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155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH - Google Maps
Anna Vass
Tel: 020 7587 5202
Fax: 020 7582 0159
Email: info@gasworks.org.uk
Website: www.gasworks.org.uk
Gasworks is based by the Oval Cricket ground in South East London. It comprises a gallery and fifteen artists studios. Twelve studios are rented to London based artists and three are reserved for an International Residency Programme that enables non-UK based artists to live and work in London for a period up to three months. Weekend gallery talks by exhibiting artists and regular talks by international artists participating in the residency programme. Occasional seminars and events connected to Gasworks ongoing programme. All events are free.
Listing ID: 152
South Bank Centre, London SE1 8XX - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7960 4242
Fax: 020 7401 2664
Email: mail@hayward-gallery.org.uk
Website: www.hayward.org.uk
The Hayward, a purpose-built, modern art gallery, was opened in 1968. It is considered an icon of sixties 'brutalist' architecture. The Gallery plays a vital role in the visual arts in the UK and internationally. As one of the largest and most versatile temporary art exhibition spaces in Britain, it has proved remarkably adaptable in presenting a wide range of ground-breaking exhibitions over more than thirty years. Exhibitions are by invitation only. Wide range of gallery talks, lectures and other events and are usually included in the cost of the ticket to the exhibition.
Listing ID: 399
Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7298 1501
Email: information@serpentinegallery.org
Website: www.serpentinegallery.org
The Serpentine Gallery presents a programme of modern and contemporary art and collaborates regularly with international and national partners. The gallery commissions new work from artists, runs a wide ranging education and outreach programme and a bookshop specialising in art criticism, aesthetic and cultural theory and philosophy as well as monographs, catalogues and art journals. Level access to gallery and bookshop on ground floor. Artists, curators and writers give regular talks on Saturdays, based on the current exhibition.
Listing ID: 413
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7942 2000
Website: www.vam.ac.uk
The V&A is the national museum of applied and decorative arts. Explore their permanent collections, collected from sources worldwide, including fashion and textiles, sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, silver and jewellery, furniture, photography and paintings. V&A/RCA Course in the History of Design from 1400 to the present: This is a two year full-time course. It now offers a new MA under the History of Design umbrella, titled 'Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture'. PhD applications are also welcome covering the period 1450-present. Wide range of talks, tours and courses related to the collection. Many are free - check the site for details.
Listing ID: 417
University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7919 7229
Fax: 020 7919 7223
Email: admissions@gold.ac.uk
Website: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk
Website: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/visual-cultures/
From undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to teacher-training and part-time and professional courses, Goldsmiths has an excellent range of innovative study opportunities. Check their website for details of the latest courses, at degree, MA and PhD level. Their Unit of Visual Cultures brings together a group of researchers, lecturers, practitioners and students committed to the production of cutting-edge critical work within an environment that is culturally diverse and intellectually rigorous. The teaching and research focus on the histories and theories of modern and contemporary visual practices in an international context. These are considered within a framework of critical theory, philosophy and cultural studies. Included are issues of cultural difference, performativity, aurality, and technological development within the visual.
Listing ID: 1846
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7323 8000
Website: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Website: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/index.html
Huge range of adult courses, lectures, talks and study days based around their collection. Check online or call for a brochure.
Listing ID: 1900
34-36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7887 4000
Fax: 020 7414 0782
Email: eventslist@aaschool.ac.uk
Website: www.aaschool.ac.uk
Website: www.arch-assoc.org.uk
Wide range of lectures, talks and events open to AA members. See the site for how to become a member and eligibility.
Listing ID: 1913
Website: www.arthappens.org/whatson/eventsexhibitionscalendar.html.
Listing ID: 1914
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7638 8891
Website: www.barbican.org.uk
Exhibition related talks and events
Listing ID: 1915
Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7472 5500
Fax: 020 7472 5501
Email: info@camdenartscentre.org
Website: www.camdenartscentre.org
This visual arts organisation presents exhibitions, artists' projects, and an extensive educational programme including talks, residencies and workshops, within and around the centre. Many projects are collaborative ventures on an international, national, regional and local level and often feature commissions of new work from artists. Range of gallery talks and courses in ceramics, drawing and painting techniques.
Listing ID: 1916
5 King Street, London SW1Y 6QS - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7747 6800
Fax: 020 7747 6801
Email: vonstruensee@christies.com
Website: www.christies.com
Year long course programmes: Early European Art (Diploma Course), Fine & Decorative Arts (Diploma Course), The London Art Course, Modern Art Lecture Course, Modern Art and Language Studies and the MPhil Programme for art history graduates who are seeking an academic career in museums, art galleries and other related areas of the art world where works of art are handled directly. The MPhil Degree is awarded by the University of Glasgow.
Listing ID: 1917
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH - Google Maps
Silke Pillinger
Tel: 020 7596 4000
Fax: 020 7594 0240
Email: mail@london.goethe.org
Email: pillinger@london.goethe.org
Website: www.goethe.de/london
The Goethe-Institute is the main advocate of German culture in London, and is funded by the German Government. New and exciting photographic work by young German artists is shown in the exhibition space available in the café. Candidates should have be of German origin or have some connection to Germany. Send proposal and copies of work to Dr Barbara Honrath, Head of Arts. High profile lectures and events by mainly German artists, writers and critics.
Listing ID: 1918
Nash House, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7930 3647
Fax: 020 7930 9851
Email: info@ica.org.uk
Website: www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=21
Full listing of forthcoming and current talks and events, ranging from gallery talks to film and lecture series.
Listing ID: 1919
Dept. of the History of Art, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT - Google Maps
Tel: 01865-286-830
Fax: 01865-286-831
Email: secretary@hoa.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.history.ox.ac.uk/hoa
Listing ID: 1920
5 & 8 Great Newport St, London WC2H 7HY - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7831 1772
Fax: 020 7836 9704
Minicom: 020 7379 6057
Website: www.photonet.org.uk
Listing ID: 1921
65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7703 6120
Fax: 020 7252 4730
Website: www.southlondongallery.org
The South London Gallery is one of London's foremost contemporary art exhibition spaces, committed to a challenging curatorial programme showing the work of local, national and international living artists. Usually exhibits by invitation only, but accepts proposals because of publically funded status: send CV, proposal and copy of work with self-addressed envelope to the Curator. Free series of talks in the gallery every Friday.
Listing ID: 1922
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7887 8000
Fax: 020 7887 8007
Minicom: 020 7887 8687
Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain
Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/default.htm
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day, from the Tudors to the Turner Prize. Tate holds the greatest collection of British art in the world, including works by Blake, Constable, Epstein, Gainsborough, Gilbert and George, Hatoum, Hirst, Hockney, Hodgkin, Hogarth, Moore, Rossetti, Sickert, Spencer, Stubbs and Turner. The gallery is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art, and helps promote interest in British art internationally. All work in the permanent collection is owned by the UK Governement, and a temporary exhibition programme, administered by the curators in-house, is by invitation only. Huge range of talks and events based on both the permanent collection and its changing exhibitions programme.
Listing ID: 1923
Bankside, London SW1 9TG - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7887 8000
Minicom: 020 7887 8687
Website: www.tate.org.uk/modern
Website: www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/default.htm
Tate Modern is Britain's national museum of modern art. Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern displays the Tate collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by DalÃ, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work by artists such as Dorothy Cross, Gilbert & George and Susan Hiller. There is also a full range of special exhibitions and a broad public programme of events throughout the year. All work in the permanent collection is owned by the UK Governement, and a temporary exhibition programme, administered by the curators in-house, is by invitation only. Huge range of talks and events based on both the permanent collection and its changing exhibitions programme.
Listing ID: 1924
BA in Creative Studies - Google Maps
Tel: 01273 678 040
Email: cce@sussex.ac.uk
Website: www.sussex.ac.uk/cce
Options courses include creative writing, film studies, music, opera, literature, art history and arts & cultural management. Core courses engage with contemporary culture and promote an understanding of creativity and its meanings in various artistic and historical settings. The culmination of the BA is an independent study, during which those engaged in the practice of the arts may include reflection on their own work.
Listing ID: 1925
Website: www.lecturelist.org/content/listby/region/3
Aims to list all lectures in the UK on all subjects.
Listing ID: 1926
Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA - Google Maps
Tel: 01908 652479
Fax: 01908 653750
Email: Arts-ArtHistory-Gen-Enquiries@open.ac.uk
Website: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory
Listing ID: 1927
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7300 8000
Website: www.royalacademy.org.uk
Huge range of events, all based on the current exhibition, including gallery talks, lectures, evening events and family days.
Listing ID: 1928
Department of History of Art and Architecture, Blandford Lodge, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH - Google Maps
Tel: 0118 9318890
Fax: 0118 9318918
Email: s.lee@reading.ac.uk
Website: www.rdg.ac.uk
Listing ID: 1929
School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, Docklands Campus , 4 -6 University Way, London E16 2RD - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8223 78 15
Fax: 020 8223 7614
Website: www.uel.ac.uk/ava
Listing ID: 1930
Sussex Centre for Research in the History of Art, Essex House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RQ - Google Maps
Tel: 01273 606755
Fax: 01273-678644
Email: hoa@sussex.ac.uk
Website: www.sussex.ac.uk
Listing ID: 1931
University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7862 8949
Fax: 020 7862 8955
Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/warburg
Postgraduate research institute dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the classical tradition
Listing ID: 1932
Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7522 7888
Fax: 020 7377 1685
Minicom: 020 7522 7854
Email: info@whitechapel.org
Website: www.whitechapel.org
The Whitechapel Art Gallery celebrated its 100th year in 2001 and shows a wide and challenging range of contemporary art from artists nationally and internationally. New galleries opening in summer 2008, until which the galleries will be closed. The gallery's Education programme is internationally renound as an experimental and innovaqtive programme, encompassing workshops, talks and events, films, special community projects and events for teachers and group leaders locally. Café and bookshop stocking critical texts and artists monographs. Rarely accepts exhibition proposals, but accepts then because of publically funded status. Send proposals and slides to Anthony Spira, curator, to the address above. Level access, lifts to all floors. Check out the speakers for every Sunday's 'Sightline' gallery talk. Also has an occassional programme of artist's films on Saturdays.
Listing ID: 1933
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH - Google Maps
Assistant Secretary: Miss E Ollard
Tel: 020 7969 5200
Fax: 020 7969 5300
Email: secretary@britac.ac.uk
Website: www.britac.ac.uk
Website: www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/index.html
The British Academy is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of around 750 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.
Listing ID: 2030