WHAT TO DO
rolling contest in Cambridgeshire May Day has always prompted madcap celebrations, and the annual cheese-rolling contest in Stilton on May 2 is no exception. Competitors are grouped into teams of four, and race down the main street of the village in fancy dress, rolling a wooden block shaped like a large cheese. This is in fact quite civilised compared with the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Festival in Gloucester, where competitors hurl themselves down a hill in pursuit of a cheese.
www.stilton.org;
www.cheeserolling.org.uk.
11 Don’t sniff at the Stilton cheese
WHERE TO GO
the BRIT LIST WHAT TO BUY
12 PIN ON A PENDANT FROM
THE V&A SHOP It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the world’s largest museum of design and the decorative arts might have a sparkling selection of jewellery on sale, from costume items like this Indian-inspired pendant brooch (above, £20) to the top names in contemporary design. Browse at
www.vandashop.com.
14 13 ENJOY ART FOR ART’S SAKE
From 2 April to 17 July the headline exhibit at the V&A will be The Cult of Beauty, exploring the Aesthetic Movement that revolutionised the relationship between art and ethics, the artist and society at the end of the Victorian period, with Oscar Wilde as its most famous proponent. Paintings by Frederic, Lord Leighton (such as Pavonia, above), Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones; art furnishings by William Morris and Walter Crane; interior design, architecture, art photography, and fashion will all be featured, in this first-ever major exhibit about the movement.
www.vam.ac.uk.
View the Victorian streets by moonlight
John Atkinson Grimshaw was a self-taught Yorkshire painter and a contemporary of James Whistler. His greatest works, from the 1870s, explored the effects of mist and moonlight, particularly in urban settings. This major new retrospective will be on at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 16 April to 4 September. Tel: (01423) 556188;
www.harrogate.gov.uk/museums.
16 SAVE MONEY ON WEST END SHOWS
15 STAY
AFLOAT AT THE TITANIC
CENTENARY To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the launch of this iconic ship, Royal Crown Derby, which provided all the china for the restaurant, is exhibiting hundreds of artefacts from the ship. Until 2 July.
www.royalcrownderby.co.uk.
www.britain-magazine.com If calling Britain from overseas, dial your international code, then 44, and drop the first zero BRITAIN 63
PHOTO:JOHN GRIMSHAW, ”BOAR LANE, LEEDS,”1881; ON LOAN TO LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (CITY ART GALLERY); THE BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
PHOTO: PRIVATE COLLECTION C/O CHRISTIES; VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON
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