BARBICAN LIFE
Whitechapel Gallery Black Eyes &
Lemonade, British Popular Art
Whitechapel Art Gallery Poster 1951 Design by
Barbara Jones, print by Shenval Press
Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery Archive
‘A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.’ Some of the original 1951 exhibits are on show, including the fireplace in the shape of an Airedale dog and objects from Jones’ surviving studio, but this is primarily an exhibition about an exhibition and the photographs and extensive archive material serve here to reexamine Barbara Jones’ radical approach to curating popular art and her undoubted influence on British artists. It’s hard to imagine a Peter Blake without a Barbara Jones.
Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel High Street E1 Daily 11am - 6pm, Thursdays late until 9pm Closed Mondays, Admission: Free
www.whitechapelgallery.org
The Curve Geoffrey Farmer:
The Surgeon and the Photographer Until 28th July
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made around Britain in June 1951 in a converted London taxi. The original exhibition included such diverse objects as a giant talking lemon advertising Idris lemon squash, Pearly King and Queen outfits, an edible model of St Paul’s Cathedral and waxworks of Queen Anne and the Chief Rabbi borrowed from Madame Tussaud’s. She took the exhibition’s title from a Thomas Moore poem of 1813 which she felt expressed ‘the vigour, sparkle and colour of popular art’,
What’s On in Summer 2013
British Museum Life and Death in
Pompeii and Herculaneum Until 29th September
The Foundling Museum Brunswick Square WC1 Exchange: 1000 Good Deeds at the Foundling Museum Until 15th September
Geffrye Museum Kingsland Road E1 Stands Alone Until 26th August
Guildhall Art Gallery Painted Faces: Portraits from the Guildhall Art Gallery Collection Until 9th December
Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons Lincoln’s Inn Fields WC2 Opened Up: 200 Years of the Hunterian Museum Until 9th November
London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza WC2 Poster Art 150
London Underground’s Greatest Designs
Until 27th October
Museum of London Michael Caine Until 14th July
National Gallery
Michael Landy: Saints Alive Until 24th November
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hown for the first time in its completed form, The Surgeon and the Photographer is the Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer’s first major UK exhibition. This charming and quirky piece is made up of 365 hand puppets made from images clipped from books and glued to fabric forms. The puppets are arranged throughout the Curve space in both small and large groups, suggestive of processions, making an alternative calendar of the 365 days of the year.
The Curve
Barbican Centre EC2 Daily 11am - 8pm
Thursdays late until 10pm Admission: Free
www.barbican.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place WC2 BP Portrait Award 2013 Until 15th September
Parasol Unit
Foundation for Contemporary Art
Wharf Road N1 Merlin James Until 10th August
Royal Academy
245th Summer Exhibition Until 18th August
Sir John Soane’s Museum Lincoln’s Inn Fields WC2 Northern Vision:
Master Drawings from the Tchoban Foundation
Until 28th September
Tate Britain Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life
Opens 26th June
Tate Modern Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist Opens 3rd July
Tower of London Coins and Kings: The Royal Mint at the Tower New permanent exhibition
White Cube Bermondsey SE1 Sarah Morris Bye Bye Brazil Opens 17th July
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