Editing 1889 in art (section)

==Events==
* [[February 2]] – Sixth annual exhibition of [[Les XX]] opens in [[Brussels]], including the first important [[Paul Gauguin's exhibit at Les XX, 1889|display of Paul Gauguin's work]].
* [[May 6]] – [[October 31]] – [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Exposition Universelle]] in [[Paris]], with the [[Eiffel Tower]] as its entrance arch.
* [[May 8]] – Van Gogh moves from [[Arles]] to the [[Saint-Paul asylum]] in [[Saint-Rémy-de-Provence]].
* June – [[The Volpini Exhibition, 1889|The Volpini Exhibition]]: ''Exposition de peintures du Groupe impressioniste et synthétiste, faite dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars'' organised by [[Paul Gauguin]] and [[Émile Schuffenecker]] at the Café des Arts in Paris; other exhibitors include [[Émile Bernard (painter)|Émile Bernard]] and [[Charles Laval]].
* [[July 15]] – The [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]] opens in [[Edinburgh]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Scottish National Portrait Gallery|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1889-07-16|page=5|issue=32752}}</ref> in premises designed by [[Rowand Anderson]], the first in the world to be purpose-built as a [[portrait]] gallery.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery|url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/302-history-and-architecture|work=History & Architecture|publisher=[[National Galleries of Scotland]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531064947/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/302-history-and-architecture |archivedate=May 31, 2012}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – [[Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén|Marie Triepcke]] marries fellow-artist [[Peder Severin Krøyer]] in [[Augsburg]].
* [[August 17]] – The [[9 by 5 Impression Exhibition]] opens in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
* [[Edvard Munch]] stages his first one-man exhibition and wins a state scholarship to study in Paris.
* [[Alfred Sisley]] settles at [[Moret-sur-Loing]].
* The ''[[Skulpturensammlung]]'' moves into the [[Albertinum]] in [[Dresden]].
* The [[Nara National Museum|Imperial Museum of Nara]] is established in [[Japan]].<ref>{{Citation|publisher=IAI National Museum|year=2005|url=http://www.nich.go.jp/nendo/eibungaiyou17.pdf|title=Institutional overview|page=15|language=Japanese |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816052727/http://www.nich.go.jp/nendo/eibungaiyou17.pdf |archivedate=August 16, 2009}}</ref>