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What's On
A selective list of current & forthcoming museum/gallery exhibitions
The details in this guide were correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Material for possible inclusion in the next listings may be sent to this e-mail address.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Address: Shiprow, Aberdeen AB11 5BY
Telephone: 01224 337700
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-3. Closed 25-28 Dec, 31 Dec & 1-4 Jan
A City’s Pride: Hall Russell Shipbuilders, 1864-1992
Hall Russell & Co. Ltd, which closed in 1992, was the last of the Aberdeen shipbuilders. This exhibition looks at the shipyard itself, the men & women who worked there, & the trawlers, tankers & warships they constructed.
Price: Admission free. Date: (5 Dec 2009-20 Mar 2010)
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.
Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery
This touring exhibition takes an in-depth look at slavery & injustice in the 21st century through the lenses of eight Magnum photographers. Subjects include child labour in Bangladesh, chattel slavery in Sudan & the lives of cane-workers in Haiti.
Price: Admission free. Date: (7 Nov 2009-9 Jan 2010)
40 Years of Printmaking from Edinburgh Printmakers
Established in 1967 as the first open-access studio in Britain, Edinburgh Printmakers has been at the heart of the Scottish capital’s art scene for four decades. The exhibition features works by emerging & established artists, including John Bellany, Peter Howson, William Johnstone, Barbara Rae, Calum Colvin & Moyna Flannigan. Many of the works will be for sale.
Price: Admission free. Date: (14 Nov 2009-16 Jan 2010)
www.nmni.com
Address: The Mall East, Armagh, Northern Ireland BT61 9BE
Telephone: 028 3752 3070
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-1 & 2-5. Christmas & New Year closing to be arranged.
Portraits of Astronomers
Forty photographic portraits of leading UK astronomers span the era of early discoveries in radio-astronomy right up to the latest developments in astrophysics & cosmology. Sitters–including Patrick Moore & Stephen Hawking–describe what inspired them to study the subject.
Price: Admission free. Date: (20 Nov 2009-9 Jan 2010)
Bedford Museum & Art Gallery
www.bedfordmuseum.org
Address: Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
Telephone: Tel: 01234 353323
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 11-5. Closed 25-26 Dec & 1 Jan
Edward Bawden
The newly-opened art gallery, next door to the museum, devotes a major exhibition to one of Britain's most original & versatile artists. During the 1980s, Bawden donated the contents of his studio to the Bedford Art Gallery. Many of the watercolours, prints, book illustrations & commercial designs are on show here for the first time.
Price: Admission free. Date: (3 Oct 2009-31 Jan 2010)
BFI Southbank Gallery
www.bfi.org.uk
Address: Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XT
Telephone: 020 7928 3232
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 11-8.
Deimantas Narkevicius
For his first solo London exhibition, & to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gallery has commissioned the Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius to create a new work based on the BFI National Archive's ETV Collection of socialist propaganda films, the largest collection of its kind surviving in Western Europe.
Price: Admission free. Date: (1 Oct-29 Nov 2009)
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.
Toy Tales
¬A celebration of 60 years of BBC children’s television programmes, featuring original animation, puppets, props & stage sets. Included is the first artwork from the Bagpuss series, as well as Muffin the Mule toys from the 1950s & current characters from 64 Zoo Lane. Also featured are Paddington Bear, Andy Pandy, Pinky & Perky, Bill & Ben the Flowerpot Men, Sooty & Sweep, Basil Brush, Teletubbies, Postman Pat & a host of other favourites.
Price: . Admission £7, concessions £6, children free. Date: (until 1 Nov 2009). Picture (c) P&Co Ltd/FF Ltd 2009
Goya’s Prison: The year of despair
Goya’s 12 cabinet paintings were produced around 1793, after he had endured a mystery illness that left him profoundly deaf. Their diverse subjects included shipwrecks, fires, bullfighting, a stagecoach hold-up & a lunatic asylum. Goya’s portrayal of the inside of a prison, however, best conveyed his state of mind; this work is here studied in detail, with reference to others in the series.
Price: Admission £7, concessions £6, children free. Date: (3 Oct 2009-11 Apr 2010)
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
www.virtualmuseum.info
Address: Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton BN1 1EE
Telephone: 01273 290900
Opening Hours: Tues 10-7, Wed-Sat & bank holidays 10-5, Sun 2-5. Closed 24-26 Dec, 28 Dec & 1 Jan.
The Land Girls: Cinderellas of the Soil
A new exhibition which focuses on Sussex & those land girls of World War II who lived & worked on the Downs & surrounding areas. It tells personal stories of the war years, using memories, paintings, posters, photographs & other objects. It also looks at the distinctive uniform–where it was made, & how women felt about wearing it.
Price: Admission free. Date: (3 Oct 2009-14 Mar 2010)
Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture/Museum
Address: Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1RL
Opening Hours: Daily, 10am-5pm
The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing
This Hayward touring exhibition explores & celebrates fresh approaches to drawing in contemporary art. Featuring international artists who create some of the most innovative drawing today, it presents works that blur the line between landscape, portrait, still-life & graphic design.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 1 Nov 2009)
British Library
www.bl.uk
Address: 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Telephone: 0870 444 1500
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9.30-6 (Tues until 8), Sat 9.30-5, Sun & bank holidays 11-5. Closed 24-28 Dec & 1 Jan.
Points of View: Capturing the 19th century in photographs
Presenting treasures from the dawn of photography, this major photographic exhibition features more than 250 rarely-seen images tracing development of the art-form from gentleman’s pursuit to mass pastime. It examines the development & influence of photography, from its invention in 1839 up to the growth of a popular amateur market in the early 20th century. The exhibition draws on the British Library’s rich collection of more than 300,000 images–including the daguerreotype & calotype, negatives, X-ray photographs & spirit photography. Further information on www.bl.uk/pointsofview .
Price: Admission free. Date: (30 Oct 2009-7 Mar 2010), seven days a week in the PACCAR Gallery
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.
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
The exhibition examines the rule of Moctezuma II, the last elected Aztec Emperor, who consolidated control of Aztec hegemony from the shores of Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. However, with the arrival of the Spanish in 1521 he saw the collapse of the native world order & the imposition of a new civilization that gave birth to modern Mexico. The legacy of these tumultuous events & the semi-mythical status of Moctezuma will be re-assessed through the display of recent archaeological discoveries & loans of iconic material from Mexico.
Price: Admission £12 (seniors £6 on Mon, 10-12), children 16-18 £10, under-16s free; family (2+3 children 16-18) £25. Date: (until 24 Jan 2010)
Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960
Coinciding with the Moctezuma exhibition, this show focuses on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the 20th century. The first socialist revolution of 1910-20 resulted in a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting the values of the revolution, & led to a pioneering programme to cover the walls of public buildings with vast murals, & later to setting up print workshops to produce works for mass distribution & education.
Price: Free Date: (22 Oct 2009-5 Apr 2010)
Brunei Gallery
www.soas.ac.uk/gallery
Address: School of Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG
Telephone: 020 7898 4026
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10.30-5
Halala Women of Fancy Stitch Halala: Contemporary Indigenous Tapestries
by the Fancy Stitch Group
African embroidered art works from Fancy Stitch, a non-profit job-creation organisation in Southern Africa. The brainchild of artist Maryna Heese, the organisation gives employment to more than 400 local women. Through the imagery & kaleidoscope of colours & stitches, their works tell their own stories of survival in the face of adversity, of strength & perseverance, & of hope.
Price: Admission free. Date: (9 Oct-12 Dec 2009)
Cartoon Museum
www.cartoonmuseum.org
Address: 35 Little Russell St, London WC1A 2HH
Telephone: 020 7580 8155
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10.30-5.30, Sun 12-5.30. Closed 24 Dec-2 Jan.
30 Years of Viz
Founded by three Geordie teenages in November 1979, Viz remains one of Britain's best selling and most influential comics. This exhibition of more than 70 original works from ‘Britain’s leading toilet-humour magazine’,celebrates the creators and characters who have made Viz one of Newcastle's greatest contributions to British cultural life over the past three decades, bringing readers such memorable comic-strip characters as the Fat Slags, Roger Mellie (The Man on the Telly) & Johnny Fartpants
Price: Admission £5.50, concessions £4, students £3, children free. Date: (4 Nov 2009-24 Jan 2010)
Chapter One
www.chapteronegallery.com
Address: 33 Marshall St, London W1F 7ET
Telephone: 020 7287 7687
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-7, Sun 12-4.
Genesis
Inaugural exhibition, showing new artwork by six influential European artists: Stefan Marx, Mike Swaney, Merijn Hos, Samuel Francois & Mudwig Dans. Limited-edition, signed screenprints will be on sale.
Price: Admission free. Date: (1-31 Oct 2009)
Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms
http://cwr.iwm.org.uk
Address: Clive Steps, King Charles St, London SW1A 2AQ
Telephone: 020 7930 6961
Opening Hours: Daily 9.30-6; closed 24-26 Dec.
Undercover: Life in Churchill's Bunker
To mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, this exhibition tells the stories of those who worked secretly underground alongside the prime minister & his cabinet. New personal accounts build a picture of daily life beneath the London streets, & of the cameraderie & the tensions that reigned in a place where events of the war were being shaped & world-changing decisions made.
Price: Admission £12 (includes audioguide), seniors & students £9.50, disabled & children free. Date: (until 2011)
Compton Verney
www.comptonverney.org.uk
Address: Kineton, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks CV35 9HZ
Telephone: 01926 645500
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun & Bank Holiday Mons 11-5
The Artist’s Studio
This major loan exhibition focuses on the fascinating & often private world of the studio. It traces the development of the artist’s workspace from the 1700s to the present day, & explores the studio as workshop, display space & garret, as well as as a space for expression & retreat. Artists represented include Francis Bacon, Vanessa Bell, Paul Cézanne, Lucian Freud, Gwen John, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego, Walter Sickert, JMW Turner & Johann Zoffany.
Price: Admission £7, seniors £5, students £4, children £2; family (2+4) £16. Date: (until 13 Dec 2009)
Courtauld Gallery
www.courtauld.ac.uk
Address: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Telephone: 020 7848 2526
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6. Christmas & New Year closing to be arranged.
Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites, 1952-62
As a young art student between 1947 & 1952, Auerbach was deeply affected by the scars left on the city after World War II bombing. The 14 paintings on view here, worked in thickly-encrusted, earth-toned paints, show the reconstruction work on the Shell Centre, Maples furniture store, the Empire Cinema & other major sites in the capital..
Price: Admission £5, concessions £4, students & children free; admission free Mon 10-2. Date: (16 Oct 2009-19 Jan 2010)
Draíocht Centre For The Arts
www.draiocht.ie
Address: Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15
Telephone: +353 (0)1 885 2622
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-6. Closed 25-26 Dec & 31 Dec-1 Jan.
Colin Martin: Chalet Town
This new sequence of paintings, based on Martin’s research in Europe & America, uses the vernacular environment of a dormitory holiday town to create a narrative context that explores the identity, values & states of mind that form & underpin communal space.
Price: Admission free. Date: (27 Nov 2009-23 Jan 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.
Drawing Attention: Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Van Gogh, Picasso & more Master Drawings from the Art Gallery of Ontario
One hundred drawings range from Renaissance Italy to modern times, including works by Guercino, Gainsborough, Ingres, Turner, Léger, De Kooning–& one of Canada's favourite early 20th-century landscape artists, Tom Thomson.
Price: Admission £4, seniors £3, concessions & children free. Date: (21 Oct 2009-17 Jan 2010)
Paul Nash: The Elements
Paintings, watercolours & photographs, including beautiful landscapes of the Downs, strange flooded rooms, & classic images of two World Wars. It shows how Nash selected elementary objects to put in relationships of conflict or harmony, & found pathways, nests & thresholds between & within them.
Price: Admission £4, seniors £3, concessions & children free. Date: (10 Feb-9 May 2010)
Eskenazi
www.eskenazi.co.uk
Address: 10 Clifford St, London W1S 2LJ
Telephone: 020 7493 5464
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5.30 (2 Nov until 9), Sat 10-1 (31 Oct 12-5); Sun 1 Nov 12-5.
Seven Classical Chinese Paintings
This exhibition of rare & fragile paintings–six of them on silk–from the 12th to 15th centuries is part of Asian Art in London (29 Oct-7 Nov). Among the highlights are two album leaves, one depicting a falconer & horse & another showing a melon plant with its sinuous stem.
Price: Admission free. Date: (29 Oct-27 Nov 2009)
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
Terra Incognita: Italy's Ceramic Revival
Fifty key pieces from the Hockenmeyer Collection of 20th-century Italian ceramics include works by Mario Marini, Arturo Martini & Lucio Fontana.
Price: Admission £5, concessions £3.50, students & children under 16 free. Date: (30 Sept-20 Dec 2009)
Falmouth Art Gallery
www.falmouthartgallery.com
Address: Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2RT
Telephone: 01326 313863
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.
Connections
This exhibition celebrates the strong connection between the rich artistic heritage of Falmouth and the formation of Falmouth Art School (now University College Falmouth).
The exhibition includes major artists such as: Ray Atkins, Trevor Bell, Sandra Blow, Susan Boafo, Laurie Burt, Prunella Clough, Tom Cross, Tom Early, Michael Finn, Sir Terry Frost, Francis Hewlett, Kurt Jackson, Robert Jones, Richard Long, Danny Markey, Lee Miller, Anthony Penrose and Sir Roland Penrose.
Price: Free Date: 27 February – 17 April 2010
A Mixed Bunch
Cornwall boasts some of the finest gardens in the country. To celebrate the coming of spring, this exhibition will feature floral art from Falmouth collections. On show will be Carnations by Henry Scott Tuke RA, recently presented to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society by George Bednar.
Featured in the exhibition will be works by: Grace Gardner, Isobel Heath, Penny Macbeth, Henri Matisse, Kenneth Newton, J.T. Richardson, John Ward CBE, J.W. Waterhouse, Marjorie Williams and Gwen Whicker.
Price: Free Date: 24 April – 26 June 2010
RA RA
This summer exhibition shows work from Cornish collections by leading Royal Academicians past and present. The highlight will be John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Falmouth’s first Royal Academician, Charles Napier Hemy RA RWS.
Some of the Royal Academicians to ‘be hung on the line’ will be: John Opie, John William Waterhouse, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Sir John Arnesby Brown, Sir Frank Brangwyn, George Frederick Watts, Henry Scot Tuke, Eileen Cooper, Gary Hume, Ian McKeevor and John Hoyland. It will also feature work produced by children who may become Royal Academicians of the future.*
*The Permanent Collection display at this time will be selected by an ‘RA style section panel’ comprising local special needs groups.
Price: Free Date: 3 July – 4 September 2010
The edge
INSPIRED by Harry Ousey’s remarkable series of paintings called ‘Edge Movement’, this quirky exhibition shows ‘the edge’ explored by artists. Whether it is images of the sea meeting the shore, woodland meeting fields, light meeting the sharp blade of a knife or colour touching shape.
Among the artists featured will be Adam Lowe, Grace Gardner, Charles Napier Hemy RA, Kurt Jackson, Ian McKeevor RA, Kenneth Newton, Breon O’Casey and Robert Jones.
Price: Free Date: 11 September – 6 November 2010
A decade of collecting
THIS exhibition features oil paintings, watercolours, master prints, sculpture and automata – all of which have entered the collection since the start of the new millennium.
Included are local gifts and bequests, as well as grant funded works that have been saved for the nation by the generosity of organisations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.
Featured will be works by Francis Bacon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichenstein, as well as favourites from the Children’s Illustration Archive, including Dan Dare, Pugwash and Bagpuss.
Price: Free Date: 13 November 2010 – February 2011
Freud Museum
www.freud.org.uk/visit
Address: 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 5SX
Telephone: 020 7435 2002
Opening Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5.
Hysteria: Mat Collishaw
Collishaw’s series of new works created for Sigmund Freud’s house include sculptures, projections & site-specific installations. In the room of Freud’s daughter, Anna–the founder of child psychology–Collishaw installs a zoetrope sculpture with animated figures of imp-like boys smashing eggs, spearing snails & throwing rocks at butterflies, while in Freud’s own study he has created a series of tree-stump sculptures that emit evocative birdsong.
Price: Admission £6, seniors £4.50, concessions £3, under-12s free. Date: (7 Oct-13 Dec 2009)
Friends’ Meeting House
www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk
Address: Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF
Telephone: 01539 722975
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-4.30.
Quaker Tapestry
From their permanent home in Kendal, Cumbria, 39 of the 77 panels making up the Quaker Tapestry spend a month in Brighton. The entire work features 350 years of social history, depicted in crewel-work stitched by 4,000 people in 15 countries. Its subjects include Elizabeth Fry, Tsar Nicholas I, Joseph Rowntree, the Irish potato famine, the slave trade, the Crimean War, railways, science, marriage and botany.
Price: Admission free Date: 30 Jan-27 Feb 2010
Gainsborough's House
www.gainsborough.org
Address: 46 Gainsborough St, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2EU
Telephone: 01787 372958
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.
Silk, Squalor & Scandal: Hogarth Prints
William Hogarth’s innovative ‘modern moral subjects,’ including The Rake’s Progress & Marriage-A-la-Mode, introduced new & controversial topics to British art. This touring exhibition of his engravings includes nearly all Hogarth’s major print series, plus Gin Lane, The March to Finchley & other graphic works.
Price: Admission £4.50, seniors £3.60, students & children £2; family (2+3) £10; free for everyone Tues, from 1. Date: (until 19 Dec 2009)
Geffrye Museum
www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
Address: 136 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8EA
Telephone: 020 7739 9893
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5; closed 24-26 Dec & Jan 1.
Eco Home
Today’s recycling & energy-saving obligations put ecological design at the cutting edge of home design, prompting us to rethink our habits & behaviour in the light of climate change & the state of the planet. This look at current ideas on eco-living offers ideas for making small, but important, changes in the way that we use the earth's resources.
Price: Admission free. Date: (13 Oct 2009-7 Feb 2010)
Christmas Past: 400 Years of Seasonal Traditions in English Homes
For its annual Yuletide show, the Geffrye recaptures the magic of Christmas by decorating each of its period room-settings in contemporary festive style.
Price: Admission free. Date: (24 Nov 2009-3 Jan 2010)
Harley Gallery
www.harleygallery.co.uk
Address: Welbeck, Worksop, Notts S80 3LW
Telephone: 01909 501700
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun & bank holiday Mons 10-5
Kevin Coates: A Notebook of Pins
The celebrated goldsmith presents 20 brilliantly-designed pins, each mounted in a frame against a backdrop of the drawings based on Coates's initial ideas for the work. The pins are made from materials that range from gold & opals to carved coral & snail shells
Price: Admission free. Date: (1 Nov-24 Dec 2009)
100% Proof: 35 Years of Printmaking at Coriander Studio
A collection of iconic images demonstrates the often unsung skills of the master printmaker. Brad Faine, of Coriander Studio, creates original prints with Rachel Whiteread, Richard Hamilton, Gillian Wearing, John Hoyland, Bruce McLean & Damien Hirst
Price: Admission free. Date: (1 Nov-24 Dec 2009)
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.
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
The first retrospective to focus exclusively on the paintings of this Los Angeles-based artist reveals the depth & breadth of Ruscha’s work & highlights the conceptual underpinnings of his approach. It explores the impact of print & graphic media on the artist’s aesthetic strategies, & focuses on his incisive portrait of American culture.
Price: Admission £10, seniors £9, students & unemployed £6, children £4.50 Date: (14 Oct 2009-10 Jan 2010)
Herbert, The
www.theherbert.org
Address: Jordan Well, Coventry CV1 5QP
Telephone: 024 7683 2386
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 12-5
More Than Two Tones
Through a selection of music memorabilia, the exhibition celebrates Coventry's musical heritage, from Frank Ifield to The Enemy.
Price: Admission free. Date: (3 Oct 2009–3 Jan 2010)
Animated Adventures featuring Wallace & Gromit
An interactive exhibition, showing the science & magic of film animation, with handcrafted sets & models from Aardman & DreamWorks' feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Visitors see storyboards, stop-frame, cel painting & set design, & can try creating their own animations.
Price: Admission free. Date: (24 Oct 2009-17 Jan 2010)
Hereford Museum & Art Gallery
www.herefordshire.gov.uk
Address: Broad St, Hereford HR4 9AU
Telephone: 01432 260692
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5. Closed 25-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Ana Maria Pacheco
An exhibition of prints, etchings & carved wooden sculptures by this Brazilian-born artist, who is inspired by Brazilian folklore, classical myth, mystical Catholicism & medieval satire.
Price: Admission free. Date: (11 Nov 2009-6 Jan 2010)
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Address: London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ
Fabric of a Nation: Textiles & identity in modern Ghana
The role of printed cloths & their designs as an expression of cultural, social & political identity in today’s Ghana–which celebrated 50 years of independence in 2007–cuts across ethnic & linguistic differences.
Price: Admission free. Date: (28 Nov 2009-28 Feb 2010)
Hove Museum & Art Gallery
www.virtualmuseum.info
Address: 19 New Church Rd, Hove, East Sussex BN3 4AB
Telephone: 01273 290200
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5.
War Stories
An account of the Home Front in Brighton & Hove during World War II, from the archive of the Brighton Herald newspaper. Photographs recall air-raid precautions, evacuees, bomb damage, fund-raising drives, troop parades & victory celebrations. Articles, news reports, editorial comments & readers’ letters show that local experiences of the war were often more complex & ambiguous than the pictures suggest.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 Jan 2010)
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.
Captured: The Extraordinary Life of Prisoners of War
A major exhibition dedicated to the experiences of British & Commonwealth prisoners of war & civil internees during World War II in Europe & the Far East. It also looks at the lives of Italian & German prisoners in the UK & their relations with their captors. Coded camp diaries, a slouch hat belonging to artist Ronald Searle, & a bed sheet embroidered in a Hong Kong prison camp with the names of more than 1,000 internees reveal the truth behind such modern legends as The Great Escape, Colditz & The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 3 Jan 2010)
Living with the Wall: Berlin 1961-1989
To mark the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, this small but powerful photographic display illustrates 28 years of a divided city. It shows the evolution of the wall from primitive barbed-wire barricade to modern fortification & artists’ inspiration; its impact on the people of Berlin as families were separated or sought to escape; the confrontation between East & West; & the momentous days in November 1989 when both sides were reunited.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 21 Mar 2010)
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.
Dr Who exhibition
Interactive displays & scary moments abound in this touring exhibition of props, costumes, monsters & other creatures from the Doctor Who television series. Among some 100 exhibits are the mysterious Autons, costumes from last season’s Christmas specials, & the frightening Stone Angel.
Price: Admission £7.50, concessions & children £4.50; family (2+2) £18. Booking (fee applies) on 08444 815816 or via www.secxtra.com. Date: (until 4 Jan 2010)
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;
Roger Hilton: Late Works & the Night Letters
Gouaches, drawings & ‘Night Letters’ from the final chapter of Hilton’s life, where he was confined by illness to his cottage in Cornwall–apart from one last excursion to the circuses & cafés of Antibes–& began a prolific output of works in charcoal & gouache, which ended only with his death in February 1975.
Price: Admission free. Date: Letters (21 Nov 2009-10 Jan 2010)
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri: m* of Bethlehem, & other films
An installation of four short films by two New York-based, Palestinian- & Iranian-born artists, who in 1999 founded the artist’s group & space 16 Beaver. The film m* of Bethlehem (2003) compares a 1973 map of the city with a video map of today’s Bethlehem showing its streets under curfew, a refugee camp & an encroaching Israeli settlement.
Price: Admission free. Date: (21 Nov 2009-10 Jan 2010)
Modern Times
The first of a series of exhibitions curated by Berlin-born Lutz Becker tracing individual paths through the art of the 20th & 21st centuries. This show ranges from Russian Constructivism, Italian Futurism & Bauhaus, to American Abstract Expressionism & Minimalism–with many diversions on the way. Artists include Boccioni, Gabo, Klee, de Kooning, Mondrian, Pollock, Richter, Schwitters & Le Witt.
Price: Admission free. Date: (16 Jan-14 Mar 2010)
King's Place Gallery
www.kingsplace.co.uk
Address: 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Telephone: 020 7520 1490
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-7.30, Sun 11-6.30; closed 24 Dec-2 Jan.
Jane Bown: 100 Portraits
During her long career taking portraits for The Observer newspaper, Bown has photographed everyone from Bertrand Russell to the Beatles, from Samuel Beckett to the Queen. This exhibition showcases 100 of her best photographs across six decades, confirming her reputation as one of Britain’s most significant photojournalists.
Price: Admission free. Date: (23 Oct-21 Nov 2009)
Library & Museum of Freemasonry
www.freemasonry.london.museum
Address: Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen St, London WC2B 5AZ
Telephone: 020 7395 9257
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 11-5; closed 28 Aug.
Freemasonry & the French Revolution
Though traditionally non-political, Masonic lodges in England saw their relationship with the state change after 1789. An influx into their ranks of refugees from across the Channel gave rise to conspiracy theories, & lodges were forced to register lists of their members with local authorities. Among items on display are elaborately-crafted miniatures & medallions produced by some of the 120,000 French prisoners of war, some of whom established their own Masonic lodges in England.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 8 Dec 2009)
Manchester Art Gallery
www.manchestergalleries.org
Address: Mosley St, Manchester M2 3JL
Telephone: 0161 235 8888
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 10-5. Closed 24-26 Dec & 31 Dec-1 Jan.
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists & Surrealism
Europe’s first major group exhibition of 20th-century women Surrealist artists encompasses both well-known & rarely-seen works by Frida Kahlo, Jane Graverol, Lee Miller, Dorothea Tanning, Francesca Woodman & others, from public & private collections. It extends & enhances the understanding of these artists’ radical & sometimes still shocking work.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (until 10 Jan 2010)
Manchester Museum
www.museum.man.ac.uk/museum
Address: University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL
Telephone: 0161 275 2634
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun-Mon (& 27-31 Dec) 11-4. Closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Charles Darwin: evolution of a scientist
Father of modern biology, but also pigeon-fancier & failed medical student–Darwin is presented here in a way he has never been before. Combining Chrissie Morgan’s large-scale, graphic-novel-style illustrations with objects Darwin collected, used & studied, it offers a modern take on his published work
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (3 Oct 2009-30 Aug 2010)
Mary Rose Museum
www.maryrose.org
Address: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Visitor Centre, Victory Gate, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hants PO1 3LJ
Telephone: 023 9283 9766
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5.30. Closed 24-26 Dec.
Henry VIII: Man & Monarch
During the building of a £35m museum around the Mary Rose (due for completion in 2016), the visitor centre devoted to Henry VIII’s ill-fated flagship hosts this British Library touring exhibition. It shows Henry as not only England’s best-known king–with his wives, his girth & his bloodthirstiness–but also as the country’s most important single ruler. It examines the extraordinary transformations–personal & political, intellectual & religious, literary, aesthetic & linguistic–that took place during his reign.
Price: Admission £12.50, seniors £10.50, students & children £8.50; family (2+3) £33. Date: (12 Dec 2009-17 Jan 2010)
mima
www.visitmima.com
Address: Centre Sq, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ
Telephone: 01642 726720
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4.
Gerhard Richter: Modern Times
Abstract works, watercolours, pencil & graphite drawings, oil paintings on paper, & sculpture spanning five decades by one of today’s most significant artists who has had great influence on the world of art & culture.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 15 Nov 2009)
Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954-1962
Distinguished for his abstract style of pure colour & form, Kelly–now in his 86th year–has occupied the centre stage of modernism for more than half a century. The abstract aesthetic that he pioneered has been vital to the evolution of post-war American art.
Price: Admission free. Date: (11 Dec 2009-21 Feb 2010)
Modern Art Oxford
www.modernartoxford.org.uk
Address: 30 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP
Telephone: 01865 722733
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5
Pawel Althamer: Common Task/Miroslaw Balka: Topography
Dual exhibitions by two acclaimed Polish artists, from successive generations. Althamer is a traditional sculptor of highly realistic figures as well as a radical interventionist, orchestrating situations & events that involve communities of people in real time & in public places. Miroslaw Balka’s pared-down installations, comprising sculpture & video, reflect on individual & historical memory.
Price: Admission free. Date: (12 Dec 2009-12 Mar 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
Loss & Liberty
A powerful new collection of 15 ceramic artworks & poems made & written by offenders at Wandsworth Prison is on show in the museum’s London, Sugar & Slavery area. Inspired by the gallery’s themes, the display makes personal connections between the artists’ lives & the history of transatlantic enslavement, in forms ranging from expressive portraits to symbolic pieces representing the experiences & legacies of slavery.
Price: Admission £5 (valid for one year), concessions £3, students & children free. Date: (until 30 Nov 2009)
Musical Museum
www.musicalmuseum.co.uk
Address: 399 High St, Brentford, Middx TW8 0DU
Telephone: 020 8560 8108
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 11-5.30.
The "Stroh" Instruments: Horn-Amplified Strings
An exhibition centred upon the Stroh violin & its German inventor Augustus Stroh, who used a metal horn rather than a wooden case to amplify the sound of its strings. The instrument enjoyed popularity in the early days of sound recordings, from 1899 to the 1920s.
Price: Admission £7, concessions £5, children free. Date: (3 Oct-15 Nov 2009)
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.
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600-1700
This landmark reappraisal of polychromed sculptures considers an art-form crucial to the development of Spanish art. Most were dedicated to key Christian themes commissioned by religious orders, & Spanish sculptors & painters combined their skills to create arrestingly real depictions of the saints, the Immaculate Conception & the Passion of Christ. Paintings by Velázquez & Zurbarán show that artists, too, were clearly informed by familiarity–& sometimes direct involvement–with sculpture.
Price: Sainsbury Wing. Admission £8, seniors £7 (Tues pm £4), students & children £4 (under-12s free). Date: (21 Oct 2009-24 Jan 2010)
Kienholz: The Hoerengracht
A highly polemical tableau, created in 1983-88 by American artists Ed & Nancy Kienholz, transforms the Gallery’s Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam's red-light district. Like the Dutch masters of the 17th century, the work represents the glowing windows & mysterious doorways of the city’s claustrophobic streets, & is shown alongside a small selection of Dutch paintings from the Gallery’s collection.
Price: Admission free Date: (18 Nov 2009-21 Feb 2010)
www.nationalgalleries.org
Address: The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL
Telephone: 0131 624 6200
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5 (Thurs until 7). Closed 25-26 Dec.
Picturing Britain: Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
Chiefly known for his outstanding watercolours, Paul Sandby was one of the most influential 18th-century British artists, who played a major role in promoting British landscape at a time when Italianate views & Dutch scenes were all the rage. Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the Military Survey in Scotland & spent four years as its chief draughtsman. This touring exhibition includes drawings, watercolours, gouaches, etchings, aquatints & a few rare oils, & also some work by Paul’s older brother, Thomas. It includes significant loans from The Royal Collection, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, & the Yale Center for British Art.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (7 Nov 2009-7 Feb 2010)
National Gallery of Ireland
www.nationalgallery.ie
Address: Merrion Sq West, & Clare St, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 1 661 5133
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 9.30-5.30 (Thurs until 8.30), Sun 12-5.30; closed 24-26 Dec.
Edvard Munch: Prints
An exhibition from the Munch Museum, Oslo, of 40 prints by Norway’s greatest artist includes lithographs, woodcuts, etchings & drypoint, with works such as The Scream (1895) & Madonna (1895/1902), as well as one of Munch’s greatest self-portrait prints of 1895. Munch continually pondered, revised & repeated his images, & the prints are frequently the finest & most powerful versions of his subjects. The exhibition also features Munch’s portraits of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé; Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski; Swedish playwright August Strindberg; & the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (until 6 Dec 2009)
National Maritime Museum
www.nmm.ac.uk
Address: Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF
Telephone: 020 8858 4422
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5
North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession
The centuries-old British endeavour to find a sea route linking the North Atlantic with the North Pacific Ocean was a quest for a lucrative short-cut for trade between Europe & the East. The exhibition looks at some of the feats of endurance & at the tragedy surrounding famous attempts. Letters & relics recovered from a doomed 1845 voyage in which all 129 expedition members perished, provide a glimpse into 19th-century strategies to combat the harsh Arctic climate. Drawings record early encounters with the Inuit; visitors will also see the flagstaff erected by Sir James Clark Ross to mark his discovery of the North Magnetic Pole in 1831. The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen eventually managed to sail through the North-West Passage in 1903-06.
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (until 4 Jan 2010)
National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff
www.nmgw.ac.uk/www.php/nmgc
Address: Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP
Telephone: 029 2039 7951
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 10-5; closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Green Drops & Moonsquirters: The Utterly Imaginative World of Lauren Child
This large interactive exhibition is based on characters & themes from the works of best-selling children’s-book author & illustrator Lauren Child. Young visitors will discover Charlie & Lola, Clarice Bean & That Pesky Rat, among other favourites.
Price: Admission free. Date: (21 Nov 2009-31 Jan 2010)
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.
The Life & Lives of Dr Johnson
A special display of portraits of the great writer & his circle celebrates the 300th anniversary of his birth. Drawings & satirical prints include portraits of Milton, Pope, Garrick, Reynolds & Boswell, & several of Johnson himself.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (until 13 Dec 2009)
Twiggy: A Life in Photographs
The Gallery celebrates the 60th birthday of one of the best-known & most respected fashion models of all time. Twiggy has worked with many of the world's leading photographers; a selection of the most iconic & important of these portraits reveal how fashion photography & portraiture have evolved since 1966–when her career was launched with a famous haircut by Leonard & photographs by Barry Lategan.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (until 21 Mar 2010)
Beatles to Bowie: The 60s exposed
This major photographic exhibition heralds the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1960s, in 2010. The 150 images include rare portraits of The Beatles, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones & other leading pop-music personalities who helped create "Swinging London". Among ephemera on show will be record sleeves, illustrated sheet music & magazines, & the exhibition will look at how female British singers–such as Cilla Black, Lulu & Sandie Shaw–not only created many pop classics but also served as important role models & ambassadors for British fashion designers.
Price: Admission £11, seniors £10 (£9 all day Wed), concessions £10 & £9. Date: (15 Oct 2009-24 Jan 2010)
Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk
Address: Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD
Telephone: 020 7942 5000
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.50 (Fri until 9), Sun 11-5.50; closed 24-26 Dec.
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009
The winning entries of 2009 in the world’s most prestigious wildlife photographic competition, showcasing the very best images of nature & giving an insight into the beauty, drama & variety of our natural environment. After their London showing, the winning images tour the UK & overseas.
Price: Admission £9, concessions £4.50 (children under 4 free); family (2+3) £24.
Date: (23 Oct 2009-11 Apr 2010)
Natural History Museum At Tring
www.nhm.ac.uk/tring
Address: Walter Rothschild Building, Akeman Street, Tring, Herts HP23 6AP
Telephone: 020 7942 6171
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5.
Treasures at Tring
The strange, scary & spectacular specimens from the Natural History Museum’s collections include exquisite sea shells, a rare silver chafer beetle, a meteorite from Mars, a fossilised tree with a curse on it, & Walter Rothschild’s bowler hat–containing a wasps’ nest.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 22 Nov 2009)
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.
Ola Kolemainen: A Building is not a Building
Kolemainen’s subject is modern architecture–though his work owes less to architectural photographers than to Minimalist art. Isolating details of buildings, he produces images that are rich in colour, texture & light.
Price: Admission free. Date: (13 Nov 2009-24 Jan 2010)
House of Fairy Tales
A wide range of work produced by 23 international artists, who have worked with the best print studios in the UK to produce a series of images inspired by the narrative of fairy tales. Artists include Mat Collishaw, Adam Dant, Gavin Turk, Peter Blake & Paula Rego.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 Jan 2010)
October Gallery
www.octobergallery.co.uk
Address: 24 Old Gloucester St, London WC1N 3AL
Telephone: 020 7242 7367
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 12.30-5.30.
Romuald Hazoumé: Made in Porto-Novo
One of Africa's leading visual artists, Hazoumé shows a new installation, paintings, photographs & recently-created ‘masks’–the signature sculptures with which he first came to prominence in the west. These are created in the historic city of Porto Novo, on the south coast of Benin, which has become a centre of artistic innovation.
Price: Admission free. Date: (15 Oct-28 Nov 2009)
Pallant House Gallery
www.pallant.org.uk
Address: 9 North Pallant, Chichester, W Sussex PO19 1TJ
Telephone: 01243 774557
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10-5 (Thurs until 8); Sun & bank holiday Mons 12.30-5.
Henry Moore Textiles
Best known for his large-scale reclining figures & his sketches of London’s war-time Underground shelters, Moore also produced designs for textiles & fabrics. This large exhibition brings together more than 100 fabrics, 26 textile drawings, four large-scale textile wall panels & two sketchbooks of textile designs–one of which came to light only in 2006. It also includes a newly-acquired 1943 drawing Textile Design for ‘Fruit & Flowers’, as well as curtains & bedspreads that adorned the artist’s own home.
Price: Admission £7.50, students £4, children £2.30; family (2+2) £17; half-price for all on Tues, & on Thurs 5-8. Date: (14 Nov 2009-21 Feb 2010)
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
www.penleehouse.org.uk
Address: Morrab Rd, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4HE
Telephone: 01736 363625
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5 (from 1 Oct, Mon-Sat 10.30-4.30).
Marianne Stokes 1855-1927
Born in Austria, Stokes studied art in Munich & France, & was drawn to Pont Aven, Brittany, in 1883, where she met her future husband, Adrian Stokes. The couple moved to St Ives & became leading figures in the art colony that they helped to establish there. This exhibition complements another, of Adrian Stokes's work, running concurrently at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.
Price: Admission £3, concessions £2, children (& everybody all day Sat) free. Date: (until 28 Nov 2009)
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
www.plymouth.gov.uk
Address: Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AJ
Telephone: 01752 304774
Opening Hours: Tues-Fri 10-5.30, Sat 10-5. Closed 25-28 Dec & 1-4 Jan
Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius
Born in Plympton in 1723, son of a village schoolmaster, Reynolds went on to become one of Britain's most fashionable portrait painters, as well as founder & first president of the Royal Academy. The exhibition highlights Reynolds's association with Plymouth, his early career at local country estates, & the patronage he received from the South-West's upper classes. Oil paintings, drawings & prints from the Museum’s permanent collections are supplemented here with loans from other regional museums, the National Trust & National Portrait Gallery.
Price: Admission free. Date: (21 Nov 2009-20 Feb 2010)
PM Gallery & Pitzhanger Manor
www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse
Address: Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, London W5 5EQ
Telephone: 020 8567 1227
Opening Hours: Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-5pm
Pot Luck
Serious & humorous contributions by 17 artists include Antony Gormley's Bread Line; Damien Hirst's 13 pharmaceutical lithographs The Last Supper; installations by Lia Anna Hennig, Aaron Head & Karen Tam; & videos of Bobby Baker's series of live performances created with chairs, a table & a travelling coolbag.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 5 Dec 2009)
Poole Museum
http://boroughofpoole.com
Address: 4 High St, Poole, Dorset BH15 1BW
Telephone: 01202 262600
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5 (from 2 Nov, Tues-Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4). Closed 24 Dec from 1pm and 25-26 Dec.
Discovering Poole–An Artist's Haven 1890-1950
In the late 19th & early 20th century, Poole Harbour inspired some of Britain's leading artists–among them Philip Wilson Steer, Roger Fry, Augustus John, Henry Lamb & LS Lowry. The exhibition features oil paintings, watercolours, prints & drawings inspired by the romance & history of the town, its port & the breathtaking scenery of Poole Harbour & the surrounding Purbeck Hills.
Price: Admission free. Date: until 28 Feb 2010
Provost Skene's House
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Address: Guestrow, Aberdeen AB10 1AS
Telephone: 01224 641086
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5.
A Victorian Christmas
A celebration of 19th-century festivities, when many pagan & medieval customs were revived by Queen Victoria & Prince Albert. Christmas became a time for making merry with seasonal parties, family celebrations, traditional food, & games around the parlour fire.
Price: Admission free. Date: (21 Nov 2009-9 Jan 2010)
Riflemaker Soho Square
www.riflemaker.org
Address: 1 Greek St, London W1D 4NQ
Telephone: 020 7439 0000
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-6. Closed 5 & 26 May
Artists Anonymous: Lucifer over London
Three major new works form the début UK gallery exhibition for this art group consisting of three painters, photographers & film-makers. It is arranged in the format of a ceiling-high ‘open book’: a painting on the left, photograph on the right & a film running down the centre. The artists–who first met at art school in Berlin in 2001–always appear in their work though, as a collective, they forgo their individual identities.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 21 Nov 2009)
Royal Academy
www.royalacademy.org.uk
Address: Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Telephone: 020 7300 8000
Opening Hours: Daily 10-6 (Fri until 10); closed 24, 25 Dec.
Anish Kapoor
A major solo exhibition includes Kapoor’s colourful early pigment sculptures, some dazzling stainless-steel reflective pieces, & new works such as Svayambh–a vertical mass of wax that inches along a track laid through four rooms–& Shooting into the Corner–which features a cannon firing projectiles of red wax at 20-minute intervals.
Price: Admission £12, seniors & disabled £10, students £8, children £4 & £3, under-12s free. Date: (until 11 Dec 2009)
Royal Cornwall Museum
www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Address: River St, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ
Telephone: 01872 272205
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5. Closed 21 & 24 Mar.
Utmost Fidelity: The painting life of Adrian Stokes
The first retrospective of the English landscape painter Adrian Scott Stokes runs concurrently with another devoted to his wife, Marianne Stokes, at Penlee House Gallery, Penzance. Born in Lancashire in 1854, Stokes trained at the Royal Academy from 1872 before travelling to France, where he gravitated towards Pont Aven–home to the most influential art community of the time. After the couple moved to Cornwall, Stokes became the first president of the St Ives Art Club & was influential in encouraging other landscape & marine artists to work there.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 21 Nov 2009)
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.
Cosmos & Culture
The exhibition traces the history of astronomy & how it has shaped our world. It explores the development of the telescope–from the early models developed by Galileo & Newton to modern space-based technologies such as the Hubble Space Telescope––& includes an original moon map made by Thomas Harriot in 1610, & Phil Shepherdson’s 1970s’ amateur telescope made from baked-bean cans & coat-hangers.
Price: Admission to museum free. Date: (until 30 Dec 2010)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
www.nationalgalleries.org
Address: 75 Belford Rd, Edinburgh EH4 3DR
Telephone: 0131 624 6200
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5
Artist Rooms
On display are Vija Celmins’s ethereal images of seas, deserts & night sky; a series of landscape & portrait paintings by Alex Katz; & Francesca Woodman’s surrealist-influenced photographs. Aso on view is Damien Hirst’s now-iconic Away from the Flock & one of his recent butterfly paintings, plus minimalist paintings by the influential American abstract artist Agnes Martin.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 8 Nov 2009)
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland
Address: Burdon Rd, Sunderland, Tyne-&-Wear SR1 1PP
Telephone: 0191 553 2323
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5.
China: Journey to the East
A major exhibition of more than 100 objects from the British Museum tells the story of one of the world's most important civilisations. It presents key Chinese inventions such as the abacus, the compass, & silk & porcelain manufacture; explains Daoism, Buddhism & Confucianism, as well as the colourful Spring Festival (Chinese New Year); looks at the development of China's writing system & its development as an art form; & shows board games & 20th-century shadow puppets.
Price: Admission free. Date: (29 Jan-09 May 2010)
Tate Liverpool
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
Address: Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB
Telephone: 0151 702 7400
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun & bank holiday Mons 10-5.50; closed 14 Apr
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
The focus here is upon the connection between the work of Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most inventive & subversive sculptors of the mid 20th-century, & British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely & his constructive & destructive tendencies. It traces Tinguely’s early career & the development of his work from the late 1940s, building up to his momentous 1960 ‘auto-destructive’ Homage to New York–a 27ft high tower with a self-destroying mechanism, which came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire. A selection of Landy’s drawings will be seen, along with photographs, films & relics of Tinguely’s original event.
Price: Admission free. Date: (2 Oct 2009-10 Jan 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.
Black and White – work in a variety of media by Eden Valley Artists
Date: Opens 19 March 2010
Unveiled. Women living under the Taliban, by Sunday Times photographer Harriet Logan.
Date: Opens 2 April
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.
Tigers & Other People
American artist Diana Thater transforms the gallery with video footage of tigers, manipulated through light-saturation & innovative editing techniques to create an immersive installation. The interaction between humans & nature is a recurring motif in Thater’s work, in which she explores man’s impact on the natural world–both as adversary & custodian–whilst exposing the sometimes startling similarities between animal behaviour & our own.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 29 Nov 2009)
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).
Maddi Nicholson: Going Home From Here
The centrepiece of Nicholson’s show is an inflatable model of a condemned terraced house in Barrow-in-Furness, which the artist photographed placed in various recreational & urban settings during a tour of Cumbria, exploring the relationship of the shuttered building with each new environment. Here it inflates & deflates, in a perpetual cycle of demolition & regeneration.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 6 Dec 2009)
Ulster Museum
www.ulstermuseum.org.uk
Address: Stranmillis Rd, Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB
Telephone: 028 9038 3000
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 1-5, Sun 2-5
Constantinople, or the Sensual Concealed: The Imagery of Sean Scully
The first exhibition after the Museum’s major refurbishment is this large retrospective dedicated to the work of Ireland’s most internationally celebrated artist. With more than 60 works on view, it charts Sean Scully’s career from his early grid paintings of the 1970s to his most recent work, & includes variations on the sensuously-painted Wall of Light series shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006.
Price: Admission free. Date: (23 Oct 2009-14 Feb 2010)
University Gallery
www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery
Address: Northumbria University, Sandyford Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
Telephone: 0191 227 4424
Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs 10-5; Fri, Sat 10-4; closed 14-17 Apr, & 1 & 29 May
Norman Cornish at Ninety
A former miner himself, Cornish represents in his paintings the people from around his native Spennymoor alongside the vanished collieries, chapels & pubs that used to make up the landscape of this area of County Durham.
Price: Admission free. Date: (30 Oct-24 Dec 2009)
V&A Museum of Childhood
www.vam.ac.uk/moc
Address: Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9PA
Telephone: 020 8983 5200
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5.45
Wonderland
Contemporary artwork by East London Printmakers portraying fairy tales, myths & legends from around the world. It includes work inspired by well-known European tales, such as Hansel & Gretel & The Ugly Duckling, as well as folklore from other continents. Visitors can create their own interpretations of fairy tales, & add to a mural of enchanted creatures in accompanying workshops.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 Jan 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.
Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts
The image of a turbaned, bejewelled ruler with absolute authority & immense wealth is pervasive, but fails to do justice to the maharaja’s role in the cultural & political history of India. Using more than 250 magnificent objects, from the beginning of the 18th to the mid-20th centuries, the exhibition examines the changing role of the maharajas within a social & historical context, & reveals how their patronage of the arts, both in India & Europe, resulted in beautiful objects symbolic of royal status, power & identity.
Price: Admission £11, seniors £9, students & children £6. Booking on 0844 2091770 or via website Date: (10 Oct 2009-17 Jan 2010)
Wallace Collection, The
www.wallacecollection.org
Address: Hertford House, Manchester Sq, London W1U 3BN
Telephone: 020 7935 0687
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5; closed 24-26 Dec.
Damien Hirst: The Blue Paintings
In the upper galleries, Hirst’s 25 new paintings bear witness to a bold new direction in his work. A floating skull & other memento mori echo the intimations of mortality found in some of the Old Master paintings in the permanent collection.
Price: Admission free. Date: (14 Oct 2009-24 Jan 2010)
Whitechapel Art Gallery
www.whitechapel.org
Address: Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Telephone: 020 7522 7888
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 11-6 (Thurs until 9)
The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga–The Nature of the Beast
In a site-specific artwork, Macuga has created within the Gallery a venue for public gatherings, dominated by a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica. In this, she refers to a key moment in the Gallery’s history, as Picasso’s original anti-war painting was presented at the Whitechapel in 1939. Nelson Rockefeller later commissioned a full-sized tapestry version of it, which is now on loan to the United Nations headquarters in New York where it serves as a visual deterrent to war.
Price: Admission to gallery free. Date: (until 18 Apr 2010)
Whitworth Art Gallery
www.whitworth.man.ac.uk
Address: University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6ER
Telephone: 0161 275 7450
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5
The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock
This British Museum touring exhibition presents a collection of American prints from the first half of the 20th century–an era of great change that produced some of the most original & defining images of modern American life. They include socially-conscious material from the Great Depression, & examples of new techniques of the time such as screenprinting, with examples by 60 artists–including Hopper, Pollock, Bellows, Bourgeois & Calder.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 13 Dec 2009)
William Morris Gallery
www.walthamforest.gov.uk
Address: Lloyd Park, Forest Rd, Walthamstow, London E17 4PP
Telephone: 020 8527 3782
Opening Hours: Wed-Sun 10-5. Closed 22 Dec-1 Jan
Experiments In Colour: Thomas Wardle, William Morris & the Textiles of India
An exploration of the remarkable collaboration between the Victorian textile entrepreneur Thomas Wardle (1831-1909) & the designer William Morris. Their shared passion for reviving natural-dye techniques led them to create colours far superior to the chemical dyes commonly used in 19th-century Britain.
Price: Admission free. Date: (10 Oct 2009-24 Jan 2010)
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk
Address: Foregate St, Worcester WR1 1DT
Telephone: 01905 25371
Opening Hours: Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30.
Lost Buildings of Worcester
Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art, photographs & documents, this exhibition takes a look at local buildings that have long vanished, such as Worcester’s castle, its Iron Age roundhouses & its the newly-discovered Roman foundations.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 31 Oct 2009)
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