AUSTRIA
PHOTOGRAPHY: At Vienna's Kunst Haus, Tina Modotti - Photographer and revolutionary runs from 1 July to 7 November. The Italian, who died in Mexico in 1942, is best-known for her striking pictures of the Central American country during the 1920s. On her travels she met and photographed painters Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and photographer Edward Weston, whose portraits are included in the retrospective.
www.kunsthauswien.com
Frau aus Tehuantepec - Tina Modotti
DANCE: Impulstanz dance festival in Vienna mixes shows with workshops, with teachers from around the world in the Austrian capital between 15 July and 15 August, to give lessons on dancing styles. Everything from hip-hop to Bollywood-style dancing is on the programme. Among performers at different theatres around the city are Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and dance company Ultima Vez from Belgium.
www.impulstanz.com
ART: Flowers for Kim Il-Sung at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts offers a unique insight into the contemporary art, poster production and architecture of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This controversial show gathers some hundred pictures and posters rarely on display in international exhibitions. Running from 19 May to 5 September.
www.mak.at
BELGIUM
ART: The coastal city of Ostend dedicates a retrospective to its most famous son, the symbolist painter James Ensor, to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
info@muzee.be
Lucky Luke: the Franco-Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris
ART/COMICS: The Belgian Comic Strip Centre in Brussels shows The studio of Franquin, Jije, Morris and Will, with rare documents displayed in an evocative presentation that recreates the creativity and humour of the men known as La Bande des Quatre. Running until 30 January 2011.
www.cbbd.be
DENMARK
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY: Installations, photographs and stories from French artist Sophie Calle, whose "Take Care of Yourself" was one of the highlights of the 2007 Venice Biennale. The exhibition runs from 23 June to 24 October at the Museum of Modern Art in Louisiana, just outside Copenhagen.
www.louisiana.dk
ART: Danish painter and pioneer of abstract art Richard Mortensen is the subject of an exhibition at the Aarhus art museum, from 19 June to 12 September. Selected works are on display to mark the centenary of his birth.
www.aros.dk
Richard Mortensen: Fugle og planter. 1936
FRANCE
THEATRE/FESTIVAL: The 64th edition of the major Avignon theatre festival focuses on music and choreography this year. The two artists-in-residence are theatre director Christoph Marhaler and, for the first time, a writer, Olivier Cadiot. The festival runs from 7-27 July while in the ever-growing "Off" Avignon, 1,100 performances from nearly 900 companies in 123 locations take place from 8-13 July.
www.festival-avignon.com
MUSIC: From 1-21 July the 62nd edition of this music festival in Aix-en-Provence puts on five productions including Mozart's Don Giovanni directed by Russian sensation Dmitri Tcherniakov.
www.festival-aix.com
FESTIVAL/PHOTOGRAPHY: Arles holds its annual photography festival from 3-19 July, with 60 exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.
www.rencontres-arles.com
Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, 2006
GERMANY
ART: The Kunsthalle in Bonn hosts an exhibition by German sculptor Thomas Schutte, Golden Lion winner at the Venice Biennale in 2005. His reduced-size models are on display alongside two architectural models and shown for the first time to the public. From 15 July to 1 November.
www.bundeskunsthalle.de
MUSIC: The annual Richard Wagner-fest in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth features a new production of Lohengrin on the programme, designed by iconoclast Hans Neuenfels, the enfant terrible of the German stage. From 25 July to 28 August.
www.bayreuther-festspiele.de
PHOTOGRAPHY: Essen's Folkwang museum looks at the impact of major photographers Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon and Jerry Schatzberg on the birth of music idols Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles or, more recently, Coldplay and the White Stripes. A Star is Born - Photography and Rock'n'Roll since Elvis runs from 2 July to 10 October.
www.museum-folkwang.de
GREAT BRITAIN
DANCE: London is the location for "the biggest street dance festival in the world", with some 600 events organised under the aegis of the English National Ballet and Sadler's Wells theatre. Big Dance 2010 runs from 3-11 July.
www.bigdance2010.com
ART: The Royal Academy in London dedicates an exhibition to John Singer, Sargent and the Sea, from 10 July to 26 September. Singer, best-known for his portraits of glamorous society, was also passionate about the sea. Some 80 paintings, drawings and watercolours depicting scenes from his journeys to Brittany, Normandy and Capri, as well as his voyage to Morocco are all on display.
www.royalacademy.org.uk
John Singer Sargent - En route pour la pêche (Setting out to fish), 1878, oil on canvas
MUSIC: The prestigious classical music festival, the BBC Proms, opens on 16 July in London. Some 90 concerts on the programme runs to 11 September. Among the many highlights, Placido Domingo in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010
PORTUGAL
MUSIC: Today's hottest jazz musicians gather in the coastal town of Cascais, including Diana Krall, Joss Stone, Chris Isaak, Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey, as well as the Cuban group, Buena Vista Social Club. CooljazzFest runs from 1-29 July.
www.cooljazzfest.com
ART: To mark the Portuguese painter Nadir Afonso's 90th birthday, Sem limites (Without limits) in Chiado Museum in Lisbon gathers together some hundred works retracing the early years in Afonso's career from 1930 to 1960. Best-known for his geometric landscapes, Afonso was also an architect and collaborated with Le Corbusier in France and Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil. Runs till 3 October.
www.museudochiado-ipmuseus.pt
Nadir Afonso (1920) Espacillimité 1957 oil on canvas
RUSSIA
ART / ENVIRONMENT: For five years, locals in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, have been collaborating with artists to make snow-based creations, and works made out of hay and trees. Their results will be displayed in woods and fields around the village of Nikola-Lenivets, for the Archstoyanie land-art festival on 24-25 July.
www.arch.stoyanie.ru
SWITZERLAND
MUSIC: Switzerland's jazz festival in Montreux from 2-17 July brings together music stars including Phil Collins, Norah Jones, Roxy Music, Ben Harper, Vanessa Paradis, Keith Jarreth, Jessye Norman, Quincy Jones and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Hundreds of concerts are planned, most with free entry.
www.montreuxjazz.com
Lucia di Lammermoor
MUSIC: Gaetano Donizetti's most famous opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, runs for seven shows in Avenches from 2-16 July. Romania's Elena Mosuc alternates with Ilaria del Prete in the main role.
www.avenches.ch
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A new set of music festivals opens around Europe in July; from the Proms in London to the Wagnerian saga in Bayreuth Bavaria and a modern jazz gathering on the coast in Portugal.
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