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Academicians' round up

The latest news on the art and architecture of the Royal Academicians, from RA Magazine Summer 2013

Painters/Printers

Norman Ackroyd’s solo show, ‘The Furthest Lands – A Journey round the British Isles’, is at Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex (until 23 June)

Diana Armfield shows in the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London (10-22 June)

Gillian Ayres shows work from 1986-2011 at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh (until 1 June) then the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (15 June–15 Sep)

Tony Bevan shows recent paintings at the Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (until 1 June)

The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, shows work by Elizabeth Blackadder (2 Aug–4 Sep)

Michael Craig-Martin has a solo show at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (until 1 Sep). He contributes to the Art Collection show at the Glyndebourne Festival (until 25 Aug)

Tacita Dean has been appointed OBE for services to British art overseas. She is leading workshops organised by the Botin Foundation at Villa Iris, Santander, Spain (1-12 July)

Anne Desmet shows work at the Museo della Stampa, Piedmont, Italy (10 Aug–15 Sep). Her prizewinning print is on show at the 9th International Miniature Print Biennale at the Center for Contemporary Prints, Connecticut, US (2 June–1 Sep)

Tracey Emin contributes to ‘Munch by Others’ at the Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway (8 June–8 Sep). She shows at Lehmann Maupin, New York (until 22 June)

Anthony Eyton’s solo show is at Browse & Darby, London (until 7 June)

Anthony Green has a solo show at the John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos (8-29 June)

Bill Jacklin shows new work at Marlborough Fine Art, London (5-29 June)

Michael Landy’s ‘Four Walls’ is at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (until 16 June)

Christopher Le Brun reads at Ledbury Poetry Festival (7 July) and selects work for the Ludlow Open (25 July–11 Aug)

Humphrey Ocean has painted the Dulwich Picture Gallery Education Department’s new Artmobile for the outreach programme

Grayson Perry’s tapestry series ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’ (2012) is at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden (29 June–29 Sep)

Tom Phillips’s A Humument is on show in ‘Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera’ at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mass, US (until 31 Jan, 2014). Phillips is also a speaker at a conference on A Humument at Birkbeck, Keynes Library, London (13 July). He has recently designed a new 50p coin to commemorate the Britten centenary

Barbara Rae shows prints at the Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh (7–25 Aug) and her show ‘Passing Time’ is at Adam Gallery in London (28 May–17 June; below) and Bath, (22 June–17 July). She also shows at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (20 July–6 Aug)

Fiona Rae’s solo show ‘Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century’ is at the Towner, Eastbourne (until 23 June)

Sean Scully has solo shows at at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy (until 9 June) and at Dublin City Gallery, Ireland (until 9 June)

Elizabeth Blackadder, David Hockney and David Remfry contribute to ‘40 Years of Fine Art’ at the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (11 June–17 Aug)

Diana Armfield and Bernard Dunstan show in the Richmond Hill Gallery Summer Exhibition (20 June–18 Aug)

Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin and Gillian Wearing participate in ‘Besser scheitern: Film + Video’ at Hamburger Kunsthalle (until 11 Aug)

Jock McFadyen and Richard Wilson take part in ‘Estuary’ at the Museum of London (until 27 Oct)

Mali Morris, Allen Jones and Maurice Cockrill show in ‘Pop and Abstract’ at the National Museum Cardiff, Wales (until 1 Sep)

Sculptors

Phyllida Barlow contributes to ‘Peekskill Project V’ at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (until 28 July), and ‘Yes Naturally’ at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (until 1 Sep)

Antony Gormley shows at the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (until 16 July) and Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (until 16 July)

Nigel Hall’s sculpture Bigger Bite is now at the Cambridge University Law Faculty’s Sidgwick site, with his work on show in Churchill College, Cambridge (until 2 June). His sculpture Crossing is installed outside Barnsley Town Hall in mid-June

Anish Kapoor stars in ‘Revolutionary Light: Blake/Turner/Kapoor’ at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (5 July–1 Sep)

Phillip King’s solo show is at the Consortium in Dijon, France (until 16 June)

Richard Long shows at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (until 16 June) and his solo show ‘Richard Long: Prints Along the Way 1972-2012’ is at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (until 30 June) then Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (15 July–20 Oct). He takes part in ‘Walk on: 40 Years of Art Walking from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff’ at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
(1 June–31 Aug)

David Nash’s solo show ‘Thirteen Reds’ is at Château Chaumont-sur-Loire, France (until 11 Nov)

The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester shows Alison Wilding’s sculpture Deep Water (1989)

Tony Cragg and Antony Gormley contribute to ‘Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain’ at Southampton Art Gallery (until 4 Aug)

Cornelia Parker and Richard Wilson show in the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (10 Aug–27 Oct)

Architects

Ron Arad’s show ‘In Reverse’ is at the Design Museum in Holon, Israel (19 June–19 Oct)

David Chipperfield’s Saint Louis Art Museum East Building, Missouri, US is unveiled (29-30 June)

Norman Foster and Spencer de Grey’s firm have proposed to build an airport on the Isle of Grain in the Thames estuary, with the aim of reducing environmental, noise and security problems on the route over London to Heathrow. Their ‘club nautique’ pavilions for Marseille harbour have been inaugurated, as has the ME Hotel in Aldwych, London. The show ‘Moving: Norman Foster on Art: Carré d’Art’ is at Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art, France (until 15 Sep)

Nicholas Grimshaw’s firm will build a new science building at Dulwich College, London, as well as the 90-storey Aspire Tower in Sydney

Zaha Hadid has won the 41st Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. Her firm has begun work on the Changsha Meixi Lake International Culture & Arts Centre in Changsha, China, which includes a theatre and art museum. Her Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan opened in May

Ian Ritchie’s plan for a floating village at London’s Royal Docks has been approved

Chris Wilkinson’s Worthing Splashpoint Leisure Centre opens on 20 June.

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