BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : CAMDEN TOWN GROUP DRAWINGS
to Mar 18, 2012
Admission Free.
The Camden Town Group was a London-based society of sixteen artists who exhibited together three times in 1911 and 1912. The group encompassed a diverse array of styles and objectives, and ultimately disbanded due to artistic differences. Despite the brief nature of their alliance, their association heralded the absorption of European Post-Impressionism into contemporary British art, and witnessed a new desire for art to feature subjects taken from modern life. To mark the centenary of the group’s formation, this display focuses on one of their shared concerns, the important role in artistic practice of drawing.
This display has been devised by curator, Nicola Moorby, and coincides with the completion of the Camden Town Group Online Research Project, a major new online resource, supported by the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation and the Getty Foundation.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : SKYING: LOOKING AT CLOUDS
to Sep 02, 2012
Admission Free.
John Constable, best known for his preoccupation with recording clouds at different times of the day and year, once wrote "I have done a good deal of skying." Featuring the work of six Romantic artists, this display examines a range of approaches to representing atmospheric effects in landscape, from the diagrammatic exemplars of Alexander Cozens, to the Sublime, dramatic sunsets and storms of Turner.
Supported by BP

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS: HAS THE FILM ALREADY STARTED?
Jun 27, 2011 - Feb 26, 2012
Admission Free.

Presented in a newly re-hung suite of contemporary galleries, works by artists including Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enrico David, Cathy Wilkes and David Musgrave will form part of an atmospheric installation.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : DON MCCULLIN
Aug 15, 2011 - Mar 4, 2012
Admission Free.
Don McCullin is internationally known as one of the greatest war photographers. His display at Tate Britain will show a broader and more diverse aspect of his documentary photography, including his depictions of the homeless in East London, a divided post-war Berlin in the 1960s and his landscapes, ranging from urban to rural scenes.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : THIN BLACK LINE(S)
Aug 22, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
Admission Free. 

This display focuses on the contribution of Black and Asian women artists to British art in the 1980s. Taking as its starting point three seminal exhibitions curated by artist Lubaina Himid in London from 1983 to 1985, the display charts the coming to voice of a radical generation of British artists who challenged their collective invisibility in the art world and engaged in their art with the wider social and political issues of 1980s Britain and the world.

NEW VISION CENTRE, SIGNALS AND INDICA
Oct 24, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
BP British Art Displays: Gallery One.
A look at the work of four avant garde London galleries in the 1950s and 60s, including work by Yves Klein and Hélio Oiticica.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : RUBENS AND BRITAIN
Nov 21, 2011 - May 6, 2012
A draftsman of extraordinary imagination, energy and skill, Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was the leading Flemish exponent of baroque painting and the most successful international artist of the seventeenth century, producing works for several of Europe’s crowned heads. A new display at Tate Britain explores this artist’s connections with Britain’s monarchy and court through a group of key works including significant loans.
Supported by BP

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : ATLANTIC BRITAIN
Dec 5, 2011 - Nov 4, 2012
The history of British art has often been told as an ‘island story’, as if the visual arts were directly shaped by the immediate social and physical environment. The modesty and naturalism of British art has been explained with reference to a mythic ‘national character’. However, all the paintings displayed here illuminate a different history – that of the ‘Atlantic world’ which connected Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Supported by BP

MIGRATIONS
Jan 31 - Aug 12, 2012
Tate Britain, Upper Floor
£6.60 (£5.50)
Free for Members and Patrons
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
This exhibition will explore British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global landscape, the exhibition will reveal how British art has been fundamentally shaped by successive waves of migration.

PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART
Feb 15 - Jul 15, 2012
Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 every Friday
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
In February 2012 Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso & Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition will explore Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which his work was exhibited and collected here during his lifetime, and demonstrating that the British engagement with Picasso and his art was much deeper and more varied than generally has been appreciated.

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PHOTOGRAPHY : NEW DOCUMENTARY FORMS
May 1, 2011 - Mar 31, 2012
Admission free.
New Documentary Forms explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Consisting entirely of new acquisitions to the Tate Collection, it includes recent work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim and Akram Zaatari. This display will also include two important early works by Boris Mikhailov, including Red 1968-1975, which has been acquired with the support of the Art Fund. 

THE UNILEVER SERIES : TACITA DEAN
Oct 11, 2011 - Mar 11, 2012
Admission free.
Tate Modern has unveiled the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series by the artist Tacita Dean. Entitled FILM, the work is an eleven-minute silent 35mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall.

LEVEL 2 GALLERY EXHIBITION
Jan 27 - Apr 1, 2012
Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery
Free admission.
This project is the outcome of a curatorial collaboration and exchange between Tate Modern, London and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City. Resulting from dialogue between curators at both institutions, the final project will have a manifestation at each venue. The collaboration with SAPS is part of the Level 2 Gallery programme of exchanges and partnerships between Tate and cultural organisations in cities such as Amman, Lagos and Istanbul.
The Level 2 Gallery programme has been made possible with the generous support of Catherine Petitgas

YAYOI KUSAMA
Feb 9 - Jun 5, 2012
Supported by Louis Vuitton
Open every day from 10.00 – 18.00 and late night until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
Yayoi Kusama’s (b.1929) pioneering work spans over six decades and this exhibition will highlight the artist’s moments of most intense innovation. Kusama is one of Japan’s best-known living artists and since the 1940s she has developed an extensive body of work. From her earliest explorations of painting in provincial Japan to new unseen works, the exhibition will reveal a history of successive developments and daring advances, demonstrating why Kusama remains one of the most engaging practitioners today.

ALIGHIERO BOETTI
Feb 28 - May 27, 2012
Tate Modern, Level 4
Open every day from 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
One of the most influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) will be the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern in spring 2012. Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan will be the first large-scale retrospective of Boetti’s work to be held outside Italy in over a decade highlighting his often playful exploration of numeric, linguistic and classificatory systems, as well as his engagement with the people and politics of Afghanistan.

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LYNDA BENGLIS
Feb 10 - Mar 17, 2012
Thomas Dane Gallery is very pleased to present the first solo presentation in London of eminent American artist Lynda Benglis. The exhibition will include historic sculptural and video works from the 60's and 70's as well as more recent work from the 90's. The exhibition has been conceived in collaboration with Cheim & Read, New York and the artist who will be present at the private view.
Linda Benglis will be in conversation with Gregor Muir, Director of the ICA on Friday 10 February as part of the Culture Now series. For more information, please visit the ICA website: ica.org.uk

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SEAN SCULLY : CHANGE AND HORIZONTALS
Jan 13 - Feb 11, 2012 FINAL WEEK
Co-curated by Brett Littman and Joanna Kleinberg of The Drawing Center, New York.

ROBERT ADAMS, ROBERT BECHTLE AND EWAN GIBBS
Feb 23 - Mar 24, 2012
Private view Wed Feb 22 6pm - 8pm
Timothy Taylor Gallery is proud to present an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.
 
The exhibition will be Ewan Gibbs’ third at Timothy Taylor Gallery, and the first time the gallery has presented works by Robert Adams and Robert Bechtle. Gibbs will show new pencil drawings of photographs taken on a road trip from the East to West coasts of the USA, while Bechtle will show drawings in charcoal focused on his home city of San Francisco. The Adams works selected for the show include a series of black and white photographs from the 1970s of the Colorado landscapes found close to his home.

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TOM WOOLNER
Jan 25 - Feb 11, 2012 FINAL WEEK
Tom Woolner is developing his playful, cartoon-dumb language into sculptural pieces in, and for, the gallery space.

GEORGE EKSTS: INFINIALS
Feb 29 - Mar 31, 2012
Private view Tue Feb 28 6pm - 8am

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ROUSSEAU 300 NATURE, SELF AND STATE
Jan 8 - Apr 27, 2012
This exhibition features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces and translations. The display highlights his unique and interdisciplinary characteristics as a philosopher who not only wrote on politics, economics and education, but also composed music and wrote best-selling novels. A significant part is dedicated to Rousseau’s engagement with the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Locke) and his own posthumous reception by revolutionaries and conservatives alike. Featuring objects from UCL’s collections, the British Museum and the Voltaire Foundation, the show coincides with an international conference marking Rousseau’s tercentenary and a special performance of his rarely produced opera, Le Devin du village (UCL, 19-21 April 2012).
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BERNHARD MARTIN : BELL CAZZO - VITA FIGA (PART TWO)
Jan 27 - Mar 3, 2012

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STELLA VINE
Jan 19 - Feb 19, 2012
solo exhibition

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AI WEIWEI : DROPPING THE URN
Oct 15, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
(Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010)
 
This display presents work by Beijing based artist Ai Weiwei, one of the most prominent artists working in China today. Featuring a selection of ceramic works, photographs and video this is a rare opportunity to view some of the most iconic works in the field of Chinese contemporary art.
Through his work Ai addresses issues pertinent to contemporary China; notably the loss of historic material culture due to rapid modernization and the effects of the global economy on traditional modes of production. His work also engages with broader themes, including perceptions of value, mass production and globalization.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II BY CECIL BEATON
Feb 8 - Apr 22, 2012
A Diamond Jubilee Celebration.
This exhibition features portraits of Her Majesty the Queen by great society photographer Cecil Beaton. It shows the Queen in her roles as princess, monarch and mother and coincides with the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. There are nearly 100 images from war time to official portraits and informal moments of the Queen at home. The exhibition includes a number of never seen before photographs as well as film clips and Beaton's personal scrapbooks and shows how the image of the monarchy changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century.

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BRIAN GRIFFITHS : THE INVISIBLE SHOW
Jan 12 - Feb 19, 2012
New work.
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THE PIANO LESSON
Feb 26 - Mar 25, 2012
Private view Sat Feb 25
CHARLES ATLAS, MICHELE ABELES,
WILL BENEDICT, DAS INSTITUT,
NICHOLAS BYRNE, LUIGI GHIRRI,
DIANNA MOLZAN, HANNAH SAWTELL,
MARKUS SELG & JOSEF STRAU
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JONATHAN VINER GALLERY IS OPENING A NEW SPACE IN MAYFAIR
in February 2012
Please contact gallery for details.

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