Podcasts about Fitzwilliam Museum

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 50:16

Simon Bertin goes on a tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum and talks to artist Glenn Ligon on his thought-provoking show All over the Place. We sample some new poem recitals […]

Local Legends #19: Robert Lloyd Parry

The Three Ravens Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 73:54

On this week's Haunting Season-themed Local Legends episode, the second of four, Martin gathers round the Three Ravens campfire with the acclaimed actor, art historian, and expert in classic ghost stories Robert Lloyd Parry.In case you've not heard of him, since 2005 Rob has been engaged in "The M.R. James Project," a set of performances where Rob, dressed and in character as 'The Father of the Modern Ghost Story,' performs James' terrifying tales to much acclaim, including from the likes of The Times and Sunday Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Fortean Times, The Spectator, and The New Yorker, who said of the M.R. James Project, “Lloyd Parry's mastery of the role is itself an act of possession.”That's not to say Rob is a one trick pony – far from it. He read Classics at Oxford, completed his MA in Greek and Roman Art History at The University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, and, as an art historian and museum interpreter, he researches and writes websites, audio and multimedia guides, apps, books, and guides for leading museums, galleries and heritage sites including the likes of The British Museum, Tate Britain, The National Gallery, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Royal Academy, and many, many more. In this interview, we focus in on M.R. James and classic ghost stories, discussing writers like Algernon Blackwood, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and many others. What makes them so brilliant, and which of their tales would Rob recommend? Moreover, what made M.R. James such a special, singular writer whose influence on weird fiction is probably greater than any writer of the last 200 years?Gather close around the Three Ravens campfire as we get into it, and if you would like to see Rob live (an experience which highly recommend) do visit his theatre company's website and check his upcoming dates at https://www.nunkie.co.uk/scheduleOtherwise, we'll be back on Monday with our third trio of Haunting Season original ghost stories for 2024. So, see you then. We'll be the ones hiding in the shadows... The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time For Tea ☕

The Retrospectors

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 13:19

How did tea become Britain's national drink? Its story begins in China, where it was first popularised during the Han and Tang dynasties - but it first made its mark in London's coffee houses on 30th September, 1658, when it was advertised to the public in a ‘newsbook', marketing the exotic beverage as "an excellent and by all physicians approved China drink". However, British tea importers faced stiff competition from the beer industry, which wasn't thrilled about losing customers to this new sector. Breweries even spread rumours that tea was bad for your health in a bid to retain their market share. Yet, once Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza married Charles II in 1662, the Royal family's much-publicised fondness for a cuppa brought it out of the coffeehouses and into homes, where it became a genteel, domestic drink. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly trace the history of England's infatuation with tea, from Pitt The Younger's association with the ‘tea tax', to shops like Twinings springing up across the country, cementing the drink's place in British society… Further Reading: • ‘Tea' (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge): https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-collection/highlights/context/stories-and-histories/tea • ‘The history of tea' (The National Trust): https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/history/the-history-of-tea • ‘Tea: Helen & Olly's Great British Questions' (Answer Me This!, 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tGlGvn3N0 Love the show? Support us! Join

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Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles's Fourth Plinth commission

The Week in Art

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 72:50

This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his interventions are revealed this week. Ben Luke goes to Cambridge to talk to Ligon about the project. Few artists' lives prompt as much discussion as that of Paul Gauguin, and a new biography of the French artist by Sue Prideaux has just been published. We talk to Sue about the book. And this episode's Work of the Week is the piece that has just been unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Mil Veces un Instante or (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles is made up of plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. Ekow Eshun, the chair of the group that commissions the projects for the Fourth Plinth, speaks to our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, about the work.Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, until 2 March 2025. Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews by Glenn Ligon, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, £32 or $38. Untitled (America/Me), High Line, New York, until November 2024. Listen to our in-depth interview, A brush with… Glenn Ligon from 18 August 2021.Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, by Sue Prideaux, Faber, £30; published in the US next year, by WW Norton, $39.99.Teresa Margolles: Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant), Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, until 2026.Subscription offer: you can get the perfect start to the new academic year with 50% off a student subscription to The Art Newspaper—that's £28, or the equivalent in your currency, for one year. Visit theartnewspaper.com to find out more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Peter Layton and the Legacy of London Glassblowing

Talking Out Your Glass podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 68:21

Artist, pioneer, and mentor, Peter Layton is one of the founding fathers of British Studio Glass. He discovered the art form while teaching ceramics in the US in the mid-1960s and has played a major part in elevating glass from an industrial medium to a highly collectable art form. Most importantly, he gave it a home in the UK. This month, London Glassblowing presents Glass Heaven, an exhibition uniting two exceptional glass artists: Layton and Tim Rawlinson. The show opened August 2 and will run through September 1, 2024. Representing the next generation of glass talent, Rawlinson combines innovative approach and vibrant compositions to offer a fresh perspective, challenging conventional boundaries and resonating with today's artistic landscape. Layton, a veteran in the glass world, has captivated audiences for decades with his bold, expressive works. His 50-year journey from the studio's beginnings on the Thames to international acclaim highlights his role in elevating glass art. Born in Prague in 1937, Layton is one of Europe's pre-eminent glass designers. He has directly influenced several of his country's leading glassmakers and inspired many more. Arriving in England in 1939, there he began his education. While at grammar school, he met another boy who had also won the attention of his art teacher – his name was David Hockney. Layton attended Bradford Art College, then went to London's Central School of Art and Design, to specialize in ceramics, where he was taught by several of the most respected potters of the time. On graduating, Layton was offered a teaching job in Iowa University's Ceramics Department. Once in the US, in 1966, he participated in one of the first experimental glass workshops with Harvey Littleton and was bewitched by the immediacy and spontaneity of hot glass. He went on to expand his connections and friendships on this side of the pond to include participating in a Los Angeles exhibition with Marvin Lipofsky, a San Francisco show with pop artist Mel Ramos, and an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago with Viola Frey. Back in Britain, in 1969 Layton helped Sam Herman build the first furnace at the Glasshouse in Covent Garden, and he subsequently established his own small glass studio at Morar in the Highlands of Scotland, a Glass Department at Hornsey College of Art (Middlesex University) and, in 1976, the London Glassblowing Workshop in an old towage works on the Thames at Rotherhithe. In 2009 Layton's London Glassblowing Studio and Gallery moved to much larger premises in Bermondsey. Since its opening, London Glassblowing has nurtured and produced some of the world's leading glass artists, including (most recently) Elliot Walker of Netflix Blown Away fame. Layton's colorful and painterly works of glass art can be found in numerous public and private collections, both at home and abroad, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bradford for his contribution to arts and crafts in Britain. Layton is also the founder of the Contemporary Glass Society, which is Britain's foremost organization supporting and championing the work of glass artists, both established and new. A vigorous proponent of glassblowing as an art form, Layton has authored several books, become an Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers, an Honorary life member of the Contemporary Glass Society as well as been given the Freedom of the City of London. Layton has always taken inspiration from his environment, natural or manmade: a stone wall on a snowy day, the London skyline, or works by great painters. From a mere detail, a flash of a Klimt orange or a slick of oil on the Thames, he creates painterly works with a masterly use of color. The artist is inspired by whatever is around him. For example, during the winter of 2009, the heavy snow turned his long commute by train into an intriguing black and white world full of movement and texture, shaping his recent Glacier series. He has also created a number of conceptual pieces that reflect his specific concerns with issues such as ecology, religion and racial conflict. Layton says: “A fellow artist recently described a piece that I had made for her by saying, ‘…it's as though it holds all my travels in light.' Lovely compliments like that spur me on. You never, ever create the perfect piece of glass and there are always new ideas, techniques and challenges to master. Glass is such an underrated medium – there is a fluidity and uncertainty about it that I choose to embrace rather than overcome. Every piece is an adventure.” From October 8 – 13, 2024, PAD London returns to the iconic Berkeley Square in Mayfair, where London Glassblowing will be showcasing an extraordinary selection of work from their talented makers alongside designers and galleries from over 20 countries worldwide. To coincide with PAD and Le Verre, London Glassblowing is offering a series of exclusive events, providing a unique opportunity to explore and learn more about the captivating medium of glass. For more information visit https://londonglassblowing.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions/pad-london

Arts Sponsorship in Crisis?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 42:21

Samira discusses the perilous situation facing arts sponsorship in the UK, amid growing protests and campaigns, with leading figures from the worlds of arts and finance. As literary and music festivals have been engulfed in sponsorship rows this summer, resulting in many severing ties with major donors such as the investment firm Baillie Gifford. what are the implications for the future of arts funding?She is joined by Peter Bazalgette, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction. David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, founder of Nevill Holt Opera Festival and Chair of the National Portrait Gallery. Julia Fawcett, Chief Executive of The Lowry in Salford. Author and journalist John Kampfner. Luke Syson, Director of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. City Financier Malcolm Le May. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser

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Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer

Material Matters with Grant Gibson

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 42:08

Writer actor Ryan Sampson and actor Danny Dyer on their new sky comedy series Mr Bigstuff which explores the relationship between two brothers and masculinity .Pete Bellotte is one of the world's greatest songwriters. With a catalogue of over 500 songs he is best known for his work with Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. Earlier this year he won a Grammy after the 1977 song “I Feel Love” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.As an exhibition on Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body opens at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the exhibition's co-curator and classicist Caroline Vout and the art historian Lynda Nead join Tom to talk about the Olympics, high-performing bodies, and the interplay between art and sport. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones

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Literary It Girls, BookTok And The Complicated History of Men Watching Women Reading

The Polyester Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 28:12

This week we've partnered with the Fitzwilliam Museum to take on the internet's renewed interest in all things literary. Inspired by the museum's rehang, where one portion of the Interiors gallery depicts women reading throughout the years, Ione and Gina talk through the oxymoronic literary it girl trend, the insidious nature of BookTok and the historical triumphs involved in female literacy. Support our work and become a Polyester Podcast member

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Adi Toch on why she buries copper.

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 54:01

Adi Toch is one of the world's most fascinating metal artists, who over the years has buried her pieces for months on end before digging them up, and even made them react to sound. She has also taken part in collaborations with furniture makers and glass artists. Adi has work in the permanent collections of the V&A, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland, and the Jewish Museum in New York. She won a Wallpaper Magazine Design Award in 2017, and in that same year was a finalist of the Loewe Craft Prize. She has also exhibited around the world from the FOG Design + Art fair in San Francisco with Sarah Myerscough Gallery to Make Hauser & Wirth in Somerset.In this episode we talk about: her extraordinary studio and sharing with two other leading metal artists; the relationships she has with different metals; her creative process and her use of ‘ghosts'; why the pandemic was hugely creative; her fascination with mirrors; how metal communicates through sound and ‘screams'; burying her pieces for months; growing up in Jerusalem; getting rejected initially from design school; and how the Gaza crisis has impacted on her identity. We're delighted that this episode has been sponsored by the wonderful Sarah Myerscough Gallery. Established in 1998, the gallery represents a distinguished group of contemporary craft and design artists, specialising in material-led processes with a focus on wood and natural materials. It also curates a fascinating programme of exhibitions. To find out more go to: www.sarahmyerscough.comSupport the Show.

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Cambridge Breakfast: Botticelli in Cambridge

Cambridge Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 11:01

Simon Bertin visits the Fitzwilliam Museum where Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli is on display courtesy of the National Gallery.

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Now the English Countryside Is Racist Too

Sarah Cain, The Crusader Gal

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 4:26

New signage at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Britain warns viewers about how pictures of the English countryside might lead to nationalism, which is the “darker side” of landscape imagery. Read the article at Homefront Crusade.

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Cambridge Breakfast: Tensions of Belonging

Cambridge Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2023 11:43

Ten Cambridgeshire residents have chosen twenty objects from the permanent collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum to present a new display curated by local people, Tensions of Belonging: Connecting Cambridge. Julian […]

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51: Fragment of terracotta cult statue from Cyprus

Object Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 49:28

In this episode of Object Matters host Dr Craig Barker is joined by Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, an archaeologist and curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the 2023 Sir Charles Nicholson Lecturer. Together they discuss the Being An Islander project and associated Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as Anastasia's archaeological interests in material culture in island environments, including Crete, Sardinia and Cyprus, where they discuss an Archaic period cult sanctuary site called Salamis Toumba. Guest: Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou is Curator of Greece, Rome and Cyprus at the Department of Antiquities of the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is responsible for research and exhibition projects and permanent displays in the fields of Greek, Cypriot and Roman collections of the museum. Anastasia gained her PhD in Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (2008) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Topoi Excellence Cluster, Freie Universität Berlin (2009-2010), prior to joining the Fitzwilliam Museum. She served as leader of the 4-year research project ‘Being an Islander': Art and Identity of the large Mediterranean Islands, (2019-2023) which aimed to critically re-examine the concept of island life through material culture. In 2023 she visited the University of Sydney as the Chau Chak Wing Museum's Sir Charles Nicholson Lecturer. Follow Anastasia on X: @AChristophilop1 Host: Dr Craig Barker, Head of Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum and Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Excavations. Follow @DrCraig_B on X and Instagram. Objects details: Fragmentary human head, terracotta, Salamis Toumba, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic, 750-475 BC. Donated by the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge 1947 [NM47.388]

And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, Claudette Johnson (1982) (EMPIRE LINES x The Courtauld Gallery)

EMPIRE LINES

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 19:03

Curator Dorothy Price outlines the figures of Claudette Johnson, a founder member of the Black British Art Movement (Blk Art Group), and one of the first ‘post-colonials' practicing in Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and the Midlands from the 1980s to now. Ever so-slightly-larger than-life, Claudette Johnson's drawings of Black figures reflect the status of their artist. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement or BLK Art Group in the 1980s, she was a leading figure in a politically-charged creative community - called the first ‘post-colonials' by Stuart Hall, for being born and raised in Britain. Johnson worked closely with fellow ‘post-Windrush' contemporaries include Eddie Chambers and Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard and Maud Sulter, Marlene Smith and Lubaina Himid - but her work has been relatively underrepresented. As the artist's first public monographic exhibition opens in London, curator Dorothy Price talks about her practice in the Wolverhampton Young Black Artists Group - which predated the YBAs - and formative speech in the First National Black Arts Conference in 1982. Dorothy shares personal insights from the groundbreaking ICA exhibition, The Thin Black Line, and Claudette's complex position as a Black European artist of African and Caribbean descent. Drawing on the Courtauld's permanent collection, we see the artist's work with African masks, sculptures, and conventional representations of Black women, challenging the colonial foundations of Western European modernism, and reappropriating the ‘Primitivism' of the likes of Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin to state her place in art history. We also discuss her contemporary practice, and how the history of the Black British Arts Movement can decentre the contemporary ‘Brixtonisation' of the singular Black experience, drawing attention to cities in Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and the Midlands. Claudette Johnson: Presence runs at the Courtauld Gallery in London until 14 January 2023. For more, you can read my article. For more about Keith Piper, hear curators Jake Subryan Richards and Vicky Avery on Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) at the Fitzwilliam Museum on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/a5271ae2bc8c85116db581918412eda2 For more on Ingrid Pollard, hear the artist on Carbon Slowly Turning (2022) at the Turner Contemporary on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/e00996c8caff991ad6da78b4d73da7e4 For more about the ‘Brixtonisation' of the Black British experience, listen to artist Johny Pitts on Home is Not A Place (2021-Now) at The Photographers' Gallery on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/70fd7f9adfd2e5e30b91dc77ee811613 For more on Hurvin Anderson, hear Hepworth Wakefield curator Isabella Maidment on his Barbershop (2006-2023) series on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/5cfb7ddb525098a8e8da837fcace8068 Recommended reading: On Lubaina Himid: gowithyamo.com/blog/the-revolutionary-act-of-walking-in-the-city On Maud Sulter: gowithyamo.com/blog/reclaiming-visual-culture-black-venus-at-somerset-house On Sonia Boyce: gowithyamo.com/blog/feeling-her-way-sonia-boyces-noisy-exhibition On Life Between Islands at Tate Britain: artmag.co.uk/the-caribbean-condensed-life-between-islands-at-the-tate-britain/ WITH: Professor Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld, London. She is also Editor of Art History, journal of the Association for Art History, and founder of the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre's British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art. Dorothy is the co-curator of Presence. ART: ‘And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, Claudette Johnson (1982)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Real Families: Stories of Change

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2023 19:29

Simon Bertin visits the new Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition that asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of […]

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Fitzwilliam Museum)

EMPIRE LINES

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 26:11

Curators Jake Subryan Richards and Vicky Avery locate Cambridge within the transatlantic slave trade, connecting global commodities and local consumption, historic and contemporary art, to reveal how five hundred years of colonial resistance constructed new cultures, known as the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European empires colonised much of the Americas, transporting over 12.5 million people to these colonies from Africa as slaves. It's a history often recounted as something singular, concluded in the past - detached as happening ‘then, and over there' - else told from the perspective of imperial powers. But in their resistance of colonial slavery, people also produced new cultures that continue to shape our present. Black Atlantic, a new exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, reconnects the institution's collection, university, and city more widely with these global histories. Installed within the Founder's Galleries, part-funded by the profits from the transatlantic slave trade, it builds on the ‘grandeur and smugness' of the Fitzwilliam's architecture - an intervention which asks whether it is possible to decolonise museums, as imperial infrastructures. Co-curators Jake Subryan Richards and Vicky Avery consider contrasts and continuities between historic and modern works, with contemporary Black artists like Barbara Walker and Keith Piper, Alberta Whittle and Donald Locke commenting on visibility, racism, and colourism, and how visual representations of Black people have shifted over time. Vicky smashes stereotypes about abolitionism, ceramics, and popular culture, from the UK's largest pro-slavery punch bowl, to Jacqueline Bishop's new Wedgwood dinner set. Plus, with a botanical painting from a Caribbean plantation - one of the first signed works by a Black artist of a Black subject - we travel between environments in West Africa, North and South America, and Europe, finding examples of exploitation, agency, and self-liberation - and pathways to future ‘repair'. Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance runs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge until 7 January 2024, the first in a series of exhibitions and gallery interventions planned until 2026. For more on the South Sea Bubble, listen to Dr. Helen Paul on ⁠The Luxborough Gallery on Fire (c. 18th Century)⁠: ⁠https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/c02b6b82097b9ce34d193c771f772152 Part of EMPIRE LINES at 90, exploring the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade through contemporary art. WITH: Dr. Jake Subryan Richards, Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Victoria Avery, Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum. They are co-curators of Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance. ART: ‘The Coloureds' Codex, Keith Piper (2023); Vanishing Point 25 (Costanzi), Barbara Walker (2021); Breadfruit Tree, John Tyley (1793-1800); History of the Dinner Table, Jacqueline Bishop (2021)'. IMAGE: Installation View. SOUNDS: Jacqueline Bishop: History at the Dinner Table. Produced by Storya.co. With special thanks to the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 42:21

Presenter Samira Ahmed is joined by the broadcaster and Chair of Judges Reeta Chakrabarti to announce the shortlist of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. Front Row will interview each of the shortlisted authors in the coming weeks, ahead of hosting the award ceremony live from the BBC Radio Theatre on 26th September. Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen has been described as possessing “a once-in-a-generation-voice.” Samira spoke to her between performances as Elizabeth of Valois in Verdi's Don Carlo at the Royal Opera House, looking ahead to her starring role in the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and the BBC on Saturday. Our reviewers Alayo Akinkugbe, art historian and founder of the Instagram platform A Black History of Art, and Amon Warmann, Contributing Editor of Empire magazine and co-host of the Fade To Black podcast review the exhibition “Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which asks questions about Cambridge's role in the trade of enslaved people and how related objects and artworks have influenced our history and perspectives. We also review “Past Lives” from South Korean director Celine Song, about two childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung, who are separated when Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, with Nora married to an American, they are reunited in New York for a week as they consider what might have been and perhaps still could be. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Corinna Jones NSSA Shortlist 00:57 Fitzwilliam Museum review 03:57 Naomi Wood 13:25 Past Lives review 21:14 Lise Davidsen 30:02

David Remfry MBE

Talk Art

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2023 64:29

We meet renowned British painter and artist David Remfry MBE RA RWS, to discuss curating/coordinating this year's RA Summer Exhibition, working with watercolour, more than 5 decades of art making, and what it was like to live in New York's iconic Hotel Chelsea for 20 years!!!Remfry's Summer Exhibition 2023 explores the theme Only Connect, taken from the famous quote in Howards End by E.M. Forster. Among the 1,614 featured works you will find towering sculptures by the late Phyllida Barlow RA, Richard Malone's dramatic mobile installation in the Wohl Central Hall, and a witty painting by comedian Joe Lycett. Plus pieces by Tracey Emin RA, Hew Locke RA, Barbara Walker RA, Gavin Turk, Lindsey Mendick, Caroline Walker and much, much more.Remfry was born in Worthing, UK, in 1942. His family moved to Hull and he studied Art and Printmaking at the Hull College of Art. He currently lives and works in London. Early solo exhibitions include Ferens Art Gallery, Hull in 1974 and Folkestone Art Gallery, Kent in 1976. Since 1973 he has exhibited regularly at galleries and museums across the UK, Europe and the USA. He is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers; his series of drawings and watercolours of his neighbours and friends at the Hotel Chelsea New York City where he lived from 1995-2016, and his commission by designer Stella McCartney to produce a series of drawings for the launch of her fashion house and for Absolut Vodka.Over the past five decades his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; and the DeLand Museum of Art, Florida. In 2014 he was commissioned by Fortnum & Mason, London, to create a series of watercolours which is now on permanent display in Piccadilly, and he was commissioned to paint Sir John Gielgud for the National Portrait Gallery, London, which also acquired for their collection his portrait of Jean Muir.Remfry was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1987. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to British Art in America, in 2006 he was elected a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and, in 2007, he was invited to receive Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Lincoln. He was awarded the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the 2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and, in 2016, was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools.His work is included in museum permanent collections including the Bass Museum of Art, Florida; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; the British Museum, London; the Contemporary Art Society, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; MIMA, Middlesborough; the National Portrait Gallery, London; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Royal Watercolour Society, London; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.A retrospective of Remfry's work, curated by Dr Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker, is planned for 2025 at Beverley Art Gallery, East Riding.Follow @David_Remfry_RA on InstagramVisit his official website: www.davidremfry.com/Visit the RA Summer Exhibition until 20th August 2023: www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Canaletto

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 32:09

Canaletto rose to fame painting remarkable views of Venice. He became especially popular with wealthy tourists, who commissioned his paintings as souvenirs of their travels. Research: Constable, William G.. "Canaletto". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Canaletto Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "War of the Austrian Succession". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Mar. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Austrian-Succession Binion, A., & Barton, L. Canaletto. Grove Art Online.Retrieved 17 Apr. 2023, from https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000013627 “The Stonemason's Yard.” The National Gallery. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/canaletto-the-stonemasons-yard “London: Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh.” The National Gallery. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/canaletto-london-interior-of-the-rotunda-at-ranelagh “Canaletto's Drawings.” Royal Collection Trust. https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/canaletto-in-venice/the-queens-gallery-palace-of-holyroodhouse/canalettos-drawings Baetjer, Katherine and J.G. Links. “Canaletto.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989. Accessed through The Met: Watson Library Digital Collections. https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/49280 “Imaginary View of Venice.” The Met. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335287#:~:text=It%20was%20in%20these%20years,representing%20actual%20sites%2C%20others%20imaginary. Erkelens, C. J. (2020). Perspective on Canaletto's Paintings of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Art & Perception, 8(1), 49-67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191131 “Canaletto.” The Art Story. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/canaletto/ “Canaletto.” National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1080.html?artistId=1080&pageNumber=1 “Piazzo San Marco.” The Met. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435839 “Architectural Capriccio.” https://www.themorgan.org/collection/drawings/141078 “Owen McSwiney.” The Fitzwilliam Museum. https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/objects-and-artworks/highlights/context/patrons-donors-collectors/owen-mcswiny See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"What does it really mean to be an islander?" S3E5 with Anastasia Christophilopilou

From Root To Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 39:13

In this episode, I am joined by archaeologist Anastasia Christophilopilou, curator of Cyprus, Greece and Rome at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She is currently leading the 4-year research project ‘Being an Islander': Art and Identity of the large Mediterranean Islands, aiming to critically re-examine the concept of island life through material culture. Anastasia tells me all about the project's current exhibition on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, displaying archaeological finds and artworks from the islands of Cyprus, Sardinia and Crete. We also discuss the importance of island life in shaping Cypriot identity, and what ancient study and archaeology can tell us about present day Cyprus. Get involved in the conversation on Instagram/Twitter @roottovinepod, and don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Cambridge Arts Roundup: The Parthenon Marbles and the Fitzwilliam

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2023 55:12

Simon Bertin invites Classics Professor Paul Cartledge to talk on the Parthenon marbles and secret talks over returning them to Greece that may eventually impact on the Fitzwilliam Museum; exhibition […]

Sardinia: Mysteries of the Bronze Age

The Ancients

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2023 42:08

Shrouded in mystery, the Nuragic culture was an enigmatic Bronze Age Civilisation that lived on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. With their name deriving from the Island's iconic fortress-like Nuraghe monument - they have not only defined Bronze Age history, but even the very land from which they originated. But why were the Nuragic so obsessed with building these fortresses, and what can we learn from them?In this episode, Tristan is joined by Fitzwilliam Museum curator, Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, to unravel the mysteries of ancient Sardinia. The builders of the nuraghes left no written records, but new discoveries have shed light on the civilisation and its people. So who what can we learn from the archaeology, and is it possible to find out where they went?Anastasia is the curator of the new Fitzwilliam Museum exhibit Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean. We've teamed up with Collette to provide our North American History Hit Subscribers with the opportunity to join Tristan on a trip to Rome and the Amalfi Coast. You'll spend 3 days exploring all Rome has to offer and then a further 3 days soaking up the history of the Amalfi coast. Follow this link to find out more. History Hit subscribers will save $50 to $100 per person per tour. Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. The Assistant Producer was Annie Coloe. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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36: Ancient Egyptian stele

Object Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 45:35

In this episode of Object Matters host Dr Craig Barker is joined by Egyptologists and archaeologists Dr Melanie Pitkin and Pauline Stanton to discuss stelae and what they can tell us about ancient Egyptian society. Focusing on a stele (NMR.53) donated by collection founder Sir Charles Nicholson, they discuss the function, manufacture and meaning of stelae for ancient Egyptians. This stele features an image of the deceased Ahmose is sitting on a chair with offerings presented to him by his "brother" Ahmose. Behind the latter stands a woman called Ipdjuju who could either be the his wife or the daughter of the deceased. It is an insight into how Egyptians wanted to be remembered. Together they also discuss the current interdisciplinary Egyptian Stelae Project run out of the Chau Chak Wing Museum which has been generously supported by the Centre for Ancient Cultures, Heritage and the Environment (CACHE) at Macquarie University, and explain how important these objects are. Guests: Dr Melanie Pitkin is the Senior Curator of the Nicholson Collection at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. She holds a PhD in Egyptology from Macquarie University and a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining the Chau Chak Wing Museum, she worked at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Powerhouse Museum. Pauline Stanton is a doctoral researcher at Macquarie University. She teaches ancient Egyptian languages at Macquarie and Monash Universities. Follow Melanie on Twitter at @melanie_misr Follow Pauline on Twitter at @pauline03373392 Host: Dr Craig Barker, Head of Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum and Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Excavations. Follow @DrCraig_B on Twitter and Instagram. Object details: limestone stele, Thebes, Egypt, 18th Dynasty (1550 BC - 1295 BC). Donated by Sir Charles Nicholson, 1860 [NMR.53]

Kandace Chimbiri - The Story of Britain's Black Airmen

In the Reading Corner

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022 26:34

Kandace Chimbiri (writing as K.N. Chimbiri) started as a self-published author.She didn't grow up wanting to be a writer. However, she was greatly disturbed by the lack of diversity in children's books, particularly in Black history. In 2009, Kandace set up her own one-woman publishing house to address this inequity. Over the next decade, she researched, wrote, published and distributed four Black history books for children from her spare bedroom.She has also worked with museums on children's trails, workshops, outreach projects and tours. In 2013 she was part of the community committee for the Origins of the Afro Comb, 6,000 Years Of Art and Culture exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.In 2020 Kandace signed a three-book deal with Scholastic, which included a reprint of The Story of Windrush.Kandace joined Nikki Gamble to talk about her experience as a publisher and writer - and to explain the background to her most recent book, The Story of Britain's Black Airmen.About The Story of Britain's Black AirmenExplore the fascinating, rarely-heard stories of Black airmen during the First and Second World Wars. The Story of Britain's Black Airmen celebrates the inspiring contributions of people of African descent to British aviation. From pilots to ground crew, and with tales from across the globe, the story of Britain's Black airmen is an important part of the history of flying.By aiming for the skies, many helped bring about changes that are still making our world a better place. Includes inspirational key figures such as Cy Grant, Errol Barrow, Sam King and John Henry Smythe With full-colour illustration by Grenadian illustrator Elizabeth LanderThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. And if you are interested in the books we have featured, purchasing from our online bookshop Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. It is produced by Alison Hughes.Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates, follow us on Twitter @imaginecentreFull details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

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Luke Syson - 136 - Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain Elkann Interviews

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2022 43:46

CHAMPION OF THE REMARKABLE. Luke Syson is Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University since 2019. From antiquity to the present day, the Fitzwilliam houses a world-renowned collection of over half a million beautiful works of art, masterpiece paintings and historical artefacts.

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Handel in Cambridge

The Early Music Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2022 37:08

Hannah French is in Cambridge exploring links between Handel and the city...which he never visited! She's joined by The Fitzwilliam Museum's Dr Suzanne Reynolds, Handel aficionado Dr Ruth Smith and Emeritus Professor Iain Fenlon to look at a number of treasured items of Handel memorabilia. She'll also be chatting to Cambridge Handel Opera Company's Julian Perkins ahead of their forthcoming production of Tamerlano.

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Mark Rylance, Julian Knight, Reviews of Hockney's Eye, The Dropout and WeCrashed

Talking Out Your Glass podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2022 42:19

Multi award winning actor Mark Rylance on his latest film The Phantom of the Open, a warm hearted comedy about Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator at the shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness who managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. The Phantom of the Open is in cinemas from March 18th. Mark also talks to Samira about reprising his celebrated role as Johnny ‘Rooster‘ Byron in Jez Butterworth's award winning play Jerusalem. The Unboxed Festival that kicked off in Paisley earlier this month had a rave review here on Front Row. Unboxed had its origins in Theresa May's premiership as a cultural celebration to mark a new post Brexit era for the UK. Now a concise new report by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of MPs has delivered what can only be described as a scathing criticism of the project, and the government's whole approach to Major cultural and sporting events. We talk to the Committee's Conservative Chair, Julian Knight MP. David Hockney has always been fascinated by the role of new technologies in enabling artists to achieve their vision. Now, a new exhibition exploring his merging of science and art is being shown at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Tahmima Anam and Rachel Campbell-Johnston join us to review it. And the Grimms fairy stories of the tech start up age: We review two drama series of entrepreneurs flying high and falling to earth: We Crash about the founders of We Work, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, and The Drop Out starring Amanda Seyfried about the Theranos scandal.

Amanda Simmons: Examining Our World through Kiln Forming Glass Powders

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 68:42

As a trained scientist prior to creating with glass, Amanda Simmons is fascinated by how our world works and how it can be fixed. Inspired by subjects as diverse as the physics of our expanding universe or how drugs function on a molecular level, the artist has been discovering new ways to explore the properties of mass, heat, time and gravity in the creation of 3D vessel forms. Intense color and patterns result when opaque glass powders react to light, varying in translucency as the form elongates during the firing process. Works are finished using many coldworking processes to shape and mark the glass including sandblasting, hand lapping, diamond point and wheel engraving. Simmons states: “My practice as a glass artist has become a conduit to further learning by making objects in a material whose language I understand, addressing subjects that interest me in the natural world. Our achievements as a species are impressive but equally frustrating in the cycles of social and environmental injustice, from which we never seem to learn. I want to investigate these cyclic routes and the lessons unlearnt, incorporating this narrative into my work, cultivating and inspiring change in a positive and visual method.” Originally trained in biomedical sciences (pharmacology) and clinical sciences, Simmons became interested in glass in 2002 after a stained glass course with Ray Bradley and then pursued a postgraduate in Glass and Architecture from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 2004. Following a recent two-week residency at Lyth Arts Centre in Caithness, the artist began exploring the continuing research of the Flow Country and its massive capacity to store carbon in the many layers of peat. Working from watercolor prints inspired by the patterns and colors of the land and sky, she produced some of her largest gravity formed glassworks to date for her first solo exhibition Outer Spaces, held July 2017 at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. Simmons' Dahlia Universe series, kilnformed solstice platters, were selected for exhibition in the 2019 British Glass Biennale. Creating work that often examines natural world contrasts, the artist kiln formed platters signifying the changes in season with the thought of our universe expanding like a growing flower. The works investigate whether we could use the biological theory of convergence to explain how our universe was made. Another series, Southern Hemispheres, was inspired by three months travelling and working in Australia. These pieces represent the first small-scale investigations of the resilient Australian native botanicals, posing the question: Do the survival techniques of these plants relate to our current crises in environmental and political situations? Creating work from her studio in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, since 2005, Simmons is the winner of The Gold Award from ORIGIN 2010: The London Craft Fair and finalist in Bullseye Glass Company's Emerge 2012. United States and UK exhibitions include Craft Scotland 2013 and SOFA Chicago. Most recently, Contemporary Applied Arts exhibited Simmons glass art in their material-focused exhibition COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design. Her work can be found in public collections including: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland; and Ernsting Stiftung Glass Museum, Germany. An important part of Simmons' practice is to educate and mentor, a way to pass on the skills developed over 19 years of kiln forming glass. Her 60-minute Master Class Video, available on Bullseye Glass Co.'s website, shares the full process by which she creates her tall vessels. She says: “I enjoy mentoring students starting out in their careers with glass, including business advice, professional development, and a range of glass techniques.”

Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley

Talk Art

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 70:16

Russell & Robert meet artists Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley, who have worked together designing and making furniture and other functional woodwork for over 30 years. The scope of their work ranges from the small and domestic to monumental outdoor pieces. By the time the partnership began Jim had already established a reputation for his vessels and small scale furniture.Initially they worked on outdoor projects, building public seats, footbridges, and shelters. They have always said that their intention was to make “work with a strong but quiet presence in the landscape”. This statement remains true, even though they have broadened that landscape to include built environments. Projects include an altar for Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, seats for Compton Verney Art Gallery, RHS Wisley and Warwick University, furniture for Ruthin Crafts Centre, a bridge in North Wales and the large Ridgeons seat in CB1 Cambridge and, more recently a series of work for the Harley Gallery at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire which involved a redesign of the reception area, seating for inside and outside the new gallery to house the Portland collection, and outdoor cafe furniture.Alongside their site-specific commissioned work their studio furniture, much of which is carved from blocks of green oak, often scorched and polished to a lustrous black finish, regularly appears in exhibitions and is in public collections across the world, including the V&A in London, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Manchester Art Gallery. The work has twice been shortlisted for the Jerwood Furniture prize. In 2019 their work was selected as one of 29 finalists from a field of over 2,500 international entries for the Loewe Craft Prize and exhibited in Tokyo, Japan. More information at Loewe Craft prize 2019This autumn there is work in the 'Signature in Wood' exhibition at the Sarah Myerscough Fine Art gallery and in the 'On the Table' exhibition at Oxford Ceramics Gallery.'On The Table' exhibition runs 22nd December 2021 at Oxford Ceramics Gallery. Follows @OxfordCeramicsGallery and their official website is: www.oxfordceramics.comJim and Liz's website is at: www.jplw.co.uk"Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley treat wood in a way it deserves, not with a finely turned perfection, but with a strong sense of the material's true vigour, retaining that elemental simplicity you find in lengths of raw timber, and in the essential life of the grain. Their various sculptural bowls (Partridge's individual work), seats, benches and bridges are not only bold pieces of concentrated form, but carry a semblance of ritual, a sense of directness and simplicity found too in tribal or early European artefacts. But the language is confidently modern, the work as at home with contemporary architecture as in the broader British landscape from which it springs and with which it so skilfully merges. Born in Leeds in 1953, Partridge attended the John Makepeace School at Parnham House. For many years Jim and Liz have been based in Shropshire." (Bio written by David Whiting). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FranceFineArt

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 23:05

“Sur le motif“ Peindre en plein air 1780 1870à la Fondation Custodia, Parisdu 3 décembre 2021 au 3 avril 2022Interview de Alice-Anne Tod, ancienne conservatrice en formation à la Fondation Custodia et auteure des notices des œuvres du catalogue en ligne,par Anne-Frédérique Fer, à Paris, le 2 décembre 2021, durée 23'05.© FranceFineArt.Communiqué de presseCommissariat :Ger Luijten, directeur de la Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, ParisMary Morton, conservatrice et cheffe du département des peintures françaises de la National Gallery of Art de WashingtonJane Munro, conservatrice du département des peintures, dessins et estampes du Fitzwilliam Museum de CambridgeCette exposition , qui réunit plus de cent cinquante études à l'huile appartenant à la Fondation Custodia à Paris, à la National Gallery of Art de Washington, au Fitzwilliam Museum de Cambridge et à une collection particulière, propose une nouvelle approche de la peinture de plein air en Europe entre 1780 et 1870.La pratique est, certes, attestée dès avant le début de cette période. Les expériences italiennes de Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) évoquées par son biographe et le remarquable ensemble d'oeuvres de François Desportes (1661–1743) conservé à Sèvres en témoignent. Ce n'est toutefois qu'à partir de la fin du XVIIIe siècle que l'usage de l'esquisse à l'huile en plein air fit partie intégrante de la formation des paysagistes européens. À la croisée de la peinture et du dessin, ces études de petit format étaient généralement exécutées sur papier. Peintes rapidement sur le motif, elles avaient pour objectif d'exercer l'oeil et la main à saisir les fugitifs effets de lumière et de couleur. Parfois terminées ultérieurement en atelier, elles n'étaient toutefois pas conçues comme des oeuvres finies destinées à être exposées ou vendues. Elles constituaient pour l'artiste de précieuses références sur lesquelles il se basait pour donner à ses travaux plus formels fraîcheur et immédiateté.L'esquisse de plein air à l'huile, sur papier ou sur toile, fut adoptée par des artistes originaires de l'Europe entière, et au-delà. Le visiteur trouvera donc dans l'exposition des oeuvres de Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Achille-Etna Michallon, Camille Corot, Rosa Bonheur, John Constable, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Johan Thomas Lundbye, Vilhelm Kyhn, Johann Martin von Rohden, Carl Blechen et bien d'autres encore. Le parcours n'est ni chronologique, ni organisé par écoles, mais se structure autour des motifs abordés : arbres, rochers, l'eau sous ses multiples formes, volcans, ciels, toits, Rome et la Campagne romaine, Capri. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

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Ancient Kazakhstan: Gold of the Great Steppe

The Ancients

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 49:09

Gold and horses! 2,500 years ago, in the area of the Great Steppe that is now Eastern Kazakhstan, an extraordinary ancient Scythian culture reigned supreme. They were called the Saka, renowned for their skill as horse archers and for their elaborate elite burials. Ancient Persian and Greek sources labelled them a barbaric, nomadic people – a scourge on the ‘civilised' world. But new archaeological discoveries from East Kazakhstan are revealing a very different picture. A picture that highlights how the Saka were a highly-sophisticated ancient society. A culture that boasted complex settlements, expert craftsmen, extensive trade routes and more, alongside their equine mastery and their staggering wealth. Now, for a limited time only, you can see some of these newly-discovered artefacts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The exhibition is called ‘Gold of the Great Steppe'. Running from 28th September 2021 to 30th January 2022, it is the first exhibition about this ancient culture ever to be shown in the UK. To find out more about the exhibition and what these newly-discovered artefacts are revealing about the Saka, Tristan headed up to Cambridge to interview Dr Rebecca Roberts, associated curator of ‘Gold of the Great Steppe'.Gold of the Great Steppe Exhibition: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/visit-us/exhibitions/gold-of-the-great-steppe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Gold and the Great Steppe: what a recently discovered burial mound tells us about an ancient culture

The PastCast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 32:45

On this episode of the PastCast, two curators from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge discuss its recently opened exhibition, Gold and the Great Steppe. The exhibition looks at the history of the Saka, a nomadic people from Eastern Kazakhstan who lived around 2,500 years ago. To accompany the exhibition, curators Rebecca Roberts and Saltanat Amir have written an article in the latest issue of Minerva magazine, which comes out in the UK on 21 October. You can also read it online at The Past website. Rebecca and Saltanat spoke with PastCast presenter, Calum Henderson. The Past brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the realms of history, archaeology, heritage, and the ancient world. You can subscribe to The Past today for just £7.99. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider liking it, subscribing, and sharing it around.

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S1Ep6| CHRONICLING 6,000 YEARS OF THE AFROCOMB - the history of Black hair

AKADi Magazine

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 5:20

Welcome to Connecting Communities – an AKADi Magazine series that profiles Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities.This is an extract from a MisBeee Writes blogpost about the history of Black hair read by poet La PoEsi. The afrocomb dates back 6000 years, and engenders extraordinary symbolism, encompasses culture, politics and identity. This review is based on an exhibition curated by Sally-Ann Ashton at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. AKADi Magazine is a digital publication connecting Ghanaians in Ghana and the Diaspora (https://www.akadimagazine.com) and blog MisBeee Writes (https://msbwrites.co.uk). Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/AKADiMag And join our Podcast Club to access exclusive and early release content and discounts here: https://ko-fi.com/akadimagazineThe music in this episode is made exclusively for AKADi Magazine by Kyekyeku and the Superopongstarz and is called 'Life No Dey Easy'.AKADi Magazine is a digital publication connecting Ghanaians in Ghana and the Diaspora, visit us at www.akadimagazine.com and www.msbwrites.co.uk for all your community news.

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The Windrush Generation. A story by Kandace Chimbiri (Read in-part by Oliver Green)

The History Emporium and Pals Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 17:14

The Windrush Generation includes anyone who immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean between 1948-1973. After WWII, large parts of Britain were in desperate need of rebuilding, so the UK actively invited immigration from Commonwealth nations. https://windrushfoundation.comKandace Chimbiri is the author of black history books for children; Secrets of the Afro Comb,6,000 Years of Art and Culture, The Story of Early Ancient Egypt, Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush and The Story of the Windrush, a tribute to the Windrush Generation pioneers. Kandace was born in London, England in 1968 to parents from Barbados. Motivated by a desire to help improve both children's literacy as well as their knowledge of history, Kandace founded her small publishing house Golden Destiny Ltd in 2009. Golden Destiny specialises in non-fiction titles for children, in particular Black history before mass enslavement. She has worked with the V&A on Contemporary Kushite Kings and Queens (part of the Staying Power project in 2011), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on the Origins of the Afro Comb (2013) and with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on the Fusion of Worlds (2014). She has given talks for adults and for children on African history as well as tours on African Artefacts in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the V&A. Her talks and workshops for adults include:• Ancient Warrior Queens of the Sudan (for Black History Walks)• Nefertiti: a Black icon?• African Artefacts in European Museums• Female Rulers of the Ancient Nile Valley Her talks, museum trails and workshops for children include Great Lives of Ancient Africa (museum mystery hunt), 6,000 years of African combs, Why doesn't everyone have African hair? and Kushite crowns. She has also delivered Black history sessions for children at the Barbados Museum (2012). She appeared in the documentary, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Ancient Nile Valley.Links to all my work is here: https://linktr.ee/HEAPP Podcast socials: Twitter -@historyeapp Instagram - HistoryEmporiumPalsPodcast Facebook Page -@HistoryEmporium Email -historyandpals@gmail.com Support a budding podcaster... Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Windrush Generation. A story by Kandace Chimbiri (Read in-part by Oliver Green)

Macabre Bones

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 17:14

The Windrush Generation includes anyone who immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean between 1948-1973. After WWII, large parts of Britain were in desperate need of rebuilding, so the UK actively invited immigration from Commonwealth nations. https://windrushfoundation.comKandace Chimbiri is the author of black history books for children; Secrets of the Afro Comb,6,000 Years of Art and Culture, The Story of Early Ancient Egypt, Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush and The Story of the Windrush, a tribute to the Windrush Generation pioneers. Kandace was born in London, England in 1968 to parents from Barbados. Motivated by a desire to help improve both children's literacy as well as their knowledge of history, Kandace founded her small publishing house Golden Destiny Ltd in 2009. Golden Destiny specialises in non-fiction titles for children, in particular Black history before mass enslavement. She has worked with the V&A on Contemporary Kushite Kings and Queens (part of the Staying Power project in 2011), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on the Origins of the Afro Comb (2013) and with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on the Fusion of Worlds (2014). She has given talks for adults and for children on African history as well as tours on African Artefacts in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the V&A. Her talks and workshops for adults include:• Ancient Warrior Queens of the Sudan (for Black History Walks)• Nefertiti: a Black icon?• African Artefacts in European Museums• Female Rulers of the Ancient Nile Valley Her talks, museum trails and workshops for children include Great Lives of Ancient Africa (museum mystery hunt), 6,000 years of African combs, Why doesn't everyone have African hair? and Kushite crowns. She has also delivered Black history sessions for children at the Barbados Museum (2012). She appeared in the documentary, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Ancient Nile Valley.Links to all my work is here: https://linktr.ee/HEAPP Podcast socials: Twitter -@historyeapp Instagram - HistoryEmporiumPalsPodcast Facebook Page -@HistoryEmporium Email -historyandpals@gmail.com Support a budding podcaster... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Windrush Generation. A story by Kandace Chimbiri (Read in-part by Oliver Green)

The History Emporium and Pals Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 17:14

The Windrush Generation includes anyone who immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean between 1948-1973. After WWII, large parts of Britain were in desperate need of rebuilding, so the UK actively invited immigration from Commonwealth nations. https://windrushfoundation.comKandace Chimbiri is the author of black history books for children; Secrets of the Afro Comb,6,000 Years of Art and Culture, The Story of Early Ancient Egypt, Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush and The Story of the Windrush, a tribute to the Windrush Generation pioneers. Kandace was born in London, England in 1968 to parents from Barbados. Motivated by a desire to help improve both children's literacy as well as their knowledge of history, Kandace founded her small publishing house Golden Destiny Ltd in 2009. Golden Destiny specialises in non-fiction titles for children, in particular Black history before mass enslavement. She has worked with the V&A on Contemporary Kushite Kings and Queens (part of the Staying Power project in 2011), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on the Origins of the Afro Comb (2013) and with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on the Fusion of Worlds (2014). She has given talks for adults and for children on African history as well as tours on African Artefacts in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the V&A. Her talks and workshops for adults include:• Ancient Warrior Queens of the Sudan (for Black History Walks)• Nefertiti: a Black icon?• African Artefacts in European Museums• Female Rulers of the Ancient Nile Valley Her talks, museum trails and workshops for children include Great Lives of Ancient Africa (museum mystery hunt), 6,000 years of African combs, Why doesn't everyone have African hair? and Kushite crowns. She has also delivered Black history sessions for children at the Barbados Museum (2012). She appeared in the documentary, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Ancient Nile Valley.Links to all my work is here: https://linktr.ee/HEAPP Podcast socials: Twitter -@historyeapp Instagram - HistoryEmporiumPalsPodcast Facebook Page -@HistoryEmporium Email -historyandpals@gmail.com Support a budding podcaster... Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who loved Alexander the Great?

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 3:07

Discover the life and loves of Alexander the Great... Anthony Bridgen shares a story from his LGBTQ+ history tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum, part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries tour programme.

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How to ensure a memory never fades

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 2:31

Meet Antinous, the boy who became a god... Anthony Bridgen shares a story from his LGBTQ+ history tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum, part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries tour programme.

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The interior life of a quiet painter

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 3:35

Glimpse the interior life of artist Gwen John in this extract from Oliver Warren's Bridging Binaries tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ tour programme.

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Gossip from Queen Anne's court

Ruth is Stranger Than Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2021 2:56

“When as Queen Anne of great renown Great Britain’s sceptre swayed, Besides the Church she dearly loved a dirty chambermaid..." Jasmine Brady shares the gossip from Queen Anne's court, inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum's Queen Anne plate. This recording is part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Museum Remix project, bringing you stories from the Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ tours.

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Mini Stranger #9 - M.R. James: Ghost Stories for Christmas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 37:34

Get those sleighbells ready, oh lovely listeners, and grab yourself a large serving of eggnog… our first Christmas episode is here. The esteemed M.R. James is our companion tonight. Renowned scholar, one time director of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and perhaps most importantly, finest purveyor of the festive tradition of stories of the supernatural. It may be a mini episode but it's stuffed full of macabre musings, sinister landscapes, and brandy… happy Christmas one and all!

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Family

Prix Pictet: A Lens on Sustainability

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2020 29:34

As we attach more and more value to independent success and less to the family, are we losing accountability for our actions to the planet? How has art and photography represented these tribes over history and what can we learn from them? Join photographer Alexia Webster, author and philanthropist Hannah Rothschild, Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Luke Syson, and Pictet Wealth Management’s Dina de Angelo as they discuss the family as both a unit and a community. Don’t miss the accompanying e-book illustrating this episode: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/872650/

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S07E05: Mind the Gap

The C Word (M4A Feed)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2020 70:18

We get philosophical about gap filling and loss compensation in various conservation disciplines: why do we do it and how far do we take it? Kloe interviews Ellie Sweetnam about disruptive conservation and boldly coloured fills, and Jenny reviews 'Pottery and Porcelain Restoration' by Roger Hawkins. Also join us for a tipple at the Benchwork Bar, and an emotional Dear Jane with a guest contribution from Nerys Rudder. 00:01:14 So is it gap filling or loss compensation, guys? 00:11:34 Does emotion come into play? 00:15:20 Interview with Ellie Sweetnam 00:28:19 Visibility and ethics 00:34:58 Techniques and materials 00:39:51 Damage as something good 00:45:48 Can we enjoy repairs? 00:49:08 Review: 'Pottery and Porcelain Restoration - A Practical Guide' 00:54:05 Dear Jane 01:05:31 Comments, questions, and corrections 01:06:03 Benchwork Bar: Pulp Fill Show Notes: - 'Are Attic Vases Archaeological?' by Rozeik, Dawson and Wrapson: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/sic.2010.55.Supplement-2.24 - 'Thinking outside the box: the re-conservation of a ceramic Clazomenian sarcophagus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge' by Christina Rozeik: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19455224.2011.557000 - Crap Taxidermy: https://crappytaxidermy.com/ - Kintsugi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi - Museums Are Not Neutral: https://artstuffmatters.wordpress.com/museums-are-not-neutral/ - Painting of The Bronte Sisters: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00797/The-Bront-Sisters-Anne-Bront-Emily-Bront-Charlotte-Bront - Visible mending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashiko - Pottery and Porcelain Restoration - A Practical Guide: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pottery-Porcelain-Restoration-Practical-Guide/dp/1785006754/ - Full statement by Nerys Rudder: https://thecword.show/podcast/Your_Memories_are_Short_and_You_Havent_Been_Listening%20.pdf - Being Black in the Arts and Heritage Sector by Ashleigh Brown: https://icon.org.uk/news/being-black-in-the-arts-and-heritage-sector-paper-conservator-ashleigh-brown-offers-a - Thread from Museum Detox: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1268230499098603521.html - Michelle Silverthorn: https://twitter.com/inwithmichelle - Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ - Go follow Amanda Richards for more conservation cocktails: https://twitter.com/ConserveItAll Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2020.

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Destination: Fitzwilliam Museum

Destination: History

Play Episode Play 42 sec Highlight Listen Later May 17, 2020 10:15

Join me this episode as we travel to Cambridge and take a look at an amazing museum with its very own folklore about its more permanent residents. ‘The Listening Lions' - Michael Rosen

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A fake Gauguin at the Getty

The Week in Art

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 48:37

We look at the story behind the front-page article in our February issue: the discovery that a multi-million dollar Gauguin sculpture purchased by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles is actually not by the artist at all. Plus, we talk to the Canadian First Nations artist Kent Monkman about his monumental paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and we look at an exhibition about art and food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Food

Making History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2020 28:05

After the feast of the festive season comes the pain of the January fast. Well, to help us better understand our relationship with the food we eat, Making History goes on the spice trail with historians Roger Michel and Matthew Cobb. Curator Victoria Avery tells us why pineapples were all the rage in Elizabethan times and Dominic Sandbrook offers up a potted history of fast food in the UK - with a side of fries and a banana milkshake. Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 at the Fitzwilliam Museum runs until 26th April. Producer: Craig Smith A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

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Feast & Fast: How Clean Eating Came to Early Modern Europe

The Feast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2020 50:02

The Feast is back! Just in time for the month of healthy New Year’s resolutions, our season premiere features a rich discussion on the history of feasting and fasting in Europe. We talk to Dr. Victoria Avery and Dr. Melissa Calaresu, co-curators of the exhibition “Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe 1500–1800” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, to learn some of the questions early modern Europeans were asking about what to eat and where their food came from: How can I eat clean? What is a moderate diet? Should I adopt a plant-based lifestyle? Such questions might sound very 21st century, but these topics wouldn’t have been out of place in the 17th or 18th centuries as Europeans wrestled with the idea of how to adopt a moderate and nutritious diet. We’ll also look at some of the most epic feasting traditions of early modern Europe, from architectural sugar sculptures to ten-foot tall pineapples, but we’ll also uncover the questionable and often dark histories that lay at their root. Join us for a feast and fast of epic proportions on the Season 4 premiere of The Feast. Learn more: www.thefeastpodcast.org Cover Photo by James Berrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2019 56:25

Author Priya Basil and curator Victoria Avery look at food, fasting and feeding guests. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is their host as the FitzWilliam Museum in Cambridge opens an exhibition and Priya Basil publishes reflections on hospitality which link the free meals offered to all which is part of Sikhism to food clubs in Germany which have welcomed refugees. Maia Elliott of the UK's Global Food Security programme, describes her work to try to make future food supply more reliable for all. She describes her own food habits and the possible ways all of our diets might have to change in the future. Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity is out now. Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1500 –1800 runs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge until April 26th 2020 and features food creations and sugarwork from food historian Ivan Day. Global Food Security publish their research here: https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/ You can hear more discussions about food by searching for Free Thinking Food to hear philosopher Barry Smith and critic Alex Clark with Matthew Sweet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn51y The Working Lunch and Food in History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7my5n New Generation Thinkers Food: We Are What We Eat a Radio 3 Essay from Christopher Kissane which looks at Spanish Inquisition stews & Reformation sausages to pork in French school meals https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xhr60 Healthy Eating Edwardian Style - an Essay from Elsa Richardson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p075d3hy Producer: Alex Mansfield

Flavour: Feast and Fast exhibition

Flavour

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 55:02

An exclusive preview of the much-anticipated Feast and Fast exhibition about to open at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Some seasonal food ideas from resident chef Rosie Sykes. Autumn foraging on Grantchester Meadows with Steve Thompson from the Green Man. A visit to Mogdigliani in Mill Road, and Christmas specials from Meadows in Eltisley Avenue and Chocolat […]

How to solve a problem like Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia: rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2019 53:48

Tiffany Jenkins goes to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to talk to its director Luke Syson, art historian Jill Burke and Michael Savage (aka Grumpy Art Historian) about Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia, and rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo. ► ART WORK DISCUSSED John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs Raphael’s Lucretia Sandro Botticelli's The Story of Lucretia Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia Titian's Rape of Europa Nicholas Poussin I Modi - The Sixteen Pleasures ► PARTICIPANTS Luke Syson Instagram: Luke Syson Jill Burke Twitter: @jill_burke Michael Savage Twitter: @GrumpyArt Fitzwilliam Museum Twitter: @FitzMuseum_UK ► READ MORE On the decision to temporarily remove John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs Jill Burke on The Power of Sexual Assault in Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia Prof Mary Beard on Lucretia and the politics of sexual assault ► MUSIC Signature tune: Nick Vander Black Kopal - Galaxy II A Himitsu, Track Name: "Reminisce" @ https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Original upload HERE - Official "A Himitsu" YouTube Channel HERE License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...Music promoted by NCM https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ ► CREDITS This episode of Behind the Scenes at the Museum was written and presented by Tiffany Jenkins, recorded by Nicky Barranger, and produced by Jac Phillimore. Twitter: @BehindtheMuseum Instagram: @BehindtheMuseum

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Changing The Story Being Told with Kandace Chimbiri

Shine Out Loud Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2019 60:16

Kandace Chimbiri the Self-Published author and founder of Golden Destiny the publishing house. Motivated by a desire to help improve children’s literacy as well as their knowledge of history. Publishing four Black history books for children, Secrets of the Afro Comb,6,000 Years of Art and Culture, The Story of Early Ancient Egypt, Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush and The Story of the Windrush ( a tribute to the Windrush generation pioneers). that focused on Black history before mass enslavement. Her books led directly to working with museums on exhibitions. She has worked with the V&A on Contemporary Kushite Kings and Queens (part of the Staying Power project in 2011), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on the Origins of the Afro Comb (2013) and with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on the Fusion of Worlds (2014).She has given talks for adults and for children on African history as well as tours on African Artefacts in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the V&A. She appeared in the documentary, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Ancient Nile Valley.Catch her on the show tonight and ask her questions via

Changing The Story Being Told with Kandace Chimbiri

Shine Out Loud Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2019 60:16

Kandace Chimbiri the Self-Published author and founder of Golden Destiny the publishing house. Motivated by a desire to help improve children’s literacy as well as their knowledge of history. Publishing four Black history books for children, Secrets of the Afro Comb,6,000 Years of Art and Culture, The Story of Early Ancient Egypt, Step Back in Time to Ancient Kush and The Story of the Windrush ( a tribute to the Windrush generation pioneers). that focused on Black history before mass enslavement. Her books led directly to working with museums on exhibitions. She has worked with the V&A on Contemporary Kushite Kings and Queens (part of the Staying Power project in 2011), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on the Origins of the Afro Comb (2013) and with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology on the Fusion of Worlds (2014).She has given talks for adults and for children on African history as well as tours on African Artefacts in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the V&A. She appeared in the documentary, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Ancient Nile Valley.Catch her on the show tonight and ask her questions via

Artist Unknown: Sampler

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2019 13:02

What would a young woman's CV from the past look like? Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant at The Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about samplers and the role they played for young women in the 17th and 18th century, and why in this instance the artist is unknown. This podcast series is part of an exhibition titled Artist: Unknown at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. In collaboration with the University of Cambridge Museums, it brings together works of art from across the University’s collections from July to September 2019.

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Sampler

Artist Unknown

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2019 13:11

What would a young woman's CV from the past look like? Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant at The Fitzwilliam Museum, talks about samplers and the role they played for young women in the 17th and 18th century, and why in this instance the artist is unknown. This podcast series is part of an exhibition titled Artist: Unknown at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. In collaboration with the University of Cambridge Museums, it brings together works of art from across the University’s collections from July to September 2019.

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The Fitzwilliam Collection

The Early Music Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2019 28:40

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is home to a priceless collection of manuscripts bequeathed to the university by the extraordinary 18th-century polymath, the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam. Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits the museum to explore the life and legacy of Fitzwilliam, whose now-famous Virginal Book is considered to be the primary source for late Elizabethan and early Jacobean keyboard music.

Pinter at The Pinter, Stan and Ollie, Eric Vuillard, Whistler and Nature, Guitar Drum and Bass

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2019 49:06

The staging of all Harold Pinter's one act plays at The Pinter Theatre in London continues - We've been to see Party Time and Celebration Stan and Ollie is a film that examines the relationship between the two film comedy pioneers Laurel and Hardy as they toured the UK in their twilight years. Starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly it deals with their occasional disputes and deep love and respect for each other Eric Vuillard's novel The Order Of The Day won 2017's Prix Goncourt. It's about Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland, imagining the processes and machinations that made it possible and not quite the triumph it was portrayed The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has an exhibition of "Whistler and Nature". exploring how J.M. Whistler's relationship towards the natural world evolved throughout his life Guitar Drum and Bass is a new series on BBC4, exploring the role that these instruments have played in the development of popular music - what makes a great drummer/bassist/guitarist? Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Mark Billingham, Alice Jones and Susannah Clapp. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast extra Alice recommends Daniel Kitson at Battersea Arts Centre Mark recommends the Twitter poetry exchange between Richard Osman and Piers Morgan. Also the reissue of The Beatles' White Album, Willie Vlautin Susannah recommends Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies Tom recommends the podcast Broken Hearts

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Sculptures Confirmed to Be Works of Famous Italian Artist

レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2019 2:21

Two bronze sculptures were recently confirmed to be authentic works of Michelangelo [mahy-kuh l-AN-juh-loh]. Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest Italian artists. Two of his most prominent works are The Creation of Adam, which is painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the statue of David, a well-known marble sculpture in Florence, Italy. Historians wrote that Michelangelo had also made sculptures out of bronze, but no one knew where any of his bronze sculptures were until recently. This year, a team of researchers headed by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, proved that two bronze sculptures known as the Rothschild [RAWTH-chahyld] bronzes were works of Michelangelo. The two sculptures were recognized as Michelangelo's in 1878, when they were still under the possession of the Rothschild family—one of the richest and most powerful families in the world. However, the sculptures were later dismissed as another artist's works. Despite the dismissal, in 2015, the Fitzwilliam Museum made headlines by contending that the bronzes were genuine Michelangelo sculptures. The researchers then invited other specialists to aid them in their research efforts. After a few years, the researchers found some pieces of evidence that prove that the sculptures are Michelangelo's works. First, like all of Michelangelo's sculptures, both works have a short big toe that goes outward and a long second toe. Second, the sculptures have well-defined abdominal muscles, a trait shared by human bodies depicted in Michelangelo's works. The two sculptures remain in the possession of a private collector who bought them from the art dealer Sotheby's in 2002 for $2.3 million. To date, they are the only bronze sculptures of Michelangelo that have ever been identified.

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Episode 7 – Mind the Gap

Prose and Context

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2018 8:54

Mind the Gap: can the study of art in a museum context help young students with their own reading and then creative writing? Hello, my name is Rebecca Lefroy. I teach 7th, 8th and 9th grade at Lexington Christian Academy and am going to be talking about some research that I conducted in my previous school, in part for my Masters in Education. Although, as you can probably tell from my accent, I’m British, I was fortunate enough to actually do quite a lot of my growing up in Brussels and so completed the IB (International Baccalaureate) at an international school there. My experience of the IB was hugely positive; I thrived on the creative, holistic and interdisciplinary approach to teaching the arts. I was therefore rather surprised when I started my job as an English teacher in the UK and discovered that there are distinct gaps between the arts – we teach in different buildings; have completely distinct curriculums; and the subject names sit inside closed boxes on students’ timetables. I asked myself: why the gap? My interpretive case study therefore arose from two main perceived problems with our secondary English teaching: There seems to be a superficial gap between the arts subjects in secondary schools; Younger students tend to be taught a “checklist approach” to reading and writing rather than encouraged to view a text in a holistic way, exploring more abstract concepts. I wondered whether some of the more abstract concepts which younger students so struggle to grasp – for instance, perspective, symbolism and style- be taught through some other, perhaps more accessible, art form – such as art in an art museum? And could what is learned then be transferred back to the English classroom? I found Eilean Hooper-Greenhill’s (1999) approach to museum learning compelling – “the audience is always ‘active’, whether or not museums recognise this”. Furthermore, I was inspired by Cremin and Myhill’s (2012) argument that teachers should avoid formulaic recommendations when looking at students’ creative writing and instead see writing as a design process which encompasses both word and image. Similarly, Barrs and Cork (2001) take a more holistic view of creative writing and suggest that exposure to high quality literature can help students develop a wider repertoire of styles and a stronger sense of voice. Thus, I wanted to see whether learning about abstract concepts through art in an “active” environment as well as exposing students to high-quality literature that “plays” with design could push them in their own reading and writing. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK was an excellent place to carry out the basis of my research and provided a very positive learning environment for the students. It’s a very grand building set right in the middle of the Cambridge colleges and they have a very extensive educational program. So, one afternoon, with about 20 grade 6 students in toe, we packed our bags and headed to the museum. We spent about 2 hours in the museum and through engaging, interactive activities, we explored how artists can use perspective, symbolism and style in their work and what effect this has on the viewer. For our work on perspective, we used Alfred Elnore’s On the Brink; for symbolism, Salvator Rosa’s L’Umana Fragilita (Human Frailty); and for style, Monet’s Springtime. Compared to being in an English classroom, the students were much more willing to share their ideas, admit mistakes and take risks in the art museum. Interestingly, they also had more confidence in interpreting art for themselves than they did a written text in an English classroom. Through follow-up interviews, I found that, for some, this was because they found art an easier form to analyse because of the framing of the piece – “it’s all there in front of us” one interviewee told me – and partly because they felt more empowered to express their own interpretations of the piece in an open art museum space without ...

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Things - 13 June 2018 - Re-examining the Renaissance Object

Histories Of The Ephemeral

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 66:00

Dr Jane Partner (Cambridge) Dr Irene Galandra Cooper (CRASSH, Cambridge) Abstracts Dr Jane Partner Reading the Early Modern Body: The Case Study of Textual Jewellery This paper presents part of the initial research for the book Reading the Early Modern Body, which seeks to bring together the many ways – both concrete and abstract – in which the body was presented and interpreted as a text during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of the central concerns of this research is to examine the ways in which the body could be made into a material text through the actual bodily wearing of language, something that might be achieved through script tattoos, embroidered clothing, inscribed busks, girdle books and textual jewellery. My aim in bringing together these diverse practices is to place them within the broader context of the other less literal but even more widespread practices of interpreting the body that were also framed as acts of reading. Gestures, physiognomic features and transient expressions could all be treated as languages of the body, and interpreting them was a social skill that was particularly necessary in a courtly environment. My paper approaches some of these larger issues by taking the case study of textual jewellery, exploring the ways in which inscribed or letter-shaped jewels could act as markers of identity. The texts that they carry commonly commemorate gifts of love or patronage, advertise familial connections, or assert the piety of the wearer. Alongside examining some particular textual jewels and their depictions in contemporary portraiture, I will also consider literary references to this type of item – for example the motto that is ‘graven in diamonds’ around the neck of the deer in Thomas Wyatt’s poem ‘Whoso List to Hunt’. My discussion will suggest that the accomplishments of knowing how to present one’s own body so that is said the right things, and of how to accurately read the texts presented by other bodies, were crucial skills in the court environment, where corporeal reading operated within a complex, multi-layered network of symbolic reading and interpretation. Jane Partner is a Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she carries out research on a range of literary and art-historical topics, often concerning the intersection between the two fields. Her first book is Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2018). Arising from her current research for Reading the Early Modern Body, Jane is also planning another project about gems and jewellery in early modern literature. Both these enquiries relate to her own practice as a sculptor with a particular interest in the body and wearable art. Dr Irene Galandra Cooper Potent and Pious: Re-thinking Religious Materiality in Sixteenth-Century Kingdom of Naples Combing through the inventories of early modern Neapolitans, I have been repeatedly struck by the ubiquity of objects made in rock crystal, hyacinth stones, emeralds, as well as other precious and semi-precious stones. Shaped as beads and threaded as rosaries, or formed as pendants carved with Christian images, these objects were highly prized for their outward aesthetics, their iconographies, but also for their curative powers. In them, the distinction between 'religion', 'art', and 'science' is elided: were they treasured for their beauty, their Christian association, or their inner virtues? Combining archival and material sources, I will examine in what ways portable devotional objects were perceived to be so powerful to be able to cure someone's body and soul, and who, across the social spectrum, could afford to tap into their potency. I will also ask how could one recognise its ingenious nature and if particular senses were more useful than others to inform these experiences. Irene Galandra completed her doctorate as a member of the ERC-funded project Domestic Devotions: the Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600 at the University of Cambridge, where she explored the materiality of devotion in sixteenth-century Naples. Irene was also one of the curators of the successful exhibition Madonnas and Miracles: the Holy Home in Renaissance Italy, held at the Fitzwilliam Museum between March and June 2017. Irene is now Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches Italian Renaissance art and material culture at the Department of Modern and Medieval Languages, History of Art and the Faculty of History. She is currently also a researcher at CRASSH's Genius Before Romanticism project. Previous to her PhD, Irene worked for the Wallace Collection, Christie’s, the National Gallery in London, and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She has published on practices relating to small devotional jewellery such as rosaries and agnus dei.

The Courtesan and the Memsahib: Khanum Jan Meets Sophia Plowden at the 18C Court of Lucknow

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2018 38:43

The images that accompany this podcast may be found here: http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/06/sophia-plowden-khanum-jan-and-hindustani-airs.html Khanum Jan was a celebrity courtesan in the cantonment of Kanpur and the court of Asafuddaula of Lucknow in 1780s North India. Famed then for her virtuosic singing, dancing, and speaking eyes, Khanum became famous again in the twentieth century because of her close musical interactions with a remarkable Englishwoman, Sophia Plowden. Through Plowden’s papers and extraordinary collection of Khanum’s repertoire, it is possible to reconstruct songs from the Lucknow court as they may have been performed 200 years ago, in both Indian and European versions. In this podcast, Katherine Butler Schofield tells the story of these two women, and harpsichordist Jane Chapman joins her to perform some of Khanum’s “Hindustani Airs”. The intertwined stories of Khanum and Sophia show that using Indian sources of the time to read between the lines of European papers and collections gives us a much richer view of this sadly short-lived moment of intercultural accord in late Mughal India. This podcast is part of the project Histories of the Ephemeral: Writing on Music in Late Mughal India, sponsored by the British Academy in association with the British Library; additional research was funded by the European Research Council. The Courtesan and the Memsahib was written and performed by me, Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London), based on my original research, with harpsichordist Jane Chapman http://www.janechapman.com. It was produced by Chris Elcombe. Additional voices were Georgie Pope, Kanav Gupta, Priyanka Basu, and Michael Bywater. It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC–BY-NC–ND) license. Recordings of vocalists Kesarbai Kerkar and Gangubai Hangal, and sarangi player Hamid Hussain, are courtesy of the Archive of Indian Music and Vikram Sampath: http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/bai-kesarbai-kerkar/ ; http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/bai-gangubai-hangal/ ; http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/hamid-hussain-a-i-r/ . Selections from Jane Chapman’s studio recording "The Oriental Miscellany: Airs of Hindustan—William Bird" are found on Signum Classics: I. Ghat; II. Rekhtah: Sakia! Fusul beharust; III. Tuppah: Kia kam keea dil ne? By permission. Image of Khanum Jan illustrating the podcast: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Colonel_Antoine-Louis_Henri_Polier_watching_a_nautch_at_Faizabad.jpg Santoor and Tabla at Assi Ghat, Varanasi by Samuel Corwin. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY 4.0 Track 1 by Deep Singh and Ikhlaq Hussain Khan. Originally broadcast live on Rob Weisberg's show, Transpacific Sound Paradise on WFMU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike 3.0 Licence With thanks to: the British Academy, the British Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, Edinburgh University Library, the Norfolk Records Office, Yousuf Mahmoud, James Kippen, Margaret Walker, Allyn Miner, Richard David Williams, David Lunn, Ursula Sims-Williams, Nick Cook, and Katie de La Matter. For more episodes and information email katherine.schofield@kcl.ac.uk.

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Arts Round Up: Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2018 47:02

Simon Bertin drops into the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit curator of the Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection exhibition Jane Munroe; We hear about Art Language Location’s anniversary and plans for 2018 from founder Robert Goode; poet John Drew talks on the Chinese poetry of Xu Jhimo; and we go for a studio visit to expressionist […]

S02E04: Emerging Professionals 2

The C Word (M4A Feed)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017 77:05

We revisit the topic of emerging professionals and ponder when a conservator is a conservator. We talk to Julie Dawson and Edward Cheese from the Fitzwilliam Museum about hiring, interview tips, and what employers really want. Our agony aunt addresses a student question in Dear Jane, and we air some issues around acknowledging conservators in exhibitions, the role of directors, and the job market in the comments section.  00:00:44 News in brief 00:01:39 Revisiting the topic 00:02:21 How quickly we forget! 00:07:11 The trouble with staying flexible later in your career 00:09:40 Maternity and being working mothers 00:10:58 Imposter syndrome 00:13:09 When is a conservator no longer a conservator? 00:17:15 Training, CPD, and the emerging conservator 00:26:33 Networking doesn't have to be frightening 00:32:43 Interview with Julie Dawson and Edward Cheese 01:00:48 Dear Jane: What should a student bring to university? 01:03:43 Comments, questions, corrections: credits, directors, and jobs 01:10:36 Marie's stats on job hunting 01:15:46 Patreon shout-out! Show Notes: - ICON's first Twitter conference: https://icon.org.uk/events/icons-twitter-conference - ICON triennial conference - save the date: https://icon.org.uk/news/icon-heads-to-belfast-for-2019-international-triennial-conference - UKEMP Hub: https://ukemp.com/ For more on The C Word please follow us on Twitter @thecwordpodcast, email us on thecwordpodcast@gmail.com, or subscribe via our website, http://thecword.show Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/thecword  Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Additional sound effects and music by Calum Robertson.  Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2017.

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Free Thinking: The importance of networks; the art of dance.

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2017 44:14

Niall Ferguson talks to Philip Dodd about a less hierarchical history. Jane Munro looks at Degas's depictions of the human body. Sarah Lamb describes dancing MacMillan's ballets. The Square and the Tower: Networks, hierarchies and the struggle for global power by Niall Ferguson is out now. Degas - A Passion for Perfection runs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge until January 14th 2018. Jane Munro has edited a catalogue containing essays to mark the centenary of Degas's death which is published by Yale University Press. Kenneth MacMillan - A National Celebration - featuring 6 ballet companies from across Britain - takes place at the Royal Opera House between October 18th and November 1st. Producer: Robyn Read

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Christianity: Luther's Legacy

Start the Week

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 41:42

On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks back 500 years to the moment Martin Luther challenged the power and authority of the Catholic Church. Peter Stanford brings to light the character of this lowly born German monk in a new biography. Prior to Luther, for a thousand years the Catholic Church had been one of the greatest powers on earth, but in her study of the Italian Renaissance the writer Sarah Dunant reveals how bloated, corrupt and complacent it had become. Dunant also explores the role of the Church in the home, in a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Madonnas and Miracles, before the Reformation swept away such iconography. The historian Alec Ryrie charts the rise of the Protestant faith from its rebellious beginnings to the present day, while the sociologist Linda Woodhead asks whether the defining characteristics of Protestant Britain, such as the freedom of the individual, national pride and a strong work ethic are still relevant today. Producer: Katy Hickman Image: Boy falling from a window, 1592 (c) Museo degli ex voto del santuario di Madonna dell'Arco.

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'Opera is about dilemma, not about plot' - Thomas Hampson

In Tune Highlights

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2017 27:32

Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty: opera singers Thomas Hampson, Michael Fabiano and Tara Erraught, pianist Alexandra Dariescu, and a duo from Welsh folk band 9Bach. Plus highlights from Sean's trip to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, for the 'Madonnas and Miracles' exhibition.

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#32：全球字体新闻联播

字谈字畅

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2016 127:33

听众朋友早上好，今天是 10 月 18 日又一个星期二，欢迎收听全球字体新闻联播暨本台首次摇奖预告。环顾京沪台日，产品发布、沙龙座谈、展览交流遍地开花。放眼东欧中欧，ATypI 华沙会议聚焦今秋。OpenType 标准升级，Noto Fonts 重放光彩；两种字体排印刊物新动向，两册字体设计图书可收囊。再眺太平洋之南，时报旧字焕新颜。最后是抽奖环节——本期答谢过往捐赠听友，从中随机择取两位，鸿雁所至之处不拘地点，各自奉上大红书一册，截至 10 月 24 日零时前。参考链接《平面设计中的网格系统》如何在多种平台的字处理软件中输入 em dash 和 en dash，以及在 Windows 系统中输入任意 Unicode 字符的方法 Sydney Cockerell 曾任 William Morris 的私人秘书，后担任 Fitzwilliam Museum 馆长听众任宁来信分享了自己的播客《迟早更新》，第 17 期〈有些东西永远不会饱和〉谈到了 Type Pro 2016: Shanghai 的观后感 Gerrit Noordzij. The Stroke: Theory of Writing 方正字库于 9 月 23 日正式发布「方正鲁迅体」，纪念鲁迅先生诞辰 135 周年；字体由郭毓海设计方正字库台湾之行，包括访问、展览及研讨会等一系列活动汉仪字库于 9 月 24、25 两日在上海举办「中西文排版训练营」系列活动，高冈昌生先生受邀担任工作坊及沙龙的主讲人汉仪字库于 10 月 2 日在北京举办「名师排版训练营——版式与文字之美」沙龙，瑞士设计师 Jonas Vögeli 及张暄、吴勇、刘宇、朱志伟、刘庆等嘉宾出席汉仪第三届「字体之星」字体设计大赛启动，「汉字之美」全球青年设计大赛颁奖典礼也同步启幕 TypeTalks 第 37 期「中西混排和日西混排的思考 3」于 10 月 15 日在东京青山图书中心举办，Eric 主讲，高冈昌生作对谈嘉宾 Monotype 主办的 Type& 2016 将于 10 月 21、22 两日在东京举行 Monotype 出品的字体管理软件 FontExplorer X Pro 6 和 FontExplorer X Server 3 发布 ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) 第 60 届年会于 9 月 13 至 18 日在波兰华沙举办，含多个工作坊、讲座及展览活动 OpenType 规格书 1.8 版发布之际，谭沛然撰文梳理了字体技术发展的部分历史 John Hudson 在第一时间撰文介绍 OpenType 1.8 中最重要的新技术「OpenType Font Variations (OpenType variable fonts)」；另有 Adobe Typekit 的新闻稿可供参考 Google Noto Fonts 项目近期经由 Monotype 的案例分析重新曝光《字誌》发布第二期 Typographics，一本面向「字体人」的新杂志计划出版 The Insects Project，专注于讲解中欧语言所用字符的声调设计 Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer, & José Scaglione. Cómo crear tipografías: Del boceto a la pantalla. 原著为西班牙语，英译本即将出版 Financial Times（金融时报）的定制字体 Financier Display 和 Financier Text 公开发售，由新西兰字体设计公司 Klim Type Foundry 设计出品；2015 年获东京 TDC 奖；Emily Yang 曾翻译过该字体设计的案例分析主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用 PayPal 或支付宝向我们捐赠，账户与联络信箱一致：podcast@thetype.com。

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Free Thinking: Medieval Manuscripts. Emma Donoghue.

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2016 44:17

Medieval illuminated manuscripts are our key to European art for hundreds of years but also to political and social movements. Christopher de Hamel, keeper of possibly the oldest gospel in the Latin world, talks to Matthew about the stories these books can tell beyond their glowing illustrations. We also visit Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts, currently glowing at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum; Kylie Murray, expert on Scottish medieval literature and a New Generation Thinker, reviews the exhibition. Emma Donoghue author of 'Room' is back with a new novel and another child in claustrophobic setting. This room is an earth-floored room in mid-19th century Ireland, where a Florence Nightingale-trained nurse and 'The Wonder', a devout Irish girl, are locked in a potentially fatal battle over whether the girl is, as she claims, being fed by manna from heaven. Inspired by a historical phenomenon, 'the fasting girls', Donoghue's novel takes place on the battlefield between the forces of Victorian scientific rationalism and traditional religious belief Plus Dennis Duncan on the story of Boris Vian and a post-war best-seller in France - I Spit On Your Graves . Emma Donoghue's novel is called The Wonder. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is by Christopher de Hamel - who has worked for Sothebys and is Fellow and librarian at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is marking its first 200 year 1816 to 2016 with an exhibition called COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts. It runs until 30th December 2016 and includes on display the Macclesfield Psalter, an alchemical scroll, a duchess' wedding gift, and the ABC of a five-year old princess.

The Commune, The Plough and the Stars, The Tidal Zone, Britain's Pompeii, Illuminated manuscripts

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2016 41:58

Thomas Vinterberg's film The Commune draws on his own communal upbringing in Denmark. How does such intimate living affect close relationships Sean O'Casey's play The Plough and The Stars is revived at London's Lyttleton Theatre, based around Ireland's Easter Uprising of 1916 Sarah Moss's novel The Tidal Zone is a story of parental love BBC4's programme Britain's Pompeii explores a bronze age fenland village, recently unearthed by archeologists, which revealed substantial new information about its inhabitants The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is marking its 200th anniversary with an exhibition of stunning Illuminated manuscripts Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Joe Dunthorne, Stella Duffy and Lisa Appignanesi. The producer is Oliver Jones.

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Bourne, Man Booker Prize long list, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Presidential campaign music.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2016 28:33

Bourne is back. But 14 years since Matt Damon starred in The Bourne Identity, does the franchise still thrill in a world of super-hackers and government surveillance? Antonia Quirke joins John Wilson to review Jason Bourne.The Man Booker prize long list was announced today. Critics Alex Clarke and Toby Lichtig consider this year's runners and riders.The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is celebrating its bicentenary with an exhibition displaying 150 illuminated manuscripts from its collection, ranging from prayer books of European royalty to alchemical scrolls. John travels to Cambridge to find out more. Presidential hopefuls have long known of the power of a good pop tune when it comes to firing up a crowd. So what's scoring the Trump and Clinton rallies, and what does it say about their respective campaigns? American columnist, Katie Puckrik dons her headphones.

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Things - 11 May 2016 - Art and Science

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 61:00

Dr Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Reader in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Cambridge) Abstract Re-Constructing Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings This talk will present recent research undertaken by the speakers in collaboration with Marie D'Autume (École normale supérieure, Cachan), Paola Ricciardi (MINIARE project, Fitzwilliam Museum) and Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute). Two case studies will illustrate the discovery and recovery of medieval and Renaissance images in illuminated manuscripts through the integration of advanced mathematical methods, historical research, art-historical and non-invasive technical analyses. The first case study focuses on a Book of Hours made in Anjou c.1430 and recycled as a second-hand wedding gift in Brittany c.1442. The second case study concerns images of nudity in the c.1505 Primer of Claude de France which were censored in the early modern period. It demonstrates the application of automated virtual image restoration by mathematicians in order to remove the overpainting and restore the images digitally, since current conservation practices do not allow for the actual restoration of illuminations. In a third case study we demonstrate the ability of mathematics to digitally restore the painting Adoration of the Shepherds by Sebastiano Del Piombo (1519). It demonstrates the ability of mathematical restoration techniques to produce a digital restored template of a painting that can potentially aid the art conservators in the physical restoration of it.

Things - 8 June 2016 - Bronze

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 77:00

Dr Victoria Avery (Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge) Andrew Lacey (Artist and Independent Scholar) Bronze was used in Renaissance Italy for numerous types of functional objects (artillery, bells, coins, lamps, inkwells) as well as decorative ones (equestrian monuments, statues, busts, medals). Extremely expensive, meaning-laden and complex to produce, works of art cast in bronze were desirable status symbols for Humanist patrons, and proofs of incredible technical mastery by sculptors and casters. Sculpture historian, Vicky Avery, and sculptor-founder, Andrew Lacey, will discuss 'bronze in Italy c. 1500' in terms of its meanings, usage and technology, focussing on the enigmatic Rothschild Bronzes, recently attributed to Michelangelo.

Archaeology Undisturbed?

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2016 6:52

In Archaeology is it better to keep an object in the ground or dig it up? Connie Orbach spoke to curators of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Death On The Nile exhibition Helen Strudwick and Julie Dawson and physicist Nishad Karim to find out how techniques from physics are allowing us to visualise objects without damaging them... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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The Hole

Expanded Perspectives

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 77:16

On this weeks episode of Expanded Perspectives the boys start off by talking about how according to Massachusetts-based Terrafugia, a full-size unmanned prototype is expected to be ready by 2018. The firm's concept car has fold-out wings with twin electric motors attached to each end. These motors allow the TF-X to move from a vertical to a horizontal position, and will be powered by a 300 horsepower engine. Thrust will be provided by a ducted fan, and the vehicle will have a cruising speed of 200 mph (322 km/h), along with a 500-mile (805 km) flight range. Terrafugia said its aim is to provide 'true door-to-door transportation,' with the vehicle capable of being parked in a home garage like an ordinary car. Then, they bring up how surprising research, revealed for the first time in an exhibition opening next week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, exposes that many were buried in new and decorated coffins, patched together from pieces of older coffins; some made only a few generations earlier. Then, a fast-growing tumbleweed dubbed "hairy panic" has taken over a street in a rural Australian town with homes and gardens clogged with the weed. Residents in Wangaratta, Victoria, have complained they have had to spent hours clearing away the weed only for it to come back the next day. Extremely dry conditions and winds mean that the weed, with a Latin name of Panicum effusum, is engulfing homes sometimes up to roof height. Then, Kyle brings up a new article posted by Gregg Newkirk on his blog the Week in Weird, about the interesting real life story of Emily Isabella Burt, Georgia's real life Werewolf. After the break, the guys get into one of the most bizarre stories of all time, simply known as Mel's Hole. In 1997, Art Bell, of "Coast to Coast AM," the popular syndicated late night radio talk show, received a fax from a man named Mel Waters. The fax explained that Mel had what appeared to be a bottomless pit on his property near Manastash, Washington. Soon thereafter, Art booked Mel on his radio show, where Mel explained what would become known as "Mel's Hole" to the world. Mel was interviewed over the phone, and at the time of the interview he was not at home, but in the town of Ellensburg, WA. Mel had bought this property a few years earlier, and the previous owners had owned the land for over thirty years prior to that. The neighbors knew of the hole quite well, and would regularly dump their garbage in it, but the hole would never fill. It was a round pit, with a stone retaining wall surrounding it, and extending down, about 15 feet below the ground surface. Beyond the wall, the hole bore through dirt and bedrock, and from there, darkness as far as the eye could see. Mel had never met anybody who could remember when the hole was not there. The stories only grew into one of the most incredible stories ever told. Thanks for listening to Expanded Perspectives. Have a great week!! Show Notes: Flying Cars are just Two Years Away: Terrafugia claims its TF-X will be ready to take to the skies by 2018 Egyptians were Buried in Recycled Coffins, Research Reveals "Hairy Panic" as Tumbleweed Engulfs Australian Homes Silver Bullets in Talbot County: The Strange Grave of Emily Isabella Burt, Georgia's Real Life Werewolf Mel's Hole Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part One Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Two Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Three Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Four Monsters and Magic Blog - Cryptozoology and the Paranormal from a Magical Perspective Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided with permission by Pretty Lights! Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Something's Wrong Where Am I Trying to Go Sweet Long Life

The Hole

Expanded Perspectives

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2016 77:15

On this weeks episode of Expanded Perspectives the boys start off by talking about how according to Massachusetts-based Terrafugia, a full-size unmanned prototype is expected to be ready by 2018. The firm's concept car has fold-out wings with twin electric motors attached to each end. These motors allow the TF-X to move from a vertical to a horizontal position, and will be powered by a 300 horsepower engine. Thrust will be provided by a ducted fan, and the vehicle will have a cruising speed of 200 mph (322 km/h), along with a 500-mile (805 km) flight range. Terrafugia said its aim is to provide 'true door-to-door transportation,' with the vehicle capable of being parked in a home garage like an ordinary car. Then, they bring up how surprising research, revealed for the first time in an exhibition opening next week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, exposes that many were buried in new and decorated coffins, patched together from pieces of older coffins; some made only a few generations earlier. Then, a fast-growing tumbleweed dubbed "hairy panic" has taken over a street in a rural Australian town with homes and gardens clogged with the weed. Residents in Wangaratta, Victoria, have complained they have had to spent hours clearing away the weed only for it to come back the next day. Extremely dry conditions and winds mean that the weed, with a Latin name of Panicum effusum, is engulfing homes sometimes up to roof height. Then, Kyle brings up a new article posted by Gregg Newkirk on his blog the Week in Weird, about the interesting real life story of Emily Isabella Burt, Georgia's real life Werewolf. After the break, the guys get into one of the most bizarre stories of all time, simply known as Mel's Hole. In 1997, Art Bell, of "Coast to Coast AM," the popular syndicated late night radio talk show, received a fax from a man named Mel Waters. The fax explained that Mel had what appeared to be a bottomless pit on his property near Manastash, Washington. Soon thereafter, Art booked Mel on his radio show, where Mel explained what would become known as "Mel's Hole" to the world. Mel was interviewed over the phone, and at the time of the interview he was not at home, but in the town of Ellensburg, WA. Mel had bought this property a few years earlier, and the previous owners had owned the land for over thirty years prior to that. The neighbors knew of the hole quite well, and would regularly dump their garbage in it, but the hole would never fill. It was a round pit, with a stone retaining wall surrounding it, and extending down, about 15 feet below the ground surface. Beyond the wall, the hole bore through dirt and bedrock, and from there, darkness as far as the eye could see. Mel had never met anybody who could remember when the hole was not there. The stories only grew into one of the most incredible stories ever told. Thanks for listening to Expanded Perspectives. Have a great week!! Show Notes: Flying Cars are just Two Years Away: Terrafugia claims its TF-X will be ready to take to the skies by 2018 Egyptians were Buried in Recycled Coffins, Research Reveals "Hairy Panic" as Tumbleweed Engulfs Australian Homes Silver Bullets in Talbot County: The Strange Grave of Emily Isabella Burt, Georgia's Real Life Werewolf Mel's Hole Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part One Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Two Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Three Art Bell's Interview with Mel Waters Part Four Monsters and Magic Blog - Cryptozoology and the Paranormal from a Magical Perspective Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided with permission by Pretty Lights! Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Something's Wrong Where Am I Trying to Go Sweet Long Life

Things - 28 October 2015 - Conservation

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015 27:37

Spike Bucklow (Senior Research Scientist and Teacher of Theory, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

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Cambridge Minds – Trish Sheil & Rupert Featherstone

Cambridge Minds

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 57:49

Trevor Dann meets two more of Cambridge’s thinkers. Trish Sheil from the Arts Picturehouse is Education Officer for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and a guest lecturer in film studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Art historian Rupert Featherstone is director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, assistant director of conservation for the Fitzwilliam Museum and a regular […]

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Xu Bing - The Energy of Reality and the Creativity of Art

Humanitas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2015 75:00

he CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing (Former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), will give two public lectures and participate in a concluding symposium. He will also attend a talk and reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge. Abstracct The lecture will address the motivation of artistic creation through case studies where the artist gets his source of inspiration. -The relationship between the energy of reality and the energy of creativity -From where does the artist get his inspiration? -The tendency to create in a certain style is an artist's destiny -The organic development of artistic creation -Why I say don't take art too seriously and where does its new energy come from?

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Xu Bing at The Fitzwilliam Museum

Humanitas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2015 26:57

CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing, at the Fitzwilliam Museum. At this special evening at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge you will have the opportunity to meet Xu Bing and to see a small installation of his four birdcages in the Chinese Gallery. Xu Bing will discuss his work with Shelagh Vainker who curated his exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2013.

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Xu Bing - The Reactivation of Tradition

Humanitas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2015 94:00

The CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing (Former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), will give two public lectures and participate in a concluding symposium. He will also attend a talk and reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge. Abstract Based on his practice in the past decades, Xu Bing will analyze how the cultural gene has been passed on and has thus influenced art making. -The definition of tradition is something transmitted through cultural DNA -What is the strength and weakness of Chinese tradition? How the two can be mutually convertable -Why we hardly take advantage of our own tradition -How the traditional and the contemporary relate with each other -The cause of certain phenomenon in contemporary China Other events in this series

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Michelangelo bronzes discovered

Research Horizons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2015 4:28

It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived - now experts believe they have found not one, but two - with a tiny detail in a 500-year-old drawing providing vital evidence. They are naked, beautiful, muscular and ride triumphantly on two ferocious panthers. And now the secret of who created these magnificent metre-high bronze male nudes could well be solved. A team of international experts led by the University of Cambridge and Fitzwilliam Museum has gathered compelling evidence that argues that these masterpieces, which have spent over a century in relative obscurity, are early works by Michelangelo, made just after he completed the marble David and as he was about to embark on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. If the attribution is correct, they are the only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world.

The colourful page

Cambridge Shorts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2014 7:12

Researcher: Paola Ricciardi Department: Fitzwilliam Museum Film maker: Alice Corner The Colourful Page is a short experimental documentary exploring the research of conservation scientist Dr Paola Ricciardi, a Research Associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. Her work is part of the MINIARE research project (www.miniare.org) and focuses on the technical analysis of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts with non-invasive analytical methods.

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Free Thinking - Mike Leigh

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2014 44:39

Mike Leigh discusses his film about Turner. Steve Connor and Matthew Sweet discuss an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge which brings together 180 paintings and models to explore the way mannequins have been used by artists - from a technical tool to a fetishised object. And New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton discusses Guy Fawkes traditions.

Reflecting on Egyptian Pigments: the use of Fibre Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) for pigment analysis at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Understanding Egyptian Collections: Innovative display and research projects in museums

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2014 30:51

Jennifer Marchant, Antiquities Conservator and Abigail Granville, Pigment Analyst, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, give a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference. Disclaimer: All reasonable efforts have been made to identify and contact the coppright holders. If you hold or administer rights for the content published here, please contact us.

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Mummy case saved by LEGO: a collaborative approach to conservation of an Ancient Egyptian cartonnage

Understanding Egyptian Collections: Innovative display and research projects in museums

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2014 22:42

Sophie Rowe, Conservator; Julie Dawson, Senior Assistant Keeper, Conservation, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, gives a talk at the Understanding Egyptian Collections conference. Disclaimer: All reasonable efforts have been made to identify and contact the coppright holders. If you hold or administer rights for the content published here, please contact us.

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Whale tale: a Dutch seascape and its lost Leviathan

Research Horizons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2014 3:15

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/whale-tale-a-dutch-seascape-and-its-lost-leviathan Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a painting owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum. As Shan Kuang removed the old varnish from the surface, she revealed the whale that had been the intended focus of the scene. In 1873 the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was given a number of Dutch landscape paintings by a benefactor called Richard Kerrick. Among these works of art was a beach scene painted by the artist Hendrick van Anthonissen early in the 17th century. Anthonissen depicts groups of people clustered on a sandy beach at the small town of Scheveningen. Other figures stand on the cliffs and, on the shore, several boats have been pulled up on the sand. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/whale-tale-a-dutch-seascape-and-its-lost-leviathan

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"Painted on parchment: technical study of a 13th century illuminated Psalter"

Conservation

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2014 34:36

Paola Ricciardi, Fitzwilliam Museum, UK. "Painted on parchment: technical study of a 13th century illuminated Psalter".

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Things - 6 November 2013 - Housing Things: Soane and Watts Gallery

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2013 64:00

Housing Things: Reconstructing the Interiors of the Soane Museum and the Watts Gallery Mr Tim Knox (Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and Dr Nick Tromans (Curator of the Watts Gallery) Abstracts Tim Knox Housing Things: Reconstructing the Interiors of the Soane Museum Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, is the house and collections of the great Neoclassical architect, John Soane. Soane left it to the nation on his death in 1837, with strict instructions that nothing should be changed. However, almost as soon as he died, Soane's elaborate arrangements began to be dismantled and modified - sometimes for very necessary practical reasons, but also sometimes to answer the dictates of taste and decorum. Moreover, as the years elapsed, his decorative schemes were replaced, objects were rearranged, and the day to day needs of the Museum forced changes upon Soane's original vision. Tim Knox, former Director of Sir John Soane's Museum and current Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, discusses the gradual erosion of Soane's legacy, and its revival under a succession of post-War curators of the Museum. He concludes with an account of the Opening up the Soane project, conceived and begun under his own term as Director, which will return even more of the Museum to its exact appearance in 1837, as well as equipping it - in two neighbouring buildings - with the facilities that will enable the Soane Museum to survive into the twenty-first century and beyond. Nick Tromans Housing Things: Reconstructing the Interiors of the Watts Gallery The Watts Gallery at Compton near Guildford was found in 1904, the year of the death of George Frederic Watts, the Victorian painter of symbolic allegory and of portraits of the great figures of the age. In 2011 the Gallery reopened after a complete refurbishment, undertaken after its picturesque structures had reached a point of dangerous dilapidation. The Gallery has since been the focus of much attention on account of its success as a heritage story. This talk will examine the challenges faced by the Gallery during this period, as it sought to balance the demands of sustainability and of the health of the collection against the cherished legacy of a fragile, eccentric and unique environment

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Things - 24 October 2013 - Reconstructing Things