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17th May, 2012

Brescia, Italy

Mille Miglia

Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th May 2012

Eighty years of racing tradition continues in 2012, with a 1000-mile course featuring classic areas and new destinations.

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre 1 Expo Drive Wanchai, Hong Kong

Michael Hoppen Gallery at Hong Kong Art Fair

Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th May 2012

Michael Hoppen Gallery will return for his 4th year at the Hong Kong Art Fair with a selection of rare black and white vintage prints and fresh

Opera Holland Park, London W8 6LU

Words in the Park Literature Festival

Friday 18th - Sunday 20th May 2012

This first ever 3-day event has a programme full to the brim of exciting, entertaining and inspiring events as well as lots of good food and drink.

V&A,Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL

Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950

Saturday 19th May 2012 - Sunday 6th January 2013

Sixty years of British design celebrated in an exhibition of dresses designed by classic and contemporary talent.

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

Stephen Jones Hats: From Georgiana to Boy George

Saturday 19th May - Sunday 2nd September 2012

After a recent exhibition of Vivienne Westwood shoes, The Bowes Museum is to show a selection of Stephen Jones’ fabulous hats.

The Landmark Hotel, London

Decanter Italian Fine Wine Encounter

Saturday 19th May 2012

Decanter Events hosts its Great Italian Fine Wine Encounter, giving guests the chance to meet 80 of Italy’s most renowned wine producers.

Clerkenwell, London

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012

Tuesday 22nd - Thursday 24th May 2012

Celebrate the British design industry with this three-day festival in the heart of London, as 150 brands exhibit at Clerkenwell Design Week.

The National Hall

The London International Antiquarian Book Fair

Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th May 2012

The 55th International Book Fair will be held in the National Hall this May.

The London Silver Vaults, Chancery Lane, London

Post War Winners: 60 years of British Silver

Monday 28th May - Sunday 29th April 2012

The London Silvers Vaults presents a selling exhibition of silver design from the past 60 years.

Hay-on-Wye, Wales

Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts

Thursday 31st May - Sunday 10th June 2012

Described by Bill Clinton as “the Woodstock of the mind” the Hay Festival runs for ten days with busy schedule of debates and talks.

Still on

Science Museum

Hidden Heroes - The Genius of Everyday Things

Wednesday 9th November 2011 - Tuesday 5th June 2012

Corning Museum of Glass

Founders of American Studio Glass

Thursday 17th November 2011 - Sunday 6th January 2013

Fashion Museum, Bath

Glamour: 100 Years of Evening Wear

Saturday 4th February 2012 - Monday 31st December 2013

Pablo Picasso Still Life with Mandolin 1924 © Succession Picasso / DACS 2011 © Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

Picasso and Modern British Art

Wednesday 15th February - Thursday 5th July 2012

Getty Images Gallery, 46 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DX

Marilyn

Monday 5th March - Wednesday 23rd May 2012

Musée Les Arts Décoratifs, 107, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs: The Exhibition

Friday 9th March - Sunday 16th September 2012

Vittoriano Museum Complex, Via San Pietro, Rome, Italy

Dalí: An Artist, a Genius

Friday 9th March - Sunday 1st July 2012

Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF

Designing Women: Post-War British Textiles

Friday 16th March - Saturday 16th June 2012

V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

Island Stories: British photography from 1945 to the present

Friday 16th March - Saturday 19th May 2012

Room 31, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Cambridge Connections: Photographs by Antony Barrington Brown (1927 – 2012)

Monday 19th March - Sunday 16th September 2012

The Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue, Denver

Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective

Sunday 25th March - Sunday 8th July 2012

V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

British Design: Innovation in the Modern Age 1948- 2012

Saturday 31st March - Sunday 12th August 2012

The National Portrait Gallery

Spotlight on Peter Rand: 10 Photographs from the 1960s

Tuesday 17th April - Sunday 16th September 2012

London Film Museum, 45 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BN

Magnum on Set

Saturday 21st April - Saturday 1st September 2012

The Little Black Gallery, 13A Park Walk London, SW10 0AJ

Patrick Lichfield Nudes

Tuesday 24th April - Saturday 26th May 2012

Wilton's Music Hall, London

Wilton's Great Gatsby Concert

Thursday 26th April - Saturday 19th May 2012

Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD

Christian Louboutin

Tuesday 1st May - Monday 9th July 2012

Barbican Art Gallery, London

Bauhaus: Art as Life

Thursday 3rd May - Sunday 12th August 2012

The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London

After Bloomsbury: Rugs from the Omega Workshops, 1913-1916

Thursday 3rd May - Sunday 24th June 2012

Selfridges & Co, 400 Oxford Street, London, W1A 1AB.

Britannica 1951-1953

Friday 4th May - Sunday 24th June 2012

6 Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly, London W1S 3ES

Hermes: Leather Forever

Tuesday 8th - Sunday 27th May 2012

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY 10028

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Thursday 10th May - Sunday 19th August 2012

Villa 'Les Rhumbs', Granville, France

Stars in Dior: From the Screen to the Streets

Saturday 12th May - Sunday 23rd September 2012

Palais des Festivals, Cannes

Cannes Film Festival 2012

Wednesday 16th - Sunday 27th May 2012

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