Fairs, Pleasure, Britain - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

Fairs, Pleasure, Britain - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

04 May, 2012
by: Tom Jeffreys

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.

From Thursday 10th May
The Other Art Fair @ Ambika P3
Back for a second year, it's The Other Art Fair, which after launching in October 2011 at the Bargehouse, has shifted to the much more suitable setting of Ambika P3 on the Marylebone Road this May. Slightly different to most art fairs, the USP here is that 100% from the sale of works goes directly to the artists. Artists are encouraged to submit applications, which are then vetted by a panel made up of Chris Levine, Kenny Schacter, Francesca Gavin and Edward Lucie-Smith.


From Friday 11th May
The Triumph of Pleasure @ Foundling Museum
Just as the Olympics takes over and the talk is of the opening of the London Pleasure Gardens way out east, the Foundling Museum takes us back to the start, with an exhibition examining the history of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the eighteenth century. The show ties Vauxhall's history with that of the Foundling Hospital itself, and features a whole range of amazing artefacts, as well as works by the likes of Hogarth, Canaletto and Gainsborough. Pleasure in word as well as deed.


From Friday 11th May
Writing Britain @ British Library
Another cracker from the British Library: this time exploring the relationship between the British landscape and the writing that has both shaped it and been shaped by it. Drawing on the Library's own incomparable collections, the exhibition includes over 150 works – from Chaucer to Blake, Coleridge to Ballard – as well as sound recordings, video, letters, photographs, maps, lyrics and drawings. Fascinating, in-depth and ever-timely.


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Tom Jeffreys