
18/03/2023
Check out our 3D Exhibition: Rothenstein's Relevance.
See the exhibition here:
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Artwork: William Rothenstein, Blasted Trees, 1918.
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Check out our 3D Exhibition: Rothenstein's Relevance.
See the exhibition here:
https://bit.ly/3fCyNnG
Artwork: William Rothenstein, Blasted Trees, 1918.
Today is the Red Nose Day.
Red Nose Day is an annual fundraising campaign with the mission to end child poverty by funding programs that keep children safe, healthy, educated and empowered.
Ben Uri wants to celebrate this day with you by sharing the painting Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio, 1945-47, by Marc Chagall.
Have you ever stood on your head and looked at artworks upside down? Probably not. So to save you trying that have a look at this exhibition, which allows you to recognise that often images are just as interesting upside down.
🔎If you think this is nonsense, then you missed the October 2022 announcement that a great masterpiece by the abstract Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for 75 years and no one noticed.
The Downside up work of the week is LAURA GREEN, ALBERT DOCK, 2005
Discover more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3W0xBdg
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Listen to the podcast “Audio Tour: Czech Routes” here:
https://bit.ly/3CvXcUz
Brief Lives by Ben Uri - short podcasts discussing the lives and works of artists in the Ben Uri Collection.
Did you know that in this day in 1686 the French painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born?
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Léon Bakst, La Péri, 1911.
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Our print of the week is Man on a Horse, realised by Bashir Abu-Rabia in 1974!
Discover more about the artist and the artwork here: https://bit.ly/3Qpuydf
Our Woman of the Week is Elizabeth Friedländer!
Elizabeth Friedländer was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany in 1903, immigrating to Italy in 1936 and then to England due to the rise of Na**sm. Friedländer produced bookwork, calligraphy, and decorative designs from the 1920s until her death in 1984, working freelance for a number of noted publishers, including Penguin Books, Curwen Press, Reader’s Digest and Mills & Boon. During the Second World War, she worked in ‘black propaganda’ for the Political Intelligence Department, Central Office of Information.
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Elizabeth Friedländer was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany in 1903, immigrating to Italy in 1936 and then to England due to the rise of Na**sm. Friedländer produced bookwork, calligraphy, and decorative designs from the 1920s until her death in 1984, working freelance for a number of n...
Discover the Classic Exhibition "YIDDISH: THE LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, AND HERITAGE" here: https://bit.ly/3GMQzzG
📷: Abel Pann, Yeshiva Boy, n.d.
You have over 45 classic exhibitions to choose from. Discover them all here: https://bit.ly/3ilkOUZ
Read the catalogue “Finchleystrasse” here: https://bit.ly/3ICe2oF
Read A Vitalising Impulse: Sculptors behind the wire by Ben Uri Research Unit on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. ...
Find out more on the exhibition “Opening Exhibition at Dean Street” here:
https://bit.ly/3GLJS0H
Jacob Kramer, Design for a Programme (Pioneers), 1920.
If you are interested in jewish or immigrant artists, see https://bit.ly/3in9zYg
Our Book of the Week is...
REFIGURING THE 50S: JOAN EARDLEY, SHEILA FELL, EVA FRANKFURTHER, JOSEF HERMAN AND L S LOWRY
Find out more about this publication here: https://bit.ly/3Xb0x36
Find out more on “'100,000 Newspapers' Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Director Martin Pickles” here:
https://youtu.be/Q3RK6gfmCpo
Check out our 3D Exhibition: Liberators: Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection.
See the exhibition here:
https://bit.ly/3CoglZd
Artwork: Chana Kowalska, The Bridge, 1937.
Listen to the podcast “55. David Glasser - Conversations About Art” here: https://apple.co/3GsroRq
Brief Lives by Ben Uri - short podcasts discussing the lives and works of artists in the Ben Uri Collection.
Did you know that in this day in 1914 a suffragette took a meat cleaver to the Rokeby Venus?
Make sure to check back every Friday for more fun art and art anecdotes.
#didyouknow
Have you ever stood on your head and looked at artworks upside down? Probably not. So to save you trying that have a look at this exhibition, which allows you to recognise that often images are just as interesting upside down.
🔎If you think this is nonsense, then you missed the October 2022 announcement that a great masterpiece by the abstract Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for 75 years and no one noticed.
The Downside up work of the week is JACOB PINS, COAST NEAR EILATH (FROM 'TEN WOODCUTS'), 1972
Discover more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3W0xBdg
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Our print of the week is Portrait of a Woman, realised by Albert Abramovitz!
Discover more about the artist and the artwork here: https://bit.ly/3CynC83
Marcia Annenberg, The Disappeared, 1996.
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https://bit.ly/3CvZVNP
Our Woman of the Week is Marti Friedlander!
Marti Friedlander was born in London, England in 1928 to Russian-Jewish refugees from the 1919 Kiev pogroms. She studied at Camberwell School of Art and in 1946–57 worked as an assistant to photographers Douglas Glass and Gordon Crocker. In 1958 she moved to New Zealand with her husband, Gerrard Friedlander, dedicating herself full-time to photography and documenting the changing nature of post-war New Zealand.
Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3wVtGo7
Today is the International Women’s Day.
The International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
Ben Uri wants to celebrate this day with you by sharing the painting Early Morning at the Treasury (Petra), 1989, by Helen Keats.
Discover the Classic Exhibition "JANKEL ADLER" here: https://bit.ly/3iuq1cZ
📷: Jankel Adler, Head of a Man, 1938-39.
You have over 45 classic exhibitions to choose from. Discover them all here: https://bit.ly/3ilkOUZ
Read the essay “A Vitalising Impulse: Sculptors behind the wire” here: https://bit.ly/3OQoM29
Read The SHELL Amateurs present Community Photography by Ben Uri Research Unit on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform....
Find out more on the exhibition “Else Meidner - Retrospective Exhibition” here:
https://bit.ly/3QjGBZy
Jacob Kramer, The Day of Atonement, 1919.
If you are interested in jewish or immigrant artists, see https://bit.ly/3in9zYg
Our Book of the Week is...
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE AND INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY – VIDEO ART FROM AFRICA
Find out more about this publication here: https://bit.ly/3GLwxFM
Catalogue accompanying the Ben Uri centenary exhibition held at Somerset House, London, in 2015. It features highlights from Ben Uri's usually hidden collection, offering a unique visual survey of a century of intersection with 'Art, Identity and Migration'. It charts a fluid engagement with British...
Find out more on “Distinguished international panel explores the themes of ecology and activism in Metzger’s oeuvre” here:
https://youtu.be/jvWCt7nnQsk
Ivor Davies MBE, painter, printmaker and performance artist, gives a unique, illustrated account of his experiences of working with Gustav Metzger and partic...
Check out our 3D Exhibition: German Refugee Artists to Britain since 1900.
See the exhibition here:
https://bit.ly/3Rn9Tq6
Artwork: John Philipp, Albert Einstein, 1929.
Listen to the podcast “Frank Auerbach - Brief Lives” here:
https://bit.ly/3Qr61Vu
Brief Lives by Ben Uri - short podcasts discussing the lives and works of artists in the Ben Uri Collection.
Have you ever stood on your head and looked at artworks upside down? Probably not. So to save you trying that have a look at this exhibition, which allows you to recognise that often images are just as interesting upside down.
🔎If you think this is nonsense, then you missed the October 2022 announcement that a great masterpiece by the abstract Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for 75 years and no one noticed.
The Downside up work of the week is DAVID BOMBERG, CANAL BANK, FRANCE, 1920
Discover more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3W0xBdg
#virtualmuseum
Did you know that in this day in 1585 the Teatro Olimpico opened with Oedipus Rex?
Make sure to check back every Friday for more fun art and art anecdotes.
#didyouknow
Our sculpture of the week is Garden Steps, realised by Ivor Abrahams in 1973!
Discover more about the artist and the artwork here: https://bit.ly/3k5M3DC
John Allin, Brick Lane and Heneage Street, c. 1974–5.
Find out more here:
https://bit.ly/3ilZ0IN
Our Woman of the Week is Michèle Franklin!
Michèle Franklin was born in Putney, Vermont State, USA in 1958 to a British-Jewish father and African-American mother of part Native American Indian descent. In 1966, the Franklin family immigrated to England, and she studied at Camberwell School of Art and the International School of Graphics in Venice. Her work draws on themes including birth, death, race and the Holocaust.
Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3KTllXV
Discover the Classic Exhibition "A SURVIVOR RELIVES HER MEMORIES" here: https://bit.ly/3VT3Yuf
📷: Edith Birkin, The Final Journey, 1989.
You have over 45 classic exhibitions to choose from. Discover them all here: https://bit.ly/3ilkOUZ
Find out more on the exhibition “Maxa Nordau” here:
https://bit.ly/3Zgutg8
Read the catalogue “The SHELL Amateurs present Community Photography” here: https://bit.ly/3jXkHiL
Read From Warsaw to Whitechapel by Ben Uri Research Unit on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!
Chana Kowalska, Shtetl.
If you are interested in jewish or immigrant artists, see https://bit.ly/3in9zYg
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Dame Julia Peyton-Jones DBE on Gustav Metzger Curator and Senior Global Director at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac shares her memories of the late artist and activist Gustav Metzger as part of Ben Uri's Becoming Gustav Metzger project. ⠀⠀ #BenUriGallery #BenUriCollection #BenUriExhibition #BenUriResearchUnit #BURU #virtualmuseum #GustavMetzger #DameJuliaPeyton #DBE #GalerieThaddaeusRopac #SerpentineGallery #womeninart #artist #artinspiration #modernism #artonline #femaleartist #inspiration #artbusiness #artonfacebook #artistonfacebook #artistlife #artiststory
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"It felt as though some inexplicable power plunged me into a kaleidoscope of contradictory images and impressions from my past and present" Don't miss Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid's 'Yalta 1945', open everyday at Ben Uri: http://benuri.org/yalta
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