Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Jordan Well
Coventry
CV1 5QP
England
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Telephone
024 7683 2386
Fax
024 7629 4790
We provide places for the people of Coventry and visitors to the City to meet, celebrate and explore their cultural and creative past, present and futures.
Venue Type:
Museum, Gallery, Archive
Collection details
Archaeology, Decorative and Applied Art, Film and Media, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, Social History
Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic responses to conflict, peace and reconciliation
Caught in the Crossfire explores how artists grapple with both the brutality of war and the desire for peace.
The exhibition takes us on a challenging journey from the home front to the frontline and back again, as seen through the eyes of artists, soldiers and people affected by conflict. Visitors will travel through divided lands, debate the role of protest art, explore the aesthetics of violence and machinery of war, and reflect upon the aftermath of war where hope emerges and lives are rebuilt.
On show will be historical works alongside contemporary works by Banksy, Peter Howson,
kennardphillipps and John Keane.
A Heritage Lottery Fund Collecting Cultures project in partnership with Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Exposed: The Body in Art from Dürer to Freud
- 22 November 2013 — 21 April 2014 *on now
The exhibition explores a range of artistic responses to the human body. At its heart is Burne-Jones’s Pygmalion series (1878), which brings together the five themes explored in the exhibition: the body as a focus for the artist's observation, the creation of the 'ideal' body, the mutation of the body, art as the means of preserving and memorialising the body, and the body as a vehicle for the artist's imagination and fantasy.
Exposed includes works by Albrecht Dürer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Barbara Hepworth, Helen Chadwick and Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
£4 (free for under-18s)
Early Years Play Days
- 27 — 28 March 2014
Play Days give children aged 1-3 an opportunity to explore and investigate through sensory play. Using a variety of recycled materials, fabrics and tactile objects we will create a relaxed play space that will encourage creativity in children and adults. As an explorative session, the aim is to let the children lead the play rather than the adult
Suitable for
- 0-4
Herbert Illumination: Curator Talk
- 18 March 2014 1:30-2:30pm
Join Victoria Osborne, Curator (Fine Art) from Birmingham Museums as she explores selected works within the Exposed exhibition from a curatorial perspective.
Suitable for
- 18+
- 16-17
Admission
Free with £4.00 exhibition admission.
Masked Ball
- 12 April 2014 8-11pm
Join us for a foray into the realm of creation. Make use of a range of unusual materials to create your own masks supported by artist Adie Blundell and inspired by Gillian Wearing's photograph of a masked Lily Cole. Liberated behind your mask you can reveal your confessions and desires, be they real or another creation.
There is no dress code but guests are invited to fulfil their sartorial desires and dress as wildly and wonderfully as they like, or not. Suitable for age 16+. Materials included and bar available
Suitable for
- 18+
Admission
£7.50. Booking essential, visit www.theherbert.org or telephone 024 7629 4774
Herbert Illuminations: Women in Art
- 15 April 2014 12:30-1:30pm
Explore the changing approach to depicting the female body, particularly by contemporary female artists.
Suitable for
- 18+
- 16-17
- Not suitable for children
The Modern Toss Late Night Activity Centre
- 16 May 2014 From 6:30pm
For one night only... the ever inventive, mischievous cult cartoonists Modern Toss celebrate a decade of their ground breaking satirical artwork.
With participatory delights such as live drawing event 'The F***YEUX 2 Tapestry', The Modern Toss Portrait Booth and The Periodic Table of Swearing, the evening promises to be a unique, foul mouthed occasion you'll never experience again!
Also featuring Drink & Draw - Coventry's favourite social event for anyone who loves to doodle!
Suitable for
- Not suitable for children
- 18+
Museums At Night
- 17 May 2014 From 6:30pm
Join us to discover the life of the museum out of hours! Enjoy live music, marching Romans, make and take activities and film screenings - we'll have something to delight families and grown-ups alike.
Find out full details and reserve your place at www.theherbert.org.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
- Any age
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