The World of Interiors

EXHIBITION diar y

1 A call to arms –

Haidee Becker

Octopuses in an Oval

Dish at Patrick

Bourne. 2 The ruff

and the smooth –

Hendrik Goltzius

Self-Portrait Holding

a Copper-Plate

c1589 at the British

Museum. 3 Tight

spot – George

Stubbs A Cheetah

and Stag with Two

Indian Attendants

1765 at Tate Britain.

4 Stitches in time

• Amish quilt
  late 19th century
  at White Cube.
  5 Throwaway culture


• Moffat Takadiwa
  Foreignness Smell
  2015 at Tyburn.
  6 Trunk call –
  Stephane Graff Tree
  Intervention I 2009
  at Crane Kalman.
  7 Packet punch –
  Conor Rogers You
  get me down
  2014 at the ICA

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LONDON
AMBIKA P3 MARYLEBONE RD NW1 Until 6 Dec. Tues-
Fri 11-7 Sat Sun 12-6. Film and video works by
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman.
BRITISH MUSEUM GREAT RUSSELL ST WC1 Until 6
Dec. Mon-Thurs Sat Sun 10-5.30 Fri 10-8.30. Un-
missable show of metalpoint drawings.
CRANE KALMAN BROMPTON RD SW3 12 Nov-16 Jan.
Mon-Fri 10-6 Sat 10-4. An arboretum of art de-
picting trees with Corot Sutherland and Tony
Bevan among those branching out.
DANIEL KATZ HILL ST W1 Until 18 Dec. Mon-Fri 9-6.
A very posh private collection of important
paintings (by Cranach Beccafumi Turner
Cézanne) assembled over 30 years.
DANIELLE ARNAUD KENNINGTON RD SE11 6 Nov-
13 Dec. Fri-Sun 2-6. Sarah Woodfine’s gothic
pencil drawings often creep off the page into
three dimensions – mating with found ob-
jects snaking around scrolls of paper.
DRAF SYMES MEWS NW1 Until 12 Dec. Thurs-Sat 12-6.
Works about facelessness cover-ups and dis-
appearances are installed in a disconcerting
environment of curtains and screens.
ESTORICK COLLECTION CANONBURY SQUARE N1 Until
20 Dec. Wed-Sat 11-6 Sun 12-5. Research on the
Futurist masterpieces here has revealed a view
of Düsseldorf beneath Balla’s Hand of the Vio-
lin ist. Plus Piero Pizzi Cannella’s paintings of
single ornate objects – a dress a necklace a
chandelier – suspended in dark space.
FRITH STREET GALLERY FRITH ST W1 Until 18 Dec.
Wed-Fri 10-6 Sat 11-5. The sense of place is the
subject of a two-hander featuring the soot-
and-spit landscapes of Idaho outsider James
Castle (1899-1977) and John Riddy’s photo-
graphs of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula.
JONATHAN CLARK PARK WALK SW10 5-27 Nov. Mon-
Fri 10-6.30 Sat 10-2. Dynamic works of the 1950s
and 60s by St Ives artist Bryan Wynter.
KALLOS GALLERY DAVIES ST W1 Until 18 Dec. Mon-
Fri 10.30-5.30. Ancient Greek gold jewellery.
ICA THE MALL SW1 25 Nov-25 Jan. Tues Wed Fri-
Sun 11-6 Thurs 11-9. Making and materiality
were the selectors’ maxims for this year’s
Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Look out
for Conor Rogers’s tiny photorealist paint-
ings on cigarette packets and beer mats.
MALLETT DOVER ST W1 12-24 Nov. Mon-Fri 10-6.
Ultra-fine exquisitely painted ceramic ren-
derings of botanical subjects – bowls of fruit
and blown flowers you can almost smell
purple-tinged cabbages and baby artichokes

• from the hand of New Yorker Clare Potter.
  MICHAEL DIEMAR 5 WILLOUGHBY ST
  WC1 11 Nov-8 Dec. Tues-Sat 11-6.
  Photography dealer/collec-
  tor Diemar pops up here to
  present Magnus Arrevad’s
  black-and-white shots of
  male performers inspir-
  ed by Kirchner’s Berlin
  street scenes.

MICHAEL WERNER UPPER BROOK ST W1 Until 5 Dec.

Tues-Sat 10-6. Fragmented or distorted repre-

sentations of the human figure.

ORDOVAS SAVILE ROW W1 Until 12 Dec. Tues-Fri

10-6 Sat 11-3. The gallery fishes out the finest

art on the theme of the sea including a frag-

ment of a Roman sarcophagus carved with

water deities menacing Courbet waves and

one of two surviving seascapes by Bacon.

PARASOL UNIT WHARF RD N1 Until 6 Dec. Tues-Sat

10-6 Sun 12-5. Luc Tuymans selects abstract

art by fellow Belgians. Plus Charles Avery’s

cast-bronze tree bears fluorescent fruit for

the gallery’s ‘Winter Light’ commission.

PATRICK BOURNE & CO ST JAMES’S PLACE SW1 10-24

Nov. Ring 020 3696 5285 for appointment. Haidee

Becker’s new still-life oils: flowers and vivid

almost palpably slippery fish.

PIANO NOBILE PORTLAND RD W11 Until 8 Dec. Mon-Fri

10-6 Sat 11-4. Strange intense stippled paint-

ings by John Armstrong a member of the

short-lived Unit One group.

SPRUETH MAGERS GRAFTON ST W1 Until 19 Dec. Tues-

Sat 10-6. Thomas Demand’s large-scale pho-

tographs emphasising the sculptural for-

mal qualities of architectural models shown

against brown paper hung by the artist.

STUDIO VOLTAIRE NELSONS ROW SW4 Until 6 Dec.

Wed-Sun 12-6. Caracas-born artist Sol Calero

has transformed this former mission hall and

Sunday school with a kaleidoscopic installa-

tion of murals customised school furniture

and changeable blackboard paintings.

TATE BRITAIN MILLBANK SW1 Until 13 March. Mon-

Sun 10-6. Impossible not to feel the great weight

of labour behind Frank Auerbach’s paintings;

working year-round he scrapes back the sur-

face every day to start over and over again. 25

Nov-10 April artistic encounters with Britain’s

empire then and now.

THOMAS DANE DUKE ST ST JAMES’S SW1 19 Nov-1

Jan. Tues-Fri 11-6 Sat 12-6. Known for her photo-

graphic studies of overlooked details in Mod-

ernist buildings – the play of light through a

blind for instance – Luisa Lambri has created

similarly elegant near-abstract works from

close-ups of Judd and Hepworth sculptures.

Plus a group show about the relationship be-

tween photography and architecture start-

ing with Nicéphore Niépce’s 1826 image View

from the Window at Le Gras.

TYBURN GALLERY BARRETT ST W1 5 Nov-9 Jan.

Tues-Fri 10-6 Sat 10-5. Moffat Takadiwa’s wall-

mounted sculptures made from bottle-tops

computer keys and other detritus.

WHITE CUBE MASON’S YARD SW1 Until 9 Jan. Tues-

Sat 10-6. Political and subversive uses

of textiles in a show that

interweaves Amish and

Gee’s Bend quilts with

work by Alighiero Bo-

etti Mona Hatoum and

Mike Kelley.

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