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...
Come out of Turning Heads at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp and you'll start looking at the people of Belgium's second city in an entirely different way. You'll encounter living examples of the faces you have just seen on wood or canvas in the exhibition galleries, painted four or five hundred years ago by Peter Bruegel the Elder , Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens. And realise that they're not that different.... This is such a fun show at Antwerp's newly renovated main art gallery, and an enlightening one. Alongside the great Flemish masters, there are pictures by the stars of the Dutch Golden Age -- Rembrandt , Hals and Vermeer -- and a lot more, exploring a genre that plays a big role in the painting of the Low Countries: the study of heads, both as preliminary sketches for spectacular group pictures and then as works of art in their own right. Such paintings are known in Dutch as tronies -- portraits that aren't really portraits but chara...