GO: ART: Take UK tour with Turner.Byline: Lucy Bell YOU can see a new Turner exhibition - including pictures from Coventry and Kenilworth - at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Turner's Britain follows the artist's journeys around the UK sketching rural market towns, industrial cities and the lonely landscapes of Wales, northern England and Scotland. There are more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolours, sketchbooks and engravings on display, including Turner's sketchbooks of his tour of Birmingham, Coventry and Kenilworth. Works have been lent from as far as New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and America for the show. And Turner's iconic masterpiece, The Fighting Temeraire, leaves The National Gallery in London for the first time in more than 50 years. Tickets pounds 5 (pounds 3.50 concessions) on 0121 303 1966 (pounds 1 booking fee per transaction) or on www.bmag.org.uk. The show runs until February 8. This exhibition is part of a season of Turner shows in the UK, including The Sun rising through Vapour: Turner's early Seascapes Seascapes is an RTÉ Radio 1 programme broadcast on Fridays at 8.30 pm. and presented by Tom MacSweeney. It is intended to cover all subjects of maritime interest, from leisure to commercial shipping, as well as fishing and the environment. , at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. A free Artbus service is being laid on to ferry art-lovers between the two Turner exhibitions in Birmingham on Sunday. There is a small exhibition of printed works, Turner, Printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. and the Liber Studiorum, at the Barber Institute and Turner and the Birmingham Engravers runs alongside Turner's Britain at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's Gas Hall. Birmingham's Barber Institute of Fine Arts The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is an art gallery and concert hall in Birmingham, England. It is situated in purpose-built premises on the campus of the University of Birmingham. has been awarded the title of Gallery of the Year by The Good Britain Guide. The guidebook describes the Barber as "a comprehensive collection of European art by the great masters, approachably hung in a friendly-sized building." It also praised it for being "a relaxed and well-displayed gallery, enjoyable without being overwhelming". ARTIST Jochen Gerz, who has designed Coventry's Public Bench and Future Monument as part of the city's Millennium Project, will head a debate on Public Art, Public Censorship, at Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, tomorrow, from 10am to 6pm. Topics to be debated include the function of public art and the connections between local, regional and national identity and art. Tickets, at pounds 20 (pounds 7.50 concessions) on 024 7652 4524 or e-mail box.office@warwick.ac.uk CAPTION(S): JOURNEY: Turner's Lancaster Sands at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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