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Exhibitions

William Blake etching named Head of a Damned Soul.

William Blake’s Universe

Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.

Sat 25 January 2014 10:00AM - 4:00PM

Magadan: life in the Russian north

A photography exhibition exploring the City and Region of Magadan.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Marshall society inaugural conference the road ahead: visions for the emerging world and poverty

The conference is the highlight and largest event of The Marshall Society’s calendar year. Our aim is to build a dynamic conference which contributes to important domestic and global economic issues through the discussion and stimulation of innovative ideas. We bring together engaged audiences and internationally-recognised subject specialists in the form of lively debates, and keynote addresses.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

7:30PM

The GULag

A lecture by Professor Anatoli Shirokov on the history of the GULag; the government agency that administered the Soviet forced labour camp systems during the Stalin era.