Month: March 2011

Lecture - Paul Jett ‘Scientific Research on Ancient Chinese Gold and Silver’

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Scientific Research on Ancient Chinese Gold and Silver Paul Jett, Head, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C Scientific analysis combined with archaeological discoveries in China have greatly expanded the body of knowledge about gold and silver in early China.  This presentation will discuss three particular studies of gold and silver artifacts from China, focusing on silver from the Tang and Liao dynasties (7th to 12th centuries AD), and gold dating to the 5th to 3rd centuries BC. Biography - As the Head of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Freer Gallery/ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Paul Jett is an internationally renowned scholar and practitioner in…

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Review – Pioneering Painters – Glasgow Boys: 1880-1900

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Review by Kim Clayton-Greene of Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880– 1900 Pioneering Painters - The Glasgow Boys: 1880-1900 Royal Academy, London 30 October 2010—23 January 2011 Reviewed by Kim Clayton-Greene Presenting a relatively modest selection of works, the exhibition Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys: 1880-1900, which recently closed at the Royal Academy, London (the version reviewed here), after an earlier run in Glasgow, still provided much to delight.  The works were rich and varied, at times pale and restrained and then bold and vibrant.  The exhibition, the first showing of the works of the Glasgow Boys in 40 years,…

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Lecture: Angus Trumble ‘Benjamin West and ‘The Venetian Secret’: Art and fraud in late Eighteenth-century London’

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Benjamin West and ‘The Venetian Secret’: Art and fraud in late Eighteenth-century London Angus Trumble, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art In this lecture, Angus Trumble will discuss the late eighteenth-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and sheds light on a number of intriguing technical and historical issues. In 1796 Benjamin West, the American-born President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, fell victim to a remarkable fraud. A shadowy figure, Thomas Provis, and his artist daughter, Ann Jemima Provis, persuaded West that they possessed a copy of an old manuscript purporting to contain descriptions…

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Review: Piers Baker-Bates, A Collector’s Eye: Cranach To Pissarro at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 18 February–15 May 2011

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A Collector’s Eye: Cranach To Pissarro at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 18 February–15 May 2011 Reviewed by Piers Baker-Bates. While exhibitions that showcase a private collection can be the proverbial curate’s egg both in terms of the quality of the works on display and their attributions, this new exhibition is never anything but stimulating and thought-provoking. The works come from what is described as ‘the Schorr Collection assembled by private collector David J. Lewis for his family interests’ which is ‘one of the largest collections of Old Master paintings amassed in England since World War II.’ David Lewis remains an…

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Lecture: Susan Scollay ‘Gardens of Love: Persian Poetry and its Admirers’

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Susan Scollay - Guest co-curator, Love and Devotion: from Persia and Beyond, March - June, 2010 ‘Gardens of Love: Persian Poetry and its Admirers’ Transcending place and time, classic love stories found in Persian poetry have been reflected in western culture, with parallels in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare and in the lyrics of rock stars today. In March–June 2012, the State Library will present a major exhibition, Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, featuring rare books and manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. Enjoy a preview of the exhibition as co-curator Susan Scollay, an…

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Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference 2012

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Call for Papers Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Detroit, 2012 Members and friends of the Society of Architectural Historians are invited to submit abstracts by 1 June 2011, for the thematic sessions listed below. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted online. Only one abstract per author or co-author may be submitted. Please do not send your abstract to the session chair’s email address as this may delay the review of your abstract or possibly void your submission. Abstracts should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented…

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Angus Trumble - The Finger

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Angus Trumble The Finger Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings for the Yale Centre for British Art, provides some pointers on the finger, in a collision between art and science, history and pop culture. From Guernica to the Sistine Chapel, Trumble offers a witty and perverse look at matters digital. - In conversation with David Hansen. Angus Trumble is the author of The Finger: A Handbook and Brief History of the Smile Date: Monday 7 March 6.15pm-7.15pm Venue: The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne This is a free event, bookings recommended. Bookings at www.wheelercentre.com

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Lecture by Victor Burgin ‘Face a Histoire’ (CCP, Melbourne)

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FACE À L’HISTOIRE A Lecture by Victor Burgin Venue: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy (404 George St, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia) Tel. + 61 3 9417 1549 E info@ccp.org.au W www.ccp.org.au Date: Wednesday 16th March, 2011, 6:16pm No bookings. Seats strictly limited. Gold coin donations gratefully accepted. Centre for Contemporary Photography, in association with the ARC-funded research project Genealogies of Digital Light, is pleased to announce a lecture by Victor Burgin. In October 2008 I was invited to join a group of artists and academics in Cyprus to inaugurate the ‘Famagusta Project’. In August 1974 the Varosha suburb of Famagusta was…

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