I've let this get a little out of date - I need to check the Tates, Towner, Chichester and others, and add Nottingham. I have a Google Calendar which I can give people access to.
Check with venue before travelling - exhibitions get cancelled or renamed. I cannot speak to cost of entry but recommend joining the Art Fund.
These are sorted by order of closure - it's a see now before it shuts aide memoire. Red items are running now. Starred events are ones I really want to see.
Closes in January 2010
- Sons of Pioneers: Matthew Houlding 16/10/2009-3/1/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
- Mind into Matter [architecture] 16/10/2009-3/1/2010 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
- Astronomy Photographer of the Year 10/9/2009-10/1/2010 National Maritime Museum
- The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art 10/10/2009-10/1/2010 Tate St Ives
- John Baldessari: Pure Beauty 13/10/2009-10/1/2010 Tate Modern
- Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism 26/9/2009-10/1/2010 Manchester Art Gallery
- Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely 2/10/2010-10/1/2010 Tate Liverpool
- Martin Parr Parrworld 17/10/2009-10/1/2010 Baltic, Gateshead
- Jeremy Millar: Given 24/9/2009-17/1/2010 National Maritime Museum:
- Pop Life [was Sold Out] 1/10/2009-17/1/2010 Tate Modern
- Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts 10/10/2009-17/1/2010 V&A
- Drawing Attention: Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso and more 21/10/2009-17/1/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Turner and the Masters 23/9/2009-24/1/2010 Tate Britain
- Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler 24/9/2009-24/1/2010 British Museum
- Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed 15/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Portrait Gallery
- The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700 21/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Gallery Admission Charge
- The Making of a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture 21/10/2009-24/1/2010 National Gallery
- Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill 24/10/2009-24/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
- 30 Years of Viz 4/11/2009-24/1/2010 Cartoon Museum
- Order: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in Architecture 16/10/2009-30/1/2010 Sir John Soanes Museum
- Capturing the Concept: The Sketchbooks of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA from 1982 to 2007 6/11/2009-31/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts FREE
- RAA GSK Contemporary 2009 3/12/2009-31/1/2010 Royal Academy of Arts-Burlington Gardens
Closes in February 2010
- Kienholz, Hoerengracht 18/11/2009-21/2/2010 National Gallery Free admission
Closes in March 2010
- Objects of Luxury: French porcelain of the eighteenth century /9/2009-/3/2010 V&A Room 146 Free admission
- Only Joking 27/1/2010-1/3/2010 Cartoon Museum
- Points of View: Capturing the 19th century in photographs 30/10/2009-7/3/2010 British Library
- Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
- Ergonomics: Real Design 18/11/2009-9/3/2010 Design Museum
- British Council Collection: Thresholds 9/1/2010-12/3/2010 Whitechapel
- I shake you by the hand, comrade Bacon: British Art Abroad 19/12/2009-14/3/2010 Whitechapel
- The Rise of Women Artists 23/10/2009-14/3/2010 Liverpool Walker Gallery
- Robert Mapplethorpe Artist Rooms 19/12/2009- Sheffield-Graves Art Gallery
- Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals 2/10/2009-21/3/2010 Tate Liverpool
Closes After 1 April 2010
- The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka 13/10/2009-5/4/2010 Tate Modern
- Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 21/1/2010-11/4/2010 Whitechapel
- Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul 21/1/2010-18/4/2010 Whitechapel
- The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters 23/1/2010-18/4/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
- Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic 21/1/2010-25/4/2010 Tate Liverpool
- * Mrs Delany and Her Circle 19/2/2010-1/5/2010 Sir John Soane's Museum
- Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective 10/2/2010-3/5/2010 Tate Modern
- Celeste Boursier-Mougenot New commission for The Curve 27/2/2010-3/5/2010 Barbican
- * Paul Nash: The Elements 10/2/2010-9/5/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Chris Ofili 27/1/10-16/5/10 Tate Britain
- Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World -4/2/2010-16/5/2010 Tate Modern
- Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey 24/2/2010-23/5/2010 National Gallery
- Christen Kobke: Danish Master of Light 17/3/2010-13/6/2010 National Gallery
- * Ronald Searle: Graphic Master 3/3/2010-4/7/2010 Cartoon Museum
- * Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill 6/3/2010-4/7/2010 V&A
- Quilts 20/3/2010-18/7/2010 V&A Exhibitions, Room 39 and North Court
- * Henry Moore 24/2/2010-15/8/2010 Tate Britain
- The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art 9/6/2010-22/8/2010 Dulwich
- Picasso: Peace and Freedom 21/5/2010-30/8/2010 Tate Liverpool
- Urban Africa: David Adjaye 31/3/2010-5/9/2010 Design Museum
- * British Comic Art 9/6/2010-5/9/2010 Tate Britain
- Francis Alys 15/6/2010-5/9/2010 Tate Modern
- * Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries 30/6/2010-12/9/2010 National Gallery
- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera 28/5/2010-19/9/2010 Tate Modern
- Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 14/7/2010-17/10/2010 National Gallery
- Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic 15/09/2010-28/11/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010 28/11/2010 Tate Britain
- Turner Prize 2010 5/10/2010-2/1/2011 Tate Britain
- Rachel Whiteread: Drawings 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain
- Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals 13/10/2010-16/1/2011 National Gallery
- * Eadweard Muybridge 15/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Britain
- Gaughin 30/9/2010-16/1/2011 Tate Modern
- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1900-1939 18/9/2010-16/1/2011 V&A
- Nam June Paik 17/12/10-13/3/2011 Tate Liverpool
- Love, Magic and Power 10/9/2011-8/1/2012 V&A
- Postmodernism 8/10/2011-15/1/2012 V&A Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court
- Aestheticism: Beauty in Art and Design 1860-1900 4/7/2011-// V&A
- 100 Years of Hollywood Costume: Virgins and Vamps, Saints and sinners (TBC) 4/2013-7/2013 V&A