Sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI
Friday 23 May – Monday 25 August 2008
In the first commission to use the iconic river façade of Tate Modern, the gallery will present the work of six internationally acclaimed artists, whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment. Street Art at Tate Modern, sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI, opens on 23 May and is the first major public museum display of Street Art in London.
All six artists are represented in major collections around the world and regularly shown in gallery exhibitions and biennales but their work began in public urban spaces and remains indebted to Street Art and graffiti traditions. Read more
BRILLIANT WOMEN: 18th CENTURY BLUESTOCKINGS
13 March-15 June 2008, Admission free, Porter Gallery
Sponsored by BlackBerry®
Spring Season 2008 sponsored by Herbert Smith
Catharine Macaulayby Robert Edge Pine, c.1775
- The first exhibition to explore the culture, impact and identity of the Bluestockings, and their followers, who forged new links between gender, learning and virtue in 18th-Century Britain
- 50 works including oil portraits, drawings, satires and personal artefacts. Rediscovered portraits as well as well loved masterpieces by Romney, Kauffmann, Ramsay, Vigée-LeBrun and Robert Adam
From Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Germaine Greer, influential women and early feminists have lamented their lack of foremothers. A major new exhibition Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings at the National Portrait Gallery, London, aims to show how a remarkable group of creative and intellectual women in eighteenth-century Britain were celebrated as icons of patriotic pride and came to symbolise the progress of a civilised and commercial nation. Read more
VANITY FAIR PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHS 1913 - 2008
14 February 26 May 2008, £10 Concessions £9/£8, Wolfson Gallery
Press View: Wednesday 13 February 11am-1pm (tour at 11.30am)
Sponsored by Burberry
Spring Season 2008 sponsored by Herbert Smith
- The first exhibition to bring together rare vintage prints with contemporary classics from Vanity Fair and the legendary Condé Nast Archive.
- A photographic history of celebrity portraiture including the works of master photographers, from Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino. Read more
Cincinnati, Ohio
Deadline: June 6, 2008
Exhibit Dates: July 18 - August 15, 2008
Title: Master Pieces - A call for current MFA students or 2008 MFA graduates Read more
Online Exhibit
Deadline: April 5, 2008
Exhibit Dates:July 24 – August 28, 2008
Title:Love Scenes: Erotica, Romance, and other objects of desire Read more
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