Why This Is Hell

Exhibitions for Expotitions

2012-02-01T23:41:04Z

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).

ETA:
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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PSA: Toy Tales

2010-07-25T20:42:26Z

Cartoon Museum, Little Russell Street, London

Toy Tales features some of the most popular animated children’s programmes produced in Britain over the last fifty years. Watched by generations of children - and adults – these animated characters retain the power to entertain and enchant long after they first appeared.

The exhibition has something for children and parents alike. There are over 100 items on show including drawn backgrounds and cut-outs, models, posters, animation cels and even a Clangers set. It provides insights into the creative process of animation including scripts, storyboards, preparatory drawings, animators’ notes and ‘animatics’ [early versions] as well as clips from the various films.

More here: http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/

Anyone who saw the two Canterbury Clangers/Postgate restrospectives will be familiar with the Smallfilms stuff - Clangers set, the Bagpuss, (but did you know Prof Yaffle was part inspired by G.D.H. Cole and part by Bertrand Russell?), backgrounds for Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, etc. Plus Roobarb and Custard, Wallace and Gromit, The Snowman, Famous Fred, Bob the Builder and something called Pepa Pig

Plus:
Making Things: An Evening with Peter Firmin
Wednesday 1st Septemeber 6.30-7.30, 020 75808155 Adults £5, Concessions £4.

He's getting on a bit, but he seemed hale and hearty when I sat next to him late last year.

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Exhibitions for Expotitions

2010-04-01T13:37:42Z

Closes in April 2010

The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka 13/10/2009-5/4/2010 Tate Modern
A Different View 9/9/2009-11/4/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 21/1/2010-11/4/2010 Whitechapel
Deutsch Borse Photography Prize 12/2/2010-17/4/2010 Photographers Gallery
Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul 21/1/2010-18/4/2010 Whitechapel
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters 23/1/2010-18/4/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic 21/1/2010-25/4/2010 Tate Liverpool

Closes in May 2010

* Mrs Delany and Her Circle 19/2/2010-1/5/2010 Sir John Soane's Museum
* Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective 10/2/2010-3/5/2010 Tate Modern
* Celeste Boursier-Mougenot New commission for The Curve 27/2/2010-3/5/2010 Barbican
Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa 4/3/2010-6/5/2010 British Museum
Paul Nash: The Elements 10/2/2010-9/5/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery Recommended
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 after May 2010 )

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Exhibitions for Expotitions

2010-03-02T20:24:36Z

I've let this get a little out of date - I need to check various places again. 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 March 2010

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
Richard Grayson 16/1/2010-14/3/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Robert Mapplethorpe Artist Rooms 19/12/2009- Sheffield-Graves Art Gallery
Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals 2/10/2009-21/3/2010 Tate Liverpool
Dark Monarch 23/1/2010-21/3/2010 Towner, Eastbourne

Closes in April 2010

The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka 13/10/2009-5/4/2010 Tate Modern
A Different View 9/9/2009-11/4/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 21/1/2010-11/4/2010 Whitechapel
Deutsch Borse Photography Prize 12/2/2010-17/4/2010 Photographers Gallery
Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul 21/1/2010-18/4/2010 Whitechapel
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters 23/1/2010-18/4/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic 21/1/2010-25/4/2010 Tate Liverpool

( Later Exhibitions )

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Exhibitions for Expotitions

2010-01-08T23:11:09Z

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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