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CONTENTS
NEWS and COMMENT
Good News from Coram's Foundling Hospital
It all Depends what You Mean by a Portrait
Sir Arthur Gilbert 1913 - 2001
Louise Bourgeois in St. Petersburg
Contemporary Heritage Gardens
BADA Friends First Ten Years
Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter to be Protected
Cardinal Hume Sculpture
JUST OPENED
Masaccio: The Pisa Altarpiece. National Gallery, London.
Until 11 Nov.
Shinto: The Sacred Arts of Japan. British Museum. Until 2 December.
Katharina Fritsch. Tate Modern, London. Until 5 December.
The Pharaoh's Photographer. Metropolitan, New York. Until 30
Dec.
Frank Auerbach. Royal Academy, London. Until 12 December.
Surrealism: Desire Unbound. Tate Modern, London. Until 16 Dec.
Rembrandt's Women. Royal Academy, London. Until 16 December.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, drawings & prints. M'tropltn, NY.
Until 2 Dec.
Rachel Whiteread. Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edin. Until
9 Dec.
Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci. Nat. Gall. Wash. DC. Until
6 Jan. 2002.
Bungalow Blitz. Museum of Domestic Design, London. Until 13
Jan. 2002.
Golden Age of Watercolours. Dulwich Picture Gall. Until 6 Jan.
2002.
Out of Japan - historic and contemp. photos. V&A. Until
3 Feb. 2002.
Image and Idol: Medieval Sculpture. Tate Britain. Until 3 March
2002.
Liam Gillick: Annlee You Proposes. Tate Britain. Until April
2002.
Tony Cragg at Somerset House, London. Until May 2002.
SOON TO CLOSE
Japanese Influence on Western Design. Higgins Art Gall.
Bed. Until 28 Oct.
Adorn, Equip. City Gallery, Leicester. Until 18 October.
Raymond Pettibon & Toba Khedoori. Whitechapel, Lond'n. Until
21 Oct.
Best Shop in London, Fine Art Society, 1915 to present. Until
11 Oct. .
Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall. Penlee House, Penzance. Until
6 Oct.
Michael Andrews. Tate Britain, London. Until 7 October.
Zen Painting and Calligraphy. Asian Art Museum, San. Fr'isco.
Until 7 Oct.
Dale Chihuly - Glass Installations. V&A Museum, London. Until
21 Oct.
Return to Life: Portrait Busts. Nat. Port. Gall., Edinburgh. Until
14 Oct.
The Beautiful and the Damned. National Port. Gall'y Lond. Until
7 Oct.
OPENING SOON
Transportation of Culture. Piccadilly Circus Station,
London. 1 - 31 Oct.
Photomonth in London. October and November.
Glass of the Sultans. Metropolitan Museum, New York. 2 Oct.
- 13 Jan. 2002.
Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris, Sainsbury Cent. Norwh. 2
Oct. - 9 Dec.
Australian Paintings and Drawings 1940 - 2001. Agnew's, Lond.
3 - 26 Oct.
Contemporary Japanese Art. Hayward Gallery, London. 4 Oct.
- 9 Dec.
Inches Carr Scottish Crafts Awards. Royal Museum, Edinb. 6
Oct. - 12 Jan.
Winifred Nicholson. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield. 6 Oct. -
17 Nov.
Paul Signac 1863 - 1935. Metropolitan Museum, New York. 9 Oct.
- 30 Dec.
Louise Bourgeois. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. 9 October
- 13 Jan.
Aelbert Cuyp. National Gallery, Washington DC. 7 Oct. - 13
January 2002.
Marble Mania. Sir John Soane's Museum, London. 10 Oct. - 22
December.
Carlo Carra: Works on Paper. Estorick Collection, Lond. 10
Oct. - 20 Jan.
Women at the Court of Charles II. Nat. Port. Gall. Lon. 11
Oct. - 6 Jan. 2002.
India - Photographers 1840 - 1900. Brunei Gallery, London. 11
Oct. - 15 Dec.
Doug Aitken. Serpentine Gallery, London. 12 October - 25 November.
Canterbury Festival of arts. Canterbury, Kent. 13 - 27 October.
The Times of Day. WR Harvey, Witney. 13 October - 10 November.
Silver Lives! Gilbert Collection, London. 15 October - 31 January.
Jewelled Arts of Mughal India. Met. Mus., New York. 16 Oct.
- 13 Jan. 2002.
Elisabeth Frink. Lumley Cazalet, London. 18 October - 16 November.
Art on the Line: Royal Academy 1780 - 1836. Court'ld Lon. 18
Oct. - 20 Jan.
Russian Art in the Time of Diaghilev. Montreal Mus. 18 Oct.
- 3 Feb. 2002.
Radical Fashion. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 18 Oct.
- 6 Jan. 2002.
An Irish Art Collection. Kenwood House. 19 October - 27 Jan.
2002
Spanish Civil War. Imperial War Museum, London. 20 October
- 20 April.
Henry Moore. National Gallery of Art, Wash. DC. 21 Oct. - 27
Jan. 2002.
Pisanello. National Gallery, London. 24 October 2001 - 10 February
2002.
Self Portraits by Women Artists. Nat. Port. Gall., Lon. 24
Oct. - 10 Feb. 2002.
the americans. new art. Barbican Gallery, London. 25 October
- 23 Dec.
Unknown Amazon: Ancient Brazil. BM. London. 26 Oct. - 1 Apr.
2002.
BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. 27
Oct. - Mar.
Len Tabner "After Japan". North Light Gall. Huddersf'ld.
31 Oct. - 22 Dec.
New Silver and Jewellery. Surrey Institute, Farnham. 31 Oct.
- 8 Dec.
George Richmond RA. Agnew's, London. 31 October - 23 November.
CONTINUING
Hieronymus Bosch. Mus. Boijmans Van Beuning'n, Rotterd'm.
Until 11 Nov.
Serizawa - Japanese Textiles. Royal Museum, Edinburgh. Until
4 Nov.
William Tucker. Tate Liverpool. Until 25 November.
Masterpieces. Fan Museum, London. Until 20 November.
Heirs and Graces. Harewood House, Leeds. Until 4 November.
George Cruikshank 'The Worship of Bacchus'. Tate Britain.
Until 2 Dec.
Blackwell, at Bowness on Lake Windermere. Until 21 December.
Olly & Suzi Untamed. Natural History Museum, London. Until
6 May 2002.
ON THE HORIZON
Supermodels. Goldsmiths' Hall, London. 1 - 30 November.
Rococo: 18th-century Holland. Rijksmuseum, Amst. 3 Nov. - 3
Feb. 2002.
Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L. Nat. Gall. Wash. 4
Nov - 21 Jan.
Jerwood Sculpture Prize, London. 5 November - 2 December.
The Turner Prize 2001. Tate Britain, London. 7 Nov. 2001 -
20 January 2002.
Kitaj: in the Aura of Cezanne and Others. Nat. Gal. Lond. 7
Nov. - 10 Feb.
Handel House Museum, London. Opening 8 November.
KAARU. Contemporary Indian design. Nehru Centre, Lond. 8 -
17 Nov.
Tibetan Thangkas. Rossi & Rossi, London. 9 November - 14
December.
Agatha Christie and Archaeology. British Museum. 8 Nov. - 24
March 2002.
Aomori Float and Japanese Kites. British Museum. 14 Nov. -
3 March 2002.
The Discerning Eye 2001. Mall Galleries, London. 16 - 25 November.
Century of Drawing - the 20th century. Nat. Gal., Wash. 18
Nov. - 7 April.
The British Galleries 1500 - 1900. V&A, London. Opening
22 November.
The Dawn of the Floating World 1650 - 1765. RA, Lon. 24 Nov.
- 17 Feb.
Painters and Craftsmen of Today. Fine Art Soc. Lond. 26 Nov.
- 21 Dec.
Holland Frozen in Time. Mauritshuis, The Hague. 27 Nov. - 24
Feb. 2002.
Open Evening. Dover and Albemarle Streets, London. 28 November.
OVER THE HORIZON
Exhibitions, openings and events
PRINCIPAL FAIRS
London, Basel, Cologne, Florence, Maastricht, Miami
Beach, New York
SELECT AUCTIONS
Bloomsbury Book Auctions
Bonhams & Brooks
Christie's
Christie's South Kensington
Phillips
Sotheby's
Sotheby's Olympia
Sotheby's South
TRAVELLERS'
JOYS
Pallant House, Chichester
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
NOTABLE BOOKS
Shinto The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan.
Edited by Victor Harris. The British Museum Press.
Hiroshige Fan Prints
By Rupert Faulkner. V&A Publications.
NOTES &
QUERIES
From our readers:
Original etchings signed by C. Dickens
RECIPROCAL
LINKS
Asia House
The Wallace Collection
Hudsons.co.uk
The BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair
The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair
The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fairs
Artnet.com
Cloudband.com
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