- PARIS (FRANCE-EU)
Exhibition: The Carracci drawings – The making of the Galleria Farnese
Completed at the very beginning of the 17th century, a decorative interior in the heart of the Palazzo Farnese — the current seat of the French Embassy in Italy — would come to be regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of Western painting. The work in question is the gallery decorated by Annibale Carracci, his brother Agostino, and their students. The Galleria Farnese drew admiration far and wide and inspired the work of many artists due to the beauty of its frescoes as well as that of its preparatory drawings.
The Musée du Louvre is moving the Galleria Farnese to Paris, where the most extraordinary collection of preparatory drawings ever assembled will recreate the gallery in the manner of a jigsaw puzzle. The immersive exhibition design reproducing the Galleria’s vault will also include a second ceiling: that of the Camerino, a small room Annibale Carracci was given to test his designs. The exhibition aims to give visitors a closer look at the engaging character of the work’s key architect, Annibale Carracci. The Galleria Farnese drawings and other sheets Annibale completed before leaving for Rome will highlight the 34-year-old artist’s determination to bring about a stylistic and intellectual revival.
5 November 2025 – 2 February 2026
- Philadelphia (USA)
Exhibition: Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100
In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for wonder and amazement. Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 will feature approximately two hundred works by more than seventy artists associated with the international Surrealist movement.
The Philadelphia Art Museum will be the only U.S. venue for this traveling exhibition, following distinct iterations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which launched this project to celebrate Surrealism’s centenary, and three other European museums. Philadelphia Art Museum highlights will include Joan Miró’s Dog Barking at the Moon (1926), Salvador Dalí’s Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936), and Dorothea Tanning’s Birthday (1942).
November 8, 2025–February 16, 2026
