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With Sasha Wood
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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
MANET’S ‘MME MANET IN THE CONSERVATORY’ © THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART. ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, OSLO. PHOTO BY BORRE HOSTLAND;
MUSEUM OF LONDON IMAGE MALE MEMENTO MORI © SCIENCE MUSEUM, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY; WHITECHAPEL GALLERY IMAGE © GERARD BYRNE;
SAATCHI GALLERY IMAGE BY DASHA SHISHKIN © SAATCHI GALLERY
Kicking off the New Year with a stellar show, the Royal Academy Of
Arts welcomes the work of celebrated 19th-century artist Édouard
Manet to its galleries from 26 Jan. Manet: Portraying Life is the
first exhibition of its kind in the UK to focus on the artist’s portraiture,
which used real sitters to breathe life into imagined everyday scenes
and thereby bridged the gap between realism and impressionism.
The Royal Academy Of Arts, p. 52.
Gory stories
The Museum Of London embraces
the dark side this season with a
major exhibition looking at the
fascinating but macabre history
of Victorian medicine. Inspired
by a burial site excavation at
the Royal London Hospital,
Doctors, Dissection And
Resurrection Men (until 14 Apr)
tells a grim story of 19th-century
bodysnatching and autopsy through
a collection of anatomical models,
remains, artefacts and instruments.
The Museum Of London, p. 54.
Multi-screen masterpieces
Immerse
yourself in
multimedia
installations
at the
Whitechapel
Gallery’s solo
show of works
by Gerard
Byrne this
month (from
17 Jan). The
Irish artist is
renowned
for his films
that reconstruct important past events and discussions between artists and
intellectuals, such as an interview with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre or an
hour-long restaging of a 1960s conversation between science fiction writers
on their vision of the future, entitled 1984 And Beyond (pictured). More than
seven major multi-screen installations unfold across the darkened galleries.
The Whitechapel Gallery, p. 52.
From Russia with love
Modern and
contemporary Russian art
in all its stark, shocking
and satirical glory is
celebrated at the Saatchi
Gallery’s wryly-titled
exhibition Gaiety Is
The Most Outstanding
Feature Of The Soviet
Union (until 5 May).
With a mix of images,
paintings, sculptures
and installations from
18 emerging artists, the show presents a survey of the country’s recent
artistic output and looks at how Russian creativity has been influenced by its
tumultuous history and the breaking up of the USSR.
The Saatchi Gallery, p. 52.
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