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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Smile: an exhibition that brings back laughter
Red Gate Gallery presents Smile.
Featuring works by: Soraia Almeida, Amy Russell, Anna Siemaszko, Ian Tatton, Joe Townend, Juan Blanco, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford, Maia Schweizer, Paul Vincett, Roxane Grant, Sibylla McGrigor, Soheila Keyani,Susie Lowe, Wiracha Daochai and Zannah Cooper
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Red Gate Gallery
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London
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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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The art of oil painting
This weekend course is the first of a new series of practical art workshops exploring traditional painting techniques with a modern twist. It is a practical course in which participants will experiment and learn different ways of using oils using the Museums art collection as a source of inspiration. The course will take place in our new Clore Lear ...
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Museum of London
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London
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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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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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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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At Home with Monet
‘Natural Habitats’ – if they weren’t painting where would they be? Favourite haunts and their artistic inspiration. ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants
Join an artist and lecturer to explore a painting in two different ways. First, listen to a short talk, then make your own response by making a drawing with the materials provided. ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Death Becomes Her
Lady Jane Grey is mythologised as the helpless young victim of adult ambition. Her legend finds its apogee in Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, with its erotic overtones of a virgin sacrifice. Historian Leanda de Lisle explores the fictions, the frauds and the life of England’s first reigning queen. ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Dramatic monologues and alternative labels
Ever thought that there was more to say about a painting than what was on the label? Now is your chance to write your own creative responses to a painting.
Construct your own dramatic monologue from the point of view of someone in the painting. How might it feel to be wearing their clothes, to be in their setting, to be in their pose? ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Picturing the Past to Suit the Present
Love it or loathe it, Delaroches dark drama demands a reaction. Bringing together ideas from literature, art, film, and theatre studies, we explore the impact of this painting on audiences from its inception to the present day.
Why did events from the life of an obscure Tudor monarch capture the imagination of the 19th-century French public? Wha ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cezanne: Hillside in Provence
Listen to free talks every day Tuesday to Saturday. Every month we present a short series of lunchtime talks. There is a particular theme for each day. If you come on the same day every week, you will find out about paintings that are related to each other.
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The National Gallery
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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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Carlo Crivelli: Big Fish, Small Pond
Listen to free talks every day Tuesday to Saturday. Every month we present a short series of lunchtime talks. There is a particular theme for each day. If you come on the same day every week, you will find out about paintings that are related to each other. ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Heart and Hearth
Listen to free talks every day Tuesday to Saturday. Every month we present a short series of lunchtime talks. There is a particular theme for each day. If you come on the same day every week, you will find out about paintings that are related to each other. ...
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The National Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Magic Carpet Storytelling
Fly away on the magic carpet as it comes to land in front of a different painting each day. ...
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The National Gallery
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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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