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THE ARTS SOCIETY BERLIN offers a yearly programme of illustrated lectures to study the Arts. The lectures are given by experts from the UK chosen for their first-rate knowledge of their fields.
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Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Many viewers of a BBC4 profile of artists who work out in nature, presented by Dr James Fox, were haunted by the fire stacks of the only female artist featured, Julie Brook. My lecture explores this fascinating artist and the range of her work over four decades in some of the world’s wild places, centred always on her passion for the islands and coast of West Scotland where she lives. From drawings, oil painting and film to her powerful physical interventions in the landscapes of Britain, North Africa and Japan that engage with the elements of earth, air, fire and water, Julie Brook’s work...
David Niven on Screen – from extra to institution
David Niven on Screen – from extra to institution
Niven’s remarkable career explored, with an examination of his enduring place in public affection. Rising from studio extra to Hollywood leading man, although Niven remained characteristically modest about his abilities they were in fact considerable, as this lecture demonstrates. Particular attention is paid to his military roles, and insights are offered into the huge range of his wartime activities. From his personification of an ideal young subaltern in The Way Ahead, to the reality of being a Lt.-Colonel on Eisenhower’s staff, there was much more to this unique actor than a moustache ...
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Our next Lecture:
Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Many viewers of a BBC4 profile of artists who work out in nature, presented by Dr James Fox, were haunted by the fire stacks of the only female artist featured, Julie Brook. My lecture explores this fascinating artist and the rang...
Our next event:
Guided tour: Secessionen Exhibition (in German)
Guided tour: Secessionen Exhibition (in German)
For the first time an exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie is dedicated to a comparison of the three turn-of-the-century art metropolises: Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. As modernism dawned, the artistic avant-gardes pushed for fre...
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Visit into the US Embassy
Friday 14th July 2023 saw 14 members of our society make a visit into the US Embassy in Pariser Platz Berlin where we were given a walking tour of the corridors to see their collection of artworks and to have a rare chance to see the embassy building from the inside...
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