10 to catch: APOLLO'S selection for the month ahead

Apollo, Feb, 2005

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Caption: 'Rubens in Wien' is a re-display of the huge Rubens holdings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaldegalerie and Liechtenstein Museum (until 27 February). A daylong guided tour of all three can be booked for various days in February. ( 43 [1] 525 24416)

'Palm Beach Classic', the art and antiques fair, takes place 4-13 February. The offerings from the 100 participating galleries range from Greek and Egyptian antiquities to Old Master paintings and furniture (at Mallet, right). See Susan Moore on the art market (pp. 90-93) for a detailed preview. ( 1 561 209 1338)

'Jacques-Louis David: Empire to exile' at the Getty Center, Los Angeles (1 February-24 April), brings together seventy paintings and drawings to survey not only David's propaganda for Napoleon (shown crossing the Alps, left) but also the work that followed his post-Napoleonic exile. There are two accompanying exhibitions at the Getty, on drawings from the French Adademy in Rome, including some by David, and another on European drawings with a revolutionary theme. ( 1 310 440 7300)

Over 200 galleries from around the world are converging in Madrid from 12 to 16 February for the ARCO fair of contemporary art. Participants include Haunch of Venison (London), Tokyo Projects and Marlborough (New York). The cultural theme is Mexico, for which Arte Actual Mexican is showing new works by Julio Galan (right). ( 34 91 722 50 16)

The World Monuments Fund's London lecture series is on architecture and Arcadia, to mark its involvement with the campaign to preserve Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (left). Michael Snodin, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is lecturing on 16 February at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 'Thames Arcadia in the eighteenth century'. ( 44 [0] 20 7730 5344)

The Louvre is displaying some its own renaissance Italian drawings with modern and contemporary drawings from the Musee National d'Art Moderne and the Centre Pompidou in an exhibition that explores the subject of dreaming. 'Comme le reve, le dessin' (17 February-16 May) includes work by Ludovico Cardi (left) and Gerhardt Richter. ( 33 [0] 1 40 20 50 50)

'Caravaggio: The final years' (23 February-22 May) at the National Gallery, London, unites fifteen paintings from the years 1601-1610, lent from America, France and Italy. For the first time, The Adoration of the Shepherds from Messina (right) travels outside Italy. ( 44 [0] 20 7747 2885)

The Frick Collection, New York, is exhibiting thirty-six statuettes in 'Renaissance and baroque bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge' (15 February-24 April). The display included works by Giovanni Francesco Rustici, the Grandi, Alessandro Algardi, Barthelemy Prieur, Michel Anguier, Hubert Gerhard, and Willem van Tetrode. ( 1 212 288 0700)

APOLLO'S book of 2004 was Mark McDonald's unprecedented identification and analysis of the print collection of Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher. The British Museum is exhibiting 150 of the prints in a partial reconstruction of the collection. 'Ferdinand Columbus: Renaissance collector' (9 February-5 June) includes work by Durer and Marcantonio Raimondi as well as Hans Burgkmair's Jacob Fugger the Rich, 1511 (right). ( 44 [0] 20 7323 8181)

'The armored horse in Europe' (15 February until 2006) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, puts on display from the permanent collection little-seen examples of highly decorated saddles and armour exemplifying the chivalric ideal, such as this chanfrin by Kunz Lochner (Nuremberg, 1510-1567). ( 1 212 535 7710)

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