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New Exhibitions in September

The Bayeux Tapestry  exhibition at the British Museum starts on September 10; it's already sold out for this year but booking for the rest of the run, from January 1 through to July 11, will open on October 21. If you've never seen this most breathtaking of historical artefacts, you may want to seize the chance before it leaves London next year for its permanent home in Normandy, which will have been renovated during its absence. At Southampton City Art Gallery, we're promised an extensive exhibition of British art from the first half of the 20th century, drawing on the museum's own substantial holdings and those of the Ingram Collection . Running from September 26 to February 21,  Art Then! British Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, 1910-1960  will feature artists including Barbara Hepworth, Gwen John , Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious.   There might not be much new on in London this month, but we'll always have Paris. Starting at the Musée Jacquemart-André with Time...
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Opening and Closing in August

August is normally a quiet month for new shows, but there are two exhibitions moving on this month to fresh locations that really deserve to be highlighted.

At the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, the doors open on August 10 on Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light. Joaquín Sorolla is best known for his impressionistic light-filled paintings of the Spanish coast, but as the previous version of this show at the National Gallery in London demonstrated, he produced masterpieces of social realism and portraiture too. The Dublin show looks to be smaller than London's, with 50 or so works, but the best of Sorolla's work is remarkable. Until November 3.
And if you're visiting Madrid at any point, Sorolla's atmospheric house and studio, now the Museo Sorolla, has a great selection of his paintings and is well worth a visit. Our tip, though, is to go somewhere less scorching in August.

Copenhagen, for example. Because the best exhibition we've seen all year has finished its run in Stockholm and is moving on to Denmark's national gallery, the SMK, starting on August 24. The Danish Golden Age is the largest ever show about the flowering of the country's art in the first half of the 19th century, with more than 200 works, including quite a few by Christen Købke, the greatest painter of the period. The show is on until December 8, after which it goes to Paris.

Last chance to see....

Anish Kapoor's disorientating, disarming, devilishly clever mirror sculptures are on display in the brand-new exhibition space at Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, west London until August 18.

You have until August 26 to get to Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. We found this comprehensive show on Britain's only Art Nouveau movement fascinating when we caught it in Glasgow last year.

And although Hogarth & the Art of Noise ends in September, we thought we'd better include it in our August round-up, because the final day is September 1. This show at the Foundling Museum in London takes you through William Hogarth's March of the Guards to Finchley detail by detail and adds a soundtrack, making it come absolutely to life. A great exhibition (among the best of 2019 so far) based on just the one painting. 

Images

Joaquín Sorolla, Sewing the Sail, 1896, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro, Venice. © Photo Archive - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Christen Købke, View from Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards Nørrebro, 1838, SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
William Hogarth, The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1750. © The Foundling Museum, London

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