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As the old year runs out, so do a number of major art shows. Catch the following over the next week or so, or miss them for ever! First off, at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK – ‘ Bridget Riley, Colour, Stripes, Planes and Curves &r...

To celebrate the show ‘Gerhard Richter: Panorama’ at Tate Modern, the magazine Time Out is offering a weekend in Berlin at a luxury hotel. Richter’s show is the biggest for some time and not likely to be outdone for some while. His ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art today announced the list of artists participating in the forthcoming ‘ Whitney Biennial 2012 ’, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from 1 March 1 tuntil 27 May 2012. This is the seventy-sixth in the se...

A new, free exhibition featuring watercolours by prolific father and son artists, John and Edward Hassell, captures the face of the county almost two centuries ago. The Hassells produced over 2,000 watercolours of Surrey buildings in a mere 13 years (18...

From great works of art by Gainsborough to the ordinary cotton underpants of a Midlands grocer, details of over 700,000 objects in the care of the National Trust go online for the first time today (Friday 16 December). Now anyone with an interest ...

You know what those early New Year mornings are like; wilting Christmas decorations, a carpet full of pine needles and nothing to look forward to – and February isn’t much better, either. Sir John Soane’s Museum is changing all t...

Dublin artist has shows in Ireland and France The Model, Sligo 
10 December 2011 – 12 February 2012

 Le Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole
24 February – 22 April 2012 The exhi...

Exhibition continues until Christmas Eve. Charlotte studied at Chelsea and Falmouth Colleges of Art and has exhibited in London, the Midlands and the West Country as well as in Canberra and Brisbane. Her work features in collections worl...

C hristie’s V ictorian & B ritish I mpressionist a rt s ale, 15 December London – Christie’s Victorian & British Impressionist Art sale will offer 90 paintings and works on paper at auction on 15 D...

For the first time since 1971, Domenichino’s masterpiece The Adoration of the Shepherds , ( c . 1607–10) returns to Dulwich to close the celebrations of the gallery’s Bicentenary. Domenichino’s painting, believed in the 18th ce...

A special offer from Phaidon – when you join the new Phaidon Club you will collect 10 points with every £1.00 you spend on the Phaidon website on to use on your next order. 100 points = £1.00to spend on Phaidon.com All yo...

Award winning directors and visual artists Martha Fiennes and Peter Muggleston have launched the World’s first digital painting – SLOimage Nativity – in London’s Covent Garden. Completely self-generating the mesmerising ...

Dr Christina Bradstreet (Sotheby's Institute) on Scented Spectres and the Smell of Ghosts Monday 19 December 2011, 7.30 p.m. The Monarch, Camden
 40–42 Chalk Farm Road,
 London NW1 8BG
 Free to attend.
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Coinciding with the show at Tate Britain of works by the late Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965–1982 , which is running till 2 January 2012, the Karsten Schubert Gallery, in collaboration with Richard Saltoun, is showing Barry Flanagan ...

3 December 2011 – 29February 2012 The Whitechapel Gallery opens the first exhibition of its three-year curatorial partnership with the Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida. Opening on 3 December, Beatriz Milhazes: Screenprints...

Visiting London for Christmas? Come and enjoy London's unique and vibrant multiculturalism for the festive period 18 November 2011– 11 January 2012 Southbank, London Yuletide takes an alternative guise: traditional m...

Presentation of sculpture and selections from an important promised gift of Meissen porcelain from Henry H. Arnhold 13 December 2011–29 April 2012 The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, N...

9 December 2011 – 21 January 2012 Lazarides Gallery, 11 Rathbone Place, London You’re Only Young Twice is an exhibition of new oil paintings by portrait artist, Jonathan Yeo (UK, b. 1970) based around the theme of cosmetic...