Art

Featuring Old Master paintings and antique ceramics, jewelry and furniture and more on sale from over 260 individual galleries, the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair (Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London SW5 9TA, UK; phone +44 0 20 7370 8211, fax 8221, www.olympiaartsinternational.com) will be held in June 2010. 

Tickets cost, on June 4 (preview day), £80 and on June 5-13, £10 single or £18 per couple in advance or £14 single or £22 per couple at the door. Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. (till 9 p.m. June 9).

SPAIN — 5 days/4 nights. Highlights: Tapas tour/Prado Museum/gourmet markets/cooking class/wine tasting/in medieval Toledo, art by El Greco, Van Dyck and Goya. Land only, from $1,760 if 6-7 members, $1,980 if 4-5. Single supp., $380. Epicurean Ways (Charlottesville, VA; 866/642-2917, http://epicureanways.com).

Two events in France in 2009 honor artist Pablo Picasso.

• Through Sept. 27 at Musée Granet (place Saint-Jean de Malte, 13100 Aix-en-Provence; phone 00 33 [0] 4 42 52 87 97, www.museegranet-aixprovence.fr), the show “Picasso-Cézanne” features 100-plus sculptures, paintings and etchings which focus on the influence of Cézanne on 20th-century artists, particularly Picasso. Open 9-7 Friday-Wednesday and noon-11 p.m. Thursday. €10 ($13). 

Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you’d never meet otherwise. Traveling rearranges your cultural furniture, challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit, you learn about yourself.

2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species.” For event info, visit www.darwin200.org. Here are some events.

• Darwin exhibition through April 19 at Natural History Museum in London (www.nhm.ac.uk). 10-5:30 daily. £9 adult, £4.50 child. Commissioned artwork to be unveiled on his birthday, Feb. 12.

Germany is celebrating the birth of the influential 20th-century school of design, the Bauhaus, throughout 2009. Many cities are holding exhibitions, concerts, theater performances and art installations (for instance, sculptures and paintings by Kandinsky, Klee and Itten at the New Museum in Weimar, March 28-May 7).

A downloadable PDF list of events is at www.weimar.de or contact the German National Tourist Office (212/661-7200, www.cometogermany.com).

The exhibition “A City for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin in Rouen” at the Rouen Fine Arts Museum (Esplanade Marcel Duchamp, 76000 Rouen, France; phone 02 35 71 28 40), June 4-Sept. 26, 2010, will feature 100 paintings, some never exhibited before. €3 ($4) adult. 

It is part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival, throughout the region through Oct. 10, featuring art exhibits, theater, dance, concerts, films and outdoor food booths. Visit www.normandie-impressionniste.fr.

Seven days/six nights, Oct. 17-24, 2011. Highlights: “Mona Lisa” and “Venus de Milo” at the Louvre/Musée Rodin/Impressionists at Musée d’Orsay/Montemarte/Opéra Garnier, “home of the Phantom.” Land, $2,295, includes a Paris Museum Pass. Single supp., $350.

La Belle France (Fresno, CA; 559/229-4866).

15-day/14-night tour of Umbria, ITALY, July 27-Aug. 10, includes 30 hours’ art instruction from Carol Duchamp in watercolor, fluid acrylic, image transfer and collage. Highlights: Paint in a former chapel of a monastery, now La Romita School of Art/visit Todi, Spoleto, San Gemini, Narni, Assisi. Land, $3,495. Single supp., $400.

Art Trek (Bolinas, CA; 415/868-9558).

Drawings and sketches by Renaissance architect and designer Gian Lorenzo Bernini, most famous for designing St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, will be exhibited Nov. 9, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015, at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (Katharinenstrasse 10, 04109 LEIPZIG, Germany; phone +49 341 216 990). 

200-plus pieces from the museum’s collection as well as loans from Rome, Vatican City and Austria will be displayed.