Carlo Mollino. Sebastian+Barquet, London. 7 May - 27 June.
Kettle's Yard at Tate Britain. London. 9 May - 14 June.
The Definitive Thelwell. Chris Beetles, London. 13 May - 6 June.
David Nash: Black Dome. Blackwell, Cumbria. 11 May - October.
Diamuid Kelley. Offer Waterman & Co, London. 15 May - 2 June.
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 20 May - 16 August.
Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 17 May - 23 August.
Diane Arbus. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. 20 May - 27 June.
*French Porcelain for English Palaces: Sevres from the Royal Collection. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 23 May - 11 October.
Joaquin Sorolla 1863 - 1923. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 26 May - 6 September.
Michael Tyzack 1933 - 2007. Portland Gallery, London. 27 May - 12 June.
Gardens and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodphur. British Museum, London. 28 May - 23 August.
Creation II. Goldsmiths' Hall, London. 29 May - 11 July.
Free Range 2009. Graduate art and design. The Old Truman Brewery, London. 29 May - 20 July.
Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 31 May - 30 August.
Art in Public Places: PADT. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 31 May - 30 August.

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SOON TO CLOSE

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June

*Constable Portraits: The Painter and His Circle. National Portrait Gallery, London. 5 March - 14 June.
Garry Fabian Miller: Time Passage. Abbot Hall, Kendal. 4 April - 20 June.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861). Royal Academy of Arts, London. 21 March - 7 June.
Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 28 March - 14 June.
Van Gogh and the colours of the night. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 13 February - 7 June.
Shah Abbas and the Remaking of Iran. British Museum, London. 19 February - 14 June.
Picasso: Challenging the Past. National Gallery, London. 25 February - 7 June.
Past Future Perfect. Inaugural exhibition at Calvert 22, London. 17 April - 14 June.
James Lee Byars. Milton Keynes Gallery. 4 April - 21 June.

July

Baroque 1620 - 1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 4 April - 19 July.

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OPENING SOON

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Opening in June or July

June

The Polish Connection. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2 June - 27 September.
African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2 June - 27 September.
Jose Maria Cano: La Tauromaquia. Riflemaker, London. 2 June - 12 September.
Richard Long: Heaven and Earth. Tate Britain, London. 3 June - 6 September.
Steve McQueen at the Venice Biennale. 7 June - 22 November.
Summer Exhibition 2009. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 8 June - 16 August.
British Silver Week. Nationwide festival. 8 - 15 June.
London Sculpture Week. Annual festival. 12 - 19 June.
GHOSTS. The Cello Factory, London. 12 - 25 June.
Futurism. Tate Modern, London. 12 June - 20 September.
Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art. Compton Verney, Warwickshire. 13 June - 6 September.
Fresh Air 09. Quenington, near Cirencester, Glos. 14 June - 5 July.
Per Kirkeby. Tate Modern, London. 17 June - 6 September.
Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913 - 1919. The Courtauld Gallery, London. 18 June - 20 September.
BP Portrait Award 2009. National Portrait Gallery, London. 18 June - 14 September.
Radical Nature. Art & architecture for a changing planet, 1969 - 2009. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 19 June - 20 September.
At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century. Hermitage Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 20 June 2009 - 31 January 2010.
Judith Leyster (1609 - 1669). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 21 June - 29 November.
Telling Tales: Narrative in Design Art. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 23 June - 18 October.
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 23 June - 20 September.
Walkings in My Mind. Hayward, London. 23 June - 9 September.
Bill Brandt. Chris Beetles, London. 24 June - 18 July.
Show me a Hero. Calvert 22, London. 26 June - 2 August.
Dead Sea Scrolls. Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. 27 June 2009 - 3 January 2010.
Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle. Compton Verney, Warwickshire. 27 June - 6 September.
J. W. Waterhouse RA: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 27 June - 13 September.
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 28 June - 1 November.
The Duveens Commission 2009. Eva Rothschild, Tate Britain, London. 29 June - 29 November.
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Opens 30 June.

July

Freemasonry and The French Revolution. Freemasons' Hall, London. 1 July - 18 December.
Gay Icons. National Portrait Gallery, London. 2 July - 18 October.
Master Paintings Week. Exhibitions and auctions, London. 4 - 10 July.
Master Drawings London. Exhibitions. 4 - 10 July.
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876 - 1853): Artist and Patron. Fleming Collection, London. 7 July - 5 September.
Utagawa Hiroshige. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 8 July - 27 September.
Best of British: The Story of the Collection. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 8 July - 27 September.
Corot to Monet. National Gallery, London. 8 July - 20 September.
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton. Whitechapel Gallery, London. 9 July - 20 September.
Tell it to the Trees. Croft Castle, Herefordshire. 11 July 2009 - 15 September 2010.
Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 14 July - 18 October.
Art in Action. Waterperry House, near Oxford. 16 - 19 July.
The Discovery of Spain. British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 18 July - 11 October.
*Queen & Commonwealth: The Royal Tour. Buckingham Palace, London SW1. 26 July - 30 September.

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CONTINUING

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Open through June & July

Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. 13 March - 30 August.
Passage to India Part II. Initial Access, Wolverhampton. 17 March - 1 August.
The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life. The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. 27 March - 20 September.
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch. British Library, London. 23 April - 6 September.
Give me Shelter. Attingham Park, Shropshire. Until 27 September.
*Henry Moore Textiles. Perry Green, Hertfordshire. 1 April - 18 October.
Henry VIII: A 500th Anniversary Exhibition. Windsor Castle, Berkshire. 8 April 2009 - 18 April 2010.
Sir Percival David Collection in Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies. British Museum, London. Opens April.

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ON THE HORIZON

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Opening in August

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OVER THE HORIZON

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Exhibitions, openings and events from September onwards
through 2009 and beyond

PRINCIPAL FAIRS

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SELECT AUCTIONS

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TRAVELLERS' JOYS

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Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Musee National du Moyen Age, Paris
Luxor Museum, Egypt
Blackwell, Cumbria
Alnwick Garden and Castle, Northumberland
The Foundling Museum, London
Shanghai Museum, China
Hong Kong, China: Museum of Art
& Museum of History
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida

NOTABLE BOOKS

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William Orpen: An Onlooker in France. A critical edition of the artist's war memoirs
By Robert Upstone and Angela Weight
Paul Holberton Publishing

Sir John Soane's Museum, London
By Tim Knox. Photography by Derry Moore
Merrell

Constable Portraits: The Painter & His Circle
By Martin Gayford and Anne Lyles
National Portrait Gallery

Love and Marriage
By Jennifer Ramkalawon
The British Museum Press

Masters & Pupils. The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet
1480 - 1880
By Gert-Rudolf Flick
Hogarth Arts with Paul Holberton Publishing

Chairman Mao Badges. Symbols and Slogans of the
Cultural Revolution
By Helen Wang
The British Museum Press

EXPO International Expositions 1851 - 2010
By Anna Jackson
V&A Publishing

The Language of the Nude. Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
By William Breazeale, Susan Anderson, Christine Giviskos, Christiane Andersson
Lund Humphries

Rajput Painting. Romantic, Divine and Courtly Art from India
By Roda Ahluwalia
The British Museum Press

Dolls' Houses.
By Halina Pasierbska
V&A Publishing

The British Library: A Treasure House of Knowledge
By Philip Howard
Scala Publishers

Indian Jewellery
By Nick Barnard. Photography by Ian Thomas
V&A Publishing

Boucher & Chardin. Masters of Modern Manners
Edited by Anne Dulac. With contributions by Christoph Martin Vogtherr and Ann Eatwell
Paul Holberton publishing

Life in the Country
Quotations by Jane Austen. Silhouettes by James Edward Austen-Leigh
The British Library

Jewels & Jewellery
By Clare Phillips. Photography by Ian Thomas
V&A Publishing

Treasures of the English Church: A Thousand Years of Sacred Gold and Silver
Edited by Timothy Schroder
Paul Holberton Publishing

Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings
By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz
National Portrait Gallery

Poussin. Paintings. A Catalogue Raisonne.
By Christopher Wright
Chaucer Press

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