Exhibitions in 2011

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Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
In 'The Art of Tracey Emin' distinguished critics address her achievement in depth, tracing Emin’s influences from Egon Schiele to Bruce Nauman and establishing her place in a wider tradition.
18 May–29 Aug
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London SE1 8XX
Hayward Gallery website
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The Art of Tracey Emin

Brit Insurance Design Awards – Design Museum
The Brit Insurance Design Awards, the 'Oscars of the design world', showcases the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Among the Graphics nominees this year is Marian Bantjes for her 'I Wonder'.
16 Feb–07 Aug 2011
Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames
London SE1 2YD
Design Museum website

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I Wonder by Marian Bantjes

Watercolour at Tate Britain
The most ambitious exhibition about watercolour ever staged, with works spanning 800 years, this survey celebrates the full variety of ways watercolour has been used
Tate Britain
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
T: 020 7887 8888
16 Feb–21 Aug 2011


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Paint with the Watercolour Masters:
    A step-by-step guide to materials and techniques for today's artists
Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolours
Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolours

The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World
Wyndham Lewis’s arts movement Vorticism was baptized on 20 June 1914 in the first issue of 'BLAST: A Review of the Great English Vortex'. This exhibition celebrates the full electrifying force and vitality of this pivotal modernist movement that was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.
14 June–4 Sept
Tate Britain
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism, as well as abstract, fashion and art photography. 200 striking images will reveal the achievements of photographers who left an enduring legacy to international photography.
30 June—2 Oct
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Royal Academy website
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Robert Capa Photofile series
André Kertész Photofile series
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising Photographs by Erich Lessing
Martin Munkácsi

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 is designed by world-renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This year’s Pavilion is the 11th commission in the Gallery’s annual series. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK and will include a specially created garden by the influential Dutch designer Piet Oudolf.
Image ©Peter Zumthor
1 July–16 Oct
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
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Freemasonry
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry houses one of the finest publicly available collections of Masonic material in the world.
Open to the public, free of charge - Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
Freemasons' Hall,
60 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ
TEL:+44 (0) 20 7831 9811
Freemasonry Library and Museum website
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Freemasonry: Symbols, Secrets, Significance