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2012

  • Bauhaus at the Barbican

    Released: 16 May 2012

    A major new Barbican exhibition on the Bauhaus looks at the history and legacy of the famous art school, its pupils and its teachers (until 12 August)

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  • Lucile at the Bowes Museum

    Released: 14 May 2012

    The Bowes Museum jumps aboard the Titanic anniversary celebrations with an exhibition showcasing a wedding dress by Lucile, one of the ship’s lucky survivors (until 6 January)

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  • Walter Jack's Crushedwall

    Released: 11 May 2012

    Walter Jack Studios has just completed Crushedwall, a commission for one of the entrances to Cornwall’s newly opened cultural site, Heartlands

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  • Taking Flight

    Released: 10 May 2012

    Called Taking Flight , the show explores new themes in Kinnaird’s work, particularly birds (previous work has almost entirely been about the human form). Work on show includes birds, single feathers and winged forms as well...

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  • Louboutin at the Design Museum

    Released: 9 May 2012

    Shoes by French designer Christian Louboutin go on show at London’s Design Museum this summer (until 9 July)

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  • Dress the World at Nottingham

    Released: 4 May 2012

    Two parallel exhibitions, Living in Silk and Unravelled, at Nottingham Castle Museum make up the third strand of the Dress the World Programme (until 16 September)

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  • Negotiations by Maggie Scott

    Released: 3 May 2012

    Textile artist Maggie Scott shows off the results of her shape of things bursary in a solo show at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester opening this month (until 20 May)

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  • Making Triangles

    Released: 1 May 2012

    An exhibition of work by furniture maker and designer Richard La Trobe-Batemen is at the Crafts Study Centre until 16 June

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  • Make 52

    Released: 30 April 2012

    An exhibition documenting a year-long project by metalsmith Caroline Parrott opens at Walford Mill Crafts this month (until 10 June)

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  • Louisa Taylor at the V&A

    Released: 27 April 2012

    Louisa Taylor is half way through her ceramics residency at the V&A, so now is a good time to go and see her in action. Studio open days continue until June

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  • De Waal at Waddesdon

    Released: 27 April 2012

    A series of 10 installations by ceramist and author Edmund de Waal go on show at the National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor this month (until 28 October)

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  • Claire Morgan at Mission

    Released: 26 April 2012

    Sculptor Claire Morgan has made two specially-commissioned pieces for a new solo show, Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, at Swansea’s Mission Gallery and they promise to be well worth a visit (until 20 May)

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  • Japanese Architecture at Ruthin

    Released: 25 April 2012

    As part of their on-going Japanese season, Ruthin Craft Centre is hosting an exhibition on contemporary Japanese architecture (until 24 June)

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  • New silver commissions

    Released: 24 April 2012

    Two new pieces of silver commissioned by the Sheffield Assay Office go on show at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery this month (until September 2012)

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  • Suits and Saris

    Released: 23 April 2012

    Dress the World, is a series of three costume exhibitions on in the East Midlands, the first is at Leicester’s New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (until 7 October)

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  • Pairings II

    Released: 20 April 2012

    Stroud International Textiles (SIT) opens a new exhibition Pairings II – Conversation and Collaboration at Museums in the Park, Stroud, on 27 April (until 27 May)

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  • Kensington Palace re-opens

    Released: 5 April 2012

    London’s Kensington Palace re-opens this week after a £12 million re-vamp designed to show off this wonderful Wren-designed palace and its royal inhabitants in all its original glory

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  • Choshi (small sake bottle) and pair of sakazuki (sake cups), stoneware, iron oxide base glaze, dipped and trailed blue overglaze, c. 1970, Naraoka kiln, Akita Pref.; choshi: h. 102mm, di. 75mm; sakazuki: h. 35mm, di. 50mm

    Japanese Style: Sustaining Design

    Released: 4 April 2012

    Ruthin Craft Centre celebrates all things Japanese this spring with a series of new exhibitions, starting with Japanese Style: Sustaining Design (until 24 June)

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  • Imitation by Lucy Sparrow

    Released: 3 April 2012

    Textile artist Lucy Sparrow has her first ever solo show, Imitation, at Hoxton Gallery from 1 – 6 April

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  • Ramshaw's Room of Dreams

    Released: 3 April 2012

    An exhibition of work by Wendy Ramshaw goes on show at London’s Somerset House before starting a national tour later on in the year (28 March – 24 June)

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