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ART Out of town The highly acclaimed Eric Ravilious exhibition continues at Towner Gallery. Marking the 75th anniversary of his death, Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship explores his relationships and collaborations with friends and affiliates. Works by contemporaries including Paul and John Nash, Enid Marx and Peggy Angus hang alongside pieces by Ravilious, telling a chronological story of their overlapping and interweaving careers. Continues until September. Also at the gallery from the 22nd, Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always is the second exhibition curated by Towner from the Arts Council Collection. Selected pieces by 12 internationally renowned artists explore how popular culture has influenced recent contemporary art. Film, photography, sculpture and installations focus on the ‘liberating, provocative and seductive power of music and film’, and investigate themes such as subculture, fandom and individual, collective and national identity. And the <strong>2017</strong> Sussex Open, with selected works from established and emerging artists from both East and West Sussex, also opens on the 22nd. [townereastbourne.org.uk] 'Summer', 1926–7 © Estate of Tirzah Ravilious Whilst Hokusai’s Great Wave is on show at the British Museum, A Sussex Wave from Japan is at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, with prints of Eric Slater featuring alongside those of his littleknown mentor Arthur Rigden Read. Japanese masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige inspired the simpler arts and crafts woodcuts of Slater and Rigden Read, as well as other British artists who practised the craft between the wars. Until September 3rd. [hmag.org.uk] Meanwhile The Only Way to Travel continues at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, where Sir Quentin Blake has had complete freedom to explore themes that concern him. His thoughts on mental health, the ‘squeezing of creativity’ and the refugee crisis fill the walls of the entire ground floor, totalling upwards of 100 works. Until October. [jerwoodgallery.org] Rough Sea 1929, colour woodcut by Eric Slater ‘John Minton painting resurfaces after years spent in owner's shed,’ a Guardian headline proclaimed last year. Minton, a talented-but-troubled neo-romantic who died aged 39, had given the painting to a friend, who’d apparently ‘struggled to find a wall large enough to hang it’. The painting, Jamaican Village, went on to sell for £293,000. Pallant House has announced that it’ll be featured – its ‘first showing in a public institution since 1951’ – in their new exhibition of Minton’s paintings and illustrations, which marks the centenary of his birth. Until 1st Oct. [pallant.org.uk] Book illustration by John Minton John Minton, Children by the Sea, 1945, oil on canvas, 94 x 76.1 cm, Tate, London © Tate, London 2015 / Royal College of Art 49