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Alvar Aalto Library In Vyborg: Saving A Modern Masterpiece

The finale to the long-running course of action to save this historic modernist masterpiece did not come through an astronomic bid by a Russian oligarch at auction but through the final award of a very substantial funding from the Russian…
The Dark Side of Love. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 4 May–7 August 2011
An Entirely Fresh View of Contemporary French Art

French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art Through the Marcel Duchamp Prize Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 26 March–28 August 2011
Yang Lian in conversation

Ai Weiwei Lisson Gallery, London, until 16 July Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Somerset House, London, until 26 June
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape

Tate Modern, London 14 April–11 September 2011
James Frazer Stirling

Tate Britain, London 5 April–21 August 2011 Co-organised by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Catalogue: Anthony Vidler, James Frazer Stirling Notes from the Archive1
Rooms With A View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5 April–4 July 2011
PINTA, The Latin American Art Fair

Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 6–9 June 2011
Ellen Bell: Camera Obscura and Other Stories

Offsite exhibition by Four Square Fine Arts at The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London 24–29 May 2011
Drummond House, Meigle, Perthshire

The vernacular tradition of rural Britain has preoccupied the majority of builders, clients, architects and planning authorities in rural regions for a decade, just as it had seemed that a “kitsch” or gemutlich, approach had been adopted by compliant stakeholders…
Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Cliff

23 April–19 May 2011 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Gino Severini (1883-1966): futuriste et neoclassique

Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris 27 April–25 July 2011
Tom de Freston: Deposition, Christ’s College Chapel

Christ’s College, Cambridge celebrated the 500th anniversary (2010) of its consecration this Easter with the installation of two site-specific altarpiece paintings by the young artist Tom de Freston, who has been the Leverhulme artist in residence there
Gosia Wlodarczak

2011 Singapore Biennale: Open House Commissioned project: Frost Drawing For Kallang (2011), performative drawing on glass (in situ), at the Old Kallang Airport, Singapore Biennale 13 March–15 May 2011
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973

Prestel, published in association with the Neuberger Museum of Art New York, 2011 Edited by Nancy Princenthal With essays by Tom McDonough, Griselda Pollock, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Kristine Stiles
Drawing Fashion: A Century of Fashion Illustration

Edited by Joelle Chariau Essays by Colin McDowell and Holly Brubach Prestel, 2011
A Symphony of Colours and Shapes: Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York 18 March–19 June 2011
I Know Something About Love

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London 9 March–22 May 2011
LAVA: Home of the Future

University of Technology Sydney Architecture Warehouse in Chippendale, Sydney 16 March–04 April 2011
John Hoyland, Mysteries

In John Hoyland’s paintings from the 1960s, thick crisply defined blocks of paint dominate the canvases. Over the subsequent decades the opaque impasto squares and rectangles began to dissolve into the drips, splatters and blobs of the background, taking on…
A Master Bows to His Country and His People: Balenciaga and Spain by Hamish Bowles

Balenciaga and Spain by Hamish Bowles Rizzoli, 2011
Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973

The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester 19 February–12 June 2011 by ANNA McNAY
Egon Schiele: Self-Portraits and Portraits

Agnes Husslein-Arco and Jane Kallir Prestel, London, Munich, New York, 2011
Romancing The Modern

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper By Alexandra Harris Thames & Hudson, London, October 2010