ART FESTIVALHISTORY
Festival Guide 20–26 September 2022
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We are very grateful to The Ampersand Foundation whose support ensured that the Festival remains free and widely accessible and to Bolton & Quinn for very generously conducting the PR for the Festival. We would also like to thank the Paul Mellon Centre for its contribution towards speaker fees.
Cover: Sumuyya Khader, Changing Winds, 2020.
Running from 19 26 September, the Association for Art History’s celebration of art history and visual cultures takes place at museums, galleries and cultural organisations nationwide.
WELCOME TO ART 2022FESTIVALHISTORY
If you are interested in the visual or material arts and want to deepen your engagement through art history, then this is the Festival for you! Join us for a stellar programme of tours, in-conversation events, creative workshops and special late openings all free-of-charge. This year’s Festival is based around five important themes including Nature; Wellbeing; Social Justice; Community Participation; and Digital Engagement – look out for these icons on event listings:
Events will take place in-person and online, so do check out what is coming up in your area via: @forarthistory on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and the hashtag #arthistoryfestival2022 All Art History Festival events are FREE. All inperson event listings are under their region, and then in alphabetical order by venue and date order.
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Addis Fine Art’s position in the African arts scene
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Mesai Haileleul. Image courtesy of Addis Fine Art and Bandele Zuberi
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Discussing the ever-expanding work of Addis Fine Art, co-founder Mesai Haileleul introduces the aims of both gallery spaces in London and Addis Ababa. Using artists that the gallery represents as examples, Mesai explores the wider contemporary arts scene in the Horn of Africa and how Addis Fine Art complements this ecosystem.
Mesai Haileleul has tirelessly worked to spotlight Ethiopian artists on the international stage. Having lived in Los Angeles for 30 years, where he ran an Ethiopian art gallery, Mesai decided to move back to Ethiopia in the past decade to continue his mission to foster the arts community in the country. The Addis Ababa branch of Addis Fine Art that Mesai heads is focused on being an incubator for emerging talent in the country and the wider Horn of Africa region.
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Hidden Reynolds VI, Photocollage 2022
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volker HerMes is a German visual artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Through his Hidden Portraits, Hermes has collaborated with museums and galleries internationally to create works from portraits in their collections.
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douglas dodds is an independent curator and researcher. He was previously a Senior Curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where he was responsible for developing the museum’s digital art collections. V&A exhibitions include Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018 2020); Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (2013); and Digital Pioneers (2009 2010).
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Contemporary perspectives on old masters
Ten years in the making, Hidden Portraits reinterprets historical paintings through a modern lens. Using only elements from the original work, contemporary artist Volker Hermes digitally manipulates famous Old Masters portraits, exploring expression when the face is obscured. For this event Hermes discusses his work and how he uses the digital format as a means of contemporary contextualization of historical artworks.
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Volker Hermes’ Hidden Portraits: a new voice in an old world
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interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race and human rights. He has been director of the photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991 and is extensively published.
taous daHMani is a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specialising in photography. Her academic research focuses on the photographic representation of struggle including the visual culture of protests, migratory narratives and intersectional feminist discourses.
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This event is a conversation across history, location and politics in and through the work of Autograph. The discussion will address the different trajectories and strategies that have informed Autograph’s position on global photographies, institutions and ideologies. From Advocacy to Agency from Archives to Public Art. Issues addressing race rights and representation will be at the heart of this Mconversation.arksealyis
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ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY + AUTOGRAPH ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
Decolonising The Camera –Photography in Racial Time
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‘Tattooing our skins and calling it painting ’: An Art Historical Approach to Tattooing
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Matt lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, and Director of American Studies at the University of Essex. His research primarily concerns the application of art-historical methods to history of Western tattooing from the 17th century to the present day, with a principal focus on the professional era from the 1880s onwards. 21
In this talk, based on extracts from his new book Painted People: A History of the World in 21 Tattoos (HarperCollins), Matt Lodder will make a case for approaching tattooing using the methodological tools of art historical scholarship. To those who have never been tattooed, the simple, painful act of inserting an ink-soaked needle into the skin may seem like the most salient fact about the practice. Join us to discover why tattoos in one place and time are not directly comparable with those made elsewhere simply by virtue of the way they are produced.
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Visible Skin: Rediscovering the Renaissance through Black Portraiture
A talk with Peter Brathwaite
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17 Renaissance Europe was a multicultural reality, but is this reflected in the art history of the period and how? Peter Brathwaite discusses his exhibition Visible Skin which was displayed at King’s College London from October 2021 –February 2022 and wider debates around Black representation within Renaissance art.
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peter bratHwaite is a London-based baritone who has performed to critical acclaim on international opera stages including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, and Opera de Lyon. He has written articles for The Guardian and Independent and is a presenter on BBC Radio 3.
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ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Wednesday 21 September The18.30 – 19.30Gallery 70 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EJ Booking SunilrequiredGupta
sunil gupta is a British/Canadian citizen, who lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues.
Fiona anderson is Senior Lecturer in Art History in the Fine Art department at Newcastle University. Her queer art historical work focuses on practices of gentrification, preservation, archiving, and histories of HIV/ AIDS, mostly in the USA and the UK. in conversation with Fiona Anderson
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Since the 1970s, Sunil Gupta has photographed important developments in the history of international gay rights. From New York post-Stonewall to recording the experiences of LGBTQ+ lives in Canada, India and the UK, his images are immediately political and personal. More recently he has turned the camera on himself to interrogate and openly share his identity as a gay Indian man living with AIDS. Join us for this special in-conversation event.
Director Peter Webber in conversation with The Guardian’s Chief Film Critic Peter Bradshaw
From Canvas to Page to Screen; The Making of Girl with a Pearl Earring
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21 Johannes Vermeer’s (1632 1675) Girl with a Pearl Earring painted in 1665 is arguably one of the most famous images in art history. In 2003 film director Peter Webber entered Vermeer’s world though this legendary canvas via the bestselling novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Join Peter as he discusses how he navigated between the painting and the book to create his own individual masterpiece in moving image.
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ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY + PETER WEBBER
peter bradsHaw is chief film critic of The Guardian and a contributing editor of Esquire magazine. He is the author of three novels, Lucky Baby Jesus, Dr Sweet And His Daughter and Night Of Triumph.
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peter webber is a British director, editor and producer. His major cinematic directorial debut came with Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth, receiving 3 Academy Award nominations, 2 Golden Globe nominations and 10 BAFTA Award nominations.
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Above left: Najlaa El-Ageli
A Different Take on Art History: Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa
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Above right: Raghad Mardini
Mardini is Founding Director of Litehouse Gallery, part of her ongoing commitment to showcase the work of contemporary Syrian artists, develop their market and integrate them further into the international art scene.
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The Middle East and North Africa have visual histories that stretch back to some of the world’s first great civilisations. Today, artists from these regions continue to find inspiration in these rich legacies but also engage with contemporary questions and concerns. In this discussion we hear about what the history of art means to artists from these regions, in particular Syria and Libya and how new global art histories might be created.
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najlaa el-ageli is an architect with over twenty years of experience in the profession. In 2012 she founded Noon Arts Projects with a mission to bring the best of contemporary Libyan art, from both emerging and established artists, and expose it to the world ragstage.Had
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Rita Keegan in her studio, photograph by Lewis Khan
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Rita Keegan – A History of British Art: Exclusion and Inclusion
leslie priMo is a lecturer, writer and broadcaster. He teaches art history at Imperial College London and the City Literary Institute, London. He appears regularly in documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, including, Michelangelo: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and Turner: Light and Landscape.
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rita keegan was born in the Bronx in 1949 and moved to London in 1980. Her work explores memory, history, dress and adornment, often through the use of her extensive family archive – a photo-graphic record of a black middle class Canadian family dating from 1890s to present day. Her practice is a defining example of how new media experimentation intersect with the British Black Arts Movement.
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25 Artist, activist and archivist Rita Keegan discusses her creative and artistic life in which she has contributed much to the canon of art history while also adding to the continuing international and historical legacy of British Art.
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katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, and broadcaster whose commitment to foregrounding women artists, both from the present day and history, has allowed her to become one of the most exciting voices in the art world today. Her unique perspective has attracted a global following, bringing new audiences to art through her @thegreatwomenartists Instagram and The Great Women Artists Podcast.
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The Story of Art without Men
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In this talk katy Hessel overturns our sense of art history by diving into the glittering works of Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola, the radical work of Harriet Powers in nineteenth-century America and the woman artist who really invented the Readymade. From the Cornish coast to postWar Latin America, from Nigeria to Japan, Katy Hessel rewrites the story of art for our times, opening our eyes to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed and placing women at its heart.
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Using the British Museum as a resource for Art History
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The Great Court of the British Museum, opened 2000, architect: Norman Foster. Image credit: Museums Association
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Hilary williaMs, Education Officer: Art History, Learning and National Partnerships, British Museum
Maria bojanowska, Dorset Foundation Head of National Programmes, Learning and National Partnerships, British Museum
The British Museum collections, across cultures, time and media, lend themselves brilliantly to many art historical approaches. The sheer size and range of the collection may seem awesome. Where do you start? In this event, three expert speakers, offer ways of engaging with the Museum and its collections, online, onsite or through the Museum’s programme of diverse travelling exhibitions and loans to partner museums and galleries. Resonant images which connect disparate cultures will feature strongly. It is a great place to see the birth of art history too.
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Head of Learning & National Partnerships, British Museum
Thursday 22 September – Monday 26 September
Online event video available to view on Festival webpage
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A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Minds. (2022) Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, the vacuum cleaner and Bernie Grant Arts Centre
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CHISENHALE GALLERY ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Thursday 22 Online15.00 – 16.00Septemberevent Booking required
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2.8 Million Minds was commissioned by the Mayor of London and is a collaboration between artist and mental health activist the vacuum cleaner, Chisenhale Gallery and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre.
For this event, artists Becky Warnock and Tyreis Holder will discuss their contributions to the manifesto with some of the young artists they worked with, reflecting on the theory and practice behind the project with Chisenhale Gallery’s Seth Pimlott.
A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Minds: art, young people and mental health
Developed over six months, 2.8 Million Minds is a youth-led and artist-centred manifesto that outlines an original set of ideas about how art spaces can support and empower young Londoners struggling with their mental health.
The Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology: Back to the Future
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jane Harris, Director of the Creative R&D Partnership The Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology and Professor of Digital Design and Innovation at the University of the Arts London and HannaH auerbacH george and liz tregenza, both Post-Doctoral Research Fellows working across the V&A and BFTT, will discuss how their research into circular material resources, and online fashion experiences is providing vital support to the next generation of fashion, wider apparel, textiles and related technology entrepreneurs as they navigate new practices and markets in the fashion metaverse and engage fully in the challenges of the climate emergency.
DESIGN HISTORY SOCIETY + DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The ecosystem of fashion, textiles and technology is a focal point of activism and industrial strategy about sustainability. This conversation explores sustainable innovation within the entire fashion and textile supply chain today.
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Wednesday 21 September
University of Oxford Rewley House
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Luigi Pericle, Untitled (Matri Dei d.d.d.), 1978, private collection
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Estorick15.00 – 15.40Collection of Modern Italian Art
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35 Luigi Pericle (1916 2001) was a fascinating and singular artist. A Swiss painter of Italian origin, he was also an illustrator, writer and a scholar of esoteric philosophies such as astrology, theosophy and alchemy. Characterised by sweeping, calligraphic brushstrokes, his works established him as a key protagonist of postwar abstraction, yet in 1965, at the peak of his success, he suddenly withdrew from the art world. For the remainder of his career Pericle dedicated himself to his philosophical studies and to the creation of luminous, complex artworks in which cosmic forces and transcendental psychic states were explored through a highly personal repertoire of geometric forms and mystical, totemic symbols. Join Assistant Curator cHristopHer adaMs for a tour considering Pericle’s unique interpretation of the natural world. ESTORICK COLLECTION ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
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Rediscovering Luigi Pericle
Above left: Cornelia Parker, studio, London 2013 by Anne-Katrin Purkiss.
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Culture, Nature and Art –Cornelia Parker in Conversation with Rachel Thomas
HAYWARD GALLERY ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
Monday 19 – Monday 26 September
racHel tHoMas is Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery.
This talk is an exploratory journey around the themes of climate and the ever-changing role of art in our lives. Delving into the myriad connections between climate change, nature and politics, the conversation will centre on Cornelia Parker’s artistic practice. This talk is a precursor to the Hayward Gallery’s international climate exhibition scheduled for summer cSpeakers:2023.orneliaparker
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is well known for her large scale, often site-specific, installations. Working with sculpture and installation, as well as embroidery, drawing, photography and film, Parker positions her subjects at the very moment of their transformation, suspended in time and completely still.
Fourth Plinth commission artist, Samson Kambalu
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Drop-in drawing
Artist and educator, eMily Motto, will lead a mark-making session inspired by nature in the gallery. We will be exploring how natural shapes, colours and textures depicted in paintings can inspire us, using a variety of materials to make experimental drawings.
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Artists from the very beginning of the Italian Renaissance have sought to express powerful illumination with their use of light and shade. From gold leaf on early altarpieces to glowing light bathed Venetian landscapes, painters across the continent have been inspired by the beaming sun of Italy.
Talks are given by members of Articulation, a public speaking initiative for young people designed to promote the appreciation and discussion of visual culture.
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Friday 23 September
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This event has been cancelled following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
Samson Kambalu in conversation 18:30 Sainsbury Wing Theatre
Hear from this year’s Fourth Plinth commission artist Samson Kambalu after its September unveiling. Antelope by Samson Kambalu is unveiled as the 14th Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square on 14 September 2022. This special Friday Late sees Kambalu join us to discuss the commission, his work more broadly, and what it means to be part of the most popular public art project in the UK.
Into the landscape
A mindful look at Rubens’ ‘Het Steen’ 18:00, 19:15 Room 20
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Art history lecturer karly allen introduces mindful approaches that can support our looking at art. What happens when we turn fully towards our sensory experience of being with a painting, giving the thinking mind a rest for a while? How can mindfulness approaches to art observation bring us closer to a picture and our personal responses to it?
The Fourth Plinth is funded by the Mayor of London with support from Arts Council England and Bloomberg Philanthropies
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saMson kaMbalu was born in 1975 in Malawi. He lives and works in Oxford where he is an Associate Professor of Fine Art and a lifelong fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
Jem Belcher Living Portrait
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‘Living Portraits’: Jem Belcher
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Join experts from the National Portrait Gallery, Athena Arts Foundation, Megaverse and the National Youth Theatre for a livestreaming, discussion and Q&A around ‘Living Portraits’.
This innovative experience allows you to hear directly from nineteentch century bareknuckle boxer and butcher Jem Belcher. Belcher speaks to us in a monologue by a young writer and brought to life by an actor from the National Youth Theatre, while the image is subtly manipulated to appear as if to come alive.
As the first in a planned series of ‘Living Portraits’, the team will discuss how the techniques and technology behind the experience could be further used to enable the subjects of historical paintings to reveal themselves through real-time motion capture and storytelling. With themes such as identity and marginalisation, the objective is to engage audiences online and in-gallery with littleknown figures in collections of historic art.
What does it mean to curate a historic house?
Visitors walking on the drive outside the house at Kingston Lacy, Dorset. 193836 © National Trust Images/Arnhel de Serra
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The short film, shot at Kingston Lacy in the summer of 2022, explores the role of the curator in a publicly accessible historic house, discussing how to prioritise sharing what is significant rather than what is left.
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Following the film, Cox and Cooper will convene a panel discussion featuring leading specialists from across Europe to discuss the future for historic house curation and interpretation. required
This online event will combine a short film and panel discussion based on a British Academy-funded research project led by tarnya cooper (National Trust) and oliver cox (V&A), which explores the contemporary issues and challenges with curating a historic house owned by a heritage organisation.
Queer Britain / Rahil Ahmad
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This year Queer Britain launched the inaugural exhibition in the first LGBTQ+ museum in the UK. Called ‘We Are Queer Britain’, it features a selection of artefacts that bring together important voices, objects and images from UK’s queer activism, art, politics and culture. From Oscar Wilde’s prison door to banners carried by participants at the most recent Trans Pride in London, the exhibition included material dating back to the 18th century, while also marking 50 years of Pride in the UK.
This panel discussion is presented with the support of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network.
QUEER BRITAIN ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Friday 23 September 17.00 – 18.00
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The curatorial team, including dawn Hosking, eMMa sHepHerd and MattHew storey, will be in conversation with dan vo about the decisions and choices behind bringing together this landmark exhibition. The team will also discuss how other heritage organisations can learn from their experience and expertise in finding objects and artefacts within existing heritage collections that allow the creation of displays that can explore and celebrate LGBTQ+ histories.
Hybrid Granary Are Queer Britain!
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Strike a pose: 250 years of life drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts
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Richard Harraden after Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, etching, aquatint and watercolour, 1 January 1808
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This talk will look at how and why the life class emerged as the linchpin of Western art education. Why did this approach to understanding and depicting the human body prove so important to the Royal Academy from its foundation to the late twentieth century? Despite its status, the life class was often the focus of controversy and debate, and this talk will consider these issues, including the exclusion of women students from the life class and their campaigns for access to it. The talk will end with a discussion of contemporary artists’ responses to life drawing and the life room, looking at how practice has developed in recent years.
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Japan: Courts and Culture exhibition private view
Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022
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Join a private tour of the exhibition, Japan: Courts and Culture at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace exploring British Royal encounters with Japan over a period of 350 years. Each object on display reflects materials and techniques particular to Japan. Uniquely, many were commissioned or presented by the Japanese Imperial Family. Together, they reveal the ceremonial, diplomatic and artistic exchange linking the two courts of East and West. The exhibition reflects the Art History Festival theme of Nature since many of the works of art displayed are directly inspired by the natural world and the passing of the seasons. It also illustrates a philosophical conception and appreciation of nature quite different from European traditions.
Booking required This event has been cancelled following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
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The Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace Road London SW1A 1AA
Tuesday 20 September
A consultations of physicians, unknown artist © Royal College of Physicians, photography by John Chase
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ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS MUSEUM ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
Wednesday 21 September
Royal11.00 – 12.00College of Physicians Museum
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A taste of one’s own medicine: exhibition tour
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Explore the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum exhibition, A taste of one’s own medicine: medical satire at the RCP , with an expert guide. Discover the enduring appeal of satirical images, and how doctors have been ridiculed, reprimanded and maligned for centuries.Graphic
satire has been popular for hundreds of years. The RCP cares for a unique collection of medical satire prints from the mid-18th century to the 1980s, donated to us by doctors and members over our 500-year history. In the past, as today, satirical images were closely tied to a particular time and place. They responded to contemporary events and were viewed by audiences who understood the circumstances of their creation, meaning they can now be difficult to understand.
A Brief Revolution: Photography at the Architectural Review 1969 – 1970
Thamesmead under construction, Greenwich, London Photographer: Tony Ray-Jones; Credit line: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
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In 1969 the Architectural Review (AR ) embarked on one of its most radical and controversial projects. ‘Manplan’, which ran over eight issues of the journal, was conceived as an analysis of the state of architecture and urban planning at the end of the 1960s, with the aim to propose an alternative and much more holistic approach, which would look at all basic human needs as a whole. Such an ambitious campaign required a strong visual statement; therefore the AR specifically commissioned photojournalists and street photographers, such as Ian Berry, Patrick Ward and Tony Ray-Jones, to illustrate the themes of each issue. Imbued with the spirit of photo-reportage and shot on 35mm cameras, their black and white images often featured people inhabiting and using the spaces studied by the survey, thereby shifting the focus from the architecture itself to the human element within the built environment. OF HISTORIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN
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Gallery views of the new Medicine Galleries, showing Self-Conscious Gene, by Marc Quinn, 2019. Originally commissioned for The Medicine Galleries, by the Science Museum, London © Science Museum Group
Contemporary art in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
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SCIENCE MUSEUM ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
Meet at Group Entrance on Imperial College Road
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Join natasHa Mcenroe, Keeper of Medicine, and anna Ferrari, Curator of Art and Visual Culture in this curator-led tour to explore contemporary art in the Science Museum’s Medicine galleries which opened in autumn 2019. Art has long been part of the Science Museum’s collection, introducing new perspectives and ways of looking at and understanding science. More recently art commissions have played a key role in new galleries at the Contemporarymuseum.artcommissions
by Eleanor Crook, Siân Davey, Jenny Holzer, Studio Roso, Marc Quinn, as well as a newly acquired work by Grayson Perry, were at the heart of the plans for the new Medicine galleries at the Science Museum. The curators will discuss how these works came about and how they fit into the collection and broaden the understanding of medicine.
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Saturday 24 September
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This is a free chance to attend a tour of Sir John Soane’s Museum, see rare items from our archive and hear from our knowledgeable team about why art history matters to us today, as much as it did to Sir John Soane himself who left his house to the nation almost 200 years ago in 1837.
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59 Sir John Soane’s Museum is a treasure trove of ancient artefacts, sculptures, architectural drawings and objects. At this free study day young people new to the discipline of art history will get the chance to hear all about it from Art History Link-Up – a charity dedicated to widening participation to art history – and about how you can get involved with their amazing courses. You will have opportunities to discuss, debate and snack!
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A Brief Guide to Egyptian Surrealism
Egyptian Surrealism: Still from A Brief Guide to Egyptian Surrealism. © Tate
Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor
In 1938, a group of 37 artists, writers and thinkers in Cairo signed a manifesto titled ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’. This marked the start of the group known as ‘Art and Liberty’, and the birth of a distinctly Egyptian style of Surrealism. Get to know some of the key Egyptian Surrealists in this short animated film, including Mayo, Amy Nimr, Ramses Younan, and their connection to an international network of Surrealists in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Film available to view via Festival webpage Duration 3.48 minutes
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Fernando Palma Rodriquez –There’s No Room for Ghosts
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Fernando Palma Rodriguez: Still from Fernando Palma Rodríguez – ‘There’s no room for ghosts’, artist film. © Tate
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Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor
Duration 12.45 minutes
Monday 26 September
Originally trained as an engineer, the artworks of Fernando palMa rodríguez blur the boundaries between nature, technology and art. In the words of the artist, “Nature has been replaced by the transistor”. In this video, enter the artist’s home and studio in Milpa Alta, formerly a separate rural community but now subsumed into the ever-expanding Mexico City. Rodríguez introduces us to his family, the Mexican landscape that is so influential to his work, and to his alter ego: the coyotl.
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‘Experimentation–has been my forte’
Monika Correa: Still from Monika Correa, artist film. © Tate
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Indian artist Monika correa started weaving in 1962. She commissioned a carpenter to build a customised loom and has experimented with this practice ever since.
Hear the artist talk about the thinking behind her artwork Original Sin 1972 and the effects that the process of weaving can produce.
Monday 19 September –Monday 26 September
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Film available to view via Festival webpage Duration 6.59 minutes
Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor
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Cocktail dress and belt of spotted net, designed by Madame Grès, Paris, ca.1955 ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Colour Black in Textiles and Dress
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Monday 19–Monday 26 September
Black is probably the most versatile colour in dress. It can be sexy, sophisticated and occasionally mysterious. At the same time black is respectable and authoritative and yet it was a difficult colour to dye and did not appear in any quantity until the 14th century. After that it was worn to great effect by courtiers and more modestly by theologians. It has become the uniform of the professional classes and the essential ‘little black dress’ can be found in many wardrobes. This versatile colour has a rich and sometimes surprising history.
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Join jenniFer wearden, former V&A Senior Curator of Textiles in the Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion for a fascinating exploration of the colour black via this prerecorded V&A Academy online lecture you can enjoy on demand.
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Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita), 1781© The Wallace Collection
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What can we discover if we slow down, and look closely? Immerse yourself in Gainsborough’s Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita) and see what can be revealed through this intimate guided looking session. Places are limited and must be booked in advance. With art historian jo rHyMer.
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Across time, artists have gained recognition and fame through innovations in style and technique. But what about artists who have experimented with art’s capacity to record and arouse emotion?
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Writer and art historian rebecca birrell discusses these ideas through works drawn from the Fitzwilliam Collection. Fitzwilliam Emotion
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Vivian Maier, New York, September 3, 1954 © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY
The discussion will consider the ways photojournalism and documentary photography can be used both as a means of storytelling to advocate for communities and give them agency whilst also risking instrumentalising them in ways that can be considered exploitative. Raising the question of whose voices are heard and how authentic theyTheare.panel will consist of philosophers from the Open Universities Philosophy Department and photographers whose practice involves documentary photography.
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The Ethics of Documentary
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A panel discussion sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy exploring the ethics surrounding documentary photography practices and photojournalism, taking the discovery and exposure of Vivian Maier’s work as a starting point.
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Headdress of blue and red macaw feathers and small green feathers on a cotton band, tied around a basketry framework in open hexagonal plaiting. Beaded cotton pendants with feathered ends on some of the long feathers. Guyana. Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Featherwork Art and Eco-Activism
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The tours will be led by members of the museum research team together with members of the conservation team and will focus on telling the art and conservation histories of featherwork objects in the collections. We will engage visitors with handling collections of featherwork objects, as well as explore new digital displays which have been made in collaboration with artists in South America inspired by the featherwork in the Pitt Rivers Museum collections to create art that is used for eco-activism around endangered bird species.
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The objective of these in-gallery tours for the public is to share information about ongoing projects at the museum working with artists who design contemporary featherwork art in South America as part of eco-activism, as well as learning about the conservation of these fragile objects as part of our What’s in Our Drawers? project.
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Evenki artist and knowledge holder Galina Veretnova in traditional Evenki dress. Courtesy of the artist and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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Marina Abramović @ the Pitt Rivers Museum
Marina Abramović interacting with a ‘Witches’ Ladder’ from the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, 2021’ Courtesy of the artist and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Photo: Tim Hand
The Pitt Rivers installation will be launched on 24th September 2022 to coincide with the opening of Gates and Portals, a solo exhibition by Marina Abramovic at Modern Art Oxford.
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The Pitt Rivers Museum is proud to be hosting a case installation by the pioneering performance artist, Marina abraMović, arising from her research residency at the museum in 2021.
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Join the Play! project with a day of drop-in activities, workshops, and joining in at the Inspiration station.
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Queering Collections –Developing a Toolkit for Change Study Day
Fast forward almost 20 years. What, if anything, has changed for queer artists working in an institutional context?
Taking as a starting point Walsall’s current project Here&Queer developed with an LGBTQ+ Community Panel who explored our Collections and offered queer reinterpretations, we will explore ways of improving the visibility of queerness within museums as a way to reflect and represent contemporary society, and advocate for a queer-positive, queer-normative museum.
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In 2004 artist Michael Petry presented a body of work at The New Art Gallery Walsall. The project Hidden Histories explored male same sex lovers in the visual arts. At the time, it was vilified – including the artist facing accusations of paedophilia.
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Sumuyya Khader, Changing Winds, 2020. © The Artist. Collection of Leeds Museums & Galleries.
Join us for a free gallery tour of the Shifting Perspectives exhibition by jon sleigH (arts educator and learning curator).
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Shifting Perspectives explores issues around (mis)representation and identity through examining mechanisms of stereotyping and unequal power relations, connecting the past and the present. The exhibition celebrates the contributions of a wide range of Leeds communities, featuring different voices and perspectives on the issues raised by the exhibition. Shifting Perspectives brings together nearly a hundred works of art ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day from the Leeds collection. Works created by artists of the global majority are shown alongside those by white artists, exploring both parallels and divergences.Thetalkwill have BSL and an audio description of the works that feature as part of the tour.
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Drop in to join in a day of word play inspired by family stories and meet other families who are doing the same. Inspired by the power of celebrating our differences by speaking and listening to each other, this drop-in event takes as its starting point the gallery’s newest exhibition Shifting Perspectives.in, no
Joyful Coalitions in Artspace with poet Abdullah Adekola
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WAIWAV was a one-day event in 30 UK galleries. Organised by DASH, specially selected Disabled artists generated and delivered Dadaist interventions to draw attention to the politics of institutional exclusion.Wearevery pleased to showcase the film bringing together the work of 31 artists, and to celebrate Fleeting Interruptions, Failures, Aberrations by saM Metz which took place within the gallery’s Central Court on 2 July 2022.
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joanne crawFord is an art historian and the Head of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, but her venture into the academic life is not a usual one. In the late 1980s, as a working-class single parent from Leeds and one coming from a family who would not even think about going to university, she became increasingly interested in Afterart.
a number of lunchtime visits to Leeds Art Gallery she decided to find out more. Her journey brought her to the University of Leeds full-time to study Art History and Philosophy.
In this talk Joanne will speak about Gaudier Brzeska’s The Wrestler, a sculpture that has particular resonance for her and how art history enabled her to think differently about the world around her as well as expanding her life and career choices.
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When a Leeds Girl discovers Art History
LEEDS ART GALLERY + UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Wednesday 21 September LeedsTheLeeds13.00 – 14.00ArtGalleryHeadrowLS13AA Booking required
Archive Lives: Curator’s Talk
Archive photograph showing Wendy Taylor’s Gazebo 1971 in process in the artist’s studio, Stepney Green, London. Courtesy the artist and Leeds Museums and Galleries (Henry Moore Institute Archive)
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The Institute Galleries will remain open until 8pm.
The talk will include an opportunity to view important material from the Archive of Sculptors’ Papers, including photographs, sketchbooks and correspondence.
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Join clare nadal for a special in-person talk to celebrate the final week of our current display series Archive Lives: Documenting Women’s Sculptural Practices in Britain, which explores the important holdings relating to women in the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Museums and Galleries’ collections.
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Family Drop-in Workshop
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Drop in to make sculptures using wire and clay inspired by the work of South African sculptor noria Mabasa. This workshop is part of The World Reimagined Festival, and links to our current exhibition Lungiswa Gqunta: Sleep in Witness.
Saturday 24 September
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Test your knowledge of art and art history with our fiendishly easy pub quiz.
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You know more than you think already. We have all of the usual classics: the picture round (of course!), the music round, the emoji round, and everyone’s favourite, ‘Horse or Marble?’
Join us in the delightful surroundings of the Wapentake tavern in Leeds City Centre from 5pm.
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Preview of Mythmachine by Sahej Rahal
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saHej raHal is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction to create counter-mythologies that question narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations and AI programmes. He draws from various sources ranging from legends to science fiction, creating scenarios where beings emerge from the cracks in our civilisation.
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This preview event will feature performances that respond to the AI programs built by Sahej in the gallery space as a site for the rehearsal of cohabitation between human and non-human systems through speech, song and rhythm.
Mythmachine includes a new body of work conceived by Sahej Rahal as an immersive virtual playground that responds to chaos, luck and chance in the form of digital environments, sculptures, interactive sound systems and performance. Mythmachine comes from the future and will transform and expand in response to players.
Friday 23 September
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Join artist Fiona larkin as she introduces new work and a short publication which were made as responses to the Women Artists of the North-East Library (WANEL) Collection and Ethel Guymer, whose work is held in the Middlesbrough Collection. Guymer was a key member of the Cleveland Art Society for over 30 years holding positions including Treasurer and Secretary. Artworks from the Cleveland Art Society form some of the early work in the Middlesbrough Collection. Larkin makes work in response to the life and work of others.
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Hearing From Artists: Fiona Larkin
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Fiona Larkin: Around a tablecloth, An Open Table
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In this open table event, artist Fiona larkin convenes a discussion around artistled groups working locally. Framing the discussion is a tablecloth, a soft structure made by Fiona Larkin to gather around. With special guests and light refreshments made by gutsy girl, inspired by Ethel Guymer whose artwork is held in the Middlesbrough Collection and forms a key point of reference for Larkin. The event is part of a collaborative project between Women Artists of the NorthEast Library and MIMA.
Middlesbrough14:00 – 16:00 Institute of Modern Art Centre Square Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ
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Draw To Explore workshop
Adventures in Art schools workshop
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How can you get young people excited by art? How is modern art different from traditional paintings? What is happening in a painting andSpeciallywhy?
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designed for key stage 1, this workshop focuses on simple and fun art activities allowing students to discover the Walker Art Gallery’s collection. We will show students that the gallery is a space for interaction and creativity, helping to create a love of art that will last a lifetime.
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An interactive tour of the Walker Art Gallery for Key Stage 2 school groups introducing a range of artworks to the class. There is a discussion guided by our member of staff through skillful questioning and the pupils are encouraged to explore the artwork for themselves. During these discussions, the pupils learn more about the roles of artists and the purpose of art. And through discussion, the pupils engage with the artworks in a series of drawing tasks and creative responses.
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Refractive Pool – curator tours
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The Refractive Pool project, which started in 2019, has explored contemporary painting in the city through events, a book and online resources, highlighting the diverse range of artists and painting styles, culminates in this exhibition. Liverpool-based artists josie jenkins and brendan lyons have selected and curated the exhibition, which will feature 21 local artists to give an overview of the community of painters based in the city.
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Chinese Decorative Arts with Fiona Slattery Clark
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William Lever was an enthusiastic collector of Chinese porcelain and other Chinese artworks. He selected objects mainly for their beauty and craftsmanship. Join us for a special talk looking at the key developments of ceramic production in China throughout its various dynasties. CH62
Chinese Tea to British Tea, Chinaware to Jasperware
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Take a cultural journey over two centuries, from Elizabethan England and Ming Dynasty China to discover how a relationship which began with a request for trade and cultural exchange became beset by misunderstanding and Britain’s increasing obsession with tea and power.
sunny xin liu, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire. She is author of A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries – Anglo Chinese Encounters Before The Opium War which will be published by Routledge this summer. As a translator, lecturer and researcher, Sunny has spent half her career in China and half in the UK, her experience of both countries gives her insight into the history and relationship between China and Britain from the perspectives of both cultures.
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Storytelling with the Greeks: Key Stage 2 schools workshop
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Walker Art Gallery
Join our expert team for an art workshop with a difference. ‘Storytelling with the Greeks’ focuses on Charles Le Brun’s epic painting Atalanta and Meleager, creating a real wow moment. Students will dive into the details of the painting, unlocking the story behind it before having an opportunity to create their own ending. This workshop for Key Stage 2 school groups is the perfect way to enhance an Ancient Greek topic or a literacy topic on storytelling, myths, and legends. 20 September;
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Open House × Where is Home? The Whitworth Thursday Late event
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Installation view, Open House, The Whitworth, 26 November 2021 –3 December 2022. Image: Michael Pollard. Courtesy of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester.
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A newly commissioned film of intergenerational conversations between artists and curators, and a selection of objects and archive materials will be displayed within the Whitworth’s exhibition Open House.
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evening includes a poetry reading by artist suMan gujral and a panel discussion with alnoor MitHa, Senior Research Fellow (Asian Cultures) at Manchester School of Art and Artistic Director of the Asia Triennial Manchester, and Manchester based South Asian artists, exploring how their artistic practices are informed by diasporic experience.
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For summer 2022 the Whitworth partners with Inspirate to host their project Where is Home?, sharing stories about Indian migration to the UK and setting up home in a new place, marking the 75th anniversary of Indian partition and the 50th anniversary of expulsion fromThisUganda.special
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Marianne Grant, Inside the dwelling hut, 1945, watercolour on paper. Glasgow Museums, PP.2005.38.30. © The family of Marianne Grant.
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Join Curator of British Art jo Meacock as she shares this remarkable collection, discussing its significance and new research that led to the publication of a book to coincide with the centenary of the artist’s birth. Books will be on sale.
131 Glasgow Museums holds a unique collection of artworks by Czech Jewish artist Marianne Grant, née Mariana Hermannová (1921–2007), who witnessed first-hand Nazi atrocity in World War II, first in Theresienstadt concentration camp-ghetto and then in Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. Subsequently she was a refugee in Sweden before settling in Glasgow in 1951. Producing artwork within the camps came at a risk –some artists were tortured or killed. However, Marianne asserted that it saved her life.
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Postcard photograph of suffragette Anna Munro hand sewing a large piece of cloth. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
of people crafting in the past, to sewing and knitting machines, patterns, needles, darning mushrooms, eggs and Speed Weaves, knitting, embroidery, and sewing samplers and darned stockings, this tour, led by Transport and Technology Curator and maker HeatHer robertson, will look at the objects left to us by Glasgow’s past crafters. Social History Curator Fiona Hayes will talk about collecting panels from the COP26 scarf, a global craftivist project from Stitches for Survival supported by R:evolve Recycle.
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Throughout the pandemic many people have taken up fabric and textile crafts. With climate change on people’s minds, finding new ways to live sustainably has become ever more important. Textile crafts are the perfect example of something that can improve mental health, give people a new skill and sense of achievement, and can help in the fight against Fromwaste.photographs
Purpose, Power, Mending and Meaning – A Tour of Textile Crafts
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Mosaic fragment of a cockerel, 1st century BC, Italy, The Burrell Collection. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
The Burrells’ Legacy: A Great Gift to Glasgow –Exhibition Tour
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Join Burrell Project Curator, laura bauld, on a guided tour of the new Burrell special exhibition The Burrells’ Legacy: A Great Gift to Glasgow. The tour will explore the legacy of Sir William Burrell and his wife, Constance Burrell, as collectors and their motivations in establishing an internationally renowned
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explore key collection areas amassed by the Burrells including nineteenth century French art, Chinese ceramics, Islamic textiles, medieval art object, and ancient civilisation artefacts from Egypt, Rome and Greece.
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Jean-Siméon Chardin (in the manner of), Still Life. The Burrell Collection. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
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important to know how, when and under what circumstances all objects entered the Burrell Collection in order to allow museum staff to make informed decisions about display, cataloguing and management of collections.
Join brian weigHtMan on a tour of the Burrell Collection exploring provenance and plans for future work in this area.
During the Burrell Renaissance project, significant research was undertaken on the provenance of objects held in this collection. Provenance, the history of the ownership of works of art, is an important aspect of museum research. Theft, looting and forced sales of artworks took place from the colonial era to World War II. Two objects in the Burrell, a painting after Chardin and a tapestry panel, were previously found to have been sold under duress and reparations have therefore been made to the families of the previousTherefore,owners.itis
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Cliff Andrade, Journey Through a Therapeutic Landscape, 2021 – 22, felt pen on paper. © Cliff Andrade.
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This exhibition was curated by a group of Glasgow-based artists during the truly extraordinary time of the pandemic. Collaborating online, we explored Glasgow Museums’ Art Extraordinary collection to create new artworks in response. Join Open Museum Curator claire coia for a chat in the community exhibition space and an exclusive look at the collection which inspired it.
Art Extraordinary is a unique collection of Scottish ‘Outsider Art’. The collection was donated to Glasgow Museums in 2012 by Scotland’s first art therapist Joyce Laing, a pioneer and believer in the transformative power of art. Most of the artists in the Art Extraordinary collection are people who had no formal art training, were marginalised, and whose mental health was cared for in and out of Thishospitals.exhibition forms part of New Dialogues, a nationwide, two year-project, made possible thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, John Ellerman Foundation and the Art Fund.
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Faience vase with seaweed decoration by Doulton & Watt, Lambeth Pottery, 1878. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
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‘Taming Nature’: Curator’s tour
alison brown, Curator of European Decorative Art and Design from 1800, will take visitors on a tour of the natural world’s infinite variety as seen through the eyes of nineteenth and twentieth century designers and artists whose work is held in store in Glasgow Museums’ lesser-seen decorative art and design collections.
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Designers and artists of the applied arts have long been inspired by nature; ordering and arranging plant and animal forms to create attractive objects and patterns. Subject matter, stylisations and approaches change over time responding to fashions, scientific discovery, the inherent properties of materials used and regional variations.
Be prepared to be awed by sumptuous encrusted tactile designs created to thrill the senses to powerful stylised simplicity that tames nature through creation of repeat patterns, bold abstraction, ethereal impressionistic meanderings and, sometimes, a little dusting of humour. required
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Marteka Nembhard, Jamaica, 2019, Kieran Dodds
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143 Artist kieran dodds will discuss his photographic series, Gingers with albert tenesa, Professor of Quantitative Genetics, University of Edinburgh. Dodd’s artworks feature as part of the Counted | Scotland’s Census 2022 exhibition currently on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Chaired by curator of photography, louise pearson. ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022
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ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Sunday 25 Glasgow2060PollokPollok14.00 – 15.30SeptemberHouseCountryParkPollokshawsRoadG431AT Booking required NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND
How can heritage institutions help visitors to rediscover Old Master paintings? How can we look at them anew? The National Trust for Scotland created a trail of light-hearted alterations of our most beloved paintings that leads visitors from The Burrell Collection to Pollok House. We commissioned reproductions that visitors can alter too! This symposium will explore the significance of the collection. It will describe the creation of the trail and ask how we can help new audiences fall in love with our OldPollokMasters.House, the eighteenth-century seat of the Maxwell Stirling family, was gifted to the people of Glasgow in 1966 along with its world-class art collection containing work by artists such as El Greco, William Blake and Alonso Sanchez Coello. This intriguing but under-appreciated collection is returning from storage and, with the completion of the Burrell Collection Renaissance, makes Pollok Park a unique cultural destination.
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A Taste for Impressionism: Collecting Modern French Art from Monet to Matisse
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La Corniche near Monaco, Claude Monet, 1884, oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum.
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Monday 19 September –
Monday 26 September
Online event video available to view via our Festival webpage
This Scottish Society for Art History talk by Frances Fowle, National Galleries of Scotland and University of Edinburgh, will examine the taste for Impressionism in Scotland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It will explore the key role played by art dealers such as Alex Reid, as well as pioneer women collectors, among them Elizabeth Workman and Rosalind Maitland.
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Exterior short of Dunoon Burgh Hall, host of Dar to Dunoon: Modern African Art from the Argyll Collection (June 2021). Photo: Kate Cowcher
ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Wednesday 21 September Online14.00 – 15.00event Booking required
From Argyll to Costa Rica: Building Community and Youth Engagement through Art History and Museums
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The conversation will address the following questions: ‘What is a community museum?’ ‘How can community museums contribute to sustainability and youth engagement?’ ‘What resources are available for educators who want to bring art history into the classroom?’ and ‘How did modern African art end up in the collection of Argyll and Bute Council?’
This roundtable discussion will bring together art historians from the University of St Andrews and museum staff and educators from Scotland and Costa Rica to discuss two ongoing projects: karen brown’s and jaMie brown’s ‘Community Crafts and Cultures’ and kate cowcHer’s exhibition and resulting educational resources, ‘Dar to Dunoon: Modern African Art from the Argyll Collection’.
In addition to art historians, the event should be of interest to educators, local councils, youth leaders and museum staff.
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Claude Monet, Waterlilies, 1906, oil on canvas, NMW A 2487 Image © Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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An online talk discussing patrick caulField’s commission for the Rotunda at National Museum Wales, a mosaic inspired by the three Monet waterlily paintings in the Museum’s collection.Withstrong holdings of Impressionism, as well as modern and contemporary art, this discussion offers a glimpse into Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ vast and varied art collection.
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Monet’s waterlilies, Caulfield’s lilypads, artworks inspired by nature at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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AMGUEDDFA CYMRU – NATIONAL MUSEUM WALES ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2022 Friday 23 September Online11.00 – 12.00event Booking required
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THANK hope you delight in the Art History Festival 2022 which was made possible by dedicated individuals and cultural organisations who, like us, are committed to sharing and promoting the richness and diversity of art history - we thank them all for their unstinting engagement. This year’s programme features a rich and diverse array of artists, art historians, writers, musicians and speakers - and we thank them for their involvement.
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