All posts for: Art
1-54 Forum
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Accompanying 1-54, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, is 1-54 Forum, the fair's programme of discussion, performance, readings and other interventions that platforms creatives from the continent as well as its global diaspora.
Possible all along
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Possible all along is a space where disabled artists show that they are an important part of the cultural landscape.
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
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A virtual version of our exhibition about Marie Neurath's mid-century children's science books.
Take Us There
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Single Shoe Productions invites you on a journey of the imagination as we recreate the places we miss using household objects. Every week we will feature a new guest creation on our newest episode of #TakeUsThere and we want you to join us in our travels by making your own creations. More info https://www.singleshoeproductions.com/takeusthere
Real-Time Constraints
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An online group exhibition looking critically at the current state of automated computing.
36000 Humans
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36,000 humans have lost their lives in transit whilst trying to seek asylum in Europe. In Refugee Week 2019 Bearwood Action For Refugees launched a project to honour and remember them. Now you can share that experience online.
Sounds of the Forest
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Collaborate in creating the first forest soundmap of the world! Visit a woodland and record your sounds of the forest.
Creative Explorers
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A series of short videos that encourage creative exploration in the home. Each video will explore encourage little inquisitive minds to complete challenges around their home and discover new things. No equipment is needed! What can we find together with our little puppet who leads us through these challenges? Can we start to see our homes in a new way?
The Enchanted Interior | Curator Talk with Madeleine Kennedy
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Curator of The Enchanted Interior exhibition Madeleine Kennedy shares behind-the-scenes insights into how the exhibition evolved: from a seedling idea over five years ago and the iconic artworks which inspired it, to the design of the exhibition within the gallery, and the heightened contemporary resonance of works by women artists that speak to resilience in the face of isolation.
BODY (UN)MUTE
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A two-day online festival that looks into the rituals of dancing and masking in times of social distancing. How do these rituals happen in online space? What are the solutions that can empower us and activate our bodies? How do we navigate through this switch between private and public space? What kind of knowledge and ideas can we extract from new media artists and dancers? Together, we will create an online experience that stays part of our memory as festivals do. Last few months, our movements and ways of communicating have been impacted by a global crisis. Distances between our bodies in public and private spaces have been regulated by new measurements. Our freedom of movement is on hold. Dancing became possible only in private, and suddenly it has a different meaning and context. It introduced another form of visibility, “performing” for the web camera on our online meetings, dates, events. In the beginning, it felt weird and awkward, but we are adjusting to it. Now it is time to emancipate the online body and get a deeper understanding of the new realness. It is time to unmute the body.
Drawing Session: Newlyn Harbour – online
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Being no longer restricted to what we can fit inside the gallery space, we will be drawing Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, from the comfort of our own homes. Tune in to the live webcam view of Newlyn thanks to Skyline Webcams between 10am and 12noon on Thursday 30 April, and settle down with your sketchbook, pencil and paints (or whatever medium you have access to).
Las Meninas
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An Arts Society lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Cockburn. This talk is a section of a longer lecture outlining Velázquez’s arrival in Madrid from Seville and his gradual rise at Court. In this lecture Jacqueline pays attention to one painting, probably the artist’s most famous ‘Las Meninas’ 1656, which she unravels for the viewer and considers the possible reasons why he painted it and what he hoped to gain from it. Filmed by the wonderful Natural Light Films.
Illuminated River Google Arts Exhibit
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Take a virtual tour of the Illuminated River artwork via the incredible Google Arts exhibit. There’s lots to explore including the history of the Illuminated River bridges and video interviews with light artist Leo Villareal.
colors.lol - Overly descriptive color palettes
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A fun way to discover interesting color combinations.
Alice May Williams, Dream City – More, Better, Sooner (2016)
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A meditation on the changing face of London’s landmark Battersea Power Station – smokestack energy colossus of yesteryear now rapidly transforming into an upscale lifestyle playground of tomorrow. Combining archive footage of the building in its industrial heyday with computer-generated projections of the form it will soon inhabit (or what, if things had been different, it might otherwise have become), Williams’ film concentrates our attention just as firmly on the present moment – on the rumble of construction and the grumbles of disruption that currently characterise the site.
Design a wig
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In the late 18th century, women’s hair styles went crazy! Create and share your own hair-raising design.
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th Exhibition
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The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th show is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world, showcasing over 400 of the best contemporary water-based media paintings from around the globe.
Paul Banning RI RSMA: Sketchbooks
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A traditional watercolourist specialising in painting plein air, painting in all weathers, Paul was due to speak about his use of sketchbooks in the gallery during the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208 th Exhibition. Now that none of us are allowed out, whatever the weather, Paul has shared some images from his sketchbooks with us here.
The Early Years of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
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One of an on-going series of short online talks by University of Dundee museum curator Matthew Jarron
Get Creative at Home with Little Angel Theatre
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Get creative at home as we release video crafts, activity guides and a 'Make a Puppet Show at Home' video series. All activities are easy to follow and use simple materials you can find around the home.
The Enchanted Interior at Guildhall Art Gallery | Video Tour
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The Enchanted Interior is an exhibition that explores the recurring motif of female subjects in art, as depicted in enclosed, ornate interiors. Such images are inherently alluring yet sinister, carrying implications of enforced isolation. This theme is prevalent in nineteenth-century British painting, with many Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalists showing a fascination with the so-called ‘gilded cage’. Visitors will encounter work by a breath-taking variety of artists from the high Victorian through to Art Nouveau, Aestheticism, Surrealism, and pieces by contemporary female artists, who ‘speak back’ to the historic tradition.
Picasso and Paper: virtual exhibition tour
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Experience our Picasso and Paper exhibition from your own home in this video tour of the galleries, created before the Royal Academy had to close its doors due to coronavirus. Picasso didn't just draw on paper — he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for 'Guernica' to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist's 80-year career. Installation views of the Picasso and Paper exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2020.
Watercolours Hanging Out to Dry
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With so many paintings of washing lines in the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th Exhibition, Mall Galleries Marketing Manager, Liberty Rowley explores what we can learn hanging out the washing.
Can anyone draw us a dog in a coat?
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) April 7, 2020
We've been inspired by these women who made garments out of dog hair while stationed here at the RA during WWI.#RAdailydoodle pic.twitter.com/pGBGI1ch0u
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Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
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There is always so much to enjoy in this exhibition, from the faces depicted in the portraits, both famous and unfamiliar, to the wide variety of high-quality paintings. It is a celebration of the very best in contemporary portraiture nationally and internationally. Unlike other portrait exhibitions, it is rigorously selected by professional portrait painters who themselves have been elected by their peers to the Society. It is one of the world’s most extensive contemporary portrait exhibitions forming a showcase of some 200 works. To encourage this unique genre, we run a commissions service to help you commission a work of your own.
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th Exhibition: Prizes & Awards
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The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and Mall Galleries are pleased to announce the prizewinners at this year’s RI 208th Exhibition, the largest exhibition of contemporary water-based media paintings in the world. With the exhibition online this year, the winning works were chosen from the gallery’s website rather than its walls. However with videos, audio, images and statements by the winners to watch, hear, see, and read, we hope you can experience and enjoy their works wherever you are.
Tiny Challenges Activities for Under 5s
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Stuck for ideas to keep your kids entertained at home? Have a go at some of these fun activities based on the collections at East Riding museums.
Virtual Cinémathèque
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ACMI and our good friends Melbourne Cinémathèque have temporarily suspend screenings at The Capitol. But don't despair. We've decided to launch our own Virtual Cinémathèque. Every Tuesday we'll release details of our weekly Virtual Cinémathèque via ACMI & Melbourne Cinémathèque social media. We’ll do our best to choose from freely available and accessible platforms - and for those of you who want to recreate the communal experience of watching as a collective - there is a free program called Metastream that allows you to invite your friends to watch at the same time, from your respective homes.
ACMI At Home
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We recommend the best of ACMI to experience at home. Each week we're sharing our curatorial insight into different films, artworks, TV series or videogames, as well as where you can find them online. A perfect way to spend all those hours at home.
Running Free: online workshops for the screen industries
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We’re partnering with Media Mentors to create twice-weekly micro skills workshops for the screen industries (and keen movie lovers) that people can view on ACMI’s YouTube channel. Workshop leaders will be available on Twitter for conversation via hashtag #runningfreeskills after the workshops are uploaded at 10am every Wed and Fri.
Close Look Collections
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Zoom in and get up close with a digital exhibit a day from the Royal Pavilion & Museums in Brighton & Hove.
Museums n'That
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This podcast gets to the very heart of the things that make museum people tick, by asking the questions you actually want to know: Can you archive an orange? How do you stuff a caterpillar? What’s the greatest city in the world? (Spoiler alert: it’s Leeds).
We've loved seeing the recreations of our paintings over the last few weeks and our staff at the Gallery couldn't resist joining in.
— National Gallery (@NationalGallery) April 7, 2020
Follow this thread to see some of the creative ways they've reinterpreted our paintings in their spare time...#betweenartandquarantine pic.twitter.com/16hAHWQHqJ
#betweenartandquarantine
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Andy Warhol
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This major retrospective is the first Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes works never seen before in the UK. Twenty-five works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series – portraits of black and Latinx drag queens and trans women – are shown for the first time in 30 years. Watch the curator's tour and explore the exhibition room by room.
Raphael and the Art of Emotion
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Learn more about Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his unparalleled ability to translate human emotion to paper in this piece by Research Assistant, Angelamaria Aceto
Meet & Make Online: Chimera Collages
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You will need: scissors, glue and magazines you don’t mind cutting up. Join one of our BALTIC Freelance Artist team, Mat Fleming, for a Meet & Make Online workshop. Mat's 15-minute session is inspired by BALTIC's current group exhibition Animalesque and focuses on ‘chimeras’, linking particularly to Paloma Varga Weisz’s Kampfhund and Lazlo’s Dream; Tupilakosaurus by Pia Arke with Anders Jorgerson; and the Untitled wall installation by Mary Beth Edelson.
Abel Rodríguez: BALTIC exhibition
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Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu) is an elder from the Nonuya ethnic group, native to the Cahuinarí river in the Colombian Amazon. Rodríguez’s work is grounded in his ancestral knowledge of the indigenous plants of the region, which was passed to him by his uncle. As a way to preserve his knowledge and memory of his region, Rodríguez creates detailed paintings and drawings that depict the ecosystem of the rainforest in the Nonuya region with intricate details of the flora and fauna.
The Manchester Open
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The Manchester Open is the most successful exhibition in HOME’s history – with over 32,000 people attending, surpassing even David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected. While the exhibition had to close early due to the coronavirus outbreak, there are still many ways you can enjoy the work of the Manchester Open artists online.
Virtual Slow Art Day
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Join this special virtual edition of Slow Art Day featuring three works from the project Parade by Mark Neville, shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020. Slow Art Day is a global event with a simple mission: to encourage more people to discover for themselves the joy of looking slowly. One day each year – 4 April in 2020 – people all over the world take part.
Some thoughts on painting, by Lucian Freud
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“The painter’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work…” As his self-portraits go on show at the RA, we share Lucian Freud’s only published statement on his creative process. It reveals the uncompromising intensity behind his approach to painting.
Disobedient Bodies: JW Anderson curates The Hepworth Wakefield
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Curated by fashion designer Jonathan Anderson, Disobedient Bodies responds to and collaborates with Wakefield’s significant collection of modern British art
#RADISH - Rural Arts Daily Inspiration while Staying at Home
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Every weekday, #RADISH shares a free creative opportunity, including live workshops, talks and tutorials and artist profiles!
Welcome to The Painted Hall
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Sir Christopher Wren's riverside masterpiece. The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich was completed between 1707 and 1726 by the artist Sir James Thornhill. It is one of the greatest decorative painted schemes in England. The Painted Hall and the other buildings of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich were designed to be a public display of magnificence, reflecting the power and prestige of the Royal Navy.
The RA Collection in 250 Objects: Dogs
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The RA went for walkies through their Collection and found a pack of misfit mutts, and perfect pooches depicted by artists across the centuries. Here's a selection showing that today’s obsession with cute dog pics has its roots in art history.
Le Mystère Picasso
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Le Mystère Picasso is a remarkable documentary film made in 1956 by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and time-lapse photography are used to capture Picasso at work. Not many of the works he created for the documentary survive – but three hang in our exhibition, Picasso and Paper; two especially restored for the show. Here’s the story of one of them, Visage: Head of a Faun.
Titian: Love, Desire, Death
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In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. Combining Titian’s remarkable talent as both artist and storyteller, the mythological scenes capture moments of high drama; a fatal encounter, the shameful discovery, a hasty abduction. Titian expertly manipulates paint and colour to dazzling effect; capturing luminous flesh, sumptuous fabrics, water, reflection, and atmospheric, almost enchanted, landscapes.
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— Tate (@Tate) March 27, 2020
A home can be a world...https://t.co/vkQkYzc9BO pic.twitter.com/FNi4jw6VIZ
A home can be a world...
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Prints and Drawings
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A selection from the extensive collection of Western graphic art in Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. The images on this page give a broad sense of the span of the British Museum's collection from the 1400s until today.
Léon Spilliaert
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Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born in the coastal town of Ostend. He moved to Brussels at the age of 20, and would live and work between the two cities for the rest of his life. Self-taught, he forged his own artistic identity, which was shaped by the affinity he felt with writers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Nietzsche. This exhibition showcases some 80 works on paper – from images of Spilliaert’s home town and the coast, to later works capturing the tranquillity of the forest outside Brussels.
Masterpieces: The Broken Ear
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This statuette became world-famous thanks to Hergé, who incorporated it in his eponymous Tintin comic The Broken Ear.
Masterpieces: Armillarium
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Armillary sphere (consisting of several rings or armillae in Latin) is a model of objects in the sky on the celestial sphere. These representations of the universe were a popular fixture in cabinets of curiosities and were used to demonstrate the motion of the stars around the earth.
Masterpieces: Unku
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This high-quality tunic is typical of the productions from the south of Peru during the Inca period.
Masterpieces: Mysterious Sphinx
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‘Mysterious sphinx’ is the best-known work of the Belgian sculptor Charles Van der Stappen and an icon of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Van der Stappen created this work for the Hall of Honour at the Colonial Exhibition in Tervuren in 1897.
Masterpieces: Death Mask
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The first masks covering a mummy’s head and shoulders date from the Middle Kingdom. They were probably used as a substitute of the dead person’s head, representing the senses that were vital for one’s existence in the afterlife.
Masterpieces: Drinking Horn
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In the Early Middle Ages, the dead were often buried with grave goods. This drinking horn was possibly found in a burial ground in Anderlecht, during excavations. The former owner found it in the attic of his grandfather, who was a notary in Brussels. The museum acquired the item in 2010.
Okay your challenge today is to draw a cheerful apple#RAdailydoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) March 26, 2020
#RAdailydoodle
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Okay your challenge today is to draw a cheerful apple
The Advent of the Artist
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Spread across four rooms, the exhibition will feature some forty artworks from the Louvre’s eight curatorial departments alongside extracts from literature, with the aim of tracing the emergence and recognition of the artist from Antiquity to the 19th century.
Who can draw us a good lion?#RADailyDoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) April 1, 2020
#RADailyDoodle
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Who can draw us a good lion?
Please, because it’s Sunday, draw us your favourite flower.#RAdailydoodle
— Royal Academy (@royalacademy) March 29, 2020
#RAdailydoodle
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Please, because it’s Sunday, draw us your favourite flower.
Sunday Sculpture
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We challenge you, in the spirit of Erwin Wurm, to create a one minute sculpture from the comfort of your own home (or garden!).
Courtauld Gallery Virtual Tour
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The virtual tour uses a new photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery in exceptional close-up quality. You can roam each room of the Gallery, as it was before it temporarily closed in September 2018, and zoom in to look closely at masterpieces from our collection such as Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear or Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, from individual brush strokes to the texture of the paint