9 January 2010
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Exhibition
Peace for Your Time?
Peace for Your Time? explores Britain's involvement in international conflict and peace post-1945.
It challenges the idea that we are no longer a 'nation at war' and examines changing public attitudes towards conflict and the concept of 'victory' in the modern era.
The exhibition includes people’s memories of the end of the Second World War and also examines more recent conflicts, including the Falklands War and the Gulf War, as well as the effects which conflict has had and continues to have on life in Britain.
2 May 09 - 10 Jan 10.
Exhibition
POSITIONS: The Primitives
POSITIONS: The Primitives is the first part of an exciting new project curated by the Laing Art Gallery together with artists CullinanRichards, called POSITIONS.
Significant pieces of modern and contemporary British sculpture will be on show in the Laing's Marble Hall, starting with Sir Anthony Caro's Early One Morning, 1962 (on show from August 2009). CullinanRichards will respond with newly commissioned artworks.
Their installation, Savage School Window Gallery Sculpture No.2 Position 4, announces the imminent arrival of Caro's work.
Free event:
Artists CullinanRichards will host a free event at the Laing Art Gallery on Friday 30 October, 6-9pm, including a one-off film screening. No booking required.
7 Jun 09 - 7 Feb 10.
Exhibition
Dance
A new exhibition jointly curated by Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland, and featuring works by artists including Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, and Diane Arbus, is to open at the Laing on 17 October 2009.
Dance centres on Degas’ 19th century painting A Group of Dancers, and juxtaposes paintings, sculpture, prints and photography. The works on show range in date from Nicolas Poussin’s A Dance to the Music of Time which dates from around 1640, to Diane Arbus’s 1970 photograph Two Men Dancing at a Drag Ball, NYC, 1970, and show how artists have explored the universal theme of dance.
The exhibition features many outstanding works on loan from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland which are rarely seen in the North East.
Dance is a subject which Degas is particularly well known for, often painting scenes of dancers backstage or in rehearsal. A Group of Dancers is one of his most well known works, showing ballet dancers at rest between rehearsals.
The exhibition will tour to Duff House Gallery in Aberdeenshire and the National Gallery of Scotland between February and June 2010. Youcan see a virtual tour of the exhibition on the National Galleries of Scotland website.
The exhibition will be complemented by a range of free events at the Laing, including a day of live dance performances and demonstrations on Saturday 14 November, from 10am to 5pm.
Saturday 14 November, 10am - 5pm
Live dance performances and demonstrations throughout the day. Click here for more details.
Free talks
Saturday 9 January, Saturday 16 January, Saturday 23 January at 11am
A free talk led by the Friends of the Laing, focusing on Edgar Degas' A Group of Dancers. No booking required - meet in the Laing's Marble Hall to take part.
The exhibition is supported by the Friends of the Laing.
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Tyne & Wear Museums Development Trust is a registered charity. Charity number 1055974.
17 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10.
Exhibition
Collingwood - A Northumbrian Abroad
An exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Admiral Lord Collingwood’s death at sea on 7 March 1810.
Using objects, paintings and extracts from his letters it explores not only Collingwood’s long naval career away from his home but also the influence on him of his lifelong love of Northumberland and the friends and family he left behind.
Live painting conservation - Discovery Museum's art specialists will be working on some paintings within this exhibition - click here for more details.
The exhibition is part of the Collingwood 2010 Festival - visit the festival website here.
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23 Jan - 27 Jun 10.
Exhibition
North East Beat: Venues, Bands & Fans
A new exhibition exploring the North East's popular music scene from the 1940s to the present day. The exhibition features a range of memorabilia loaned by bands, musicians and fans, including a scarf thrown into the crowd by The Police at a gig in Gateshead and demo tapes from local bands like Maximo Park.
12 Dec 09 - 6 Feb 10.
Exhibition
No Such Thing As Society
An exhibition of work by documentary photographers recording Britain's state of transition and unrest between the 1960s and 1980s.
No Such Thing As Society brings together 150 photographs by photographers including Martin Parr, Keith Arnatt and Victor Burgin. The exhibition takes its name from Margaret Thatcher's famous statement, 'society? There is no such thing. There are individual men and women and there are families.'
The exhibition includes a shot by Tish Murtha, taken in the 1980s, of teenagers in Newcastle’s West end which originally included the caption, 'they see no real future for themselves.'
A Hayward Touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection, on behalf of Southbank Centre, London.
31 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10.
Exhibition
Dancing
Two film installations by contemporary artists take a look at the importance of dance in society today. Drum and Bass by Sarah Miles reminds us of the energy and lack of inhibition we have as children, and the sense of fear we develop as adults.
My Culture is Beautiful by Sophie Lisa Beresford uses footage of the artist dancing to Spanish Makina music within the Laing Art Gallery, juxtaposing traditional ideas of 'culture' with the artist's own personal understanding of culture and its associated music, dance and fashion rituals.
The pieces complement the exhibition Dance, which is centred on Edgar Degas' A Group of Dancers and brings together works by major artists including Pablo Picasso, Walter Richard Sickert and Diane Arbus.
17 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10.
Exhibition
SPOILED
Elaine Wilson's work explores received ideas about women and femininity and the perpetuation of romantic and stereotypical ideals most recently through the language and tradition of ornament and figurines. Having worked with clay and ceramic processes for many years Wilson has chosen during her recent research post as Norma Lipman Fellow in Ceramic Sculpture to critically revisit the subtle politics of ceramic ornament and the wider contexts of vanity and masquerade.
The double action of looking and the relationship between self and otherness is explored in Seeing myself Seeing, two large ceramic figures/figurines which form the centre piece of her exhibition SPOILED at the Hatton Gallery , the collage works which relate to the ceramic sculpture are also concurrently on show until 12 December at The Globe Gallery http://www.globegallery.org
27 Nov 09 - 21 Feb 10.
Exhibition
The Long Dark
Curated by Michelle Cotton, takes a text by John Ruskin, The Nature of Gothic as its starting point for an exploration of 'medievalism' in contemporary art.
Bringing together an international group of artists based in Britain and Germany, the exhibition examines a revival of interest in pre-modern techniques and methods of artistic production, along with the ideals and aspirations they bring with them.
The exhibition features work by Eva Berendes, Simon Bill, Alexandra Bircken, Nicholas Byrne, Raphael Danke, Peter Linde Busk, Kalin Lindena, Maria Loboda, and Bernd Ribbeck.
5 Dec 09 - 20 Feb 10.