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February

Santiago Sierra: Dedicated to the Workers and the Unemployed. Major retrospective of video, including new, works by always provocative Spanish artist Santiago Sierra (b. 1966) who “forces us to question the commodification of human life, exposing and challenging the structures of power that operate in our society.”
Lisson Gallery, 52 - 54 Bell Street, London NW1 5DA. Tel. +44 (0)20 7724 2739. (Open Mon - Sat) 1 February – 3 March.

Anthony Gilbert. Exhibition of drawings from the Studio Estate of the hugely productive yet reclusive graphic artist Anthony Gilbert; especially notable are his prints using the “wash-off” technique in pencil, white gouche and black ink.
Messum's, 8 Cork Street, London W1S 3LJ. Tel. 0207 437 5545. 1 – 18 February.

The Family in British Art: 16^th Century to Now. Loan exhibition of portraits – paintings from William Hogarth to David Hockney and photographs from Julia Margaret Cameron to Richard Billingham. Plus a new commission by photographer Jonathan Turner showing images of Sheffield families.
Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PP. Tel. +44 (0)114 278 2600. (Open daily) www.museums-sheffield.org.uk 2 February – 29 April.

There is a land called loss: Annie Morris. Exhibition of new large-scale ink drawings, plus sculpture, watercolours and 34 smaller works on paper – all concerned with the artist's own recent, never to be forgotten experience of pregnancy leading to a stillbirth. Exhibition curated by Adam Weymouth Art.
Pertwee Anderson & Gold, 15 Bateman Street, Soho, London W1D 3AQ. Tel. +44 (0)20 7734 9283. (Open Mon – Sat) 3 February – 1 March.

Voyages of Discovery: De Morgans and the Sea. Exhibition, in conjunction with the National Trust's Arts and Crafts house Standen, of ceramics by William De Morgan and paintings by his wife Evelyn.
The De Morgan Centre, 38 West Hill, London SW18 1RX. Tel. +44 (0)20 8871 1144. (Open Tues – Fri pm, Sat all day) www.demorgan.org.uk 3 February – 25 August.

The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years. Selection of photographs of The Queen chosen from the Royal Collection, including examples by leading press photographers, in an exhibition celebrating Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Information Tel. +44 (0)20 7766 7304. (Open daily) www.royalcollection.org.uk 4 February - 28 October.

Cy Twombly: Works from the Sonnabend Collection. Comprising all eleven works from the collection of the well-known American dealer and collector Ileana Sonnabend (1914 – 2007) this exhibition marks the opening of Eykyn Maclean's new gallery in London.
Eykyn Maclean, 30 St George Street, London W1S 2FH. Tel. +44 (0)20 7499 6244. (Open Tues – Sat) 7 February – 17 March.

Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Exhibition of nearly 100 formal and informal portraits by Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980) Royal photographer extraordinaire, all selected from his collection of original prints, contact sheets, transparencies and negatives, bequeathed to the V&A in 1987. Queen Elizabeth first sat to Cecil Beaton as a teenage princess in 1942.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2000. (Open daily; late Wed) www.vam.ac.uk 8 February – 22 April 2012.

Yayoi Kusama. Retrospective exhibition work by celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) including a new work made for this show in London.
Supported by Louis Vuitton.
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8888. (Open daily; late Fri & Sat) www.tate.org.uk 9 February – 5 June.

Lucian Freud Portraits. Major international loan exhibition of portraits by the British master Lucian Freud. More than 100 paintings in oil and on paper dating from the earliest in the 1940s to his last and unfinished work Portrait of the Hound 2011 (with Freud's assistant David Dawson) which he was painting just before his death in July 2011.
Supported by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Tel. +44 (0)20 7306 0055. (Open daily; late Thur & Fri) www.npg.org.uk 9 February – 27 May.

David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers. Exhibition of ten major still life works by David LaChapelle (b. 1964) exploring the vanity of life and beauty using a Baroque style though with contemporary resonances: “metaphors of vanity in our era of an affluent though seemingly troubled society.”
Robilant+Voena, 1^st Floor, 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4NL. TEL. +44 (0)207 409 1540. (Open Mon – Sat) 14 February – 24 March.

Picasso and Modern British Art. A timely exhibition for this century: an exploration of Picasso's impact on Modernism in Britain in the 20^th century seen through his influence in particular on seven artists including Duncan Grant, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon. Also demonstrated will be “the depth of British engagement with Picasso and his art”... “through the ways his work was exhibited and collected [in Britain] through his lifetime.” More than 150 works will be on show from international private and public collections.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8888. (Open daily) www.tate.org.uk 15 February – 15 July 2012.

Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague. Between 1624 and 1625 Anthony van Dyck (1599 – 1641) lived and worked in Sicily. For the first time this loan exhibition brings together all 16 works known to have been painted by him there, including his paintings of Saint Rosalia. The discovery of her bones and their public veneration by the citizens of Palermo, led they believed, to the cessation of the plague that had caused the deaths of most of the population.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD. Tel. +44 (0)20 8693 5254. (Open Tues – Sun) www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk 15 February – 27 May.

Mondrian ||Nicholson: In Parallel. Important exhibition relating in detail for the first time the close “creative relationship” between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson which, in 1938, culminated in the Dutch artist moving to London to work in a Hampstead Studio neighbouring that of his English friend. Nicholson also introduced him into the international circle of avant-garde garde artists also living thereabouts at the time.
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2526. (Open daily) www.courtauld.ac.uk 16 February – 20 May.

Italian Beauty: works by Giulio Paolini, Domenico Bianchi and Giò Ponti. Inaugural London exhibition for the Ronchini Gallery, founded in Umbria in 1992 and “dedicated to exploring pioneering movements at the forefront of Italian contemporary art practice.”
Ronchini Gallery, 22 Dering Street, London W13 1AN. Tel. +44 (0)20 7629 9188. (Open Tues - Sat) 17 February – 5 April.

Moore at the Moscow Kremlin. Loan exhibition of sculptures, drawings and tapestries by this great 20^th century British artist most, but not all, from the collection of the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, England.

Kremlin Museum, Moscow, Russia. (open daily except Thurs) www.kreml/ru/en/ 21 February – 9 May.

Jeremy Deller: Joy in People. A mid-career survey of the many faceted often controversial work of Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller. Also (from 1 February) David Shrigley: Brain Activity, another but more whimsical artist working in many media.
Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XZ. Tel. +44 (0)871 663 2519. (Open daily; late Fri) www.southbankcentre.co.uk 22 February – 13 May.

Charline von Heyl. Major exhibition of paintings and works on paper by New-York based German-born contemporary abstract artist Charline von Heyl (b. 1960). This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Nuremberg – to where it will travel from 11 July – 30 September.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB. Tel. +44 (0)151 702 7400. (Open Tues – Sun) www.tate.org.uk 24 February – 27 May.

Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan. Alighiero Boetti (1940 – 1944) was an important member of the Italian Arte Povera group in the 1960s. This is the first ever major show at Tate Modern by a member of the group which aimed to make work using undeniably “worthless” materials. The exhibition in addition highlights his later fascination with games and numbers etc. as well as his practical interest in geopolitics.
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8888. (Open daily; late Fri & Sat) www.tate.org.uk 28 February – 27 May.

March

Weighted Words. Exhibition of of works by Ed Atkins, Omer Fast, Ruth Ewan, Dani Gal, Glen Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley, Anri Sala and Alexandre Singh, which together “harness the powers of language in order to produce an impact on the viewer.”
Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT. Tel. +44 (0)207 428 8940. (Open pm Thurs – Sun) 1 March – 10 June.

The Landscape of Memory. Inaugural exhibition of a variety of work by members of The Memory Collective, a group of Scandinavian and UK artists united in their desire to use the universal yet delicate and all consuming idea of human memory as a “means of dialogue and engagement”. www.thememorycollective.co.uk
Supported by The Royal Norwegian Embassy.
No Format Gallery, Second Floor Studios and Arts, Mellish Estate, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR. Tel. (0)208 316 6554. (Open daily) 1 – 3 March.

Rúrí-Retrospective. Retrospective exhibition of work by major Icelandic artist (b. 1951) concerned as much with her own identity as with cultural identity in general and not least with “the fragility of our environment.”
The National Gallery of Iceland, Frikirkjuvegur 12, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Tel. +354 515 9600. 3 March – 6 May.

Sophy Rickett: To The River. Inspired by the Severn Bore – an amazing natural phenomenon: a tidal wave that courses along the River Severn in Gloucestershire during the moon's equinox, Sophy Rickett's installation comprises video and surround-sound audio.
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA. Tel. +44 (0) 117 917 2300. (Open Tues - Sun) 3 March – 22 April.

Urban Narratives: Matthew Picton. Exhibition of cartographic sculptures – three dimensional city maps by British born (1960) American based artist who initially studied economics and politics at the London School of Economics.
Summaria Lunn Gallery, 36 South Molton Lane, London W1K 5AB. Tel. +44 (0)20 7493 9598. (Open Tues – Sat) 8 March – 6 April.

Katie Paterson. Solo exhibition of work by Scottish artist Katie Pearson who “strives to communicate unimaginably large or distant occurrences in nature or the universe... [by] reducing them to a human scale” including in this instance 100 Billion Suns Gamma Ray bursts evoked by confetti canons - to be fired daily at 1pm. This is the inaugural exhibition at Haunch of Venison's new and additional London space.
Haunch of Venison, 51 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EB. Tel. +44 (0) 20 7495 5050. 9 March – 28 April.

The Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts. Exhibition of prints by American artists, notably including folio engravings of American birds by the great John James Audubon (1785 – 1851).
American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath BA2 7BD. Tel. +44 (0)1225 460503. (Open Tues – Sun) www.americanmuseum.org 10 March – 1 July.

Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed. Major and long-overdue international loan exhibition of the work of the German-born British artist Johan Zoffany (1733 – 1810) comprising more than 60 oil paintings plus drawings and prints. His portraits, group portraits – royal and theatrical, aristocratic and bourgeois, at home and overseas, will be a feature.
Supported by Cox & Kings.
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WIV 0DS. Tel. +44 (0)20 7300 8000. (Open daily; late Fri) www.royalacademy.org.uk 10 March – 10 June.

Southeast Asian Sculpture. Annual New York exhibition of recent acquisitions by important London dealer John Eskenazi.
John Eskenazi at Adam William Fine Art and Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80^th Street, New York, NY +1 212 249 4987. 14 – 25 March.

Turner Inspired: In The Light of Claude. Of all the old masters that Turner admired, Claude was foremost; this exhibition of oils, watercolours and sketchbooks shows the nature and extent of this incluence. Exhibition also highlights the historical importance of the Turner Bequest.
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. Tel. +44 (0)20 7747 2885. (Open daily; late Fri) www.nationalgallery.org.uk 14 March – 5 June,

Treasures from The Queen's Palaces. Paintings, drawings, miniatures, watercolours, manuscripts, furniture, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery, in all 100 treasures from the Royal Collection selected from eight Royal residences.
The Queen's Gallery, The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. For advance tickets: Tel. +44 (0)131 556 5100. (Open daily) www.royalcollection.org.uk 16 March – 4 November.

Joan Miró Sculpture. Important loan exhibition of sculpture by renowned Spanish-Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893 – 1983) including large-scale outdoor works.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4LG. Tel. +44 (0)1924 832631. (Open daily) 17 March 2012 – 6 January 2013.

At Home with the World. London's unique museum of the home offers a new exhibition devoted to explaining just how many familiar objects in our homes and gardens are in fact originally from overseas or influenced by other cultures. Young people have been closely involved in all aspects of the exhibition, of its associated displays, trails and interpretation.
The Geffrye, 136 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2. Tel. +44 (0)20 7739 9893. (Open Tue - Sat) www.geffrye-museum.org.uk 20 March – 9 September.

Tate Britain Commission: Patrick Keiller. British film-maker Patrick Keiller (b. 1950) responds to the challenge of creating a new installation for the mighty neo-classical Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain – usually given over to the display of sculpture.
Supported by Sotheby's.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8888. (Open daily) www.tate.org.uk 27 March – 14 October.

Gillian Wearing. First international survey of photographs and films by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963).
Whitechapel Gallery, 77 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Tel. +44 (0)20 7522 7888. (Open Tues - Sun; late Thurs) whitechapelgallery.org 28 March – 17 June.

Brains: the mind as matter. Another provocative and illuminating exhibition containing artworks, manuscripts, artefacts, videos and photography as well as “real brains,” all devoted to exploring the history and present state of study of that most secret and mysterious of human organs, the brain.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Tel. +44 (0)20 7611 2222. (Open daily; late Thurs) www.welcome.ac.uk 29 March – 17 June.

British Design 1948 – 2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. Major and potentially enthralling exhibition aimed at showing “the best of British design and creative talent” over the last 60 years through fashion, furniture, fine art, graphic design, photography, ceramics, architecture and industrial products.
Sponsored by Ernst & Young.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2000. (Open daily; late Wed) www.vam.ac.uk 31 March – 12 August.

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