Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

01/12/2023

📖This week's book of the week is... 📖

WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN & HIS CIRCLE

This catalogue is full of works and accompanying essays that explore Rothenstein’s relationships with and influence upon his (mostly younger) contemporaries, including Mark Gertler, Eric Kennington, Jacob Kramer, and Alfred Wolmark, who were all either influenced directly by or work alongside Rothenstein.

Learn more about this book here:

William Rothenstein was an artist, critic, teacher, writer, lecturer, prominent member of artistic societies, adviser, gallery co-founder and (briefly) co-manager, and Official War Artist in both world wars. He was also a loyal friend, an early mentor and crucial supporter to many young artists — ...

01/12/2023

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 ARNOLD DAGHANI, GIRL CARRYING VASE ON HEAD

Discover more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3W0xBdg

01/12/2023

Listen to the podcast “Leon Kossoff Portrait of N M Seedo” here: https://bit.ly/3CybCn4

30/11/2023

🎨👦👧 Calling all young art enthusiasts! Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is proud to present our Kids Programmes, perfect for exploring art at home during the summer. This week, check out our drawing games, and come back next week for more!

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30/11/2023

Grégoire Michonze, Village People, 1952.

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30/11/2023

Our painting of the week is Composition, realised by Erich Kahn!

Discover more about the artist and the artwork here: https://bit.ly/3CzCvH5

29/11/2023

The answer to yesterday's quiz...

George Wallace!

Find out more about the print here: https://bit.ly/3NFUcd3

📷 Michael Rothenstein, The Shooting of George Wallace, 1973.

29/11/2023

Discover the Classic Exhibition "PORTRAITS - EXPRESSIONIST AND SURREAL BECOMING GUSTAV METZGER: UNCOVERING THE EARLY YEARS, 1945-59" here: https://bit.ly/3r9TfBQ

You have over 45 classic exhibitions to choose from. Discover them all here: https://bit.ly/3qgtywj

28/11/2023

Our Woman of the Week is Dodo!

Dodo was born Dörte Wolff into an upper middle-class Jewish family in Berlin, Germany in 1907. She studied design at the progressive Reimann Schule from 1923–26, then worked in Berlin as a fashion illustrator and contributed to the satirical magazine ULK. In 1936 she immigrated to England, where she undertook fashion, packaging and greeting cards commissions and illustrated children’s books under the name ‘Dodo Adler’.

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28/11/2023

Find out more on the exhibition “Steffa Reiss” here:
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28/11/2023

Welcome to Ben Uri's weekly quiz!

Ben Uri's collection houses a print by Michael Rothenstein's which references the attempted assassination of which 20th century US figure?

Check back tomorrow for the answer!

To find out more about Michael Rothenstein: https://bit.ly/3PC3xFe

27/11/2023

Book Launch – Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Library, in association with the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, is delighted to invite you to the launch of Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day, Yearbook 22 of the RCGAES (Brill 2023).

Co-editors Dr Malcolm Miller and Dr. Jutta Raab Hansen will introduce the Yearbook and explore in detail the lives and legacies of three outstanding émigré British musicians: Ferdinand Rauter, pianist and founder of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society, the conductor-composer Peter Gellhorn and composer-pianist Franz Reizenstein. Contributing to the discussion we are delighted to welcome their children.

Book here:

The Wiener Library, in association with the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, is delighted to invite you to the launch of Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day, Yearbook 22 of the RCGAES (Brill 2023).

27/11/2023

Tam Joseph, The Hand Made Map of the World, 2013.

If you are interested in jewish or immigrant artists, see https://bit.ly/3in9zYg

27/11/2023

Our Book of the Week is...

JACQUES LIPCHITZ: MASTER DRAWINGS

Find out more about this publication here: https://bit.ly/3oOSgCH

26/11/2023

Weekends are family time and Ben Uri features programmes for older community and family members!

Spend half an hour with a loved one looking at and talking about a Ben Uri Collection work using our proven template and guide. Try it with our image of the week, Elisabeth Tomalin, Untitled (Flower Piece). Find the worksheet here: https://bit.ly/43Wqy9g

Check out the how-to video: https://bit.ly/3Drkc7d

26/11/2023

At Ben Uri we celebrate, research, and record the richly diverse Jewish and Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

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26/11/2023

Find out more on “Part 2- Current Exhibition- Midnight’s Family — 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain” here: https://bit.ly/3XgTqX5

60 Second Insights

26/11/2023

Read the essay “Isaac Rosenberg the Painter Part 1” here: https://bit.ly/3ItMOQL

Read Isaac Rosenberg the Painter Part 1 by Ben Uri Research Unit on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!

25/11/2023

Check out our 3D Exhibition: Teacher and Pupil: David Bomberg and Frank Auerbach.

See the exhibition here:
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Artwork: David Bomberg, Portrait of John Rodker, c. 1931.

24/11/2023

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 MAURICE MANCINI ROITH, MAN IN THE MIRROR, SELF-PORTRAIT, C. 1950S

Discover more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/3W0xBdg

24/11/2023

Listen to the podcast “Post-war” here: https://bit.ly/3jVCO8O

23/11/2023

Klaus Meyer, Girl in Red, 1990.

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23/11/2023

Our painting of the week is Bella, realised by Gerald Ososki in 1928!

Discover more about the artist and the artwork here: https://bit.ly/3Qu2PrV

22/11/2023

At Ben Uri we celebrate, research, and record the richly diverse Jewish and Immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

To stay up to date with Ben Uri and our plethora of events, sign up for our weekly news letter here: https://bit.ly/3NWLQ1V

Please tick 'Newsletter Sign Ups' to subscribe and be the first to know about everything new at Ben Uri, including the constantly evolving and expansive online content across benuri.org , benuricollection.org.uk and buru.org.uk . We value and respect your privacy. Your personal data will be kept pri...

22/11/2023

Legacy: WIAC historic artists and the National Gallery
Wednesday, 22 November from 6.30 pm on Zoom
Book here: https://bit.ly/3MNkvOP

Join Una Richmond and Jon King for an exciting talk on the connection between WIAC exhibitor women artists and the National Gallery.

Dr. Una Richmond completed her MA at the University of Sussex in 2016 and completed her PhD in 2023 with the thesis ‘No Second S*x in Art: The Women’s International Art Club 1950-1978'. Una is interested in questioning canonical art historical narratives and restoring the visibility of twentieth-century women artists through the study of all-women group exhibitions.

Jon King works at the National Gallery, London, where he is a Research Assistant for the Women and the Arts Forum and a Curatorial Fellow of British Paintings. With an interest in early-twentieth-century British art, Jon wrote his PhD on Vanessa Bell and has worked previously as a Researcher for the Ben Uri Research Unit.

Jon King on the National Gallery's Women in the Arts Forum with Una Richmond on historical WIAC representation.

22/11/2023

The answer to yesterday's quiz...

Porridge!

Learn more about Kurt Schwitters here: https://bit.ly/3rgBDED

22/11/2023

Discover the Classic Exhibition "REFIGURING THE 50S" here: https://bit.ly/3NrZ5Gp

You have over 45 classic exhibitions to choose from. Discover them all here: https://bit.ly/3qgtywj

21/11/2023

Our Woman of the Week is Elsa Fraenkel!

Elsa Fraenkel (née Rothschild) was born into a Jewish family in Bensheim, Germany in 1892 and trained at the Karlsruhe Academy, beginning to sculpt in 1914 and moving to Hanover in 1918 following her marriage. After her divorce in 1933, and the rise of Na**sm in Germany, she immigrated to London, initially establishing a studio in St John's Wood. During the Blitz she relocated to Essex; postwar, she exhibited her portrait sculpture regularly with Ben Uri and other London galleries, before immigrating to India at the end of her life.

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21/11/2023

Find out more on the exhibition “Cartoon and Caricature Exhibition” here:
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21/11/2023

Welcome to Ben Uri's quiz of the week!

German émigré Kurt Schwitters made sculptures out of an unusual foodstuff during internment - what was it?

Check back tomorrow for the answer!

📷 Kurt Schwitters, Untitled: für Frau Fränkel, 1927.

20/11/2023

Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories
21 November from 19.00 pm GMT on Zoom

Join us for an evening honouring the rich artistic legacy of German-Jewish émigrés in the United Kingdom and commemorating the thousands of children who were separated from their families by the N***s after the November Pogroms of 1938. Through the stories and art of German-Jewish émigrés, we will explore their experiences of being forced to flee their homes under traumatic circumstances on the Kindertransport or via other routes.

Find out more and book your tickets here:

An evening commemorating 85 years of the November Pogroms and the beginning of the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom

20/11/2023

Did you know?

9 years ago today, a Georgia O'Keefe painting sold for $44.4 million- the most expensive painting by a woman ever sold at auction.

20/11/2023

Our Book of the Week is...

APOCALYPSE: UNVEILING A LOST MASTERPIECE BY MARC CHAGALL

Find out more about this publication here: https://bit.ly/3bjQgzt

20/11/2023

Edith Kiss, Untitled, c. 1949.

If you are interested in jewish or immigrant artists, see https://bit.ly/3in9zYg

19/11/2023

Weekends are family time and Ben Uri features programmes for older community and family members!

Spend half an hour with a loved one looking at and talking about a Ben Uri Collection work using our proven template and guide. Try it with our image of the week, Solomon J Solomon, The Breakfast Table, 1921. Find the worksheet here: https://bit.ly/43EwLGP

Check out the how-to video: https://bit.ly/3Drkc7d