Kettle's Yard is back

12 February 2018

As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38 leading contemporary and historic internationally-renowned artists has gone on display in a spectacular opening show.

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Circling the heavens: visual culture and the bird of paradise

24 November 2012

As voyages of exploration opened up the world from the 15th century onwards, European culture delighted in encounters with exotic items. Dr José Ramón Marcaida, a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, shows how portrayals of the spectacular bird of paradise reflect the intersection between art and science.

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Tang Dynasty mirror

There but not there: the meaning of absence

14 May 2012

A lecture tomorrow by Professor Hung Wu is a rare opportunity to hear an eminent Chinese scholar talk about the ways in which the country’s artists have responded to huge social and political change over the last 40 years.

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The Lacemaker

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence

04 October 2011

The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first time as part of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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