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• Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun
• Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun
• In Conversation: Interventions and Looking Afresh
• In Conversation: Sport and Gender
• In Conversation: Sport and Gender
• Sport and the Media Revolution
• In Conversation: Cultures of Enchantment
• In Conversation: Spirituality and Technology
• CANCELLED: How we fell in love with Italian food
• CANCELLED: Art Speak
• CANCELLED: Jewish food and the Passover rite
• CANCELLED: Curator’s introduction to Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540 – 1650
• CANCELLED: Art Speak
• CANCELLED: Cupid and Psyche: Scientific insights into the painting behind Inspire
• A vision of the universe: The Astronomicum Caesarium of 1540
• A love story for the Medici? The story of Cupid and Psyche on Florentine Renaissance wedding chests
• Reconstructions in the exhibition Sharpening Perceptions
• Food service by the book in early modern Europe
• Art Speak
• Chicken or Pastirma? Fine dining Ottoman style
• Art and simulation in philosophy
• ‘The Season of Spiritual Warfare’: Fasting in early modern Europe
• Inspire project
• Art Speak
• The food of Christmas past
• Art speak
• The fragrance of lotus: Archaeology and sensorial experimentation in Afghanistan caves 1960s – 1980s
• Good enough to eat? Preparing ceramic fake food for the Feast & Fast exhibition
• Curators’ introduction to Feast & Fast
• Picturing what cannot be seen: Visualising sound within 19th-century acoustics
• Art speak
• Modes of listening: How what we see greatly impacts what we hear
• Sex and death: Looking at Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia in the age of #MeToo
• The life and work of Emmanuel Cooper
• From the exotic to the everyday: Changing attitudes to the pineapple
• Art speak
• Isabella’s wish: patronage and production of Northern Netherlandish altarpieces (c.1520)
• Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo (Part 2): The ‘Pop-Up’ museum outreach project
• Giovanni Belzoni and the allure of Egypt
• City of beasts: The forgotten sights, sounds and smells of Georgian London
• Art speak
• Jennifer Lee: A personal selection
• Art speak
• The early modern revolution of colour palettes on ceramics with over-glazed painting
• Artist Unknown: Stories from the University of Cambridge Museums and Collections
• Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo: A new collaboration for the future
• Can you handle it? Using 3D prints to improve museum access
• Revealed in the Hayley Papers: Literary, artistic and domestic gossip from late 18th and early 19th century cultural life
• Art speak
• Coin collecting and politics in the Tudor age
• Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection
• Celebrating the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria and our recent acquisition of her bust by Alfred Gilbert
• Some scraps of paper: Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale at The Fitzwilliam Museum
• Art speak
• Dressed up like a Julius Caesar: Late Stuart coin design
• Curator’s guide to the Beggarstaffs exhibition
• Art speak
• Lenten fasting and Easter feasting: The food of Easter in early modern Europe
• Discovering Islamic geometric design
• Design Evolution: Highlights from the Keatley Trust collection
• Art speak
• Small paintings, big discoveries: Recent research on Isaac Oliver’s miniatures
• Whistler & Nature: Looking both ways from the industrial to the horticultural
• Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 – 2019
• Love and politics: A wedding gift for a medieval duchess
• Art speak
• How We got here
• The Attic inscriptions in The Fitzwilliam Museum
• A temple to marble: The Main Entrance landing restoration and new displays
• The Trojan War: Then and now
• Art speak
• Colonisations and landscape successions: Later prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge
• Coin Coinage in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its numismatic legacy
• Art speak
• An introduction to the collection of Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, and the exhibition Collecting and Giving
• The odd couple: Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke
• Virginia Woolf: The Curator’s perspective
• Reused coffins from ancient Egypt: Tomb robbery or recycling of materials?
• Art speak
• Will you fade? Will you perish? Virginia Woolf and the art of still life
• An Arts and Crafts jeweller: The life and work of Fred Partridge (1877-1945)
• The Art of Ithell Colquhoun: Symbols from the magian world
• Art speak
• Eileen Cooper RA in conversation with Dr Meredith Hale
• Extreme sculpture: Politics and monuments in Germany 1918 -1945
• The Pastons: From poverty to wealth and back again
• Rooms of their Own: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Eddy Sackville-West
• “Thinking in common”: A community of creativity
• Mychael Barratt in conversation with Jane Stobart
• Art speak
• The tea bowl: East and West
• Architect Owen Jones, the Alhambra, and The Grammar of Ornament
• Curator’s introduction to Designers & Jewellery 1850 – 1940: Jewellery & Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum
• Art speak
• Robert Hamilton Lang and the decipherment of Cypro-Syllabic
• From memory: Nigel Hall, sculpture and drawing
• Sleeping by John Everett Millais: "The most beautiful picture the artist ever painted"
• A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions
• A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions
• The botanical art of Clarence Bicknell
• Art speak
• From plant to painting - the journey of making a botanical painting
• Making production: The journey through an artwork
• Joining the hemispheres: A potter's response to the Korean Full Moon Jar in the British Museum
• In conversation: 2 on 3 dimensions
• Art speak
• Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery - a curator's perspective
• Remembering the dead: The art of stelae in Egypt’s First Intermediate Period
• Flux: Parian unpacked
• My ceramic practice, and Moon Jars for the 21st century
• A passion for pottery: a photographer’s dream job
• Art speak
• A lifelong project in clay: Virtues of Unity
• From ‘Do Not Touch’ signs to barriers: can we successfully provide access without compromising preservation principles?
• Art speak
• Hide and seek: medieval creatures on the manuscript page
• Art speak
• RA250 at the Fitz: academicians celebrating 250 years of the Royal Academy
• The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection
• Queer stories at the Museum
• Discovering writing in Bronze Age Greece
• Art speak
• The story of Domenico Veneziano's altarpiece for La Chiesa di Santa Lucia de' Magnoli, Florence
• Degas's legacy
• The Alfred Wallis factor in St Ives art
• Art speak
• Elephants and emperors: Elephants in Indian painting and culture
• Silver, gold and copper for India’s money: Ancient to present
• Free speech and seditious libel: James Gillray and the crisis of Revolution
• Wonderwalls: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in art
• Art speak
• Idylls and oaks: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe's prints after Gessner
• Imagining the holy land in the Italian Renaissance home
• Madonnas & Miracles: The inside story
• Domestic devotions: Thinking with things
• Porcelain
• Art speak
• Making Waves and Sea to Shore Images inspired by the sea across five centuries, from the Fitzwilliam Museum and Kettle’s Yard
• Family reading and praying in the Italian Renaissance home
• A pious home? Italian Renaissance devotional jewellery and amulets
• Art speak
• Art speak
• Introduction to Madonnas and Miracles
• Painting and narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin
• Images of women in the ancient world
• Mission to China With reference to the ‘Wedgwood’ vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum
• Art speak
• Houghton Hall: Three centuries of privacy and display
• Queer British Art 1861 – 1967 An exhibition at Tate Britain
• For heaven's sake Stanley! Stanley Spencer in the Fitzwilliam Museum
• The Dollar: Rise of the global currency
• From Cambridge to Athens: The Benaki Museum collection of Chinese ceramics
• Art speak
• Realisation: Susan Aldworth and Jane Dixon in discussion
• The Castle Howard cabinets and other bicentenary acquisitions
• Colour and colourants in manuscripts: The role of technical analyses
• Behind the scenes at the exhibition: Creating COLOUR
• Art speak
• Conserving manuscripts for COLOUR
• Art speak
• The history of Gallery 3 and its Parthenon frieze
• The making of a manuscript
• Moving pictures: Mathematical reconstruction of painting
• Art on film: When movement stops
• The art and science of red
• Art speak
• Inside the Macclesfield Psalter
• Lord Fitzwilliam and his passion for prints
• Colour and Meaning
• Van Dyck and Reynolds: Two giants of portraiture
• Calibrating the colour of Mars
• Art speak
• Collaborating on a manuscript: Creation, rediscovery, conservation
• The colours of illuminated manuscripts
• An introduction to the Dr John Shakeshaft collection of British studio pottery
• Art speak
• The Goodison gifts of contemporary British craft
• Turner, Goya and Cornelius in 1816
• Furniture at the Fitz: New arrivals
• Art speak
• Rescuing Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds
• Hill Arches and other works by Henry Moore at the Fitz
• Three stories of money in the Age of Discovery
• Detecting the work of painters and scribes on ancient Egyptian coffins
• Art speak
• Egyptian coffins: Exploring the painter’s craft
• Death comes as the end: Burial practice in ancient Thebes
• Henry Moore’s Hill Arches
• Art speak
• Ronald Searle, Cambridge, and caricature
• Constellations: Rene Magritte and astronomy
• The literariness of caricature
• Art speak
• 1945: Paying for WWII
• Hercules and the aesthetics of exhaustion
• Hercules: The thinking person’s superhero
• Power and resistance in sculpture in the aftermath of WWI
• Colour and power
• Art speak
• ‘For with perfect balance, all would be well’ - Why balance is so integral to the works at Kettle’s Yard
• Manet: Sex and/or beer
• An introduction to the Kettle’s Yard display Beauty and Balance
• Fantastical pottery creatures by Andrew Hull
• Coins and currency in the crusader states
• Art Speak
• La Grande Guerre: A WWI Centenary exhibition of French prints
• Recreating ancient everyday life within the Museum
• Art Speak
• Fish and flowers: Roman mosaic glass plaques
• Inside the refurbished Dutch Gallery: The shape of things to come
• Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints
• Art Speak
• The age of the collector: History of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums
• Hidden music: The mystery of early Chinese bronze vessels with bells
• Italian Renaissance objects handling session
• Art Speak
• The night of longing: Love and the sex trade in Japanese prints
• On white: Porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam
• University Challenge : Conservators versus Collections
• Art Speak
• Being modern in Britain: Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth
• How to spend it: Luxury and display in Veronese’s Hermes, Herse and Aglauros
• A call to arms: Redisplaying the Armoury
• Art Speak
• Looking at Japanese erotica
• Models of collaboration: Artistic interventions in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours
• It’s not easy being green: exploring the use of green pigments and mixtures in manuscript illumination
• Healthy, humours and paintings
• Healthy, humours and paintings
• Thomas Gainsborough’s Heneage Lloyd and his Sister, Lucy
• Art Speak
• The use of wigs and extensions in Afro hairdressing
• Picturing Prometheus
• Ancient tears and laughter: Some visual clues
• Stories behind the Stitches: Schoolgirl samplers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Art Speak
• Natural hair past & present
• An introduction to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s sampler collection