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

Exhibitions that opened in September

William Blake

Location: Tate Britain

Dates: 11th Sep - 2nd Feb 2020

Price: £18 / Free for Members / Concession rates

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/william-blake-artist

Damien Hirst: Mandalas

Location: White Cube Mason's Yard

Dates: 20 Sep 2019 – 2 Nov 2019

Price: Free

https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/damien_hirst_masons_yard_2019

The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter

Location: Science Museum

Dates: 25th Sep 2019 – 26th Jan 2020

Price: Free

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/art-innovation-enlightenment-dark-matter

Maidstone: United in Football

Location: Maidstone Museum

Dates: 14th Sep 2019 – 18th Jan 2020

Price: Free

https://museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/events/maidstone-united-in-football/

Turner Prize

Location: Turner Contemporary

Dates: Sat 28 Sep 2019 - Sun 12 Jan 2020

Price: Free

https://turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/turner-prize-2019/

Exhibitions opening in October

Gauguin Portraits

Location: National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing

Dates: 7 October 2019 – 26 January 2020

Price: £22 Monday – Friday, £24 Saturday – Sunday

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-gauguin-portraits

Rembrandt's Light

Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dates: 4 October 2019 – 2 February 2020

Price: £16.50, Free for Friends & Under 18s, concession rates

https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/october/rembrandts-light/

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Location: Natural History Museum

Dates: 18th October 2019 – 31st May 2020

Price: £13.95, concession rates available

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year.html

Nam June Paik

Location: Tate Modern

Dates: 17 October 2019 – 9 February 2020

Price: £13 / Free for Tate Members, Concessions

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/nam-june-paik