Posted in Around Dulwich, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Family Activities, Film, Theatre & Music, LATES, Reviews, South London, tagged Crown and Greyhound, Dulwich Park, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Cafe, Gallery Film, Grease, Kennington Kids, Lordship Lane, North Dulwich train station, Tate Modern, West Dulwich train station on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Dulwich OnView rattles on about how much we love Dulwich Picture Gallery, but what’s so special about a small collection of old paintings in the depths of south London? Steve Slack explains.
I asked someone recently ‘What comes to mind when you think of Dulwich Picture Gallery?’. She said she hadn’t been for years, but remembered [...]
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By Clare Ferdinando, Education Outreach Co-ordinator at Dulwich Picture Gallery
When I tell people about my job they always amazed at the range of community work the Gallery is involved in.
‘I had no idea. You do all this from an art gallery?!’
A day in the life of the outreach work may start on an estate [...]
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Posted in Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Family Activities, LATES, What's On, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, late, Late Opening, Family Fun, Donkey Rides, family event on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s loads to do at the LATE night opening at the picture gallery next week. Where to start? Well, there’s the donkey rides and fairground games. Who could resist giant Connect4, test your strength, or the chance to Milk The Cow?
There’s a bouncy castle, live music in the garden from DJ and Dulwich OnView [...]
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Ian Dejardin, director, explains why he went to Poland and what he thought of the new Warsaw.
Dulwich Picture Gallery has some interesting Polish baggage amongst the jumble of its history. The last king of Poland, Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski, was the man who commissioned our art dealer founders, Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois (pictured left, [...]
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Jackie Ralph, a trustee of Access to Art (A2A), talks about this charity which makes it possible for disabled and frail older people to enjoy London’s galleries and museums.
Marion Reading is an art lover, and has been all her life. She remembers visiting the National Gallery many years ago, standing as a teenager in front [...]
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Posted in Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Family Activities, Film, Theatre & Music, What's On, tagged Events, Shakespeare, theatre, Dulwich Players, Dulwich Picture Gallery events, Midsummer Night's Dream, Gallery Gardens on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare performed by the Dulwich Players
3 - 6 July
Jan Rae, director, reflects on past productions at the Gallery, and looks forward to Thursday
If you were down at Dulwich Picture Gallery on Sunday you may have seen the peace of the gardens being disturbed by a strange group of people who [...]
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Antonia Coonan, Head of Operations at Dulwich Picture Gallery, gives the background to the organisation of that amazing day.
Photos by Benedict Johnson
Friday 20th June. Knowing that the BBC Roadshow was coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery kept the Operations Department excited for weeks!
The preparations started months ago. I worked closely with the BBC Antiques Roadshow Directors [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Art, Books and poetry, Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Local History, South London, What's On, tagged Dulwich, Dylwich College, Canaletto, campanile, Jan Piggott, The Stonemason's Yard on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The Clock Tower at Dulwich College
by Dr J R Piggott, former Keeper of Archives, Dulwich College and author of ‘Dulwich College A History’
Canaletto’s painting THE STONEMASON’S YARD (1728) at THE NATIONAL GALLERY (right) in London shows the prominent campanile of S Maria della Carità at Venice. Although the magnificent tower had collapsed in 1744 – the [...]
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Posted in Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Past Events, tagged old, paintings, Art, BBC Antiques Road Show, history, ceramics, military, miscellaneous, clocks on June 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The BBC Antiques Roadshow comes to the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Angela Corrias takes a walk back in time.
I admit, when I went to the Antiques Roadshow at the Dulwich Picture Gallery I was secretly hoping to find in that vast assortment of memorabilia some magic objects, maybe an Aladdin’s lamp or a King Arthur’s [...]
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Susan Tebbutt interviews Emily Faludy as part of DPG Friends’ Celebration of South London Women Artists. View local artists’ work or add your own at www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk
Born in Portsmouth, Emily studied for a BA in Fine Art at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth 2004-07, was included in the Welsh Portrait Award in 2006, and focussed [...]
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