HIERONYMUS BOSCH (c. 1450 - 1516). Major loan exhibition of paintings and drawings by celebrated yet still enigmatic medieval Netherlandish artist. Eighteen panels include 'The Ship of Fools' from the Louvre and 'The Death of a Miser' from the National Gallery, Washington. There are paintings from his workshop and by his contemporaries. The modern fascination with Bosch is highlighted by the addition of works by Salvador Dali, James Ensor and a video by Bill Viola. Sponsored by Unilever, ABN AMRO and KPN. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel. +31 (0)10 4419400. Until 11 November.
SERIZAWA - MASTER OF JAPANESE TEXTILE DESIGN. Screens, kimono, tablecloths, book covers and ceramics by Serizawa Keisuke (1895 - 1984) one of the greatest artists of 20th century Japan. Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF. Tel. +44 (0)131 225 7534. Until 4 November.
FAN MASTERPIECES. Tenth anniversary exhibition of masterpieces including a fan leaf by Gauguin and an 18th century mask fan. The Fan Museum, 12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER. Tel. +44 (0)20 8305 1441. Until 20 November.
HEIRS AND GRACES. More than 70 portrait miniatures from the Lascelles family collection together with others from the Royal Collection - never before seen in Yorkshire are on exhibition. Highlights include a mid 18th century portrait by Ozias Humphry of Edwin Lascelles who built Harewood, and another of his wife Jane by Richard Cosway. A portrait of Queen Vicotria is set in a bracelet she gave as a Christmas present to one of her Ladies in Waiting, Charlotte Countess Canning. The exhibition is sponsored by Phillips Auctioneers, whose Head of Portrait Miniatures, Emma Rutherford is its curator. Heirs and Graces. Harewood House, near Leeds LS17 9LQ. Tel. +44 (0)113 218 1010. Until 4 November.
WILLIAM TUCKER. One of the New Generation Sculptors of the 1960s he moved from Britain to the USA in 1978. This exhibition brings together early works from the Tate collection with contemporary examples from private collections. Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB. Tel. +44 (0)151 702 7400. Until 25 November.
DEMON DRINK: GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S 'THE WORSHIP OF BACCHUS'. Huge painting by a famous 19th century illustrator, not exhibited for nearly a century, now triumphantly restored. Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1. Tel. +44 (0)20 7887 8008. Until 2 December.
BLACKWELL one of the most important and most complete
surviving examples of an Arts and Crafts Movement house is shortly
to open to the public for the first time. On a Lake District hillside
overlooking Lake Windermere, it was designed by the architect
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott
as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a Manchester brewer.
Completed in 1900, Blackwell retains all its original Arts & Crafts interiors and other features - largely because, when sold out of the family, it was used only by a succession of institutions. In 1997, Blackwell faced an uncertain future. Its owner was approached by the Lakeland Arts Trust which manages the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal. A sympathetic reception, followed by a successful fund-raising campaign, led to the Trust's purchase of Blackwell; a Heritage Lottery Fund grant £2.252 million plus donations from other sources, meant that the restoration could begin in the spring of last year. £1 million of the balance has already been raised leaving only £120,000 outstanding.
Abbot Hall Gallery and Museum has a splendid collection of
arts and crafts and 20th century fine art. Much is currently in
store but will now to be put on public display at Blackwell. A
programme of temporary exhibitions there will be inaugurated with
a group of the beautiful ceramic vessels made by the contemporary
potter Magdalene Odundo. (Until 23 September.)
Blackwell, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3JR. Tel. +44 (0)1539
722464. Open daily until 21 December.
OLLY & SUZI UNTAMED. Since they trained together at the Central St. Martin's School in the late 80s, Olly & Suzi have worked in collaboration - literally drawing or painting together on one sheet of paper. They also share a passion for wild animals - seen and experienced in the wild and they have travelled to America, India, Africa, Australia and the Arctic in search of such as tigers, wolves, crocodiles and tarantula.
Selections of their work, sometimes of startling beauty and in a variety of media are currently installed throughout the Natural History Museum. Glorious representations of anacondas were made with the help of one of the animals slithering across the paper. They drew the great white shark from the protection of an underwater cage; the painting was then cast upon the water and a shark rose up to bite a section off; this scene was photographed by Olly & Suzi's intrepid associate Greg Williams and has been displayed as a vast 9 x 10 m. art work on the eastern facade of the museum. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD. Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 5000. Open daily until 6 May 2002.