LONDON.- No New Thing Under the Sun will open in the Tennant Gallery this October. The exhibition will bring together selected historical pieces from the Royal Academy Collection together with works by contemporary artists. Around 50 works spanning the last 500 years will be featured. Inspired by the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, this exhibition is about time, transience, and human vanity; about the grandeur of life, and the inevitability of death. Though not a religious or dogmatic show, the exhibition is a response to the scripture and aims to evoke the book’s mood. In offering a pause for consideration and reflection on the human condition, the exhibition will allow viewers to connect with the sorts of simple truths that are overlooked in our hectic world, and ends by suggesting a sense of simple joy at being alive in the here and now. Mixing together exhibits by contemporary artists with carefully selected dr