Exhibition attendances 2003: a selective record

Apollo, Dec, 2003

EXHIBITION ATTENDANCES
2003: a selective record

EXHIBITION                                            TOTAL    APPROX.
                                                               AV. PER
                                                                   DAY
AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Picasso: The last decades
(9 November 2002-16 February 2003)                   114,649     1,158
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes
(22 March-25 May)                                     86,289     1,348
Charles Conder 1868-1909
(14 June-17 August)                                   34,233       519
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The big Americans/Jackson Pollock'a blue poles
(4 October 2002-27 January 2003)                      31,358       270
Pierre Bonnard: Observing nature
(7 March-9 June)                                      56,596       596
Sari to Sarong: Five hundred years of Indian and Inonesian textile
exchange
(11 July-6 October)                                   42,345       481
AUSTRIA
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A time of awakening: Budapest and Vienna between Historicism and
Avant-garde
(10 February-20 April)                                30,000       430
Santiago Calatrava
(27 March-18 May)                                     70,223     1,560
Emperor Ferdinand I
(15 April-31 August)                                 220,000     1,582
Parmigianino and the European Mannerism
(5 June-14 September)                                165,000     1,650
CANADA
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Voyage into myth: The French Avant-garde from Gauguin to Matisse
from the Hermitage Museum
(31 January-27 April)                                119,442     1,990
Edouard Vuillard: Post Impressionist master
(15 May-24 August)                                    95,273       982
IRELAND
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Willie Doherty: False memory
(31 October 2002-2 March 2003)                        43,567       806
John the painter
(12 February-15 June)                                113,035     1,047
Lorna Simpson
(27 February-8 June)                                  96,300     1,070
Rose Finn-Kelcey
(3 April-10 August)                                  121,718     1,068
Gary Hume
(3 April-29 June)                                     80,391     1,031
Multi-media maps
(16 April-20 July)                                    87,907     1,047
Welkunst collection: Glad things don't talk
(24 April-15 June)                                     4,307        90
Cobra
(3 July-21 September)                                 10,572       147
Christina Iglesias: New corners of the world
(17 July-5 October)                                   70,322       977
Paul Morrison: Haematoxylon
(6 August-5 October)                                  52,695       976
ISRAEL
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chagall in Israel
(10 September 2002-15 March 2003)                    155,050       993
Food in art: A matter of taste
(1 December 2002-continuing) (figures as of 1
October)                                             280,200     1,085
North African lights: Hanukkah lamps from the Schulmann Collection
(1 December 2002-continuing) (figures as of 1
October)                                             140,000       542
Weegee's story: A photojournalist in the 1940s
(17 December 2002-30 August 2003)                    182,000       798
Raffi Lavie: Works from 1950 to 2003
6 February-23 April)                                  50,400       672
Mordecai Ardon: Landscapes of infinity
(20 February-2 August)                               120,050       674
First light: Power stations in Palestine 1920-1939
(27 March-18 October) (figures as of 1 October)       90,200       512
Talking beads: A selection from the African art collection
(15 April-11 November) (figures as of 1 October)     124,000       681
Revelation: Representations of Christ in photography
(22 May-18 October) (figures as of 1 October)        140,550     1,115
Envisioning the temple: Scrolls, stones and symbols
(30 May-continuing) (figures as of 1 October)        125,500     1,197
SPAIN
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
Robert and Sonia Delaunay (1905-1941)
(8 October 2002-12 January 2003)                      73,079       913
Musical analogies: Kandinsky and his contemporaries
(11 February-25 May)                                 153,237     1,722
UNITED KINGDOM
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Making the sand Mandala
(9-25 January)                                         9,176       608
Spectacular impressions: Old Master prints
(16 April-14 September)                               15,719       121
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Van Dyck: Ecco Homo and The Mocking of Christ
(25 October 2002-10 January 2003)                      9,979       119
Saved for the West Midlands: 100 years of NACF
(14 February-11 May)                                  16,122       185
The sun rising through vapour: Turner's early seascapes
(24 October-continuing) (dates as of 24 November)      6,750       225
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Turner watercolours
(1-3 January)                                         29,033       936
The print in Italy
(20 February-27 April)                                68,013     1,015
Gainsborough's beautiful Mrs Graham
(4 April-22 June)                                      9,798       122
National Gallery
Titian
(19 February-18 May)                                 267,939     2,680
A private passion: Harvard's Winthrop Collection
(25 June-14 September)                                55,616       695
National Portrait Gallery
Americans
(10 October 2002-12 January 2003)                     23,714       261
Mad, bad and dangerous: The cult of Byron
(20 November 2002-16 February 2003)                   76,007       894
Julia Margaret Cameron
(6 February-26 May)                                   56,169       520
You look beautiful like that
(5 March-8 June)                                      86,626       922
Self portrait UK
(5 April-22 June)                                     30,353       384
BP portrait award 2003
(12 June-21 September)                               160,198     1,571
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Monet: The Seine and the sea
(6 August-26 October)                                170,000     2,073
Serpentine Gallery
Takashi Murakami: Kaikai Kiki
(10 November 2002-26 January 2003)                    56,289       731
Kutlug Ataman
(10 February-18 March)                                24,001       800
Tate Britain
Turner prize 2002
(30 October 2002-5 January 2003)                      69,245     1,065
Gainsborough
(24 October 2002-19 January 2003)                    106,623     1,212
Constable to Delacroix: British art and the French Romantics
(5 February-11 May)                                   58,172       606
Days like these: Tate triennial exhibition of contemporary British art
(26 February-26 May)                                  83,565       939
Wolfgang Tillmans: If one thing matters, everything matters
(6 June-14 September)                                 40,202       383
Bridget Riley
(26 June-28 September)                                94,998       990
Tate Modern
Barnett Newman
(20 September 2002-5 January 2003)                    76,251       726
Eva Hesse
(13 November 2002-9 March 2003)                       85,127       747
Max Beckmann
(12 February-5 May)                                   86,509     1,030
Cruel and tender: The real in the twentieth-century photograph
(5 June-7 September)                                  98,069     1,012
Victoria and Albert Museum
Art Deco 1910-1939
(27 March-20 July)                                   360,000     3,130
UNITED STATES
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati wing: The story of art in the Queen City
(17 May-continuing) (figures as of November)          62,756       348
Cleveland Museum of Art
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and sculpture
(15 September 2002-5 January 2003)                    31,971       333
A city seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation collection
(17 November 2002-26 January 2003)                    17,932       289
Magna Graeca: Greek art from South Italy and Sicily
(27 October 2002-5 January 2003)                      24,584       372
The gilded age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
(23 February-18 May)                                  56,105       738
Treasures of a lost art: Italian manuscript painting
of the middle ages and renaissance
(24 February-4 May)                                   11,651       188
The history of Japanese photography
(25 May-20 July)                                      17,565       366
The sensuous and the sacred: Chola bronzes from South India
(6 July-14 September)                                 13,136       219
Against the grain: Woodcuts from our collection
(17 August-19 October)                                15,566       213
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Leonardo da Vinci and the splendour of Poland
(8 March-18 May)                                     130,891     2,182
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Paris in the age of impressionism: Masterworks from the Musee d'Orsay
(23 November 2002-16 March 2003)                     161,147     1,696
Old masters, impressionists and moderns: French masterworks
from the State Pushkin Museum
(5 April-29 June)                                    109,900     1,526
Ansel Adams and his legacy/A matter of time: Edward Hopper
from the Witney Museum of American Art
(30 August-26 October)                                60,429     1,209
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Bill Viola: The Passions
(24 January-27 April)                                146,117     1,782
Illuminating the renaissance: The triumph of
Flemish manuscript painting in Europe
(17 June-7 September)                                142,029     2,000
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
The floral art of Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840)
(16 November 2002-2 March 2003)                       70,000       777
Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse
(9 February-25 May)                                  112,000     1,167
The quest for immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
(4 May-14 September)                                 236,500     2,057
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lens landscapes
(14 August 2002-23 February 2003)                     43,839       266
Threads on the edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber art collection
(18 September 2002-30 March 2003)                     50,629       307
Adam Fuss
(25 September 2002-12 January 2003)                   68,428       736
Sargent's seven sisters
(5 October 2002-5 January 2003)                       49,979       641
The photography of Charles Sheeler: American modernist
(23 October 2002-2 February 2003)                     40,766       469
Impressions of light: The French landscape from Corot to Monet
(15 December 2002-13 April 2003)                     137,616     1,349
A singular vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell legacy
(4 February-24 August)                               124,192       726
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788
(15 June-14 September)                                74,884       960
Visions and revisions: Art on paper since 1960
(2 April-21 September)                                56,366       383
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Masterworks from El Greco to Picasso in the Phillips Collection
(22 September 2002-5 January 2003)                    85,000       944
French Impressionism: Masterpieces from Copenhagen's Ordrupgaard
collection
(6 October 2002-5 January 2003)                       75,000       962
Afghanistan: A timeless history
(17 November 2002-9 February 2003)                    65,000       903
Old Masters, Impressionists, and Modernists: French masterworks from
the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow
(15 December 2002-9 March 2003)                      125,000     1,760
The history of Japanese photography
(2 March-27 April)                                    54,191     1,042
Paris in the age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musee d'Orsay
(6 April-29 June)                                     82,000     1,547
James Rosenquist: A retrospective
(17 May-17 August)                                    56,494       628
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
Williamstown
Renoir and Algeria
(16 February-11 May)                                  22,849       309
Turner: The late seascapes
(14 June-7 September)                                 84,809       986
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Romantic watercolour: The Hickman Bacon collection
(10 October 2002-5 January 2003)                      13,649       204
Romantics and revolutionaries: Regency portraits from
the National Portrait Gallery, London
(23 January-30 March)                                 11,490       198
The romantic print in the age of revolutions
(23 January-1 June)                                   19,105       126
Bill Brandt: A retrospective
(16 April-20 July)                                    15,119       187
Behold, the sea itself
(14 June-7 September)                                 13,330       160