Hals - Rembrandt exhibition at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
FRANS HALS MUSEUM From November 6, 2026 to February 28, 2027
The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem is presenting, for the first time, a juxtaposition of Frans Hals and Rembrandt, two men of the same generation who never painted the human face in the same way.
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In Frans Hals's work, everything is swift: the brushstrokes remain visible, laughter is captured on the fly, and it took two centuries for this nonchalance to be recognized as virtuosity. In Rembrandt's work, the opposite: the paint thickens, the shadows deepen, and each aging self-portrait resembles a forced confession. Both died penniless, one in Haarlem, the other in Amsterdam. The encounter took place at Hals's home, within the walls of the almshouse where he painted the elderly regents with a cruelty that spared no one.
MSK, Ghent From October 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027
The MSK, Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, is dedicating its first retrospective since 1922 to Jenny Montigny, a student of Émile Claus, from October 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027.
TATE BRITAIN From November 12, 2026 to April 11, 2027
Tate Britain brings together more than three hundred works by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, a couple of artists and central figures of Bloomsbury, and recreates their Charleston studio at full scale.
Museum of the Innocents From October 21, 2026 to April 4, 2027
The Museum of the Innocents in Florence is dedicating an exhibition to Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine years, the most successful of her career, when she painted for the Medici.
MOMU, Antwerp From March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027
The MoMu, Antwerp's fashion museum, is bringing together for the first time the Antwerp Six, from Dries Van Noten to Ann Demeulemeester, forty years after their London breakthrough, from March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027.
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