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Exhibition of the week
Eileen Agar
One of the most imaginative and quirky early 20th-century British artists gets a fresh look â is Agarâs seaside surrealism due a revival?
Whitechapel Gallery, London from 19 May until 29 August.
Also showing
Jean Dubuffet
Wildly subversive star of postwar French art whose concept of art brut â raw art â is suddenly urgent again in our age of authenticity.
Barbican, London from 17 May until 22 August.
Becket
This is a beautiful and exciting encounter with the lost world of medieval Britain, packed with fascinating art.
British Museum, London from 20 May until 22 August.
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19th Century European and American Art, is a visually rich experience comprising eighty-plus pieces from a time period in which Western nations radically transformed from agrarian cultures to industrial ones. This big change was reflected in the era’s aesthetic development, with visual art moving from traditional to modern, as evident in this show.
“In art,” notes Angelica Daneo, the DAM’s chief curator and curator of European art before 1900, “the nineteenth century began with a craze for antiquities and ended with a march toward abstraction, a shift so groundbreaking that there is hardly anything in comparison from centuries past.” The show has been installed on the second level of the Hamilton Building, where for many years the art of the American West was on display, but which will now be a permanent home for nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures.