As always these are provided as much for my own benefit and interest as anyone else's - check opening times and venues before travelling; additions, suggestions, corrections and company welcome. I also have a Google Calendar which I add to. Exhibitions in red are on now (in theory).
ETA:
Rothko in Britain 9-Sep-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/rothko-in-britain
Artists in Residence: Shiraz Bayjoo and DARTER 16-Dec-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/artists-in-residence-shiraz-bayjoo-and-darter
Government Art Collection: Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling Light 16-Dec-2011 26-Feb-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/government-art-collection-selected-by-simon-schama-travelling-light
Zarina Bhimji 19-Jan-2012 9-Mar-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/zarina-bhimji
Steven Clayton: Culpable Earth 4-Feb-2012 7-May-2012 FirstSite Colchester http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/culpable-earth-2
Andrea Zittel, Lay of My Land 10-Feb-2012 20-May-2012 BALTIC Gateshead http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/future/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=161
Elizabeth Price 3-Feb-2012 27-May-2012 BALTIC Gateshead http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=160
Gillian Wearing 28-Mar-2012 17-Jun-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London Tickets http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/gillian-wearing
The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny: The Past Was A Mirage I Had Left Far Behind 7-Sep-2011 20-Jul-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-josiah-mcelheny-the-past-was-a-mirage-i-had-left-far-behind
The London Open 3-Oct-2012 25-Nov-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-open
Mel Bochner 12-Oct-2012 30-Dec-2012 Whitechapel Gallery London http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/mel-bochner
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Ends April-December 2012
- London: V&A “Charles Dickens (1812-70): A Bicentenary Display” 15-Nov-2011-1-Apr-2012 http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/charles-dickens-1812-70-a-bicentenary-display
- London: British Museum Room 90 “BM: Landscape, heroes and folktales: German Romantic prints and drawings” 29-Nov-2011-1-Apr-2012 (Free) http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/german_romantic_prints.aspx
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Hot Scots” 1-Dec-2011-1-Apr-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/hot-scots
- * Cambridge: Kettle's Yard “Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Vorticist!” 14-Jan-2012-1-Apr-2012 http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/2012/gaudier/index.php
- Eastbourne : Towner “igloo (Gibson/Martelli) -VISITOR” 21-Jan-2012-1-Apr-2012
- London: British Museum Room 91 Lobby “Manga at the British Museum drawings by Hoshino Yukinobu” 29-Sep-2011-8-Apr-2012 (Free) http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/manga_at_the_british_museum.aspx
- London: Tate Modern “The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean” 11-Oct-2011-9-Apr-2012
- * London: Royal Academy of Arts “David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture” 21-Jan-2012-9-Apr-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Wolverhampton Art Gallery “Super Vivere by Susie Rea” 14-Jan-2012-14-Apr-2012 http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004793.html
- * Birmingham: Birmingham Museum “Me, You and Everything Else” 19-Nov-2011-15-Apr-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1646
- London: British Museum “Hajj: Journey to the heart of Islam” 26-Jan-2012-15-Apr-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/hajj.aspx
- Nottingham: Nottingham Contemporary “Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency” 28-Jan-2012-15-Apr-2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/decolonizing-architecture-art-residency
- Nottingham: Nottingham Contemporary “Thomas Demand: Model Studies” 28-Jan-2012-15-Apr-2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/thomas-demand
- * Birmingham: Ikon “Hamish Fulton” 15-Feb-12-22-Apr-2012 http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/577/hamish_fulton/
- Birmingham: Ikon “Ikon Posters 2000-2011” 15-Feb-12-22-Apr-2012 http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/626/ikon_posters_20002011/
- Birmingham: Ikon “Postcards From Japan -A Message From Tohoku Artists” 15-Feb-12-22-Apr-2012 http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/603/postcards_from_japan_a_message/
- Birmingham: Ikon “Sarah Browne: How to Use Fool’s Gold” 15-Feb-12-22-Apr-2012 http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/578/how_to_use_fools_gold/
- * London: V&A 128a “Albertopolis: the Development of South Kensington and the Exhibition Road Cultural Quarter” 26-Nov-2011-29-Apr-2012 (Free) http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/albertopolis-the-development-of-south-kensington-and-the-exhibition-road-cultural-quarter/
- Sheffield: Sheffield Millennium Gallery “The Family in British Art” 2-Feb-2012-29-Apr-2012 http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/coming-soon/the-family-in-british-art-1542-2003
- Margate: Turner Contemporary “Hamish Fulton: Walk” 17-Jan-2012-7-May-2012 http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/hamish-fulton
- St Ives, Cornwall: Tate St Ives “Simon Fujiwara” 18-Jan-2012-7-May-2012 http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/exhibitions/simonfujiwara/default.shtm
- Margate: Turner Contemporary “Turner and the Elements” 28-Jan-2012-13-May-2012 http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/turner-and-the-elements
- London: Hayward Gallery “Jeremy Deller: Joy in People” 22-Feb-2012-13-May-2012 http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/hayward-gallery-exhibitions/future
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Wolverhampton Art Gallery “The Royal Photographic Society 154th International Print Exhibition” 17-Mar-2012-19-May-2012 http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004798.html
- Chichester: Pallant House “David Dawson: Working with Lucian Freud” 28-Jan-2012-20-May-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/david-dawson-working-with-lucian-freud
- * London: Hayward Gallery “David Shrigley: Brain Activity” 1-Feb-2012-20-May-2012 http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/hayward-gallery-exhibitions/future
- London: Tate Modern “Yayoi Kusama” 8-Feb-2012-20-May-2012
- * London: Courtauld Institute of Art “Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel” 16-Feb-2012-20-May-2012 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2012/mondrian-nicholson/index.shtml
- London: Royal Academy of Arts “LithORRgraphy: Chris Orr RA and the Art of Chemical Printing” 23-Feb-2012-20-May-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/the-tennant-gallery/lithorrgraphy,411,RAL.html
- London: Dulwich Picture Gallery “Ragamala” 25-Jan-2012-27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/ragamala_paintings_from_india.aspx
- London: National Portrait Gallery Wolfson and Ground Floor Lerner Galleries “Lucian Freud Portraits” 9-Feb-2012-27-May-2012 http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2012/lucian-freud-portraits.php
- London: Dulwich Picture Gallery “Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague” 15-Feb-2012-27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/van_dyck_in_sicily.aspx
- London: Tate Modern “Alighiero Boetti” 21-Feb-2012-27-May-2012
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography & the Modern World” 1-Dec-2011-3-Jun-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.orhttp://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/romantic-camera-scottish-photography-and-the-modern-worldg/whatson/exhibitions/hot-scots
- London: Serpentine Gallery “Hans-Peter Feldmann” 11-Apr-2012-3-Jun-2012 http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/hans_peter_feldmann.html
- London: National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Exhibition “Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude” 14-Mar-2012-5-Jun-12 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turner-inspired
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Wolverhampton Art Gallery “Contemporary Collection” 25-Feb-2012-9-Jun-2012 http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004795.html
- Sheffield: Sheffield Millennium Gallery “Under the Sea” 31-Jan-2012-10-Jun-2012 http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/coming-soon/under-the-sea
- London: Royal Academy of Arts Sackler Wing of Galleries “Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed” 10-Mar-2012-10-Jun-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/johan-zoffany-ra-society-observed/
- Chichester: Pallant House “Keith Vaughan: A Centenary Celebration” 10-Mar-2012-10-Jun-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/keith-vaughan-a-centenary-celebration
- London: Barbican Art Gallery The Curve “Song Dong: Waste Not” 15-Feb-2012-12-Jun-2012 (Free) http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12878
- * London: Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Space “Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination” 4-Feb-2012-17-Jun-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/thearchitecturespace/nicholas-hawksmoor-architect-of-the-imagination,409,RAL.html
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art “The Sculpture Show” 17-Dec-2011-24-Jun-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-and-coming-soon/the-sculpture-show
- Eastbourne : Towner “Clare Woods” 21-Apr-2012-24-Jun-2012 http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/clare-woods/
- * London: Tate Britain “Picasso and Britain” 15-Feb-2012-15-Jul-2012
- * London: V&A “British Design 1948-2012” 1-Mar-2012-1-Aug-2012
- London: Tate Britain “Migrations” 31-Jan-2012-12-Aug-2012
- London: Barbican Art Gallery “Bauhaus: Art as Life” 3-May-2012-12-Aug-2012 http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12409
- London: National Gallery Sunley Room “Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt” 4-Apr-2012-2-Sep-2012 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/titians-first-masterpiece-the-flight-into-egypt
- London: Tate Modern “Damien Hirst” 5-May-2012-9-Sep-2012
- London: Wallace Collection “The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe” 17-May-2012-16-Sep-2012 (Free) http://www.wallacecollection.org/collections/exhibition/93
- * London: Tate Britain “Another London” 31-Jul-2012-16-Sep-2012
- * London: V&A “Island Stories: British photography from 1945 to the present” 16-Mar-2012-19-Sep-2012 http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/island-stories-british-photography-from-1945-to-the-present
- St Ives, Cornwall: Tate St Ives “Alex Katz” 9-May-2012-23-Sep-2012 http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/exhibitions/alexkatz/default.shtm
- * Margate: Turner Contemporary “Tracey Emin: She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea” 26-May-2012-23-Sep-2012 http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/tracey-emin-she-lay-down-deep-beneath-the-sea
- London: National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Exhibition “Metamorphosis: Titian 2012” 11-Jul-2012-23-Sep-2012 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphosis-titian-2012
- * London: Dulwich Picture Gallery “Andy Warhol: Life & Legends” 20-Jun-2012-26-Sep-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/andy_warhol_life_and_legends.aspx
- * Chichester: Pallant House “Peter Blake and Pop Music” 23-Jun-2012-7-Oct-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/forthcoming/main-galleries/peter-blake-and-pop-music
- * London: Tate Modern “Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye” 28-Jun-2012-14-Oct-2012
- * Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery “Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910” 14-Jul-2012-14-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-and-coming-soon/van-gogh-to-kandinsky-symbolist-landscape-in-europe-1880-1910
- * Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery “Giovanni Battista Lusieri” 28-Jun-2012-28-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-and-coming-soon/giovanni-battista-lusieri
- London: Tate Modern “Tino Sehgal 2012” 17-Jul-2012-28-Oct-2012
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/blazing-with-crimson-tartan-portraits
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “John Slezer: A Survey of Scotland” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/john-slezer
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Migration Stories: Pakistan” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/migration-stories
- * Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Pioneers of Science” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/pioneers-of-science
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “The Modern Scot” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/the-modern-scot
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “War at Sea” 1-Dec-2011-31-Oct-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/war-at-sea
- * Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Modern Two “Picasso and Modern British Art” 4-Aug-2012-4-Nov-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-and-coming-soon/picasso-and-modern-british-art
- * London: British Museum “Shakespeare: Staging the world” 19-Jul-2012-25-Nov-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/shakespeare.aspx
- Birmingham: Birmingham Museum “Staffordshire Hoard” 24-Jul-2010-31-Dec-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=892
- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery “Close Encounters: Thomas Annan's Glasgow” 1-Dec-2011-31-Dec-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/close-encounters
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