Top 10 art exhibitions outside of London this summer
Pack your bags, grab your camera and head for the open road: these are the best exhibitions across the UK that may just tempt you on a mini-break.
Long, eerie, existential: Giacometti's sculptures are renowned the world over. Now, The Giacometti Foundation celebrates the figurative artist with a spanking new Giacometti Institute in Paris.
With 300 sculptures, 90 paintings, more than 2000 works on paper, an exhibition space, and a reconstruction of the artist's studio space, The Giacometti Institute in Paris now housse the richest collection of Giacometti works in the world. Opening its doors to the public for the first time, The Giacometti Institute aims to offer new perspectives on the artist’s work and on the creative period in which it emerged.
To celebrate its opening, The Giacometti Institute stages its first major exhibition dedicated to the intimate friendship between Giacometti and French novelist Jean Genet.
Inaugural exhibition: 21 June – 16 September 2018
How far from London: It takes approximately two hours and fifteen minutes to reach Paris on the Eurostar; trains depart from London King's Cross.
What to read on the train: Throw Away unopened, Viv Albertine
Albertine's new memoir is an excavation of family bonds and personal identity. Reality and imagination entwine to tell the true story of a daughter dealing with her mother’s declining health. But Throw Away Unopened is so much more than just the account of Albertine’s life: stark, unsentimental prose laced with humour and vulnerability goes beyond standard storytelling to make us part of the self-discovery.
