Events

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Art History: Sir Kenneth Clarke's Civilization Series

17 January – 24 April, 2008

The landmark 13-part 1969 BBC series Civilisation by Sir Kenneth Clarke was one of the very first attempts to deliver a comprehensive examination of Western Art and Cultural History to a mass audience for television. Wildly influential, undeniably dated, occasionally infuriating and visually sumptuous -- it was shot in 35mm film-- Civilisation remains an ideal entry point and revision lesson for anyone interested in the broader points of Western Culture and Art History in particular. Episodes are 60 minutes long. 

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Metropolis: The City In the Cinema

16 January – 23 April, 2008

In anticipation of a major national conference on The City to be held in Halifax in April, this four-month film series looks at the long-running relationship between Cities and The Cinema.

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The Shock of the New

27 September – 12 December, 2007

Art Critic and author Robert Hughes’s brillliant series The Shock Of The New is often considered the official sequel to the landmark BBC art history series Civilization, starting where Civilization left off, with the rise of Modernism in art.

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Jim Jarmusch Survey

26 September – 12 December, 2007

One of the most original and consistent of American Independent filmmakers, Jim Jarmusch’s body of work has advanced from the cinematic territory first cleared by Robert Frank and John Cassevetes.

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Feasts at Five

14 – 21 September, 2007

Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival this year is a mouth-watering mini-retrospective of films about food. These acclaimed and popular classics will whet your appetite for some of the Atlantic Film Festival’s other offerings, whether they by big screen adventures or more intimate receptions. Each film is screened at five o’clock at Dalhousie Art Gallery during the Festival. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Seating is limited — and dinner arrangements must be made independently!

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Art at Home and All That Jazz

25 March, 2007

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 25 March, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

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Mediaeval to Renaissance: The Mid-Millenial Avant Garde

14 March – 18 April, 2007

This mini-series looks at the crucial cultural transformation in Europe that lead to the Renaissance and beyond. Beginning with a Medieval whodunnit, the series then works through some of Chaucer’s choicest Canterbury Tales and Rosselini’s magnificent three-part examination of the Medici family in Florence, to arrive at the High Renaissance with the sumptuous costume drama of Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, all cinematically exploring the rebirth of classical values and the emergence of European Humanism.

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Film

Hollywood's Double Take: The First Three Black Directors

6 – 20 February, 2007

In the late 1960s in a belated attempt to bring an African-American point of view to Hollywood filmmaking, the major studios hired three accomplished directors to helm Black-themed movies. While an independent Black Cinema had flourished right under Hollywood’s nose earlier in the century, and non-black filmmakers had directed African-American subjects such as Cabin In the Sky, Carmen Jones and Hallelujah!, this was the first time black filmmakers and African-American audiences could connect on a mass scale. The result was the birth of Soul Cinema.

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Art, Agency and Activism

3 February, 2007

Presentations by artists, activists and art historian/critics that question and elucidate the role of art in advocating social and environmental causes; followed by an open forum.

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Screening - Traumatic Landscape

2 February, 2007

An evening of short videos by contemporary Canadian artists on the theme Traumatic Landscape, curated and presented by the Centre For Art Tapes.

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