Visual arts
Alice in Wonderland: Through the Visual Arts, Tate LiverpoolFriday, 04 November 2011
What a curious curate’s egg Tate Liverpool has pulled out of its hat with Alice in Wonderland. And what a complete rag-bag of minor, uninteresting artists. It starts with a disparate mix of recent works by a few better-knowns – neatly beginning at... Read more... |
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National GalleryFriday, 04 November 2011The most complete display of Leonardo's rare surviving painting s, and the first to be dedicated to his aims and techniques as a painter. It concentrates on the work he produced as a court painter to Duke LodovicoSfroza in Milan in the late 1480... Read more... |
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Dulwich Pictu re GalleryFriday, 04 November 2011Featuring some of Canada's most famous landscape paintings, in cluding bold and vibrant works by Tom Thomson. Until 8 January, 2012 http ://bit.ly/p9lYE6 Read more... |
Paul Noble, Gagosian GalleryFriday, 04 November 2011An exhibition that marks the culmination of Noble's monumental 15-year drawing project - the meticulous depiction of a fictional city call ed Nobson Newtown. Until 17 December http://www.gagosian.com/upcoming/ Read more... |
The First Actresses: Nell Gwynne to Sarah Siddons, National Portrait GalleryWednesday, 02 November 2011
What is it that makes an exhibition special, keeps you looking longer than you expected, ensures you think about it long after you’ve left? Obviously, the art, or in a history show, the subject, is the first thing. The installation sometimes (... Read more... |
The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, National PortraitGalleryTuesday, 01 November 2011An exhibition exploring English art and theatre in the late 17t h- and18th-centuries through portraits of the first celebrated female actre sses. Includes portraits by Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Ga insborough. Until 8 January http... Read more... |
George Condo: Mental States, Hayward Gallery/ Drawings, Sprüth Magers LondonSunday, 30 October 2011
The easiest mistake to make in appreciating George Condo would be to assume that his manic style reflects a manic creation or a manic practice. Some of Condo's paintings and drawings, with their childlike loops and gurning, disfigured faces, look... Read more... |
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Phot ography, Queen's GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011Photographs taken by Herbert George Ponting during Scott's ill- fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, in which five of its men perished.Also includes Frank Hurley's photographs taken during Shackleton's explora tions on Endurance from 1914-16.... Read more... |
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Phot ography, Queen's GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011Photographs taken by Herbert George Ponting during Scott's ill- fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, in which five of its men perished.Also includes Frank Hurley's photographs taken during Shackleton's explora tions on Endurance from 1914-16.... Read more... |
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Dulwich Pictu re GalleryFriday, 28 October 2011Featuring some of Canada's most famous landscape paintings, in cluding bold and vibrant works by Tom Thomson. Until 8 January, 2012 http ://bit.ly/p9lYE6 Read more... |
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World, Modern Art OxfordFriday, 28 October 2011An exhibition of works on paper by celebrated British artist Gr aham Sutherland. Curated by Turner Prize-nominee George Shaw, An Unfinishe d World is an exploration of Sutherland's lesser-known works, concentratin g on his early Welsh landscapes... Read more... |
Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth GalleriesFriday, 28 October 2011The Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy is showing at both H auser... Read more... |
