“Thirty years after efforts began to catalogue the Turner Bequest, the project may be approaching completion, The Art Newspaper has learned. So far, around 22,000 entries have been written, covering 60% of the works in the bequest, although these have not yet been made available on the web. Nicholas Powell, the secretary of the Turner Society, describes the lengthy delay as ‘a scandal”, but the Tate, which took over the project from the British Museum in 1987, says that the project should be complete and online by the end of 2014.” (Martin Bailey in The Art Newspaper, June 2012)

Elegance in exile: portrait drawings from colonial Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 1 June – 26 August

“An exhibition of sixty beautiful and rarely-seen drawings, watercolours and miniatures, Elegance in exile will examine the interplay of art, biography and history in their work, tracing the links between their own lives and those of their sitters to present a fine and vivid map of life, culture and aspirations in colonial Australia.” (exhibition website)

Herzog & De Meuron + Al Weiwei: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, 1 June – 14 October

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