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Opening and Closing in April

We'll start this month at the King's Gallery in London, where more than 300 artworks and other objects from the Royal Collection will be on display from April 11 for  The Edwardians: Age of Elegance . Illustrating the tastes of the period between the death of Victoria and World War I, the show features the work of John Singer Sargent , Edward Burne-Jones , William Morris and Carl Fabergé, among others. On to November 23. More Morris at, unsurprisingly, the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow.  Morris Mania , which runs from April 5 to September 21, aims to show how his designs have continued to capture the imagination down the decades, popping up in films and on television, in every part of the home, on trainers, wellies, and even in nuclear submarines.... From much the same era, Guildhall Art Gallery in the City offers  Evelyn De Morgan: The Modern Painter in Victorian London  from April 4 to January 4. De Morgan's late Pre-Raphaelite work with its beautifull...

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Opening and Closing in August

One of the most stunning objects in the recently ended World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum was this exquisite Bronze Age golden sun pendant, uncovered in Shropshire only in 2018. The breathtaking piece is now embarking on a national tour , starting at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro from August 6 to November 5 and moving on to Lincoln, Sunderland and Stornoway over the course of the next 14 months.  August is generally a quiet period for exhibition openings, but there are two shows starting in Germany before the end of the month that are well worth highlighting. One is a treat for enthusiasts of German Expressionism: The Museum Folkwang is marking its 100th anniversary in Essen with a show examining the history of its extensive collection of Expressionist art -- very German but banned by the Nazis as degenerate. Expressionists at Folkwang features around 250 works, including loans from elsewhere, and runs from August 20 to January 8. It's only 40 minutes by tr...

Sickert: From Music Hall to Pop Pioneer

Walter Sickert -- the gloomiest, murkiest of English artists? We've definitely been a little too harsh.  There's certainly a fair bit of gloom and murk in the big Walter Sickert exhibition at Tate Britain, but there's a lot that's much lighter and full of entertainment. From Sickert's inventive music-hall scenes, this fascinating show takes you through luminous townscapes and on to a revelatory final room that shows the painter in his later years as an unwitting pre-war pioneer of Pop Art.  And let's hear it for the Tate for once; we've sometimes found the way they curate their exhibitions infuriating -- the Hogarth and Europe show this past winter was in thrall to political correctness -- but this one is beautifully and logically put together; a straightforward retrospective, and all the better for it.  The first two rooms of the eight in the exhibition look at Sickert's self-portraits and his apprenticeship years in the 1880s (his early stuff, under ...