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LONDON FOR FUN Newsletter: 26 February 2008 Issue No.142

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1.) Top 10 London events
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1. Top 10 London events
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1 - Willie Doherty - Replays - Matt's Gallery presents a survey of Doherty’s video work made over the last thirteen years. These works are set against the backdrop of a changing Northern Ireland and engage the viewer in the undercurrent of apprehension and uncertainty of living in a divided society. The gallery is divided into two exhibition spaces, with Ghost Story (2007) showing throughout the exhibition in one space and a rotation of eight videos in the other. Until 16 March.
www.mattsgallery.org

2 -Flamenco Festival London 08 - Opening the festival is Compañía María Pagés, whose outstanding dancers are renowned for their vibrant, colourful performances - the perfect introduction to flamenco, as well as as a treat for aficionados. Los Farruco, the royals of the flamenco world, present a truly authentic display of gypsy flamenco - mixing song with acrobatic turns and fast, furious footwork. Other highlights include modern flamenco dance from Rafaela Carrasco and the avant-guarde Israel Galván; a show dedicated to great women of flamenco Mujeres; concerts by new star Concha Buika and traditional singers Carmen Linares and Miguel Poveda; and a celebration of gypsy flamenco from Andalucía, Viva Jerez!. From March 3 until March 16.
www.sadlerswells.com

3 - The First Emperor of China - This major loan exhibition will present a reassessment of one of the best known discoveries in world archaeology, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. Some of these famous figures have travelled abroad since the surprise discovery of the site in 1974, but no loan exhibition has ever assembled so many important objects, including newly discovered pieces which have never left China before. The exhibition will provide an insight into China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, and his legacy. He rejected Confucianism, burning its books and was thought to have put 460 scholars to death, possibly by burying them alive. But he also presided over the unification of the coinage system, the standardisation of weights and measures and script. In introducing the idea of a unified state and effectively creating China in 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin created what is today the oldest surviving political entity in the world. How that state has survived, developed and is viewed today will be explored through events, lectures and debates around the exhibition. Until 7 April.
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

4 - Derek Jarman curated by Isaac Julien - The exhibition presents a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation. Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, it will highlight Jarman’s work in film and painting, including his pioneering presentation of the moving image within the gallery context. Jarman was arguably the single most crucial figure of British independent cinema in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Until 13 April.
www.serpentinegallery.org

5 - From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg - Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich. Until 18 April.
www.royalacademy.org.uk

6 - Juan Muñoz - Juan Muñoz (1953 – 2001) is widely regarded as of one of the foremost contemporary sculpture and installation artists. Revealing his innovative and wide ranging artistic practice, Tate Modern presents the first major solo retrospective of Muñoz’s work in the UK. Opening in January 2008, the exhibition will feature more than 90 works, including several previously unseen pieces alongside Muñoz’s signature sculptures and installations, exquisite series of drawings, and collaborative sound and performance pieces. Until 27 April.
www.tate.org.uk/modern

7 - Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art - Anthropologists from outer space set out on a mission to understand life on earth. Imagine that they begin their mission by examining the curious phenomenon that human beings call ‘contemporary art’. What does Art tell them about human life and culture? Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art presents contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials. Playful and irreverent, the museum’s collection features some 150 works by over 100 artists, from modern masters to bright new stars. From 6 March until 18 May.
www.barbican.org.uk

8 - Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 - The first exhibition to bring together rare vintage prints with contemporary classics from Vanity Fair and the legendary Condé Nast Archive. A photographic history of celebrity portraiture including the works of master photographers, from Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino. Some of the greatest portrait photographs of the twentieth century were taken for, or published in, Vanity Fair. This remarkable selection of 150 classic images features works from the magazine's first period (1913-1936), displayed for the first time with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983-present). Until 26 May.
www.npg.org.uk

9 - Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia - This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives.At the heart of the friendships lay a shared outlook on life, manifested in their works through jokes and a sense of irony, iconoclastic gestures, and a pronounced, if often coded, interest in sexual relations and eroticism. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia aims to explore the various affinities and parallels between the work of these three, showing how they responded to each others’ ideas and innovations. Until 26 May.
www.tate.org.uk/modern

10 - Jazz in London: Photographs by Walter Hanlon - New photographic display documents the jazz scene of 1950s Britain. To mark the National Portrait Gallery's recent acquisition of a selection of photographs by Walter Hanlon, this display brings together his atmospheric portraits of the jazz scene in London in the 1950s. Including portraits of the most popular UK and US players of the period - amongst them Sir John 'Johnny' Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and Cab Calloway - the display opens in advance of the publication of Walter Hanlon's book, 1950s Jazz in London and Paris (Tempus, February 2008, £15.99). Until 20 July.
www.npg.org.uk

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