the Grand Palais Manet exhibition over 30 years ago].

http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-...tions-displays

In addition they have two Breughel exhibitions on at the moment, "Breughel/not Breughel" and "Breughel in black and White" as well as another of Botticelli's drawings of Dante's divine comedy, which of course has at least partly a theme of Paradise, though some of the themes were pretty gory. The detail is fantastic but difficult to see with the naked eye so they provide magnifying glasses which helped a bit.

PhillyFan

Interesting comments about the Bosch exhibit by the Talking Heads' David Byrne:

http://davidbyrne.com/11-things-i-le...mus-bosch-show

hetismij2

Thanks for that Phillyfan. Big David btrne fan so it is interesting to read his article. He forgets to mention it is completely sold out!

PhillyFan

Yes, I read the exhibit was sold out a few weeks ago - even after they extended their hours until 11pm!

I just ordered the exhibit catalog, Bosch: Visions of Genius, from amazon. I found the book, Bosch in Detail, in a bookstore in Den Bosch for only 30 Euro. That will be $65 here when the book is released in the US (in October), and I wanted to buy it, as it would have saved me money. But, I didn't want to lug it around with me - it's a huge book. So I will continue to eagerly anticipate its US release.

bvlenci

Hetismij, how was the exhibit?

hetismij2

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...rip-report.cfm is my report on it. Phillyfan commented on her trip to see it in her recent trip report too.

hetismij2

There are more tickets available for this. From 22 April until 6 May the museum will open from 08.00 until 01.00. The night of the 7th of May it will be open all night!
The exhibition will close as planned on May 8th.