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New Exhibitions in April

You may have noticed that it's the 250th anniversary of John Constable's birth this year, while JMW Turner was born 250 years ago last year and Thomas Gainsborough's 300th birthday falls in 2027. Put them all together and you get  Gainsborough, Turner and Constable: Inventing Landscape  at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk. This show, running from April 25 to October 11, explores the emergence of English landscape painting through three of its greatest exponents, and it features mostly rarely seen works from private collections -- including Turner's Abergavenny Bridge , which hasn't been on public display since 1799!  Meanwhile, the show that's just been on at Gainsborough's House --  Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk  -- transfers to the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, Berkshire, starting on April 4. On till November 1, the exhibition explores the pivotal role the time Spencer spent in Suffolk had on his career. You can read he...
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Opening and Closing in March

Impressionism shook up the world of art, but that was nothing compared to what followed. After Impressionism at the National Gallery in London, starting on March 25, aims to take us through the revolutionary period from around 1880 to the start of World War I, on to Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction, with Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Klimt, Kokoschka, Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky and Rodin; among more than 100 works, including loans from around Europe and the US, there'll also be unfamiliar artists like Broncia Koller-Pinell. Until August 13. However, if you're not quite ready for the Post-Impressionists just yet, how about the leading woman Impressionist, who's coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery on March 31?  Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism  will include more than 30 of her works, nine of them from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, as well as looking at how she drew inspiration from 18th-century paintings by the likes of Fragonard, Watteau, Gainsborough and Reyno...
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Lord Leighton Will See You Again Now

No need to slink in surreptitiously through the separate models' entrance; come right up to the brand new main front door; they've done a splendid job refurbishing the Leighton House Museum in west London, the old home and studio of Frederic, Lord Leighton, one of the giants of the Victorian art scene.  One of the giants? That's an understatement. He was president of the Royal Academy for 18 years, and his house in Holland Park was like no other artist's residence in London, with its extraordinary Arab Hall, inspired by the interiors and gardens of North Africa and the Middle East, as the sumptuous pièce de résistance.  The house reopens to the public on October 15, and we were most impressed with the results of the four-year renovation at a preview for the press; we can remember visiting several times over the past two decades and finding the visitor facilities a little on the poky and drab side. The modern extension is in harmony with the house and the new entrance ha...
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