NOTIFICATION
The committee has been discussing the best time to end the weekly arts-related emails and it has been decided that the appropriate time to do so would be this month. The vaccination programme is well under way, restrictions will soon begin to be lifted on socializing and on shops, the days are lengthening. Museums should hopefully be opening on Monday 17th May and theatres should be opening with full capacity on Monday 21st June, when all legal limits on social contact will also be removed. Therefore this email will be the last. I hope some of the members have enjoyed the emails as much as I have enjoyed preparing them.
For details of the Government roadmap towards lifting restrictions, click on the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-spring-2021/covid-19-response-spring-2021-summary
My best wishes for Easter to you all.
Rose Tainsh
WEEK COMMENCING 22nd March 2021
Suggestions for arts-related viewing available on the I/Net, on YouTube and via Zoom, as well as on BBC 4, Sky Arts Freeview Channel 11 and BBC iPlayer. (NB: Sky Arts Freeview has only been available on Channel 11 since late last year. It may be necessary to ‘retune’ televisions in order to receive it.)
NOTE: Any suggestion which is not free is marked (*).
GRESHAM COLLEGE, Holburn, London EC1
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery
Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery (00:46:08)
Professor Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford, who gave this lecture in May 2019, is considered one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci. He begins by trying to put the record straight about what has been said in some of the press. He then relates the remarkable story of the work: its purchase in 2005 at an auction in Louisiana, New Orleans by two New York art dealers, as what they thought was a “decent early copy”, its subsequent scientific examination and conservation, the research into its provenance, its sale by Christie’s in 2017 for $450 million and the mystery surrounding its current ownership. In the second half of his talk, Professor Kemp explains how he became convinced of the authenticity of the painting.
NOTE: Gresham College was founded in 1571 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and has been providing free lectures to the public for over 400 years on a range of subjects. The college does not enroll students or award degrees.
THE ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST
https://vimeo.com/149025820?utm_campaign=792064_2021_03_2_general&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email_marketing
A Fabergé Easter Egg ‘Surprise’ (00:05:19)
Caroline de Guitot, Deputy Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art, examines a miniature jewelled ivory clockwork elephant purchased by King George V and Queen Mary in the 1930s. Recent research has connected it to one of Carl Fabergé’s celebrated Imperial Easter eggs, all of which contained a ‘surprise’ when opened.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART – EAST BUILDING, Washington DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3USl8KcjYQ
A Centennial Celebration of the Architect I M PEI (00:56:26)
The Chinese-American architect I M Pei (1917-2019) designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, which opened in 1978. This documentary was made in 2017 to honour I M Pei on his 100th birthday. The new building had to fit on a trapezoidal site, which the architect saw not as an obstacle but as an opportunity. The elegant composition, with its famous 19 degree knife edge, was hailed as one of his finest achievements, contrasting sleekly with the surrounding neo-classic style architecture. (Another iconic design by I M Pei is the Louvre Pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris.)
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Washington DC
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The National Quilt Collection: An Overview (00:11:02)
Doris Bowman, Associate Curator, explains that the collection originated with a gift in the 1890s of three quilts dating from the 18th to the very early 19th century. The collection has since grown to cover three centuries, providing a textile narrative to American history. It illustrates the boundaries of thrift and extravagance and the infinite variety of styles and materials of the American quilt. (One purchase of cloth was made in 1736 “in the Isle of White, England”.) The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
PAMUKKALE, Denizli Province, Turkey
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Hierapolis – Virtual tour (00:25:59)
A virtual tour with commentary by a local guide of the Hierapolis thermal spa, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the River Menderes Valley. Deriving from springs in a high cliff overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (meaning ‘cotton palace’ in Turkish) an unreal white landscape, made up of petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. The ruins of the nearby Roman town Hierapolis include baths, temples, monuments and a magnificent theatre. The thermal spa is usually said to have been established by Eumates II of Pergamon in the late 2nd century BC. Hierapolis became one of the most prominent cities in the Roman Empire in the fields of the arts, philosophy and trade.
PALAIS GARNIER, Paris
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Paris Opera Ballet – La Bayadère (2:13:16)
The premiere of the lavish production, choreographed and staged by the late Rudolf Nureyev, which took place in 1992. Music by Ludwig Minkus, orchestrated by John Lanchbery. Based on the original version by Marius Petipa. With principal dancers Isabelle Guerin and Laurent Hilaire, two of the ballet company’s greatest stars at that time. Set in Ancient India, it is the story of a temple dancer (bayadere) and her doomed love for a noble warrior (Solor). Act III of the ballet, The Kingdom of the Shades, is particularly celebrated. Nureyev worked on the staging and attended rehearsals until the opening night. He died the following year.
The New York Times described the production at the time as ‘opulent’ and ‘not to be missed’.
THE ARTS SOCIETY TEST VALLEY (*)
NOTE: £5 to be paid by bank transfer to Lloyds Bank Account Number 42557060, Account Name: TASTV, Sort Code: 30-90-09 OR by cheque payable to TASTV and sent to Mr T Stevens, 6 Sycamore Walk, Andover SP10 3PQ.
For more details about the lecture click on link below.
https://theartssocietytestvalley.org.uk/Special/FutureSpecial.aspx
Study Morning: Picturing the Pacific – the Fine Art of Exploration 1768-1836 (10.30 am – 1 pm with a half-hour break: Wednesday 24th March)
Dr James Taylor FRSA is an expert on maritime art and former curator of pictures at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and a Victorian paintings specialist with Phillips Fine Arts Auctioneers. Between the 1760s and the early 1800s the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, water colours and drawings.
NB There will be two one-hour talks with a half-hour break in between.
PALLANT HOUSE, Chichester (*)
NOTE: £5. Click on link for details and then on Buy Tickets.
The Shakers behind the Makers | Online Talk
The Shakers behind the Makers (7 pm Thurs 25th March)
Through works in the Pallant House Gallery Collection, Director Simon Martin explores the stories of some of the influential individuals behind the great artists of the last century. Their vision, faith and sometimes sheer business acumen were crucial. Sixties art dealer Robert ‘Groovy Bob’ Fraser was one of them. He helped launch many new artists including Peter Blake, Bridget Riley and Eduardo Paolozzi.
SAINT PETER’S BASILICA, Rome (*)
NOTE: £12. Click on link for more details and then on BUY TICKETS
Buy tickets for A Virtual Tour of St Peter’s Basilica on Zoom, Sun 28 Mar 2021
Virtual Tour (1:30:00) (6.30 pm Sun 28th March)
Professional Rome Tourist Guide Stuart Harvey explores 2,000 years of Christianity: the Emperors Nero and Constantine, the many Popes and artists like Michelangelo and Bernini.
DATE FOR THE DIARY!
ARTS SOCIETY RICHMOND (*)
NOTE: £5 but FREE for those who paid for the Tokyo walk in February, which had technical issues. Payment either by bank transfer to sort code 40-38-18, account 31024191 or by cheque payable to: The Arts Society Richmond and send to 238, St Margaret’s Road, Twickenham TW1 1NL. For payment by bank transfer, put the word Kyoto in the reference box.
Zoom link: https://theartssociety-org.zoom.us/j/93971513566 YouTube link: Kyoto walk on Tuesday 30th March 2021 at 9am UK time
Live Walk in Kyoto (1:30:00) (9 am Tues 30th March) The guide will be Richard Farmer, who is a tour leader for InsideJapan. The one-and-a-half hour walk will include the traditional Gion and Higashiyama districts with their tea houses, traditional Machiya townhouses, shrines and gardens. It is hoped that Japan’s glorious cherry blossom will be in bloom. There will be time for questions & answers afterwards.
SKYARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
National Treasures: The Art of Collecting (1:00:00) (12 noon Mon 22nd March)
A look at six watches from a vast collection spanning 300 years, including a timepiece made in London before the Great Fire of 1666.
SKYARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Brunelleschi’s Impossible Dome: Part 2 (1:00:00) (7 pm Mon 22nd March)
Conclusion. British installation artist Luke Jerram’s contemporary dome the ‘Palm Temple’ was commissioned by Sky Arts Italy for presentation in Lewis Cubitt Square in London in January 2020 to celebrate the cathedral dome’s 600th anniversary. It is now on display on the campus of the University of Bristol.
BBC FOUR
Fake or Fortune? (1:00:00) (8 pm Mon 22nd March)
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce try to establish whether a strikingly abstract plaster head sculpture is a missing work by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). (First shown on BBC 1)
SKYARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
The Art of Architecture – Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia (1:00:00) (7 pm Tues 23rd March)
The documentary looks at the refurbishment of Southern Cross railway station, designed by English architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. It won the RIBA Lubetkin Prize in 2007. The design focus is the dune-like roof covering an entire city block. The architect is noted for his several modernist buildings, including the Eden Project in Cornwall and London’s Waterloo International railway station. Sir Nicholas was President of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2004 to 2011.
SKYARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (2:00:00) (9 pm Tues 23rd March)
The documentary follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for ‘The Artist is Present’, a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010.
BBC iPLAYER
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08y60r0/bute-the-scot-who-spent-a-welsh-fortune
Bute: The Scot Who Spent a Welsh Fortune (1:00:00)
The fabulously rich Scottish aristocrat John Patrick Crichton Stuart, 3rd Marquis of Bute, was one of the most unconventional mavericks of the Victorian Age. When he was young, he met the outrageous and eccentric English architect and designer William Burges, who transformed Bute’s medieval Cardiff Castle into a Welsh Camelot. When the ancestral seat Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute was destroyed by fire, Bute embarked on the construction of a huge new Gothic palace.
(Available until the end of the week.)
BBC iPLAYER
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000s5m0/imagine-2021-well-be-back
Imagine: 2021: We’ll be back (1:00:00)
Alan Yentob explores the huge on-going impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK’s world-renowned performing arts industry. He talks to the artistic directors of some of the major institutions including those of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Old Vic Theatre, English National Ballet and the English National Opera, as well to those of smaller venues.The Arts Council figures show that the industry contributed £10.8 billion to the UK economy in 2019. 70% of the performing arts industry is made up of freelance talent.
(First shown 9th Feb 2021 and available for ten months)
THE MET OPERA, New York
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
OR
GOOGLE: ‘Nightly Met Opera Stream Metropolitan Opera’; scroll down to UPCOMING SCHEDULE WEEK 54 (and WEEK 55), click on the name of the opera available for free that day.
NOTE: Performances are free online for TWENTY-THREE HOURS. They begin at 7.30 pm* in New York and finish at 6.30 pm (NY) the next day.
* There is now a FOUR-HOUR time difference with the UK but on 28th March it will return to FIVE HOURS (clocks go forward in the US two weeks before in the UK).
WEEK 54: Myths and Legends
Monday 22nd March – Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurodice (2009)
Tuesday 23rd March – Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust (2008)
Wednesday 24th March – Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (2011)
Thursday 25th March – Strauss’s Elektra (2016)
Friday 26th March – Mozart’s Idomeneo (1982)
Saturday 27th March – Mozart’s Don Giovanni (2000)
Sunday 28th March – Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer (2020)
WEEK 55: Love Triangles
Monday 29th March – Bellini’s Norma (2017)
Tuesday 30th March – Strauss’s Capriccio (2011)
Wednesday 31st March – Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux (2016)
Thursday 1st April – Verdi’s Il Trovatore (1988)
Friday 2nd April – Massenet’s Werther (2013)
Saturday 3rd April – Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore (2012)
Sunday 4th April – Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (2016)
WEEK COMMENCING 15th March 2021
Suggestions for arts-related viewing available on the I/Net, on YouTube and via Zoom, as well as on BBC 2, BBC 4, Sky Arts Freeview Channel 11 and BBC iPlayer. (NB: Sky Arts Freeview has only been available on Channel 11 since late last year. It may be necessary to ‘retune’ televisions in order to receive it.)
NOTE: Any suggestion which is not free is marked (*).
HATFIELD HOUSE, Hertfordshire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaO39-SGJv4
Tour of Hatfield House (00:44:27)
As an introduction to the Virtual Chamber Music Festival given last year, Lord Salisbury and Dr Emily Burns, art historian, looked at some of the art works and other treasures in the house in order to provide the context to the concerts. They include two portraits of Elizabeth I and a 1609 de Haan organ (which will be played in the concert listed below). The present Jacobean House was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James 1. The Cecil family have lived there ever since. The Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival takes place every year in September.
HATFIELD HOUSE, Hertfordshire
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2020 Virtual Chamber Music Festival (00:47:34)
British classical counter tenor Iestyn Davies MBE, Elizabeth Kenny, lute: John Dowland; Richard Gowers, organist: G F Handel, William Byrd and Thomas Tallis. Iestyn Davies remarked that it was incredible to be performing pieces in rooms in which they would have been heard five hundred years ago.
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, Washington DC
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A Woman’s Touch (00:27:24)
The museum opened in 1987 and is devoted entirely to women artists. The Founder explains that many of the works are by artists who were highly regarded in their own lifetime and yet have sunk into obscurity. From the 16th century up to today, the artists include: Lavinia Fontana; Sofonisba Anguissola; Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded botanical and zoological specimens two hundred years before John James Audubon; Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Lebrun and Adélaide Labille-Guiard who were both received as members of the Académie Royale; Angelica Kauffman, a founding member of the Royal Academy of Art; Suzanne Valadon, the first woman painter to be admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Camille Claudel; Mary Cassatt; Lilla Cabot Perry; Alice Bailly and Georgia O’Keeffe.
PALAIS GARNIER, Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs-h5Yhalvo
The Architect Who Designed the Opera House (00:27:13)
In 1858, Emperor Napoleon III wished to have a new opera house built. A competition was held to find the designer for the largest and most prestigious public building of the Second Empire. Amongst the 170 architects who submitted plans, the winner was 34-year old Charles Garnier. The former student of the Ecole des Beaux Arts was unknown. The diamond-shaped plot was imposed on Garnier by Prefect Haussmann. Construction began in 1860 and the building, with its excesses, profusion and splendour, was finally inaugurated in 1875. The Emperor had by then gone into exile in England. He died in 1873.
THE WALLACE COLLECTION, London
NOTE: FREE but need to REGISTER. Scroll down to Please click here to register for Zoom and Please click here to view this talk via our YouTube channel.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/meet-the-expert-the-magic-of-venetian-glass/
The Magic of Venetian Glass (1:00:00) (1 pm Thurs 18th March)
Speaker Suzanne Higgott, Curator of Glass, Limoges Painted Enamels, Earthenwares and Early Furniture at the Wallace Collection. The period from the late 15th to the mid 17th century is often described as the ‘Golden Age’ of Venetian glass. Such was the awe in which it was held, it was reputed to have magical qualities.
MEIGETSUIN TEMPLE, Kamakura, Japan
NOTE: Without commentary
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Kamakura Walk: The ‘Hydrangea Temple’ (00:17:23)
A peaceful ‘virtual walk’ without commentary through the lush, wooded valley in which the temple is situated. The valley is filled with thousands of blue hydrangeas, which only bloom in abundance in June. Steps and wooden bridges provide vantage points. The temple of the Rinzai Zen was founded in 1160. It later became part of a larger temple complex but only the Meigetsuin Temple, also known as the Hydrangea Temple, remains today.
(NOTE: The sound of the aeroplane at the beginning of the walk disappears very quickly!)
SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY (*)
NOTE: Ticket prices from £4.50 to £8.50. Scroll down to the green button ‘Tickets’.
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/510409
Capture the Castle – The Birth of the Picturesque (1:00:00 to 1:30:00) (7 pm Tues 16th March)
Alastair Eales has an MA in European Fine Art and is a Gallery Lecturer at Southampton City Art Gallery. He ‘captures’ the aesthetic ideal of the picturesque, part of the Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. The talk will last 60 to 90 minutes.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London (*)
NOTE: £5. Click on button ‘BOOK NOW’. (NB: TIcket holders will have access to a recording after the event)
V&A · Online Talk: Stealing from the Saracens
Stealing from the Saracens (1:00:00) (4 pm Mon 15th March)
Diana Darke, author, broadcaster and Middle Eastern specialist, explores the influence of Islamic architecture on some of Europe’s most well-known and culturally significant buildings, from Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parliament. The lecture is to be given in conjunction with her latest publication ‘Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe’.
THE ARTS SOCIETY GRAYSHOTT (*)
NOTE: £10. Book online at: http://www.theartssocietygrayshott.org/special-interest-day-booking-request/
Payment preferably by bank transfer to: The Arts Society Grayshott, Account No 07208070,Sort Code 30-93-94. For more details contact Ros Balfour via email: rosbalfour@yahoo.co.uk or telephone: 01428 604462. If necessary, arrangements can be made to pay by cheque.
Masters of the Sea – Special Interest Morning (10.30 am to 1 pm on Tues 16th March)
10.30 am to 11.30 am: Highlights of Maritime Art from the 16th century to the present day
11.30 am to 12 noon: Break for refreshment
12 noon to 1 pm: Dazzle Disguise and Disruption in War and Art
Dr James Taylor MA FRSA is a British author, expert on maritime art and former curator of pictures at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He will give two one-hour talks with a half-hour break in between.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
National Treasures – The Art of Collecting (1:00:00) (12 noon Mon 15th March)
Frank Cohen is a British businessman and art collector who is often referred to as ‘the Saatchi of the North’. He gives a tour of his warehouse, which contains works by Georg Baselitz, Frank Auerbach, L S Lowry, Edward Burra and Patrick Heron.
BBC FOUR
Fake or Fortune? (1:00:00) (8 pm Mon 15th March)
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce examine two works potentially by Paul Gaugin: possibly the first pencil sketch of the masterpiece ‘When Will You Marry?’ which sold for $200 million in 2015 and a still life of a bowl of fruit.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Episode 6: Mystery of the Lost Paintings (1:00:00) (8 pm Mon 15th March)
Factum Arte attempts to recreate the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s ‘Medicine’ that was destroyed in 1945 by the retreating German army.
BBC FOUR
3/3 The Story of Welsh Art (1:00:0) (9 pm Mon 15th March)
The whistle stop tour through Wales’s overlooked art history concludes as it reaches the 20th century, with the rise of abstraction. Huw Stephens visits the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, Bardsey Island off the Llyn Peninsula, Colwyn Bay and Swansea. He learns about artists including Gwen John and Christopher Williams.
(NOTE: The series will be available on BBC iPlayer for eleven months.)
BBC FOUR
Ireland’s Treasures Uncovered (1:00:00) (9 pm Tues 16th March)
The story of the famous artefacts that helped shape and create modern Ireland such as the Broighter Hoard, the Tara Brooch, the Waterford Charter Roll and others. There is also a look at recent finds. (First shown on BBC 1)
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
My Rembrandt (2:00:00) (9 pm Tues 16th March)
The documentary offers a glimpse into the world of collectors, all of whom have a passion for Rembrandt’s paintings.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Brunelleschi’s Impossible Dome (1:00:00) (3 pm Wed 17th March)
As the Dome of Florence Cathedral turns 600 years old, architects and art historians discuss the pioneering solutions and devices invented by its designer Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture.
THE MET OPERA, New York
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
OR
GOOGLE: ‘Nightly Met Opera Stream Metropolitan Opera’; scroll down to UPCOMING SCHEDULE WEEK 53, click on the name of the opera available for free that day.
NOTE: Performances are free online for TWENTY-THREE HOURS. They begin at 7.30 pm in New York and finish at 6.30 pm (NY) the next day. There is a FIVE-HOUR time difference with the UK.
WEEK 53 – Viewers’ Choice
Monday 15th March – Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2009)
Tuesday 16th March – Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (2018)
Wednesday 17th March – Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (2011)
Thursday 18th March – Philip Glass’s Akhnaten (2019)
Friday 19th March – Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2007)
Saturday 20th March – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2007)
Sunday 21st March – Handel’s Agrippina (2020)
WEEK COMMENCING 8th March 2021
Suggestions for arts-related viewing available on the I/Net, on YouTube and via Zoom, as well as on BBC 2, BBC 4, Sky Arts Freeview Channel 11 and BBC iPlayer. (NB: Sky Arts Freeview has only been available on Channel 11 since late last year. It may be necessary to ‘retune’ televisions in order to receive it.)
NOTE: Any suggestion which is not free is marked (*).
HILLWOOD Museum, Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAsytOT7Phg Royal Diamonds (1:11:16)
Caroline de Guitot, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts of the Royal Collection Trust discusses some of the most important diamonds in royal ownership. Diamonds have served as symbols of magnificence, power, longevity and dynastic rule for hundreds of years. The word diamond derives from the Ancient Greek word ‘adamas’ meaning invincible.
NOTE: Hillwood Museum sits on the 25-acre estate of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) who used much of her fortune to collect art, much of which is on display in the Museum.
THE WALLACE COLLECTION, London
NOTE: FREE but need to REGISTER. Scroll down to Please click here to register for Zoom and Please click here to view this talk via our YouTube channel.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/lady-wallace-the-french-woman-who-gifted-the-wallace-collection-to-the-british-nation/
Lady Wallace (1:00:00) (1 pm Mon 8th March)
Speaker Suzanne Higgott, Curator of Glass, Limoges Painted Enamels, Earthenware and Early Furniture at the Wallace Collection will discuss the life and legacy of Lady Wallace, the shy, enigmatic French woman who bequeathed the Wallace Collection to the Nation.
THE WALLACE COLLECTION, London
NOTE: FREE but need to REGISTER. Scroll down to: Please click here to register for Zoom and Please click here to view this talk on our YouTube channel.
https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/revealing-marie-antoinette/
Revealing Marie-Antoinette (1:00:00) (6 pm Wed 10th March)
Dr Helen Jacobsen, Curator of French 18th-century Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection and Professor Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford will discuss the life and patronage of the ill-fated French Queen. Together they explore the many pieces of fine and decorative art linked to Marie-Antoinette in the Wallace Collection.
MORGAN LIBRARY, New York
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OR
GOOGLE: ‘Paul Mellon lecture Sicily Crossroads of History YouTube’
Sicily an Island at the Crossroads of History (00:52:18)
The lecture was given in February 2016 by the historian and broadcaster John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, known as John Julius Norwich (1929-2018). He uses the material from his book ‘Sicily: A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra’ published in 2014. Images include the Doric temple at Segesta, the theatre of Taormina, the Cathedral at Syracuse, the Roman floor mosaics from the Villa Casale, the Cathedral of Cefalù , the Palatine chapel in the Royal Palace of Palermo, the Greek church of the Martorana and the Cathedral and cloisters of Monreale.
NOTE: John Julius Norwich published his first book about Sicily in 1967 ‘The Normans in the South 1016-1130′.
CORDOBA, Andalusia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJiYxEZR-Ws
Visit of Cordoba (00:13:16)
In the 11th century, the city of Cordoba was one of Europe’s most important capitals, where people from diverse cultures and religions lived peacefully together. The 8th century Great Mosque or La Mezquita was converted into a Christian place of worship in 1236 at the time of the Spanish Reconquista, although it was only in the 16th century that the cathedral nave and transept were inserted inside the mosque. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. The tour also includes some of the historic quarter and the palace fortress Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos with its magnificent gardens.
THE WATTS GALLERY, Guildford (*)
NOTE: Tickets £12. See second link below for contact details.
https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/whats-on/history-art-short-course-arts-crafts-house/
For further information: Phone 01483 840235 or email Nerissa Taysom at Nerissa.Taysom@wattsgallery.org.uk
The Arts and Crafts House (1:15:00) (11 am Mondays 8th – 29th March)
A series of lectures organised by the Watts Gallery. In 1891, G F and Mary Watts moved to Limnerslease, which was designed by Sir Ernest George and built at the start of the Arts & Crafts movement. Celebrating Limnerslease in 2021, the course introduces the British Arts & Crafts movement through key buildings, designers, collectors and inhabitants.
THE ARTS SOCIETY GREENWICH (*)
NOTE: Tickets: £25. To book your place or for further information, send an email to Nancy Bettelley:
nancybettelley@hotmail.co.uk or telephone her on 020 8852 5432
For details: See https://www.the arts society greenwich.org.uk/Special/FutureSpecial.aspx
East Meets West: Indochina and France: Cultural Exchange and Artistic Fusion (2 pm on Saturday 13th March)
Part 1:Vietnam and Laos (00:45:00)
Part 2: Cambodia (00:45:00)
Special Interest/Study Afternoon: two lectures with a ten-minute break in between. The speaker is Arts Society lecturer Denise Heywood, who is an art historian, author, lecturer, photographer and journalist. She worked in Cambodia for three years in the 1990s and has been a scholar of Southeast Asian art ever since.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Series 1 Episode 3: National Treasures – The Art of Collecting (1:00:00) (12 noon Mon 8th March)
Art collector David Lewis talks about his collection of Old Masters, concentrating on those he has hanging on his walls at home. The Lewis family own the private Schorr Collection, numbering more than 400 paintings including one of the largest collections of Old Masters amassed in England since World War II. Many adorn, on long-term loans, the walls of museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK and abroad.
BBC FOUR
Series 6 – Fake or Fortune (1:00:00) (8 pm Mon 8th March)
An Australian couple believe they own a work by Tom Roberts (1856-1931), key member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian impressionism and one of Australia’s greatest artists. They have been told it is a fake. Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce try to uncover the truth.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
Hepworth (1:00:00) (8 pm Mon 8th March)
The life and work of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), a pivotal figure in the British art world, with insight from experts and artists whom her work has influenced.
BBC FOUR
2/3 The Story of Welsh Art (1:00:00) (9 pm 8th March)
Huw Stephens explores how from the 18th century, the dramatic landscape of Wales captivated artists like Richard Wilson (1713-1782), one of the founder members of the Royal Academy and J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), and how their work changed the course of art history.
SKY ARTS FREEVIEW Channel 11
The Art of Architecture (1:00:00) (7 pm Tues 9th March)
Series 2 Episode 6: Island Rest, Hampshire
A look at the work of RIBA award-winning Swedish architect Magnus Ström. ‘Island Rest’ is situated on a creek on the Isle of Wight with direct access to the water and views of the Solent beyond. The studio of Ström Architects is located in Lymington.
THE MET OPERA, New York
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
OR
GOOGLE: ‘Nightly Met Opera Stream Metropolitan Opera’; scroll down to UPCOMING SCHEDULE WEEK 52, click on name of opera available for free that day.
NOTE: Performances are free online for TWENTY-THREE HOURS. They begin at 7.30 pm in New York and finish at 6.30 pm (NY) the next day. There is a FIVE-HOUR time difference with the UK.
WEEK 52 Verismo Passions
Monday 8th – Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (1980)
Tuesday 9th – Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (2015)
Wednesday 10th – Cilia’s Adriana Lecouvreur (2019)
Thursday 11th – Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini (2013)
Friday 12th – Giordano’s Fedora (1997)
Saturday 13th – Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (1996)
Sunday 14th – Puccini’s Tosca (2018) |
