Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue Reviews

Early Netherlandish Drawings 1400-1600

By Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema (curators)

London, The British Museum, April 16 – September 20, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema, London: The British Museum Press, 2026, 368 pp, 320 illus. ISBN 978-0-7141-3651-6.

Review published June 2026

Accompanying an exhibition of its spectacular holdings of Netherlandish drawings, the British Museum has issued its richly illustrated definitive catalogue of collection highlights, the first in [...] Read More

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

By Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut (curators)

New York, The Cloisters, October 17, 2025 – March 29, 2026.

Exh. cat. ed. by Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025, 144 pp. ISBN 9781588398055.

Review published April 2026

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, edited by Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut, was designed to accompany an exhibition of the same title at The Cloisters in New York. [...] Read More

Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750

By Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam (curators)

Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 26, 2025 – January 11, 2026; Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, March 7 – May 31, 2026.
Exh. cat. ed. by Virginia Treanor and Frederica Van Dam. Veurne: Hannibal, 2026. 284 pp. ISBN 978-9493416277.

Review published April 2026

Those who favor exhibitions that dazzle through variety would have appreciated Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750. A collaborative project by curators Virginia Treanor [...] Read More

Pride and Solace: Medieval Books of Hours and Their Readers

By Evelien Hauwaerts (curator)

Bruges, Groeningemuseum, April 4 – October 7, 2025.

Exh. cat. ed. by Evelien Hauwaerts with Emma De Nil and Caroline Van Cauwenberge, English edition: Books of Hours, Books of Hope: Medieval Books of Hours and their Readers, Antwerp: Hannibal Books, 2025, 160 pp. ISBN 978-9464941951; Dutch edition: Trots en Troost: Middeleuuwse getijdenboeken en hun lezers. ISBN 9464941952.

Review published March 2026

For manuscript enthusiasts, 2025 was dominated by the blockbuster exhibition displaying the calendar of the Très Riches Heures (and many related items) at the castle of Chantilly, just outside Paris. [...] Read More

Vermeer’s Love Letters

By Robert Fucci (curator)

New York, The Frick Collection, June 18 – August 31, 2025.
Exh. cat. by Robert Fucci. New York, Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection, 2025. 96 pp, 60 color illus. ISBN 978-0-8478-4594-1.

Review published December 2025

Published in conjunction with the special focus exhibition marking the long-awaited reopening of the Frick Collection, Robert Fucci’s Vermeer’s Love Letters reflects the aims of the show it [...] Read More

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin

By Gerlinde Gruber (curator)

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, September 30, 2025 – February 22, 2026; London, Royal Academy of Arts, March 27, 2026 – June 21, 2026.

Exh. cat. by Gerline Gruber, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, and Julien Domercq. Stuttgart, Belser, 2025. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1915815200.

Review published December 2025

Michaelina Wautier, Malerin presented some true delights for the specialist visitor familiar with the oeuvre of an artist little known before the groundbreaking Antwerp exhibition of her work in 2018. [...] Read More

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