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2011 Events and Lectures

GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity

2 December–30 January 2011

Helen Storey, 'Say Goodbye', 2010.
Helen Storey, 'Say Goodbye', 2010. Experimental dissolvable dress, dimensions variable. Model Pixie @ Profile Model Management Ltd; make up and hair Sam Basham; textiles Trish Belford, University of Ulster. Photo John Ross.
Salons

The Artist’s Robe: Adornment and Identity
Grayson Perry, Professor Reina Lewis, Dr. Emma Tarlo (17 January 2011)
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Storytellers of Fashion
Susie Bubble, Dr. Agnès Rocamora, Hattie Spice, Perry Curties
(18 January 2011)
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When Clothes Speak: The Fabric of Our Heritage
Yinka Shonibare, Carol Tulloch, Freddie Robins, Dr. Jonathan Faiers (19 January 2011)
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Staging Fashion/The Fashion Stage
The Broken Hearts, Anna Trevelyan, Grace Woodward (20 January 2011)
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Future Forward: Forecasting Art, Fashion and Identity
Helen Palmer, Martin Raymond, Chris Sanderson, Suzanne Lee (21 January 2011)
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Sustaining Fashion: A Question of Ethics
Helen Storey, Tony Ryan, Philip Delamore (25 January 2011)
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Prescription: Clothing as Sanctuary
Hilary Rose, Caterina Radvan, Nigel Hartley (26 January 2011)
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A Life Through Fashion: The Biographical Wardrobe
Tonia Bastyan, Daphne Guinness, Beatrice Behlen (27 January 2011)
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Modern British Sculpture

22 January–7 April

Anthony Caro, 'Early One Morning', 1962.
Anthony Caro, 'Early One Morning', 1962. Photo John Riddy/© Tate, London 2010/© Barford Sculptures Ltd/Anthony Caro
Talks

British British Sculpture Sculpture
Dr Penelope Curtis, Director Tate Britain, and Keith Wilson, artist, exhibition co-curators. (Monday 24 January)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Polychrome: The New Sculpture
Dr Mark Stocker, University of Otago. (Monday 31 January)

British Sculpture Meets American Modernism
Professor Anne Wagner, The Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate. (Friday 11 February)

Shock and Awe: Epstein’s Adam and the Aesthetics of Carved Sculpture in the 1930s
Dr Evelyn Silber, University of Glasgow. (Monday 28 February)

Artists’ Selection: Fifteen Important Sculptures (18 Mar)
Phillip King CBE PPRA, Phylida Barlow and Brian Griffiths. (Friday 18 March)

Carry On Sculpture
Dr Jon Wood, Henry Moore Institute (Friday 25 March)

Watteau: The Drawings

12 March—5 June 2011

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'Two Studies of Women, the One on the Left with Arms Raised; the One on the Right Seated, Pulling up Her Stocking', c. 1716–1717,
Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'Two Studies of Women, the One on the Left with Arms Raised; the One on the Right Seated, Pulling up Her Stocking', c. 1716–1717, Black, red and white chalks and graphite on cream paper, 260 x 205 mm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Photo © The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Talks

Watteau’s Drawings: Virtuosity and Delight – an Introduction (14 March)
Katia Pisvin, exhibition co-curator. (Monday 14 March)

Fêtes Galantes: Against the Rules (21 March)
Marie-Claude Elliot, the Wallace Collection. (Monday 21 March)

Handel and Watteau: Eighteenth-century Music in London and Paris
Harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham performs musical highlights from the Baroque era. (Friday 13 May)

Watteau's Utopias of Music, Dance and Theatre: Visions of a New France (20 May)
Professor Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University (Friday 20 May)

RA Schools

Wim Wenders Open Air Screen Palermo 2007.
Wim Wenders Open Air Screen Palermo 2007. Photo courtesy Wim Wenders and Haunch of Venison.
Talks

Wim Wenders in Conversation: Places, Strange and Quiet
Wim Wenders and Professor Yve Lomax, Goldsmiths University. (Friday 15 April)

Summer Exhibition 2011

7 June - 15 August 2011

Press Summer 2Talks

Michael Craig-Martin RA: The Royal Academy Today
Michael Craig-Martin RA, Cornelia Parker RA and Alison Wilding RA (Friday 10 June)

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi

30 June—2 October 2011

Robert Capa, Collaborator Woman who had a German Soldier’s Child, Chartres, 1944.
Robert Capa, Collaborator Woman who had a German Soldier’s Child, Chartres, 1944. Silver gelatin print, 330 x 490 mm. Hungarian Museum of Photography. © ICP/Magnum Photos
Talks

Photography: Hungary’s Greatest Export?
Colin Ford, exhibition curator (Monday 4 July)

Photographing London: The Hungarian Connection
Mike Seaborne, Senior Curator of Photographs, Museum of London (Friday 8 July)

Capturing the Artist: Photographing the Artist’s Studio
Sarah Lea, Royal Academy of Arts (Monday 11 July)

Tokaji Wine Tasting
Ben Howkins, Co-founder and Director of the Royal Tokaji Wine Company (Friday 1 July)

Workshop

Street Photography
Roy Matthews (Saturday 2 July)

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement

17 September–11 December 2011

Edgar Degas, 'Two Dancers on the Stage', c. 1874.
Edgar Degas, 'Two Dancers on the Stage', c. 1874. Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 46 cm. The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Talks

Darcey Bussell in Conversation
Darcey Bussell CBE and Kevin O’Hare Director of The Royal Ballet (Wednesday 14 September)

The Everyday Dancer
Deborah Bull CBE and broadcaster Christopher Cook (Friday 30 September)

Degas and the Dance: A Classical Artist in an Age of Technology
Ann Dumas, exhibition curator (Monday 3 October)

Degas and the ‘Freeze Frame’
Art historian Kathy Adler (Monday 10 October)

La Vie Parisienne: The Devil and Opera in Degas’s Time
Marie-Claude Elliot, the Wallace Collection (Monday 31 October)

Artists' Laboratory 03: Nigel Hall RA

7 September—23 October 2011

Nigel Hall Talks

Nigel Hall RA in Conversation with Peter Murray
Nigel Hall RA and Peter Murray OBE, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wednesday 21 September)

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935

29 October 2011—22 January 2012

Shabolovka Radio Tower, Richard Pare, 1988.
Shabolovka Radio Tower, Richard Pare, 1988. 154.8 x 121.9 cm. © Richard Pare. Courtesy Richard Pare and Kicken Berlin.
Talks

Margarita Tupitsyn: Kandinsky and 'The House of Utopia’
Margarita Tupitsyn (Friday 4 November)

Revolution: Ideals and Realities in Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935
MaryAnne Stevens, exhibition co-curator (Monday 7 November)

Richard Pare in Conversation
Richard Pare and Jay Merrick (Friday 11 November)

Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Brodsky (Tuesday 15 November)

Jean-Louis Cohen
Jean-Louis Cohen (Friday 2 December)