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"Paris 1900, The City of Entertainment" is an invitation to the public to relive the splendour of the French capital at the time when the Paris Exposition Universelle was heralding the arrival of the 20th century. More than ever before, Paris was seen throughout the world as a sparkling city of luxury with a sophisticated way of life. Over 600 works will plunge visitors to the Petit Palais into the atmosphere of Belle Époque Paris.There will be paintings, objets d´art, costumes, posters, photographs, films, furniture, jewellery and sculptures. The technical inventions, the cultural effervescence, and the sheer elegance of Parisian women will be staged and displayed as representative legends of that Paris whose image has been promoted in literature and the cinema throughout the world.

An exhibition commemorating the 130th anniversary of the construction of the Nau Gaudí in Mataró. Curated by Daniel Giralt-Miracle, the show presents 110 photographs of Gaudí´s wealth of work through two different interpretations in terms of time and technique. The photos are by Joaquim Gomis and Ramon Manent. If the former worked in black and white between the 1950s and 1970s, the latter took over the reins in the 1970s and continues to analyse Gaudí´s work today through colour. As a whole, the 110 photographs take us on a delightful journey through the work of Gaudí.

This year, the Budapest ensemble of Alexander Bigot´s monumental architectural ceramics can be seen for the first time since the Paris World's Fair of 1900.

The exhibition presents the most significant Art Nouveau objects in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts.

Throughout the five boroughs are more than 200 long-overlooked marvels of engineering and architectural beauty-the interlocking tile vaults built by Spanish immigrants Rafael Guastavino, Sr. (1842-1908), and his son, Rafael Jr. (1872-1950). The system of structural tile vaults developed by the Guastavinos-lightweight, fireproof, low-maintenance, and capable of supporting significant loads-was used by leading architects of the day, including McKim, Mead & White and Carrere &Hastings. Ellis Island´s Registry Room, Carnegie Hall, the Bronx Zoo´s Elephant House, and Grand Central Terminal all contain Guastavino vaults.

Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile is a major exhibition exploring the innovations the Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company (1889-1962) brought to the science and art of building. It was originally organized by MIT´s John Ochsendorf, who is a MacArthur Fellow; it is substantially expanded here to include some 20 key Guastavino spaces in the five boroughs.

Exhibition Co-chairs: Paul Katz, FAIA; Jill Lerner, FAIA; Leslie Earl Robertson, P.E.; and SawTeen See, P.E.

Organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project "Art Nouveau & Ecology" (2010-2015) supported by the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Commission, the exhibition comprises two identical concurrent exhibitions and has begun its journey to all partner cities in October 2013.

After Helsinki, Brussels, Nancy, Alesund, and Terrassa (10 May), the exhibition "The Nature of Art Nouveau" will be presented in Riga from 10 June.

This exhibition is free and bilingual Latvian-English.

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The sea was one of the recurring themes, perhaps the favourite, of his painting. Joaquín Sorolla has an idyll with the sea, perhaps because in spite of having been born in Valencia, he spent most of his life in Madrid. This exhibition displays a series of sea scenes that enable us to look into the artist and see how he paints nature and uses colour. It is undoubtedly an exhibition full of mastery that speaks of his great nostalgia for the sea of his childhood.

The assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on the 28th of June 1914 in Sarajevo was the fatal trigger of World War I. One hundred years on, the Leopold Museum is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the fate of Austrian artists who were active between 1914 and 1918.

The Museum of Catalan Modernisme (MMCAT) will begin its Music at the Museum: Spring - Summer 2014 season on 26 April this year.

MMCAT will be presenting a total of six concerts for the season between April and September.

Visit the Museum website for further information

The Belvedere´s exhibition, "Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900", will be devoted to Russian art and the cultural relations between Russia and Austria at the beginning of the twentieth century. The term Silver Age refers to the cultural bloom in Russian literature and the visual arts after 1900 and is considered an equivalent to the German expression Jugendstil or Art Nouveau.

On display the rich unpublished material stored by the artist's family in Torre Pellice. The exhibition is the first monographic exhibition held in Rome since 1938.

The exhibition displays the uniqueness of the Dutch Art Nouveau with all its characteristic features such as: The rationalist school, decorative Art Nouveau, the Asian influences and other movements.

This presentation has been organized in co-operation with the Dutch Art historian and collector Frederik Erenc.

"Collegiality and Controversy. Josef Hoffmann and the Architects of  Moravian Modernism from the Wagner School in Vienna" is the tenth exhibition on the life and work of Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) in the Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice, and presents Hoffmann´s oeuvre in confrontation with two other Wagner students. Like Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) and Leopold Bauer (1872-1938) belonged to a generation of talented architects from the Province of Moravia who had a decisive formative influence on architecture in Vienna around 1900. A specific selection of around fifty drawings, photographs, and texts outlines their role in the development of architecture in the imperial capital of Vienna and analyses Hoffmann´s contribution to architectural innovation in Moravia.

The present exhibition "Line and Shape" unites 100 eminent examples of masterful draftsmanship of the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition features works by some of the best draftsmen of the 20th century, including Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Alfred Kubin. Further highlights include design drawings by members of the Wiener Werkstätte as well as works by artists whose abilities as draftsmen are often overshadowed by their painterly oeuvre, such as Albin Egger-Lienz, Hans Böhler and Anton Kolig. More than any other medium, drawings manage to convey the immediate connection between inspiration and artistic execution. Whether as sketchy nature studies or elaborate drawings with meticulous attention to detail, this genre´s rank as an autonomous artistic medium has always been undisputed.

This exhibition explores the unique skills of some of the leading makers associated with this period including Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Talwin Morris, Jessie Marion King, Ernest Archibald Taylor and Margaret and Frances Macdonald, showing the strength and prominence of Glaswegian Arts and Crafts.

It is the first substantial exhibition devoted to Mackintosh´s architecture, with over 80 architectural drawings, many never exhibited before, rarely seen archival material, and specially commissioned films and models.