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Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare, MBE has been on temporary display in London's Trafalgar Square since May 2010. In January it will be removed from public view. Today, the Art Fund launched a campaign with the National M...

3 December – 29 January Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi: Banquet Ellie Rees: The Day of Twenty Four Cakes Holly Drewett: Invisible Cities Anna Roch Deus: Action: Reaction Bracknell Camera Club: Transformation Opening R...

2 December 2011 to 28 January 2012 A selection of Henry Hudson’s grand scale reinventions in plasticine of William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress will be exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum from Friday 2 December 2011 u...

Haunch of Venison London presents an exhibition of ten of Britain’s most important post-war painters, revealing the story behind their art. The Mystery of Appearance is a fresh appraisal of ten artists - Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Fra...

On Tuesday 15 November, Karen Eslea, Head of Learning at Turner Contemporary won one of four inaugural Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education, presented at a special evening event run by engage, the National Association for Gallery Educati...

Opening Friday 9 December The stunning new centre Maggie’s Centre, which provides services for people diagnosed with cancer, was designed by Japanese architect Dr Kisho Kurokawa, of Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates. Sadly...

Grayson Perry’s current exhibition at the British Museum is a tour de force . Climbing the stairs from the museum's Great Hall to the upper floor one gets a sense of being lifted above the millieux of tourist and school groups into a more co...

‘Modern Icons’ 16 November – 7 December 2011. An exhibition of work by Brazilian-born pop artist Romero Britto features new work, including a series of portraits of members of the British Royal family. The Miami-based arti...

Artist Ted Harrison created this installation at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, to mark Remembrance Day on 11 November. The image, outlined in the red paper poppies sold in many countries in the period before Remembrance Day, features child soldier...

Kerlin Gallery has announced a solo exhibition by Sean Scully at Abu Dhabi Art, 2011. Sean Scully is widely regarded as one of the most important abstract painters of his generation. The development of Scully’s signature style of abstrac...

Open evening Saturday 12 November 2011 The Bath Art Affair, showing a fantastic range of fine and applied arts across 30 galleries, opens in Bath on Friday 11 November, with many central Bath galleries open for private views and the opening of the...

A Year at Fountains Abbey is the result of a major collaboration between the artist Emerson Mayes and the National Trust, in a project capturing 12 months spent working at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. Born...

Her Majesty The Queen and HRH Duke of Edinburgh will be coming to Margate tomorrow (Friday) to visit Turner Contemporary . This will be a great honour and endorsement for the gallery which, since its opening in April, has received wide internatio...

Kristjana S.Williams is a fast-rising, Icelandic-born artist whose brilliant and daring Victorian engraving mash-ups are being snapped up by the V&A and the Chanel Group, among others. Her first solo show, which opens on 10 November at London&rsquo...

someBody@somePLace , opening on Thursday 10 November, will unite themost exciting Polish artists working today and will celebrate Poland’s extraordinary culture through fresh, new and innovative art forms. The exhibition will include paintings by...

Architecture students are putting the finishing touches to an experimental performance pavilion they have created for a one-off stage show tonight (Monday, 7 November). In all 21 students from all three years of the BA (Hons) Architecture at De...

November 10, 2011–January 29, 2012 This fall the Whitney Museum of American Art presents ‘ Sherrie Levine: Mayhem ’, the first major museum survey of the artist’s work. The exhibition is a project developed by the artist ...

Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Beryl Dean’s birth, a major touring exhibition starting at Alexandra Palace, London, is planned to celebrate the work of this seminal figure of 20th-century ecclesiastical textile design. The exhibit...

The Contemporary Art Society has announced that the Annual Award, commission to collect will be presented by one of the UK’s most significant artists Cornelia Parker. The reception for the Award will take place in London on 14 Novembe...

4-26 November 2011 The fascinating architectural and sculptural works of kinetic artist Liliane Lijn will be on display at Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, from 4 to 26 November 2011 ...

Escape An exhibition at Sumarria Lunn Gallery, 36 South Molton Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 5AB ‘Escape to the Country’, a phrase so well worn that it is now the title of a TV programme, but do we ever really escape to na...