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LECTURE TONIGHT
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"ANCIENT AND MODERN: THE WHITWORTH ART GALLERY"
Tuesday, November 13, 7 pm

New York University Main Building, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
ALISTAIR SMITH, Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, will enlarge on the
themes of "Pastoral to Postindustrial" through an exploration of the great
range of the Gallery's collections. Founded in 1887 thanks to the bequest
of Sir Joseph Whitworth, "the world's best mechanician," the Whitworth Art
Gallery remained an independent museum until it became associated with the
University of Manchester in 1958. The subsequent conversion of its stately
Edwardian interiors into one of the most humanely modernist art galleries
in the UK was accompanied by new collecting initiatives, so that the
Whitworth is now recognized for its holdings of both modernist and
traditional styles of art, producing an intriguing interface between the
ancient and the modern. Described upon its founding "as a source of
gratification," the Whitworth is dedicated to "the Collection, Exhibition
and Illustration of Fine Art, and the Study of and Instruction in Fine
Arts, by means of Galleries, Libraries, Classes and other methods." Dr.
Smith will assess how far these aims have been developed and achieved.

Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and cosponsored by the Program in Museum
Studies, New York University

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PASTORAL TO POSTINDUSTRIAL: BRITISH WORKS ON PAPER
FROM THE WHITWORTH ART GALLERY
November 13, 2001 - January 26, 2002

Drawn from the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of
Manchester, Pastoral to Postindustrial presents late-18th- through
20th-century British works on paper, surveying the changing aesthetic and
sociocultural meanings of landscape in England. Major highlights include
watercolors by J.M.W. Turner and his contemporaries, Pre-Raphaelite and
other Victorian images, and works by earlier twentieth-century
practitioners such as Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, and Graham Sutherland. The
exhibition concludes with conceptually-oriented works by contemporary
British artists such as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread.

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The lecture is free of charge. No reservations necessary.
For more information, call 212/998-6780 or e-mail [log in to unmask]



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