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...
It must have been a disorienting era, the early 20th century in America, one of rapid change amid the onward march of the skyscraper and the automobile. That sense comes over clearly and strongly in America's Cool Modernism at the Ashmolean in Oxford. Here is art that is largely devoid of people, highlighting the strange new shapes of the technological revolution and the dislocation of the individual in a confusing new world. You'll discover names new to a European audience in a fascinating line-up of paintings, prints and photographs from the Met in New York and other American collections. Many of the works have never crossed the Atlantic. The familiar sunflower of the Impressionists takes on a new more abstracted form as we enter the show with Le Tournesol (The Sunflower) by Edward Steichen, from about 1920. It's a rare painting by an artist who destroyed most of his others and leaves you wondering what striking images he committed to canvas are lost. Plants and ...