Arty Call
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min read

Monthly Round-up of Exhibition & Arts News (Sep 2019)

Culture Vultures - Here are the arts stories and new exhibitions that have been capturing my attention over the last month. Plus, information about some exhibitions that will be launching this October.

Arts news from this month:

Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet ‘America’ is stolen from Blenheim Palace. Best headline for this story goes to the Telegraph: ‘£4.8m golden lavatory stolen from Blenheim Palace ... police have nothing to go on’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/14/blenheim-palace-closed-amid-speculation-golden-toilet-has-stolen/

Architect Zaha Hadid’s massive ‘starfish’ airport opens in Beijing:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/25/daxing-international-airport-zaha-hadid-starfish-opens-beijing

Alfie Bradley's incredible sculpture 'The Knife Angel' was on display at Rochester Cathedral during September. Read all about it here:

https://artycall.wixsite.com/culture/single-post/2019/09/23/Knife-Angel

Victorian inventor James Nasmyth’s huge painting The Moon (1849), which has been kept under wraps for more than 150 years, displayed in an exhibition at the Science Museum:

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/james-nasmyth-moon-science-museum-a4244801.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed

The 2019 Turner Prize has opened at Margate’s Turner Contemporary:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/28/turner-prize-2019-review-margate-lawrence-abu-hamdan-helen-cammock-oscar-murillo-tai-shani

Press Statement from the National Gallery about their Spring 2020 program:

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/press-and-media/press-releases/the-national-gallery-2020-spring-exhibitions