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  • New acquisition: Quattro Stagioni by Cy Twombly, Tate Modern, London

    American artist Cy Twombly has four tall canvases on exhibition at the Tate Modern. ‘Quattro Stagioni’ (Four Seasons), a painting in four parts, was executed during the period 1993-94. The Edinburgh exhibition was the first solo exhibition in Scotland. The…

  • David Hockney: Painting on Paper

    Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 17 January-1 March 2003.

  • Titian: a must

    The Titian exhibition opening at the National Gallery, London (19 February through 18 May 2003) promises to be a unique experience unlikely to be repeated in decades. Tiziano Vecellio was born before the end of the 15th century, grew up…

  • Saatchi Gallery

    Cameras stand in keen anticipation around County Hall, London, for the planned April opening of the re-located Saatchi Gallery. Here, Nigella will soon be heard and young British artists (YBAs) will rise again, cloning a second generation, escaping the Turner…

  • Obesity to order

    At Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art, (a short run from Sainsbury or Tesco) a celebration of over-indulgence can be found, or one might say, psychopathic obsession. Food is not on display, but Duane Hanson’s unerringly life-sized figures reveal in…

  • Art Deco at V&A

    The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a sequel to its successful Art Nouveau show, held in 2000, with Art Deco 1910-1939 on 27 March through 20 July. Drawing upon the wealth of material from the 1920s, a period that…

  • Tate Modern beckoning

    Overlapping here with the Art Deco exhibition, the Beckmann exhibition at Tate Modern will reveal the murkier, gloomy and claustrophobic world-weariness of Germany in a time of uncertainty and growing depression. What the Tate team will excel at will be…

  • Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist

    British Museum, London. 5 December-23 March 2003

  • Painting, Passion and Politics: Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection

    Somerset House, London (28 September 2002-30 March 2003)

  • Aztecs at the Royal Academy

    Royal Academy, London. Until 11 April 2003. Martin-Gropius-Bar, Berlin, 17 May – 10 August 2003. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 26 September 2003 – 11 January 2004.