EXHIBITION diary

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1 Tip-top condition EIGHT HOLLAND STREET HOLLAND ST, W8 Until 4 – Alexander Calder, BARTHOLOMEW LANE, Sept. Mon-Sat 10-6. Abstract and still-life oils, Sur les Pointes, EC2 Until 15 May 2020. Mon-Fri 10-5. The so- gouaches and drawings by Jane O’Malley and 1969, at Huxley- called Old Lady marks her 325th birthday by her late husband, the Irish painter Tony, are Parlour. 2 Oval office digging out 325 treasures from her huge col- interspersed with works by other artists the – Thomas Sully, lection. Look out for proofs of Jacobite bank- couple encountered while living in St Ives. Queen Victoria, notes, terracotta bricks from Soane’s original HUXLEY-PARLOUR GALLERY SWALLOW ST, W1 Until 1837-39, at building and the tragic tale of the ‘Bank nun’. 14 Sept. Mon-Sat 10-5.30. Alexander Calder’s Buckingham Palace. BLOOMBERG ARCADE CANNON ST, EC4 Until 7 Sept. vivid works on paper. Plus, nanny state: in- 3 One for sorrow – 24 hours. Ackroyd & Harvey (WoI June 2001) creasingly abstract colour images by child- Bartolomé Bermejo, have grown saplings from acorns collected minder-turned-photographer Vivian Maier. the Desplà Pietà, from Joseph Beuys’s 1982 artwork 7,000 Oaks TRAFALGAR SQUARE, WC2 Until 29 1490, at the and installed them as a floating forest here, Sept. Mon-Thurs, Sat, Sun 10-6, Fri 10-9. Bartolomé National Gallery. 2 in a plea for a less human-centric ecosystem. Bermejo’s virtuoso altarpieces. GREAT RUSSELL ST, WC1 Until 1 OMER TIROCHE GALLERY CONDUIT ST, W1 Until 20 Sept. Mon-Thurs, Sat, Sun 10-5.30, Fri 10-8.30. Shell- Sept. Mon-Fri 10-6. Creature feature: Freud’s inlaid carvings and other artefacts collected Dürer-influenced Dead Bird on a Bamboo Table by colonising Britons in the Solomon Islands. (1944) figures in this menagerie of animals Until 29 Sept, counter culture: what does toy depicted by 20th- and 21st-century artists. money teach us about how currency works? PATRICK HEIDE CONTEMPORARY ART CHURCH ST, BRUNEI GALLERY AT SOAS THORNHAUGH ST, WC1 NW8 Until 21 Sept. Wed-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4. Degrees Until 21 Sept. Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10.30-5, Thurs of separation: WoI contributor Paul Carey- 10.30-8. Japanese maki-e – lacquerware deco- Kent curates a show on the theme of grada- rated with gold and silver – by master maker tion, drawing together eight artists interested Koyanagi Tanekuni. Until 23 Sept, step into the in subtlety, shading and blurred edges. ‘backdoor ballrooms’ of Namibia’s under- SERPENTINE GALLERY KENSINGTON GARDENS, W2 ground music scene, 1950s-80s. Until 8 Sept. Tues-Sun 10-6. Interracial tension, BUCKINGHAM PALACE BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD, the fractured American dream and the his- SW1 Until 29 Sept. Mon-Sun 9.30-7.30 (until 31 Aug), tory of the feminist and civil rights move- 9.30-6.30 (from 1 Sept). Attending an event at ments are all stitched into Faith Ringgold’s Buck ingham Palace in May 1850, Ruskin des- story quilts, which are inspired both by the cribed it as ‘the most awkward crush… with slave labour of her great-great-grandmother the ruins of ladies’ dresses, torn lace and fallen and by Tibetan thangka traditions. flowers’. Expect similar crowds, if not quite so MODERN BANKSIDE, SE1 Until 8 Sept. Mon- 3 4 many rent garments, at an exhibition about Thurs, Sun 10-6, Fri, Sat 10-10. The radical art Victoria’s improvements to her London pad, of Natalia Goncharova. Until 27 Oct, poles with site plans, party frocks and a Pepper’s apart: fields of mobile sculptures quivering Ghost recreation of the 1856 Crimean Ball. under magnetic pendulums by self-taught CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE ARKWRIGHT RD, NW3 Until artist Panayiotis Vassilakis, aka Takis. The 15 Sept. Tues, Thurs-Sun 10-6, Wed 10-9. American 1960s gallery Signals was named after his painter Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) made series of antennae-like poles topped with sal- huge, multi-part, sculptural canvases burst- vaged electrical or military equipment. Until 5 ing with biomorphic forms. Although it’s Jan 2020, Olafur Eliasson’s all-conquering ret- blown up, warped or repeated to abstraction, rospective even extends to a new menu for the her imagery is domestic in origin, recalling bar. 5 Aug-5 July 2020, a display devoted to Dóra cups, kicked-off shoes and messy drawers. Maurer, who began as a graphic artist in 1950s DKUK QUEENS RD, SE15 Until 2 Sept. Mon-Fri 10-8, Hungary before experimenting with photog- 5 Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5. Sadé Mica makes subtle in- raphy, film and system-based painting. terventions in this gallery and hair salon (WoI VIKTOR WYND MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES MARE ST, E8 4 Winning hands down Oct 2015), installing a video work inside the Until 8 Sept. Wed-Sat 12-11, Sun 12-10. Peake prac- – Dóra Maurer, Seven consultation mirror and hiding alternative tice: Mervyn’s illustrations for stories by other Twists V, 1979, at reading matter in the magazine rack. people – Carroll, Dickens, Robert Louis Ste- . 5 Come GALLERY RD, venson – as well as his own. together – Elizabeth SE21 Until 8 Sept. Tues-Sun 10-5. Dy- GALLERY LLOYD Murray, Like a Leaf, namic Grosvenor School sur- PARK, E17 Until 22 Sept. Tues- 1983, at Camden Arts vey (WoI June 2019). Plus, Sun 10-5. Meticulous mono- Centre. 6 Daily beast – make it snappy: don’t chrome drawings and big Marc Chagall, Double miss Mahoko Kojima’s embroidered hangings, Profil, 1938, at Omer cut-paper crocodile. Un- produced in a trance and Tiroche. 7 Collection til 22 Sept, this year’s pa- often by candlelight, by plate – William III vilion commission, a the mediumistic artist tin-glazed delftware, jazzy 10m cube inspired Madge Gill, born here in c1695, at the Bank by Lagos textile markets. in 1882. of England Museum 6 7

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