whats on autumn 2016

Bellows’s Men of the Docks Tuesday 22 November 12.45–1.45pm Location: SWCR2 Speaker: Orlagh Muldoon Limited to 30 places on a first-come, first-served basis. Please bring a packed lunch. Explore the Gallery’s only American painting, and the first painting by Bellows to enter a UK public collection.

Dancing Museums These talks form part of the Dancing Museums programme (see page 19).

‘Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks’ LucreziaWalker explores the connections between paintings and the written word. Uccello Wednesday 28 September; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 54

Picture of the month club Enjoy talking about our ‘picture of the month’ over a packed lunch and share your thoughts about the work. Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews Tuesday 13 September 12.45–1.45pm Location: SWCR2 Speaker: Matthew Morgan Limited to 30 places on a first-come, first-served basis. Please bring a packed lunch. Hals’s Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas) Tuesday 18 October 12.45–1.45pm Location: SWCR2 Speaker: Christina Bradstreet Limited to 30 places on a first-come, first-served basis. Please bring a packed lunch. Consider the theme of the transience of life and certainty of death in Dutch master Hals’s work. Discuss this masterpiece of Gainsborough’s early years.

Supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme

Dance and painting Monday 10 October; 1–1.45pm Location: SWT Siân Waters examines the relationships between painting and dance. In conversation: Siobhan Davies with Caroline Campbell and Gill Hart Monday 7 November; 1–1.45pm Location: SWT Renowned choreographer Siobhan Davies discusses interrelationships between dance and painting with the Gallery’s Caroline Campbell, The Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department, and Gill Hart, Head of Education. Layers of meaning: Conservation and dance Friday 11 November; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 36 Head of Conservation Larry Keith explores differing interpretations of conservation with dance artists from Dancing Museums.

Pisanello Wednesday 5 October; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 55

free lunchtime talks

Titian Wednesday 12 October; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 6

Canaletto Wednesday 19 October; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 38

Pintoricchio Wednesday 26 October; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 60

Monet Wednesday 2 November; 1–1.30pm Location: Rm 41

George Bellows, Men of the Docks (detail), 1912 © The National Gallery, London

See page 20 for more free regular events

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