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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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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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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Telling Tales
At a time of heightened interest in works of so-called design art, made in small editions for the collectors market, Telling Tales will feature work by a generation of internationally regarded designers. The exhibition will focus on work by designers who explore the narrative potential of objects, connecting the past with the present. The exhibitio ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence
Exuberant, ornate and theatrical, the Baroque is synonymous with richness, luxury and extravagance. The Baroque style was born in Italy in the 1620s. Over the next hundred and fifty years it came to dominate European art, design and architecture and was carried to Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, becoming the first global style. Baroque was ri ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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United Kingdom
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Gerhard Ritcher Portraits
Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the worlds leading contemporary artists: a complex figure known both for his figurative paintings based on photographs as well as for abstract paintings. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to examine Richters portraits in detail. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present, it includes imp ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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Gerhard Richter Portraits
Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists: a complex figure known both for figurative work based on photographs as well as for abstract paintings. This landmark exhibition examines Richter’s portraits and figures. Comprising key paintings from international public and private collections, the exhibition e ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
Working with radical hat designer, Stephen Jones, the V&A will present an ‘anthology of hats’. Drawn from V&A and international collections and ranging in style and period from a 17th-century Puritan’s hat to a 1950s Balenciaga couture piece to hats by Jones and his contemporaries including to the latest creations by young milliners such as Noel St ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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United Kingdom
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Monika Grzymala
A site specific installation commissioned by The Drawing Room to coincide with a Hayward Touring exhibition of contemporary drawing, a collaboration between mima, Middlesbrough and Bluecoat, Liverpool in partnership with The Drawing Room, London.
Monika Grzymala’s installations function somewhere between an architectural intervention and im ...
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The Drawing Room, Tannery Arts
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London
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Exhibitions tour
Join Jenni Lomax, Director of Camden Arts Centre, on an informal tour of the exhibitions on their last day. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Victorian Portraits
Gallery talk by Lucinda Hawksley
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Visualising Portraits
Picture de_ion for visually impaired visitors. ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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'Quiz': Cartoons by Powys Evans
Gallery talk by Robin Francis.
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National Portrait Gallery
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18th-Century Portraits
Gallery talk by Sarah Ciacci
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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Whiskers to Beards
Facial Hair in Victorian Portraiture
Lucinda Hawksley
Ondaatje Wing Theatre ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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Virginie Despentes: Exploding the Myth of Femininity
Notorious for her rape-revenge novel and film Baise-Moi, Virginie Despentes is at the ICA to present ideas from her new book King Kong Theory. A trenchant new defence of feminism, shaped by her experiences in the porn and prostitution industries, the book argues that feminism is needed to rip away the trappings of femininity in a society obsessed w ...
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ICA, Nash Room
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Exhibition tour
Writer and curator Daniel Bauman takes you on an informal tour of the Andro Wekua exhibition.. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Gillian Beer's Talk in The Courtauld Gallery
Ruth Padel, Somerset House Writer in Residence, has invited six eminent writers from different genres to give a series of exclusive talks about their favourite painting in the Courtauld Gallery.
Each writer has chosen a work that particularly engages, challenges, provokes or delights them, and will present their personal reflections during a tal ...
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Somerset House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Henry VIII: Portrait of a Tyrant?
Gallery talk by Justin Nolan
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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Richard Wentworth
One of Britains leading contemporary artists discusses his life and work, including his latest poster commission, with Emily King. ...
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LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
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London
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United Kingdom
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Highlights of the Collection
Marc Zakian
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
How do we think about visual art now? What is happening to art history? Are visual culture studies taking its place? What is the place of fine art practice as thought, critical knowledge or transformative practice? Are we left in an interdisciplinary free-for-all or are disciplinary models of knowledge still valid? The Centre for Cultural Analysis, ...
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ICA, Nash Room
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United Kingdom
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Stuart Portraits
Gallery talk by Lesley Rivett.
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Leverhulme Lectures
Portraiture and the Flesh: Reading Subjectivity in Surgical Portraiture
This lecture will consider how artists have engaged with the imagery, practices and products of surgery as a means of exploring questions of identity in 20th- and 21st-century portraiture. It will suggest ways in which the depiction and practice of plastic surgery might prod ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Writers' Talks in The Courtauld Gallery
Ruth Padel, Somerset House Writer in Residence, has invited six eminent writers from different genres to give a series of exclusive talks about their favourite painting in the Courtauld Gallery.
Each writer has chosen a work that particularly engages, challenges, provokes or delights them, and will present their personal reflections during a ta ...
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Somerset House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Can Art Make Us Happy
Can art provide a panacea in economic and social gloom? Can art provide the imaginative space needed to make us feel better? Or are expectations of the artist too high? Are artists better placed to reveal the darker side of life: the taboos and social ills?
Speakers: artists Zoë Walker and Michael Pinsky of Panacea, a collaborative project explo ...
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ICA, Nash Room
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Portraits of the School of London
Gallery talk by Sarah Ciacci. ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Pictures with a Sting
The Interwar Modernist Poster. Art Historian Dr Jonathan Black explores a fascinating variety of themes and influences ranging from technology and military strength to popular culture and film. ...
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LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
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London
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Annie Leibovitz Exhibition Tour
Free but tour tickets required, and available from 10.00 on a first come, first served basis, in addition to a timed exhibition ticket.
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Art of the Poster
A century of Underground design. How the first poster commission in 1908 led to the company becoming a pioneering patron of poster art, a legacy that still continues today. ...
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LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
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London
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United Kingdom
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Tudor Portraits
Gallery talk by Alison Kusner. ...
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Babylon: Myth and Reality
The city of Babylon has engendered a rich legacy in art and thought, from great paintings to contemporary film and music. This exhibition brings together such works of imagination with archaeological treasures from ancient Babylon. ...
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THE BRITISH MUSEUM
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London
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United Kingdom
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All That Sparkles: Jewellery in Portraits
Gallery talk by Lesley Rivett.
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Contemporary Portraits
Gallery talk by Alison Kusner.
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National Portrait Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Two Rivers
An exhibition of paintings by award-winning director and painter Jim Goddard
Jim studied painting at The Slade. In his professional life he designed sets and costumes at The Royal Opera House (La Creation du Monde by Kenneth MacMillan) and then moved into directing for TV (Nicholas Nickleby, Kennedy, The Black Stuff) and film (Shanghai Surprise ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby - Talking Design
Jerwood Prize-winners Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have collaborated on many innovative and award winning products and furniture, and on architectural projects for clients such as Stella McCartney and the Pharmacy restaurant. Their signature pieces include sleek designs such as the plywood Loop table, the Silent Screen, the Hula Stool, and the She ...
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Lecture Theatre at V&A South Kensington
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London
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