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...
The year was 1967. In Chichester (of all places), Mick Jagger was on trial for drug possession, and amid the media frenzy he was photographed in the back of a police van handcuffed to fellow defendant, art dealer Robert Fraser. In 2018, Richard Hamilton's reworking of that press snapshot into one of the iconic images of British art in the 60s -- Swingeing London '67 -- is one of the highlights of Pop! Art in a Changing Britain , in the very appropriate surroundings of Chichester's Pallant House Gallery. Hamilton, one of the pioneers of the movement in Britain, said that among the characteristics of Pop Art were that it was transient and expendable. And yet 50 years on, Pop is still all around us. Roy Lichtenstein's appropriation of the technique of the comic strip has become an advertising cliche, Eduardo Paolozzi's mosaics and statues are all over London, and Peter Blake's Everybody Razzle Dazzle ferry lights up the Mersey. This exhibition in Chiche...