Christie’s Lates Workshop Our 2020 series of workshops kicked off at Christie’s Lates: Art Beyond Borders – a celebration of art from both the UK and abroad. Amongst an incredible spectrum of Modern British Art from the upcoming sale The Delighted Eye: Works from the Collection of Allen and Beryl Freer– including works by Ivon Hitchens, […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Silver and Grey (Mrs Charles McEvoy), 1915 Friday is the last day to see the Ambrose McEvoy exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery on Pall Mall. And when I say it’s the last day to see it, I mean it, as most of the paintings will go back to their regular lives filling space in […]
Art, Science and a few other things Dr Charles Whitehead continues his series of blog posts on the purpose of art from the viewpoint of anthropology. Title page of Il Saggiatore (The Assayer) by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October,1623. When I first started to prepare my talk I had an overwhelming urge to […]
Ancient origins and aesthetics Last term, Dr Charles Whitehead gave a fascinating talk entitled ‘What is art for? – An anthropological view’. However, with enough material to fill a book, there simply was not enough time to cover everything. He has kindly agreed to carry on the discussion over the course of several blog posts, […]