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London
National Gallery |
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Campaign for the Titians
Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has come to London for
to help build momentum for the fundraising campaign. The Art Fund has
pledged a grant of £1 million to help National Gallery and National
Galleries of Scotland to buy this masterpiece for their collections. Don't
miss the opportunity to see this magnificent work in London, and for the
first time in two centuries, the work is reunited with its
sequel, the National Gallery’s Death of Actaeon, which was bought
by the gallery in 1972 with a contributing grant from The Art
Fund.
| Address: |
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN |
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Phone: |
020 7747 2885 |
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Website: |
Click here |
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Dates: |
until 14 December |
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Admission: |
Free | |
Garden Museum |
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Beth Chatto – A Retrospective
The Garden Museum reopens with the first-ever retrospective of Beth
Chatto, one of the most influential living gardeners in Britain who is
perhaps best known for her pioneering, ecological approach to gardening,
which was developed in the 1960s, yet is so relevant to gardeners
today.
| Address: |
Lambeth Palace Road, Lambeth, London, SE1 7LB |
| Phone: |
020 7898 1400 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 19th April 2009 |
| Admission: |
Art Fund Members £3,
Full-price adult
£6 | |
Royal Academy |
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Byzantium 330-1453
This exhibition provides a grand-scale survey of 1,000 years of
history. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the
exhibition will incorporate over 300 objects. Some of the works have never
been displayed in public before.
| Address: |
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD |
| Phone: |
020 7300 8000 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 22 March 2009 |
| Admission: |
Art Fund members £10,
full-price adult £12 | |
National Gallery |
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Sisley in England and Wales
Alfred Sisley (1839–99) was born in Paris to English parents
and remained a British subject throughout his life. However, he only
took on two painting campaigns in the UK – once in 1874, and again in
1897. This exhibition will bring together these two groups of paintings
for the first time. Executed almost a quarter of a century apart, they
reveal Sisley at two of the most creative moments of his life.
| Address: |
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN |
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Phone: |
020 7747 2885 |
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Website: |
Click here |
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Dates: |
until 15 February 2009 |
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Admission: |
Free | |
Barbican Art Gallery |
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Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
Le Corbusier (1887-1965), widely acclaimed as the most influential
architect of the 20th century. This exhibition is the first major survey
in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20
years.
| Address: |
Level 3, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y
8DS |
| Phone: |
020 7382 7105 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
22 November 2008 – 24 May 2009 |
| Admission: |
Art Fund members £6
(Full-priced adult
£8) | |
Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery |
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Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision
The most committed of the Pre-Raphaelites, Holman Hunt created many of
the most enduring images of the Victorian era.
| Address: |
Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL |
| Phone: |
0161 235 8888 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 11 January |
| Admission: |
Free | |
Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Museum |
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Palaces in the Night: The urban Landscape in Mr Whister's
Prints
This second exhibition of the Fitzwilliam's collection of
etchings, drypoints and lithographs by the American artist James McNeill
Whistler (1834-1903) is devoted to the cityscapes for which he is most
celebrated as a printmaker. Exhibited for the first time will be the
spectacular impression of The Doorway, one of two Venetian etchings
recently acquired with the help of the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A
Purchase Grant Fund.
| Address: |
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB |
| Phone: |
012 2333 2900 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 18 January |
| Admission: |
Free | |
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'I Turned it into a Palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The
Fitzwilliam Museum
This exhibition will celebrate one of the most enriching periods in the
history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Directorship of Sir Sydney
Cockerell (1908-37). To mark the centenary of the foundation of the
Friends in 1909, the exhibition will conclude with a recent acquisition
which attracted their most generous contribution ever and the largest
public support in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Macclesfield
Psalter. The public campaign was launched by The Art Fund and generously
donated to by Art Fund members.
| Address: |
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB |
| Phone: |
012 2333 2900 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 17 March 2009 |
| Admission: |
Free | |
Cornwall
Tate St Ives |
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Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
This exhibition at Tate St Ives will be the first time Austrian artist
Heimo Zobernig (b1958) has been shown in the UK. One of the most
significant artists working in Europe today,over the last twenty five
years he has exhibited extensively all over the world creating a
considerable body of work that includes sculpture, video, painting,
installation, architectural intervention and performance.
| Address: |
Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, TR26 1TG |
| Phone: |
017 3679 6226 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 11 January |
| Admission: |
Art Fund Members
Free; Full price adult
£5.75 | |
Edinburgh
National Galleries of Scotland - National Portrait Gallery |
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The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels
from Ramsay to Lawrence
During the Georgian and Regency
periods oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena for
portraiture. Whether in art exhibitions or the principal rooms of town and
country residences, more private portraits were being created for domestic
consumption and display. This exhibition brings together portraits from
the era in a fascinating display.
| Address: |
1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD |
| Phone: |
0131 332 2266 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 1 February 2009 |
| Admission: |
Free
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Liverpool
Tate Liverpool |
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Liverpool Biennial:
International Festival: MADE UP
Established
in 1998, Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary
visual art. This is the fifth Liverpool Biennial International exhibition.
MADE UP will be an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination
and will involve galleries from across Liverpool as well as many new
commissions in surprising places.
| Address: |
Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB |
| Phone: |
015 1702 7400 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 30 November |
| Admission: |
Art Fund Members
£2.50; Full price adult
£5 | |
Sudbury, Suffolk
Gainsborough's House |
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Fom Sickert to Gertler: Modern
British Art From Boxted House
The exhibition celebrates the lives of Bobby
and Natalie Bevan and the works that once hung on the walls of their home,
Boxted House, near Colchester. Virtually every work in the exhibition has
a personal link to Bobby and Natalie. a highlight is Mark Gertler's
portrait of Natalie aged nineteen, Supper, which reveals their
intense friendship of the late 1920s.
The exhibition was first shown at the
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
| Address: |
46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10
2EU |
| Phone: |
01787 372958 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 13 December |
| Admission: |
Art Fund Members
free; Full price adult
£4 | |
Walsall
New Art Gallery, Walsall |
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William Blake: Angels and Imagination
This exhibition draws on works from three of Blake's great series of
illustrations for private patrons; Dante's Divine Comedy, Edward
Young's Night Thoughts, and the series of bible illustrations for
Thomas Butts, ansd shows how Blake reinterpreted these texts in the light
of his own beliefs.
| Address: |
Gallery Square, Walsall, WS2 8LG |
| Phone: |
01922 654400 |
| Website: |
Click here |
| Dates: |
until 4th January |
| Admission: |
Free | |
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