Art history? No, we're starting this month with an exhibition that we'll be tagging #artherstory on social media. Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 opens at Tate Britain in London on May 16, with the aim of charting the path of women to being recognised as professional artists over the centuries. More than 100 will be represented: relatively widely known names such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffman , Gwen John and Laura Knight , as well as the more obscure or neglected -- Levina Teerlinc, Mary Beale and Sarah Biffin . It's on till October 13, and as we've just seen a show in Germany focused on women artists over much the same timescale, we'll be keen to compare and contrast. Let's stick with a female theme. A short stroll up Millbank and across Lambeth Bridge, and you're at the Garden Museum, where from May 15 to September 29 you can see Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors . The show takes you around the gardens of Vane
The blockbuster is Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy at Tate Modern, which runs from March 8 to September 9. It's the first ever solo Picasso show there, and the Tate is calling it one of the most significant it's ever staged. More than 100 works will take the visitor on a month-by-month journey through a pivotal year in Picasso's life. When it was on at the Musee Picasso in Paris, this exhibition was called 1932: Année Erotique, but you can imagine the Tate might have had trouble with that for its posters on the Tube... Be warned, this show appears to set a new standard for London ticket prices at £22 (they cost half that -- 12.50 euros -- in Paris).
The National Portrait Gallery offers Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography from March 1 to May 20, featuring pictures by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. There's more camerawork at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in The Great British Seaside, including new material by Martin Parr.
The National Portrait Gallery offers Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography from March 1 to May 20, featuring pictures by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. There's more camerawork at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in The Great British Seaside, including new material by Martin Parr.
Tacita Dean, who works mainly in film, will be ubiquitous this spring, with shows exploring the Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery and Still Life at the National Gallery, both on from March 15 to May 28. A third exhibition looking at Landscape opens at the Royal Academy in May.
An intriguing-sounding show at the Whitechapel Gallery promises a first view of the public artworks commissioned for London's Crossrail project. Art for the Elizabeth Line opens March 13 and runs through to May 6.
Moving outside the capital, the Ashmolean in Oxford is highlighting American art from the 1920s and 30s, with major loans from the Metropolitan Museum in New York and many works on view in the UK for the first time. Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper are among the big names in America's Cool Modernism from March 23 to July 22.
The Louvre is devoting a huge-sounding exhibition to Delacroix, with some 180 works by the French Romantic. It's the first full Delacroix retrospective in Paris since 1963 and can be seen from March 29 to July 23.
Finally, if you're in the National Gallery over the next few months and are wondering where one of the country's most iconic pictures has gone... Mr and Mrs Andrews have headed off to the Kunsthalle in Hamburg for Thomas Gainsborough: The Modern Landscape, which starts March 2 and continues to May 27.
Georgia O'Keeffe, East River from the Shelton Hotel, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (c) 2017 Artists Rights Society, New York
Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, c. 1750. (c) The National Gallery, London
An intriguing-sounding show at the Whitechapel Gallery promises a first view of the public artworks commissioned for London's Crossrail project. Art for the Elizabeth Line opens March 13 and runs through to May 6.
Moving outside the capital, the Ashmolean in Oxford is highlighting American art from the 1920s and 30s, with major loans from the Metropolitan Museum in New York and many works on view in the UK for the first time. Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper are among the big names in America's Cool Modernism from March 23 to July 22.
The Louvre is devoting a huge-sounding exhibition to Delacroix, with some 180 works by the French Romantic. It's the first full Delacroix retrospective in Paris since 1963 and can be seen from March 29 to July 23.
Finally, if you're in the National Gallery over the next few months and are wondering where one of the country's most iconic pictures has gone... Mr and Mrs Andrews have headed off to the Kunsthalle in Hamburg for Thomas Gainsborough: The Modern Landscape, which starts March 2 and continues to May 27.
Images
Cecil Beaton, Pablo Picasso, rue la Boétie, 1933, Paris. (c) The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby'sGeorgia O'Keeffe, East River from the Shelton Hotel, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (c) 2017 Artists Rights Society, New York
Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, c. 1750. (c) The National Gallery, London
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887
–
1986)
East River from the Shelton Hotel,
1928
Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 81.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Yor
Cecil Beaton
Pablo Picas
so, rue La Boétie, 19
33, Paris
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