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Stanley Spencer is always associated with Cookham, but it's his Suffolk links which get explored in new exh at Gainsborough's House starting today. If this view of Southwold is typical, it should be excellent. gainsborough.org/event/stanle...
Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk
This major exhibition curated in collaboration with the Stanley Spencer Gallery will focus on the artist’s work in Suffolk.
gainsborough.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Stanley Spencer is always associated with Cookham, but it's his Suffolk links which get explored in new exh at Gainsborough's House starting today. If this view of Southwold is typical, it should be excellent. gainsborough.org/event/stanle...
Wayne Thiebaud was born #OTD 1920. Celebrate with his cakes (and more) at his first UK show currently on at the Courtauld. Less graphic Pop, more painterly still life than you might expect. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★★ The i Experience the first ever UK museum show devoted to the work of Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), featuring his vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes.
courtauld.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wayne Thiebaud was born #OTD 1920. Celebrate with his cakes (and more) at his first UK show currently on at the Courtauld. Less graphic Pop, more painterly still life than you might expect. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
Starting today at Charleston, Roger Fry exhibition. Not sure about this to be honest - should he have stuck to writing? - and despite recent Vanessa Bell success, Bloomsbury art is a bit of an acquired taste. Interesting though, open mind at the ready! www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...
Charleston — Roger Fry
Discover over 60 rarely seen paintings by the Bloomsbury artist who shaped British modernism.
www.charleston.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Starting today at Charleston, Roger Fry exhibition. Not sure about this to be honest - should he have stuck to writing? - and despite recent Vanessa Bell success, Bloomsbury art is a bit of an acquired taste. Interesting though, open mind at the ready! www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...
May Morris is having a good run of exhibitions at the moment and this nature focused Morris family show curated by Suzanne Fagence Cooper is starting at the Arc in Winchester today. 'Joy of Life' indeed. www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
Beauty of the Earth: The Art of May, Jane & William Morris| The Arc Gallery
The Gallery is proud to present a special exhibition by Hampshire Cultural Trust. William Morris longed to have a home with ‘green trees and flowering meadows and living waters outside’. In his patter...
www.arcwinchester.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
May Morris is having a good run of exhibitions at the moment and this nature focused Morris family show curated by Suzanne Fagence Cooper is starting at the Arc in Winchester today. 'Joy of Life' indeed. www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
Starting today @leedsartgallery.bsky.social Atkinson Grimshaw's Nocturnes. You might unkindly say he could only do one thing, but he did it very well. I'm a big fan. museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/don-t-let-s-...
'Don't Let's Ask For the Moon...': Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw
Leeds Art Gallery | 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026 | Explore the poetic moonscapes of Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw
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November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Starting today @leedsartgallery.bsky.social Atkinson Grimshaw's Nocturnes. You might unkindly say he could only do one thing, but he did it very well. I'm a big fan. museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/don-t-let-s-...
Claude Monet born #OTD 1840. The biggest Impressionist of them all - you can always find Monet exhibitions - currently at Liverpool's Walker's Turner show & UEA where NG's Petit Bras is touring. Too ubiquitous? Maybe, but somehow he always feels fresh. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/the...
The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour: Reflections on Peace - Sainsbury Centre
The Sainsbury Centre has been selected as a partner for The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27.
sainsburycentre.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Claude Monet born #OTD 1840. The biggest Impressionist of them all - you can always find Monet exhibitions - currently at Liverpool's Walker's Turner show & UEA where NG's Petit Bras is touring. Too ubiquitous? Maybe, but somehow he always feels fresh. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/the...
Camille Pissarro died #OTD 1903. He's the Impressionist people forget about, but arguably the most interesting. Big retrospective exhibition which was at Potsdam Barberini is currently in Denver, and he's also on show at Vienna's Lower Belvedere www.belvedere.at/en/cezanne-m...
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Camille Pissarro died #OTD 1903. He's the Impressionist people forget about, but arguably the most interesting. Big retrospective exhibition which was at Potsdam Barberini is currently in Denver, and he's also on show at Vienna's Lower Belvedere www.belvedere.at/en/cezanne-m...
To celebrate the anniversary of Rodin's birth #OTD in 1840 @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social have a whole series of great articles about him including my dive into the Burghers of Calais www.dailyartmagazine.com/burghers-of-...
Masterpiece Story: The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin's 'Burghers of Calais', revolutionized public sculpture and changed the way art represented heroes.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
To celebrate the anniversary of Rodin's birth #OTD in 1840 @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social have a whole series of great articles about him including my dive into the Burghers of Calais www.dailyartmagazine.com/burghers-of-...
Paul Signac born #OTD 1863, French Neo-Impressionist, currently part of National Gallery's brilliant Radical Harmony exhibition www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/10/radi...
'Radical Harmony. Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists' (National Gallery until February 8, 2026): Dot the Eyes
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November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Paul Signac born #OTD 1863, French Neo-Impressionist, currently part of National Gallery's brilliant Radical Harmony exhibition www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/10/radi...
The Life of the Fields exhibition at St Barbe in Lymington. 'On the surface this looks like a show dedicated to safe, old-fashioned images of agricultural landscape but the curators are determined to make you look behind the cliches.' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
'The Life of the Fields' (St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, until January 10 2026)
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November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Life of the Fields exhibition at St Barbe in Lymington. 'On the surface this looks like a show dedicated to safe, old-fashioned images of agricultural landscape but the curators are determined to make you look behind the cliches.' Full review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Last week of Hew Locke at Newlyn art gallery and Chantal Joffe showing new masculine focused work down the road at the Exchange newlynartgallery.co.uk/whats-on/nex...
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Last week of Hew Locke at Newlyn art gallery and Chantal Joffe showing new masculine focused work down the road at the Exchange newlynartgallery.co.uk/whats-on/nex...
Lesser Ury, born #OTD 1861, currently part of Impressionism in Germany: Max Liebermann and his Times in Baden Baden (previously Potsdam). Ury's known for his nocturnal city scenes (although I like his landscapes) www.museum-frieder-burda.de/ausstellung
Good review @blogexhibitions.bsky.social
Good review @blogexhibitions.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Lesser Ury, born #OTD 1861, currently part of Impressionism in Germany: Max Liebermann and his Times in Baden Baden (previously Potsdam). Ury's known for his nocturnal city scenes (although I like his landscapes) www.museum-frieder-burda.de/ausstellung
Good review @blogexhibitions.bsky.social
Good review @blogexhibitions.bsky.social
Starting today at National Gallery - Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition. Sublime in many senses of the word. You could argue he's just a warm-up act for the Turner Constable face off coming to Tate. But what a warm-up. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Starting today at National Gallery - Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition. Sublime in many senses of the word. You could argue he's just a warm-up act for the Turner Constable face off coming to Tate. But what a warm-up. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...
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Starting today @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Skagen artist Anna Ancher gets her first UK show - brilliant! www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/ann...
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Starting today @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Skagen artist Anna Ancher gets her first UK show - brilliant! www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/ann...
Starting today @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Skagen artist Anna Ancher gets her first UK show - brilliant! www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/ann...
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Starting today @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Skagen artist Anna Ancher gets her first UK show - brilliant! www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/ann...
Guido Reni born #OTD 1575. Biggish anniversary, though I don't know of any exhibitions but if you go to room 32 of the National Gallery there's a good selection of his work, including this St Jerome.
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Guido Reni born #OTD 1575. Biggish anniversary, though I don't know of any exhibitions but if you go to room 32 of the National Gallery there's a good selection of his work, including this St Jerome.
A lot nearer than Paris where she also has a shown on at the moment - at Musee d'Orsay
Details of this Bridget Riley exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate came in too late for inclusion in our November preview, but we're looking forward to a trip to the seaside for it:
turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/exh...
turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/exh...
Bridget Riley
Coming soon. This November, Turner Contemporary presents Learning to See , an exhibition by Bridget Riley, conceived in close collaboration with the…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A lot nearer than Paris where she also has a shown on at the moment - at Musee d'Orsay
Henri Matisse died #OTD 1954 He's one of the artists featured in this fun-sounding show at Fondation Beyeler near Basel, which seems to take the story of dots in art forward from the National Galley's brilliant Neo-Impressionist exh. www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitio...
A brief history of dots in art
Our various exhibitions and presentations of the Beyeler collection unite art, nature and architecture and offer visitors an extensive insight into modern and contemporary art.
www.fondationbeyeler.ch
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Henri Matisse died #OTD 1954 He's one of the artists featured in this fun-sounding show at Fondation Beyeler near Basel, which seems to take the story of dots in art forward from the National Galley's brilliant Neo-Impressionist exh. www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitio...
Richard Serra was born #OTD 1938, famous of course for his monumental sculpture but at the moment it is his 2D work which is being exhibited at various venues including in this drawing exh at Harvard harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/...
Exhibitions, Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black | Harvard Art Museums
*Discover how simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression.*This exhibition celebrates the act of drawing using familiar tools—charcoal, chalk, crayon, and graphite. Each material exh...
harvardartmuseums.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Richard Serra was born #OTD 1938, famous of course for his monumental sculpture but at the moment it is his 2D work which is being exhibited at various venues including in this drawing exh at Harvard harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/...
For anyone going to Vienna - Gothic Modern exh at the Albertina: 'The curators have created a series of beautiful groupings and sightlines. There are moments of gothic absurdity, but it is a, sometimes terrible, beauty which really triumphs here.' Review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/10/goth...
'Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz' (Albertina Museum, Vienna until January 11 2026)
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November 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
For anyone going to Vienna - Gothic Modern exh at the Albertina: 'The curators have created a series of beautiful groupings and sightlines. There are moments of gothic absurdity, but it is a, sometimes terrible, beauty which really triumphs here.' Review: cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/10/goth...
LS Lowry born #OTD 1887. Not for me but he's currently got an immersive show on at the Lowry (as well as usual collection). He's also part of group exhibition at Colchester's Firstsite looking at relationship between landscape and abstraction - sounds interesting. firstsite.uk/event/exhibi...
Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape - Firstsite
Into Abstraction explores how some of Britain’s most influential artists, like Barbara Hepworth and L.S. Lowry responded to a century of change.
firstsite.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
LS Lowry born #OTD 1887. Not for me but he's currently got an immersive show on at the Lowry (as well as usual collection). He's also part of group exhibition at Colchester's Firstsite looking at relationship between landscape and abstraction - sounds interesting. firstsite.uk/event/exhibi...
Jules Bastien Lepage born #OTD 1848 - known for his, at the time very influential, cool-coloured paintings of rural life, I didn't expect to see this in The Edwardians at King's Picture Gallery - a decidedly Tudor-istic Edward VII cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Jules Bastien Lepage born #OTD 1848 - known for his, at the time very influential, cool-coloured paintings of rural life, I didn't expect to see this in The Edwardians at King's Picture Gallery - a decidedly Tudor-istic Edward VII cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Last week of this gorgeous exh at Watts Gallery - never mind the smells just luxuriate in the art. www.wattsgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...
Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 | Watts Gallery
15 May - 9 November 2025
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Pre-Raphaelite art through the evocative power of scent.
Engage your sense of smell t
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November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Last week of this gorgeous exh at Watts Gallery - never mind the smells just luxuriate in the art. www.wattsgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...
To celebrate Angelican Kauffman's birthday @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social have got a whole host of stories including my look at this epic self-portrait www.dailyartmagazine.com/angelica-kau...
Masterpiece Story: Self-Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting by Angelica Kauffman
Angelica Kauffman was internationally acclaimed as a history and portrait painter, let's discover her self-portraits.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
To celebrate Angelican Kauffman's birthday @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social have got a whole host of stories including my look at this epic self-portrait www.dailyartmagazine.com/angelica-kau...
Just started at Russell-Cotes in Bournemouth - this sounds excellent - War art including Evelyn Dunbar, Laura Knight, Edith Birkin, Paul Nash and present day Ukraine through eyes of George Butler, co-curated by Gill Clarke russellcotes.com/event/artist...
Artist as Witness: The Impact of War - Russell-Cotes
Artist as Witness: The Impact of War explores the importance of the artist as eyewitness, providing insights into warfare and impact of war on communities
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October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just started at Russell-Cotes in Bournemouth - this sounds excellent - War art including Evelyn Dunbar, Laura Knight, Edith Birkin, Paul Nash and present day Ukraine through eyes of George Butler, co-curated by Gill Clarke russellcotes.com/event/artist...