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Times
4 days ago
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The best exhibitions in London and the UK to book for June 2025
Below is a round-up of the best art our critics have seen in recent months across the UK. From Renaissance chalk sketches to rotting apples, miniatures and Picasso prints, it's a varied list. Which exhibitions have you enjoyed recently? Let us know in the comments. Resistance — Steve McQueen leads us on a voyage of discovery Turner Contemporary, Margate From the militant suffrage movement in 1903 to the anti-Iraq war protests in 2003, when it matters, we march. This Turner Contemporary exhibition, Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest, curated by the artist and film director Steve McQueen, is a fascinating, deeply researched, if low-key look at a century of protest in Britain through photography. To Jun 1, ND Read our review Edvard Munch Portraits — the Scream painter shows his social side National Portrait Gallery, London Edvard Munch's forensic powers are on full display in the first British exhibition to focus solely on his portraits. Known for his 'subject' paintings, which cast friends and family as the dramatis personae in tableaux that communicate a universal emotion (The Scream being the most famous), he was also a prolific portraitist. To Jun 15, ND Anselm Kiefer: Early Works — an artist under the shadow of the Nazis Ashmolean, Oxford It's one hell of a moment for an exhibition of the early works of Anselm Kiefer. It was probably conceived as celebratory — the German artist's 80th birthday lands on March 8; this show at the Ashmolean opens just before an unprecedented presentation across two Amsterdam museums, the Van Gogh and the Stedelijk. But with the rise of the AfD in Germany, and a shift to the right across Europe, a return to these works, created between 1969 and 1982, has suddenly become urgent. To Jun 15, ND COURTESY NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 — an unmissable National Gallery hit National Gallery The show focuses on four painters — Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti — to reveal them as pioneers, and uses textiles and finely wrought items such as carved ivories and richly decorated reliquaries to show how these four artists were nurtured by this European centre for trade. It is a stunner. London, to Jun 22, ND Andy Warhol: Portrait of America — depicting a dark side to the USA MK Gallery, Milton Keynes This exhibition at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, put together from the Artist Rooms collection, goes back to basics in an elegant primer showing how Andy Warhol — uniquely and incisively — held up a mirror to postwar consumerist America. It takes a chronological, rather than thematic, approach. Each room represents a decade, from his days as a commercial artist in the 1950s to the 1980s (he died in 1987). To Jun 29, ND Victor Hugo's The Cheerful Castle, 1847, on show at the Royal Academy PARIS MUSÉES/MAISONS DE VICTOR HUGO PARIS-GUERNESEY Astonishing Things: Drawings of Victor Hugo — strange and marvellous Royal Academy, London Though many of us won't actually have read either of the 19th-century writer Victor Hugo's most famous novels (Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), there's a chance that we've all seen at least one of them, either on film or on stage. Very few will be familiar with the body of work now on display — his strange and marvellous drawings. To Jun 29, ND Read our review Bob Dylan — the musician is a good painter Halcyon Gallery, London There will be people who pooh-pooh yet another exhibition of paintings by Bob Dylan as just another rock star's dabblings. But over the past 20 years (he started exhibiting in 2007 at the Chemnitz art museum in Germany) he has developed into a rather good, interesting painter. To Jul 6, ND Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern is a fascinating homage to an Eighties icon Tate Modern, London Through artworks by his friends and peers (including portraits by Lucian Freud), garments (or 'Looks') from his archive, films, postcards, sketches, letters, magazines and what feels like hundreds of photographs, we follow the journey of a suburban Melbourne lad. It's a story that runs from his arrival in London in 1980, fresh out of fashion college, through his entry to the scene, his impact on clubland, his work with the choreographer Michael Clark and his shift into performance. To Aug 31, ND Hiroshige — an entrancing trip to 19th-century Japan British Museum, London Utagawa Hiroshige is among the very most popular — not to mention prolific — artists in Japan. Yet to many of us he may be familiar only through the work of his most famous fan in the West. Vincent van Gogh was a passionate admirer, which is why some of the images that now go on display at the British Museum may start ringing bells. To Sep 7, Rachel Campbell-Johnston Giuseppe Penone — breathe in the scent of nature Serpentine Gallery, London The idea of breath as sculpture has always interested Penone, and though he's never quite managed to make that work, he symbolises it here with a set of lungs formed from golden branches. Not every work here speaks clearly, but something about the show as a whole evokes an inexplicable wish to linger, basking in the restfulness that permeates the galleries. And then you realise that, just beyond the doors, there's a whole 275 acres of nature. Time to get into it. To Sep 7, ND Read our review Do Ho Suh — an exquisite meditation on the perfect home Tate Modern, London At Tate Modern, the great Korean artist Do Ho Suh has fashioned hundreds from colour-coded fabric according to the places he's inhabited, and installed them on four transparent panels modelled on his present London abode. The effect is at once playful and haunting, a ghostly meeting of places and time zones that poses questions about the meaning of home. To Oct 19, Chloe Ashby Read our review Ancient India: Living Traditions — gods and rituals come to life British Museum, London Considering the sheer size of the country, you might expect an exhibition entitled Ancient India: Living Traditions to be a sprawling mess. However, it's surprisingly compact, perhaps because if they were to go big, we'd have to go home well before we got to the end. May 22 to Oct 19, Nancy Durrant Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur — a mischievous romp Wallace Collection, London Grayson Perry does not love the Wallace Collection. The decadence, the grandeur, the conspicuous expense trigger his snobbery. It was a sticking point when he was invited to create an exhibition of new work responding to the collection. So Perry conjured someone to love the Wallace for him: Shirley Smith, a fictional artist, inspired by Madge Gill, a real 'outsider artist'' who exhibited at the Wallace during the Second World War — a woman who suffered traumatic events but found solace (and acclaim) through art. To Oct 26, ND Read our review Liliane Lijn — first major show for the 85-year-old Tate St Ives Now 85, and having lived in London since 1966, it seems bizarre that Liliane Lijn's Arise Alive exhibition at Tate St Ives is the New York-born artist's first major solo survey show in a UK museum. It's not as if she's an unknown. In the late 1950s she knocked about with ageing surrealists Max Ernst and André Breton in Paris, a rare, prominent and much younger woman in that rather bitchy scene (some of her intricate, dreamy Sky Scrolls drawings from this period indicate a fascination with that surrealist staple, the unconscious). Right now, one of her kinetic pieces has its own room in the Electric Dreams exhibition at Tate Modern. This, though, is all her. To Nov 2, ND Seeing Each Other — Freud, Bacon, Emin and Kahlo all join the party Pallant House, Chichester Looking is what artists do. But at what? At each other, endlessly, on the evidence of this new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which looks back over 125 years at the ways that artists working in Britain have portrayed each other. To Nov 2, Nancy Durrant Read our review JMW Turner's Upnor Castle, Kent,1831-2 THE WHITWORTH, THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Turner: In Light and Shade — a gorgeous display of astonishing scenes Whitworth, Manchester John Ruskin was a funny old stick, but when it came to his hero JMW Turner, whose 250th birthday falls this year, he really knew what he was talking about. 'He paints in colour, but he thinks in light and shade,' he wrote in 1843, and in this exhibition at the Whitworth in Manchester, which focuses on Turner's prints — in particular the Liber Studiorum series, which, despite the gallery's significant Turner holdings, hasn't been shown here in full since 1922 — this is borne out gloriously. To Nov 2, ND Read our review Making Egypt — much more than mummies Young V&A, London For its older or younger visitors, the V&A's remit is not simply the history of the past but also its interaction with the design of the present. So in Making Egypt, alongside old fabrics are new dresses; alongside ancient stone carvings are modern ones made with the same techniques. As much space is given for the practice sketches of an ancient scribe — working out how to depict owls and cats and hieroglyphs — as for the finished result. To Nov 2, Tom Whipple Read our review Cartier — dazzled by diamonds in a five-star show V&A, London Curators have kept it simple for this dazzling show, just a lot of exquisite objects of outstanding beauty, quality and ingenuity alongside occasional drawings from the Cartier archives to illustrate their development, all mostly spotlit against black. To Nov 12, ND Pirates — the bloody truth behind Captain Pugwash
West Australian
22-05-2025
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- West Australian
The West Australian Pulse: Jodie Rankin expresses her journey of anxiety through artwork
Edvard Munch's work has inspired many artists, but it was some words from the master painter that really spoke to Jodie Rankin. The teenager interpreted the revered Munch's quote, 'From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity', through the lens of her anxiety disorder to create her intricately embroidered piece, Eternity, which is on show at The West Australian Pulse exhibit. 'It is my interpretation, not only of Munch's quote, but my portrayal of how my anxiety manifests and feels,' the 18-year-old said. 'In creating the piece, it was very soothing for my anxieties, and the chaoticness of it and all the different aspects of it reflect how anxiety has so many different aspects but there's good and bad parts of it, positives and negatives.' The free West Australian Pulse exhibit is at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Globe and Mail
09-05-2025
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- Globe and Mail
Swiss exhibit Northern Lights puts classic Canadian art in new perspective
A Canadian art lover might be surprised to discover an exhibition where Emily Carr is hung alongside Edvard Munch. What would those beloved images of West Coast trees and totems have to do with the Norwegian's notoriously psychological art? Both, it turns out, were artists who painted the boreal forest. That is the starting point for Northern Lights, an exhibition comparing Canadian and Northern European landscape painting in the late 19th and early 20th century. It matches up Carr, Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and J.E.H MacDonald with Munch, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and less familiar European names such as the Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the Swedish artists Anna Boberg and Gustaf Fjaestad. 'We had the feeling there is a lot to say about northern art,' said curator Ulf Küster, who organized the exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, a museum of modern and contemporary art near Basel, Switzerland. Building on a successful 2007 exhibition devoted to Munch, it's part of a look northward for an institution better known for a strong collection of southern European art, including works by the French Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. The new show also reflects the slowly growing recognition of classic Canadian art outside of Canada. Once the exhibition closes at the end of the month, it moves to the United States where the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo has recently launched an initiative to show Nordic art. 'Canadian art of the early 20th century is practically unknown outside Canada. It's very strange,' Küster said. 'Even in America, the Americans don't know much about it.' A decade ago, Küster was introduced to the Canadian landscape tradition by the Scottish painter Peter Doig, who grew up partly in Canada. Doig gave him the catalogue for the 2011 show of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England, a rare example of European attention to Canadian art. Küster is particularly impressed by the small oil sketches produced by Thomson and the Group, praising their plein air directness on the one hand and their well-conceived compositions on the other. 'It's funny: The second-largest country on Earth has been painted with these tiny sketches. It works extremely well,' he said. 'The tiny can be monumental.' The exhibition devotes an entire room to the sketches. However, Canadians who have grown up with the notion that Carr, Thomson and the Group form a national school determined to create new painting for a new country will be interested to discover Küster's different approach. Although he recognizes that both the European and Canadian artists may have found national sentiment a useful marketing tool, he describes them as independent from stylistic schools or political agendas. Their styles range widely from Harris's abstracted geometric mountains to Fjaestad's pointillism – so detailed it reaches for photo realism – and then all the way to Munch's dark subjects, such as Vampire in the Forest in which a woman sucks at a man's neck. 'They are modernists, really doing their own individual thing. They have a distinct personal style,' he said. 'I try to avoid all these isms, like symbolism, realism, naturalism – and nationalism.' For example, the painting Charred Tree by Gallen-Kallela is a snowy landscape depicting an old burnt trunk with a fresh young birch growing beside it. Painted in 1906, 11 years before Finland gained independence from Russia, it is often interpreted as an image of the new country springing up beside the dead empire. Küster calls this nonsense, pointing out that after a forest fire birch trees are the first to regrow. His environmental approach to these works is inspired by his late brother, a botanist who died in 2024 and who first pointed out to him that the northern European landscape paintings often featured depictions of the taiga, or boreal forest. In his introduction to the exhibition catalogue, he also remarks that equating the Group of Seven with Canadian nationalism is problematic because it doesn't include any First Nations' perspectives. Canadians might be surprised not to find any Indigenous art in the exhibition, since increasingly curators here mix contemporaneous Indigenous pieces with Canadian ones. Nor is there much further reference to Indigenous presence on the land, which Carr was one of the few landscape artists of that generation to recognize. Küster said he felt that as a scholar of European art, he lacked the expertise to include Indigenous art. Instead, in the catalogue, he provides a series of historic photographs by settlers and tourists that show human activity, both white and Indigenous. The photos belong to the Archive of Modern Conflict, the London photography collection owned by David Thomson (whose family holding company Woodbridge Co. Ltd. owns The Globe and Mail). Dating from about 1880 to 1920 the photographs include a Hudson Bay settlement and First Nations camps in Canada, railway building in Siberia and rare images of the Sami, the Indigenous people who live in Northern Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. The images also feature two valiant attempts by a Norwegian photographer to capture on film the capricious spectacle of the Northern Lights. Northern Lights continues at the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen, Switzerland, to May 25, and opens at the Buffalo AKG in Buffalo on Aug. 1.
Local Norway
24-04-2025
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- Local Norway
What's on in Norway: Six fantastic things to look forward to in May 2025
Trondheim Jazz Trondheim Jazz features acts from Europe and the Nordics, as well as lectures on the art of jazz. The festival will take place between May 8th and May 12th. The various concerts will take place at several venues across Norway's former Viking capital. Therefore, it's worth checking out the programme to see who is playing where. Trondheim Jazz Festival has existed in various forms and under several different names since 1980. MaiJazz Running almost alongside Trondheim Jazz will be MaiJazz in Stavanger, which will take place between May 6th and May 10th. The festival started in 1989 and has grown into one of the country's most well-known jazz festivals, so if you are on the west coast – it's worth checking out. There will be several free and paid-for concerts. Jazz lovers will also be able to pay 1,700 kroner for a festival pass. Bergen international festival A mammoth 14-day festival between May 21st and June 4th is the Bergen International Festival , which is one of the country's oldest cultural gatherings. The festival usually offers visitors a blend of theatre, dance, music, opera, and visual art, showcasing both Norwegian and international talent. Each year, the Bergen International Festival captivates audiences with hundreds of live performances staged both indoors and outdoors. Advertisement Last chance to catch exhibitions Early May will be the last chance to visit the Georg Baselitz Feet First exhibition at the Munch Museum. The works of the confrontational and internationally renowned artist feature large upside-down paintings, his reflections on the fragments of post-war Germany and his admiration of Edvard Munch. More than 80 works are displayed. Baselitz has established himself as one of the biggest names on the global contemporary art scene. Meanwhile, the exhibition Hertervig – Hill. Dream and Reality will come to a close at Stavanger Art Museum on May 18th. The exhibition is centred on Norwegian Lars Hertervig and Swede Carl Fredrik Hill. May 17th and other public holidays May 17th is the country's national day and is a fantastic occasion in Norway. People nationwide will be decked out in their national costumes and attend parades with marching bands. Oslo is set to have the largest parade, which makes its way up Karl Johan Street to the Royal Palace. Meanwhile, Bergen puts its own local spin on the annual traditions. The day is a public holiday, meaning that almost all stores and businesses will be closed for the day. The only downside to May 17th this year is that it falls on a Saturday, meaning workers won't receive the day off like they would if it was a weekday. May 1st is Labour Day, so it will be a day off work for most workers in Norway. Meanwhile, Thursday, May 29th, is Ascension Day, which should also mean a day off. Advertisement If you haven't considered it already, it might be worth booking off the Friday, which is an inneklemt dag (meaning squeezed day). Concerts and shows Many of you will unfortunately have to miss out on some of these events as tickets may be hard to come by currently. Tyler, The Creator has a sold-out show at Oslo Spektrum on May 6th, while The Lumineers will perform at the same venue on May 11th. A few days later, Robert Plant (legendary lead singer of Led Zeppelin) will perform at Folketeateret in Oslo, with a handful of tickets still available at the time of writing. Finally, Canadian comedian Russel Peters will perform shows in Oslo and Bergen in early May.
South China Morning Post
16-03-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Edvard Munch exhibitions in London and the US take art lovers ‘beyond The Scream'
A new exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch has opened in London, shining a light on an important aspect of the Norwegian painter's work and his life. Advertisement Meanwhile, in the United States, the Harvard Art Museums' newest exhibition looks at how Munch used inventive techniques across paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and combination prints. At the same time, a major Munch retrospective continues in Rome. 'Munch. The Inner Cry', which runs at the Bonaparte Palace until June 2, features more than 100 works lent by the Munch Museum in Oslo Running at London's National Portrait Gallery until June 15, 'Edvard Munch Portraits' features some 45 paintings, including depictions of himself, his family, friends, collectors as well as commissions. (From left) Munch's paintings Olga and Rosa Meissner, Daniel Jacobson and Kate and Hugo Perls on display in the Edvard Munch Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Photo: AFP Self-Portrait (1882-83) by Edvard Munch, on display in the Edvard Munch Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Photo: AFP 'It shows Munch as being a more social person than is often assumed. It takes us beyond The Scream. It takes us beyond Munch as the painter of existential isolation and loneliness,' exhibition curator Alison Smith says.
