Love, Magic and Power
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Whether priceless family heirlooms, or the most modern of costume creations, almost everyone has a piece of jewellery that is precious in a personal sense. This exhibition will examine the human fascination with jewellery, tracing its importance and symbolism from ancient times to the present day. The objects included ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono
A reception and special talk on “The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono” at the British Antique Dealers’ Association Fair has been organised for Society members and guests. With approximately 100 members of BADA exhibiting from throughout the UK, this is the leading national art and antiques fair in the country. This is a ‘must’ for anyone interested ...
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Duke of York Square
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London
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Quilts at Victoria and Albert Museum
Quilts are valued as objects of solace and comfort, representing warmth, safekeeping, beauty and our ancestral past. As vessels for individual and collective memories, they also document love and marriage, births and deaths, periods of intense patriotic fervour and developments in taste and fashion. The extraordinary variety of each object testifie ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Contemporary Textiles Fair
Showcasing more than 70 designer makers exhibiting and selling an extraordinary range of wearable and hangable art including embroidery, devore, weaving, handknits, feltmaking, quilting and much more. Felting demonstrations will be held throughout the weekend. Fair supported by the textiles magazine ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Eva Hesse and Katja Strunz
Jenni Lomax, Director of Camden Arts Centre, leads an tour of the exhibitions on their final day. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Docklands art and architecture
Docklands contains some of the most spectacular architecture in London, from the impressive early nineteenth century warehouses of the West India Company to the iconic No 1 Canada Square - the tallest building in Britain. View the two remaining great warehouses that survived the Blitz and now contain the Museum of London Docklands, as well as the o ...
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Museum of London Docklands
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London
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United Kingdom
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Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
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This will be the first major exhibition on Horace Walpole, the most important English collector of the eighteenth century, and will bring together many of his most remarkable objects. Walpole was the first to systematically assemble the visual evidence of English history, and the first to recognise the importance of t ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Kate Devis with subjestivities and Feinisms reseach group
At the culmination of her residency, Davis will presenting a unique collaboration with the Subjectivity and Feminisms research group at Chelsea School of Art, for an evening of film screenings, discussion and performance. This event is the inauguration of the Visual Thinking: a series of collaborations with visual arts research groups across London ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Neil Bartlett
Listen in on an evening of conversation between theatre director and novelist Neil Bartlett and journalist Suzi Feay. ...
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Museum of London
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London
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United Kingdom
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Scottish Colourists Exhibition
Japan Society members are invited to this special private viewing of the complete Colourist collection exhibition from The Fleming Collection, the first time the paintings have been viewed together since 2003.
Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter, and John Duncan Fergusson comprise the group known as the Scot ...
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The Fleming Collection
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ron Arad: Restless
Barbican Art Gallery stages the first major survey in the UK of the internationally acclaimed, London-based design maverick Ron Arad.
Ron Arad: Restless explores three decades of Arad’s designs from his early post-punk approach of assembling products from readymade parts to his exclusive and highly polished sculptural furnishings. Featuring a d ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Journeys with no return
Contemporary artists from Turkey, the UK and Germany explore reflections of Turkish migration in the 21st century. Artists include: Adam Chodzko, Olaf Nicolai, Nevin Aladag, Zineb Sedira, Kiran Kaur Brar, Olaf Metzel, Ergin Cavusoglu, Melanie Manchot, Denizhan Ozer, Nasan Tur, Asli Sungu and Clemens von Wedemeyer. ...
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A Foundation London
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London
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United Kingdom
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Mass Extinction Conference: a Call to Act
The exhibition of Gustav Metzger is accompanied by a major conference on the subject of Extinction.
The conference will examine the threat to humanity of urgently pressing world issues such as environmental degradation; genocide; atomic weapons; threats to small, isolated communities; threats to languages; global warming; economics; catastrophe ...
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The Royal Society
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London
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United Kingdom
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Eye Dont Believe It
Enjoy a range of free hands-on activities during half-term exploring popular Victorian optical illusions and other marvels inspired by 19th-century photography with photographer and artist Jan Dunning. ...
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The British Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Silver Waves Exhibition and artists talk
Goldsmiths’ Hall has invited Japan Society members to join a special artist’s talk on the occasion of the exhibition of silver vessels by internationally acclaimed Japanese silversmith Hiroshi Suzuki.
In the ten years since graduating from the RCA, Suzuki has taken the silver design world by storm. His rise to prominence has been remarkable and ...
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Goldsmiths’ Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Katja Strunz
Dr Charlotte Klonk, academic at Humboldt University, Berlin, leads a tour of the Strunz installation. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Kate Devis Open Studio
Davis will be in conversation with Jason Bowman, discussing her work and residency, focusing on the denial of closure, completion or demarcation that Eva Hesses studioworks so richly pose as a progressive political and feminist action. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Landmark Show
The Landmark Show will feature over 300 pieces of work in a large group show held to celebrate the opening of the Landmark Art Gallery. Showcasing a range of works from local, national and international emerging and established artists, the Show continues the development of the Landmark as a visual arts resource for the whole community. All work wi ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Landmark Show
The Landmark Show will feature over 300 pieces of work in a large group show held to celebrate the opening of the Landmark Art Gallery. Showcasing a range of works from local, national and international emerging and established artists, the Show continues the development of the Landmark as a visual arts resource for the whole community. All work wi ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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