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LONDON PAINTING
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Tate Britain
Millbank, SW1
This is the first exhibition devoted to the work JMW Turner created between 1835 and his death in 1851 and celebrates his astonishing late creative flowering, when he produced many of his finest pictures but was also controversial and unjustly misunderstood. Exhibition highlights include paintings of ancient Rome, The Wreck Buoy and watercolours such as Heidelberg: Sunset and the seldom-seen Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland. A must for Turner fans — but it’s an eye-watering £16.50 to get in.
LONDON POETRY
Hearing Eye
Torriano Meeting House
Torriano Avenue, NW5
September 14
“What’s the purpose of resisting corporate globalisation if not to protect the obscure, the ineffable, the unmarketable, the unmanageable, the local, the poetic and the eccentric?” asks writer Rebecca Solnit. “They need to be practiced, celebrated and studied right now.” She’s talking about the Torriano arts and community centre which hosts one of the most inclusive poetry sessions in London with Hearing Eye, which has just started a new season of Sunday night readings by poets supporting the Torriano ethos. On tomorrow are Maggie Butt (pictured), Wendy French and Anne Stewart and they’ll be followed on future dates by Sue Hubbard, Margaret Eddershaw, John Harvey and Beata Duncan. Well worth supporting.
torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com
MANCHESTER THEATRE
Romeo and Juliet
Victoria Baths
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Until October 4
The iconic Victoria Baths are the setting for this promenade performance of the greatest love story ever told. The three atmospheric Edwardian swimming pools have been transformed as the setting for a contemporary fairytale, inspired by the criminal underworld of eastern Europe. The blurb promises “wit, beauty, surprise and high emotion” — and invites audience participation in the onstage proceedings.
homemcr.org
SHEFFIELD/TOURING PHOTOGRAPHY
Picture the Poet
Graves Gallery
Surrey Street
Until November 29
Benjamin Zephaniah, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy are just a few of the poets included in this new free touring exhibition which brings together images of some of the most important poets of our times by leading photographers. The portraits cover a variety of themes including the sense of place, love, loss, identity and struggle and include over six decades of artistic production from the 1950s to the present day.
museums-sheffield.org.uk
