The venue: Harewood House
TwinTails, CC BY-SA 4.0Cecil Beaton: Staging Icons
Harewood House · 
Harewood, United Kingdom · 7 Sep to 18 Oct 2026
More than 60 photographic portraits by Cecil Beaton, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, showing his elaborately staged studio technique through sitters including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Fred Astaire and Queen Elizabeth II, plus material on Beaton's own ties to Harewood.
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Shown: Harewood House - not the exhibitionChanges we have recorded
- 2 Sep 2026 Opening date moved from 2026-08-10 to 2026-09-02, per the source we read.
- 2 Sep 2026 Closing date moved from 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-18, per the source we read.
- 4 Sep 2026 Opening date moved from 2026-09-02 to 2026-08-10, per the source we read.
- 4 Sep 2026 Closing date moved from 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-04, per the source we read.
- 4 Sep 2026 Opening date moved from 2026-08-10 to 2026-09-02, per the source we read.
- 4 Sep 2026 Closing date moved from 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-18, per the source we read.
- 5 Sep 2026 Opening date moved from 2026-09-02 to 2026-08-10, per the source we read.
- 5 Sep 2026 Closing date moved from 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-04, per the source we read.
- 5 Sep 2026 Regression: the same accidental unscoped merge reset this to start 2026-08-10 / end 2026-10-04 from a stale staged file. Re-confirmed directly against harewood.org ("Saturday 5 Sep - Sunday 18 Oct 2026") and restored to start_date 2026-09-05, end_date 2026-10-18.
- 7 Sep 2026 Opening date moved from 2026-09-05 to 2026-08-10, per the source we read.
- 7 Sep 2026 Closing date moved from 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-04, per the source we read.
- 7 Sep 2026 Regression (4th occurrence, same cause): an unrecognized-flag call to merge_exhibitions.py (--help, not a real flag) ran a full unscoped merge and replayed the never-archived incoming_exhibitions/2026-08-10-batch-b.json, resetting this to start 2026-08-10 / end 2026-10-04. Re-confirmed directly against harewood.org just now ("Monday 7 Sep - Sunday 18 Oct 2026") and restored to start_date 2026-09-07, end_date 2026-10-18. The stale file is being archived to _merged/ this run to stop a fifth occurrence.