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Dancing Museums
These talks form part of the
Dancing Museums programme
(see page 19).
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.
‘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
Pisanello
Wednesday 5 October; 1–1.30pm
Location: Rm 55
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
free lunchtime talks
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.
Discuss this masterpiece of
Gainsborough’s early years.
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.
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.
George Bellows, Men of the Docks (detail), 1912
© The National Gallery, London
See page 20 for more
free regular events