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Ice Age Art:Arrival of the modern Mind, British Museum,7 February 26 May 2013 |
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An exhibition 40,000 years
in the making.
Discover masterpieces from the last Ice Age drawn from across Europe in this groundbreaking show. Created between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago by artists with modern minds like our own, this is a unique opportunity to see the world's oldest known sculptures, drawings and portraits.
Adults £10, Members free
Book online, at the Ticket Desk or on
+44 (0)20 7323 8181
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art.aspx
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The shock of the old: art in the Ice Age
Friday 1 March,
18.3020.00
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3
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A discussion on how the pieces in the Ice Age art exhibition are evaluated as works of art.
We know nothing of the artists who created the pieces in the Ice Age art exhibition, and the culture within which they were created will always be a matter for speculation. How then, do we evaluate them as works of art?
Charlotte Higgins, Chief Arts writer for The Guardian, asks Exhibition Curator Jill Cook, artist Grayson Perry and contemporary sculpture curator Stephen Feeke to reflect on the anonymity of the artists, and to trace the 'art instinct' evident in these works in order to arrive at a critical evaluation of their composition, abstraction and unity.
With live speech-to-text transcription.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=131&title=The%20shock%20of%20the%20old:%20art%20in%20the%20Ice%20Age&eventType=Lecture
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Workshop
Mammoth ivory carving
Saturday 2 March,
09.3017.00
Studio
Tickets £35
Members/Concessions £30
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Come and experience how tools, weapons and works of art were made using mammoth ivory with stone tools during the last Ice Age.
Master craftsman Wulf Hein has been replicating these artefacts for 25 years and his work has provided important insights into the techniques and artistry of Ice Age people. He will demonstrate and talk about his work before giving you the unique opportunity to carve your own creation on a real piece of mammoth ivory.
Wear durable work clothes and sturdy footwear.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=206&title=Mammoth%20ivory%20carving&eventType=Workshop
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Art and the arrival of the modern brain
Friday 15 March,
18.3019.30
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3
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A lecture exploring art and the arrival of the modern brain.
In creating the works on display in the exhibition Ice Age art, artists from the Ice Age were attempting to find a visual language for how the modern human brain looks at the world something artists have done ever since.
Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroesthetics at University College London, and Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton and British Museum Trustee, explore the origins of this process and address the question of whether the modern brain appeared long before the first art or whether they arrived at the same time.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=130&title=Art%20and%20the%20arrival%20of%20the%20modern%20brain&eventType=Lecture
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Workshop
Flint knapping workshop
Saturday 16 March,
11.0013.00 & 14.0016.00
Sackler Rooms
Tickets £20
Members/Concessions £15
12 tickets available per session
A demonstration by expert flint knapper Karl Lee on how Ice Age craftsmen worked with stone.
Karl Lee demonstrates how Ice Age craftsmen used stone to create sophisticated tools essential to hunting, preparing food and making clothing.
Make a flint arrow head to take away with you.
Wear durable work clothes and sturdy footwear.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=210&title=Flint%20knapping%20workshop&eventType=Workshop
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Lecture
Ice Age art: curator's introduction
Saturday 16 March,
13.1514.15
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
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Exhibition Curator Jill Cook gives a 45-minute illustrated introduction to the exhibition Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind.
The lecture will discuss the context, themes and highlights of the exhibition.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=128&title=Ice%20Age%20art:%20curator%27s%20introduction&eventType=Lecture
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Lecture
Mammoth origins, extinction and interaction with people
Thursday 21 March,
13.1514.15
BP Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
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Professor Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum, discusses how mammoths were represented in Ice Age art.
Mammoths evolved in Africa and their spread parallels that of humans. The lecture will discuss how mammoth bones and tusks were used to construct huts and to carve tools and art objects.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=212&title=Mammoth%20origins,%20extinction%20and%20interaction%20with%20people&eventType=Lecture
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Film
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Friday 22 March,
14.0015.35 & 16.0017.35 & 18.3020.30
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3
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An unmissable opportunity to see Werner Herzog's documentary on the Chauvet caves in 3D.
Although sceptical of the value of 3D in cinema, Herzog thought it necessary on this project to 'capture the intentions of the painters'. With access to the caves prohibited for conservation reasons and due to high levels of toxicity, this is the closest we are able to come to viewing some of the earliest cave art of our ancestors.
The 18.30 screening will be introduced by Simon McBurney actor, writer, director and founder of theatre company Complicite who spent much of his childhood on excavation sites with his father, the prehistorian Charles McBurney. Simon wrote a powerfully moving review of the film for The Guardian on its release.
Director: Werner Herzog
2010, 95 mins, U
Age: U
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=126&title=Cave%20of%20Forgotten%20Dreams&eventType=Film
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Gallery talk
Living in an American Ice Age
Tuesday 5 March,
13.15
Room 26
Free, just drop in
A gallery talk by Jago Cooper, Department of Africa Oceania and the Americas.
Gallery talks last 45 minutes.
They are given by Museum staff or guest speakers and are suitable for all levels of knowledge.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=165&title=Living%20in%20an%20American%20Ice%20Age&eventType=Gallery%20talk
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Lecture
Seeking the spiritual: Ice Age image-makers
Friday 5 April,
13.1514.15
BP Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
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A lecture on the suggestion that the making of late Ice Age cave art was in some ways akin to shamanistic rituals.
Both a misunderstood and hotly debated topic, David Lewis-Williams, Professor Emeritus, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, considers why people crawled deep underground to make images and what they might have experienced.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=216&title=Seeking%20the%20spiritual:%20Ice%20Age%20image-makers&eventType=Lecture
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A unique discovery: Chauvet Cave's Ice Age art
Friday 5 April,
18.3019.30
BP Lecture Theatre
Tickets £5
Members/Concessions £3
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Professor Jean Clottes, discusses the extensive research carried out at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France.
Discovered in 1994, the Chauvet Cave contains art made 36,000 years ago, and is a remarkable discovery for both its quality and condition.
Professor Clottes, former director of prehistoric antiquities for the Midi-Pyrιnιes region of France, discusses interpretations of the site and summarises what it tells us about our ancestors' artistic practices.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=133&title=A%20unique%20discovery:%20Chauvet%20Cave%27s%20Ice%20Age%20art&eventType=Lecture
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Film
Film double bill: The Caves of Lascaux/Days Long Gone
Friday 12 April,
18.3019.35
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Tickets £3
Members/Concessions £2
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The Caves of Lascaux (1995, 52 mins, U) is a documentary from the French Palettes series featuring archaeologist Laura Guerin on the cave art at Lascaux in the Dordogne, estimated to be 17,000 years old.
Director: Alain Jaubert.
Days Long Gone (1942, 12 mins, U) recreates the discovery of the cave by four children from the village of Montignac one year on.
Director: Roger Verdier.
Age: U
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=127&title=Film%20double%20bill:%20The%20Caves%20of%20Lascaux/Days%20Long%20Gone&eventType=Film
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Lecture
Drawing nature 20,00010,000 years ago
Saturday 13 April,
13.1514.15
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
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Exhibition Curator Jill Cook reveals the accomplishments of Ice Age artists.
The ability to draw is the basic skill for all forms of representational art. Although the masterpieces of Ice Age painting and sculpture are relatively well known, drawings engraved on bone, antler and ivory have received less attention.
The lecture will look at the content, composition, production and possible intention of some of the oldest masterpieces of figurative drawing and pattern making.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=218&title=Drawing%20nature%2020,000%E2%80%9310,000%20years%20ago&eventType=Lecture
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Half-term activity
Mammoths, reindeer and lions: Ice Age animals
Monday 8 April,
11.0016.00
Tuesday 9 April,
11.0016.00
Wednesday 10 April,
11.0016.00
Thursday 11 April,
11.0016.00
Friday 12 April,
11.0016.00
Great Court
Free, just drop in
Come to the Museum for a week of activities exploring Ice Age art.
Find out about the techniques used by early artists to create colourful wall images and exquisite hand-held sculptures. You can also watch modern artists at work and have a go at a bit of Ice Age art yourself.
Suitable for all ages.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=120&title=Mammoths,%20reindeer%20and%20lions:%20Ice%20Age%20animals&eventType=Half-term%20activity
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Workshop
Tales of deep history: creative writing workshop
Sunday 24 March,
10.0016.00
Sackler Rooms
Tickets £35
Members/Concessions £25
Price includes entry to exhibition
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Join author Bernardine Evaristo for this creative writing workshop in which youll bring your imagination to bear on an Ice Age art object.
Ice Age art provokes many questions about how our ancestors lived together and shared their experiences. Archaeologists are left to piece together the clues of why these pieces were made and what they might have been used for.
Collapse the distance of thousands of years to take up this opportunity for creative speculation.
Suitable for all levels.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/event_detail.aspx?eventId=215&title=Tales%20of%20deep%20history:%20creative%20writing%20workshop&eventType=Workshop
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