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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010
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CONTENTS
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EDX,
IRR, XRF and the Return of Connoisseurship
Leonardo
da Vinci
Indian
History in the Making – Kalwant Roy's News Photography
and
a New Cultural Agreement between India and the UK
Charles Saatchi, Jeremy Hunt, Stonehenge and UK Cultural 'Cuts'
Saved
for the Nation – in a Variety of Ways:
Degas
Bronze
Dutch Flower Painting
Italian Baroque Masterpiece
Nelson's Victory in Trafalgar Square
Masterpiece London - Already a Masterpiece
'Trust New Art' An Exemplary Initiative
Chinese Painting and Ringo Starr's Gold Drum
Caring for Your Collection(s)
Threatened
with Export: £14.5 million's worth of National Treasures:
Madonna
and Child by Murillo
16th
century Stoneware Tankard
Tipu Sultan Tiger's Head
Finial
Burges Zodiac Settle
Pierino da Vinci Bronze Relief
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Opened in July
10th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: Jean Nouvel. Serpentine Gallery, London. 5 July – 20 October.
Sargent and The Sea. The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 10 July – 26 September.
Roman to English: The Migration of Forms in Early Northumberland. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 10 July – 10 October.
*Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy. National Gallery, London. 14 July – 17 October.
*Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910. National Portrait Gallery, London. 15 July – 24 October.
The Loneliness of Lowry. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria. 17 July – 30 October.
The Long Dark. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. 17 July – 19 September.
*The Queen's Year. State Rooms, Buckingham Palace, London. 27 July – 1 October.
Mona Hatoum. Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 31 July – 5 September.
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Closing in August or September
August
Nina Mankin: Identity and Dress. Livingstone Studio, London. 26 June – 7 August.
Old and New South American Botanical Art. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 8 May – 8 August.
Picasso: Peace and Freedom. Tate Liverpool. 21 May – 30 August.
1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 8 June – 30 August.
The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 9 June - 22 August.
Haris Epaminonda. Site Gallery, Sheffield. 11 June – 21 August.
*Summer Exhibition 2010. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 14 June – 22 August.
Wolfgang Tillmans. Serpentine Gallery, London. 26 June – 29 August.
*Henry Moore. Tate Britain, London. 24 February – 8 August.
*Henry Moore Deluxe: Books, Prints & Portfolios. The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire. 30 March – 30 August.
September
Tatton Park Biennial 2010: Framing Identity. Tatton Park, Cheshire. 8 May – 26 September.
Lily van der Stokker: No Big Deal Thing. and Object: Grid: Gesture. St Ives and the International Avant-garde. Tate St Ives. 15 May – 26 September.
Willem de Pannenemaker. The Mercury Series. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 1 June – 26 September.
Boxing Clever: A Case for the Collector. London Silver Vaults. 1 June – 30 September.
The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri. 5 June – 26 September.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art. Tate Britain, London. 9 June – 5 September.
*The Surreal House. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 10 June – 12 September.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception. Tate Modern, London. 15 June – 5 September.
The Scottish Summer Exhibition. The Fleming Collection, London. 16 June – 4 September.
The Courtauld Collects: 20 Years of Acquisitions. Courtauld Gallery, London. 17 June – 19 September.
*Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 19 June – 12 September.
Ernesto Nero and The New Décor. Hayward Gallery, London. 19 June – 15 September.
Turner and the Masters. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 22 June – 19 September.
*BP Portrait Award 2010. National Portrait Gallery, London. 24 June – 19 September.
*Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries. Works from the collection. National Gallery, London. 30 June – 12 September.
*Philip de László. National Portrait Gallery, London. 27 March – 5 September.
Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage. Hermitage Amsterdam. 6 March – 17 September.
Grace Kelly: Style Icon. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 17 April – 26 September.
ATTITUDE. Initial Access, Wolverhampton. 21 April – 25 September.
*Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. British Library, London. 30 April – 19 September.
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Opening in August or September
August
Krijn de Koning 'Church Warden.' De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. 27 August – 24 October.
Bulbmania – Flowers from the Kew Collection. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 28 August – 3 January.
September
Martin Creed: Work No. 700. Hauser & Wirth, London. 6 September 2010 – 8 January 2011.
Eadweard Muybridge. Tate Britain, London. 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Hussein Chalayan. Lisson Gallery, London. 8 September – 2 October.
Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 8 September – 17 October.
The Glasgow Boys. The Fleming Collection, London. 14 September – 18 December.
Salvator Rosa (1615 – 1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 15 September – 28 November.
Liverpool Biennial: Touched. Tate Liverpool. 18 September – 28 November.
The Immortal Alexander the Great. Hermitage, Amsterdam. 18 September 2010 – 18 March 2011.
Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator. Estorick Collection, London. 22 September – 19 December.
Poussin to Seurat: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland. The Wallace Collection, London. 23 September – 19 December.
Jason Rhoades 1:12 Perfect World. Hauser & Wirth, London. 24 September – 18 December.
Bronzino. Artist and Poet. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. 24 September 2010 – 23 January 2010.
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 25 September – 12 December.
The Land Between Us: place, power and dislocation. The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. 25 September 2010 – 23 January 2011.
John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. 25 September – 14 November.
Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909 – 1929. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 25 September 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 30 September 2010 – 2 January 2011.
Gauguin. Tate Modern, London. 30 September 2010 – 16 January 2011.
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Open
through August & September
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. Tate Modern, London. 28 May – 3 October.
South Africa Landscape. British Museum, London. 29 April – 10 October.
*Victoria & Albert: Art & Love. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 19 March – 31 October.
William Morris: A Sense of Place. Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. 26 June – 17 October.
The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army. Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. 26 June – December 2010.
Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010: Fiona Banner. Harrier and Jaguar. Tate Britain, London. 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
The 75th Anniversary Show. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 19 December 2009 – 16 January 2011.
Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer. Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle. 24 April 2010 – 6 February 2011.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 31 January 2010 – 31 July 2011.
Dinner for a Duke. The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. 21 April 2010 – March 2012.
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Opening in October
Strawberry Hill. Horace Walpole's Gothic villa in Twickenham, London. Re-opens 2 October.
Turner Prize 2010. Tate Britain, London. 5 October 2010 – 2 January 2011.
Sheila Fell – Talented, Tenacious and Tragic. Offer Waterman, London. 8 – 29 October.
Peter Lanyon. Tate St Ives. 9 October 2010 – 8 January 2010.
The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei. Tate Modern, London. 12 October 2010 – 25 April 2011.
Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 13 October 2010 – 20 February 2011.
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals. National Gallery, London. 13 October 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 15 October 2010 – 6 February 2011.
Scultura III. Selling exhibition of European sculpture presented by the Tomasso Brothers, New York. 21 – 31 October.
Cézanne's Card Players. Courtauld Gallery, London. 21 October 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance. National Portrait Gallery, London. 21 October 2010 – 23 January 2011.
Pioneering Painters: Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 30 October 2010 – 23 January 2011.
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Exhibitions,
openings and events from November onwards
through 2009 and beyond
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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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Magnificent
Maps:
Power,
Propaganda and Art.
By
Peter Barber and Tom Harper.
The British Library
Hiroshi
Suzuki.
By
Timothy Schroder
Scala Publishers in association with Adrian
Sassoon
Being a Pilgrim. Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago.
By Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan
Lund Humphries
Philip
de László
Portraits.
By
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons
National Portrait Gallery
Johan
Zoffany. Artist and Adventurer
By
Penelope Treadwell
Paul Holberton Publishing
Medieval and
Renaissance Art. People and Possessions
By
Glyn Davies and Kirstin Kennedy
V&A Publishing
Titian,
Tintoretto, Veronese. Rivals in Renaissance Venice
By
Frederick Ilchman
Lund Humphries
Points
of View: Capturing
the 19th
Century
in Photographs
By
John Falconer and Louise Hide
The British Library
Taylor
Wessing Photographic Prize 2009
Introduction
by Stuart Maconie and interviews by Richard McClure
National
Portrait Gallery
The
Darker Side of Light. Arts
of Privacy, 1850 – 1900
By
Peter Parshall with
contributions by S. Hollis Clayson, Christiane Hertel and Nicholas
Penny
National Gallery of Art, Washington in association with Lund
Humphries.
Chinese
Ceramics
By
Stacey Pierson
V&A Publishing
Ancient
American Art In Detail
By
Colin McEwan
The British Museum Press
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