Please look at the museum list page for contact details and check days and times from the web sites of each gallery or museum.
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age Until 20 September 2020
Artemisia Gentileschi: 3 October 2020 – 24 January 2021
Raphael Opening spring 2022
The Making of an Artist: The Great Tradition 5 August — 31 December 2020
The self-portrait: historical highlights 16 Sep – 18 Nov 2019
Aubrey Beardsley Until 20 Sep 2020
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night New Dates: 18 November 2020 – 9 May 2021
British Art 1540–1890 From 27 July
Hope. Struggle. Change: Photographing Britain and the World 1945–79 New dates: 12 May 2021 – 26 September 2021
Paula Rego 16 Jun – 24 Oct 2021
ARTIST ROOMS: Richard Long: Being in the Moment New Dates: 11 July 2020 – 31 October 2020
Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker Until 8 Nov 2020
Philip Guston 4 Feb – 31 May 2021
The EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin New dates: 6 May – 10 October 2021
Sophie Taeuber-Arp 15 Jul – 17 Oct 2021
Bruce Nauman 7 Oct 2020 – 21 Feb 2021
Andy Warhol UNTIL 15 NOVEMBER 2020
Among the Trees, from Saturday 1 August Group Show
Radical Figures Painting in the New Millennium 6 Feb - 30 Aug 2020
Carlos Bunga Something Necessary and Useful 21 Jan - 6 Sep 2020
The Return of the Spirit in Painting 5 Feb - 27 Sep 2020
Portraits of the World: Denmark December 13, 2019 - October 12, 2020
The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today October 26, 2019 - August 30, 2020
Cao Fei: Blueprints Serpentine Gallery 4 Aug — 13 Sep 2020
Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works. 15 FEB - 20 SEP 2020 - a major exhibition Alan Davie (1920–2014) and David Hockney (b. 1937) that will explore the convergence between these two major figures of post-war British painting.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: This whole time there were no landmines. Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Turner Prize-winning artist based in Beirut whose work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Recently acquired by Towner, This whole time there were no landmines (2017) is an eight-monitor installation with sound, that uses collected cell-phone-video footage from 2011 to document a ‘shouting valley’ that lies in the contested area of the Golan Heights, Syria.
QUENTIN BLAKE: WE LIVE IN WORRYING TIMES. Opening 14 August. Sir Quentin Blake returns to Hastings Contemporary with a prophetic show of new drawings, paintings, and a large-scale mural he has described as ‘his Guernica’, as raw, original and unlikely as anything he has produced in his eight decades of artistic creativity.
VICTOR PASMORE: LINE & SPACE. Opening Friday 14 August. More details on opening hours and how to book will follow shortly. Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) was one of the greatest British artists of his generation. His pioneering development of abstract art is considered to be one of the most significant achievements in 20th century British art.
Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain Until Sunday 1 November 2020 - A peer of Eric Ravilious and Edward Burra, Barnett Freedman was one of Britain’s most sought-after commercial designers in the mid-20th century.
Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists Until Sunday 15 November 2020 - The natural world as seen through the eyes of Eric Ravilious, John Nash, John Piper and other artists.
An Outbreak of Talent: Bawden, Marx, Ravilious, and their Contemporaries Until Sunday 1 November 2020 - From wood-engraved book illustrations and commercial artwork, to textile and ceramic design, these artists transformed the design world of 20th century Britain.
ZADIE XA: CHILD OF MAGOHALMI AND THE ECHOES OF CREATION Saturday 1 February – Sunday 6 September - Showcasing a major new multimedia project, Zadie Xa creates a sub-aquatic marine environment, inviting audiences to enter into an immersive world by way of atmospheric lighting, surround-sound, large-scale video projections, sculptures and costumes.
MARC BAUER: MAL ȆTRE / PERFORMANCE Saturday 1 February – Sunday 6 September. Marc Bauer’s Mal Être / Performance is a new body of work commissioned jointly by Drawing Room and De La Warr Pavilion and is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery.
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tillage. John Newling, Thu 16 July 2020 - Fri 30 April 2021 - John Newling is a pioneer of public art with a social purpose.
Born in Birmingham in 1952, he is known for site-specific work that explores the relationships between people, place and culture, and the transformative power of incorporating nature into everyday life.
This exhibition features works spanning Newling’s 40 year career, including new work responding to society’s need to evolve in the face of the climate emergency, and living through the global pandemic.