TALKS, TOURS & LECTURES
Friday Evening Talks
Tracey Emin signs autographs following a talk at the V&A (click image for larger version)
Our Friday night Lecture Theatre programme features big names from the world of design, art and culture. All talks take place in either the Lecture Theatre or the Hochhauser Auditorium from 19.00-20.00 and are on Friday evenings unless otherwise stated.
Read more about Friday Evenings at the V&A.
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GB. ENGLAND. Westbay. 1996. (click image for larger version)
Martin Parr - On Photography SOLD OUT
Friday 13 November
Lecture Theatre
19.00-20.00
Award-winning photographer Martin Parr is a chronicler for our age. His work explores concepts like leisure, consumerism, national stereotypes and cultural peculiarities and presents the familiar in a new and unique way. His weapons are criticism, seduction and humour: his photographs are entertaining, and accessible but also penetrating and original. He discusses his new work.
£8, £6 concessions
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Cath Kidston photographed by Akemi Kurosaka (click image for larger version)
Cath Kidston - On Pattern SOLD OUT
Tuesday 17 November
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
19.00-20.00
Cath Kidston is one of the most original and influential designers working in Britain today. She has created a unique global lifestyle brand based on a witty re-working of the country house style and a clever invention of quirky, distinctive floral prints. Her products include homewares, womens' fashion and accessories, and children's clothes and the company has over 30 shops all over the world.
£8, £6 concessions
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Richard Dawkins photographed by C Josh Timonen (click image for larger version)
Richard Dawkins SOLD OUT
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Tuesday 24 November BSL
Lecture Theatre
19.00-20.00
Richard Dawkins is the renowned academic responsible for such works as The Selfish Gene through to the phenomenal The God Delusion. He recently presented a television series examining the legacy of Charles Darwin. On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species', Dawkins discusses his latest book, 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution' (Transworld 2009).
£8, £6 concessions
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Konstantin Grcic with MYTO. (click image for larger version)
Konstantin Grcic and Alice Rawsthorn
Thursday 26 November
Lecture Theatre
19.00-20.00
Konstantin Grcic is an award-winning industrial designer whose work includes objects for Capellini, Iitalia, Krup and Muji. He is also the curator of the Serpentine Gallery's forthcoming show, Design Rea. His own work is pared-down and combines formal strictness with mental acuity and humour. He discuss the ideas behind the exhibition and his career with Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for the International Herald Tribune.
£8, £6 concessions
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In partnership with the Serpentine Gallery
Le Printemps de Septembre—à Toulouse 2007.Branding, marketing material and catalogue for the annual international contemporary art festival in Toulouse. Photography: Angela Moore. (click image for larger version)
Graphic Thought Facility - Paul Neale and Alice Rawsthorn
Tuesday 8 December
Hochhauser Auditorium
19.00-20.00
Paule Neale, Creative Director for the award-winning design company, Graphic Thought Facility, discusses his work and design philosophy with Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for the International Herald Tribune. By defining a distinctive graphic style, GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY has emerged as one of the UK’s most influential - and productive - graphic design teams. Founded in London in 1990, GTF now works for such clients as Habitat, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Frieze Art Fair and the Design Museum.
£8, £6 concessions
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Nicholas Penny photographed Andrew Crowley (click image for larger version)
Nicholas Penny
Robert H. Smith Lecture
Wednesday 9 December
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
19.00-20.00
The second annual lecture in the Robert H Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme is given by Dr Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery. Dr Penny's talk will be on The Rediscovery of the Group in Renaissance Sculpture.
Free, ticketed to book call +44 (0)20 7942 2211
Peter Ackroyd (click image for larger version)
Peter Ackroyd
Venice
Friday 11 December
Lecture Theatre
19.00-20.00
Acclaimed novelist and biographer discusses his new book. When Ackroyd finished 'Thames: Sacred River', his attention turned from London's main artery to the city built on a lagoon; Venice. It has always been under threat from the sea and Ackroyd suggests that the battle against transience might explain the prolificacy and vivacity of Venetian artists and composers such as Tintoretto and Vivaldi, 'I can't think of another city that has marked its artists so much in the same way'.
£8, £6 concessions
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