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APRIL &
MAY 2013+++++
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CONTENTS
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In
Praise of Unicorns
New 'Lifetime Giving' Cultural Incentive for the UK
Stolen Hepworth to be Replaced by Newly Commissioned Sculpture
Artist Apprenticeships Revived: James Gillick
Hello Lamp Post! Wins Playable City Award 2013
Two Temple Place, a late 19th century London Palace
The Turner Prize Travels to Glasgow in 2015
BiennaleOnline 2013 – ART+
Threatened with Export: 18th century Jewish Silk Hangings
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Opened in March
Richard T. Walker: in defiance of being here. Carroll/Fletcher, London. 1 March – 13 April.
Simon Gudgeon: Transitions. Halcyon Gallery, London. 1 March – 5 April.
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: FABRIC-ATION. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. 2 March – 1 September.
Callum Innes, Beryl Korot, plus, Richard Long & Nancy Holt. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. 2 March – 16 June.
Craigie Aitchison: A Private Collection. Waddington Custot Galleries, London. 6 March – 6 April.
George Catlin: American Indian Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London. 7 March – 23 June 2013.
Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East. The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh. 8 March – 21 July 2013.
*Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 9 March – 14 July 2013.
Peter the Great, an Inspired Tsar. Hermitage, Amsterdam. 9 March – 13 September.
Growing Talent. Goldsmiths' Hall, London. 11 March – 13 April.
Tate Britain Commission 2013: Simon Starling. Tate Britain, London. 12 March – 20 October.
El Labrador. Still Lifes. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 12 March – 16 June.
Asli Erel: Letters and Art of War. Lahd Gallery, London. 14 March – 8 May.
Sadik Alfraji: I Do Not Feel That I Am Free. Ayyam Gallery, London. 14 March – 27 April.
Culture:City. Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 15 March – 26 May.
*George Bellows (1882 – 1925): Modern American Life. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 16 March – 9 June.
Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age. Forbes Galleries, New York. 16 March – 7 September.
Jonathan Kenworthy: Six Decades of Sculpture. Pangolin London. 20 March – 20 April.
*Designs of the Year 2013. Design Museum, London. 20 March – 7 July.
David Bowie is Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 23 March – 28 July 2013.
Gangsters & Gunslingers: The Good, the Bad & the Memorabilia.The American Museum in Britain, Bath. 23 March – 3 November.
The Springtime of the Renaissance. Sculpture and the Arts in Florence, 1400 – 1460. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy. 23 March – 18 August.
Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 24 March – 9 June.
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. 26 March – 16 June.
Fiona Tan, Inventory. MAXXI, Rome. 27 March – 8 September.
*Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. British Museum, London. 28 March – 29 September.
Lynn Chadwick: Evolution in Sculpture. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, and, Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, Cumbria. 28 March – 15 June.
Outsider Art from Japan. Wellcome Collection, London. 28 March – 30 June.
Moore Rodin. The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire. 29 March – 27 October.
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Closing April or May
April
James Capper. Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 5 January – 14 April.
Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry. Estorick Collection, London. 16 January – 7 April.
*Manet: Portraying Life. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 26 January – 14 April.
The Lost Paintings of Evelyn De Morgan. The De Morgan Centre, London. 1 February – 20 April.
Version Control. Arnolfini, Bristol. 2 February – 14 April.
*Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch. National Gallery, London. 6 February – 28 April.
Land and Landscape: The Painting of James Morrison. The Fleming Collection, London. 19 February – 6 April.
Elisabeth Frink: A Retrospective. The Lightbox, Woking. 19 February – 21 April.
Modern British Childhood 1948 – 2012. V&A Museum of Childhood, London. 13 October 2012 – 14 April 2013.
David Nash at Kew. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 13 October 2012 – 14 April 2013.
Theatre of the World. MONA, Hobart, Tasmania. 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013.
The American Indian: Art and Culture between Myth and Reality. De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. 14 December 2012 – 14 April 2013.
*Light from the Middle East: New Photography. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 13 November 2012 – 7 April 2013.
*The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 2 November 2012 – 14 April 2013.
May
Schwitters in Britain. Tate Britain, London. 30 January – 12 May.
We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933 – 1956 by Chim. International Center of Photography, New York. 18 January – 5 May.
New Glass – Ancient Skill, Contemporary Artform. Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere. 31 January – 12 May.
Murillo at the Wallace Collection: Painting of the Spanish Golden Age. The Wallace Collection, London. 6 February – 12 May.
Turner Contemporary: Spring Exhibitions. Carl Andre; Rosa Barba; Turner's Perspective. Margate. 1 February – 6 May.
*Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 6 February – 19 May.
Man Ray Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London. 7 February – 27 May.
Glam: The Performance of Style. Tate Liverpool. 8 February – 12 May.
Sylvia Sleigh. Tate Liverpool. 8 February – 3 May.
Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901. The Courtauld Gallery, London. 14 February – 26 May.
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848 – 1900. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 17 February – 19 May.
Lichtenstein: A Retrospective. Tate Modern, London. 21 February – 27 May.
*Barocci: Brilliance and Grace. National Gallery, London. 27 February – 19 May.
“Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia” Saatchi Gallery, London. 21 November 2012 – 5 May 2013.
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Opening in April or May
April+
Photography and the American Civil War. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2 April – 2 September.
Couriers of Taste. Danson House, Bexley Heath, Kent. 1 April – 31 October.
Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bard Graduate Center, New York. 4 April – 11 August.
Nuri Kuzucan: 'ISTHK|HKIST'. Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong. 5 April – 18 May.
Paul Nash: The Clare Neilson Gift. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 9 April – 30 June.
Messenger of the Spirit: Helaine Blumenfeld. Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. 13 April – 8 September.
Karl Blossfeldt. Whitechapel Gallery, London. 16 April – 14 June.
Finding the Unicorn – Tapestries Mythical and Modern. Fleming Collection, London. 17 April – 13 June.
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013. The Photographers' Gallery, London. 19 April – 30 June.
The Hungry Eye: Stephen Rose. Mark Mitchell, London. 22 April – 3 May.
Birth of a Museum. Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi. 22 April – 20 July.
David Rickard: Art + Architecture + Science. Summaria Lunn Gallery, London. 25 April – 31 May.
Recognising Dorothy Mead: David Bomberg, the Slade and After. Borough Road Gallery, London. 26 April – 27 July.
New Order: British Art Today. Saatchi Gallery, London. From 26 April.
William Scott: Divided Figure. Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. 27 April – 10 July.
May++++
Mesrop of Xizan: An Armenian Master of the Seventeenth Century. Sam Fogg, London. 1 – 10 May.
Ellen Gallagher: AxME. Tate Modern, London. 1 May – 1 September.
Gold: Status and Glory. Masterpieces from the Middle Ages and Today. Adrian Sassoon and Moretti Fine Art, London. 2 – 31 May.
Editions: Contemporary Rugs for Collectors. Presented by Christopher Farr. Somerset House, London. 2 May – 30 June.
Streetfest. Shoreditch, London. 5 May.
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 6 May – 12 August.
*In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 10 May – 6 October.
Tipping Point. Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton. 11 May – 6 July.
Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, 1909 – 1929: When Art Danced with Music. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 12 May – 2 September.
Rory McEwen. The Colours of Reality. Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 11 May – 22 September.
Search for the Unicorn: An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters' 75 Anniversary. The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, New York. 15 May – 18 August.
*Estuary. Museum of London Docklands, London. 17 May – 27 October.
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion. British Library, London. 17 May – 17 September.
Rodney Graham. Lisson Gallery, London. 17 May – 29 June.
Tate St Ives: Summer 2013. Eight artists past and present. Tate St Ives, Cornwall. 18 May – 29 September.
Subodh Gupta. What does the river contain, that the river does not. Hauser & Wirth, London. 18 May – 27 July.
Great English Furniture from American Private Collections. Mallett, London. 20 May – 1 June.
Helen Chadwick: Works from the Estate. Richard Saltoun, London. 20 May – 28 June.
Birth of a Collection: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the National Gallery. National Gallery, London. 22 May – 1 September.
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. National Gallery, London. 23 May – 24 November.
Valkyries over Zurich. 150 Years of Wagner Performances in Zurich. Kunsthaus Zürich. 24 May – 18 August.
Bodil Manz: Exploration of Form. Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere. 24 May – 1 September.
Annie Tempest: Cartoons and Sculptures. Open Studios, Stibbard, Norfolk. 25/26/27 May; 1/2 June; 8/9 June.
Galleria Vezzoli. MAXXI, Rome. 29 May – 24 November.
ULTRA VANITIES: Bejewelled Make-Up Boxes from the Age of Glamour. Goldsmiths' Hall, London. 31 May – 20 July.
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Open
through April &
May+
Derry-Londonderry. The United Kingdom's first 'City of Culture.'
*Looking at the View. Tate Britain, London. 12 February – 2 June.
The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 14 February – 9 June.
Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 16 February – 2 June.
R. B. Kitaj: Obsessions. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 23 February – 16 June.
The Scottish Colourist Series: S. J. Peploe. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. 3 November 2012 – 23 June 2013.
The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch. The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle. 23 November 2012 – 9 June 2013.
Force of Nature: Picturing Ruskin's Landscape. Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. 15 December 2012 – 23 June 2013.
The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone. Whitechapel Gallery, London. 5 September 2012 – September 2013.
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. 15 December 2012 – 8 September 2013.
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Opening in June++
Venice Biennale 2013. Venice, Italy. 1 June – 24 November.
A Midsummer's Day, Sunrise to Sunset in a Georgian Home. W.R. Harvey, Witney. 1 – 31 June.
The Nature of Women: Six female abstract artists. The Mayor Gallery, London. 5 June – 26 July.
Patrick Caulfield and Gary Hume. Tate Britain, London. 5 June – 1 September.
Balraj Khanna: A Journey of His Own. Online exhibition. 6 – 16 June.
D*FACE/New World Disorder. Old Truman Brewery, London. 7 – 23 June.
Chagall: Modern Master and Moyra Davey: Hangmen of England. Tate Liverpool. 9 June – 6 October.
Serpentine Gallery Pavalion 2013: Sou Fujimoto. Serpentine Gallery, London. 8 June – 20 October.
Summer Exhibition 2013. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 10 June - 18 August.
Eileen Hogan at Little Sparta. Fleming Collection, London. 11 June – 17 August.
Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: A Crisis of Brilliance, 1908 – 1922. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 12 June – 22 September.
Fresh Air 2013. Outdoor Sculpture. Quenington Old Rectory, Cirencester. 16 June – 7 July.
Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 18 June – 20 October.
The Age of Elegance. Furniture and paintings. Mallett & Colnaghi, London. 18 June – 20 July.
Hey Charlie: new work by Harry Cory Wright. Eleven Fine Art, London. 19 June – 14 September.
In Reverse: Ron Arad. Design Museum, Holon, Israel. 19 June – 19 October.
Les
Lalanne. Ben Brown Fine Arts,
London. 20 June – 21 September.
The Discovery of
Paris: Watercolours by Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists. The
Wallace Collection, London. 20 June – 15
September.
Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 20s.
The Courtauld Gallery, London.
20 June – 8 September.
BP Portrait Award 2013. National Portrait Gallery, London. 20 June – 15 September.
Piers Secunda – A Retrospective. Updown Gallery, Ramsgate. 21 June – 27 July.
Donald Judd. David Zwirner, London. 21 June – 3 August.
Mespotamia.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
22 June 2013 – 5 January 2014.
Lowry and the Painting of
Modern Life. Tate Britain,
London. 25 June – 20 October.
Vermeer
and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure. National
Gallery, London. 26 June – 8 September.
Point of
Departure. Britain and
Palestine. Institute of
Contemporary Arts, London. 26 June – 21 July.
Ugo Rondinone – thank you silence. M – Museum Leuven, Belgium 27 June – 6 October.
London Art Week. New joint venture uniting Master Paintings Week, and, Master Drawings and Sculpture Week. 28 June – 5 July.
Breadth and Quality: Oil Studies, Watercolours and Drawings by James Ward RA. Lowell Libson, London. 28 June – 12 July.
Exultant Strangeness: Graham Sutherland Landscapes. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. 29 June – 15 September.
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Exhibitions,
openings and events in July
2013
or later+
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April 2013
Ceramic Art London. Royal College of Art, London. 12 – 14 April.
Art Brussels 2013. Brussels, Belgium. 18 – 21 April.
LARTA, antique rugs and textiles. London. 18 – 21 April.
The Spring Decorative Antiques & Textile Fair. London. 23 – 28 April.
The London Original Print Fair. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 25 – 28 April.
May 2013
20|21 International Art Fair. Royal College of Art, London. 9 – 12 May.
COLLECT
2013. Saatchi
Gallery, London. 10- 13
May.
Art Basel Hong Kong. Hong
Kong. 23 – 26 May.
June 2013+
Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair. Olympia, London. 6 – 16 June.
Art Antiques London. Kensington Gardens, London. 13 – 19 June.
Art Basel. Basel, Switzerland. 13 – 16 June.
Masterpiece London. Royal Hospital, Chelsea. 27 June – 3 July.
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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
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The
Queen's House Greenwich
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GOLD:
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Master
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The British Museum Press
Modern
Chinese Ink Paintings
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Clarissa von Spee
The British Museum Press
Anglo-Saxon
Art
By Leslie Webster
The
British Museum Press
On
the Button: The
Significance of an Ordinary Item
By
Nina Edwards
I. B. Tauris
London:
1000 Years. Treasures from the Collections of the City of
London
Edited
by David Pearson
Scala Publishers
London
Underground Maps. Art, Design and Cartography
By
Claire Dobbin
Lund Humphries
Joseph
Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer
By
Pat Griggs with an introduction by Jim Endersby
Kew Publishing
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