What
PURE Spring Art Fair
Celebrating Print
When
Friday 7th April – Thursday 12th April
Wonga
Admission free
Where
The PowderMills Hotel, Powdermill Lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0SP
The Fanfare - PURE Spring Art Fair – Celebrating Print
The annual PURE Spring Art Fair – Celebrating Print exhibition takes place at the PowderMills Hotel, Battle and will showcase limited edition prints and unique artworks.
What
Gold: Power and Allure Exhibition - 4500 years of gold treasures from accross Britain
When
From Friday June 1 to Saturday July 28 2012 (closed Sundays and Bank holidays) open from 10.00am to 5.00pm
Where
At Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London, EC2V 6BN
The Fanfare
Gold: Power and Allure, the Goldsmiths’ Company’s summer exhibition, is the most comprehensive and ambitious ever staged at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
What
COLLECT the international art fair for contemporary objects
When
From 11 to 14 May 2012
Where
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4SQ
The Fanfare
The Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea will host COLLECT the international art fair for contemporary objects from 11 to 14 May 2012.
1000 Places To See Before You Die
What
New edition of 1000 Places To See Before You Die
When
Released February 2012
Where
Bookshops in the UK and online
The Fanfare
The international travel bestseller 1000 Places To See Before You Die is being re-released nearly a decade after it first hit the bookshelves and includes over 200 entries for Britain.
What
Romance in Shakespeare Country
When
February 2012
Where
Shakespeare Country / Stratford-upon-Avon / Warwickshire
The Fanfare
Celebrate Valentine’s Day in Shakespeare Country and combine with a short break during half term (11 – 19 February).
What
Heritage Lottery Fund Brings Seaton Delaval Hall to life with Delaval Lives project
When
Opening the first weekend of February 2012
Where
The Avenue, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, NE26 4QR
The Fanfare
The National Trust has been awarded a grant of £24,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project which aims to bring the heritage of Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland to life (…)
What
Catherine the Great, An Enlightened Empress exhibition
When
13 July to 21 October 2012
Where
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
The Fanfare
The National Museum of Scotland is to mark the 250th anniversary of Catherine the Great’s ascension to the Russian throne with an exhibition opening in July: Catherine the Great, An Enlightened Empress (…)
What
Leading Modern British Silversmiths
When
28 May to 29 September 2012
Where
The London Silver Vaults, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QS
The Fanfare
The London Silver Vaults, in London’s legal district, has the world’s largest retail collection of fine antique silver, and this year will feature outstanding examples from recent decades in the Post-War Winners: Leading Modern British Silversmiths exhibition which runs from 28 May to 29 September.
Couples who are looking for somewhere extra special to spend some quality time together will find romantic experiences in abundance in Bath.
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London is celebrating both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and its own 75th anniversary with a major Royal River Thames Exhibition.
Five important Monet paintings of water lilies will be brought together for a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool this June. Two of the pictures have never before been shown in Britain.
The contemporary silver exhibition provides a visual link between past and future silver treasures at Ickworth House in Suffolk.
The UK’s largest exhibition of contemporary stone sculpture will be held this summer in the Jacobean house and landscaped gardens of Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds.
A unique artistic collaboration (Other Worlds – Story Museum in Oxford) will turn a dilapidated building in Oxford into a giant compendium of strange, amusing and haunting stories in May this year.
A new exhibition exploring the global downturn and its effect on cities and their inhabitants opens at PM Gallery & House in January 2012.
Tracey Emin is to have her first major solo exhibition (She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea) at Turner Contemporary, the new gallery in Margate, the town where the British artist grew up.
The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of the human body is to go on display in May at the Queen’s Gallery, next to Buckingham Palace.
The art gallery that occupies the Georgian mansion of Compton Verney is to hold two new exhibitions when it opens for its 2012 season at the end of March.
12 reasons to visit Bath in 2012
New events, enticing exhibitions and an enduring appeal of architecture, history and spa culture ensure that the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath continues to be a tempting place to visit in the new year. Here are 12 reasons why Bath should be on anyone’s list of must-see places in 2012…
The new £4-million Jerwood Gallery gallery will open in the seaside town of Hastings in March 2012.
An exhibition at London’s Geffrye Museum – At Home with the World – will look at the cosmopolitan nature of London homes over the past 400 years.
The world’s longest-running specialist print fair – London Original Print Fair – will be held in London in April 2012.
A new Mind The Map exhibition featuring the inspiration, history and creativity of London transport maps opens in May at the London Transport Museum.
Hampton Court Palace is to host a new exhibition from April about the beauty, debauchery and decadent art of the late Stuart court.
British artist Damien Hirst is to be given his first major solo exhibition in the UK. More than 70 of his works will be on show from April at Tate Modern in London.
A host of angels has taken up residence in the historic gardens of the National Trust’s Mottisfont in Hampshire as part of a unique Christmas sculpture trail.
12 Things to do in London
One of Britain’s most prolific creators of ecological art is to produce and exhibit his work for a year at the Royal Botanical Kew Gardens.
Top 12 things to do in Manchester
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh re-opens in December 2011 after a £17.6-million refurbishment.
The Decorative Fair offers antiques, modern design, works of art, decorative accessories and collectors’ items of all periods.
The UK celebrates London 2012 with a 12-week nationwide London 2012 Festival of the world’s best music, theatre, dance, visual art, literature, film and fashion
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is opening five new galleries to display its renowned collections from ancient Egypt and Nubia.
From 6.30pm on Friday 25th November and Friday 2nd December come and enjoy the National Gallery Christmas Shopping Evenings.
York’s Niche Museums: the cultural and historical highlights of York that you may not even know exist.
The Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London – one of Britain’s greatest sculptures and war memorials – has been carefully repaired and cleaned by English Heritage in time for this year’s Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
A superb neo-Gothic London mansion built for William Waldorf Astor has opened as a gallery with a free William Morris exhibition.
‘A Darkness More Than Night’ explores contemporary art through ‘noir’, a genre most readily associated with stylish Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and ‘50s, yet whose precursors date back through nineteenth century literature to Greek tragedy.
Nokia hosts an after-hours complimentary evening of art, music and entertainment at BALTIC gallery on Thursday November 24th
Hundreds of international artists will converge on Southbank Centre’s 21 acre riverside site next summer for its summer 2012 Festival of the World and a number of the projects are also highlights of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad.
A review by Abigail Fisher of the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman exhibition curated by the artist Grayson Perry in the British Museum.
Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire is to display 39 embroidered panels from the Quaker Tapestry, which took 15 years to create.
An overview on French draughtsmanship by showcasing Christ Church Picture Gallery’s collection of French drawings.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London will hold the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney in January next year.
The Design Museum in London is to hold the first comprehensive UK exhibition of the work of shoe designer Christian Louboutin.
Tate Britain in London is to hold the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with the UK.
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