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15 April-7 May. David Ireland’s hard-hitting play about a deranged Belfast loyalist is set within the sectarian hatred of Northern Ireland. The story is centred around Eric Miller, a loyalist who beli...
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Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection
12 Feb-29 May. The Pre-Raphealite movement, founded in London in 1848, rejected what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael. The Pr...
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1 Jan-17 April. The British Library celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Lewis Carroll children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with an exhibition featuring the author...
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7 Oct-10 Jan. The National Gallery presents 70 of the most important paintings, drawings and miniatures by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), on loan from international collections.
The exhibition rev...
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Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
11 Nov-3 April. The Tate Modern holds Britain's largest exhibition ever dedicated to the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976), best known as the inventor of the mobile.
Calder al...
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17 Sept-24 Jan. The Tate Modern reveals how artists from various nations and cultures around the world engaged with the spirit of Pop Art, from Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle Eas...
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Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
The Tate Britain celebrates the work of Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) in what is the first major London retrospective dedicated to the important British sculptor for nearly half a century.
By the 19...
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Jamie Lloyd directs this musical based on the best-selling 1987 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle who also wrote the stage adaptation for the West End production.
The story is set in 1980s working-...
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Exhibition exploring the cut-out period of French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the final chapter in the groundbreaking career of the Modernist pioneer.
By the time he was in his late 60s, Mati...
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Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
The Tate Modern presents a major retrospective charting the career of the celebrated Cape Town artist Marlene Dumas who has been based in Amsterdam since 1976.
Promoted as the most significant exhi...
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Sargent: Portrait of Artists and Friends
The National Portrait Gallery presents a major exhibition dedicated to the luscious portraits of John Singer Sargent, who enjoyed a hugely successful career as a portraitist in the late 19th century....
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Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015
Taking its starting point from Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square painting, this international exhibition features over 100 artists who were inspired by the radical piece which was first shown in P...
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Poignant exhibition focusing on the aftermath and passage of time over 150 years of conflict and warfare around the world, through photographs and paintings.
Central to the exhibition is the orderi...
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The Tate Modern gives a world view of the pop art phenomenon, revealing how artists engaged with the movement internationally, from Latin America to Asia, throughout Europe and the Middle East.
The...
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Constable: The Making of a Master
The V&A stages a major exhibition reassessing the influences, techniques and legacy of English Romantic painter John Constable (1776-1837).
The show allows a fresh interpretation of the British...
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Born in 1945, Anselm Kiefer is one of the most prominent post-war artists in Germany.
As a painter Kiefer is concerned primarily with taboo and controversial issues from recent history, in particul...
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The Victoria & Albert Museum dedicates an exhibition to German-American photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-99) whose celebrated images focused mainly on women and fashion but also included interior...
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The Tate Modern dedicates an exhibition to Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), the avant-garde Russian painter whose work ploughed new ground in 20th-century modern art.
Malevich was a pioneer of geometr...
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Ancient lives, new discoveries
This unusual exhibition at the British Museum centres around the macabre world of mummification and the human stories behind the preserved corpses on show.
The eight mummies come from ancient Egypt...
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Kenneth Clark - Looking for Civilisation
The Tate Britain celebrates the life and work of influential British art expert Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), whose landmark television series Civilisation brought 20th-century art to a mass audien...
