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.

SOON TO CLOSE

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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: 16^th 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.

OPENING SOON

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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.

5^th Bucharest Biennale. Romania. 25 May – 22 July.

Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 31 May – 30 September

CONTINUING

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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.

ON THE HORIZON

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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.

OVER THE HORIZON

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Exhibitions, openings and events from July onwards
through 2012 and beyond

PRINCIPAL FAIRS

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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.

SELECT AUCTIONS

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The Crisis Commission. Christie's King Street, London. 3 May.

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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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

NOTES & QUERIES

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RECOMMENDED GUIDE
Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens

RECOMMENDED PERIODICALS
The Art Newspaper
Antiques Trade Gazette

RECIPROCAL LINKS

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The Wallace Collection
The BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair
Artnet.com
Spanish Fine Art and Antique Dealers
The Art Fund
Artnet.de

PLUS

Art Loss Register
The Conservation Register
Courtauld Gallery
Cutty Sark
Dulwich Picture Gallery
English Heritage
The Goldsmiths' Company Directory
Historic Houses Association
Discover Islamic Art
The Henry Moore Foundation
The National Trust
Parham House and Gardens
Pallant House Gallery
The Royal Collection
Sir John Soane's Museum
Special Places to Stay
The Watts Gallery

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