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...
Not long now till the Olympics start in Paris, but the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is looking back to the last such event in the French capital, the Chariots of Fire Games of 1924. Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body will use a range of media -- painting, fashion, film, photography and more -- to examine how tradition and modernism came together to shape the future of sport. July 19 to November 3, and entry is free. Elsewhere in East Anglia, Gainsborough's House in Sudbury stages the first major exhibition in 40 years of the work of Cedric Morris, perhaps best known as a teacher of Lucian Freud at his art school in Suffolk and as a breeder of irises. We saw a couple of smaller-scale Morris shows in London back in 2018 , but this one aims to take a deeper and broader view of Morris and his artistic and romantic partner, Arthur Lett-Haines. Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines is on from July 6 to November 3. The record for the most valuab...