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Contemporary Art and the Old Masters Lecture Series
Contemporary Art and the Old Masters Lecture Series
Booking essential - 020 7563 9551 booking@wallacecollection.org.uk,
The presentation of Damien Hirst’s No Love Lost, Blue Paintings at the Wallace Collection highlights the intense and sometimes surprising links which relate contemporary art to old artistic traditions well before Modern Art. A series of lunchtime lectures sets out to explore the relationship between great modern and contemporary artists and the Old Masters.
Gerhard Richter: Old and New
Tuesday 3 November, 1pm
Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery
Jeff Wall: Modern History
Tuesday 10 November, 1pm
Christoph Vogtherr, Acting Head of Collections and Curator of Paintings Pre-1800, The Wallace Collection
La Di Da: The way Damien Hirst Sees It
Monday 16 November, 1pm
Richard Wentworth, Sculptor
Bill Viola
Tuesday 8 December, 1pm
Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director, Holburne Museum of Art
Ron Mueck
19 January 2010, 1pm
Colin Wiggins, Head of Education, National Gallery
