Articles tagged lecture

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The Art of the Printed Book

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An InSight Lecture Series at Dulwich Picture Gallery The Book in the form most familiar to us is one of the most revolutionary and successful pieces of design of all times. And like other enduring [...]

Maria Callas, the woman who changed opera for ever

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It is now more than thirty years since Maria Callas died but her star quality has not dimmed. She is still a top selling classical recording artist and each year yet another book is published [...]

Russian Art in the 20th Century: Professor Milner ends series of Russian Art at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian

In the early twentieth century Russian art was in constant dialogue with the art of Western Europe. Moscow was the citadel of the ancient Rus’, of old Russia with its folk gods and Byzantine culture, [...]

Paris 1924: Surrealism meets the Avant-garde

Young Lady with Gloves, 1930 - Tamara de Lempicka

By the 1920s Europe was beginning to emerge from the nightmare of the First World War, and artistic life in Paris was recovering its vitality. Some artists had been pacifists; others had gone to war; [...]

From Olympia to Athens 1896

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The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery will be celebrating the 2012 London Olympics, with two series of four lectures that will look at the art of Olympic cities and countries. The first lecture by Jo [...]

Our extraordinary monarchy: a new lecture series at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Contextual Lecture Series 2012

In January Dulwich Picture Gallery will present The Jubilee Series, its seventh annual lecture series, honouring 60 years of HM The Queen’s reign. Launched on 3 January by Professor Lord Peter Hennessy with his title [...]

Dulwich Festival 2011 – more events!

George Monbiot

George Monbiot’s Left Hook Legendary environmental bruiser George Monbiot brings his bare knuckle battle for hearts and minds. to Dulwich. Direct from a string of impressive verbal victories including going the distance and taking on [...]

By Popular Demand – Van Gogh talk repeated

The Friends are delighted that Graham Greenfield has agreed to repeat his account of the current Van Gogh exhibition, ‘The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters’ on Tuesday March 16 at 7.30pm.

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