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Saturday (31 May) marks the first birthday of the multi-award winning Mary Rose Museum – currently shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014. The Museum opened a year ago, revealing the ambitious heritage construction project of ...

Robin-Lee Hall has been elected as the President of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She is only the second woman to hold this position since the Society was founded to promote excellence in portraiture in 1891. Hall has been a mem...

Wednesday 4 June 2014, 7 – 9.30p.m. Sponsored by Insight Investment The Royal Academy of Arts will host its annual Summer Exhibition Preview Party on 4 June 2014. Marking the official opening of the Summer Exhibition, traditionally...

Tuesday 3 June 2014 13:30 - 15:00 Burgh House Hampstead London NW3 1LT Join the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a very special afternoon with photographer Dorothy Bohm at Burgh House in Hampstead. ...

Richard Saltoun Gallery will be holding a solo exhibition of British artist Nicholas Pope, the first in London since 2003, from 30 May to 4 July. A student at the Bath Academy of Art (1970–73), Pope had early success in his career. Norman Re...

The Science Museum continues its longstanding engagement with contemporary arts this summer. Artist Liliane Lijn will perform songs from Crossing Map , live, with Sharon Gal, as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s exhibition ‘The Exponential...

‘Damaged Humans’ is Sarah Ball ’s first solo show in London. Named Welsh Artist of the Year in 2013, and an encouraged artist at the Royal Academy’s Summer Show, the artists’s signature portraiture takes its starting poi...

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Artist Menthe Wells, interviewed in Cassone in April 2013, has a show currently at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art – until 27 June 2014. Menthe Wells is a New York School Abstract Expressionist. The exhibition of paintings and welded st...

Alison Wilding is part of the selection committee for the 2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize , creating an exhibition that explores the diversity and excellence of current drawing practice in the UK. The Jerwood Drawing Prize is open to all UK-based arti...

News is coming in that one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpieces - The Glasgow School of Art - is on fire. No one has been hurt but the historic building is evidently suffering major damage as firefighters struggle to extinguish the blaze. The...

Margate is having a summer festival inspired by Turner Contemporary’s summer exhibition ‘ Mondria n and Colour ’ and the 20th-century artist, whose love of colour changed painting. Initiated by Turner Contemporary, working with part...

Still Life and Interiors 24 May – 11 June 2014 Fifteen artists are taking part in 'Still Life and Interiors', a biannual exhibition giving a comprehensive overview of still-life painting today at The Jerram Gallery, Hal...

These fabulous beasties by sculptor Lynn Chadwick are on show outside London's Royal Academy until 16 May. Concurrent exhibitions in London, Berlin and New York are between them showing work from the whole of Chadwick's 50-year career. ...

A group show by West London Arts Collective seeks to connect the essence of the fairy-tale tradition with the here and now. We say that someone is ‘away with the fairies’ to mean that they are disconnected from reality. And indeed thei...

Goodbye Piccadilly – from Home Front to Western Front New exhibition at London Transport Museum to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War Opens Friday 16 May 2014 A major exhibition entitled &lsquo...

Art Basel is on the move again, opening shortly in Hong Kong, where Dublin's Kerlin Gallery will have a booth. (See John Varoli's article on the Miami edition of Art Basel in Cassone, February 2014.) At Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, Kerlin G...

To coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong ‘ Space Painting by Zhang Enli’ , the first-ever solo exhibition of the Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Enli in Hong Kong, is being held from May 12 to July 13, 2014. Zhang Enli gained an internat...

The Art Fund launches competition to find the best photograph of Museum of the Year finalists As part of the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014 , the Art Fund is calling on photography professionals and amateurs alike to send in their b...

Ian Rank-Broadley’s Young Napoleon at FACE2014 Ian Rank-Broadley’s portrait sculpture of the young Napoleon will be the centrepiece of the Society of Portrait Sculptors’ FACE2014 exhibition next week. Opening on Monday...

2014 is the 30th anniversary year of Tate’s Turner Prize, established in 1984 to promote contemporary British art. It is an annual award to an artist under the age of 50 for an outstanding exhibition or presentation that has taken place in the 12 ...

6–31 May 2014 Riverside Studios’ new show is ‘ The Return: An exhibition of recent work by six London painters’ , featuring work by Bruno Déroulède, Stephen Feather, Bill McCombe, Fred Mugford, Jon Ridge and...

Rosalind Ormiston reports on the enticing city of Bruges, a 'Venice of the North' for art as well as canals The chance of a three and a half-day trip to Bruges, capital of West Flanders in Belgium, a short journey from London, meant a vi...

The National Gallery's exhibition, 'Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance' closes on 11 May so there is not much time left to see this show. It greatly impressed our contributor Rosalind Ormiston, who reviewed it for Cassone...

A new art gallery has opened at Kersey Mill, Suffolk: The Red Chair Gallery. Run by husband and wife team Simon & Katherine and situated in delightful surroundings, The Red Chair Gallery offers the opportunity to purchase original work from Su...

Art & Culture Andalucia Three years ago Dr Jacqueline Cockburn bought a beautiful house in the artistic community of Gaucin, a spectacular ‘pueblo blanco’ in the mountains of Andalucia. Gaucin is widely regarded as one of the mos...

The Catlin Art Prize 2014 2–24 May, Londonewcastle Project Space, E2 7DP 11a.m.-6p.m. daily, Sundays noon–4p.m. Opening Preview: Thursday 1 May 6–9p.m. Now in its eighth year, The Catlin Art Prize...

New Sound Installation at IWM North from 1 May 2014 Launching ‘Reactions14’ – a major contemporary art series to mark the First World War Centenary Free entry; donations welcome A new installation by sound artist ...

Coinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin , Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin is presenting an exhibition of 15 new paintings by Robert Holyhead from 2 May–7 June. Galerie Max Hetzler Goethestraße 2/3 Berlin-Charlottenburg D-10623...