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Edward Bawden, Bedford Gallery, Bedford (Rated 4/ 5 )
Monday, 30 November 2009
Like Dufy, Edward Bawden looks easy to imitate, until you try. Unlike the ebullient French painter of pleasure, however, Bawden could not have been more English – in the manner of his time.
Nothing Matters, White Cube, London
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Britart's bad boy gets his paints out again, but the results are not exactly Bacon ... more like a dog's breakfast
The Hoerengracht, National Gallery, London
Sunday, 22 November 2009
The National Gallery is the unlikely setting for an artistic re-creation of Amsterdam's red-light district
David Hockney: 1960–1968: A Marriage of Styles, Contemporary, Nottingham (Rated 3/ 5 )
Thursday, 19 November 2009
When Hockney first made a splash
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters' Hall, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Subtle departures from real life
Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952-62, Courtauld Gallery, London
Sunday, 15 November 2009
What a mess! But that's how it should be
Van Gogh's Letters: The Artist Speaks, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Arts of Islam, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Van Gogh was a prolific letter writer who illustrated his correspondence with sketches for fully-fledged pictures still to come
European Fields: Hans van der Meer, Host Gallery, London
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Rooney who? This is European football's grass roots exposed
Jann Haworth, Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (Rated 3/ 5 )
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Pop Art given a good stuffing
Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill Royal Academy, London
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Of three pioneering sculptors celebrated in a stirring show, it is the one who died young who is the star
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