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London

National Gallery

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 'Diana and Actaeon', 1556-59 National Galleries of Scotland, Bridgewater Collection Loan 1945. Photo © The National Galleries of Scotland

Campaign for the Titians

Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has come to London for to help build momentum for the fundraising campaign. The Art Fund has pledged a grant of £1 million to help National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland to buy this masterpiece for their collections. Don't miss the opportunity to see this magnificent work in London, and for the first time in two centuries, the work is reunited with its sequel, the National Gallery’s Death of Actaeon, which was bought by the gallery in 1972 with a contributing grant from The Art Fund.

Address:

Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Phone:

020 7747 2885

Website:

Click here

Dates:

until 20 November

Admission:

 Free


Garden Museum

Beth Chatto retrospective

Beth Chatto – A Retrospective

The Garden Museum reopens with the first-ever retrospective of Beth Chatto, one of the most influential living gardeners in Britain who is perhaps best known for her pioneering, ecological approach to gardening, which was developed in the 1960s, yet is so relevant to gardeners today.

Address: Lambeth Palace Road, Lambeth, London, SE1 7LB
Phone: 020 7898 1400
Website: Click here
Dates: 18th November - 19th April 2009
Admission: Art Fund Members £3, Full-price adult £6


Royal Academy

Byzantium at the Royal Academy

Byzantium 330-1453

This exhibition provides a grand-scale survey of 1,000 years of history. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will incorporate over 300 objects. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before.

Address: Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD
Phone: 020 7300 8000
Website: Click here
Dates: 25 October - 22 March 2009
Admission:  Art Fund members £10, full-price adult £12

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National Gallery

Alfred Sisley, 'Storr Rock, Lady's Cove, evening', 1897

Sisley in England and Wales

Alfred Sisley (1839–99) was born in Paris to English parents and remained a British subject throughout his life. However, he only took on two painting campaigns in the UK – once in 1874, and again in 1897. This exhibition will bring together these two groups of paintings for the first time. Executed almost a quarter of a century apart, they reveal Sisley at two of the most creative moments of his life.

Address:

Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN

Phone:

020 7747 2885

Website:

Click here

Dates:

12 November until 15 February 2009

Admission:

 Free

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Barbican Art Gallery

 . Portrait of Le Corbusier 1960-65 © FLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2007

Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture

Le Corbusier (1887-1965), widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. This exhibition is the first major survey in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20 years.

Address: Level 3, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Phone:  020 7382 7105
Website: Click here
Dates: 22 November 2008 –  24 May 2009
Admission:  Art Fund members £6 (Full-priced adult £8)

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Manchester

Manchester Art Gallery

The Light of the World, 1852, William Holman Hunt

Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision

The most committed of the Pre-Raphaelites, Holman Hunt created many of the most enduring images of the Victorian era.

Address: Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL
Phone: 0161 235 8888
Website: Click here
Dates: until 11 January
Admission: Free
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Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum

Whistler at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Palaces in the Night: The urban Landscape in Mr Whister's Prints

This second exhibition of the Fitzwilliam's collection of etchings, drypoints and lithographs by the American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is devoted to the cityscapes for which he is most celebrated as a printmaker. Exhibited for the first time will be the spectacular impression of The Doorway, one of two Venetian etchings recently acquired with the help of the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.

Address: Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB
Phone: 012 2333 2900
Website: Click here
Dates: 23 September - 18 January
Admission: Free

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Macclesfield Psalter

'I Turned it into a Palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum

This exhibition will celebrate one of the most enriching periods in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Directorship of Sir Sydney Cockerell (1908-37). To mark the centenary of the foundation of the Friends in 1909, the exhibition will conclude with a recent acquisition which attracted their most generous contribution ever and the largest public support in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Macclesfield Psalter. The public campaign was launched by The Art Fund and generously donated to by Art Fund members.

 

Address: Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB
Phone: 012 2333 2900
Website: Click here
Dates: until 17 March 2009
Admission:  Free
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Cornwall

Tate St Ives

Heimo Zobernig. Ohne Title 1993-5, © The artist

Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection

This exhibition at Tate St Ives will be the first time Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig (b1958) has been shown in the UK. One of the most significant artists working in Europe today,over the last twenty five years he has exhibited extensively all over the world creating a considerable body of work that includes sculpture, video, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance.

Address: Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, TR26 1TG
Phone: 017 3679 6226
Website: Click here
Dates: 4 October - 11 January
Admission: Art Fund Members Free; Full price adult £5.75
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Edinburgh

National Galleries of Scotland - National Portrait Gallery

Mary Hamilton, 1789 by Sir Thomas Lawrence - On loan from The British Museum

The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence

During the Georgian and Regency periods oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena for portraiture. Whether in art exhibitions or the principal rooms of town and country residences, more private portraits were being created for domestic consumption and display. This exhibition brings together portraits from the era in a fascinating display.

 

Address: 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD
Phone: 0131 332 2266
Website: Click here
Dates: 25 October to 1 February 2009
Admission: Free

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Liverpool

Tate Liverpool

Liverpool Biennial at Tate Liverpool

Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP

Established in 1998, Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art. This is the fifth Liverpool Biennial International exhibition. MADE UP will be an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination and will involve galleries from across Liverpool as well as many new commissions in surprising places.

 

Address: Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB
Phone: 015 1702 7400
Website: Click here
Dates: 20 September - 30 November
Admission: Art Fund Members £2.50; Full price adult £5
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Sudbury, Suffolk

Gainsborough's House

Supper (Natalie Denny) - Mark Gertler © Tate, London and the estate of Mark Gertler

Fom Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art From Boxted House

The exhibition celebrates the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan and the works that once hung on the walls of their home, Boxted House, near Colchester. Virtually every work in the exhibition has a personal link to Bobby and Natalie. a highlight is Mark Gertler's portrait of Natalie aged nineteen, Supper, which reveals their intense friendship of the late 1920s.

The exhibition was first shown at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Address: 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2EU
Phone: 01787 372958
Website: Click here
Dates: until 13 December
Admission: Art Fund Members free; Full price adult £4
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Walsall

New Art Gallery, Walsall

Satan in His Original Glory 'Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee', circa 1805 © Tate: Presented by the executors of W. Graham Robertson through the Art Fund.

William Blake: Angels and Imagination

This exhibition draws on works from three of Blake's great series of illustrations for private patrons; Dante's Divine Comedy, Edward Young's Night Thoughts, and the series of bible illustrations for Thomas Butts, ansd shows how Blake reinterpreted these texts in the light of his own beliefs.


 

Address: Gallery Square, Walsall, WS2 8LG
Phone: 01922 654400 
Website: Click here
Dates: until 4th January
Admission: Free

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