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CONTENTS
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Kensington
Palace Welcomes Everyone Anew – Children go Free
The New
Jerwood Gallery in Hastings
Historic
Captain Cook Ceremonial Club Returns to British Columbia
Important
Acquisition for Leighton House
Serpentine Gallery's Unique
Contribution to the Cultural Olympiad
Rachel Whiteread
Commission for Whitechapel Gallery
Second Titian
Painting Safely Secured for the Nation: Diana
and Callisto
Duchess
of Cambridge: Portrait Gallery's Royal Patron & The Great Art
Quest at Dulwich
Rubens Masterpiece Conserved thanks to Bank
of America
Major
Arts Council Support for the West Midlands
Sir
Walter Scott at Bowhill
*The
John Ruskin Prize – Call for Entries
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Opened in March
Sophy
Rickett: To The River. Arnolfini,
Bristol. 3
March – 22 April.
The Ingram Collection: A Diamond Jubilee
Exhibition. The
Lightbox, Woking, Surrey. 6
March – 15 April.
Urban Narratives: Matthew Picton. Summaria
Lunn Gallery, London.
8
March – 6 April.
Katie Paterson. Haunch
of Venison, London.
9
March – 28 April.
The
Crisis Commission. Somerset
House, London. 14
March – 22 April.
Callum
Innes. Edouard
Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong. 14
March – 21 April.
Sweethearts:
Artistic Couples. Pippy
Houldsworth Gallery, London. 21
March – 21 April.
Un
Univers intime. The Paintings of the Frits Lugt Collection. Institut
Néerlandais,
Paris. 1
March – 27 May.
Rúrí-Retrospective.
National
Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik. 3
March – 6 May.
Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the
Repressed. Freud
Museum, London. 8
March – 27 May.
Craigie Aitchison. Timothy
Taylor Gallery, London.
29
March – 12 May.
Weighted Words. Zabludowicz
Collection, London. 1
March – 10 June.
*Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed. Royal
Academy of Arts, London. 10
March – 10 June.
Turner Inspired: In The Light of Claude.
National
Gallery, London. 14
March – 5 June.
Gillian Wearing. Whitechapel
Gallery, London.
28
March – 17 June.
Brains: the mind as matter. Wellcome
Collection, London.
29
March – 17 June.
The Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts.
The
American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath. 10
March – 1 July.
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 12
March – 8 July.
British
Design 1948 – 2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. Victoria
and Albert Museum, London. 31
March – 12 August.
The
012 Baku Public Art Festival. Baku,
Azerbaijan. 9
March – 1 September.
At Home with the World. Geffrye
Museum, London.
20
March – 9 September.
Tate
Britain Commission: Patrick Keiller. Duveen
Galleries, Tate Britain, London.
27
March – 14 October.
Treasures
from The Queen's Palaces. The
Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.
16
March – 4 November.
Joan Miró
Sculpture.
Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
17
March 2012 – 6 January 2013.
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Closing in April or May
April
W.
Barns-Graham: A Scottish Artist in St Ives.
The
Fleming Collection, London. 10
January – 5 April.
Turner
and his Contemporaries. Abbot
Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. 12
January – 14 April.
Edward Wilson: Artist of the Antarctic.
Abbot
Hall Art Gallery. Kendal. 12
January – 21 April.
Form and Matter: Alberto Burri. Estorick
Collection, London. 13
January – 8 April.
*David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. Royal
Academy of Arts, London. 21
January – 9 April.
Hajj:
Journey to the heart of Islam. British
Museum, London.
26
January – 13 April.
The Family in British Art: 16th
Century
to Now. Museums
Sheffield.
2
February – 29 April.
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A
Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Victoria
and Albert Museum, London.
8
February – 22 April 2012.
Italian Beauty: works by Giulio
Paolini, Domenicho Bianchi and Giò
Ponti. Ronchini
Gallery, London.
17
February – 5 April.
The
Art Books of Henri Matisse. Walker
Art Gallery, Liverpool. 21
October 2011 – 15 April.
Gesamtkunstwerk:
New Art From Germany. Saatchi
Gallery, London. 18
November 2011 – 30 April.
Judaism:
A World of Stories. Nieuwe
Kerk, Amsterdam. 17
December 2011 – 15 April
Before
the Law: Post-War Sculpture and Spaces of Contemporary Art. Museum
Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
17
December 2011 – 22 April.
Joan
Mitchell: The Last Paintings.
Hauser
& Wirth, London. 3
February – 28 April.
May
Simon
Fujiwara. Tate
St Ives. 12
January – 7 May.
Hamish Fulton: Walk.
Turner
Contemporary, Margate. 17
January – 7 May.
Backyard Oasis. Palm
Springs Art Museum, California. 21
January – 27 May.
Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry,
Passion, Song. Dulwich
Picture Gallery, London. 25
January – 27 May.
*Lucian Freud Portraits. National
Portrait Gallery, London. 9
February – 27 May.
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.
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.
Duncan
Phyfe: Master Cabinet Maker in New York. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. 20
December 2011 – 6 May.
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Opening in April or May
April
*Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt. National Gallery, London. 4 April – 2 September.
*Damien Hirst. Tate Modern, London. 5 April – 9 September.
*The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned. Hampton Court Palace, Surrey. 5 April – 30 September.
Scott Myles: This Production. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. 7 April – 10 June.
Michael Dean: Government. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 12 April – 17 June.
Annie Tempest: Play As Cast. The O'Shea Gallery, London. 17 – 28 April.
Made in Scotland. The Fleming Collection, London. 17 April – 2 June.
Ron Mueck. Hauser & Wirth, London. 19 April – 26 May.
John Piper and the Church. Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. 21 April – 10 June.
*Royal River: Power, Pageantry & The Thames. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. 27 April – 9 September.
El Greco and Modernism. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. 28 April – 12 August.
May
'INFAMOUS' Photographs by Terry O'Neil. Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London. 1 May – 8 June.
*Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer. Lambeth Palace Library, London. 1 May – 14 July.
Bauhaus: Art as Life. Barbican Art Gallery, London. 3 May – 12 August.
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 4 May – 7 October.
Masakatsu Kondo: When I am Silent. All Visual Arts, London. 4 – 31 May.
The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 5 May – 11 November.
HOUSE Festival 2012. Visual festival stretching across Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. 5 – 27 May.
Windsors at Wycombe. West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire. 6 – 31 May.
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 6 May – 12 August.
From Sermons in Stone to Monsters of Modernity: Early French Photography and the Church. James Hyman Photography, London. 9 – 26 May.
Helaine Blumenfeld. Robert Bowman Modern. 10 May – 31 July.
Richard Deacon: Association. Lisson Gallery, London. 11 May – 23 June.
TALA! - Visions of Angola. Powell Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Kent. 12 May – October.
British Silver Week. Pangolin, London. 12 – 18 May.
KEITH VAUGHAN. Agnew's Gallery, London. 16 May – 15 June.
The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe. Wallace Collection, London. 17 May – 16 September.
Festival of Museums. Scotland nationwide. 18 – 20 May.
Mind the Map: inspiring art, design and cartography. London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, London. 18 May – 28 October.
BURTYNSKY: OIL, and, Raqs Media Collective. The Photographers' Gallery, London. 19 May – 1 July.
Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: The Bute Collection. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. 19 May – 2 December.
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 19 May 2012 – 6 January 2013.
Alex Katz. Tate St Ives. 19 May – 23 September.
Ronald Searle Remembered. Chris Beetles Gallery, London. 22 May – 9 June.
Out
of Focus: Photography. Saatchi Gallery, London. 23 May – 22
July.
Bridget Riley: Works 1960 – 1966. Hazlitt
Holland-Hibbert, and, Karsten Schubert. London. 23 May – 13
July.
ARSENALE 2012. International Biennale, Kiev, Ukraine. 24 May – 31 July.
The Horse: From Arabia to the Royal Ascot. The British Museum, London. 24 May – 30 September.
Jubilee – A view from the crowd. Kensington Palace, London. 24 May – 4 November.
5th Bucharest Biennale. Romania. 25 May – 22 July.
Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 31 May – 30 September
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Open
through April & May
Rubens,
Van Dyck & Jordaens. Hermitage,
Amsterdam.
17
September 2011 – 15 June.
The Steins Collect: Matisse,
Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 28
February – 3 June.
Yayoi
Kusama.
Tate
Modern, London. 9
February
– 5 June.
*Picasso
and Modern British Art. Tate
Britain, London. 15
February – 15 July.
*Migrations. Journeys into British Art.
Tate
Britain, London.
31
January – 12 August.
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.
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Opening in June
Gold: Power and Allure. Goldsmiths' Hall, London. 1 June – 28 July.
Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 4 June – 12 August.
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, London. 14 June – 9 September.
Late Raphael. Museo del Prado, Madrid. 12 June – 16 September.
Impressionism: Sensation & Inspiration. The Hermitage, Amsterdam. 16 June – 13 January.
All our relations: Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia. 27 June – 16 September.
Yoko Ono. Serpentine Gallery, London. 19 June – 9 September.
Andy Warhol: The Portfolios. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 20 June – 16 September.
BP Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, London. 21 June – 23 September.
Turner Monet Twombley. Tate Liverpool. 22 June – 28 October.
Rudolf Herz: Marcel Duchamp. Le Mystère de Munich. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. 22 June – 23 September.
Peter Blake and Pop Music. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 23 June – 7 October.
Francis Bacon to Paula Rego. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. 23 June – 16 September.
Biennale of Sydney: International Festival of Contemporary Art. Sydney, Australia. 27 June – 16 September.
Master Drawings London. 27 June – 5 July.
Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye. Tate Modern, London. 28 June – 14 October.
Master Paintings Week, London. 29 June – 6 July.
Giovanni Battista Lusieri. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. 30 June – 29 October.
Buckingham Palace, London. Summer opening. 30 June – 8 July, and, 31 July – 7 October.
Arts in Parliament. Houses of Parliament, London. June – September.
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Exhibitions,
openings and events from July
onwards
through 2012 and beyond
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April
Art Brussels. Brussels, Belgium. 19 – 22 April.
The London Original Print Fair. Royal Academy of Arts, London. 19 – 22 April.
Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair. Battersea Park, London. 24 – 29 April.
May
The Animal Art Fair. South Bank, London. 17 – 20 May.
ART HK 12. Hong Kong International Art Fair. 17 – 20 May.
London International Antiquarian Book Fair. Olympia, London. 24 – 26 May.
June
Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair. Olympia, London. 7 – 17 June.
Art Antiques London. Kensington Gardens, London. 13 – 20 June.
Art 43 Basel. Basel, Switzerland. 14 – 17 June.
Masterpiece 2012 London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. 28 June – 4 July.
July
Bloomsbury Art Fair. Goodenough College, London. 6 – 8 July.
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The Crisis Commission. Christie's King Street, London. 3 May.
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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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Joseph
Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer
By
Pat Griggs with an introduction by Jim Endersby
Kew Publishing
The
Queen's Coronation: The
Inside Story.
By
James Wilkinson
Scala Publishers
Michael
Katakis. Photographs & Words
Additional
Text and Materials by Kris L. Hardin
The
British Library
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
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