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DECEMBER 2011 &
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CONTENTS
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The Contemporary Art Society commission to collect 2011 Award
Christo's Over The River – Preparatory Works Donated to Washington's National Gallery
The Wall: Village Underground's New Crowd-Funded Gallery
Canada's Paul Kane: Rare Early Sketch Acquired by the ROM
Crowd-Funding Secures Richard Long's Wood Circle for Eindhoven
Unsung Heroes: Light and Sound on Salford Quays
The Lewis Chessman at the Cloisters in New York
Depth Charge on Portsmouth's Gunwharf Quays & Nelson Bust Restored
The Radev Collection at Pallant House
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle on passage from Trafalgar Square to Greenwich
Travelling in Ladakh with Mollie Molesworth
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Opened in November
Ivory – Material of Desire. Francesca Galloway, London. 3 November – 9 December.
The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery (1774 – 1852). An English Artist in India and China. Asia House, London. 4 November 2011 – 21 January 2012.
Alice in Wonderland. Tate Liverpool. 4 November 2011 – 29 January 2012.
The Hermitage in the Prado. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. 8 November 2011 – 25 March 2012.
*Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. The National Gallery, London. 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012.
Susie MacMurray. Agnew's Gallery, London. 9 November – 2 December.
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011. National Portrait Gallery, London. 10 November 2011 – 12 February 2012.
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination. British Library, London. 11 November 2011 – 13 March 2012.
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany. Saatchi Gallery, London. 18 November 2011 – 30 April 2012.
Donald Judd: Furniture. Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels. 19 November 2011 – 10 March 2012.
Aspects of Post-War British Art. Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London. 23 November – 16 December.
Ghetto Biennale. Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. 28 November – 18 December.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Closed for more than two years for major refurbishment. Re-opens 30 November.
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Closing in December or January
December
11th Biennale de Lyon. Lyon, France. 15 September – 31 December.
*Degas and The Ballet: Picturing Movement. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 17 September – 11 December
Bridget Riley colour, stripes, planes and curves. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. 24 September – 31 December.
Rashid Rana: Everything Is Happening At Once. Cornerhouse, Manchester. 1 October – 18 December.
Arabic Calligraphy. The Art of The Written Word. Lahd Gallery, London. 21 October – 14 December.
Matisse and the Model. Ekyn Maclean, New York. 28 October – 10 December.
January
Domenichino's Adoration of the Shepherds. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Until 8 January 2012.
Joan Manning Saunders: A Forgotten Prodigy. Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance. Until 14 January 2012.
Power of Making, contemporary crafted objects. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 6 September 2011 – 2 January 2012.
The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 7 September 2011 – 2 January 2012.
Money and Beauty. Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. 17 September 2011 – 22 January 2012.
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 18 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
John Martin. Tate Britain, London. 21 September 2010 – 15 January 2012.
Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970 – 1990. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 24 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Barry Flanagan. Tate Britain, London. 27 September 2011 – 2 January 2012.
“Wonders of the Age”: Master Painters of India, 1100 – 1900. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 28 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
*Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 19 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 5 October 2011 – 15 January 2012.
Gerhard Richter: Panorama. Tate Modern, London. 6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. British Museum, London. 6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
The Indiscipline of Painting. Tate St Ives. 8 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Wilhelm Sasnal. Whitechapel Gallery, London. 14 October 2011 – 1 January 2012.
Private Eye: the first 50 years. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 18 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. National Portrait Gallery, London. 20 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
The Turner Prize. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. 21 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Yves Dana. Robert Bowman, London. 28 October 2011 – 31 January 2012.
Building The Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915 – 1935. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 29 October 2011- 22 January 2012.
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Opening in December or January
December
Art Rocks: Contemporary Jewellery. Shizaru, London. 1 December 2011 – 14 January 2012.
United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 1 December 2011 – 11 March 2012.
Beatriz Milhazes: Screenprints 1996 – 2011. Windsor Gallery, Florida, USA. 3 December 2011 – 29 February 2012.
The Mystery of Appearance. British Painting 1955 – 1985. Haunch of Venison, London. 7 December 2011 – 18 February 2012.
Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space. Serpentine Gallery, London. 7 December 2011 – 19 February 2012.
Perceptions by Patrick Lichfield. Chris Beetles, London. 7 December 2011 – 7 January 2012.
Judaism: A World of Stories. Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. 17 December 2011 – 15 April 2012.
Before the Law: Post-War Sculpture and Spaces of Contemporary Art. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. 17 December 2011 – 22 April 2012.
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinet Maker in New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 20 December 2011 – 6 May 2012.
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 21 December 2011 – 18 March 2012.
January
Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest. Plus Turner's Rome from Monte Mario. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 1 – 31 January
W. Barns-Graham: A Scottish Artist in St Ives. The Fleming Collection, London. 10 January – 5 April.
Exorcising the Fear. British Sculpture from the 50s & 60s. Pangolin London. 11 January – 3 March.
Simon Fujiwara. Tate St Ives. 12 January – 7 May.
Turner and his Contemporaries. Abbot Hall, Art Gallery, Kendal. 12 January – 14 April.
Form and Matter: Alberto Burri. Estorick Collection, London. 13 January – 8 April.
Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. 13 January – 11 February.
Hamish Fulton: Walk. Turner Contemporary, Margate. 17 January – 7 May.
Zarina Bhimji. Whitechapel Gallery, London. 19 January – 9 March.
Backyard Oasis. Palm Springs Art Museum, California. 21 January – 27 May.
Master Drawings New York. New York. 21 – 28 January.
*David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 21 January – 9 April.
Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 25 January – 27 May.
Hajj:
Journey to the heart of Islam. British Museum, London. 26
January – 13 April 2012.
Migrations.
Tate Britain, London. 31
January – 12 August 2012.
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Open
through December & January
The Blk Art Group. Museums Sheffield, Graves Gallery. 27 August 2011 – 4 February 2012.
Miracles and Charms. Wellcome Collection, London. 6 October 2011 – 26 February 2012.
OMA/Progress. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 6 October 2011 – 19 February 2012.
*Edward Burra. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 22 October 2011 – 19 February 2012.
Lost in Lace. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. 29 October 2011 – 19 February 2012.
The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean FILM. The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. 11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012.
The Scottish Colourist Series: F. C. B. Cadell. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. 22 October 2011 – 18 March 2012.
Dinner for a Duke. The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. 21 April 2010 - March 2012.
Rubens, Van Dyck & Jordaens. Hermitage, Amsterdam. 17 September 2011 – 16 March 2012.
The Art Books of Henri Matisse. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 21 October 2011 – 15 April 2012.
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Opening in February
Santiago Sierra: Dedicated to the Workers and the Unemployed. Lisson Gallery, London. 1 February – 3 March.
Anthony Gilbert. Messum's, London. 1 – 18 February.
The Family in British Art: 16th Century to Now. Museums Sheffield. 2 February – 29 April.
There is a land called loss: Annie Morris. Pertwee Anderson and Gold, London. 3 February – 1 March.
Voyages of Discovery: De Morgans and the Sea. De Morgan Centre, London. 3 February – 25 August.
The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years. The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle. 4 February – 28 October.
Cy Twombly: Works from the Sonnabend Collection. Eykyn Maclean, London. 7 February – 17 March.
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 8 February – 22 April 2012.
Yayoi Kusama. Tate Modern, London. 9 February – 5 June.
Lucian Freud Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London. 9 February – 27 May.
David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers. Robilant+Voena, London. 14 February – 24 March.
Picasso and Modern British Art. Tate Britain, London. 15 February – 15 July.
Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 15 February – 27 May.
Mondrian ||Nicholson: In Parallel. The Courtauld Gallery, London. 16 February – 20 May.
Italian Beauty: works by Giulio Paolini, Domenicho Bianchi and Giò Ponti. Ronchini Gallery, London. 17 February – 5 April.
Moore at the Moscow Kremlin. Moscow, Russia. 21 February – 9 May.
Jeremy Deller: Joy in People. And from 1 February David Shrigley: Brain Activity. Hayward Gallery, London. 22 February – 13 May.
Charline von Heyl. Tate Liverpool. 24 February – 27 May.
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan. Tate Modern, London. 28 February – 27 May.
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Exhibitions,
openings and events from March
onwards
through 2012 and beyond
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December
Art Basel Miami Beach. 1 – 4 December.
January
The Winter Decorative & Textiles Fair. Battersea Park, London. 24 – 29 January.
February
The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair. Science Museum, London. 2 – 5 February.
20|21 International Art Fair. Royal College of Art, London. 16 – 19 February.
March
TEFAF Maastricht. The Netherlands. 16 – 25 March.
BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair. Duke of York Square, London. 21 – 27 March.
April
Art Brussels. Brussels, Belgium. 19 – 22 April.
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An Evening of Art – in aid of The Prince's Trust. Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions, Bath. 7 December.
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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 Lion and the Unicorn: Symbolic Architecture for the Festival of Britain
By Henrietta Goodden
Unicorn Press
Monsoon
Traders: The Maritime World of the East India Company
By
H. V. Bowen, John McAleer, Robert J. Blyth
Scala Publishers
Marianne
North: A very intrepid painter
By
Michelle Payne
Kew Publishing
Folk
Art From
the American Museum in Britain
By
Laura Beresford
Scala Publishers
Hoppé
Portraits. Society, Studio and Street
By
Phillip Prodger and Terence Pepper
National Portrait Gallery
Eric
Gill: lust for letter & line
By
Ruth Cribb & Joe Cribb
The British Museum Press
Nueva
York 1613 - 1945
Edited
by
Edward J. Sullivan
The New-York Historical Society in association
with Scala Publishers
The Spanish Manner: Drawings from
Ribera to Goya
By
Jonathan Brown, Lisa A. Banner, Andrew Schulz and Reva Wolf
The
Frick Collection, New York in association with Scala Publishers
10,000
Years of Pottery
By
Emmanuel Cooper
The British Museum Press
Lambeth
Palace Library. Treasures from the Collection of the Archbishops of
Canterbury
Edited
by Richard Palmer and Michelle P. Brown
Scala Publishers
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life
By
Mark Haworth Booth
National Portrait Gallery
Magnificent
Maps: Power,
Propaganda and Art
By
Peter Barber and Tom Harper.
The British Library
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