| Today | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 9:00AM - 12:00AM on Thu 19 November |
Highlight Transcribing Schnitzler - A transcription 'sprint' Can you read a doctor-writer's handwriting? Help to transcribe a set of Arthur Schnitzler's unpublished drafts and sketches in four weeks. The Transcribing Schnitzler 'sprint' aims to 'source' a public crowd, across different generations, which can transcribe a set of Schnitzler's papers in four weeks. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Cradled in caricature: visual humour in satirical prints and drawings This exhibition looks at the methods used by British artists from James Gillray to Glen Baxter to amuse and entertain, ranging from the simple exaggeration of facial features and burlesque comedy, to more complicated word-play and ironic literary allusions. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Following Hercules: the story of classical art Hercules is one of the best loved heroes from ancient Greece. Known in antiquity for completing twelve tasks or ‘labours’ that confirmed his status as a god, Hercules is today tasked with one more — to show visitors to the Fitzwilliam how sculptures made in the Mediterranean millennia ago came to define western art. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Ronald Searle: Obsessed with drawing Born in Cambridge, Ronald Searle is best known as the inventor of the fictional girls’ school St. Trinian’s (1948) and for his collaborations on Geoffrey Willans’ Molesworth series (1953-58). This exhibition shows the diversity of his art, from working as a war artist, to making drawings for book and magazine illustration, travel reportage, theatre, film, medals and political caricature. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight The Power of Paper: 50 Years of Printmaking from Australia, Canada and South Africa From the mid-twentieth century onwards, colonized peoples and indigenous communities began to represent themselves through art in modern media. In Australia, Canada and South Africa, they depicted culture, history and struggle through printmaking. This exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a revelation of eloquent art made by black and indigenous artists since the 1960s. |
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| 11:00AM - 4:00PM |
Brass Rubbing - Cambridge - Great St. Mary' Brass Rubbing at the centre of Cambridge including replicas of Sir Roger de Trumpington and St. George and the Dragon |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight In conversation with Humanitas Visiting Professor Martti Ahtisaari Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy. In conversation with Professor Marc Weller and Professor John Dunn. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Talk by Stacie Friend: the real foundation of fictional worlds Dr Stacie Friend, from the Philosophy Department at Birkbeck College, will give a talk on the Philosophy of Fiction. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture Professor Mignon Nixon (The Courtauld Institute of Art) will give The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture on sexual politics and protest art at King's College, Keynes Hall. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Chetwynd Room. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Non-native species: the good, the bad and the ugly Helen Roy will talk about the ecology and distribution of non-native species in Britain and Europe. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE: NOW 22nd October |
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| 8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Kettle's Yard chamber series: Cremona Quartet The Cremona Quartet will perform works by Wolf, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven |