The Spoonfed Arts Team pick out the biggest exhibitions opening in London this September.
From 2nd September
Museum of Everything 4 @ Selfridges
Museum of Everything is back! One of the major recent success stories of the London art scene, the concept involves bringing major attention to so-called 'outsider art' and this autumn sees Museum of Everything taking over the window displays at Selfridges with a host of work by unknown artists, as well as film screenings, talks, workshops, events and merchandise. Just what boring old Oxford Street needs, we reckon.
From 17th September
Degas and the Ballet @ Royal Academy
Undoubtedly the highlight of the Royal Academy's 2011 programme is Degas and the Ballet, a major new exhibition focusing on the artist's fascination with contemporary dance. Dance came to be a key symbol for the modernists and to some extent Degas prefigured all this - the exhibition also argues that he was influenced by and involved with the key technological developments of the age: namely, photography and film.
From 21st September
John Martin – Apocalypse @ Tate Britain
Like melodramatic landscapes? Then you'll love John Martin, the nineteenth century Romantic painter best known for vast, dark gothic landscapes, with man dwarfed by mountains, lightning and skies of scorching fire. He was wildly popular in his own time, although the critics were rather dismissive, and his images continue to be widely used to this day. Tate Britain is putting on the first show dedicated to his paintings in 30 years, and also examines his popularism and legacy.
From 23rd September
Deptford X @ various venues
Hew Locke and Indra Khanna head things up for the 2011 instalment of Deptford X – the annual arts festival dedicated to celebrating the best the area has to offer. With galleries like APT, bearspace, Hatch Space, Core Gallery, Utrophia, the Old Police Station and The Agency – as well as a host of artists' studios, Deptford has one of the most thriving art scenes in the capital – something proved year after year by Deptford X.
From 24th September
Postmodernism – Style and Subversion @ V&A
The V&A's major exhibition this winter – subtitled Style and Subversion – charts the rise and fall of Postmodernism as the dominant aesthetic of the 1970s and '80s, across art, architecture, fashion and music. Characterised by clashes of colour and form, multiple reference points, irony and a desire to collapse boundaries hitherto understood to be impregnable, Postmodernism was once everywhere and, in many ways, still is.
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