RODIN'S THE KISS
Oct 4, 2011 - Sep 2, 2012
The Kiss (1901-04) will be installed in the Sunley Gallery.
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JAMES HAMILTON
May 03, 2012 6:00pm talk/event
Turner biographer and curator James Hamilton gives a lecture on how a passionate curiosity about nature underpins Turner’s painting of land, sky and sea and examines how the painter’s powers of observation found echo in scientific discovery.
Talk £5 / £4 concessions.
Further info: www.turnercontemporary.org

SHE LAY DOWN DEEP BENEATH THE SEA TRACY EMIN AT TURNER CONTEMPORARY
May 26 - Sep 23, 2012
Turner Contemporary is delighted to be working with Tracey Emin on a one- person exhibition for summer 2012. The exhibition is conceived specially for Margate, where Emin grew up and which has provided inspiration for many of her most famous art works.
The exhibition will explore the themes of love, sex and romanticism in Emin’s oeuvre. It will feature both new and existing works, including drawings, monoprints, sculptures and neon’s and will be installed throughout Turner Contemporary’s suite of first-floor galleries.
The exhibition’s central themes are continued in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin, JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss will be on show at Turner Contemporary from 4 October 2011. These three very different artists have not been considered jointly before and yet their works share, to varying degrees, an interest in the sexual side of life and female sexuality in particular.

ALEX KATZ
Oct 6, 2012 - Jan 13, 2013
Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists. In 2012 Katz will celebrate his 85th birthday, and a career that spans a remarkable six decades.
For his exhibition at Turner Contemporary Katz brings together over 30 canvases, plus collages and cut-outs, that span the full breadth of his career from the 1950s to now.
To accompany the show Katz has made a personal selection of works from the Tate Collection. Drawn from British, European and American artists, he brings together an illuminating cross-generational selection of artists for this special display.