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Green Evolution: Wall-mounted Tableaux by Kazuhito Takadoi
2008-01-31 16:02:00 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London is currently holding an exhibition of the work of artist Kazuhito Takadoi, titled Green Evolution at Daiwa Foundation Japan House. The exhibition is open Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.00pm until 6 March 2008, with late-night openings until 8pm on 22 January and 7 February. Kazuhito Takadoi Image copyright Kazuhito Takadoi “Inspired by the rich woodland surrounding his birthplace of Nagoya, Japan, Kazuhito Takadoi creates ‘organic art’ using materials he has grown and selected in his own garden.” He describes the making of his unique work as ‘showing a very tight discipline in the Japanese tradition’, but, in contrast, describes this finished work as ‘a western abstract’. “He likens the slow aging process and subtle colour changes in his organic art to that of aging tatami mats or the changes apparent in a lacquer bowl, which in time reveal the colour of its base coat. Ea... More About: Wall
Del.icio.us and MyIntute
2008-01-30 16:45:00 The First World War Poetry Digital Archive have been collecting useful Internet links and organising them using Del.icio.us (Delicious) and the MyIntute personalisation service. The MyIntute presentation will follow soon. In the meantime here is the first attempt at exporting Del.icio.us bookmarks (or ‘tagroll’) using a ‘widget’: Get great free widgets at Widgetbox! If you would like to see more tags from the project’s Del.icio.us bookmarks please follow this link http://del.icio.us/oxfordww1
Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 – 1
2008-01-30 13:19:00 British Library, 9 November 2007 – 30 March 2008 Breaking the Rules explores the early 20th century creative revolution in Europe, the effects of which are still experienced today. Focussing on the medium of print, Breaking the Rules throws new light on the movements that dominated the start of the last century: Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and others. Famous but hard to find works are on display. For instance, there is Marinetti’s futurist experiment with print, Zang Tumb Tuum and the notebooks and proofs of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. There are books and manifestos, as well as important films (Leger, Man Ray) and rare audio recordings from the British Library’s collection (such as one of the poet Tristan Tzara), which you are likely to hear nowhere else. The curator is Dr Stephen Bury. Stephen I know from Chelsea College of Art and Design. As well as being a scholar and multi-linguist, he is a writer and ... More About: European , Avant-Garde , Face
The Whiteness of paper
2008-01-30 10:07:00 An interesting looking show from the Centre for Drawing, at Wimbledon College of Art, to celebrate its emergence as a fully fledged research centre at the University of the Arts, London. Selected by Stephen Farthing RA, Rootstein Hopkins Professor of Drawing at the University of the Arts London, and Nick Savage, Head of Collections at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the exhibition is taken from the collections of the Royal Academy and features drawings by Frederic Lord Leighton, Sir George Clausen, Sir John Everett Millais, Dame Laura Knight, George Stubbs ARA, Sir Frank Brangwyn, and the architects C. R. Cockerell and T. G. Jackson. The Whiteness of Paper Drawings from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road, London Friday 1st February - Friday 15th February 2008 Monday - Friday 2 - 7pm Saturdays 11am - 4pm Closed on Sundays Talks and Educational Events Agendas, Agendas, Agendas, A Symposium: ‘The value of teaching collections in draw...
Archaeology: conference updates
2008-01-29 17:42:00 I list some updates referring to previous announcements in this blog. The EAA 14th Annual Meeting will be held in Valletta, Malta, on 16-21 September 2008. A call for papers and sessions has been issued. The World Archaeological Congress invites papers and posters to be submitted by the 22nd of February for the Sixth World Archaeological Congress. ... More About: Archaeology , Updates , Conference
Archaeology: ?First contact, Rome and Northern Britain? conference
2008-01-29 17:16:00 The Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee has organised a special conference entitled First Contact : Rome and Northern Britain in which key invited speakers will gather to debate the timetable, nature and significance of Rome’s first contact with Scotland, particularly in the context of contact with Northern Britain. The conference will be held at the Dewar’s ... More About: Event , Archaeology
The Global Parade (including the Japanese) at Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
2008-01-28 18:29:00 The Europe-Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University will be hosting a lecture on Wednesday 6 February on The Global Parade (including the Japanese ) at Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong . The lecturer is Gordon Mathews, Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lecture will take place in Gibbs 117, Oxford Brookes University, ... More About: Event
Archaeological exhibitions in London
2008-01-28 15:29:00 In a previous post several exhibitions were mentioned, and I decided to take a day off in London to see some of them. I have been at the Tutankhamun and the golden age of the Pharaohs at the O2 millennium Dome and the First Emperor as well as Divine Cat exhibitions at the British Museum. ... More About: Event , Archaeology , Exhibitions
Japanese films in Edinburgh and Glasgow
2008-01-27 11:32:00 February and March 2008 see screenings of several contemporary Japanese films in Glasgow and Edinburgh . The Japan Foundation touring film programme returns with six contemporary Japanese films for 2008, under the banner “A Life More Ordinary: A Portrait of Contemporary Japanese People on Film”. The movies are showing at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh, 29 February ... More About: Event , Films
Art?s most polish?d blaze
2008-01-25 11:35:00 Tonight, I’ll be celebrating the (presumed) birthdate of Scotland’s National Poet, Robert Burns. I’ll be doing this in the time honoured fashion: a plate of steaming haggis,neeps and tatties, all washed down with a fine Jura single malt, all by the sound of Bagpipes. I’ll be wearing a kilt too. Actually, I’m probably making pasta, but with ... More About: Event , Blaze , Polish
Ruhleben Remembered
2008-01-24 17:04:00 During the First World War, thousands of British civilians were held at Ruhleben civilian internment camp in Germany. The prominence of some of these men (including England and Scotland international footballers) and the events and conditions at the camp ensured that Ruhleben was well-known to those back in Britain. Unable to escape, the thousands of men organised entertainment ...
Ry?nosuke Akutagawa and Rash?mon
2008-01-23 19:02:00 Working at home much of the time, more often than not, I have the radio on. If it gets too distracting, I have to switch off, but there are often programmes or items that send me scurrying through the byways of the internet to track down resources for inclusion in Intute. Such was the case ...
Creative Enterprise Conference 2008
2008-01-20 17:31:00 The Creative Enterprise Conference 2008 , to be held at Birmingham City University?s School of Jewellery, 12th March 08 (£90), will… “…explore current debates and practice in enterprise education for Art, Design and Media courses.” [and] “…give delegates an overview of enterprise curriculum development through practical demonstrations, networking opportunities and a showcase of the teaching models currently ... More About: Event
Call for papers: International aerial archaeology conference
2008-01-18 22:18:00 I am glad to announce that the International aerial archaeology conference of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG 2008) willbe held at Ljubljana on 9 - 11 September 2008. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts University of Ljubljana . Proposals for sessions, papers and posters are invited. Closing ... More About: Call , Papers , Conference
Pantomime dames, principal boys, kabuki and musicals Japanese-style
2008-01-18 17:17:00 Cataloguing records for Intute on the all-female Japanese musical revue company, Takarazuka Revue, at the end of the British pantomime season got me musing on the theatrical traditions of men playing women and women playing men. Pantomimes have gender reversal both ways, with ugly pantomime dames in garish makeup and costumes providing the laughs ... More About: Style , Principal , Musicals , Boys
Single, likes Sudoku*
2008-01-18 11:04:00 This morning (following a news item in the Guardian’s technology supplement I read on the train home yesterday) I’ve been playing with the latest ‘Web 2.0′ service to cause a stir - Spock. It’s a kind of shotgun marriage of a specific web search - for people (Spock reckons about a third of all searches ... More About: Humanities Computing , Single , Sudoku
Conference: Texts in Translation
2008-01-16 12:28:00 Registration is still open for the following one-day conference, organised by the UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the English Subject Centre: *Texts in Translation * Date: 31st January 2008 Venue: University of Sheffield, UK Of interest to colleagues from Modern Languages and English Studies in particular, this event will focus on ... More About: Literature , Classics , Conference
TOOLKIT launch event
2008-01-15 11:59:00 The launch event for TOOLKIT - a practical guide for work placements in the arts and cultural sector. Monday 4th February 2008 2pm-5pm Stratford Circus No fee, but advanced booking required. TOOLKIT has been commissioned by ACE and developed by LCACE in collaboration with a research team of Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin (University of East Anglia) and Dr. Ahu ... More About: Event , Launch , Toolkit
CollectingLiveArt symposium
2008-01-14 11:05:00 Saturday 26th January 2008 10am-6pm Club Row, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES This one-day symposium will include speakers and open panel discussions that will explore ways to sustain and ensure a legacy of Live Art practice. The symposium will be followed by a launch event for CollectingLiveArt 6-9pm, at the Rochelle School, with a programme of ... More About: Event , Symposium
British Sign Language Science Glossary launch
2008-01-12 12:23:00 A British Sign Language (BSL) Science Glossary launch event will be held on Friday 18 January 2008 at the Scottish Sensory Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ. Professor Marc Marschark, Honorary Professor in Deaf Education at Moray House School of Education, will provide the opening address. There will also be a presentation and ... More About: Event
Call for papers: New Views 2 - Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Desig
2008-01-11 11:30:00 An international symposium defining graphic design for the future 9-11 July 2008, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London New Views 2 seeks to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing today in terms of the profession and educational practices. At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate ... More About: Call , Graphic , Papers , Dial
Open meeting on less widely taught languages: projects and resources for te
2008-01-11 11:01:00 Date: Tuesday 15th January Venue: University of London, Senate House, Room N336 Time: 13.30-15.30 This event, organised by the Subject Centre for Languages , Linguistics and Area Studies, is open to anyone interested in less widely taught languages in higher education. Resource developers and representatives from key projects and initiatives will give short presentations about their work and discuss ... More About: Projects , Resources , Open , Meeting
CFP : Graft and Transplant - Identities in Question
2008-01-10 22:01:00 The University of Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages is calling on postgraduates to submit abstracts for its upcoming conference “Graft and Transplant - Identities in Question ” to be held on 24th May 2008. The interdisciplinary conference proposes to examine closely the process of becoming “other” or (re-)building an identity which the graft and ...
Archaeology: 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop
2008-01-09 18:09:00 Antiquist has issued a call for postgraduate students to attend the forthcoming workshop on 21-23 April 2008 at the Department of Archaeology , Southampton University. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological Informatics and ...
CAAUK 2008 York
2008-01-09 11:21:00 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology UK Conference 1-2 February 2008 - King’s Manor, The University of York A message from the organisers: Just a little reminder to all those who are hoping to attend the CAA UK conference in February who haven’t yet registered. You can make your booking by completing and returning (with payment) the ... More About: Event
Epiphany in Veneto
2008-01-06 20:12:00 Today’s post about Italy and Epiphany has prompted me to write some more about one region in particular, the Veneto . Italy hosts a diversity of cultures within its borders and this has resulted in different traditions being developed for the same occasion. The Befana, the old lady bringing sweets and gifts to children during the ... More About: Archaeology
Miyazaki Studies
2008-01-06 19:40:00 I’m supervising a student who’s doing her dissertation about a particular theme in some of the key films (Kiki, Totoro, Spirited Away) of Hayao Miyazaki, and it’s been an uphill struggle to find full-text serious online articles in English. So, for the sake of others in the same predicament, here are links to some free ... More About: Studies
Archaeology: Web-based resources presented at AIA meeting
2008-01-06 12:53:00 The annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is taking place in Chicago. Of particular interest to Intute users may be workshop 5I, entitled Web-Based Research Tools for Mediterranean Archaeology , which will take place today, January 6, between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM in the Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency ... More About: Event , Resources , Meeting , Resent
La Befana - Italy and Epiphany
2008-01-05 21:59:00 Epiphany heralds a time of great excitement for Italian children, since it is when La Befana visits them. According to Italian folklore, La Befana is an old lady dressed in black robes and an apron who visits Italian children by broomstick on the eve of 6th January, bringing candy for the good children and coal ... More About: Italy , Epiphany
Call for posters: 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology
More articles from this author:2008-01-04 17:53:00 The International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) announces the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology that will be held in Rome on 22-26 September 2008 and invites submissions of poster proposals. The theme of the conference will be Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean. I also remind blog readers that Intute has recently catalogued ... More About: Posters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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