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24 May 2008 | Flow Gallery: Covered – beauty and art in contemporary | | Dates: 15-24 May
Open: Mon-Sat 11am-6pm
Where: Flow Gallery, 1-5 Needham Road,
London W11 2RP
Contact: 020 7423 0782 (info@flowgallery.co.uk)
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07 Jun 2008 | The Illustration Cupboard Spring Exhibition - The Art of Aardman | | The first exhibition and sale of original animation artwork from Aardman Animations, the award-winning animation studio famous for Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts. Original signed artwork by Nick Park for Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep along with an exclusive and limited giclee edition of the cult classic TV character Morph, signed and numbered by creator Peter Lord, will be on view and for sale. Peter Lord will be at The Illustration Cupboard on 6 May to sign copies of his books.
Open: Mon to Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12-5pm
Where: 22 Bury Street, London SW1Y 6AL
Contact: 0207 976 1727 (www.illustrationcupboard.com)
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31 Aug 2008 | Tate Britain: The lure of the East: British orientalist painting | | An exploration of the responses of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930. This will include rarely seen paintings by Richard Dadd, Edward Lear, Lord Leighton and William Holman Hunt.
Tickets: £10 (concs £8; free for children under 12
and members)
Open: daily 10am-5.50pm
Where: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Contact: 020 7887 8888 (www.tate.org.uk/britain)
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01 Aug 2008 | National Library of Wales: Kyffin – a celebration | | The first stage of Designer Bookbinders UK touring exhibition features bindings celebrating the work of Welsh landscape artist Kyffin Williams.
Dates: 14 June - August
Open: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
Where: The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3BU
Contact: 01970 632 800 (www.llgc.org.uk)
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28 Jun 2008 | Lost Nature, Forgotten Art | | The work of three students studying for BAs at Blackpool and the Fylde Art College celebrating nature art. Examples of their work were also shown at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art last year.
Where: A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern St, London W1U 6LY
T: 020 7486 0534
W: www.a-and-d.co.uk
Open: Mon-Sat 10.30am-7.00pm
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04 Jan 2009 | Morgan Library: New York: Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors | | Focusing on the first book by each of Babar's authors, the exhibition explores how two different men created and developed the character of the little elephant.
Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
Open: Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tickets: $12 Adults; $8 Children (under 16)
Contact: 001 (212) 685-0008 (www.themorgan.org)
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21 May 2008 | KATHERINE HARDY - THE GREAT GATSBY AND OTHER STORIES | | Tenderpixel Gallery presents Katherine Hardy’s MA (RCA 2007) début solo show. This exhibition consists of both existing and brand new works that demonstrate her growing reputation as a romantic narrative illustrator.
Her prints, constructed with felt tips, take as their source material some of the twentieth century’s greatest literary works such as Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. By reinterpreting
these classic texts, Hardy taps into the cultural psyche. Hardy thematically explores silent horrors and deferred violence in her work, while whimsically juxtaposing tragedy, humour, and irony.
Where: Tenderpixel Gallery, 10 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square
Contact: 020 7379 9464
W: www.tenderpixel.com
E: mail@tenderpixel.com
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01 Jun 2008 | Tate Britain: William Blake: “I still go on / Till the Heavens and Earth are gone” | | Works from the permanent collection, plus a
highlight of private loans of recently discovered works that have never before been exhibited.
Open: daily 10am-5.50pm
Where: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Contact: 020 7887 8888 (www.tate.org.uk/britain)
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15 Jun 2008 | Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amhurst, MA: Seeking A State of Grace: The Art of Arnold Lobel | | In celebration of what would have been Arnold Lobel’s seventy-fifth birthday, the Museum has organized a retrospective of his illustrious career. Although his career was woefully short—he was only fifty-four when he died—Lobel created over seventy books and was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Fables (1981); two Caldecott Honors for Frog and Toad Are Friends (1971) and Hildilid’s Night, written by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972); and a Newbery Honor for Frog and Toad Together (1973). The exhibition will provide an overview of the full range of his career with considerable attention paid to his signature legacy—Frog and Toad.
Where: 125 West Bay Road | Amherst, MA 01002
Open: 10 am – 4 pm Tuesday through Friday
10 am – 5 pm Saturday
12 – 5 pm Sundays
Tickets: $7 Adults, $5 Seniors 65+, $5 Youth 1-18, $5 Student (w/current ID), $5 Teacher (w/current ID), $20 Family (up to 2 Adults, 2 Youths)
Contact: 001 (413) 658-1100 (www.picturebookart.org)
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22 Jun 2008 | Southampton City Art Gallery: Ancient Landscapes - Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists | | This major exhibition begins with etchings by Samuel Palmer and plots the course of English Landscape painting to the present day following themes of Ancient Landscapes, Trees, the Gothic, the Traveller and Nocturnes. These themes will be used to explore the Romantic response to the British countryside and the impact of man on the landscape. Sites, such as Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and the White Horse, Uffington, that have been venerated over the centuries certainly attracted artists Paul and John Nash, John Piper and David Inshaw.
The exhibition will be a fitting tribute to over thirty years of Ruralist collaboration, with many works brought together and discussed for the first time. The Ovendens are preparing new works for the event, with Graham Ovenden producing definitive versions of the Orchard Moon and Tower of Babel themes.
The exhibition travels to two further venues later in the year.
Where: Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Road Southampton, SO14 7LP
Contact: 023 8083 2277 (www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts/sotonartgallery or www.ruralists.com)
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05 Aug 2008 | British Museum: Fascination with nature: birds, flowers and insects in Chinese art | | An opportunity to view paintings that are fragile and can only be displayed for short periods of time.
Dates: till 5 August
Open: daily 10am-5.30pm;
Where: Room 91, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Contact: 020 7323 8299 (www.britishmuseum.org)
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10 Aug 2008 | Morgan Library, New York: Illuminating the Medieval Hunt | | This exhibition features miniatures from the celebrated fifteenth-century manuscript Le Livre de la chasse. In addition, about two dozen manuscripts and printed books are also on display.
Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
Open: Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tickets: $12 Adults; $8 Children (under 16)
Contact: 001 (212) 685-0008 (www.themorgan.org)
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17 Aug 2008 | British Library: From East to West - Traditional East Asian and Contemporary European Printing | | From East to West displays some of the finest examples of East Asian printing, many of them rare or previously unseen. From 9th century printed fragments discovered in a cave temple complex at Dunhuang, to 21st century examples of fine printing by contemporary artists inspired by classical Asian printing techniques, From East to West moves from past to present to examine the development of printing over the centuries.
Where: Folio Society Gallery, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Contact: www.bl.uk
Cost: free
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31 Dec 2008 | The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers | | Exhibition featuring original watercolours for The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers (both celebrating their 100th birthdays).
Open: 10.30am-4.30pm (days vary, see website)
Tickets: £4 adult; £2 children; £10 family
Where: Beatrix Potter Gallery, Main Street, Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 ONS
Contact: 015394 36355 (www.nationaltrust.org.uk)
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02 Jan 2010 | Seven Stories: The Centre for Children’s Books | | Incredible Journeys
Key books, manuscripts and original artwork from the past 70 years in imaginative sets of story worlds
Open: Mon-Weds, Fri, Sat 10am-5pm; Thurs 10am-6pm; Sun 11am-5pm
Tickets: £5 adult; £4 children/concs; £15 family
Where: 30 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Contact: 0191 261 1931 or e-mail info@sevenstories.org.uk
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