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but nearer in character to traditional Selected Gallery (01-437 6851). Leonid Pasternak BRIGHTON
modelling than anything one has seen November. Gardner,Centre for the Arts University
from Caro since his figurative days. Guide Marlborough Fine Art (London), of Sussex. (0273-685861). Andrea
Duncan: paintings 30 October - 17
In this sense they have the look of 6 Albemarle Street & 39 Old Bond November. Chinese Graphic Art
something that has been fashioned and Street, W1. (01-629 5161). Max
(Galleries who wish to be included in Beckmann: 'A visit to London in 19 November - 6 December.
effected by the artist's hand far more
the December gallery guide should 1938' November. BRISTOL
than we know they actually are. They National Portrait Gallery London, WC2. Arnolfini Gallery W Shed Canons Road.
send information to Gallery Guide,
are in fact put together from unpressed (01-930 8511). 'The Mediaeval Face': (0272-299191). John Dee: sculpture
Studio International, 14 West Central
ends of steel first discovered in an photographs from tomb sculpture to 9 November.
Italian scrapyard. Street, London WC1A 1JH, not later 10th - 15th centuries to 12 January. CHILHAM near CANTERBURY
Spatially, these pieces are content than 10 November). Nicholas Treadwell Galleries 26 & 36 Chilham Gallery Robins Croft
to just punctuate rather than rephrase. Chiltern Street, W1. (01-486 1414 & (022-776 312). Small paintings.
Compared to large free-standing LONDON 01-935 6739). Robert Knight: recent 24 November - 14 December.
works 11 - 30 November.
DUNDEE
sculpture they are singularly Angela Flowers 3 & 4 Portland Mews, O'Hana Gallery 13 Carlos Place, W1. Dundee City Art Gallery Albert Square.
unassertive; each piece is a performance D'Arblay Street, W1. (01-734 0240).
Glenys Barton. To 9 November. (01-499 5906). Jo Jones - 9 November. (0382-25492/3). Dundee Art Society
restricted to its own arena, with the Piccadilly Gallery 16a Cork Street, W1. Biennial exhibition. 16 - 30 November.
Annely Juda 11 Tottenham Mews, W1.
jutting out bits only occasionally (01-629 2875). Adolfo Wildt FARNHAM (SURREY)
(01-580 7593). Christo: collages,
implying some kind of continuation off (1868-1931): Symbolist drawings & The Ashgate Gallery Downing Street.
drawings & scale models. November.
into space. More often, these sections Anthony d'Offay 9 Dering Street, W1. sculpture; Rosie Lee: recent work to (025-133208). John Verney to 14
are sheared off sharp, their extensions (01-629 1578). Michael Andrews. 23 November. November. Eric Rutherford: prints &
small oils 19 November - 21 December.
blunted by a refined and final edge. 12 November - 6 December. Christmas exhibition: drawings & LIVERPOOL
watercolours. 26 November -
Volumes are shallow, almost two- Asset Gallery 151 Fulham Road, SW3. 24 December. Bluecoat Gallery School Lane.
(01-584 5185). Anthony Deigan to
dimensional, with many pieces Prudhoe Gallery 79 Duke Street, W1. (051-709 1363). Maurice Cockrill: new
November. Sid Sidaway 14 November -
anchored around one central continuous (01-629 6272). Philippe Bonnet: realist paintings; Jim Weston: sculpture
4 December.
thin sheet of steel that has been curled Cockpit Theatre & Arts Workshop paintings to 22 November. to 23 November. Christmas exhibition:
up at one edge, bent down at another, Gateforth Street, off Church Street Roland, Browse & Delbanco 19 Cork Melvyn Chantry, Brian Johnson &
Street (01-734 7984/5). Ulrich Henn: Sam Walsh 28 November -
and added to by shapes that frequently Market, NW8. (01-262 7907). 21 December.
lie flush to this mother plane, relief- 'Three artists at the Cockpit' : Caroline ecclesiastical & domestic bronzes MANCHESTER
Isgar, Anna Leung and Carol Roundhill 21 November - 23 December.
like. All this clearly relates to a recent North West Arts Association 52 King
to 30 November. Hugh Davies: Rowan Gallery 31a Bruton Place,
article of Caro's in which he states that Street. (061-832 5288). Eldra
Sound-Tactile sculptures W1. (01-493 3727). Barry Flanagan
'I can think of few more offensive 8 November - 5 December. Abranson: hangings to 15 November.
8 - 30 November.
intrusions into our personal space than Royal Academy Piccadilly, W1. Shashi Chopra & Colin Wright:
Colnaghi's 14 Old Bond Street, W1.
a roomfull of free-standing life-sized (01-734 9052). British Painting 'Fashion' 18 - 23 November.
(01-499 7280). 18th century French
sculptures ...' Following on from prints to 29 November. (1890-1970) to 17 November. Piacenti Claudio 25 November -
this, it seems almost paradoxical that Commonwealth Institute Kensington Seen Galleries Limited 39 Paddington 14 December.
these pieces exert such a strong tug on High Street, W8. (01-602 3252). Street, W1. (01-486 4292). George Whitworth Art Gallery University of
Manchester, Whitworth Park.
one's body image. It's not the literal Oshogbo & Western Nigerian art. Spence & Anthony Krikhaar. November. (061-373 1880). European & Russian
27 November - 29 December. Tate Gallery Millbank, SW1.
physical relationship that happens when master drawings from the Hermitage
Concourse Gallery Polytechnic of (01-828 1212). Turner (1775-1851).
walking round large-scale sculpture; Central London, 35 Marylebone Road, 16 November - 2 March. State Museum, Leningrad to 14
that particular kind of involvement is 'Picasso to Lichtenstein': masterpieces December.
NW1. (01-486 5811). 'Profitopolis'
denied by these works, which as well from the museum of 20th century NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
critical look at planning in West
as being relatively small-scale tend to Germany 7 - 29 November. art in Dusseldorf to 29 December. Laing Art Gallery & Museum Higham
insist on a frontal reading. But looking DM Gallery 72 Fulham Road, SW3. Tooth's 31 Bruton Street, W1. Place. (0362-27734 & 26989).
'Chinese Blue & White' 9 November -
down on them, as they lie and spread (01-589 8208). Creely, large acrylic (01-499 6741). British painting: 5 January.
themselves on their stands, they are paintings to 23 November. recent acquisitions; works by E. Box, Northern Arts Gallery New Bridge
laden with body metaphors. The Christmas show 28 November - end Eurich, Ginner, Hillier, lnnes, John, Street. 10362-610446). 'Work, wages &
December. Lees, Nash, Sickert, Smith & Spencer
closest parallels are certain works by to 16 November. prices': Conrad Aitkinson, last shown
Rodin and the tub sculptures of Degas. Felicity Samuel Gallery 16 Saville Row, Upper Street Gallery Upper Street, at ICA April 1974 now with new
W1. (01-734 8557). Ed Moses materials & questionaire to 20
The failures of the exhibition are the N1, (01-226 9811). Robert Mulhern:
11 November - 7 December; Richard November.
pieces that raise themselves highest off paintings; Angelica Garnet: paintings;
Wentworth 9 December - 31 NOTTINGHAM
their table-top, when this association Luis Guzman: sculpture. 12 - 29
January 1975. Gallery 359 359 Aspley Lane.
and the sense of scale it involves stops November.
Fischer Fine Art 30 King Street, SW1 (0602-294067). Neville Smith;
operating and they become scaled- Victoria & Albert Museum South
(01-839 3942). Henry Moore: new Harrow Potters; Pamela Martin; Peter
down versions of potential large graphics 6 November - end December. Kensington, SW7. (01-589 6371). Chatwin to 16 November. Norman
sculptures. The finest and most The Gallery, 65a Lisson Street, NW1. Winslow Homer: watercolours. Grant; Donald Chaffin; David Leach
27 November - 19 January.
interesting things in the show are those (01-723 7941). '100 Years Stoll' to 16 The Whitechapel Art Gallery 21 November - 24 December.
that make most use of a curious supine November. John Latham 19 November Whitechapel High Street, El. Midland Group 11 East Circus Street.
feel, and in which the organic - 14 December. (01-247 1492). The City in Images, (0602-42984). New Photography
undertones are strongest without a lot Gimpel Fils 30 Davies Street, W1. Music & Words: photographs, poems 2 - 23 November. Christmas
exhibition: jewellery, ceramics, etc.
of twisting and fretting and apparent (01-493 2488). Karel Appel: some & music; The City • paintings; 30 November - 24 December.
shaping going on. Two of the best are outstanding paintings from the 50's & The City : maps to 22 December. Push Pin Gallery 6 Byard Lane.
Nos. CLXXI and CLIV. The wording of 60's to 23 November. Woodlands Art Gallery 90 Mysenae (0602-48105). Boyd & Evans:
Hayward Gallery Belvedere Road, SE1. Road, SE3. 'Developments': Arts
Caro's concluding sentence in the same paintings to 14 November. David
(01-928 3144). Hayward Biennial: Council loan exhibition of prints
article, if accident, was a happy one. Willets: paintings 16 November -
survey exhibition of current British emphasising new techniques. 14 December.
'The best art has never needed to force painting to 17 November. 9 November - 1 December.
its claims to our attention, but can Ibis Gallery 1 Broxholme House, New OXFORD
Museum of Modern Art 30 Pembroke
afford to lay back emotively, available Kings Road, SW6. (01-736 3919). Street. (0865-722733). John Hilliard
for our enjoyment': thus pointing up John Wilkinson 6 November - 23 GALLERIES OUTSIDE LONDON to 25 November.
both the accessibility and the November. Mixed Winter show 27 Oxford Gallery 23 High Street.
November - 14 December. ABERDEEN
anatomical connotations of the (0865-42731). Anthony W hishaw; Tom
ICA Nash House, The Mall, SW1. Aberdeen Art Gallery Schoolhill.
sculptures. Bates; to 27 November.
(01-839 5344). Hans Scharoun (0224-23924). Grays former students
Just where these pieces are leading, ST. IVES (CORNWALL)
(1893-1971): life and work of the club 2 - 16 November. Ian Fleming,
both for Caro and the school of, is great German architect, arranged with RSA, RSW: War drawings 2 - 23 Penwith Gallery Back Road West.
impossible to say. In shrugging off the support of the Goethe Institute, November. "We are making a new (073 670-5579). Winter exhibition -
November & December.
formalist doctrines the sculptures London. 7 November - 8 December. world" 15 November - 8 December. SHEFFIELD
embrace elements that will doubtless Kinsman Morrison Gallery 29 Maddox In Praise of James Gibbs 16 November- Mappin Art Gallery Weston Park,
be labelled as reactionary by many Street, Wi. (01-499 9849). Lords 7 December. 4th British Print Sheffield 10. (0742-26281). Jasper
former enthusiasts. The exhibition bicycle posters to 29 November. Biennale 23 November - 7 December. Johns; Ken Gray to 17 November.
forms an interesting contrast with the Illustrated childrens' books ANDOVER (HANTS) Architectural models 23 November -
1860-1930 December. The Bladon Gallery Hurstbourne 16 December.
ex-St Martin's work at the current
Leva Gallery 40 Ledbury Road, Tarrant. (0261476 278). Exhibition SWINDON (WILTSHIRE)
Stockwell Depot show. But whether or
W11. (01-727 9472). Ithell of paintings & crafts from local Museum & Art Gallery Bath Road.
not these pieces will in retrospect be schools to 24 November.
Colquhoun: paintings to 16 December. Steve Walton: paintings & prints to
seen as opening up new possibilities for Lords Gallery 26 Wellington Road, BIRMINGHAM 10 November.
other sculptors, or as a strictly private NW8. (01-722 4444). Permanently Midlands Art Centre for Young People WARWICK
seam to be mined only by Caro himself, Schwitters, Art Nouveau, Art Deco Cannon Hill Park. (021-4404221). Warwick Gallery 14 Smith Street.
the best things in the show are of a posters, rare old original posters. 'Art as idea' 9 November - 1 December. (0926-45880). Jane Godfrey: prints
Lucy Milton 125 Notting Hill Gate, University Centre Gallery University & drawings; Nik Reeves: drawings
stature that demands to be reckoned
with. NW1 1. (01-229 331). Enzo Mari to of Birmingham. (021-472 1301). to 17 November. John Berry: prints,
12 November. Liliane Lijn: kinetic sculptures drawings, metal & ceramic sculpture
Judy Marie Maltzahn Gallery 3 Cork Street, W1. November. 19 November - 8 December.