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Kettle's Yard is back

12 Feb 2018

As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38...

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Circling the heavens: visual culture and the bird of paradise

24 Nov 2012

As voyages of exploration opened up the world from the 15th century onwards, European culture delighted in encounters with exotic items. Dr José...

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Tang Dynasty mirror

There but not there: the meaning of absence

14 May 2012

A lecture tomorrow by Professor Hung Wu is a rare opportunity to hear an eminent Chinese scholar talk about the ways in which the country’s artists...

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Left: Klee's Angelus Novus. Right: Kiefer's Sprache der Vogel. Winter argues that the progression from one image to the other represents a process of gradual "effacement" in art depicting war.

The carriers of memory

06 Mar 2012

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely...

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The Lacemaker

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence

04 Oct 2011

The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first time as...

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Knowlton Church, a listed building

New degree to help protect historic buildings

10 Jun 2011

As English Heritage launches its first ever National Heritage Protection Plan, a new part-time Master’s degree at the University of Cambridge is set...

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