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National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 15th November 2007 - Thu, 15th November 2007 From £5.00*Allen Jones in conversation with Richard Cork Painter, printmaker and sculptor Allen Jones gained an international reputation for his glamorous and playfully erotic scultptures and prints in the 1960’s. Over the past forty years he has exhibited widely in Europe and America and also designed for stage and television. He talks about Pop Art and his extraordinary career with art critic Richard Cork
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 8th November 2007 - Thu, 8th November 2007 From £5.00*Brian Griffin in conversation Photographer Brian Griffin talks about his project to photograph 165 of the people who built the Channel Tunnel Rail Link into St Pancras.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Fri, 25th January 2008 - Tue, 29th January 2008 From £12.00*Presented by the Crafts Council The fifth annual COLLECT, organised by the Crafts Council, is a unique opportunity to see a vast array of styles of contemporary applied art under one roof. Building on the success of the past four years, the 42 international exhibiting galleries will present museum quality ceramics, glass, art, jewellery, silver, textiles, furniture and wood. The fair attracts specialists and is also an opportunity for those wanting to learn more about artists at the pinnacle of their career and to spot the next rising star.
British Museum, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 21st October 2007 From £5.00*Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan features some of the most beautiful Japanese art-crafts produced during the past fifty years including ceramics, textiles, lacquer, metal, wood, bamboo, glass and dolls. The exhibition presents works by members of the Japan Art Crafts Association (Nihon Kogeikai), many of them designated ’Living National Treasures’ in Japan, a title conferred by the Japanese government on exemplary individuals who carry on Japanese traditions. Crafting Beauty will demonstrate how the beauty, skill and modernity found in these contemporary pieces draws on the streng...
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 21st October 2007 From £5.00*A major exhibition celebrating British press photography during the Fleet Street years 1900-1982 This exhibition presents, for the first time, a unique history of British press photography during the span of its decisive Fleet Street years. Drawing upon the rich surviving archives of newspaper photography, it focuses on two parallel stories, one of a powerful industry with an internal culture of its own, and the other of the often uneasy relationship that grew between public figures, the photographic press and the wider population of readers. Daily Encounters features over eighty images t...
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Thu, 18th October 2007 From £5.00*Poetry and Family - An evening of poetry readings exploring the theme of family.
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 20th January 2008 From £9.00*Sponsored by Lehman Brothers A groundbreaking exhibition Pop Art Portraits - the first to explore the role and significance of portraiture within one of the world’s most popular and influential art movements - opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 11 October. Conceived as a visual dialogue between American and British Pop Art, this exhibition brings together 52 key works by 28 Pop artists working on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and 1960s. These include major portraits by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein alongside those of Peter Blake, Ri...
National Gallery, London, UK Wed, 24th October 2007 - Sun, 13th January 2008 From £9.00*This exhibition offers the first opportunity in the UK to see Sienese Renaissance works of art in the artistic, cultural and political context of the volatile last century of the Sienese Republic. While the painting of Trecento Siena is universally admired, the art produced during the later 15th and early 16th centuries is much less well known, especially outside Italy. ’Renaissance Siena: Art for a City’ will showcase the bravura techniques and virtuoso inventiveness of two of the greatest Sienese artists of this period, Francesco di Giorgio and Domenico Beccafumi, alongside man...
Science Museum, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 28th October 2007 From £8.00*The Science of Spying launches at the Science Museum on 10 February 2007 and is open every day until 2 September 2007. As the Science Museum sees a major influx in visitor numbers over the half term period (10th-25th February 2007), all visitors should be advised that they may need to queue up to 30mins outside the Museum. Please plan your trip around this. Find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a modern-day spy in this new interactive family exhibition. After being recruited as a trainee spy, explore the skills and abilities required by real agents and use some of the latest tech...
Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 6th January 2008 From £5.00*This exhibition traces the development of one of America’s most innovative 20th century jewelry firms and will include design renderings and approximately 150 pieces of jewelry, jewelry molds, design layouts from fashion publications and other ephemera. Seaman Schepps was born in 1881, son of immigrants who lived on New York’s Delancey Street. He opened his first jewelry shop in 1904 in Los Angeles and eventually made his way back to New York with stores on Madison Avenue. From 1930 to the late 1950s his clientele included Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor, Katharine Hepburn and...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 6th January 2008 From £6.00*Sponsored by Olympus Lee Miller is one of the most renowned female icons of the 20th century - a unique individual admired as much for her free-spirit, creativity and intelligence as for her classical beauty. This exhibition will cover her extraordinary career as a photographer and is the first complete retrospective of her life and work, exploring her transformation from artist’s muse to ground-breaking artist. Miller was born in New York in 1907 and modelled for Vogue before meeting Man Ray in Paris in 1929. She became both his lover and muse, and inspired by his work, started to d...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Thu, 18th October 2007 - Sun, 6th January 2008 From £9.00*This glamorous exhibition will focus on Parisian and British couture between 1947-1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as the ’˜Golden Age’ of fashion. Dior’s launch of the ’˜New Look’ for his first collection in 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a new style that symbolised femininity. The full skirts and hour-glass silhouettes were considered highly decadent, synonymous with luxury, opulence and prosperity, following the austerity of the war years. The Golden Age will display stunning gowns and exquisite tailoring from designers...
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Thu, 29th November 2007 - Thu, 29th November 2007 From £5.00*The William Blake Klezmatrix is a poetry/music collaborative formed to fill a palpably glaring gap - the widespread performance of William Blake’s most lyrical texts. Blake himself is said to have delighted in singing, and presumably called his most celebrated publication ’Songs of Innocence’ because he meant them to be sung. As well as versions of Blake’s lyrics, the band, which tonight features Madeline Solomon on flute, Annie Whitehead ontrombone, Michael Horovitz on anglo-saxophone, and all three vocalising diverse jazz-poems, klezmer and other folk music and song...
The O2 Bubble, London, UK Thu, 22nd November 2007 - Sat, 30th August 2008 From £15.00*Marking the first time the treasures of Tutankhamun have visited London in over 30 years, an extensive exhibition of more than 130 artifacts from the tomb of the celebrated Pharaoh and other Valley of the Kings ancestors visits London on 15 November 2007. London is the only European city to host the treasures. Featured treasures in the exhibit, which are all between 3,300 and 3,500 years old, include Tutankhamun’s royal diadem - the gold crown discovered encircling the head of the king’s mummified body that he likely wore while living - and one of the gold and precious stone inl...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Sun, 6th January 2008 - Sun, 6th January 2008 From £45.00*Purchase your V&A Membership online. Alternatively, you could save £5 on Membership by paying by Direct Debit - please call 020 7942 2271 for details. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP £45 (CONCESSIONS £40) PER YEAR There has never been a better time to become a member of the V&A, the world’s greatest museum of art and design. Members enjoy a range of benefits including... ’¢ Unlimited free entry to all V&A exhibitions, no need to pre-book or queue ’¢ Members’ preview of new galleries and major V&A exhibitions ’¢ The ground-breaking V&A magazine...
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