Visual arts
Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsa rs, Victoria & Albert MuseumFriday, 21 December 2012An exhibition examining the development of cultural diplomacy a nd trade between Britain and Russia from its origins in 1555 when the Musco vy Company was founded. Comprising more than 150 objects it will chronicle the ritual and chivalry of the... Read more... |
George Bellows, Royal AcademyFriday, 21 December 2012A survey of the American painter George Bellows, leading propo nent of the Ashcan school who are best known for works portraying scenes ofdaily life in New York's poorer neighbourhoods. Bellows achieved fame port raying the harsh realities of the... Read more... |
Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, Tate ModernFriday, 21 December 2012Roy Lichtenstein is renowned for works based on comic strips an d advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dot s. The exhibition showcases key paintings such as Look Mickey 1961 lent fro m the National Gallery Art,... Read more... |
Glam! The Performance of Style / Sylvia Sleigh, Tate LiverpoolFriday, 21 December 2012Glam! The Performance of Style: Bringing together more than 100artworks the exhibition will reveal the genealogy of Glam in pop culture i n the early 70s. Themes of glamour, camp, exaggerated identity, androgyn y, eroticism and dandyism will be... Read more... |
Murillo and Justino de Never, Dulwich Picture GalleryFriday, 21 December 2012Don Justino de Neve, canon of Seville Cathedral, was a friendand patron of Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Estéban Murillo. Neve’s co mmissions made a significant contribution to the artist’s body of work. Thi s exhibition will bring together over... Read more... |
Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck, Hauser & Wirth, SavileFriday, 21 December 2012Works include neon sculptures such as ‘Sex and Death / Double “ 69”’ (1985) and ‘Good boy / Bad boy’ (1986 – 1987), ‘Carousel (Stainless S teel Version)’ (1988). Until 9 March http://bit.ly/SAZiXa Read more... |
Schwitters in Britain, Tate BritainFriday, 21 December 2012The first major exhibition to examine the late work of Kurt Sch witters, who was one of the major artists of European Modernism and who in vented the concept of Merz – ‘the combination, for artistic purposes of al l conceivable materials’. The... Read more... |
Yuletide Scenes 2: The Adoration of the MagiThursday, 20 December 2012
Rubens's gigantic masterpiece loudly contradicts the folkloric silent night. This typically muscular painting is deafening in its depiction of the commotion around the holy family when the Magi arrive to offer gifts to the divine king of Christian... Read more... |
Yuletide Scenes 1: The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston LochWednesday, 19 December 2012
In our chilled Decembers, even when snowless, winter scenes are visually synonymous with Christmas, and Henry Raeburn’s small painting of The Reverend Robert Walker, from the 1790s, skating with abstracted solemnity and perfect balance on... Read more... |
Fred Sandback, David ZwirnerSunday, 16 December 2012The exhibition features a selection of important sculptures anddrawings from the 1970s to the early 2000s exemplifying the scope of the a rtist’s influential career. Though he used metal rod and elastic cord earlyin his artistic practice, Sandback... Read more... |
William Scott, Tate St IvesSunday, 16 December 2012February 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of William Scott(1913–1989). Renowned for his powerful handling of paint in his exploratio n of still life, landscape and nude Scott produced a body of work that sec ured his reputation as one of the... Read more... |
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape, Royal AcademySunday, 16 December 2012
All roads start from Rome, and so it proves in this challenging exhibition put together from the holdings of the Royal Academy’s art collection, archives and library. It features 17th-century Italian paintings – some of the grandest by the French... Read more... |
