September - DECEmber 2015
Exhibitions
Workshops
Concerts
Events
What’s On CollectionS
www.barber.org.uk
‘Visit this place. It is a jewel…’ - Michael Glover, The Independent Monet and Magritte; Renoir, Rubens, Rossetti and Rodin; Degas, Delacroix and Van Dyck — as well as Botticelli, Poussin, Turner, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Hodgkin, Auerbach… You can see key works by all these – and many more – great artists at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. There’s also a stunning coin gallery and an exciting programme of exhibitions, concerts, lectures, gallery talks, workshops and family activities. The Barber was founded in 1932 by Lady Barber in memory of her husband, Sir Henry Barber ‘for the study and encouragement of art and music’. Housed in a listed Art Deco building designed by Robert Atkinson, it was officially opened by Queen Mary in 1939. Featuring many of the greatest names in Western art, the Barber holds one of the most outstanding and internationally significant collections assembled during the 20th century.
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As well as around 150 major paintings and some stunning pastels and watercolours, the Barber is also home to more than 1000 drawings and prints, a fine collection of sculpture, decorative art and portrait miniatures. The Barber also has one of the finest collections of Roman, Byzantine and medieval coins in the world. A haven of tranquillity in a bustling metropolis, the Barber Institute is like a mini National Gallery – and is a must-see for anyone visiting Birmingham and the West Midlands. No wonder it enjoys a reputation for being one of the finest small art galleries in Europe!
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WELCOME
ALL CHANGE IN THE GALLERY The Barber’s collection is of such a high calibre that its paintings are frequently lent to high-profile exhibitions as far away as the USA or Japan. Making a welcome return to the gallery recently is Van Gogh’s Peasant Woman Digging, (far right) fresh from the exhibition Bacon and the Masters at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich. This autumn, arguably the Barber’s most iconic and best-loved painting has left the gallery for twelve months. Portrait of Countess Golovine by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (bottom far right) is a star exhibit in the monographic exhibition of the French artist’s work, opening at the Grand Palais, Paris on 21 September. It then moves to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art (‘The Met’) in January, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa in June, not returning to the Barber until late September next year. Also leaving in early October are Courbet’s popular The Sea-arch at Etretat (right), for a Monet exhibition in Denmark (until 10 January) – and Delacroix’s St Stephen borne away by his Disciples (above), which flies to the States for a show at Minneapolis Institute of Art (until mid January) and the National Gallery, London (until end of May).
Gainsborough’s Portrait of Tenducci (below) departs for a month for conservation in November before going out on loan in 2016. The absences will lead to extensive rehanging, with less-frequently displayed works and new and interesting conversations arising between pictures. Another of the Barber’s most popular paintings,Van
Dyck’s Portrait of Francois Langlois (above left), is also due to leave the gallery – this time for five years! This important painting was purchased jointly by the Barber and the National Gallery in 1997, and in the new year heads off to the Frick Collection, New York, for Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture. It then returns to the National Gallery until 2020. Catch it while you can!
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Lady Barber Gallery
A snapshot capturing portraiture through the lens of Modernism, this fascinating exhibition explores the work of two under-appreciated British artists: sculptor Frank Dobson and painter Matthew Smith. Author Roald Dahl, actress Jean Simmons, Bloomsbury elder statesman Sir Osbert Sitwell and textile designer Marian Dorn are among the luminaries of British 20th-century culture whose likenesses feature, while portraits by members of the Birmingham School provide a regional angle on the era. Books and photographs from the University’s other cultural collections provide further context relating to sitters, the period and its art. Co-curated by the postgraduate students from the University’s Art History, Film and Visual Studies department, The Modernist Face is the first loan exhibition to feature sculpture as a major component.
LOVE, LIFE & LANDSCAPES Until 25 October
Print Bay, Green Gallery Inspired by their native landscape, mythology and history, 19thcentury German Romantic artists were fascinated by nature, love and the fragility of life. This display of prints and drawings from the Barber’s collection explores the motives behind the fantastical imagery of some of the bestknown exponents, including Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Adrian Ludwig Richter and Max Klinger.
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collections display
Right: Sir Osbert Sitwell by Frank Dobson © National Portrait Gallery, London
Smith, Dobson & British Portraiture 1920 – 60 Until 27 September
EXHIBITIONS
E X H I B I T I O N S & D I S P L AY S - L A S T C H A N C E T O S E E
INHERITING ROME
THE MODERNIST FACE
The Imperial Legacy in Coinage and Culture Until 24 April 2016
Coin Gallery
The last Roman emperor in the West died more than 1500 years ago, but the coins in our pockets even today show the immense influence the Roman Empire still exerts over our culture. Our monarchs are depicted in classical dress, encircled with Latin phrases, and some even feature the Roman goddess Britannia. But why? This exhibition of Greek, Roman, ‘barbarian’, Georgian, Armenian, Islamic, Hungarian and, not least, British examples from the Barber’s world-class coin collection explores our fascination with Rome – its trappings of power and its visual imagery. It looks at the potential and the difficulties that these associations can bring to those in authority. EXHIBITION TOURS Sunday 20 September, 2.30pm & Tuesday 24 November, 1.15pm FREE
LUNCHTIME LECTURES Wednesdays, 1.10pm – 2pm, Barber lecture theatre, FREE 16 September Small Change and Big Changes: Minting and Money after the Fall of Rome Dr Jonathan Jarrett, University of Leeds
23 September Rome and the Empire of Art Dr Kathleen Christian, Open University
Rome has been a capital of empire, the papacy, art – and, As the Roman Empire declined in since the 1450s, through the the West, so did its cash economy. Grand Tour to the present day – a destination for cultural tourism Only rare gold coins of steadily worsening quality remained, while, and pilgrimage. Dr Christian examines the relationships in the Byzantine East, money between empire, religion, art, remained a plentiful everyday antiquity and pilgrimage in the phenomenon. Dr Jarrett, curator Eternal City. of Inheriting Rome, discusses how money could – and could no longer – be used across the postRoman world.
30 September Some Degrees of Separation: Rome and Germany Johannes von Müller, Warburg Institute, London Emperors and rulers since the middle ages have been eager to establish links with ancient Rome. This lecture will follow such interrelations into late 19th and early 20th century Germany, when the Kaiserreich and then the Third Reich made use of the medieval emperors to channel the Roman empire’s prestige and authority.
FLINCK IN FOCUS
18 September 2015 – 10 January 2016
Print Bay, Beige Gallery
Stolen gingerbread, spirited laughter, serenely slumbering infants and poised young girls provide some colourful contrasts in this exploration of the evolving imagery of children and childhood. Curated to complement Flinck in Focus, this display includes stylistically diverse prints and drawings selected from the Barber’s collection – from tranquil religious prints of the 17th century to playful illustrations of childhood in the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawn from all over Europe, the display includes works by notable artists such as Castiglione, Adriaen van Ostade, William Hogarth and John Brett.
A Question of Identity in 17th-Century Dutch Portraiture
Marking the 400th anniversary of Flinck's birth, this exhibition is one of two opening this autumn that explore this under-appreciated artist – and are the first ever to examine any aspect of his work. In the Barber's picture-in-context show, one of the gallery’s best-loved paintings, Flinck’s Portrait of a Boy of 1640, comes under the spotlight: the sitter, the painting itself and its history. It features works lent by major public collections including the British Museum, the National Gallery, London, and the Rembrandthuis, Museum, Amsterdam, alongside new technical information about the painting. LUNCHTIME GALLERY TALK
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Tuesday 3 November, 1.15pm Curator’s Introduction to the Exhibition Robert Wenley, Deputy Director
Govert Flinck, A Child Holding a Dog, c. 1640-42 © National Trust Images/Angelo Hornak, Upton House
23 October 2015 – 24 January 2016 Red Gallery One of Rembrandt’s most talented pupils, Govert Flinck was a highly prized and extremely successful portraitist and history painter, with a reputation that grew to match even that of his master. He was particularly popular for his portraits of children – a genre his teacher eschewed. But his fame waned and his name is relatively unknown today.
D I S P L AY S
EXHIBITIONS
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
collections display
BARBER CONCERTS 70 Years of Music 6 November 2015 – 31 January 2016
Print Bay, Green Gallery
In 2015, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Barber Evening Concert series. The first Barber Evening Concert took place on 5 November 1945 during Sir Jack Westrup’s reign as the University’s Peyton and Barber Professor of Music. Westrup's programming in subsequent years included new, challenging, and sometimes controversial music, alongside accessible and popular repertoire, performed by Europe’s leading chamber ensembles and recitalists. The concert series continues in this vein to this day, and this exhibition of photographs, concert programmes and other archive material celebrates the highlights of seven decades of music performance at the Barber. collections display
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RECOVERY ART
Portraits from the University of Birmingham 16 October 2015 – 17 January 2016
30 September – 13 October
Jacob Epstein, Tom Phillips, Humphrey Ocean and Jennifer McRae: some of the most respected British artists of the 20th century have been commissioned by the University over the past 100 years to portray and honour its chancellors, vice chancellors and other leading figures. This selection features oil paintings, works on paper and sculpture, and looks not only at the University’s leaders, but also some of its most prominent academics as well as those who played an instrumental role in student life. It explores the process of commissioning and realising portraits, rather than attempting to be a history of the University. However, gathered for the first time together, these sometimes surprising images nevertheless still reveal something of the character and eclecticism of the institution – the UK’s original redbrick University.
PHANTOM WALLS David Rowan
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Learning Space (first floor)
Lady Barber Gallery
The Barber’s Recovery Art group has provided a haven for people recuperating from physical or mental health issues – including drug and alcohol addiction – since February 2013, and here stages its second annual exhibition. Excited and inspired by subjects and media from the Barber’s collection, by their own ideas and experiences of recovery, and by the technical processes themselves, its members have created exciting new abstract and representational work in two and three dimensions – a process that has proven cathartic, creative and sociable. Sculpture in clay, wire, and plaster and wood; drypoint and woodcut prints; and paintings in oil, acrylic and wax on canvas: works in all these media are accompanied by the incisive and intensely personal reflections of members of the group written in their own words.
16 October 2015 – 17 January 2016, Aston Webb Building Birmingham artist David Rowan was invited by the University to respond to Terms of Engagement. He has produced original sitespecific interventions for the spaces around the University’s Great Hall and Vice Chancellor’s Corridor vacated by the portraits.
IN CONVERSATION
LUNCHTIME LECTURE
walk & talk
Wednesday 21 October 6.30 – 8pm Artist Humphrey Ocean RA, whose portrait of Sir Julian Bullard features, won the National Portrait Gallery’s annual Portrait Prize in 1982 and has undertaken several commissions for the NPG since. Hear him in conversation with the Director, Nicola Kalinsky, 6.30pm: Refreshments served 7pm: In Conversation FREE, but booking essential*
Commissioning Portraits for the University
Terms of Engagement & Phantom Walls
4 November 1.10pm Barber Lecture Theatre James Hamilton, University Curator 1992-2013 commissioned seven portraits of senior University officers from leading British portaritists. He discusses his many adventures in helping build a significant regional portrait collection. FREE, no booking required
Saturday 28th November 11.30am – 1pm Explore Terms of Engagement from the curator’s viewpoint. Then head across campus to see Phantom Walls, and hear the artist talk about his work. FREE, but booking essential* * TO BOOK A PLACE, CONTACT education@barber.org.uk OR 0121 414 2261
AUERBACH ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING COURSE
D I S P L AY S & W O R K S H O P S
EXHIBITIONS
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT
Saturdays 7 &14 November 11am – 4pm (includes lunch break) A two-day oil-painting workshop inspired by the Barber's recent acquisition of Frank Auerbach's urban landscape, Primrose Hill - Winter, 1981. Led by artist/tutor Adrian Clamp and working from photographs of your own urban or rural landscape, you'll be making preparatory sketches in charcoal or oil paint, exploring mark-making, colour, gesture and light, learning how to prepare a canvas and developing your painting using impasto and scumble techniques. All materials provided. Suitable for all levels of ability. £70; £60 concessions; £50 UoB students. Booking essential*
Interested in joining the group? We meet on the first Tuesday of every month, 12–3pm. All sessions are free of charge, and all materials are provided. We always welcome new members. If you want to learn more, please give Alex a call on 0121 414 2261, or email education@barber.org.uk, or drop in for a chat on Tuesday 6 October where we will have an open studio from 12 – 3pm.
FURTHER DETAILS About our workshops and events: www.barber.org.uk
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Aged 13 – 18 and into art? Join Barber Youth! Discover art history through gallery tours and discussion. Learn new skills in drawing, painting, printing and sculpture. Meet practising artists! Boost a GCSE or A-Level portfolio…or just come for fun!
8 & 22 September 6 & 20 October 3 & 17 November 1 & 15 December £5 per session. Tea, juice and flapjacks provided! Booking essential* For a free taster session or for more information call 0121 414 2261
LOOKING AT ART: A BEGINNERS’ COURSE Thursdays, 24 September – 3 December (no session 29 October) 1–3pm OR Saturdays, 26 September – 5 December 2015 (no session 31 October) 11–1pm
• The Garman Ryan collection/early 20thcentury art; Jacob Epstein and the influence of non-European cultures (New Art Gallery Walsall) • Difficult/challenging subjects in art: How we define art; Pop art; black artists and the 1980s BLK Art Group (Wolverhampton Art Gallery) • Contemporary art and international exhibitions, including work by Fiona Banner (Ikon, Birmingham Gallery)
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WORDPLAY 19 September Gather words from around the Barber and add your own. Turn them into new writing through chance and serendipity, including making a collaged text. Inspired by Jacqui Rowe’s latest pamphlet, Ransom Notes. SUN, RAIN, WIND AND CLOUDS 14 November Inspired by landscape paintings by Auerbach and Rubens as well as other works in the Barber collection, examine how we describe the transience of weather and how we can use it to create moods in writing. CELEBRATE! 12 December As we approach the festive season, explore the ways we celebrate Christmas and New Year and express the personal in our writing, as well as ways of offering thanks and praise.
Explore, look at and discuss art across four Black Country and Birmingham art galleries in this 10-week beginner’s course for adults with no previous art knowledge, organised in partnership with Wolverhampton Adult Education Service. Topics include: • Art from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Approaching art, looking at and talking about it. (Barber Institute)
Workshops led by Jacqui Rowe, former Barber Writer in Residence Saturdays, 1.30 – 4pm
Suitable for writers of prose or poetry at all levels of experience. £6/£4 concessions, students and UoB staff Booking essential £55 for the entire course. Learners in receipt of certain benefits may qualify for a concessionary rate – please contact Wolverhampton Adult Education Service for more information. To Book: contact Wolverhampton Adult Education Service, Old Hall Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 3AU 01902 558180 www.aeswolverhampton.gov.uk Enrolment forms available to pick up at any of the four galleries. Please note: this course is not accredited.
To book, contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS: WWW.BARBER.ORG.UK
THE STILL LIFE OF VANITAS
Monday 12 October, 1.30 - 4.30pm Join us for a special Birmingham Literature Festival workshop and delve into the world of the 16thand 17th-century Dutch vanitas tradition. Look at works in the Red Gallery and be immersed in a still-life room to explore the vanitas concept. Wander around the room and create pieces of writing in response – and look out for the subtle changes that will bring our still-life set-up to life! Tickets: £25/£20 (WWM Friends: £22.50/£18) Festival Pass holders: £15 Booking essential – box office at www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org or call 0121 245 4455.
UNCOVERING LITERATURE Thursday 15th October 2-3pm Explore the Barber collection through a literary lens in this gallery tour that uncovers the obvious and unexpected connections between art and writing. Discover how literature has inspired and influenced artists, how painters have adapted literary works – or, with writers, have helped found artistic movements or even influenced philosophy. Free – booking essential*
A rt & L iterature
WORKSHOPS
ART & WRITING
BARBER YOUTH
SELF AND OTHERS Friday 16th October Inspired by the Barber’s Terms of Engagement exhibition, this workshop explores how we write about character and also how we can create a self-portrait in words. Free – but booking essential
Part of the University's Book to the Future festival. For further information please visit: www.bham.ac.uk/BTTF BARBER BOOK CLUB Tuesdays, once a month 2 – 3pm Join our popular monthly book club for a stimulating and informal discussion of books exploring a range of themes. Refreshments provided. £2 per session. Booking essential. 8 Sept — Music and Silence by Rose Tremain 13 Oct — A Month in the Country by JL Carr 10 Nov — The Masterpiece by Emil Zola (translation by Thomas Walton) 8 Dec — How to be Both by Ali Smith
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GALLERIES NIGHT
Tuesdays, 1.15pm These weekly tours and talks introduce visitors to our exhibitions, displays and collections. Our gallery guides and curatorial team have developed a programme that will interest everyone – novice or enthusiast – and at only 30 minutes, each talk is an ideal way of spending a lunchtime. 1 SEPT
Boy Meets Girl
John Southall, Gallery Guide
8 SEPT
Four Foyer Favourites
Jennifer Young, Gallery Guide
15 SEPT
The Classical Legacy
Jen Costigan, Gallery Guide
22 SEPT
Genre Painting: The Poor Relation
Marian Edwards, Gallery Guide
29 SEPT
Introduction to the Barber’s Works on Paper
Alex Jolly, Learning and Access Assistant
6 OCT
Introduction to the Barber’s Paintings and Sculptures
Jen Ridding, Learning and Access Officer
13 OCT
From Africa to Asia: Four Sculptures
Marian Edwards, Gallery Guide
20 OCT
Introduction to Terms of Engagement
Clare Mullett, University Curator
27 OCT
The Reformation and Counter Reformation
Barbara Fogarty, Gallery Guide
3 NOV
Introduction to Flinck in Focus
Robert Wenley, Deputy Director
10 NOV
Introduction to the display, The Age of Innocence
Sarah Beattie, Collections Assistant
17 NOV
Ivory, Jade and Bloodstone
Jennifer Young, Gallery Guide
24 NOV
Coping with the Ancestors: Paganism, Antiquity and the Coins of Old and New Rome
Mike Saxby, Gallery Guide
1 DEC
Introduction to the display, 70 Years of Barber Concerts
Andrew Kirkman, Barber Professor of Music
8 DEC
The T- Shirt Tour: Barber Faces
John Southall, Gallery Guide
15 DEC
Unto us a Son is Born: Christ depicted by Rosselli & Jan de Beer
Jennifer Young, Gallery Guide
The Barber – Ikon – RBSA Gallery – BM&AG (Waterhall Exhibition) – Parkside Gallery – Mac Birmingham Friday 30 October 5 – 9pm
BEDFAS AT THE BARBER
Birmingham Evening Decorative and Fine Arts Society meets at the Barber monthly for a late gallery viewing, refreshments, and lectures on a diverse range of subjects. 6 – 7pm: Late gallery viewing; refreshments 7 – 8.15pm: Lecture Thursday 17 September Images of the Wilderness: Artists in search of the Sublime from Turner to Friedrich Thursday 15 October The Poetic Chinese Garden: A Microcosm of Nature Thursday 19 November The Art and Science of the Lunar Society Tickets available on the door only. £10/ Free for BEDFAS members. Additional BEDFAS/lecture information: www.bedfas.org
To book, contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS: WWW.BARBER.ORG.UK
SPECIAL EVENTS
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LUNCHTIME TOURS AND TALKS
TO THE STUDIO:
Film Screening and In Conversation with Jake Auerbach Wednesday 11 November 5.15pm: Refreshments; galleries open 6 – 8pm: Film Screening & questions Barber concert hall Celebrating the recent acquisition of Frank Auerbach’s Primrose Hill – Winter, join his son, film-maker Jake Auerbach, for a screening of his 2001 documentary, To the Studio. An inventive, intriguing, and uncompromising artist, and regarded as one of the world’s most important living painters, Frank Auerbach is at the easel 365 days a year. After the film, Jake will be in conversation with the Barber’s Director, Nicola Kalinsky. There will also be the opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Free, but booking essential*
Enjoy the exhibitions and collections at six of Birmingham’s leading public art galleries, with the free Art Bus travelling between venues. Refreshments and guided tours are available at selected venues.
To download Art Bus timetable, and for more information on the exhibitions and Galleries Night offer at each venue, visit individual gallery websites.
COMMUNITY DAY: ART EXPLORERS!
Sunday 6 September 11am – 4pm
Become an Art Explorer at this year’s Community Day! Enjoy tales in the galleries with our storyteller and step back in time as you see artists come to life! Hunt down your favourite artworks in our gallery explorer’s treasure hunt, create your own ‘krazy kaleidoscope’ and make an arty pin-badge to take home. Fun for the whole family! FREE; drop in any time All ages welcome
THE BARBER: A POTTED HISTORY
Thursday 10 September, 2 – 3pm Friday 11 September, 11am – 12 noon Celebrate Birmingham Heritage Week by delving into the Barber’s past in this compelling walk and talk. Learn about Sir Henry and Lady Barber (pictured) and how the Barber came to be. Explore our wonderful Art Deco building, hear about its architect, Robert Atkinson, and take a look at the Barber’s first acquisitions. FREE – but booking essential*
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Saturday 21 November 11 – 4pm
Our popular Christmas Craft fair will be returning for another year. So join us for shopping and a drop-in craft session. Decorate a festive puppet or gift bag using felt, sequins, stickers and fabric crayons. Keep it for yourself or give as a gift! Everybody welcome. Free, no booking required. Drop in anytime.
Lightning Talks Wednesday 2 December 2 – 3pm Followed by tea and cake from 3 – 4pm
Join students from the University’s Department of History of Art in the galleries and get to know six works of art in 60 minutes! Hear from each student as they present their own unique and individually researched Lightning Talk about their chosen masterpiece – then, after ten minutes, the bell rings and it’s time to meet your next artwork! Open to all. Continue the conversations over complimentary tea and cake between 3 – 4pm. Free, but booking essential*
SUNDAY TOURS
Second and fourth Sundays of the month, 2.30pm Find out about our collections and exhibitions in this hour-long tour. Meet in the foyer. FREE, no booking required
AUDIODESCRIPTIVE TOURS
For blind and partially sighted visitors. One-hour tours and half-day INsight sessions with our friendly and knowledgeable Gallery Guides can be arranged for groups on request. Hand-held magnifiers as recommended by the RNIB are available from reception. To discuss your visit please contact the Learning and Access team on 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk
SIGNED TOURS FINE ART VALUATION DAY
Thursday 12 November 10am – 4pm Ever wondered how much that painting over the fireplace or that family heirloom was worth? Bring it along to this valuation day, with experts from valuers and auctioneers Biddle and Webb, and find out! Director and auctioneer Jeremy Thornton, and fine art specialist Catherine White will be in attendance to provide verbal valuations for, and advise on how to go about selling, fine art objects – particularly paintings, drawings, prints or sculpture. FREE - Drop in – no appointment necessary
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For deaf visitors. Gallery tours with our experienced Gallery Guides and qualified BSL interpreters can also be arranged on request. For more information please contact the Learning and Access team on 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk
To book, contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS: WWW.BARBER.ORG.UK
music
SPECIAL EVENTS
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
Binchois Consort
Pascal and Ami Rogé
Wednesday 28 October 7.30pm The Battle of Agincourt Andrew Kirkman, conductor The Binchois Consort mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, one of England’s greatest military victories. The programme also brings the focus onto its victor, Henry V. Great warrior though he was, Henry – typically for his time – was also a major patron of the arts. Like early fifteenthcentury life itself, the music of Henry’s time is colourful and surprisingly varied: a world of energy, rhythm, drive and brilliance.
Lunchtime Concerts Join us every Friday lunchtime in the autumn term for our Barber Lunchtime Concert series. For more details and to find out about all of the concerts this term, pick up the University MUSIC brochure from the Barber or Bramall foyers.
Wednesday 9 December 7.30pm
quartet-lab
Wednesday 25 November 7.30pm Kurtág String Quartet No. Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Beethoven Quartet, Op. 127 Plus additional short chamber works, to be announced from the stage. Sharing a passion for experimentation, quartetlab has developed programmes around musical texture, context and colour. Familiar repertoire is positioned alongside contemporary works and interspersed with chamber music. Such unusual programming has become the quartet’s trademark.
Fauré Dolly Suite Debussy 6 preludes (solo) Schubert Fantasie in F minor, Op. 103, D940 Mozart Sonata in C, K521 Dvorák Four Slavonic Dances Pascal Rogé enjoys an international reputation as one of the great interpreters of French music, and for several years has performed recitals for four hands/two pianos with partner, Ami Rogé. Together they have travelled the world, appearing at prestigious concert halls including New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Kings Place, and The Sage Gateshead, and at many of the major international music festivals. BOOKING For ALL the above concerts: Admission: £18, £15 concessions, £12 Barber Friends, £5 students. Tickets available from the Barber Institute reception on 0121 414 7333 or online at shop.bham.ac.uk
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OCTOber CONTINUED
Date
TIME
EVENT
Tuesday 1
1.15pm Gallery Talk
Sunday 6 Tuesday 8
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EVENT Gallery tour
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Sunday 11
2.30pm
11am – 4pm
Community Day Family story telling and craft activities
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Monday 12
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Four Foyer Favourites
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1.30 – 4.30pm Writing Workshop*/**
2 – 3pm
Book Club*/**
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
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Tuesday 13
1.15pm
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Thursday 10
2 – 3pm
BUILDING TOUR*
Workshop for young people aged 13 – 18yrs The Barber: A Potted History
Friday 11
11 – 12 noon BUILDING TOUR*
The Barber: A Potted History
Sunday 13
2.30pm
Gallery Tour
Tuesday 15
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
The Classical Legacy
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Wednesday 16 1.10pm
Lunchtime lecture
Small Change and Big Changes
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Thursday 17
6 – 8.15pm
BEDFAS Lecture Evening**
Images of the Wilderness: Artists in search of the Sublime from Turner to Friedrich
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Saturday 19
1.30 – 4pm
Writing Workshop*/**
Word Play
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2.30pm
Gallery Tour
Inheriting Rome
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Tuesday 22
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Genre: The Poor Relation
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Workshop for young people aged 13 – 18yrs
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WEDNESday 23 1.10 – 2pm
Lunchtime Lecture
Rome and the Empire of Art
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Thursday 24
1 – 3pm
Adult Workshop*/**
Looking at Art
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Saturday 26
11am – 1pm
Adult Workshop*/**
Looking at Art
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Sunday 27
2.30pm
Gallery Tour
Tuesday 29
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Intro to the Barber’s Works on Paper
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Lunchtime Lecture
Some Degrees of Separation: Rome and Germany
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WEDNESday 30 1.10 – 2pm
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/**
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Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
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To book, contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS: WWW.BARBER.ORG.UK
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Gallery Talk
From Africa to Asia: Four sculptures
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2 – 3pm
Book Club*/**
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
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1.30 – 4pm
Gallery tour
Uncovering Literature
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6 – 8.15pm
BEDFAS Lecture Evening**
The Poetic Chinese Garden: A Microcosm of Nature
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FRIDAY 16
1.30 – 4pm
Writing Workshop*/**
Self and Others
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Tuesday 20
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Exhibition Introduction: Terms of Engagement
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Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
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Thursday 15
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/** Wednesday 21 6.30 – 8pm
In Conversation
Humphrey Ocean RA
Saturday 24
11am – 4pm
Family Day
The Big Draw: Every Picture Tells a Story
SUnday 25
2.30pm
Gallery tour
Tuesday 27
1.15pm
Gallery TALK
The Reformation and Counter Reformation
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Wednesday 28 7.30pm
Concert*/**
Binchois Consort
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Friday 30
Galleries Night
Art Bus and gallery tours
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Gallery Talk
Exhibition Introduction: Flinck in Focus
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Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
10
5 – 9pm
See Families First brochure 14
NOVEmber Tuesday 3
Introduction to the Barber’s Paintings and Sculpture
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OCTOber
DETAILS The Still Life of Vanitas
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Sunday 20
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/**
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TIME
Boy Meets Girl
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/**
Tuesday 6
Date
E V E N T S D I A RY
E V E N T S D I A RY
September
1.15pm
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/** Wednesday 4
1.10 – 2pm
Lunchtime Lecture
Commissioning Portraits for the University
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Saturday 7
11am – 4pm
Adult*/** Workshop
Auerbach Abstract Painting 1
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sunday 8
2.30
gallery tour
Tuesday 10
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Display Introduction: The Age of Innocence
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2 – 3pm
Book Club*/**
The Masterpiece by Emil Zola
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* Booking Essential
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** Charges apply.
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Date
TIME
EVENT
DETAILS
Wednesday 11 5.15 – 8pm
Film Night
To the Studio: Film Screening and In Conversation with Jake Auerbach
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Thursday 12
10 – 4pm
Fine Art Valuation Day
With Auctioneers Biddle and Webb
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Saturday 14
11am – 4pm
Adult Workshop*/**
Auerbach Abstract Painting 2
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1.30 – 4pm
Writing Workshop*/**
Sun, Rain Wind and Clouds
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1.15pm
Gallery Talk
Ivory, Jade and Bloodstone
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Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
10
ACCESS
BEDFAS Lecture Evening**
The Art and Science of the Lunar Society
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Festive gift stalls and a family craft session
Facilities for disabled visitors include designated parking, level access, wheelchair, lift and WC. Call in advance to make your visit easier. Baby changing facilities are available and the Barber is a breastfeedingfriendly venue throughout.
Tuesday 17
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/** Thursday 19
6 – 8.15pm
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Saturday 21
11am – 4pm
Christmas Craft Fair
SUNDAY 22
2.30pm
GALLERY TOUR
Tuesday 24
1.15pm
Gallery Tour
Coping with the Ancestors
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CONCERT */**
quartet-lab
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Terms of Engagement & Phantom Walls
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Display Introduction: 70 Years of Barber Concerts
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Wednesday 25 7.30pm
11.30am – 1pm WALK & TALK
Saturday 28
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DECEMber Tuesday 1
1.15pm
Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm (Closed 24 – 26 December; 1 January)
Free admission to galleries & all exhibitions
SHOP Gallery Talk
4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/** Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
10
Wednesday 2
2 – 4pm
Lightning Talks*
Gallery mini-talks led by History of Art students
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Tuesday 8
1.15pm
Gallery Tour
The T- Shirt Tour: Barber Faces
12
2 – 3pm
Book Club*/**
How to be Both by Ali Smith
11
Wednesday 9
7.30pm
Concert*/**
Pascal and Ami Rogé
15
Saturday 12
1.30 – 4pm
Writing Workshop*/**
Celebrate!
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SUNDAY 13
2.30pm
gallery tour
Tuesday 15
1.15pm
Gallery Talk
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4.30 – 6.30pm Barber Youth*/** Young people’s workshop (13 – 18yrs)
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OPENING HOURS
* Booking Essential
** Charges apply.
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Our shop sells a wide variety of items from pocket money souvenirs for children to high quality designer leather goods. We also offer a range of collection- and exhibition-related books, postcards, greetings cards and gifts suitable for all pockets.
REFRESHMENTS Hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, cakes and confectionery, including a fantastic range of Fairtrade items, are available.
GROUP VISITS Group visits are welcome, but if you plan to visit with a group, please call to let us know six weeks in advance. Guided tours and refreshments can also be arranged in advance for a small charge. Tours of the collection for visually impaired groups are also available. Contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk
EDUCATION VISITS Education workshops can be provided for school (supporting KS15), college or university groups. Contact 0121 414 2261 or education@barber.org.uk
FRIENDS OF THE BARBER Let your passion for art and music help support and promote the Barber. A Friend’s subscription entitles you to a range of exciting benefits and events.To find out more to becoming a Friend, please visit www.barber.org.uk/ support or contact friends@barber.org.uk
PATRONS OF THE BARBER Our Patrons support the Barber Institute’s work financially in many areas, while also enjoying exclusive private views, visits and events. Subscription levels are: Benefactors - £200 per year; Director’s Circle - £500 per year; 1932 Club - £1,000 a year. If you are interested in becoming a Patron or a Corporate Patron, please contact 0121 414 2946 or marketing@barber. org.uk
HIRE The Barber’s stunning galleries, foyer, concert hall and lecture theatre are all available for hire for receptions, launches and other functions. The hire can include an exclusive private view and introductory talk from a staff member. We offer a wide range of wines, beers, spirits, soft drinks and nibbles, and can also arrange buffet catering. For more details visit: www.barber.org.uk/ venue-hire/ or contact our Events Officer on 0121 414 6985 or events@barber.org.uk.
GENERAL INFO
E V E N T S D I A RY
NOVEmber CONTINUED
For more information about our concerts and our thriving children's programme, see these separate leaflets:
September - December 2015
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FREE ADMISSION TO GALLERIES AND ALL EXHIBITIONS Opening Hours Monday to Friday: 10am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday: 11am – 5pm (Closed 24 – 26 December; 1 January) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TS
How to Find us The Barber Institute is located in south-west Birmingham, approximately three miles from the city centre, at the East Gate of the University of Birmingham, off Edgbaston Park Road. By Train University station, a 10-minute walk from the Barber, is served by trains from Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Longbridge, Cardiff and Worcestershire. Check train times and buy tickets at www.thetrainline.com. By Bus There are frequent buses from the city centre past the bottom of Edgbaston Park Road (61 and 63 operated by National Express West Midlands). By Car North East car park (off Pritchatts Road) is five minutes’ walk away. Charges apply Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm. FREE parking is available on campus around the Barber outside these times. Please check our website for the latest information on car parking. For maps and more information about how to travel to the Barber visit: www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps
find out more www.barber.org.uk info@barber.org.uk 0121 414 7333
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