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ple’s everyday lives. The im- playingRadar /now Independent Visual arts ages are suitably wide-ranging Closing Books & talks – from cosy domestic scenes to Eduardo Paolozzi: bustling street life. (020 7087 this week Chiswick Book Festival Collaging Culture 9300; thephotographersgallery. Various venues, London W4 Pallant House Gallery, org.uk) to 29 Sept Through American Eyes: Those attending the fifth annual Chichester Frederic Church and the festival include Rula Lenska, An exhibition that shows, One Hundred Years: Landscape Oil Sketch Max Hastings, Charles Cum- despite the Pop Art connec- The RWA and Royal National Gallery Of ming, Lucy Worsley, James tions, that Eduardo Paolozzi Patronage Scotland, Edinburgh Bowen (and street cat Bob), was what he said of himself: a Royal West Of England More than two dozen Philip Kerr, Jane Thynne, cricket Surrealist, playing games, mix- Academy, Bristol sketches from the master of analyst Simon Hughes, Lindsey ing images and delving into the In 1913, King George V awarded majestic landscape. (0131 624 Davis and Laurie Graham. (020 subconscious. He liked to mix royal patronage to the Royal 6200; nationalgalleries.org) 8995 3285; chiswickbookfestival. his media and his imagery – but West of England Academy. This ends Sun net) Thur to 15 Sept

this revealing show concentrates exhibition, a century later, on his collages as the thread celebrates with wide-ranging Visual arts Vermeer and Music: The Claire Bloom 07.09.2013 which runs through his work. work by RWA Academicians Art of Love and Leisure Barbican, London EC2 (01243 774557; pallant.org.uk) past and present. (0117 973 5129; highlight National Gallery, The actor takes part in an on- to 13 Oct rwa.org.uk) to 5 Nov london wc2 stage interview with Matthew Bob Dylan: Face Value Alongside pieces by Vermeer, Sweet, following a screening of New Order: British Art Today Architecture of War National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition also brings Martin Ritt’s 1965 John le Carré Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 Imperial War Museum, London WC2 together rare musical adaptation, The Spy Who Came The Saatchi Gallery gathers london se1 Twelve new, noirish pastel instruments and songbooks. In from the Cold, in which she together works by 17 young Works of art from the First portraits from Bob Dylan. (020 7747 2885; national starred opposite Richard British artists for a show which World War to the present day His subjects look as though gallery.org.uk) ends Sun Burton. (020 7638 8891; is innately disparate and un- explore how British artists have they have staggered into barbican.org.uk) today 4pm predictable – but probably all responded to the impact of view after a bar fight or a Ian Hamilton Finlay the better for that. Paintings, warfare on buildings and the shady pilgrimage across Arnolfini, Bristol Jo Nesbo installation, photography and landscape. All of the works are America – the rougher end Works across a number of Coronet Cinema, London W11 more from the new breed. (020 taken from the Imperial War of the travelling trouba- medium from the postwar The Norwegian crime novelist is 7811 3070; saatchigallery.com) Museum’s own collection, and dour/street urchin myth British artist. (0117 917 2300; in conversation with Emma to 1 Dec include prints, sketches, that a young Dylan himself arnolfini.org.uk) ends Sun Kennedy about the eighth book paintings and photographs by embodied. (020 7312 2463; in his Oslo sequence, Police, Tim Hetherington: You William Orpen, Ronald Searle, npg.org.uk) to 5 Jan Amazing Amber which finds Harry Hole on the Never See Them Like This William Scott and Langlands National Museum Of trail of a serial killer who is Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and Bell. (020 7416 5000; iwm. Scotland, edinburgh murdering police officers at the Two years after his death from org.uk) to 5 May 2014 taste of the striking work of Amber exhibits include scenes of crimes they were never a shrapnel wound while cover- Keith Vaughan, who, along artefacts, amulets and able to solve. (020 7851 2400; ing the Libyan civil war, an Richard Rogers RA: with the likes of Graham delicate creatures. (0131 226 waterstones.com) Thur 6pm exhibition paying tribute to the Inside Out Sutherland and John Minton, 0000; nms.ac.uk) ends Sun Liverpool-born photojournalist Royal Academy Of Arts, formed the post-war Neo- Allan Mallinson Tim Hetherington. In 2007 he london w1 Romantic circle. His work Various venues accompanied a US platoon to An exhibition which promises became more abstract with novella. The result is exhilarat- In 1914: Fight the Good Fight: Afghanistan – and the result- unprecedented insight into the time – though his fascination ing. Part satire of contemporary Britain, the Army and the ing, revealing images of life life and career of the celebrated with the male form always life, it is also a reminder that Coming of the First World War, on the frontline are on display modern architect. Archival remained. (029 2039 7951; the things we take for granted the military historian chronicles here. (0151 236 6768; openeye. material, drawings and museumwales.ac.uk) to 24 Nov – public services, literacy, the run-up to the conflict and org.uk) to 24 Nov personal items colour the museums, free expression the first 20 days of fighting in stories of such pioneering Exultant Strangeness: – are rooted in dazzling leaps Flanders, exploring the global Mass Observation: buildings as Paris’s Pompidou Graham Sutherland of the imagination. (020 7942 strategic shifts of the previous This Is Your Photo Centre. (020 7300 8000; Landscapes 2000; vam.ac.uk) to 2 Oct century and the fateful decision Photographers Gallery, royalacademy.org.uk) to 13 Oct Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal by the British Army to start London W1 Mysterious and often monu- Giorgio Casali: digging trenches. Ely Library An absorbing look at the role Keith Vaughan: mental works from an artist Photographer/Domus (01353 645005; toppingbooks.co. that photography played in Figure and Ground who fed off the strangeness of 1951-1983 – Architecture, uk) Tue 7.10pm; Waterstones, Mass Observation – the expan- National Museum Cardiff the landscape – and his love of Design and Art in Italy Salisbury (0843 290 8575; sive anthropological survey of Some 50 prints, drawings and 18th- and 19th-century Estorick Collection of Modern waterstones.com) Fri 7pm Britain, founded in 1937, with photographs to give a good visionaries like William Blake Italian Art, London N1 and Samuel Palmer – to create The Italian photographer Simon McBurney his colourful, otherworldly Giorgio Casali captured some National Theatre: Olivier, paintings. (01539 722464; of the greatest achievements in London SE1 Opening this week abbothall.org.uk) to 15 Sept Italian post-war design and The creative brain behind architecture for the influential Complicite, one of the most Tacita Dean centenary. (01225 477233; Lowry and the Painting magazine Domus. The Estorick innovative theatre groups of Frith Street Gallery, victoriagal.org.uk) of Modern Life host a large, intriguing the past 30 years, is joined by London W1 opens today Tate Britain, london sw1 collection of his images. (020 the company’s producer, Films and drawings. A first comprehensive survey 7704 9522; estorickcollection. Judith Dimant, for this look (020 7494 1550; frithstreet Francis Bacon/ in more than 30 years shows com) to Sun back over three decades. (020 gallery.com) opens Fri Henry Moore how the Mancunian artist 7452 3000; nationaltheatre.org. Ashmolean Museum, decided to make the industrial- Houghton Revisited uk) Tue 5.45pm Leon Golub Oxford ised landscape his theme – and houghton hall, norfolk Anthony Reynolds Paintings and sculptures chronicled it painstakingly, A little over 300 years ago, the Splash Literature Gallery, London W1 to compare the artists’ grimly and brilliantly through debt-ridden grandson of Sir Various venues, Falmouth Drawings by the American work. (01865 278002; its rise, decline and fall. (020 Robert Walpole, England’s first Cookery writer Lucas Hollweg artist. (020 7439 2201; ashmolean.org) opens Thur 7887 8888; tate.org.uk) to 20 Oct Prime Minister, sold off to hosts the welcoming party on anthonyreynolds.com) Catherine the Great of Russia Friday evening; also appearing opens Thur Jonathan Yeo: Portraits Memory Palace the art collection amassed by this year are Andrew Motion, National Portrait Gallery, V&A Museum, London SW7 his grandfather. Now, 70 of Rick Stein, Ann Widdecombe, William Scott: London WC2 The V&A has commissioned those paintings have returned Emily Barr, Veronica Henry, Simplicity and Subject Portraits of political, media more than 20 international to Houghton Hall – including Helen Dunmore and Stuart Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and cultural figures.(020 artists, ranging from graphic works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Maconie. (01326 312873; Paintings and drawings 7312 2463; npg.org.uk) designers to typographers, to Murillo and Van Dyck. (01603 falmouth.co.uk/see-and-do/ celebrating the artist’s opens Wed create works inspired by Hari 598 640; houghtonrevisited. splash/splash-book-festival) Fri Kunzru’s post-apocalyptic com) to 29 Sept to 21 Sept