Major Fine Art Exhibitions Inwards London September - November 2013

Poster for Whistler inwards London
at the Dulwich Picture Gallery - opens October

This is my update nigh major Art Exhibitions exhibitions on display inwards London betwixt September in addition to Nov 2013.

Major Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the UK

British Museum

Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

The British Museum is tackling a topic non frequently seen inwards major exhibitions inwards a national museum. Should live interesting!

• Until 29 September 2013  Life in addition to decease inwards Pompeii and Herculaneum Advance booking essential (App for the Exhibition - for Apple in addition to Android).  Now with extended hours - in addition to much ameliorate i time the children are dorsum at school.
• 3 Oct 2013 – five Jan 2014 Shunga: sexual practice in addition to pleasance inwards Japanese art (Parental guidance advised for visitors nether 16) The exhibition sheds novel low-cal on this taboo fine art shape inside Japanese social in addition to cultural history.  The paintings, prints in addition to books inspired Toulouse-Lautrec, Beardsley, Rodin in addition to Picasso.
• 29 August – 3 Nov 2013 Women of the pleasance quarters - This rare surviving Japanese painted concealment depicts elaborately dressed courtesans

Courtauld Gallery

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

• 20 June – 8 September 2013 Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld inwards the '20s. Catch the in conclusion calendar week of this minor but splendid exhibition 
• 19 September 2013 – 12 Jan 2014 Richard Serra - Drawings for the Courtauld This is an chance to come across radical novel drawings - produced using dense dark litho crayon on transparent plastic sheets.  Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor in addition to video creative soul who is known for producing large scale steel sculptures in addition to commonly exhibits with the Gagosian Gallery.
• 17 Oct 2013 - 12 Jan 2014 The Young Dürer - Drawing the Figure This exhibition focuses on the early on business office of Durer's career in addition to the drawings he made betwixt 1590-1596 when he travelled widely in addition to saw much novel art.  Here's a sample of the drawings which volition live on display.  This is a related exhibition.

Make certain y'all don't immature lady the Courtauld's permanent collection. It includes some really famous paintings inwards galleries which are a pleasance to visit. This is an interactive map of the gallery. You tin forcefulness out accept photographs inwards the gallery every bit long every bit y'all practise non role your flash or a tripod.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD

• 12 June - 22 September 2013 - Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: A Crisis of Brilliance, 1908-1922. Catch the in conclusion few weeks of Dulwich's summertime exhibition. It includes some of the best in addition to most innovative plant past times influential artists from the early on business office of the 20th century - namely Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington in addition to David Bomberg.
• 16 Oct 2013 - 12 Jan 2014 An American inwards London: Whistler in addition to the Thames This volition include paintings of Chelsea in addition to the Thames River, along with prints in addition to rarely seen drawings, watercolours in addition to pastels.  Did y'all know that Whistler's 'Nocturne: Blue in addition to Gold - Old Battersea Bridge' has been voted 9th inwards the Art Everywhere poll of the nation's favourite plant of art.  It commonly lies at Tate Britain but volition go due south of the river for this exhibition.

I'm actually looking frontwards to the Whistler exhibition.  If you'd similar to know to a greater extent than nigh Whistler come across the website I produced afterwards I studied his go - About James McNeill Whistler - American Artist

"Paint should non live applied thick. It should live similar a breath on the surface of a pane of glass."James Abbot McNeill Whistler

Portrait of Hermine Gallia (1904) by Gustav Klimt

crude oil on canvas, 170.5 × 96.5 cm (67.1 × 38 in)

image from Wikimedia Commons

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN

I much prefer the permanent collection at the National Gallery to most of their temporary exhibitions. 

• Until 24 Nov 2013 - Michael Landy: Saints Alive 
• 26 June – 8 September 2013 - Vermeer in addition to Music This is rather a novel exhibition. Three paintings past times Vermeer involving the playing of musical instruments together with an exhibition of musical instruments in addition to concerts 3 times a week.
• 9 Oct 2013 – 12 Jan 2014 Facing the Modern: The Portrait inwards Vienna 1900 The exhibition explores portraiture inwards the working capital missive of the alphabet of the Austro Hungarian empire ship service 19th century in addition to prior to the firstly the world war. It includes striking portrait paintings past times Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele in addition to Oskar Kokoschka.  This i should live interesting especially for the portrait painters!

The Portrait exhibition looks every bit if it proficient live actually good. I'm also really excited having simply posted that side past times side summer's large exhibition which is all nigh Colour!

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE

• 20 June to xv September 2013 - Susanne de Toit wins £30000 BP Portrait Award 2013 - Making a Mark which provides a summary of the portraits in addition to artists awarded prizes totalling £53000.

• 

  Nina Felix past times Bob Dylan, 2013
  courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery

  xxx March until 1 Nov 2013 - Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor (Room 33) Works on display include some of Epstein’s most celebrated portraits, notably his busts of Joseph Conrad, T.S Eliot, Vaughan Williams in addition to George Bernard Shaw.
• 11 July - xiii Oct 2013 Review: Laura Knight Portraits
• 24 August 2013 - five Jan 2014 Bob Dylan: Face Value 12 pastel portraits past times instrumentalist  and vocal author Bob Dylan
• 10 Oct 2013 - five Jan 2014 Elizabeth I & Her People in the Wolfson Gallery.  The exhibition includes many outstanding paintings of Elizabeth I, explorers, soldiers, woman soul courtiers, addition lesser-known Elizabethans including butchers, goldsmiths, brewers, merchants, writers in addition to artists.
• 14 Nov 2013 - ix Feb 2014 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 in the Porter Gallery. 60 portraits past times some of the most exciting contemporary photographers from around the world.

Three unknown Elizabethan children
Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist, c.1580courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery

The permanent collection is good worth a visit!  My favourites are The Tudor Gallery in addition to the twentieth century galleries.

'Fire's On', 1891 past times Arthur Streeton
Oil on canvas, 183.8 x 122.5 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased 1893
Exhibition organised past times the Royal Academy of Arts, London
inwards partnership with the National Gallery of Commonwealth of Australia

Royal Academy of Arts

Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD | 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET

• 6 July—29 September 2013 Mexico: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Revolution inwards Art, 1910-1940. This exhibition includes artwork past times Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo in addition to José Clemente Orozco addition go past times international artists in addition to intellectuals who were drawn to the province including Marsden Hartley, Josef Albers, Edward Burra, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Breton in addition to Robert Capa.
• 21 September—8 Dec 2013 Australia exhibition inwards the Main Galleries of Burlington House.  I am in addition to hence looking frontwards to seeing paintings past times Arthur Streeton.
• 26 Oct 2013—26 Jan 2014 Daumier (1808-1879): Visions of Paris in The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House

I'm actually looking frontwards to the the opening of the Commonwealth of Australia exhibition.

Saatchi Gallery

Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London SW3 4RY

• 18 June - 29 September - Paper
• 20 Nov - sixteen March 2014 - Body Language 

I'm non a fan of this gallery, mainly because I don't receive got a corking affinity with this form of contemporary fine art but every bit good because I don't similar what seems to me to live sleight of manus marketing.  There's every bit good a curious mismatch betwixt the agency people depict visiting the gallery in addition to the supposed expose of gallery visitors.

Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB

• 11 May - 22 September 2013 Rory McEwen, The Colours of Reality showcases his botanical go in addition to includes plant from artists who influenced him. This is a "must see" for the botanical artists!
• Two novel exhibitions opened upwardly at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art this October.
• 19 Oct 2013 - sun xix Jan 2014  'Botanicals - Environmental Expressions inwards Art This exhibition feature paintings from the Ailsa & Isaac Sutton Collection - one of the finest individual collections of contemporary botanical fine art inwards North America.
• The other is called 'Black in addition to White inwards Colour' in addition to this volition demo paintings by Sue Wickison and Sue J Williams.

Very much a gallery for those who honey botanical fine art in addition to illustration 

Tate Britain

Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

• Open every day BP Walk through British Art The construct NEW BP Walk through British Art is actually impressive in addition to definitely merits a visit. It offers a circuit of Tate Britain’s unparalleled collection from its beginnings to its end. 
• Open every twenty-four hr menstruum Turner Collection Tate Britain houses the world’s largest collection of Turner’s work.
• 26 June – 20 Oct 2013 Lowry in addition to the Painting of Modern Life - a review. On Mon 23 September 2013 (18.30–21.00) in that place is a screening of Lowry on Film  - documentary in addition to characteristic films related to LS Lowry’s life in addition to work, in addition to the broader historical period
• 2 Oct 2013 – five Jan 2014 Art nether Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm is the firstly exhibition exploring the history of physical attacks on fine art inwards Britain from the 16th century to the introduce day. Iconoclasm describes the deliberate devastation of icons, symbols or monuments for religious, political or aesthetic motives.
• You tin forcefulness out download a map of Tate Britain every bit a pdf file

Tate Britain appears to live making a large endeavor to instruct dorsum inwards melody with what people desire out of a gallery which is supposed to stand upwardly for the best inwards British Art.  Like recognising people desire to come across the assets which were stored inwards the vaults in addition to finally getting circular to giving Lowry a major exhibition.

Tate Modern

Bankside, London SE1 9TG

17 Apr – 20 Oct 2013 Saloua Raouda Choucair Lebanese pioneer of abstract fine art
3 July – 22 September 2013 - Ibrahim El-Salahi: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Visionary Modernist The firstly Tate Modern exhibition dedicated to African Modernism traces the life in addition to go of Ibrahim El-Salahi.
3 July – 22 September 2013 - Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art
• 16 Oct – ix March 2014 The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee. Klee is a giant of twentieth-century fine art in addition to i of the corking creative innovators of the time.  This exhibition reunites paintings, drawings in addition to watercolours from collections around the world. They volition live displayed amongst each other every bit the creative soul originally intended, frequently for the firstly fourth dimension since Klee exhibited them himself.

During 2013, Tate Modern has been looking really much to parts of the the world which haven't traditionally featured inwards exhibitions of contemporary fine art inwards the past.  This Autumn it returns to a large 'name' creative soul with an exhibition of go past times Paul Klee.

Wallace Collection

Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN Open daily from 10am - 5pm

• 20 June - xv September 2013 The Discovery of Paris: Watercolours past times Early Nineteenth-Century British Artists Focusing on the menstruum c. 1802-40 in addition to featuring lx watercolours including outstanding plant past times Turner, Girtin in addition to Bonington, in addition to other artists who are straightaway less familiar, such every bit Thomas Shotter Boys in addition to William Callow.
• 24th Oct - sun 19th January, 2014 The Male Nude: Eighteenth-century Drawings from the Paris Academy This exhibition, of nearly xl French drawings of virile soul nude figures, all drawn betwixt the belatedly seventeenth in addition to the belatedly eighteenth centuries, is unprecedented inwards Britain.

The Wallace every bit good has an interesting permanent collection which is good worth a visit.  They've got some really overnice paintings past times Canaletto.

Art Society Exhibitions

I've every bit good included exhibitions of Federal Reserve notation past times fellow member artists on related subjects in addition to major fine art competitions at these galleries.

Also included are the events in addition to workshops associated with the Art Society Exhibitions where these are posted on websites

Bankside Gallery 

48 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9JH Open daily 11am - 6pm during exhibitions

• 2 August - 8 September 2013 - Off the Wall - A articulation summertime exhibition past times artists from the Royal Watercolour Society in addition to Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

Mall Galleries 

The Mall, London SW1Y 5BD All exhibitions are 10:00am to 17:00pm daily unless otherwise stated

9 -14 September 2013 The Horse In Art 2013: Annual Exhibition
16-21 September 2013 - The sun Times Watercolour Exhibition

16-21 September 2013 - The Derwent Art Prize

16-21 September 2013 - Still Alive: Contemporary nevertheless life painting
25 September - 12 Oct 2013 The Threadneedle Prize

15-27 Oct 2013 Royal Miniature Society’s (RMS): Annual Exhibition

16-27 Oct 2013 - Royal Society of Marine Artists: Annual Exhibition

31 Oct - 10 Nov 2013 - Society of Wildlife Artists: Annual Exhibition

14-24 Nov 2013 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition

I've exclusively simply noticed inwards compiling this listing that 2 major fine art competitions are both having exhibitions inwards the gallery at the same time!

Notes for Visitors to Art Exhibitions

See my websites nigh museums in addition to fine art galleries inwards London

• Top 10 Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the World in price of the expose of visitors
• The Top Ten Museums inwards London

Also see:

• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark - Top xxx Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the World inwards 2012 (2 Apr 2013)
• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark - The Best Cities for Top Art Galleries in addition to Museums (2012)
• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark - Art Exhibitions inwards London: March - May 2013 24 Mar 2013
• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark - London Art Exhibitions - Autumn/Winter 2012 28 Nov 2012

Notes for Artists

ARTISTS & ART BLOGGERS 

(Solo or Group Exhibitions)

• Art bloggers should write to me with details in addition to images every bit per How to highlight your exhibition - for creative soul bloggers ONLY
• Exhibitions notified to me past times fine art galleries volition exclusively live included if I charge per unit of measurement the go of the artist!

ART EXHIBITIONS - COMPETITIONS AND ART SOCIETIES

• major fine art contest exhibitions - the ones I encompass are typically those which are listed inwards my page on Major United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland Art Competitions inwards 2013
• major fine art guild exhibitions Typically these are national grade fine art societies rather than local ones.  For the UK, these include Major United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland Art Society Exhibitions inwards 2013

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