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LONDON FOR FUN Newsletter: 18 December 2012 Issue No.220

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013

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1. Top 10 London events
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1 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA for the third year running. This year’s selectors Cullinan Richards, Nairy Baghramian, and Rosalind Nashashibi have chosen defining works by the most promising artists coming out of UK art schools from a range of over 1,200 submissions. Until 13 January 2013. www.ica.org.uk

2 - Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s - This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades of the 20th century. Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s brings together over 400 works, some rarely seen, others recently discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time. Until 13 January 2013. www.barbican.org.uk

3 - Digital Crystal: Swarowski at the Design Museum - Over the past decade Swarovski’s design and architecture commissions have served as an important experimental platform for leading figures in design to conceptualise, develop and share their most radical ideas. For this exhibition, the Design Museum and Swarovski are collaborating to challenge designers to explore the future of memory in the fast developing digital age. Working with some of Swarovski's previous commissions, alongside a new generation of designers, this exhibition examines the changing nature of our relationship with objects and even with time. Until 13 January 2013. www.designmuseum.org

4 - William Klein + Daido Moriyama - Explore modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through the photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama. This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship between the work of influential photographer and filmmaker Klein, and that of Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. With work from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition demonstrates the visual affinity between their urgent, blurred and grainy style of photography and also their shared desire to convey street life and political protest, from anti-war demonstrations and gay pride marches to the effects of globalisation and urban deprivation. Until 20 January 2012. www.tate.org.uk

5 - Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour - It is well-known that Cartier-Bresson was disparaging towards colour photography, which in the 1950s was in its early years of development; his reasoning was based both on the technical and aesthetic limitations of the medium at the time.  Featuring 10 Cartier-Bresson photographs never before exhibited in the UK alongside over 75 works by 14 international acclaimed photographers, this extensive showcase will illustrate how photographers working in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the master's ethos famously known as  the ‘decisive moment' to their work in colour. Though they often departed from the concept in significant ways, something of that challenge remained: how to seize something that happens and capture it in the very moment that it takes place. Until 27 January 2013. www.somersethouse.org.uk

6 - The Mikado - Just over 125 years since its initial record-breaking run, The Mikado remains Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular operetta. For a staggering fifth of that total time, it has also been virtually synonymous with Jonathan Miller’s dazzlingly inventive and stunningly stylish song-and-dance staging, which has proved an unfailing ‘source of innocent merriment’ ever since it first graced the London Coliseum stage in 1986. Wittily transposing the topsy-turvy Victorian values of Gilbert’s mock-oriental Town of Titipu to a Marx Brothers-inspired take on the denizens of a very English 1930s seaside hotel, Miller’s much-loved production returns, two years after celebrating its silver jubilee. The starry cast of seasoned veterans and fresh-faced newcomers is led by ENO’s resident master of the comic patter song, Richard Suart, who this season celebrates his own 25th anniversary in the role of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Until 31 January. www.eno.org

7 - Cirque du Solei - Kooza - KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil, combining the two circus traditions of acrobatics and clowning in spectacular style. Set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills and chills, it tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world, through contortionists, trapeze-artists, the high wire and the breathtaking 'Wheel of Death'. From 5 January 2013 until 4 February 2013. www.royalalberthall.com

8 - Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape - This exhibition will present works by the three towering figures of English landscape painting - John Constable RA, Thomas Gainsborough RA and JMW Turner RA - and will explore the development of the British school of landscape painting. The display will include 150 works of art, including paintings, prints, books and archival material. Showcasing major works from the Royal Academy Collections, the exhibition will feature highlights such as Gainsborough’s Romantic Landscape (c.1783), Constable’s The Leaping Horse (1825) and Boat Passing a Lock (1826) alongside Turner’s brooding diploma work, Dolbadern Castle (1800). Until 17 February 2013. www.royalacademy.org.uk

9 - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 - The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 offers a unique opportunity to see sixty new portraits by some of the most exciting contemporary photographers from around the world. Through editorial, advertising and fine art images, this year’s entrants have explored a range of themes, styles and approaches to the contemporary photographic portrait, from formal commissioned portraits of famous faces to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and family. Until 17 February 2013. www.npg.org.uk

10 - Death: A Self-portrait - This is a major winter exhibition showcasing some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago, the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya will be displayed alongside anatomical drawings, war art and antique metamorphic postcards; human remains will be juxtaposed with Renaissance vanitas paintings and twentieth century installations celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead. From a group of ancient Incan skulls, to a spectacular chandelier made of 3000 plaster-cast bones by British artist Jodie Carey, this singular collection, by turns disturbing, macabre and moving, opens a window upon our enduring desire to make peace with death. Until 24 February 2013. www.wellcomecollection.org

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