Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, "the Oscars of the design world," showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Last year's winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can have at a grass-root level. Which design will triumph in 2010?
Ron Arad: Restless
Barbican Art Gallery stages the first major survey in the UK of the internationally acclaimed, London-based design maverick Ron Arad.
Radical, experimental and avant-garde, Henry Moore (1898–1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. This stunning exhibition takes a fresh look at his work and legacy, presenting over 150 stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings.
The world's most commercially succesful piece of entertainment is returning in a new guise. Yes, the 'Phantom of the Opera' is back and this time he's moved to New York. Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Love Never Dies' is set in the grotesque and dazzling slpendour of Coney Island during its heyday.
Cyclops, unicorn, yeti, dragon, the chimera… are these creatures real or imagined? Take a journey into the strange world of Myths and Monsters and unravel the truth behind universal legends and myths. Discover the origin of the Cyclops, the links between dragons and the dinosaurs, and why the yeti is the monster most likely to be real. The exhibition was first shown at the Natural History Museum in 1998.
This carving of swimming reindeer is one of the most beautiful pieces of Ice Age art ever discovered. It is a carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk and is around 13,000 years old. This places it at the end of the Last Ice Age, when animals such as mammoths, reindeer and wolverines roamed Europe.
A Midsummer Night's Dream If you want to ponder enchantments that skew ordinary lives and introduce magic into places it doesn't usually reach, then Judi Dench's five-decade collaboration with Peter Hall might be a good place to start. Dench first played Titania for Hall in 1962; now she's taking the part again, in an interpretation that reimagines the young queen of the fairies as the ageing Elizabeth I of England - which, given that monarch's notorious (if possibly overstated) virginity, will give an intriguing new spin to the marital quarrel between Titania and Oberon that kicks off the play's events.
Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolours from the mid 1990s to today.
Warriors of the Plains
A rare opportunity to explore the fascinating world of Native North American warfare and ritual.The exhibition focuses on the material culture of Native North American Indians of the Plains between 1800 and the present, and the importance of the objects in a social and ceremonial context.
Fernand Fonssagrives
The Michael Hoppen gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by one of America’s foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives.
The best dance, music and theatre from across the globe. Season highlights include: London International Mime Festival; Peter Brook's 11 and 12; Pina Bausch's Kontakthof; and a new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth by Associate Artist Cheek by Jowl.
Melanie Manchot : Celebration (Cyprus Street)
Drawing on traditions of group portraiture at public street parties, Melanie Manchot’s new work explores individual and collective identity through photography and film.
Kenneth MacMillan’s interpretation of Romeo and Juliet’s doomed love is one of the greatest examples of 20th-century choreography. This revival by The Royal Ballet brings all the lyrical beauty and touching fluidity of its intimate moments for the two lovers along with the grandeur of the ball scene and the action-packed encounters of the opposing Montagues and Capulets.
Resolution!
Resolution! is The Place’s annual, new year open season for shorter dance works. Over 100 works are presented in nightly changing triple bills.
London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga is widely acclaimed for her sculptural installations of artefacts and photographs, derived from art history, politics and anthropology. The artist focuses on a key moment in the history of the Whitechapel Gallery: the presentation of Picasso’s Guernica in 1939.
Guernica