Events
Lectures
Learn something new and listen to the experts.
MAY
Special Lecture
In My View: Reflections on Art by Today's Leading Artists
Tue 14 May, 2 - 3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
With art historian Simon Grant
Art historian and Editor of Tate Etc, Simon Grant invited 75 leading international artists to reflect on the work of another artists by whom they had been influenced. In this lecture he discusses this project and how artists inspire each other. Click here to book online now. Tickets £4/£3, booking essential.
Special Lecture
The Recycled Nude
Thur 16 May, 2 - 3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
With Frances Borzello
Frances Borzello contrasts the iconography of the perfect nude depicted in the past with the raw and uncomfortable images found in contemporary art. Click here to book online now. Tickets £4/£3, booking essential.
Ashmolean Director’s Lecture Series
Professor Nicholas Roe: John Keats: a New Life
Saturday 18 May 2013, 11am–12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
The Ashmolean Director’s Lectures programme brings you a line-up of speakers who are leading experts in art, history and cultural studies. Professor Nicholas Roe will speak on his celebrated, landmark biography of Romantic poet John Keats. Booking essential. Click here to book online now.
Afternoon Tea Lecture
The Mosaics of Roman Spain and Portugal
Tue 21 May, 2 - 3.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
With art historian Linda Farrar
Linda Farrar will show you stunning examples of mosaics which survice from the roman provinces of Hispania - modern-day Spain and Portugal. Click here to book online now. Tickets £8/£7 (including tea & cake).
Special Lecture
Language, caste and the secretarial class in Mughal India
4.30pm Tuesday 28 May, Ertegun House, 37a St Giles’
With Dr Najaf Haider
Dr Najaf Haider is Shamma Fellow in Islamic Numismatics and Epigraphy at St Cross College and Associate Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. No need to book. Glass of wine for all attendees after the lecture.
2013 Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture
Ancient Iran: developments in chronology and copper metallurgy
Thu 30 May, 5.30-6.30pm, Jesus College, Ship Street Conference Centre
With Professor Mark Pollard, University of Oxford
Our understanding of ancient Persian metalwork was significantly expanded by the work of Roger Moorey. In this, the ninth memorial lecture, Professor Mark Pollard will explore the latest research in the metallurgy of Bronze Age Iran as well as the work to refine the chronologies of cultures of the Iranian Central Plateau. Free. Click here to book your place online, or contact: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk or 01865 278 020.
JUNE
Master Drawings Exhibition Lecture
The Invention of Drawing
With Dr Jon Whiteley, Exhibition Curator
Saturday 1st June, 11am-12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
In the 15th century the art of drawing became the foundation of all other arts. The uses of drawing in this period explain much about the momentous changes that we associate with painting in Renaissance Italy. This lecture will describe the new approach to drawing and how it has affected the practice of painting from then until the present day. Bbooking essential. Click here to book online now.
Afternoon Tea Lecture
The Slade School Phenomenon
Tue 11 Jun, 2 - 3.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
With art historian David Addison
The response of British artists to the French avant-garde was fundametally shaped by the foundation of the Slade School of Fine Art in 1871. Learn about the unique character of British art of this period and recent critical reapprisal of early 20th-century British art. Click here to book online now. Tickets £8/£7 (including tea & cake).
Ashmolean Director’s Lecture Series
Dr Genevieve Warwick: Bernini: Art and Theatre
Saturday 15 June 2013, 11am–12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre
The Ashmolean Director’s Lectures programme brings you a line-up of speakers who are leading experts in art, history and cultural studies. Dr Genevieve Warwick will speak on the beauty and brilliance of Bernini. Booking essential. Click here to book online now.
Stradivarius Exhibition Lecture
Playing a Strad - Copying Stradivarius - with Prof Sir Curtis Price
Saturday 22 June, 11am, Headley Lecture Theatre
Prof Sir Curtis Price explores the importance of Stradivari’s instruments to the artists who play them. Why are they considered superior, and what is it like to play one? The second part considers the practice of copying Stradivari’s work, both as a way of learning the art of violin making and, on the other side of a very thin line, intending to deceive. Tickets £4/£3, booking essential. Click here to book online now.
Stradivarius Exhibition Lecture
The Secrets of Stradivarius - with Dr Jon Whiteley
Saturday 29 June, 11am, Headley Lecture Theatre
What makes the violins of Stradivarius better than any other, and why have they stood the test of time? This lecture will cast a light on the mysteries surrounding his instruments. Tickets £4/£3, booking essential. Click here to book online now.
JULY
Stradivarius Exhibition Lecture
Making a Violin - with Bruno Guastalla, Oxford Violins
Saturday 6 July, 11am, Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum.
Please telephone 01865 278015 to book.
Stradivarius Exhibition Lecture
Lecture by Tony Faber
Sunday 14 July 2013, 11am, Headley Lecture Theatre
This lecture will explore the mystery of Stradivari's inimitability by following several of his instruments from his workshop in Cremona to the present day. Toby Faber's book on the subject, Stradivarius, was described in the New York Times as 'more enthralling, earthy and illuminating than any fiction could be.’ The lecture will be accompanied by solo violinist Thomas Bowes, founding leader of the Maggini Quartet. Please telephone 01865 278015 to book tickets.
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