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National Portrait GalleryV&ADulwich Picture Gallery
Tate Modern  | Tate Britain  | Tate Liverpool
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
National Galleries of Scotland
 
 

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National Portrait Gallery

Studies on Light: Twilight, 1859

Address
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE


Phone
020 7306 0055


Dates
15 July - 24 October

For more information visit the National Portrait Gallery website.

Camille Silvy - Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910

In the 1850s, when Camille Silvy gave up his career as a diplomat to devote himself to photography, it was an art in its infancy. Within a few years, Silvy had helped transform the medium by demonstrating its almost limitless creative potential.

Examples from his early work include images documenting an official trip to Algeria and pictures of French rural and small-town life. Moving to London, he set up a highly successful commercial studio, producing thousands of society portraits. But alongside the glamour, he also explored the mysteries of London street life, using pioneering special effects to give evocative and ethereal views of the smoke-filled city.


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V&A

Erwin Blumenfeld, Portrait of Grace Kelly, New York, 1955. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2009 (click image for larger version)

Address
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

Phone
01223 332900

Dates
Until 26 September


For more information visit the V&A website.

Grace Kelly: Style Icon


This exhibition shows the spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly, one of the most popular actresses of the 1950s.

Featuring dresses from her films including High Society and Rear Window, as well as the gown she wore to accept her Oscar in 1955, the display will examine Grace Kelly's glamorous Hollywood image and induring appeal.


Admission: £6
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Dulwich Picture Gallery

Salvator Rosa, Lucrezia as Poetry, c.1641, The Wadsworth Athenuem
 

Address
Gallery Road, Dulwich London, SE21 7AD

Phone
020 8692 5254


Dates
15 September to 28 November


For more information visit the Dulwich Picture Gallery website.

 

Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673): bandits, wilderness and magic


A true rebel, both artistically and socially, Salvator Rosa's fantastical sense of drama and intensity broke away from the traditional genres of his age.

Hinting at Rosa's tempestuous life, his paintings have an exciting freshness that still fascinates nearly four hundred years after his birth. Through frightening  landscapes, melancholic allegories and romantic portraits, the viewer is swept up in the artist's intriguing and dazzling imagination.


 

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Tate Modern

georges dudognon, greta garbo

Address
Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Phone
020 7887 8888

Dates
until 3 October

For more information visit the Tate Modern website.

Exposed Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking and illuminating perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.

It presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers including Brassaï's erotic Secret Paris; Weegee's iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe; and Nick Ut's reportage image of children escaping napalm attacks in the Vietnam War.


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Francis Alÿs, Le Temps du Sommeil, 1996, Present collection of the artist © Francis Alÿs Photo: Jorge Golem

Address
Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Phone
020 7887 8888

Dates
until 5 September

For more information visit the Tate Modern website.

Francis Alÿs

This major new exhibition is the most comprehensive to date of the celebrated artist Francis Alÿs . It features many works unseen in Britain, as well as premiering the major new work Tornado 2000–10.

Alÿs explores subjects such as modernising programmes in Latin America and border zones in areas of conflict, often asking about the relevance of poetic acts in politicised situations.


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Tate Britain

Rude Britannia Tate Britain

Address
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

Phone
020 7887 8888

Dates
until 5 September

For more information visit the Tate Britain website.

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art

Put together with some the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers, this exhibition explores British comic art from the 1600s to the present day.

Looking at comedy that is both timeless and of-its-time, Rude Britannia contrasts contemporary artists such as Angus Fairhurst with key historical pieces, and covers everything from Hogarth to the YBAs.


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Tate Liverpool

Pablo Picasso Black Jug and Skull 1946

Address
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB

Phone
0151 702 7400


Dates
21 May - 31 August

For more information visit the Tate Liverpool website

Picasso: Peace and Freedom

A fascinating look into Picasso's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, this major exhibition challenges the widely held view of him as the playboy of the 20th-century artworld, and explores in depth hid post-war output.

The show brings together over 150 works by Picasso from collections around the world, and features key pieces relating to war and peace from 1944 to 1973, including examples of his work during the Cold War era.



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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

glasgow boys exhibition at kelvingrove

Address
Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AG


Phone
0141 276 9599


Dates
until 27 September

For more information visit the Kelvingrove art gallery and museum website.

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 is the definitive exhibition of the Glasgow Boys' work. This stunning exhibition is accompanied by a wide-ranging events programme that will give everyone the opportunity to discover the Glasgow Boys in lots of exciting ways.


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National Galleries of Scotland

Christen Købke, One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle, c.1834 − The David Collection, Copenhagen

Address
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL


Phone
0131 624 6336


Dates
until 3 October

For more information visit the National Galleries of Scotland website.

Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light

Introducing one of the most remarkable European artists of the nineteenth century to British audiences, Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light is the first major exhibition of paintings by Christen Købke to be shown outside Denmark.

Købke was a pre-eminent painter in his country and one of the foremost talents of Denmark's Golden Age.The exhibition features around 40 of Købke's most celebrated works, spanning a variety of genres. Giving an overview of Købke's achievement within its cultural context, the exhibition emphasises his exquisite originality and experimental outlook.


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Dean Gallery

Le Temps Menaçant (Threatening Weather), René Magritte © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2004

 

Address
75 Belford Road,
Edinburgh,
EH4 3DR


Phone
0131 624 6200


Dates
until 9 January 2011

For more information visit the National Galleries of Scotland website.

Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists

Another World, the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's 50th anniversary celebrations, will offer a fascinating overview of one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century.

The exhibition will include a comprehensive survey of surrealist art, bringing together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró.


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National Gallery Complex

Charles Courtney Curran, Lotus Lilies, 1888 − Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago

Address
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL


Phone
0131 624 6336


Dates
31 July - 17 October

For more information visit the National Galleries of Scotland website.

Impressionist Gardens

Impressionist Gardens will be a major international exhibition of over 90 works, and will be the first ever to be devoted to this subject, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley.

The exhibition will examine the continued significance of the Impressionist garden to the generation of artists working immediately after the Impressionists, such as Cézanne and Bonnard and works by European and American artists, such Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt and John Singer Sargent.


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