Aberystwyth Arts Centre
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
Address: Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DE
Telephone: 01970 622882
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 9.30-8, Sun 12-5.30. Christmas & New Year closing to be arranged.
Bitten & Pressed
An exploration of the diversity of contemporary printmaking, featuring traditional techniques as well the latest technological advances. Examples from the UK, France & Germany highlight the extensive means of expression open to the modern printmaker. Many works are for sale.
Price: Admission free. Date: (17 July-4 Sept 2010)

Bowes Museum
www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Address: Newgate, Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 8NP
Telephone: 01833 690606
Opening Hours: Daily 11-5. Closed 25-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
British Sporting Art
From horseracing & hunting to boxing & football, paintings on view include works by George Stubbs, Alfred Munnings & George Morland.
Price: Admission £8, concessions £7, children free. Date: (until 10 Oct 2010)

British Museum, The
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Address: Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG
Telephone: 020 7323 8000
Opening Hours: Daily 10.30-5, (Thurs, Fri until 8.30). Closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
South Africa Landscape
In conjunction with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, & marking the 50th anniversary of independence for 17 African nations, the Museum’s West Lawn is transformed into a walk-through landscape of tumbled rocks, scree & sand. It is planted with a colourful range of South African flowers, including agapanthus, osteospermum, pelargonium & spiky-looking quiver trees.
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (until 10 Oct 2010)

Cecil Higgins Art Gallery
www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org
Address: Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3RP
Telephone: 01234 211222
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 11-5, Sun & bank holiday Mons 2-5; closed 14 Apr
The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis & his Contemporaries
The first major exhibition for an artist; Stanley Lewis died in 2009 at the age of 103. His realist drawings & paintings, many inspired by his rural upbringing in Wales, are shown alongside works by friends & contemporaries William Rothenstein, Augustus John & Stanley Spencer.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 5 Sept 2010)

Ditchling Museum
www.ditchling-museum.com
Address: Church Lane, Ditchling, E Sussex BN6 8TB
Telephone: 01273 844744
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat & bank-holiday Mons 10.30-5, Sun 2-5
A View from Ditchling: Looking at Sussex
A show demonstrating the influence of the Sussex landscape on artists who have lived in Ditchling. It includes works by David Jones & Frank Brangwyn, some childhood drawings by Eric Gill of views from his Brighton home, & Charles Knight’s Ditchling Beacon, which captures the majesty of the Sussex Downs.
Price: Admission £3.50, concessions £2, students £1, children free. Date: (until 14 Nov 2010)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Address: Gallery Rd, London SE21 7AD
Telephone: 020 8693 5254
Opening Hours: Tues-Fri 10-5; Sat, Sun 11-5; closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Salvator Rosa (1615-73): Bandits, Wilderness & Magic
Radical & anti-clerical, Rosa created emotionally-charged windswept landscapes & invented novel allegorical pictures–often with macabre & horrific subjects.
Price: Admission £4, seniors £3, concessions & children free. Date: (15 Sept-28 Nov 2010)

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
www.estorickcollection.com
Address: 39A Canonbury Sq, London N1 2AN
Telephone: 020 7704 9522
Opening Hours: Wed-Sat 11-6 (Thurs until 8), Sun 12-5
Siren City, Photographs of Naples, by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Evocative black-&-white photographs capture the humour, theatricality & seductiveness of Naples, as well as its corruption, criminality & inherent paganism.
Price: Admission £5, concessions £3.50, students & children under 16 free. Date: (until 12 Sept 2010)

Ferens Art Gallery
www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/ferens
Address: Queen Victoria Sq, Kingston upon Hull HU1 3RA
Telephone: 01482 613902
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 1.30-4.30
Manic Mechanics: Moving Sculpture
Johnny White & Amanda Wray create large moving sculptures & installations from recycled materials. Their quirky, humorous artwork can be brought to life by visitors pedalling a bicycle or pressing a button.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 5 Sept 2010)
Ern Shaw (1891-1986): The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
A broad range of work from the 1920s to the 1980s by a prolific Hull-born artist. Shaw produced cartoons, caricatures & political drawings, illustrated books & designed games for children.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 Oct 2010)

Gallery 27 & 28
www.tribalperspectives.com
Address: 27 & 28 Cork St, London W1S 3NG
Telephone: 07939 166 148
Opening Hours: Daily 11am-7pm
Tribal Perspectives, 2010
Top-quality tribal art on sale from around the world includes rare textiles, artefacts & books exhibited by eight international dealers.
Price: Admission free. Date: (28 Sept-2 Oct 2010)

Graves Gallery
www.museums-sheffield.org.uk
Address: Surrey St, Sheffield S1 1XZ
Telephone: 0114 278 2600
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10-4, Sat 10-5
Paul Nash & Fay Godwin
A photographic exhibition spotlighting two artists who discovered a fascination with the British landscape. Images by Fay Godwin are from a selection published in collaboration with poet Ted Hughes in 1979 that evoked the remains of culture, legend, myth & industry in the Calder Valley. Nash turned a camera on themes similar to those of his paintings, vividly illustrating his painterly eye for shape, detail & symbolism.
Price: Admission free. Date: (21 July-14 Nov 2010)

Harris Museum & Art Gallery
www.harrismuseum.org.uk
Address: Market Sq, Preston, Lancs PR1 2PP
Telephone: 01772 258248
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5 (Tues 11-5), Sun 11-4; closed 25-27 Dec & 1 Jan.
Industrial Revolutionaries
A major exhibition spanning 150 years of Preston’s history, looks at local personalities who helped create the modern world. Through portraits, loans, & key items from the Harris collection, it examines the influence of these people & the movements they launched, & looks at issues of the day such as employee rights, child labour, temperance & economic uncertainty.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 6 Nov 2010)

Hayward Gallery
www.hayward.org.uk
Address: South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Telephone: 08703 800 400
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (Fri until 10); closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
Dramatic, immersive installations by a Brazilian artist fill the upper galleries & outdoor sculpture courts. Neto creates sensuous, site-specific works with an abstract, biomorphic quality that encourage visitors to engage with their surroundings. (One feature is a fully-functional swimming-pool; admission for swimmers is free, but must be pre-booked on 0844 847 9910.)
Price: Admission £10, seniors £9, students & unemployed £6, children £4.50 (under-12s free outside school hours). Date: (until 5 Sept 2010)
The New Décor
An international survey of 30 contemporary artists who have blurred the borders between interior decoration, sculpture & installation art, to reinvent furniture & lighting. Exhibits include a sci-fi-themed chandelier & a bed inspired by a Los Angeles freeway overpass.
Price: Admission £10, seniors £9, students & unemployed £6, children £4.50 (under-12s free outside school hours). Date: (until 5 Sept 2010)

HMS Belfast
http://hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk/
Address: Morgan’s Lane, Tooley St, London SE1 2JH
Telephone: 020 7940 6300
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (from 1 Nov, daily 10-5)
Launch! Shipbuilding Through the Ages
A family-orientated exhibition on board this 1938 warship, using hands-on & interactive computerised displays to demonstrate techniques of shipbuilding in Britain, from the age of sail to modern prefabrication methods, focusing on the science, engineering & social history involved.
Price: Admission £12.95, seniors & students £10.40, children free. Date: (until 31 Dec 2010)

Hunterian Art Gallery
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
Address: University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Telephone: 0141 330 5431
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 9.30-5
Blue & Silver: Whistler & the Thames
Fascinated by cities & their rivers, Whistler used London, Venice, Paris & Amsterdam as subjects for some of his most significant works. This 75th-anniversary celebration of the Birnie Philip Gift (which founded the Gallery's Whistler Collection, in 1935), draws on the Hunterian's extensive holdings to show Whistler's preoccupation with London's river & its bridges at different times of day.
Price: Admission free. Date: (8 Oct 2010-10 Jan 2011)

Imperial War Museum North
www.iwm.org.uk
Address: The Quays, Trafford Wharf Rd, Manchester M17 1TZ
Telephone: 0161 836 4000
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5; closed 24-26 Dec.
All Aboard
A large-scale exhibition looks at life at sea in wartime, from World War I to the present. Visitors can try naval clothing, learn about animals that have sailed the oceans, discover the naval origins of many everyday words, & hear moving stories of bravery, adventure, suffering & survival.
Price: Admission free. Date: (17 July 2010-Apr 2011)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Address: Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG
Telephone: 0141 276 9599
Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs & Sat 10-5; Fri & Sun 11-5. Admission free.
Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900
For the first major exhibition devoted to this influential group of artists since 1968, this show comprises around 100 oil paintings & 50 works on paper by James Guthrie, EA Hornel, George Henry, Joseph Crawhall & Arthur Melville. Alongside pictures from Glasgow Museums' collections are loans from public & private collections across the country. (A condensed version of the exhibition will tour to the Royal Academy, London; 30 Oct 2010-30 Jan 2011).
Price: Admission £5, concessions £3, children free. Booking via website (booking fee), or by phone. Admission to museum free. Date: (until 27 Sept 2010)

Kent's Cavern
www.kents-cavern.co.uk
Address: 89/91 Ilsham Road, Torquay, Devon TQ1 2JF
Telephone: 01803 215136
Opening Hours: Daily 9-5
Cutting Edge
Objects from the collection of Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum reveal the variety of raw materials used by early man to make hand-axes, scrapers & spearheads. Using today's technology, scientists can not only date the stone but also determine its source, to see whether prehistoric stone-cutters used local rocks or traded materials over long distances.
Price: Admission to exhibition free. Admission to prehistoric show cave £8.50, seniors & students £7.50, children £17; family (2+2) £29. Date: (until 31 Jan 2011)

Kettle's Yard
www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk
Address: Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
Telephone: 01223 352124
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun, & bank holiday Mons 11.30-5;
John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day
This Hayward touring retrospective examines the visual art of the American composer & artist John Cage (1912-92). The principles of I Ching, the Chinese classic text that became Cage's composition tool, governs these displays of his works on paper.
Price: Admission free. Date: 25 Sept-14 Nov 2010)

Killerton House
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Address: Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon EX5 3LE
Telephone: 01392 881345
Opening Hours: Daily 11-5
Elegance–two hundred years of dressing to impress
A selection of fashions for men & women, from Killerton's collection, shows how people dressed for occasions from the 1770s to the 1970s. Supported by fashion-plates, photographs, magazines & luxury accessories, the exhibition explores ideas about clothing etiquette, & demonstrates changing tastes. Visitors can try on replica costumes.
Price: Admission £8.40 (includes house), children £4.20; family (2+2) £20.70. National Trust members free. Date: (until 31 Oct 2010)

Laing Art Gallery
www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing
Address: New Bridge St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AG
Telephone: 0191 232 7734
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5; closed 25, 26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Japanese Wave
Highlights from the Laing's collection of Japanese prints & artefacts include iconic images such as Hokusai's Under the Wave, off Kanagawa. Among other prints that give an insight into life in 19th-century Japan are images of geisha, depictions of Kabuki theatre, & decorative items such as combs, mirrors & fans.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 5 Sep 2010)

London Silver Vaults
www.thesilvervaults.com
Address: 53-64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QS
Telephone: 020 7242 3844
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5.30, Sat 9-1. Closed 30 Aug.
Boxing Clever: A Case for the Collector
A highlight of this selling exhibition is a silver-gilt cigar-box, said to have been a presentation gift to surviving officers from the Battle of Waterloo. Other boxes include a Queen Anne commemorative patch-box by Thomas Kedder; a Victorian silver nutmeg-holder with grater, by Hilliard & Thomason; & a pair of sterling silver table card-boxes by Berthold Müller.
Price: Admission free Date: (until 30 Sept 2010)

Millennium Gallery
www.museums-sheffield.org.uk
Address: Arundel Gate, Sheffield S1 2PP
Telephone: 0114 278 2600
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5
Watercolour in Britain: Tradition & Beyond
The exhibition illustrates the remarkable diversity of this quintessentially British art-form, showing how watercolour has been used by different cultures with their own ideas about art, expression & technique. It features rarely-seen paintings by JMW Turner, William Blake & Edward Burra, & watercolours by sculptors Henry Moore & Anish Kapoor, & by Surrealists Paul Nash & Graham Sutherland
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 5 Sept 2010)

mima
www.visitmima.com
Address: Centre Sq, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ
Telephone: 01642 726720
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4.
Bonnie Camplin: Railway Mania
Through her drawings, films & video, Camplin delves into social history to give an insight into the present. Investigating the deeper meaning of science, technology & rational thought, she incorporates aesthetic & historical material relating to the industrial revolution & the birth of the railways.
Price: Admission free. Date: (16 July-14 Nov 2010)
High Kicks & Low Life: Toulouse-Lautrec prints
Through his prolific graphic output Toulouse-Lautrec combined the excitement of the cabaret & the unforgettable characters of the café-concert with the poignant, shadowy private lives of prostitutes & their clients. This British Museum touring exhibition presents a selection of works on these subjects.
Price: Admission free. Date: (3 Sept-21 Nov 2010)

Museum of Island History
www.iwight.com/museums
Address: Guildhall, High St, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1TY
Telephone: 01983 823366
Opening Hours: Admission £2, concessions £1.20; family (2+2) £5.
Rowlandson’s Tours of the Isle of Wight
Purchased in 2002 from Longleat House, the Museum's collection of Thomas Rowlandson watercolours depict locations around the island, & were painted on tours made by the artist in the 1790s. Related objects on display are inspired by some of the subjects seen in the paintings
Price: Admission £2, concessions £1.20; family (2+2) £5. The exhibition is closed 13-17 September for the selection of works to be changed; ticket-holders for part I will be readmitted free for part II. Date: (until 27 Feb 2011)

Museum of London
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Address: London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN
Telephone: 0870 444 3852
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.50, Sun 12-5.50
Galleries of Modern London
The newly-reopened £20million galleries tell the story of London & its people from the Great Fire in 1666 to the present day. They focus on London as a world city, absorbing people, ideas & goods from across the globe, & also on Londoners, who built the city & have in turn been shaped by it. Among 7,000 objects & displays are Selfridge’s Art Deco lifts, a reconstructed Georgian pleasure garden, the Lord Mayor’s State Coach, & an image of a 1990s Hackney street populated with squatters.
Price: Admission to museum free Date: (opened 28 May 2010)

Museum of London Docklands
www.museumindocklands.org.uk
Address: No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Hertsmere Rd, London E14 4AL
Telephone: 020 7001 9844
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6
Here Come The Girl Guides: 100 years of Guiding in London
A celebration of London’s historic role in the UK’s largest voluntary organisation for girls & young women. Photographs, film, personal stories & Guide ephemera include a 1910 electrician’s badge & a 1930s limited-edition Kodak Girl Guide camera. The exhibition considers the influence of the movement on generations of women, & its relevance in today’s society.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 31 Oct 2010)

National Gallery
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Address: Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DN
Telephone: 020 7747 2885
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (Wed until 9); closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes & Discoveries
The stories behind more than 40 paintings in the Gallery’s collection, about which infrared imaging, X-rays, electron microscopy & mass spectrometry have provided insights into materials used, & into the way some works have been overpainted or otherwise transformed.
Price: Sainsbury Wing. Admission free. Date: (30 June-12 Sept 2010)
Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy
Four large-scale allegorical works, commissioned in the 1930s to adorn the then new Middlesex Hospital, form two pairs. “Orphans” depicts the refectory of an orphanage, with its wistful young residents; “Doctor” represents the traumatic effects of conflict on wounded soldiers & sailors. Sunley Room.
Price: Admission free Date: (14 July-17 Oct 2010)
Venice: Canaletto & his Rivals
Some 55 major loans from Europe & North America highlight the 18th-century Venetian "view" paintings by Canaletto, Carlevarijs, van Witell, Marieschi, Bellotto, Guardi & others that grew up to meet the demand from those making the British Grand Tour. Sainsbury Wing.
Price: Admission charge to be arranged. Date: (13 Oct 2010-16 Jan 2011)

National Portrait Gallery
www.npg.org.uk
Address: St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
Telephone: 020 7306 0055
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (Thurs, Fri until 9); closed 24-26 Dec.
Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834-1910
First retrospective devoted to this pioneer of photographic mass production. More than 100 objects offer glimpses of 19th-century Paris & Victorian London, showing how Silvy helped instigate theatre, fashion, military & street photography & produced many portraits in the economically-priced, & collectable, carte de visite format.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Admission £5, concessions £4.50, children £4. Date: (15 July-24 Oct 2010)

National Wool Museum
www.museumwales.ac.uk
Address: Dre-Fach Felindre, near Newcastle Emlyn, Llandysul, Carmarthen SA44 5UP
Telephone: 01559 370929
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5 (1 Oct-31 Mar, Tues-Sat 10-5
Warp & Weft 2
The exhibition shows the work of weavers from Wales & England who have moved their craft practice into the commercial arena by working with woollen mills. Visitors can track the development of a design in a woven fabric–including the choices of colours, yarn & finishing process–from hand-loom to finished product.
Price: Admission free. Date: (4 Sept 2010–8 Jan 2011)

New Art Gallery Walsall
www.artatwalsall.org.uk
Address: Gallery Square, Walsall, West Midlands WS2 8LG
Telephone: 01922 654400
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat & bank-holiday Mons 10-5, Sun 11-4. Christmas & New Year closing to be arranged.
The House of Fairy Tales: A Portfolio made by Artists
Twenty-three international artists–including Peter Blake, Ellen Cantor, Enrico David, Cornelia Parker, Paula Rego, Gavin Turk & Rachel Whiteread–have revisited familiar stories, & come up with fresh interpretations.
Price: (until 16 Oct 2010) Date: Admission free.
Epstein's Portraits Revealed
The most versatile portrait sculptor of the 20th century, Jacob Epstein explored the genre throughout his working life, from his early pioneering work to intimate portrayals of his family. The exhibition shows the technical challenges involved in the creation of a three-dimensional representation of the human head, from sculpting in clay, through casting in plaster to the finished bronze.
Price: Admission free. Date: (24 July-5 Sept 2010)

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk
Address: 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA
Telephone: 0116 225 4900
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5
Space Age: Exploration, Design & Popular Culture
This touring museum from the V&A Museum of Childhood looks at the continuing fascination with space, from literature & comics to film, design & toys.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 Oct 2010)

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
www.stoke.gov.uk/museums
Address: Bethesda St, Hanley, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST1 3DW
Telephone: 01782 232323
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-
Emma Bridgewater: Spot On for 25 years
A commemorative exhibition charting the development of some of today's most popular domestic items. It draws on archive collection from the Bridgewater factory in Hanley, with rare samples, specials & one-offs, as well as pieces from the Museum’s own collection. Though many well-known local factories have ceased production, Emma Bridgewater has gone from strength to strength to become one of the largest earthenware employers in the UK
Price: Admission free Date: (until 26 Sept 2010)

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
http://russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk
Address: Russell-Cotes Rd, East Cliff, Bournemouth BH1 3AA
Telephone: 01202 451858
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun & bank-holiday Mons 10-5
Views of Bournemouth
Over the past 200 years Bournemouth has evolved from heath-land to a bustling centre of tourism & business. This celebration of the town's bicentenary year brings together historic objects, images & paintings from the Museum's varied collections & new works by members of Bournemouth Arts Club showing the resort from different perspectives.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 31 Oct 2010)

Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts
www.scva.org.uk.
Address: University of East Anglia, Earlham Rd, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Telephone: 01603 593199
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 10-5
Surreal Friends
A celebration, in conjunction with Pallant House Gallery, of the achievements of three leading women surrealists: Leonora Carrington, Spanish painter Remedios Varo, & Hungarian photographer Kati Horna. All three fled war-torn Europe & built new lives in Mexico City, where they found freedom to develop their art & formed close friendships, influencing each other personally & artistically.
Price: Admission to permanent collection free. Date: (28 Sept-12 Dec 2010)

Science Museum
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Address: Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD
Telephone: 0870 870 4868
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6; closed 25, 26 Dec.
Who am I?
An upgrade of one of the Museum’s most popular galleries, this uses a mixture of displays & interactive exhibits to look at brain-science & genetics. Visitors can share their opinions on ethical issues in science, morph their faces, & experience a voice-box makeover.
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (opened 26 June 2010)

Tate Modern
www.tate.org.uk/modern
Address: Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Telephone: 020 7887 8008
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (Fri, Sat until 10)
Paul Gauguin : Maker of Myth
Landscapes of Brittany & sumptuous portrayals of women in Tahiti fill this exhibition dedicated to the master French Post-Impressionist. Scenes of daily village life around Pont-Aven are seen alongside more exotic decorative works, such as the carved wooden door-panels around the artist's hut in the Marquesas Islands
Price: Admission to gallery free. Admission £13.50, concessions & children £10. Booking via website. Date: (30 Sept 2010-16 Jan 2011)

Tate St Ives
www.tate.org.uk/stives
Address: Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG
Telephone: 01736 796226
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5.30
Object: Gesture: Grid. St Ives & the International Avant-garde
A new display explores some of the common characteristics of Modern Art & the shared visual language of artists working in Europe & America from the 1930s to the late 1970s. Highlights include works by Mark Rothko, Carl André, Willem de Kooning, Barbara Hepworth, Sol LeWitt, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Sandra Blow, Jackson Pollock & Peter Lanyon.
Price: Admission £5.75, concessions £3.25, children free. Date: (until 26 Sept 2010)

Topfoto Gallery in the Eden Valley
http://www.topfotogallery.com/
Address: House of Jaques, 1 Fircroft Way, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6EL
Telephone: 01732 863939
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9.30-5, Sat 10-1, Sundays by appointment only.
Harold Chapman - The Beat Hotel
Kent-born photographer Chapman moved to Paris in 1956 & lived in a rundown Left-Bank establishment that became a legendary haunt of the Beat poets & artists. Over seven years, he documented the lives of fellow “Beat Hotel” residents, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso & Ian Sommerville.
Price: Admission Free Date: (4 October - 16 November 2010)
Textiles

Price: Admission Free Date: 19 - 25 November 2010

Towner
www.townereastbourne.org.uk
Address: Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne, E Sussex BN21 4JJ
Telephone: 01323 434 670
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 10-6.
Familiar Visions: Eric & James Ravilious: Father & Son
A major retrospective of Eric Ravilious, whose work is shown alongside that of his photographer son James, revealing the deep-seated love of the land inherent to both. Some of Ravilious’s best works–including Cuckmere Haven, & The Wilmington Giant–are seen in parallel with his son’s images of North Devon.
Price: Admission £5.50, concessions £4, children free. Date: (3 July-5 Sept 2010)

Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
www.tulliehouse.co.uk
Address: Castle St, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TP
Telephone: 01228 534781
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5 (1 July-31 Aug, Sun 11-5).
The Truth About Faeries: From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Lord of the Rings
A new exhibition explores the prevailing interest in the world of fairies among story-tellers, artists, film-makers & illustrators. It features the book illustrations of Richard Doyle & Arthur Rackham, Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Edward Burne-Jones. Fairies appear in The Tempest; in classic fairy tales, & in Cecily Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies books. Their latest manifestations are in films such as The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) & Lord of the Rings III.
Price: Admission to art gallery free. Date: (10 July-12 Sept 2010)

Victoria & Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk
Address: Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
Telephone: 020 7942 2000
Opening Hours: Daily 10.30-5.30 (Fri until 9.30). Closed 24-26 Dec.
Peter Rabbit: the tale of The Tale
Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit has sold 40 million copies worldwide. Drawing on the collections of the Museum & of Potter's publisher, the exhibition traces the story of Peter Rabbit from its beginnings as an illustrated letter in 1893 to its publication by Frederick Warne & Co in 1902, & beyond. The complete extant original illustrations from the book are shown in sequence alongside the text of the story.
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (3 July 2010-8 Jan 2011)
Raphael: Cartoons & Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel
Coinciding with the visit to Britain of Pope Benedict XVI, four of Raphael's tapestries for the Sistine Chapel will be shown for the first time alongside the full-size designs for them–the Raphael Cartoons–which have been on display at the V&A since 1865.
Price: Admission by timed ticket: free if booked in person at the V&A; £1 if booked online. Date: (8 Sept-17 Oct 2010)

Waddesdon Manor
www.waddesdon.org.uk
Address: Waddesdon, nr Aylesbury, Bucks HP18 0JH
Telephone: 01296 653226
Opening Hours: Wed-Fri 12-4; Sat, Sun & bank holidays 11-4
The Campana Brothers: Glass Chandelier Collection
New work by Brazilian designers Humberto & Fernando Campana inaugurates Waddesdon’s contemporary art & design gallery, The Coach House. The brothers work with the Venini glass studio, on the Venetian island of Murano, to create lighting & vases. The highlight is a chandelier made from multi-coloured, fragmented Venini glass, incorporating small glass animals & an assortment of found materials.
Price: Admission to grounds (includes gallery): Wed-Fri £5.50, children £2.75; family (2+2) £13.75. Sat, Sun £7, £3.50 & £17.50. Children under 5, & National Trust members, free. Date: (until 31 Oct 2010)

Wolverhampton Art Gallery
www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
Address: Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU
Telephone: 01902 552055
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5. Closed 30 Aug
Pop Protest: Art for an Anxious Age
The exhibition compares two periods in recent history: 1965-75 & 2000-10. During both, Pop artists have acted as social commentators, demonstrating the impact of war & politics on society–from 1970s Vietnam to modern-day Iraq. The exhibition includes Gerald Laing’s War Paintings, Derek Boshier’s Pantomime War works, Jann Haworth’s Hollow Men piece, & works by Richard Hamilton, Colin Self, Joe Tilson, & James Rosenquist.
Price: Admission free. Date: (unti1 30 Oct 2010)