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Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence
Art: Art museums & institutions
Critics' choiceLast chanceAlso on at V&A
- Theatre and Performance Galleries, Until Aug 31 2010
- Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, Until Jan 17 2010
- Future Fashion Now, Until Jan 31 2010
- Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, Until Jan 17 2010
- New Ceramics Galleries, Until Aug 31 2010
- Hair Stories: Practice, Culture, Theory, Fri Nov 20
Art exhibitions on today
- Goshka Macuga: The Bloomberg Commission, Whitechapel Gallery
- Maggi Hambling, National Portrait Gallery
- Eva Rothschild, Tate Britain
- Pete and Repeat, 176 Zabludowicz Collection
- Jeremy Millar, National Maritime Museum
- Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, V&A
Blogs & videos
Devonshire Square Farmer's Market
Our guide to the new market in the City, featuring artisan bakers, cheesemakers and fishmongers.
Fringe theatre openings
There's some particularly experimental and enigmatic shows opening on the fringe this week.
Jarvis Cocker does art
What's happening at the Pulp polymath's live art, aerobics and music happening in Shoreditch next week.
For One Night Only comedy night
Performances and backstage interviews from the gig
Building the London skyline from food
How we transformed the capital's landmarks into their edible counterparts for our 'All Time Best Cheap Eats' cover.
The Descent from the Cross (centre panel of triptych), Peter Paul Rubens, Antwerp, 1611. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Time Out says
There are some truly spectacular objects here, quite as bizarre, dazzling and extraordinary as they were intended to be. The baroque sensibility seemed to transform everything it touched into a grotesquely ornate parody of itself, and many of the things here are easy to marvel at but hard to actually like. Walking through this fine exhibition, it is not in the least surprising that the era it covers was drawn to a close by the French Revolution. (FG)
V&A details
Transport South Kensington
020 7942 2000, bookings 08445 791940
Times 10am-5.45pm daily, until 10pm Fri
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