DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
GALLERY ROAD
SE21 7AD
020 8693 5254
Spring Evening, Akershus Fortress (1913)
Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway
To 2 June
Be transported to the wild landscapes and enchanting villages of rural Norway. Harald Sohlberg, one of Norway’s greatest painters, created works that evoke the wilderness of the Nordic landscape, the softness of its flower fields and the harsh beauty of its winters. This spring, the first major UK exhibition of Sohlberg’s works comes to Dulwich Picture Gallery, celebrating 150 years since the artist’s birth. With close to 100 works, we showcase the breadth and ambiguity of his paintings, and their enduring relevance in today’s world.
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NEWPORT STREET GALLERY
NEWPORT STREET
SE11 6AJ
Insignias of the Gannet People (1958)
John Bellany and Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic
To 2 June 2019
‘Cradle of Magic’ brings together two giants of twentieth-century British painting: John Bellany (1942–2013) and Alan Davie (1920–2014). Born in Grangemouth in 1920, Alan Davie was one of the first British artists to explore Abstract Expressionist forms and techniques. Linked to the Scottish Renaissance movement – a group of poets, musicians and artists who emerged in the first half of the twentieth century. Over a long and prolific career, John Bellany came to be considered one of Britain’s foremost figurative painters. Born in the small fishing town of Port Seton in East Lothian, where Calvinism was deeply engrained, Bellany described the relationship between the sacred and profane as being among his most important subjects.
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HAYWARD GALLERY
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
BLEVEDERE ROAD
SE1 8XX
Lady on a bus, N.Y.C. (1957)
Diane Arbus: In the Beginning
To 6 May 2019
Diane Arbus made most of her photographs in New York City, where she was born and died, and where she worked in locations such as Times Square, the Lower East Side and Coney Island. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and midtown shoppers, are among the most intimate, surprising and haunting works of art of the twentieth century.
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SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
65–67 TECKHAM ROAD
SE5 8UH
020 7703 6120
South London Story Lab with The Big Family Press
To 12 May
The Archive hosts a new body of research by Illustration students from UAL Camberwell College of Arts and the Big Family Press, the SLG’s community printing press. The display documents the students’ research into the social, architectural, political and mythical histories of south London. This exhibition marks the second annual collaboration between the Big Family Press and second year BA Illustration students from UAL Camberwell College of Arts.
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TATE BRITAIN
MILLBANK
SW1P 4RG
Seaside pier on the south coast, Eastbourne, UK 1970s
Don McCullin
To 6 May
This exhibition showcases some of the most impactful photographs captured by Don McCullin over the last 60 years. It includes many of his iconic war photographs – including images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria. But it also focuses on the work he did at home in England, recording scenes of poverty and working class life in London’s East End and the industrial north.
Van Gogh and Britain
27 March to 11 August
Van Gogh and Britain presents the largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings in the UK for nearly a decade. Some of his most famous works will be brought together from around the world – including Shoes, Starry Night on the Rhône, L’Arlésienne, and two works he made while a patient at the Saint-Paul Asylum, At Eternity’s Gate and Prisoners Exercising. They will be joined by the very rarely lent Sunflowers from London’s National Gallery. The exhibition also looks at the British artists who were inspired by Van Gogh, including Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, and the young Camden Town painters. It shows how his vision set British artists on the road to modern art.
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TATE MODERN
BANKSIDE
SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
Dorothea Tanning
To 9 June 2019
Over a seven-decade career, Dorothea Tanning pushed the boundaries of surrealism. The first major retrospective of Tanning’s work in the UK since her death in 2012 at the age of 101, this exhibition will tell the story of Tanning’s seven-decade career. Tanning wanted to depict ‘unknown but knowable states’: to suggest there was more to life than meets the eye. In the 1940s, she married fellow painter Max Ernst and they moved to the Arizona desert.
Pierre Bonnard
The Colour of Memory
To 6 May 2019
This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at Tate 20 years ago. It will allow new generations to discover Bonnard’s unconventional use of colour, while surprising those who think they already know him. The exhibition concentrates on Bonnard’s work from 1912, when colour became a dominant concern, until his death in 1947.
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