Top of the bill for the autumn opera season is a new production of Cosi fan Tutte, conducted by Daniel Barenboim and the annual Baroque festival in November. ![]() If you missed it at the V&A early in the year, the Staatliche Museen is hosting this fascinating insight into thousands of years of Iran’s rich cultural heritage, with some 360 objects from the Sarikhani Collection in London combined with exhibits from Berlin. ![]() It reopened in August after a six-year, £120m restoration project led by David Chipperfield ( smb.museum). Mies van der Rohe’s modernist museum is home to Berlin’s premier collection of 20th-century art – including works by Munch, Picasso, Dix, and Bacon. The collection features more than 20,000 exhibits from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania and will be a centre for temporary exhibitions and public events ( ). The Humboldt ForumĪfter months of delay caused by Covid, this new 40,000m2 exhibition space on Museum Island finally opened in the summer. This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the last century’s great photographers and focuses on his famous fashion images. But I had no trouble at all in finding another 49 inspirational reasons to start booking a cultural break, with Berlin, Amsterdam, New York and Paris all offering an especially rich mix. It’s a splendid museum and a brilliant addition to the city’s re-imagining of its waterfront. Meanwhile, seven of the 11 exhibition spaces – which you navigate via a series of escalators – will be devoted to temporary exhibitions, the first exploring Tracey Emin’s lifelong fascination with his work (see Oslo entry, below). These include three of the several versions he made of The Scream. But he needs the space – Munch donated some 26,000 paintings and other works to the nation: self portraits, nudes, landscapes and a comprehensive collection of his incomparable images of angst, jealousy and loneliness. Thirteen storeys is a lot for a single artist, even if he is the man who virtually invented Scandi Noir. But MUNCH is having its moment now and will be a major attraction for the city. Next June these cultural temples will be joined by another – a monumental new National Museum. It opened on Friday and is to be known simply as MUNCH. ![]() Jutting out into the harbour right by the opera house, the 13-storey tower is clad in rippled sheets of perforated aluminium, with the top storeys toppling towards the sea. Then just along the dockside came Renzo Piano’s Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art.Īnd now Oslo has a new Munch museum. First was the opera house – which defines the city’s seafront on the beautiful Oslo Fjord. For the last decade or so, it has been positioning itself as a cultural magnet to compete with the best in Europe. Nowhere is the feeling stronger than in Oslo, where I have been this week. After months of disruptions, postponements and delayed openings, they have suddenly come to life again with a perfect storm of cultural happenings – from seminal exhibitions to historic festivals and new museums. ![]() That’s because there is such an upbeat mood among the world’s arts capitals. And over the next couple of months we are spoilt for choice – especially when it comes to city breaks. It’s always good to have a special reason to travel, to add to the thrill of being away with the excitement of a special event.
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