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2007 Events and Lectures

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India

11 November 2006 — 25 February 2007

Krishna dancing on Kaliya, 10th-11th century.
Krishna dancing on Kaliya, 10th-11th century. Copper alloy, height 87.6 cm.

Talks

The Sensuous and the Sacred – An Introduction to the Exhibition
Professor Vidya Dehejia (Monday 13 November 2006)

Parading the Gods: Processional Bronzes in Medieval and Modern South India
John Guy (Friday 17 November 2006)

An Introduction to the Iconography of the Bronze Temple Sculpture of the Chola
Dr Adrian Locke (Monday 11 December 2006)

The Poetry of Processions in Medieval South India
Dr Daud Ali (Friday 12 January)

Shiva as Cosmic Dancer: The Art and Science of South Indian Icons
Dr Sharada Srinivasan (Friday 19 January)

Chola Sculpture: Themes and Variations
Professor Anna Dallapiccola (Monday 5 February)

South India – The Last Classical Civilisation
Michael Wood (Friday 9 February)

Symposia and Focus Days

‘Singing the Gods’: Processions and Processional Bronzes in South India
Dr Crispin Branfoot, Professor Richard Davis, Dr Sharada Srinivasan and John Eskenazi. (Saturday 20 January)

Anselm Kiefer Hon RA In Conversation with Tim Marlow

Read more (Tuesday 23 January)

Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760—1830

3 February—20 April 2007

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02042077 Citizens and Kings catalogue cover

Talks

"Enlightenment - Revolution - Restoration: The Portrait in transition"
MaryAnne Stevens (Monday 12 February)

Heroes and Anti-Heroes in English Portraiture
Professor Shearer West (Friday 16 February)

Marie Antoinette Revisited
Lady Antonia Fraser (Friday 23 February)

‘An artful management’: Struggles between Likeness and Effect in Eighteenth-century English Portraiture
Dr Marcia Pointon (Friday 2 March)

Democratic Dandyism: the aristocratic art of self-fashioning
Dr. Roger Cook (Monday 5 March)

Changing Faces in an Age of Revolution
Professor William Doyle (Friday 9 March)

Political Cartoons and Caricature
Dr. Tim Benson (Monday 12 March)

Workshops and Courses

From Portraiture to Caricature
Felix Bennett (Saturdays, 10, 24 February & 3 March)

Symposia and Focus Days

Power in the City
(Saturday 10 March)

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings

17 March—10 June 2007

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, c. 1901.
Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, c. 1901. Pastel on paper, 30.5 x 48 cm.

Talks

Could Monet Draw?
James A. Ganz (Monday 23 April)

Medium and Abstraction in Monet and Cézanne
Professor Richard Shiff (Friday 27 April)

Cornelia Parker on Drawing
Cornelia Parker (Friday 11 May)

Drawing for Painting – Painting as Drawing:
MaryAnne Stevens (Monday 14 May)

Lines of Colour: Monet and Modernism
Richard Kendall (Friday 18 May)

Line in Monet
Professor John House (Monday 21 May)

Monet's Gardens in Art
Dr. Debra N. Mancoff (Friday 1 June)

Workshops and Courses

Pastels from Nature with Anthony Eyton RA
Anthony Eyton RA (Saturday 5 May)

Summer Exhibition 2007

11 June—19 August 2007

Elsworth Kelly, Jack/Spectrum.
Elsworth Kelly, Jack/Spectrum. Six colour lithograph on Arches 88 paper, 63.8 x 235 cm. Summer Exhibition 2007.

Talks

David Hockney RA:
David Hockney RA (Friday 15 June)

Workshops and Courses

Pinhole Photography
(Saturday 23 June)

Impressionists by the Sea

7 July—30 September 2007

Impressionists By The Sea

Talks

Paris by the Sea
Colin McDowell (Friday 13 July)

Viewing the Beach
Professor John House (Monday 16 July)

Reflections of Monet
Barbara Stern Shapiro (Friday 14 September)

Workshops and Courses

Watercolour with Paul Newland for Young Adults
Paul Newland (Saturday 14 July)

Watercolour with Paul Newland
Paul Newland (Saturday 29 September)

Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007

15 September—2 December 2007

Making History bronze shield button promo

Talks

Why We Need to Collect
Loyd Grossman (Friday 9 November)

Every Picture Tells A Story
Dr. David Starkey (Friday 30 November)

Georg Baselitz

22 September — 9 December 2007

Georg Baselitz, Mit roter Fahne (With a Red Flag), 1965.
Georg Baselitz, Mit roter Fahne (With a Red Flag), 1965. Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm Private collection, Germany. Photo Frank Oleski.

Talks

Heroism and Poetry in the Wake of War
Dr. John-Paul Stonard (Monday 1 October)

Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz (Friday 12 October)

Baselitz: A Painter of My Time
Sir Norman Rosenthal (Monday 15 October)

The Workings of a Morbid Teutonic Mind
Dr. Christine Haase (Friday 26 October)

Feet Too Big
Professor Richard Shiff (Friday 2 November)

The Art of Georg Baselitz
Dr. Christian Weikop (Monday 19 November)

Workshops and Courses

Life Drawing: Abstracting the Figure
Francis Bowyer (Saturday 13 October)

An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy

20 October 2007—27 January 2008

JMW Turner, 'Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort Packet-boat from Rotterdam Becalmed', 1818.
JMW Turner, 'Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort Packet-boat from Rotterdam Becalmed', 1818. Oil on canvas, 157.5 x 233 cm. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection. Photo Yale Center for British Art/Richard Caspole

Talks

Turner and Constable in the Paul Mellon Collection
Andrew Wilton (Monday 29 October)

Paul Mellon and Collecting British Art
Professor Brian Allen (Monday 12 November)

Collecting British Art in the 20th Century
Duncan Robinson and John Baskett (Friday 16 November)

Two Collectors Compared and Contrasted
Professor David Cannadine (Wednesday 7 December)

Symposia and Focus Days

A Passion for British Art: Collecting in the 20th Century
Professor David Cannadine, Dr Shelley Bennett and James Stourton. (Friday 18 January 2008)