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Frontispiece of the Exhibition catalogue, designed by William Hogarth. The Exhibition of 1761 was the inaugural art exhibition staged by the Society of Artists of Great Britain (SAGB), a group of painters, architects and sculptors. The exhibition opened on 9 May 1761 and was held at Spring Gardens in Westminster.
The Academy hosts the Summer Exhibition an annual open art exhibition, which means anyone can enter their work to be considered for exhibition. Established in 1769, it is the oldest and largest open submission exhibition in the world and is included in London's Social Season. The members of The Academy, also known as Royal Academicians select ...
The Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the months of June, July, and August. The exhibition includes paintings , prints, drawings, sculpture , architectural designs and models , and is the largest and most popular open exhibition in ...
The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art. [4] Organised by Hayward Touring, it takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK.
Art exhibitions in London (1 C, 39 P) Pages in category "Art exhibitions in the United Kingdom" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
[36] [37] Art exhibitions were held at the gallery as a complement to the recitals. The first of these was British Painting since Whistler in 1940, organised by Lillian Browse , [ 38 ] who also mounted the major joint retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Sir William Nicholson and Jack B. Yeats held from 1 January to 15 March 1942, which was ...
Art Now is a small changing show of a contemporary artist's work in a dedicated room. Tate Britain is the home of the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists selected by a jury chaired by the director of Tate Britain. This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May, the show of ...
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...