This year’s must-see exhibitions

March
Watteau: The Drawings is at the RA, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1 www.royalacademy.org.uk and Esprit et Vérité: Watteau and His Circle is at the Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1 www.wallacecollection.org Both run from 12 March to 5 June. See preview in Country Life Mar 9th
   
April
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, at the V & A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 from 2nd Apr to 17th Jul. www.vam.ac.uk   . See Country Life feature April 6th

Joan Miro; The Ladder of Escape, at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 from 14 Apr to 30 Sep. www.tate.org.uk   See preview in Country Life Apr 13

Radical Bloomsbury: the art of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell 1905-25, at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton from 16 Apr to 9 Oct. 03000 290900. See review in Country Life May 11th

June         
Gold: Britain’s Glorious Riches, at Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2 from 1st June to 28 Jul. www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk

Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril; Beyond the Moulin Rouge
, at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 from 16 Jun to 18 Sep. www.courtauld.ac.uk. See preview in Country Life 15 June.

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, at the British Museum, Great Russell St, London WC1 from 23rd June to 9th Oct. www.britishmuseum.org. See preview in Country Life June 22nd

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The Queen: Art and Image, at the National Gallery of Scotland, Princes Street, Edinburgh from 25th June to 18th Sep. www.nationalgalleries.org

Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters
at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, Dulwich, London SE21 to celebrate its bicentenary, from 29 June to 25 Sep. 020 8693 5254

The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, at Tate Britain, 5 Atterbury Street, Westminster, London SW1 from 14 Jun to 4 Sep.    www.tate.org.uk. See review in Country Life July 13th

July
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500, at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2 from 6 Jul to 2 Oct. www.nationalgallery.org.uk  See preview in Country Life July 6th

Sept
Degas Dancers: Eye and Camera, exploring the intertwined themes of ballet and photography, at the RA, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1 from 17 Sep to 11 Dec. www.royalacademy.org.uk. See preview in Country Life Sep 14th       

John Martin @ Tate Britain, 5 Atterbury Street, Westminster, London SW1 from 21 Sep 2011 to 15 Jan 2012. www.tate.org.uk See preview in Country Life Sept 21st

Gainsborough’s Landscapes; Themes and Variations, at The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street,
Bath from 24 Sep 2011 to 8 Jan 2012. www.
holburne@bath.ac.uk. See preview in Country Life Sept 28th    

Post Modernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990
, at the V & A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 from 24 Sep 2011 to 8 Jan 2012. www.vam.ac.uk See review in Country Life Oct 19th

Oct
Gerhard Richter:Panorama – a major retrospective coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 from 6 Oct 2011 to 8 Jan 2-12. www.tate.org.uk 

The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso, at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 from 13 Oct 2011 to 15 Jan 2012. www.courtauld.ac.uk

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, at the RA, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1 from 29 Oct 2011 to 22 Jan 2012   . www.royalacademy.org.uk         

Nov
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2 from 9 Nov 2011 to 5 Feb 2012. www.nationalgallery.org.uk  See preview in Country Life Nov 9th.