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As always these are provided as much for my own benefit and interest as anyone else's - check opening times and venues before travelling; additions, suggestions, corrections and company welcome. I also have a Google Calendar which I add to. Exhibitions in red are on now (in theory).

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Rothko in Britain 9-Sep-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/rothko-in-britain
Artists in Residence: Shiraz Bayjoo and DARTER 16-Dec-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/artists-in-residence-shiraz-bayjoo-and-darter
Government Art Collection: Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling Light 16-Dec-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/government-art-collection-selected-by-simon-schama-travelling-light
Zarina Bhimji 19-Jan-2012 9-Mar-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/zarina-bhimji
Steven Clayton: Culpable Earth 4-Feb-2012 7-May-2012 FirstSite Colchester http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/culpable-earth-2
Andrea Zittel, Lay of My Land 10-Feb-2012 20-May-2012 BALTIC Gateshead http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/future/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=161
Elizabeth Price 3-Feb-2012 27-May-2012 BALTIC Gateshead http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=160
Gillian Wearing 28-Mar-2012 17-Jun-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London Tickets http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/gillian-wearing
The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny: The Past Was A Mirage I Had Left Far Behind 7-Sep-2011 20-Jul-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-josiah-mcelheny-the-past-was-a-mirage-i-had-left-far-behind
The London Open 3-Oct-2012 25-Nov-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-open
Mel Bochner 12-Oct-2012 30-Dec-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/mel-bochner
Ends February 2012

London: National Gallery “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” 9-Nov-2011-5-Feb-2012
London: Serpentine Gallery “Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space” 7-Dec-2011-9-Feb-2012 http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/lygia_pape.html
London: Royal Academy of Arts Tennant Gallery “Driven to Draw: Twentieth-century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy’s Collection” 3-Nov-2011-12-Feb-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/the-tennant-gallery/
London: National Portrait Gallery “Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011” 10-Nov-2011-12-Feb-2012
London: Haunch of Venison 103 New Bond Street, London “The Mystery of Appearance” 7-Dec-2011-18-Feb-2012 http://haunchofvenison.com/exhibitions/current/the_mystery_of_appearance/
London: British Museum “Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman” 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/grayson_perry.aspx
London: Barbican Art Gallery “OMA/Progress” 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12472
* Chichester: Pallant House “Edward Burra” 22-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/edward-burra1/edward-burra
Birmingham: Birmingham Museum Gas Hall “Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists” 29-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1415
London: Tate Britain “Has The Film Already Started?” 27-Jun-2011-26-Feb-2012
London: V&A “The House of Annie Lennox” 15-Sep-2011-26-Feb-2012

Ends March 2012

Birmingham: Birmingham Museum Gallery 20 “A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest” 17-Sep-2011-4-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1538
London: Royal Academy of Arts Sir Hugh Casson Room “Contemporary prints from RA Editions” 2-Dec-2011-8-Mar-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hugh-casson-room-for-friends/prints-from-ra-editions,397,RAL.html
Gwynedd: Mostyn Gallery “Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer” 26-Nov-2011-10-Mar-2012
Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Modern Two “The Scottish Colourist Series: F C B Cadell” 22-Oct-2011-18-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/19917
Oxford: Modern Art Oxford “Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World” 10-Dec-2011-18-Mar-2012 http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/present/
Sheffield: Sheffield Graves “Blk Art Group” 27-Aug-2011-24-Mar-2012 http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/current/the-blk-art-group
* Birmingham: Birmingham Museum “Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration” 13-Jan-2012-25-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1389
London: Tate Modern “Photography: New Documentary Forms” 1-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Tate Modern “Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus” 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Tate Modern “Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer” 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Tate Modern “Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys” 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Missing” 1-Dec-2011-31-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/missing

( Ends April-December 2012 )

( Ends 2013 or Later )

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A listing of exhibitions which may interest me and others - information presented as is, check with websites etc before travelling, corrections invited. Some galleries close on Sundays, Mondays or Tuesdays, municipal ones might close at 4.00pm now.

Items in red are on at the moment, starred items are ones I'd recommend or really want to see.

Ends January 2012

Edinburgh: Elizabeth Blackadder Scottish National Gallery 2-Jul-2011-2-Jan-2012
London: Power of Making V&A 6-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012
London: Barry Flanagan Tate Britain 27-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012
Eastbourne : Franziska Furter Towner 8-Oct-2011-2-Jan-2012 (Y) http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/franziska-furter/
London: Love, Magic and Power V&A 10-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
Margate: Nothing in the World But Youth Turner Contemporary 17-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
London: Pipilotti Rist Hayward Gallery 28-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
* London: Gerhard Richter: Panorama Tate Modern 6-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
London: George Condo: Mental States Hayward Gallery 18-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
London: Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven Dulwich Picture Gallery 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/the_group_of_seven.aspx
London: Private Eye at 50 V&A Rooms 17a and 18a 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 (Free)
London: The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons National Portrait Gallery 20-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
* Gateshead: BALTIC Presents Turner Prize 2011 (Karla Black / Martin Boyce / Hilary Lloyd / George Shaw) BALTIC 21-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.balticmill.com
Nottingham: Klaus Weber: If You Leave Me I'm Not Coming Nottingham Contemporary 22-Oct-11-08 Jan 2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/klaus-weber
London: Hokusai's Great Wave British Museum 3-Nov-2011-8-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/hokusais_great_wave.aspx
* Bexhill: Warhol is Here De La Warr Pavilion 24-Sep-2011-9-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=1335
Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Traced Wolverhampton Art Gallery 15-Jan-2011-15-Jan-2012
London: John Martin: Apocalypse Tate Britain 21-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012
* London: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 V&A 38, 39, and North Court 24-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012
London: The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso Courtauld Institute of Art 13-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/future/index.shtml
Cardiff: Joseph Beuys National Museum Cardiff 22-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012
London: One Hundred and One Cartoonists Cartoon Museum 3-Nov-2011-21-Jan-2012 http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
* London: Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 Royal Academy of Arts Sackler Wing of Galleries 29-Oct-11-22-Jan-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/building-the-revolution/
Liverpool: Alice in Wonderland Tate Liverpool 4-Nov-2011-29-Jan-2012
Edinburgh: Turner in January Scottish National Gallery 1-Jan-2012-31-Jan-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-and-coming-soon/turner-in-january-2012

Ends Febuary 2012

London: Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan National Gallery 9-Nov-2011-5-Feb-2012
London: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 National Portrait Gallery 10-Nov-2011-12-Feb-2012
London: Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman British Museum 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/grayson_perry.aspx
London: OMA/Progress Barbican Art Gallery 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12472
* Chichester: Edward Burra Pallant House 22-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/edward-burra1/edward-burra
Birmingham: Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists Birmingham Museum Gas Hall 29-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1415
London: Has The Film Already Started? Tate Britain 27-Jun-2011-26-Feb-2012
London: The House of Annie Lennox V&A 15-Sep-2011-26-Feb-2012

Ends March 2012

Birmingham: A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest Birmingham Museum Gallery 20 17-Sep-2011-4-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1538
Gwynedd: Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer Mostyn Gallery 26-Nov-2011-10-Mar-2012
Edinburgh: The Scottish Colourist Series: F C B Cadell Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Modern Two 22-Oct-2011-18-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/19917
Birmingham: Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration Birmingham Museum 13-Jan-2012-25-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1389
London: Photography: New Documentary Forms Tate Modern 1-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
London: Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
Edinburgh: Missing Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1-Dec-2011-31-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/missing

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A bit out of practice with these - I need to update my listing, and I see there's a William Morris exhibition somewhere in London. As always, check with the venue before travelling - especially on Sundays and Mondays. Starred ones I want to see or have seen.

· London: "Only Connect" National Portrait Gallery 16-Apr-2011-27-Nov-2011

· * London: "Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism" V&A 38a 11-Aug-2011-27-Nov-2011 (Free)

· London: "Beatrix Potter: Botanical Illustrations" V&A 14-Jun-2011-11-Dec-2011

· London: "William Dobson: A Portrait Revealed" Courtauld Institute of Art 12-Sep-11-11-Dec-2011 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/future/index.shtml

· Kilmarnock, Ayrshire: "Artist Rooms: Bill Viola" The Dick Institute 3-Sep-2011-24-Dec-2011

· Birmingham: "Home of Metal" Birmingham Museum 18-Jun-2011-25-Dec-2011 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=893

· Birmingham: "Staffordshire Hoard" Birmingham Museum 24-Jul-2010-31-Dec-2011 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=892

· * London: "Wilhelm Sasnal" Whitechapel Gallery 14-Oct-2011-1-Jan-2012

· * Edinburgh: "Elizabeth Blackadder" Scottish National Gallery 2-Jul-2011-2-Jan-2012

· London: "Power of Making" V&A 6-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012

· * London: "Barry Flanagan" Tate Britain 27-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012

· Eastbourne : "Franziska Furter" Towner 8-Oct-2011-2-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/franziska-furter/

· London: "Love, Magic and Power" V&A 10-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * Margate: "Nothing in the World But Youth" Turner Contemporary 17-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * London: "Pipilotti Rist" Hayward Gallery 28-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * London: "Gerhard Richter: Panorama" Tate Modern 6-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * London: "George Condo: Mental States" Hayward Gallery 18-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * London: "Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" Dulwich Picture Gallery 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/the_group_of_seven.aspx

· * London: "Private Eye at 50" V&A Rooms 17a and 18a 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 (Free)

· * London: "The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons" National Portrait Gallery 20-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012

· * Gateshead: "BALTIC Presents Turner Prize 2011 (Karla Black / Martin Boyce / Hilary Lloyd / George Shaw)" BALTIC 21-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.balticmill.com

· * Bexhill: "Warhol is Here" De La Warr Pavilion 24-Sep-2011-9-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=1335

· Wolverhampton, West Midlands: "Traced" Wolverhampton Art Gallery 15-Jan-2011-15-Jan-2012

· * London: "John Martin: Apocalypse" Tate Britain 21-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012

· * London: "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990" V&A 38, 39, and North Court 24-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012

· London: "The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso" Courtauld Institute of Art 13-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/future/index.shtml

· Cardiff: "Joseph Beuys" National Museum Cardiff 22-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012

· * London: "Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935" Royal Academy of Arts Sackler Wing of Galleries 29-Oct-11-22-Jan-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/building-the-revolution/

· London: "Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman" British Museum 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/grayson_perry.aspx

· London: "OMA/Progress" Barbican Art Gallery 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12472

· * Chichester: "Edward Burra" Pallant House 22-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/edward-burra1/edward-burra [Going to Nottingham next year]

· Birmingham: "Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists" Birmingham Museum Gas Hall 29-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1415

· London: "Has The Film Already Started?" Tate Britain 27-Jun-2011-26-Feb-2012

· London: "The House of Annie Lennox" V&A 15-Sep-2011-26-Feb-2012

· London: "Andy Warhol" Museum and Contemporary Collection, Central St Martins 24-Sep-2011-26-Feb-2012

· Birmingham: "A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest" Birmingham Museum Gallery 20 17-Sep-2011-4-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1538

· Edinburgh: "The Scottish Colourist Series: F C B Cadell" Dean Gallery Modern Two 22-Oct-2011-18-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibition/5:368/19917

· London: "Photography: New Documentary Forms" Tate Modern 1-May-2011-31-Mar-2012

· * London: "Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus" Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012

· London: "Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer" Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012

· * London: "Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys" Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012

· London: "Artist Rooms: TBC Late" Tate Modern 1-Sep-2011-1-Apr-2012

· London: "The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean" Tate Modern 11-Oct-2011-9-Apr-2012

· Nottingham: "Klaus Weber: If You Leave Me I'm Not Coming" Nottingham Contemporary 22-Oct-11-08 Jan 2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/klaus-weber

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This sounds like a fun thing to do:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/events/765118/

Art Deco Tours

Date: 28 Jun, 26 Jul, 23 Aug, 20 Sept, and 18 Oct
Property:
Eltham Palace

Time: 11.30am and 2pm
Suitable for: Adults

Join an expert guide to tour the 1930s house and view its stunning interiors and furnishings, reflecting the high fashion of the 1930s. You will learn more about Art Deco as well as Stephen and Virginia Courtauld who built the house.

Tours last approx. 1 hour.
Tours are regularly over subscribed so we strongly recommend advance booking of the tour
How to Book

Please call the site on 0208 294 2548 to book a place on the tour. Payment is on the day.

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Junya Ishigami: Architecture as Air Jun 28–Oct 16 2011 Barbican Curve

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11988

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Partially updated - more to follow.

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I've gotten out of the habit of this - and consequently have missed a couple of things I might have had time to see... I've spent two hours updating my database, and note that I still need to add:

Baltic
~~British Museum~~
~~De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill~~
Laing, Newcastle
Kingston upon Thames Museum and Gallery
Nottingham Contemporary
~~Pallant, Chichester~~
~~Towner, Eastbourne~~
V&A

and no doubt more. As always check with venues before you go - some close on Mondays, some will close over Christmas/New Year, some will charge (get an Art Fund Card). I've ordered by order of closing - it might be counterintuitive, but it means you can prioritise. Let me know if you want me to add you to my Google Calendar for this information, which may be more straightforward to interrogate. Starred items are ones I really want to see, but I've increasing cynicism about doing these things with others, as they tend not to happen when it's convenient for me, and sometimes end up happening inconveniently...

Items in red are already underway - as far as I know.

Closes December 2010

Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele 25/9/2010—12/12/2010 Royal Academy Arts (Main)

Closes January 2011

Stephen Sutcliffe 1/10/2010-2/1/2011 Whitechapel Gallery
Turner Prize 2010 5/10/2010-2/1/2011 Tate Britain [recommended]
Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings 14/10/2010-2/1/2011 Whitechapel Gallery
Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South 1/10/2010-3/1/2011 De La Warr Pavilion [recommended]
Move: Choreographing You 13/10/2010-3/1/2011 Hayward Gallery
Peter Lanyon 9/9/2010-6/1/2011 Tate St Ives
No New Thing Under the Sun 21/10/2010—9/1/2011 RAA
Agents of the Buddha: 17th-century Japanese sculptures of Fugen and Monju 11/11/2010-9/1/2011 British Museum
* Gods & Monsters: John Deakin’s Portraits of British Artists 2/10/2010—10/1/2011 Pallant House, Chichester
Rachel Whiteread: Drawings 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain
Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals 13/10/2010-16/1/2011 National Gallery
Cezanne's Card Players 21/10/2010-16/1/2011 Courtauld Institute
Eadweard Muybridge 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain [recommended]
* Gaughin 30/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Modern
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1900-1939 18/9/2010-16/1/2011 V&A
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance 21/10/2010-23/1/2011 NPG
* Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 30/10/2010—23/1/2011 RAA (Sackler)
Ben Johnson: Modern Perspectives 8/12/2010-23/1/2011 National Gallery
Richard Wentworth: Three Guesses 6/11/2010-30/1/2011 Whitechapel Gallery
GSK Contemporary-Aware: Art Fashion Identity 2/12/2010—30/1/2011 RAA

Closes February 2011

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion 15/10/2010-16/2/2011 Barbican
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 11/11/2010-20/2/2011 NPG
Tomoaki Suzuki Solo Exhibition 11/12/2010-27/2/2011 Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

( Closes After February 2011 )

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Forgot to listen yesterday - The Seven Car Parks of Croydon - but it's on Listen, No, No, No, listen, Lissen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vk2fx/The_Seven_Car_Parks_of_Croydon/

Includes quote about how Croydon looks glorious from a distance.

Sue Perkins is challenging Mark Gatiss for ubiquity; I'm hearing/seeing more of her stuff, and didn't do any of her historical diet programmes.

On Women's Hour the astonishing revelation that all women have a relationship with food. Well, duh. And men do, too. Someone explained how she carefully didn't talk about diets, hid magazine on weight loss and lied about why she went to the gym, but still had a child with eating problems. No shit. I'd bet she tensed up each time she saw something. I recently discovered that both my mother and her mother went through periods of something akin to anorexia; it feels like my mother passed on her anxieties to her sons by trying not to pass them on. And pardon me for not realising that all the times I was offered a second helping I should have said no. Still, my responsibility.

There was another thing on R4 with Mariela Frostup, that only seemed to talk about obesity as a problem. I think I need a Susan Sontag of food, a la Illness as Metaphor. It's not clear to me who has the problem, and seems very localised rather than universal.

Article on Doonesbury: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/26/garry-trudeau-doonesbury-40

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Cartoon Museum, Little Russell Street

7 July - 5 September 2010
Toy Tales: Highlight from British Children's TV Animation

From Postgate to Peppa Pig

http://www.cartoonmuseum.org.whisky.webhoster.co.uk/site/

It's probably closest to Holborn - it's at the Coptic Street end of LRS, near the British Museum.

OPENING TIMES

Tuesday- Saturday 10.30-5.30.
Sunday 12.00 - 5.30
Please note we are always closed on Mondays including Bank Holiday Mondays.

ADMISSION
£5.50 Adults
£4 Concessions
£3 Students with valid student ID
Free to Under-18s, Art Fund Members and
Friends of the Cartoon Museum

I went to the Searle exhibition (who as always blurred in my head with Ralph Steadman, whom I always worry about confusing with Gerald Scarfe) on Saturday and enjoyed it, although I wasn't quite in the mood for the history of satire half of the exhibition.

I went as it was finishing, and I also finally caught up with the V&A's Walpole exhibition which is finishing (though might have been extended according to the V&A's powerpoint if not their webpage), and really should have tired harder for the 8.30 train since the V&A was packed, with a distinct bias towards female visitors - last day of Quilts, with long waiting times for the Grace Kelly exhibit, too. Whilst quilts are not my thing, I recall Greer's snide review/think piece, and note once more how the popular cannot, apparently, be any good. (The phrase "great lady scholar" leaps out from much self-serving - is that a scholar of great ladies? The despised Little Britain voices that word "Lay-dee" in my head.) I have a vision of people going to see it because of Greer. I wish I could respect her more, but she seems to have turned into an opinion machine.

Anyway, the Walpole was not as good as I expected - interesting in its own way of recreating the bits and pieces of Strawberry Hill, a sort of non-Catholic precursor to Pugin's house, two or three generations earlier. But I guess I wanted more of Walpole the novelist, and more of what he was reacting against - context. The book was forty quid, so I passed on it. One day I may interlibrary loan. And a trip to the restored building much be done. (I think I confused Strawberry Hill with Fonthill Abbey with its fallen tower - insert Derrida joke - and William Beckford? Vathek, not Otranto)

And once more I curse the bad signage of a design museum, who need to mark exhibition entries more clearly - an arrow left, perhaps?

I bought some podded peas and broad beans from the farmers' market, which turn out to come from Wye, about five miles from here. Ho hum.

And I had a strawberry and cream frappOWchinOW in celebration of Walpole - I suspect not the grande I asked for, and somewhat against better judgement as I tend to the neurOWWWgia with this kind of cold drink. No exception.

Copy of Mysterioso spotted and bought in Museum Street Oxfam - read years ago, a straighter Alan Plater novel. I guess it go on the shelves without a reread.

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Red events should be open now. Check with venue before travel.
Closes July 2010
• * Ronald Searle: Graphic Master 3/3/2010-4/7/2010 Cartoon Museum
• * Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill 6/3/2010-4/7/2010 V&A
• Quilts 20/3/2010-18/7/2010 V&A Exhibitions, Room 39 and North Court
• Semâ Bekirovic 23/6/2010-25/7/2010 Hayward Gallery

Closes August 2010

• * Henry Moore 24/2/2010-15/8/2010 Tate Britain Recommended
• The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art 9/6/2010-22/8/2010 Dulwich
• RAA: Summer Exhibition 2010 14/6/2010-22/8/2010 RAA
• Picasso: Peace and Freedom 21/5/2010-30/8/2010 Tate Liverpool
• Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying 30/4/2010-30/8/2010 Tate Liverpool

( Closes After August 2010 )
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A belated updating - red events should be open now. Check with venue before travel.

Closes in May 2010

Chris Ofili 27/1/10-16/5/10 Tate Britain
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World 4/2/2010-16/5/2010 Tate Modern Recommended
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey 24/2/2010-23/5/2010 National Gallery

Closes in June 2010

Irving Penn Portraits 18/22/2010-6/6/2010 National Portrait Gallery
Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light 17/3/2010-13/6/2010 National Gallery
Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition 13/3/2010-13/6/2010 RAA, Sackler Wing
Modern Times: Responding to Chaos 3/4/2010-13/6/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Tony Bevan 3/4/2010-13/6/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Barbara Rae RA: Prints 19/4/2010-20/6/2010 RAA
Underwater 3/4/2010-20/6/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
The Indian Portrait 1560 - 1860 11/3/2010-20/6/2010 National Portrait Gallery
Relics of old London: Photography and the spirit of the city 10/2/2010-22/6/2010 RAA, Architecture space
Treasures from Medieval York: England’s other capital - 27/6/2010 British Museum

( Closes after June 2010 )

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I've let this get a little out of date - I need to check the Tates, Towner, Chichester and others, and add Nottingham. I have a Google Calendar which I can give people access to.

Check with venue before travelling - exhibitions get cancelled or renamed. I cannot speak to cost of entry but recommend joining the Art Fund.

These are sorted by order of closure - it's a see now before it shuts aide memoire. Red items are running now. Starred events are ones I really want to see.

Closes in January 2010

Sons of Pioneers: Matthew Houlding 16/10/2009-3/1/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Mind into Matter [architecture] 16/10/2009-3/1/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 10/9/2009-10/1/2010 National Maritime Museum
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art 10/10/2009-10/1/2010 Tate St Ives
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty 13/10/2009-10/1/2010 Tate Modern
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism 26/9/2009-10/1/2010 Manchester Art Gallery
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely 2/10/2010-10/1/2010 Tate Liverpool
Martin Parr Parrworld 17/10/2009-10/1/2010 Baltic, Gateshead
Jeremy Millar: Given 24/9/2009-17/1/2010 National Maritime Museum:
Pop Life [was Sold Out] 1/10/2009-17/1/2010 Tate Modern
Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts 10/10/2009-17/1/2010 V&A
Drawing Attention: Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso and more 21/10/2009-17/1/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery
Turner and the Masters 23/9/2009-24/1/2010 Tate Britain
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler 24/9/2009-24/1/2010 British Museum
Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed 15/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Portrait Gallery
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700 21/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Gallery Admission Charge
The Making of a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture 21/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Gallery
Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill 24/10/2009-24/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
30 Years of Viz 4/11/2009-24/1/2010 Cartoon Museum
Order: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in Architecture 16/10/2009-30/1/2010 Sir John Soanes Museum
Capturing the Concept: The Sketchbooks of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA from 1982 to 2007 6/11/2009-31/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts FREE
RAA GSK Contemporary 2009 3/12/2009-31/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts-Burlington Gardens

Closes in February 2010

Kienholz, Hoerengracht 18/11/2009-21/2/2010 National Gallery Free admission

Closes in March 2010

Objects of Luxury: French porcelain of the eighteenth century /9/2009-/3/2010 V&A Room 146 Free admission
Only Joking 27/1/2010-1/3/2010 Cartoon Museum
Points of View: Capturing the 19th century in photographs 30/10/2009-7/3/2010 British Library
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
Ergonomics: Real Design 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
British Council Collection: Thresholds 9/1/2010-12/3/2010 Whitechapel
I shake you by the hand, comrade Bacon: British Art Abroad 19/12/2009-14/3/2010 Whitechapel
The Rise of Women Artists 23/10/2009-14/3/2010 Liverpool Walker Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe Artist Rooms 19/12/2009- Sheffield-Graves Art Gallery
Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals 2/10/2009-21/3/2010 Tate Liverpool

( Closes After 1 April 2010 )

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When Joseph Beuys crashed his plane during the Second World War, the Tartars who rescued him rubbed animal fat on his body, and wrapped him in felt. It should be no surprise to see felt and animal fat as recurrent elements in his ready mades and central to his art.

Beuys is the subject of the Artist Rooms exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea. The Artist Rooms series of exhibitions are sponsored by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, and are scattered around the country - Warhol in Walsall, Mapplethorpe in Sheffield - but you need to do some digging to find the dates and locations of them (the Tate's own website not being that informative - http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/featuredworks_doffay.htm is one way in), and seems to be built around the donation of Anthony d’Offay (see also http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/24/artist-rooms). ETA: http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/artistrooms/ gives dates and venues

( Beuys is Here )

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I've been fiddling about with listing of exhibitions, and trying to get a database of these together, ordered by closing date. I know of various other venues not listed here (it is London centric), which I'll add in due course, and it's been a battle to use Mail Merge (I went back to cut and replace). Anyway, I hope to go to some of the following:

GSK Contemporary 31/10/2008–19/1/2009 Royal Academy 6 Burlington Gardens London
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations 26/11/2008–15/2/2009 Dulwich Picture Gallery London
Sisley in England and Wales 12/11/2008–22/2/2009 National Gallery Sunley Room Free admission London
Beatrix Potter: The Art of Leaving Out 1/9/2008–27/2/2009 V&A Room 85 Free admission London
Anthem: William Furlong 24/1/2009–15/3/2009 De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea
Videofile: Michael Nyman 24/1/2009–15/3/2009 De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea
Byzantium 330-1453 25/10/2008–22/3/2009 Royal Academy London
The Olympic Stadium Project: Le Corbusier and Baghdad 9/10/2008–29/3/2009 V&A Architecture, Room 128a Free admission London
Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy 31/1/2009–13/4/2009 Royal Academy In the Main Galleries London
Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece 10/2/2009–3/5/2009 Dulwich Picture Gallery London
Exhibition: Treasures of the Black Death 19/2/2009–10/5/2009 Wallace Collection London
The Booker 40 at the V&A 6/9/2008–17/5/2009 V&A London
Sickert in Venice 4/3/2009–31/5/2009 Dulwich Picture Gallery London
Picasso: Challenging the Past 25/2/2009–7/6/2009 National Gallery Admission Charge London
Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence 4/4/2009–19/7/2009 V&A V&A Exhibitions, Rooms 38, 39 and North Court London
JW Waterhouse RA 27/6/2009–13/9/2009 Royal Academy Sackler Wing of Galleries London
Futurism 12/6/2009–20/9/2009 Tate Modern London
Telling Tales 14/7/2009–18/10/2009 V&A The Porter Gallery Free admission London
Turner and the Masters 23/9/2009–24/1/2010 Tate Britain London
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill 6/3/2010–4/7/2010 V&A London
Love, Magic and Power 10/9/2011–8/1/2012 V&A London
Postmodernism 8/10/2011–15/1/2012 V&A Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court London
Aestheticism: Beauty in Art and Design 1860-1900 4/7/2011–// V&A London

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I went to two exhibitions in London yesterday, both worth a look.

But note once more the curse of the modern cultural world - something that's easy to do if you know how, but nearly impossible if not. Arriving at the V&A there were signs to tickets and the exhibition in question. I don't mind paying - that way I get some use out of my Art Fund card. But why hide the place you have to pay so far from where the exhibition itself is? You can employ someone to sell audio guides outside the exhibition, but not tickets? And, yes, okay, the ticket hall was signed, but in a list of items on a sign I walked past and didn't notice. And I notice things (Like Moomin mugs in shop windows).

And this is a chuffing design museum.

( Cold War Modern )

( Francis Bacon )

It's a long way away, but I note Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

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Good Architecture

Last Saturday the RIBA Stirling Prize went to Accordia, a multi-practice designed housing estate in Cambridge. At least it didn't go to the Brazil and They Live inspired academy nor the filing cabinet of the Manchester court building. I was interested to see that seeing footage of the buildings rather than just still photos didn't improve my judgement of what I thought weak, but it made me more fascinated by the two railway projects.

McCloud pointed out that all of the projects were public realm - there wasn't a office among them.

I still thought Accordia was toytown.

Bad Architecture

A while back we lost the latest in a range of Bamboo Furniture shops, whose lack of custom was perhaps a function of a) erratic opening hours b) a better bamboo furniture shop next to Churchill's and Netto and c) it's a sodding bamboo furniture shop. The shop was demolished to make way for a restaurant and what sounded like an unfeasible number of studio apartments. It seemed to go up fairly fast, with metal frames, and is situated between a pretty ugly brick Wilkinson's and a pretty ugly brick office building. It faces onto part of the city wall, about level with the (I'm not making this up) Strict and Particular Baptist Church.

It wouldn't take much to improve on what was there but - they didn't have much.

It feels a bit blocky to me: although until the wood is removed from what is presumably the restaurant, it's perhaps too early to tell. There's a glass block at the top, a white overhang (with windows), a series of brown squares (with windows) and wooden coverings, and five pillars apparently holding up the overhang. Three of these are round, two of them are oblong, and it just looks silly to alternate them. Why the solo window above what is supposed to be a doorway?

By chance I came across a poster advertising the new building, which seems to have been designed for students (studio living above a restaurant? really?). I can't help but feel that the atmosphere of the picture has not been caught in the photo - which may of course be my fault.

Another factor is the workmanship: the dark brown squares don't seem quite aligned, the oblong columns are off-centre compared to the concrete footing, and on the circular columns the casings aren't quite flush. It just looks off. It presumably is only going to get worse. The columns are already dirty.

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In anticipation of Saturday's award ceremony, the short-list (note I'm judging these from what I've read and photos - and see also http://www.channel4.com/4homes/architecture/riba-stirling-prize/):

Accordia
Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios/Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington
Copyright: Tim Crocker
Client: Countryside Properties
Award: RIBA Award

A garden surburb development in Cambridge - high density housing but with sizeable living space. Looks a bit blocky for my taste, with odd chimneys. See http://www.cabe.org.uk/casestudies.aspx?csid=1291&imgid=4

Biljmer Station
Architect: Grimshaw/Arcadis
Copyright: Ger van der Vlugt
Client: Prorail/City of Amsterdam
Award: RIBA European Award

Cool looking station in Amsterdam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dizono/2889455715/sizes/s/
Brings together railway, a bus station, access to the Ajax stadium, a loggia and a public housing estate. Sexier than St Pancras.

Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall
Copyright: Tim Griffith
Client: Allied London
Award: RIBA Award

Huge (biggest since Royal Courts of Justice) courthouse, likely to be nicknamed the filing cabinet. Looks like a collection of grey Lego bricks for the central building with colour glass chambers poking out the sides. Apparently very good for the environment - with natural ventilation. I don't like it, but it does look good in polarise light (see http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Manchester%20Civil%20Justice%20Centre&w=all&s=int)

Nordpark Cable Railway
Architect: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Copyright: Werner Huthmacher
Client: Nordpark
Award: RIBA European Award

A cable railway in Innsbruck with four stations which mixed concrete and curved glass. Looks sensuous and pretty.

Royal Festival Hall
Architect: Allies and Morrison
Copyright: Dennis Gilbert
Client: Ian Blackburn
Award: RIBA Award

A makeover of a mid-twentieth century friend, reorientating the building and freeing up public space by shifting the offices elsewhere. I have to say that I liked it the way it was, and on my visit there felt disoriented in a way I hadn't before.

See http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2584787423_4ef1c63609_m.jpg

Westminster Academy
Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Copyright: Tim Soar
Client: Westminster Academy/ Westminster Council
Award: RIBA Award

Frankly looks like a glassed in multistorey car park. From a concrete plaza near the Westway you enter a atrium which is surrounded by teaching spaces - and educational slogans that defy parody.
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/globaldimension/2878826702/sizes/s/ Communication, Global Citizenship and Enterprise. Bleuh. Stephen Bayley calls it a toponymic subterfuge

On screen, I'd go for one of the two railways.

Note the lack of Terminal 5, St Pancras (last year?) and Wembley from the shortlist

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