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| International Art & Culture Festival 2009 (Gallery Sigvardson, Rødby, Denmark) - ends Saturday, the 25th of July, 2009. | | The Festival's goal is to gather artists, cultural workers and organisations together to establish and maintain contacts and to share experiences and views.
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| The 9th Annual Art Inter/National, Here and Abroad... 2010 (Box Heart Gallery, Pittsburgh, United States) - ends Sunday, the 1st of November, 2009. | | Art Inter/National is a celebration of artistic expression from all over the world.
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| Art Exhibitions |
| Ed Pien: Memento (Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom) - ends Saturday, the 4th of July, 2009. | | A newly commissioned installation by Ed Pien based in Canada, the work is a contemplation of the human condition: how we act and react to the inescapable forces that shape us.
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| Concrete and Poetry: Drawings for an art museum by Lina Bo Bardi (Henry Moore Institute Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 5th of July, 2009. | | In the first UK exhibition to explore the vision of the architect Lina Bo Bardi, this exhibition focuses on her drawings for the iconic Museum of Art in São Paolo (MASP), designed and built between 1957 and 1968.
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| Grin & Bear It (Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland) - ends Sunday, the 5th of July, 2009. | | Cruel humour in art and life.
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| Carved from Memory (Spacex, Exeter, United Kingdom) - ends Saturday, the 11th of July, 2009. | | Spacex is pleased to present a new project by Simon Pope, which will be split over two sites at Spacex and Exeter Cathedral.
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| Material Intelligence (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 12th of July, 2009. | | An international exhibition that brings together eight contemporary artists whose understanding and use of materials are intuitive, inventive, and often lead the creative process.
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| The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing (the Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 19th of July, 2009. | | An exhibition exploring and celebrating fresh approaches to drawing in contemporary art.
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| Ronald J. Llanos solo exhibition (Wax Poetic Gallery, Burbank, United States) - ends Saturday, the 25th of July, 2009. | | Wax Poetic Gallery is pleased to present the art of Ronald J. more... |
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| Fascismo Abbandonata (Fascism in Ruins) (Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Kettering, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 26th of July, 2009. | | Since 2005 Artist Dan Dubowitz and Architect Patrick Duerden have been tracking down abandoned fascist buildings in northern Italy - especially holiday camps built in the fascist era.
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| Darren Marsh: A Portrait of Bedford (Bedford Creative Arts - BCA Gallery, Bedford, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 2nd of August, 2009. | | Photographer Darren Marsh uses his art as a means to feed his interest in people, specifically those who share his hometown, Bedford.
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| Institutional Wellbeing: An olfactory plan for the Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, United States) - ends Sunday, the 9th of August, 2009. | | Conceptual artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter's work offers a lively, interactive critique of cultural distribution in the marketplace.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States) - ends Sunday, the 23rd of August, 2009. | | Wright's visionary work shows how space is a key element to any architectural design. more... |
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| Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object ( Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, United States) - ends Sunday, the 23rd of August, 2009. | | This survey reflects Carnwath's groundbreaking artistry and stature as one of California's leading contemporary artists.
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| Hans Hammarskiöld. Profiles (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden) - ends Sunday, the 30th of August, 2009. | | Hans Hammarskiöld is one of Sweden's foremost photographers. more... |
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| The New Monumentality: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gerard Byrne and Dorit Margreiter (Henry Moore Institute Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 30th of August, 2009. | | Featuring new work by three internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, this exhibition explores their shared fascination with the legacy of the monumental architecture of the post-war years.
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland) - ends Sunday, the 30th of August, 2009. | | In this commission, Yinka Shonibare creates a new sculptural installation based on themes developed in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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| Lyndall Phelps: The Pigeon Archive (Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 30th of August, 2009. | | Artist Lyndall Phelps will document, through photography, video and sculpture, the re-enactment of pigeon manoeuvres undertaken during both World Wars.
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| Artist Rooms: Sol Lewitt (Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 13th of September, 2009. | | This major wall drawing by influential American artist Sol LeWitt is part of the first UK tour of ARTIST ROOMS, a collection created by dealer and collector Anthony d'Offay and acquired by the nation in 2008.
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| Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today (Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 13th of September, 2009. | | This exhibition looks at the moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive.
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| Silke Otto-Knapp: Present Time Exercise (Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 13th of September, 2009. | | The first major UK exhibition of the London-based artist's paintings.
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| Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 13th of September, 2009. | | This exhibition traces the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975.
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| Joseph Beuys (De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 27th of September, 2009. | | Works by German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 86) from the Artist Rooms collection will be shown throughout the summer. more... |
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| Fresh Out of the Box (The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom) - ends Wednesday, the 14th of October, 2009. | | This is the first chance to see new art works acquired by The New Art Gallery. more... |
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| Natural Responses (Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Kettering, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 18th of October, 2009. | | A mixed exhibition by four artists who have undertaken residencies at Sudborough Green Lodge:- Claudia Fährenkemper, Alex Metcalf, Jacques Nimki and Martin Prothero.
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| Pattern Recognition (The City Gallery Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom) - ends Saturday, the 24th of October, 2009. | | The artists in this exhibition are all exploring the point at which patterns begin to emerge or where they start to disintegrate.
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| Shaun Gladwell (Spacex, Exeter, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 29th of November, 2009. | | The work will be featured of Australian artist Shaun Gladwell whose practice critically engages personal history, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena through performance, video, painting and sculpture. more... |
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| Georgian Portraits: Seeing is Believing (Compton Verney, Compton Verney, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 13th of December, 2009. | | This display of portraits, on loan from the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, presents a unique opportunity to see highlights from their collection, including works by Thomas Barker, Arthur Devis, Angelica Kauffman, Allan Ramsay, Henry Raeburn, George Stubbs and Richard Cosway.
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| 2009 Artistic Programme (Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom) - ends Thursday, the 31st of December, 2009. | AS LONG AS IT LASTS
Simon and Tom Bloor
Gallery exhibition inspired by the artists' interest in modernist sculpture and flawed utopias.
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| DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture (Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 11th of April, 2010. | | This is Sculpture takes an ambitious and revolutionary look at the history of modern and contemporary sculpture. more... |
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| Craft Exhibitions |
| Church Textiles (St James's Church, Macclesfield, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 5th of July, 2009. | | Exhibition of altar frontals, copes and other clergy apparel. more... |
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| Our Textile Heritage (Little Moreton Hall, Congleton, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 12th of July, 2009. | | An exhibition by Alsager Spinners, Weavers and Dyers exploring our textile heritage. more... |
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| Threads of Nature (Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, United Kingdom) - ends Saturday, the 18th of July, 2009. | | Exhibition of creative textile work by Lancashire based group Preston Threads.
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| Sewing Through to Silver (Congleton Town Hall, Congleton, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 19th of July, 2009. | | Exhibition of Quilts and other textiles to celebrate 25 years of patchwork and quilting in Congleton. more... |
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| New Threads (The White Gallery, Bollington, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 19th of July, 2009. | | Bollington's new art space, The White Gallery is hosting a Contemporary Textile Exhibition as part of the Three Shires Textile Festival which runs from the 4th - 19th July 2009.
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| Freewheeling at Loch Ness (Inch Hotel, Fort Augustus, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 19th of July, 2009. | | Highlands and Islands. more... |
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| TAGS 16th Annual Exhibition (The Pond Gallery, Near Aldeburgh, United Kingdom) - ends Wednesday, the 22nd of July, 2009. | | Tags was formed in 1993 by a group of Suffolk textile artists.
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| The Textile Treasures of Tatton's Collection (Mansion House, Tatton Park, Knutsford, United Kingdom) - ends Tuesday, the 18th of August, 2009. | | To celebrate the Three Shires Textile Festival, Tatton Park features rare costumes, furnishings and historic clothing from its collection, in this special exhibition. more... |
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| Craft Fairs |
| Clare Priory Craft Fair (Clare Priory, Clare, United Kingdom) - ends Sunday, the 12th of July, 2009. | | On the second Saturday and Sunday of July the grounds of the Priory are given over to a Craft Fair which is usually extremely well received. more... |
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| The Big One (Glyndwr University Sports Centre, Wrexham, United Kingdom) - ends Saturday, the 28th of November, 2009. | | Wow, this is THE event to be at in 2009! more... |
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