EASTER: Galleries, Exhibitions and Events

Bejeweled Treasures at the V&A, London.
Relevance: India Brief
'The Al Thani Collection highlights Indian traditions in design and craftsmanship, focussing on centuries-old techniques and processes.'
https://shop.vam.ac.uk/whatson/index/view/id/246/event/Bejewelled-Treasures--The-Al-Thani-Collection/dt/2016-03-06/free/2

Steve Bell & Martin Rowson: Freedom of Speech at the V&A, London.

Relevance: Illustration in general.

When : Tues 29 March 2016 18:30 – 19:30

Where :  The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

'Two of Britain’s learning cartoonists Steve Bell and Martin Rowson discuss their work in relation to freedom of speech and recent attacks on satirical magazines.Should the satirist be allowed to lampoon any subject, whoever they might offend, and how important is it for democracies to champion this freedom? The debate these and other issues with the writer Kevin Jackson. Steve Bell is an award-winning cartoonist for the Guardian; Martin Rowson is also a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Daily Mirror.'https://shop.vam.ac.uk/whatson/index/view/id/1500/event/Steve-Bell---Martin-Rowson--Freedom-of-Speech/dt/2016-03-29/eType/1/free/2?cm_mid=5460815&cm_crmid=65833e8d-2d5f-e511-80d6-005056b80c1f&cm_medium=email

Vogue: A Century of Style at the National Portrail Gallery, Leicester Square.
Relevance: Fashion Illustration.
When: Until May
Fashion may be fickle, but the fashion photographer’s lens is also a mirror. ‘Vogue 100: A Century of Style’ is as much a reflection of a hundred years of our history as it is a celebration of the original glossy.
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/vogue-100-a-century-of-style

Botticelli Reimagined at the V&A

London: Saatchi Paintings and Other Finds.

http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/138615401020/weird-finds-in-london

Saatchi Gallery Death Exhibition

http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/138615474045/death-exhibition-at-the-saatchi-gallery-in-london

Exhibitions on in Oxford

http://inoxford.com/arts/arts_details.html

The Old Fire Station gallery...

Two Days At Oxford
Friday 15th January - Saturday 27th February 2016: Oxford-based artist John Goto turns his attention to the city’s turbulent past in his latest exhibition. Prompted by John Betjeman’s stereotyped view of town and gown in An Oxford University Chest (1938), Goto offers a divergent account of the locale and its people during the nineteen-thirties, in his series of photo-digital artworks. Open: 10am-5pm. Entry: All exhibitions are free to visit.

http://www.oldfirestation.org.uk/gallery/

Unfortunately the Modern Art Oxford is closed during the time I am there... I will probably go and check anyway...
https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/installation-period/

Ashmolean Museum Beaumont Street, Oxford. Tel: 01865 278000. www.ashmolean.org Visit the redisplay of the 19th-century Western Art in three magnificent galleries on the Museum's second floor, featuring Sickert and the Camden Town Group, British Landscape painting and art by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Homage to Ganesha Until Sunday 24th January 2016: One of the most popular Hindu deities, the elephant-headed Ganesha is revered as the remover of obstacles and the source of all success. As a powerful deity of good fortune, Ganesha is invoked at the beginning of any endeavour. This display presents diverse representations of Ganesha from the Museum’s collection. Time: 10am - 5pm. This exhibition is ticketed.

This Ganesha exhibition is one I will have to see in regards to my India project! I am gutted I couldnt make it to London for the Textiles of India exhibition at the V&A because that would have been amazing for my project!

Cornerstone Arts Centre

25 Station Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 7NE. Tel: 01235 515144.
www.cornerstone-arts.org

Cornerstone has a fantastic array of facilities for you to enjoy; an auditorium for theatre, shows, gigs and performances, a visual art gallery, a welcoming cafe, bar and restaurant, a dance studio, an visual arts gallery and various multi-purpose spaces for meetings and workshops.

Robert Strange: Collecting Art
Tuesday 12th January 2016 - Sunday 21st February 2016: During childhood Robert Strange kept scrapbooks and diaries of thoughts, aspirations and images which led to a fascination with collecting objects from these experiences. From dice to plastic cracker toys, this playful and colourful exhibition features detailed drawings alongside paintings, prints and photographs of everyday familiar items that we regularly use and throw-away. The exhibition will also feature displays of the found objects; showing where the practice of collector and artist combine. Meet the artist and get closer to the exhibition through talks and interactive activities on Saturday 30 January, plus half-term activities for children. Please see our website for more details. Tickets: Free Entry. Sanders of Oxford - Rare Prints & Maps 104 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BW Tel: 01865 242590 www.sandersofoxford.com Sanders of Oxford has long been a landmark on the High Street. Our collection of prints and maps, dating from the 16th to the 20th century, is extensive and encompasses a wide range of subjects, engravers and prices. Subjects include Topographical, Portraiture, Sporting, Caricatures, Natural History, Literary and Japanese Woodblocks. December: Whats On New stock for Christmas includes: Japanese woodblocks, regional and world maps, caricatures and new work by contemporary printmakers, alongside a wide selection of beautiful and unusual Oxford prints and photographs. Let our friendly, knowledgeable staff help you find a unique and personal gift this Christmas. January: Lord Leighton and the Photogravure in Pre-Raphaelite printmaking This January Sanders presents an exhibition of rare and beautiful prints by Frederick Lord Leighton alongside the leading Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite exponents of the photogravure printmaking technique. ONLINE SALE We are offering 15% off online purchases throughout January. See our website for full details. Sarah Wiseman Gallery 40/41 South Parade, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7JL. Tel: 01865 515123. www.wisegal.com Open: Monday to Saturday Exhibiting a wide range of original contemporary art, this is the largest commercial gallery in Oxford hosting six formal exhibitions a year, working with emerging and established contemporary artists. December Exhibition: Christmas Exhibition January Exhibition: Sarah Spackman - A closer look

Galleries: Robert Fraser

'The first art dealer to be as famous as the artists he represented. Fraser had almost all the attributes of a successful gallery owner. He had flair, knowledge and confidence in his own artistic taste. His 1962 Dubuffet opening show was acclaimed, and it was unsurprising that, four years later, Time magazine featured the gallery as the place to be in swinging London... Kenneth Anger's cult films were screened, Dennis Hopper took the artist photographs for the Los Angeles Now show and Terry Southern wrote the introduction to the Hans Bellmer catalogue...

Teasingly labelled a 'Belgravia pansy' by his friend Francis Bacon, Fraser had an old Etonian assurance that could irritate at times. He used it to dismiss the Beatles' initial choice of artist for the Sgt Pepper's record sleeve in favour of Peter Blake and Jann Haworth... Less constructive was his response to Detective Sergeant Beale, who told him that the Jim Dine Drawings on show were obscene: 'I am certainly not interested in the opinions of a tuppeny-ha'penny policeman.' The works were seized and the gallery fined 20 guineas under the Vagrancy Act of 1838.

... It was a shock to most of his circle when, in the notorious 1967 Redlands drugs bust, Fraser was discovered to have on him 24 tablets of heroin. It was a surprise even to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, with whom he was arrested. He was sent to prison for six months. The storm of press coverage, including the photographs of Jagger and Fraser handcuffed together, inspired Richard Hamiltons iconic Swingeing London 67 series; a gesture of support to his art dealer and a protest at judicial overkill... Fraser opened a second gallery in Cork Street in 1983. It continued in his avant-garde tradition, introducing to London such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring... Sales were infrequent, and  by 1985 he was already suffering from the effects of Aids, as a result of which he died in 1986.

It is hard to think of an art-gallery owner who has been represented more often by his artists. Many of these portrayals wil appear in a new show at Pace London, including the Richard Hamilton collage from which the exhibition takes it's name. Curated by Brian Clarke, the show is a tribute to Fraser and to Clarke's own portrait of the man who had become his dealer and his friend.' - Harriet Vyner