| Thu 2 March 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
The curious objects in this exhibition all have a part to play in telling the story of the Library, and form a cabinet of curiosities that opens a window onto the nature of collecting. |
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Dick Laws: Antarctic Scientist and Artist, A retrospective An exhibition revealing the interplay between the scientific and artistic work of the leading marine mammal scientist of his generation, Dick Laws (1926-2014). |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Being Modern: Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum Works by artists who sought to make a new art responding to the modern world are brought together. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Houghton’s Emperors: Portraits and power A Cambridge viewing for two impressive marble busts of Roman Emperors Commodus and Septimius Severus. For a short time this winter enjoy them in the Museum, with an encircling display evoking both their ancient and their 18th century contexts, and the enduring power of portraits. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making Waves: Discovering seascapes through drawings and watercolours This exhibition brings together many rarely seen drawings and watercolours from across the collection, especially the bequest of Sir Bruce Ingram, that depict tempestuous seas, naval battles, serene harbours and bustling shores with fishermen selling their catch. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Displays that take inspiration from the juxtaposition of art works and objects in the Kettle’s Yard House, will occupy the Alison Richard Building. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ceramics from the collection of Kettle’s Yard. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Science and Christianity: Conflict or Cooperation? Join us for this term's Faraday Institute Public Lecture. Explore questions scubas as, Can science explain everything, including the fact of religious belief itself? Can it go so far as to disprove the existence of God? Delivered by Philosopher Prof.Roger Trigg |
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| 6:30PM - 8:00PM |
Chalk, clunch and life on the edge Chris Donnelly and Reg Nicholls will give a glimpse into the geology of Cambridgeshire. |
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| 8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Cambridge University Musical Society’s second symphony orchestra present their Lent Term concert, including Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme performed by William Clark-Maxwell, CUMS Concerto Competition 2016 prize-winner. |
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| 8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Kettle's Yard chamber series: Boris Giltburg, piano Praised as “a natural Rachmaninov interpreter” by The Guardian, Boris Giltburg will perform Rachmaninov’s cinematic short stories the ‘Etudes-Tableaux, Op.39’ as well as a classic from the piano repertoire the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata by Beethoven. |
