Let's kick off the New Year with something a bit out of the ordinary: Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism at London's Royal Academy. This show features more than 130 works by 10 key 20th-century Brazilian artists, and most of them have never been on show in the UK before, providing a chance to look at modern art in a way that breaks from the European and North American perspective we're so used to. On from January 28 to April 21. There are more familiar names at Bath's Holburne Museum: Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol among them. Iconic: Portraiture from Bacon to Warhol focuses on the middle of the 20th century when many artists began to use photographs as sources for their paintings. The exhibition runs from January 24 to May 5. From January 22, the Louvre in Paris offers the chance to take A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting . Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century, was among the...
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...