Talks and parties in the coming week at Dulwich Picture Gallery

………. and all run by the Friends. 

 

Wednesday 20 February

No. 2 in a series of 3 talks on Wednesday mornings
InSight Lectures – Sculpture: how far can it go?
10.30am Linbury room   Coffee and discussion afterwards ‘Invisible’ 2002 Tina O’Connell, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
Public awareness of sculpture has never been so great; witness the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, the ‘Crack’ in the floor of Tate Modern.  Whilst Michelangelo’s David or Rodin’s The Kiss can amaze and move us, contemporary sculptors challenge us to participate in the work and in doing so we become part of the experience.
Site Lines Sight Lines?  Placing sculpture   Ann Elliott find out more

 

 

Thursday 21 February DJ Aquamanda

Late Opening:  Inside Italy
6.30-10pm
A crazy evening to celebrate the showing of six of Guido Reni’s paintings of St Sebastian.  Lots and lots going on all over the place.  find out more 

Sunday 24 February

Last in the series
Dulwich Architecture TalksThe Assistant Master’s Accommodation Problem:  Dulwich in the early ’50sBomb damage to Dulwich Picture Gallery 1944
4pm/Linbury Room     Wine and discussion afterwards
 
Ian McInnes’ illustrated talk will revisit the highs, and lows, of the immediate post war years in Dulwich – both architectural and social.  find out more

 

 

Tuesday 26 February

No. 4 in the Tuesday evening series
Carriages, Carcases and Caricature: the idiosyncrasies of 18th century British art
7.45pm /Linbury Room     Book sales and bar in the interval 
In a century of unprecedented social change and national prosperity, British-born artists emerged from the shadow of a series of immigrant genius and art in Britain saw, for the first time, paintings which were rooted in British life and culture.  George Stubbs - so much more than just a horse painter Valerie Woodgate find out more

Wednesday 27 February

No. 3 in the Wednesday morning series
InSight Lectures – Sculpture: how far can it go?

Collapsing Permanence   Tina O’Connell  find out more


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Ingrid

About Ingrid

Co-Editor and ex-Chair of the Friends Committee. I’m a teacher. I’ve worked in the education department of Dulwich Picture Gallery for 14 years, guiding, lecturing and teaching anyone from 7 years old to degree level. I have run a number of education projects (in a remand home, a prison, a local primary school) and am now the e-learning project developer. I commission articles rather than write them and am mainly in charge of the Gallery related articles.
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