Current Exhibitions Indemnified under the Government Indemnity Scheme

The following current exhibitions display items that have been indemnified under the scheme. 

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Science at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
24 June to 7 September 2008
The first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective in the UK, this exhibition features over 60 paintings spanning the career of this celebrated Danish artist. The works have been selected from museums and private collections in Europe, the United States and Japan.

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD

Opening times: Daily 10am to 6pm
Late opening on Fridays until 10pm
Telephone: 020 7300 8000
Fax: 020 7300 8001
Website: www.royalacademy.org.uk

The Fabric of Myth at Compton Verney House, Warwick
21 June to 7 September 2008
This exhibition will explore the theme of myths through the medium and history of textiles. From Ariadne's thread to the story of Arachne transformed from weaver to spider, these narratives have communicated associations including redemption, protection, metamorphosis and communication. This exhibition explores the way textiles have shaped both cultural and personal myths and includes historic textiles, sculpture and work by artists such as Delaine le Bas, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, William Holman Hunt, Ray Materson, Alice Kettle, Henry Moore, Elaine Reichek, Bispo do Rosário, Tilleke Schwarz and Michele Walker.

Compton Verney House
Compton Verney
Warwickshire
CV35 9HZ

Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm
Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays
Telephone: 01926 645500
Fax: 01926 645501
Email: cvht@comptonverney.org.uk
Website: www.comptonverney.org.uk

Dawn of a Colony: Lyrical Light (St Ives 1889-1914) at Penlee House Gallery and Museum
14 June to 13 September 2008
This ground-breaking exhibition surveys the early years of the St Ives art colony for the very first time and brings together a feast of paintings from this golden age of British art.  In the late 19th Century, St Ives attracted an astonishing range of international artists of the highest calibre, which led to St Ives being much better known internationally than the nearby Newlyn School: despite this, although much attention has been given to the Newlyn School over the past 25 years, there has been no previous exhibition devoted to the early artists of St Ives.  This exhibition which is being shown in conjunction with a concurrent show at Tate St Ives, looks at the period before the First World War, when the art colony at St Ives developed an international reputation as a centre for both the practice and teaching of landscape and marine painting, and was visited by leading artists from around the world.

Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Morrab Road
Penzance
Cornwall
TR18 4HE

Opening times:  Monday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm
(last admissions 4.30 pm)
Telephone: 01736 363625
Fax: 01736 361312 
Email:  info@penleehouse.org.uk
Website:  www.penleehouse.org.uk

A Continuous Line: Ben Nicholson in England at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
7 July to 20 September 2008
Ben Nicholson (1894 – 1982) was one of the moist radical British artists of the twentieth century.  Forming links with members of the European avant-garde including Picasso, Braque and Mondrian, he was a pioneer of abstract art in Britain renowned for his white reliefs of the 1930s which were underpinned by radical socio-political and spiritual beliefs.  This touring exhibition focuses on his years in Britain from 1922 to 1958.  Past exhibitions have concentrated on Nicholson’s evolution of his international modernist style, and cool reliefs he produced after he emigrated to Switzerland in 1958.  However, this new presentation highlights those periods that such earlier exhibitions have marginalised.  While representing Nicholson’s internationalism, this exhibition sets that wider perspective alongside his approaches to the English landscape, and reveals a view of Ben Nicholson quite different from the established one.

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Kendal
Cumbria LA9 5AL

Opening times: Monday to Saturday 10.30am - 4.00pm
(Closing at 5pm from 1 April – 31 October)
Telephone: 01539 722464
Fax: 01539 722494
Email: info@abbothall.org.uk
Website: www.abbothall.org.uk

Laura Knight at the Theatre: Paintings and Drawings of Ballet and Stage at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
19 July to 28 September 2008
This touring exhibition previously on display at the Lowry, Salford features drawings, paintings and prints of stage performance and performers by Dame Laura Knight.  Her paintings and studies explored the splendour of costume and scenery on stage but also, most memorably, quiet moments back stage away from the public eye.

Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Friar Lane,
Off Maid Marian Way
Nottingham.
NG1 6EL

Opening times:  Monday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm
(last admissions 4.30 pm)
Telephone: 01159 153700
Email: exhibition@ncmg.org.uk

Painting Family: The De Brays, Master Painters of 17th Century Holland at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
9 July to 5 October 2008
This touring exhibition previously on display at the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands features works by Jan de Bray, his brothers Dirck and Joseph and their father Salomon.  They painted historic and mythological figures, portraits, flowers and still lives, they were a remarkable but largely forgotten family whose place at the heart of the Dutch Golden Age deserves to be reassessed.

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
London SE21 7AD

Opening times: Tuesday to Fridays 10am- 5pm
Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11am-5pm
Closed Mondays (except Bank Holidays)
Telephone: 020 8299 8693
Fax: 020 299 8700
Email: info@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Website: www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

Paths to Fame: Turner watercolours from the Courtauld at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
16 July to 12 October 2008
Outstanding works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), from The Courtauld in London, displayed together for the first time in this exciting exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. The variety of style and technique seen in these works is evidence of the Turner's extraordinarily inventive approach to the making of landscape in watercolour.

Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
The Wordsworth Trust
Dove Cottage
Grasmere LA22 9SH

Opening times: Daily from 9.30am to 5.30pm.
(Last admission is 5pm)
Telephone: 015394 35544
Fax: 015394 35748
Email: enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk
Website: www.wordsworth.org.uk

Guardians to the King: Terracotta Treasures from Ancient China at Colchester Castle Museum
18 July to 2 November 2008
This spectacular international exhibition proudly showcases 43 miniature terracotta figures from Xuzhou Museum in Jiangsu Province, China. This is only the second time these enchanting figures have ever been out of China and their very first visit to the UK.  The terracotta figures represent soldiers, officials, dancers, musicians and cavalry horses.  They have been excavated in the last 25 years from a series of royal tombs discovered at Xuzhou which belonged to the Kings of Chu.  The kings were related to the Western Han emperors whose dynasty ruled China from 206BCE to 24CE.
Colchester Castle Museum is an obvious venue for this fantastic exhibition as there are many parallels and even some links between the Roman Empire and the Chinese empire of the Han Dynasty, both empires existed at the same time and traded with each other along the Silk Route.

Colchester Castle Museum
Castle Park
Colchester
CO1 1TJ

Opening times: Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sundays 11am – 5pm.
(Last admission is 4.30pm)
Telephone: 01206 282939
Fax: 01206 282925
Email: museums@colchester.gov.uk
Website: www.colchestermuseums.org.uk

Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Queens and Revolutionaries at Compton Verney House, Warwick
2 June to 12 December 2008
Portraits from Chequers presents a rare opportunity to view works of historical significance, whilst learning more about this important house. The official country residence of Prime Ministers since 1921, Chequers reveals some of its portrait treasures in a display within Compton Verney's British Portraits Collection.  Not seen in public for over a century, paintings of Charles I and his wife Henrietta Maria by Van Dyck and portraits of Mary I and Oliver Cromwell are included.  The display  also features a mother of pearl and ruby locket ring belonging to Queen Elizabeth in which portraits of herself and her mother, Anne Boleyn, sit.

Compton Verney House
Compton Verney
Warwickshire
CV35 9HZ

Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 5pm
Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays
Telephone: 01926 645500
Fax: 01926 645501
Email: cvht@comptonverney.org.uk
Website: www.comptonverney.org.uk

Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
12 July 2008 to 22 February 2009
There have been over 80 exhibitions dedicated to the work of Isamu Noguchi throughout the USA and Japan, yet this is the first opportunity for a European audience to experience a large-scale, critical exhibition of this important artist’s work.  One of the great sculptors of the 20th century, Noguchi created a significant and influential body of work including public environmental projects, omissions, landscape and garden design, and stage sets for the choreographer Martha Graham, as well as collaborations with Charles Eames and others on a catalogue of highly regarded modern furniture.  This exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features a wide range of Noguchi’s works from indoor stone carvings, assemblage works and ceramics to works on paper and furniture.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Bretton
Wakefield
WF4 4LG

Opening times: Daily from 10am to 5pm.
Telephone: 01924 832631
Fax: 01924 832600
Email: info@ysp.co.uk
Website: www.ysp.co.uk