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Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00

This is one of five podcasts produced by the Open University to accompany the exhibition ‘The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London 2011-2012. This show presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. It features portraits of some of the best known female performers of the period, who ranged from royal mistresses to successful writers and businesswomen, and accomplished musicians.

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 13:30

The artist Gareth Jones explores the architecture and history of Milton Keynes, including some of its ‘unbuilt’ utopian projects.

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Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

This specialist academic conference developed themes raised in the exhibition The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Speakers, including Professors Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) and Joseph Roach (Yale), explored and problematised ideas of ‘celebrity’ culture and the symbolic, allegorical and discursive functions of portraits of women players.

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Monday, November 15, 2010 - 12:00

This world class exhibition, curated by former Turner Prize judge Greville Worthington, will explore this foremost contemporary artist through his renowned print works. The striking show of more than 50 works, many unseen by the public, has been loaned by several northern collectors and is one not to miss. With the support of these private collectors, the Museum has drawn together Hirst's best quality prints to form the first exhibition to re-establish a contemporary programme at The Bowes Museum.

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Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 15:00
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Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 13:00
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Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 11:00
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Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 10:00

Inspired by The Legacy of Anni Albers, Brenda Danilowitz

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Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 09:15

James Turrell has designed Skyspaces around the world; simple chambers which use seating and an aperture in the ceiling to create a space for viewers to observe the sky and reflect. These films have been made by Yorkshire Quaker Arts Projects. They portray an experience in one Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, and explore links with art, light and Quakerism.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 23:00
Location
Barnard Castle County Durham

Joanna Hashagen, Keeper of Textiles at the Bowes Museum talks about the new gallery and the collection of textiles created by the founders, John and Josephine Bowes - these are mostly furnishings and tapestries. There is also the later, fashion collection of costumes, and textiles found in the home. The costume collection runs from the 20th century back to the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 23:00
Location
Winstanley Lecture Theatre Trinity College

Spike Bucklow, Everyday Alchemy

Part of the lecture series on 'Art & Alchemy: Transformation & Contemporary Art' A two day conference across Cambridge and Norwich exploring ideas of alchemy and transformation, and the role of crystals in contemporary artistic practice and theory from Graeco-Roman Egypt to Surrealism and contemporary art.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 11:00

Rebecca Chesney was artist in residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) in 2010. She used her time there to research the bees and other wildlife on the estate, with a view to producing work for an exhibition at the Park's galleries to be held in April 2011. In conversation with Helen Pheby, one of the curators at YSP, Rebecca discusses in this film what her residency has taught her about bees and the landscape of the Park, thus bringing together two realms (art and estate management) that have in the past remained separate.

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