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TOP 200 ARTISTS
OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW
TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS
AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
| - | Pablo Picasso |
| - | Paul Cezanne |
| - | Gustav Klimt |
| - | Claude Monet |
| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
| - | Georges Braque |
| - | Wassily Kandinsky |
| - | Constantin Brancusi |
| - | Kasimir Malevich |
| - | Jasper Johns |
| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
| - | Egon Schiele |
| - | Donald Judd |
| - | Bruce Nauman |
| - | Alberto Giacometti |
| - | Salvador Dalí |
| - | Auguste Rodin |
| - | Mark Rothko |
| - | Edward Hopper |
| - | Lucian Freud |
| - | Richard Serra |
| - | Rene Magritte |
| - | David Hockney |
| - | Philip Guston |
| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
| - | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| - | Cy Twombly |
| - | Max Beckmann |
| - | Barnett Newman |
| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
| - | Roy Lichtenstein |
| - | Edvard Munch |
| - | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
| - | Jeff Koons |
| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
| - | Edouard Vuillard |
| - | Carl Andre |
| - | Juan Gris |
| - | Lucio Fontana |
| - | Franz Kline |
| - | David Smith |
| - | Joseph Beuys |
| - | Alexander Calder |
| - | Louise Bourgeois |
| - | Marc Chagall |
| - | Gerhard Richter |
| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
| - | Anselm Kiefer |
| - | Matthew Barney |
| - | George Grosz |
| - | Bernd And Hilla Becher |
| - | Sigmar Polke |
| - | Brice Marden |
| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
| - | Sol LeWitt |
| - | Chuck Close |
| - | Edward Weston |
| - | Joseph Cornell |
| - | Karel Appel |
| - | Bridget Riley |
| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
| - | Luc Tuymans |
| - | Claes Oldenburg |
TO SEE THE FULL 200 CLICK HERE
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Museums around the world:
Collection highlights,
exhibition details, etc...
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| British Museum
The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. Access to the collections is free.
The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum. Since its foundation, the British Museum has been guided by three important principles: that the collections are held in perpetuity in their entirety; that they are widely available to all who seek to enjoy and learn from them and that they are curated by full-time specialists.
The British Museum's international standing and its key role in the display of the world's and nation's heritage make it one of the most-visited public buildings in London, contributing to its cultural and economic life. London's largest covered public square, the Great Court has changed the face of Bloomsbury as a cultural quarter. ...
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The British Museum’s African, Asian, European and Ancient world collections include real-life legends like the Rosetta Stone and Easter Island statue, masterpieces like the Lewis Chessmen and Michelangelo cartoon, and iconic objects, from the oldest man-made tools on earth to the first known image of Christ.
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Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran.
19 February-14 June 2009.
Round Reading Room, £12, concessions available, Members free
The Intimate Portrait: drawings, minatures and pastels from Ramsey to Laurence
5 March-5 July 2009
Room 90, Admission free
The Splendour of Isfahan: coins from Iran
5 March-5 July 2009
Room 69a, Admission free
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Indian Summer May-September 2009:
Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
28 May-23 August 2009
Room 35, £8, concessions available, Members free
http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/holding_area/indian_summer/garden_and_
India Landscape
1 May-27 September 2009
Front Lawn, Admission free
Dazzling the enemy: shields from the Pacific
14 May-16 August 2009
Room 91, Admission free
Gamelan: Music of Java
21 May-12 July
Room 3, Admission free
Medals of Dishonour
25 June-27 September 2009
Room 90, Admission free
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
24 September 2009–24 January 2010
Reading Room, £12, concessions available, Members free
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/moctezuma.aspx
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Free.
Admission charges apply to some exhibitions.
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Galleries: Saturday-Wednesday 10.00-17.30, Thursday-Friday 10.00-20.30
Certain galleries are subject to different opening times. Full details are available from the Box Office/Information Desk or www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Great Court: Sunday-Wednesday 09.00-18.00, Thursday-Saturday 09.00-23.00
Closed 1 January, Good Friday, and 24-26 December
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Underground stations:
Holborn,
Tottenham Court Road,
Russell Square.
Bus routes:
New Oxford Street:
7, 8, 19, 22b, 25, 38, 55, 98
Tottenham Court Road, northbound and Gower Street, southbound:
10, 24, 29, 73, 134
Southampton Row:
68, 91, 188
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Access:
Main Entrance Great Russell Street-Access (stairs and lifts). The Main entrance (South side, via Great Russell Street) has 12 steps with handrails at each side. There is a self-operable lift on both sides of the steps where a bell is available for visitors requiring assistance.
Montague Place/ North Entrance-The Montague Place entrance (North side) provides a level entrance to the Museum and a lift taking you to levels in the Museum building. Please note that access from the North lift to the Main floor of the Museum is on level 0.
Internal access-Access to the Clore Education Centre and the Ford Centre for Young visitors is by the South self-operable lifts in the Great Court.
Access to the Upper floors can be gained by using either the North lift or from the lifts in the Great Court which are self-operable lifts located in the South portico and East and West of the Great Court. Please note that the Upper floors from the Great Court lift are on level 6.
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The Education Department of The British Museum offers a range of learning experiences for everyone, whatever your age or level of interest.
For more information visit our Learning and Information webpages: www.britishmuseum.org/education/index.html
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Tourist groups
Our popular Highlights tour can be booked privately, in various languages, for groups of 10 or more. Other itineraries are also available.
NADFAS Groups
A special, dedicated programme of events, including tours, lectures, study days and exhibition packages, all with an art historical bias, is available to NADFAS groups. Please, telephone 020 7323 8849 or email hwilliams@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Educational groups
Educational groups of more than 10 are asked to book with the Box Office, telephone 020 7323 8181 or email boxoffice@britishmuseum.org
The leaders or organisers of private parties may be required to divide their parties into groups which are small enough to avoid inconvenience to other visitors. Lecturing is not permitted in certain areas of the Museum; our gallery staff will advise of restrictions. Coach parties are advised to use the North entrance, on Montague Place, where there is metered parking for up to 6 coaches.
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You can make a vital contribution to the British Museum's work by becoming a Member today, as well as enjoying a range of benefits including:
. Unlimited free entry for you and a guest to all Museum exhibitions
. The British Museum Magazine sent direct to your door three times a year
. What's on delivered every two months to keep you up to date with Museum events
. Four Members' open evenings each year themed around current exhibitions and the permanent collection
. Access to the Member's Sitting Room situated in the West Residence and overlooking the Museum's grounds
Your Membership assists acquisitions, conservation and new technologies and above all ensures that the incomparable inheritance of the British Museum continues to change lives.
For more information visit http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/friends/index.html
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The British Museum also has modern, spacious and fully equipped conference and seminar facilities in the Clore Education Centre.
These venues are available for general hire.
To contact the British Museum Conference office please call:
020 7323 8136 or email corporate@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
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