Saturday 23 June 2018

Serpentine Galleries - NOW OPEN: Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Serpentine Pavilion; An Evening with Christo; Radical Kitchen and Park Nights; Family Weekend

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NOW OPEN
CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE:
BARRELS AND THE MASTABA 1958-2018
 
UNTIL 9 SEPTEMBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
 
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are celebrated for their ambitious sculptural works that intervene in urban and natural landscapes around the world. The Serpentine presents a major exhibition spanning six decades of their barrel artworks. Simultaneously, Christo presents The London Mastaba, the artist’s first public outdoor sculpture in the UK
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COMING UP
IT'S EXCELLENT
SATURDAY TALKS:
CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE
 
SATURDAY 7 JULY, 3PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, DROP-IN
 
Curator Melissa Blanchflower leads a tour Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
 

 
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AN EVENING WITH CHRISTO
 
 
MONDAY 16 JULY, 7PM
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
TICKETS £15/£12 (CONC.)
 
Christo will discuss his work from the last six decades, including The London Mastaba. Following the talk, Christo will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director, and will take questions from the audience
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LUNCHTIME TALKS
RADICAL KITCHEN 2018
JASLEEN KAUR: GRAINS
 
THURSDAY 28 JUNE, 1PM
SERPENTINE PAVILION
FREE, DROP-IN
 
On selected Thursdays over the summer, artists, activists and researchers gather with the public in the Serpentine Pavilion to consider different global foodstuffs and elements – their stories, their movements and their relationship to time, empire and landscape. On Thursday 28 June, artist Jasleen Kaur addresses grains
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SERPENTINE ARCHITECTURE
IT'S EXCELLENT
SERPENTINE PAVILION 2018 DESIGNED BY FRIDA ESCOBEDO
 
UNTIL 7 OCTOBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
 
Architect Frida Escobedo has harnessed a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry in her courtyard-based design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2018, which draws on both the domestic architecture of Mexico, as well as local materials and history, specifically the Prime Meridian line at London’s Royal Observatory in Greenwich
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INTERVIEW WITH
FRIDA ESCOBEDO
 
THE FABULIST
 
The Serpentine has partnered with Aesop to co-present a special issue of The Fabulist that explores the themes of the Serpentine’s summer season and celebrates its support of Radical Kitchen
 

 
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PARK NIGHTS 2018
PARK NIGHTS
DOROTHY IANNONE: MOVIE PEOPLE PERPETUAL PERFORMANCE 
 
FRIDAY 13 JULY, 8PM
SERPENTINE PAVILION
TICKETS £5/£4 (CONC.)
 
Dorothy Iannone presents Movie People Perpetual Performance, an evening based on her ongoing Movie Peopleproject, featuring a series of wooden cut-out characters that Iannone started in the 1960s. Assembling all her Movie People together for the first time, Iannone accompanies them with stories of unconditional loves and lovers who sacrifice their own happiness or even their own lives for the sake of their beloved
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EDUCATION
IT'S EXCELLENT
FAMILY WEEKEND: WE ARE THE REAL SCULPTURES!

SATURDAY 30 JUNE - SUNDAY 1 JULY, 1-5PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, DROP-IN
 
Artist Harold Offeh asks children and their families to think about themselves as sculptural material
 

 
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PLAY AS RADICAL PRACTICE WITH ALBERT POTRONY

WEDNESDAY 4 JULY, 4-7PM
THE PORTMAN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE
FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED
 
As Ofsted introduces the controversial Bold Beginnings report, which places emphasis on formal education over play, we invite early years practitioners to question the schoolification discourse and re-imagine what it means to be ready for school
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THE SUMMER STUDIO: ZINZI MINOTT
 
9-13 JULY, 10.30AM AND 1.15PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED
 
As part of Rights To The City? programme Artist and dancer Zinzi Minott leads a series of movement based workshops with children and young people in school groups
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FROM OUR FRIENDS
RECLAIMING THE CURATORIAL 2018
 
10-13 JULY, 10AM-6PM
CUBITT GALLERY & STUDIO
TICKETS £44-£130
Following the 2015 and 2017 editions, Reclaiming the Curatorial returns as an intensive, practical course for individuals interested in developing self-organised platforms for curating and presenting contemporary visual art practice
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THE GREAT BRITISH SEASIDE
 
 
UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
TICKETS £11.50 / £10.50 (CONC.)

 
Explore The Great British Seaside through the lenses of four of Britain’s best-loved photographers. A new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum featuring Tony Ray Jones, David Hurn, Martin Parr and Simon Roberts 
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