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
Into the light: French & British painting from Impressionism to the early 1920s
A survey of paintings from both sides of the Channel made during this decisive period in the history of European art reveals connections & allows comparison of the artists' work. It comprises 54 paintings & drawings from major UK galleries, including works by Vanessa Bell, Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Walter Sickert, Alfred Sisley, Alexander Stanhope Forbes & Philip Wilson Steer.
Price: Admission £11, seniors & students £8.80, children £2; family (2+4) £22. Date: (31 Mar-10 June 2012)

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.
Mondrian/Nicholson: In parallel
The story of the creative relationship between Piet Mondrian & Ben Nicholson is told through a group of paintings & reliefs made by the two artists during the 1930s. At Nicholson’s invitation, Mondrian moved to London in 1938; the two occupied neighbouring studios in Hampstead for several years.
Price: Admission £6, concessions £4.50, students & children (& everyone Mon 10-2, except public holidays) free. Date: (16 Feb-20 May 2012)

Dover Museum
www.doverdc.co.uk
Address: Market Sq, Dover, Kent CT16 1PB
Telephone: 01304 201066
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5 (from 1 Apr, also Sun 10-3). Closed 25 & 26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Our Childhood Past
This exhibition looks at the development of childhood through education, work, fashion & play, using room-sets, interactive displays, models, clothes, toys & games.
Price: Admission £3.50, concessions & children £2.25; family (2+2) £10. Date: (until 2 Sept 2012

Gallery of Modern Art
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
Address: Royal Exchange Sq, Glasgow G1 3AH
Telephone: 0141 287 3050
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5 (Thurs until 8; Fri & Sun from 11; 31 Dec until 12.30). Closed 25, 26 Dec & 1, 2 Jan.
Alasdair Gray: City Recorder
A large selection of artworks by Glasgow artist & writer Alasdair Gray. Printed illustrations relate to his most famous novel, Lanark: a Life in Four Books. The main section of the exhibition focuses on Gray’s 1977 City Recorder series, a collection of paintings, drawings & collages that forms a unique portrait of the city at that time.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 10 June 2012)

Jerwood Gallery
www.jerwoodgallery.org
Address: Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN32 3DW
Opening Hours: opening hours to be advised
Gallery opens 17 March with Rose Wylie, the first UK retrospective
The keenly anticipated Jerwood Gallery in Hastings will open its doors to visitors in March 2012. Designed by young architectural practice HAT Projects, the Gallery will house the Foundation’s collection of 20th and 21st century paintings, which will be on public display for the first time. The Gallery is part of a landmark £9million redevelopment of the Stade, a historic area in Hasting’s Old Town, home to Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet. The £4million gallery, for which the capital and running costs will be entirely funded by the Jerwood Foundation, is seen as an important catalyst in the cultural and economic regeneration of the area. The Gallery will provide the permanent home for the Jerwood Collection and a new regional venue for the Jerwood Visual Arts Programme, which comprises some of the most prominent visual arts awards in the UK. It will establish Hastings in the ‘string of pearls’ of prestigious cultural attractions along the South Coast, which includes the Turner Contemporary at Margate, the Folkestone Triennial, the Towner in Eastbourne, De la Warr Pavilion at Bexhill and Pallant House at Chichester.
Price: Prices to be advised Date: 17 March - 1 July 2012

Museum of Cannock Chase
www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk
Address: Valley Rd, Hednesford, Cannock, Staffs WS12 1TD
Telephone: 01543 877666
Opening Hours: Daily 11-5
'Til the Boys Come Home: Postcards from the war camps
During World War I military camps were constructed around the country, including two on Cannock Chase, to train men who had enlisted. Almost like small towns, they had offices, accommodation, roads, railways & training & recreational facilities. Postcards on display feature images of the camps here, & of some of the men who trained at them.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until 16 Dec 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
Dickens & London
This comprehensive exhibition uses sound & projections to recreate the atmosphere of Victorian London, the city that inspired Dickens’ writings. Paintings, photographs, costume & objects illustrate themes he wove into his works; manuscripts in the author’s own hand—including those for Bleak House & David Copperfield—offer clues to his creative genius. The great social questions of the 19th century, including poverty, prostitution, childhood mortality & philanthropy, will also be examined, & a specially-commissioned film explores similarities between London after dark today & the night-time city of 150 years ago.
Price: Admission £8 (£7 for advance booking), concessions & children £6 (£5); various family tickets available. Date: (9 Dec 2011-10 June 2012)

National Army Museum
www.national-army-museum.ac.uk
Address: Royal Hospital Rd, London SW3 4HT
Telephone: 020 7730 0717
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5.30. Closed 24-26 Dec & 1 Jan
War Horse: Fact & Fiction
A large exhibition inspired by Michael Morpurgo’s popular War Horse novel recounts real-life stories of some of the millions of horses & mules drafted into World War I, & of the men who depended on them. It is illustrated by equipment from the Museum’s collections alongside items from the National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of the same name that has inspired a Steven Spielberg film opening in January.
Price: Admission free. Date: (until Aug 2012)

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.
Turner Inspired: In the light of Claude
Of all the Old Masters, Turner admired Claude the most, enthusing about the quality of light in Claude’s Italian landscapes. Turner bequeathed the National Gallery two paintings—Dido building Carthage, & Sun rising through Vapour—on condition that the works were hung between two named pictures by Claude. This exhibition brings together these four, & other closely related works by Turner & Claude. Sainsbury Wing.
Price: Admission charge to be arranged. Date: (14 Mar-5 June 2012)

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.
Lucian Freud Portraits
More than 100 paintings & works on paper make up this major exhibition that features Freud’s most important portraits from the 1940s to one he was painting shortly before his death in 2011. On view are representations of lovers, friends & family—described by the artist as “people in my life”. Subjects include Freud’s mother, Lucie, & fellow-artists such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews & David Hockney, & performance artist Leigh Bowery.
Price: Admission £14, concessions £13, children over 12 £12. Date: (9 Feb-27 May 2012)

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.
Scott’s Last Expedition
Although Robert Falcon Scott & four of his comrades perished in 1912 during their attempt on the South Pole, other expedition members brought home his ship, Terra Nova, with her cargo of zoological & geological specimens. The exhibition includes some of these, plus artefacts used by the team, & a life-size representation of Scott’s base-camp hut.
Price: Admission £9, concessions & children £5.50; family (2+2) £26. Date: (20 Jan-2 Sept 2012)

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
The Sculpture Show
Works from the collection are shown alongside several loan items to provide an overview of the range of sculpture from 1900 to now. The exhibition includes photography, film & documentary material relating to sculpture & its legacies. Ron Mueck’s monumental work A Girl (2006) forms the centrepiece of the show, which also features Impressionist sculpture by Rodin & Degas; early 20th-century British sculpture by Hepworth & Moore; Surrealist works by Giacometti & Duchamp; & post-war sculpture by Paolozzi & Turnbull.
Price: Admission free. Date: (17 Dec 2011-24 June 2012)

Scottish National Portrait Gallery
www.natgalscot.ac.uk
Address: 1 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JD
Telephone: 0131 624 6200
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5 (Thurs until 7)
Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography & the Modern World
This first exhibition within the new Photography Gallery explores the highly-charged relationship between romanticism & photography in Scotland, suggesting that—rather than vanishing during the 1840s—the romantic impulse has been vital to the development of the medium. Inspired by nostalgic longing, 19th-century photographers hunted out traces of Scotland’s turbulent history or ranged across the landscape in search of poetic subjects.
Price: Admission free. Date: (1 Dec 2011-3 June 2012)

Tate Britain
www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Address: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Telephone: 020 7887 8008
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5.50 (first Fri of month until 10); closed 24-26 Dec.
Picasso & Modern British Art
A major show examining Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here, & British artists’ responses to his work. Comprising more than 150 works from public & private collections, the exhibition charts Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy & celebrity. It also examines Picasso’s enormous impact on 20th-century British modernism, through seven figures for whom the artist proved an important stimulus: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland & David Hockney.
Price: Admission £15.50, concessions & children over 12 £13.50. Date: (15 Feb-15 July 2012)

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.
Dutch Galleries
Each of the three newly-refurbished galleries devoted to Dutch masterpieces has a clearly-defined individual theme. The East Gallery I presents works by Rembrandt & his workshop, & early contemporaries; the following two galleries show genre & landscape painting of the Dutch golden age, & work by Dutch artists in Italy.
Price: Admission free. Date: (reopening early Apr 2012)

West Wycombe Park
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Address: West Wycombe, Bucks HP14 3AJ
Telephone: 01494 755571
Opening Hours: Sun-Thurs 2-6.
Windsors at Wycombe
A collection of 35 of the finest examples of the Windsor chair are displayed at a stately home near High Wycombe, the town where these ubiquitous pieces of furniture were traditionally made from as early as 1720. By the 19th century Windsor chairs were being turned out at the rate of 4,500 per day.
Price: Admission to house £8 (National Trust members free), children £4; family (2+2) £20. Date: (6-31 May 2012)

York Art Gallery
www.yorkartgallery.org.uk
Address: Exhibition Sq, York YO1 7EW
Telephone: 01904 687687
Opening Hours: Daily 10-5; open 24 & 31 Dec 10-2, closed 25-26 Dec & 1 Jan.
Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape
More than 100 works by this sculptural potter—now approaching his 80th birthday—who has been influential in moving ceramics away from traditional functional pots towards sculptural forms. Pieces from the 1980s onwards are displayed thematically alongside Baldwin’s related drawings, collages & photographs.
Price: Admission free. Date: (11 Feb-10 June 2012)