When: Wednesday 29 November 2017, 6pm Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and History and Theory of Photography Research Centre are proud to host a panel discussion with a talk by Kate Flint and a response by Lindsay Smith to mark the publication of Kate Flint’s Flash! …
Friday 10 November: Knowing ‘as much of art as the cat’: 19th-Century Women Writers on the Old Masters
When: Friday 10 November 2017 10:00am – 5:45pm Where: Sainsbury Wing Lecture Theatre, National Gallery, London WC2N 5DN This major conference examines the role of English-speaking women as disseminators of knowledge about Old Master paintings and historic painting techniques during the Victorian era. The conference forms part of a collaboration between the National Gallery and Birkbeck, University of London that also …
Monday 6 November, Martin Myrone: ‘Exhibiting Blake 1780-2020’
When: Monday 6 November 2017, 6:00pm Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In the winter of 2019-20 Tate Britain will be staging a major survey exhibition of the art of William Blake (1757-1827). It will be the latest in a succession of exhibitions which have presented Blake to the general public, including the …