Kettle's Yard

History

Member for

32 weeks 5 days

Organisation Information

Name

Kettle's Yard

Address 1:

Castle Street

City

Cambridge

Postcode

CB3 0AQ

Country

UK

Tel

01223 748100

Fax Number

01223 324377

Website URL

http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Brief Description

A major collection of 20th century paintings and sculpture exhibited in a beautiful house of unique character. Also, a gallery with changing modern and contemporary exhibitions.

Profile

Kettle’s Yard is a house with a permanent collection of early twentieth century works of art and a gallery presenting a changing programme of contemporary and modern art exhibitions. Artists in the collection include Ben & Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Alfred Wallis, Constantin Brancusi and Christopher Wood.

Kettle’s Yard organises a variety of activities which include regular music concerts, an extensive education programme and several talks, tours and symposia.

Events

Exhibitions in 2010
MODERN TIMES: RESPONDING TO CHAOS, drawing and film selected by Lutz Becker
until 14 March 2010
Lutz Becker's personal journey through Modern Times encompasses over 80 artists ranging those working at the start of the 20th century such as Boccioni to living artists such as Louise Bourgeois. Other artists include: Klee, Jackson Pollock, Malevich, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenberg, de Kooning, Richard Serra to name a few. There is a wide range of events to accompany this exhibition.

TIM HEAD: RAW MATERIAL
20 March - 9 May 2010
Digital work, drawings, prints and films by Tim Head who was the first artist fellow at Kettle's Yard in 1977/8.

AGNES MARTIN
15 May - 18 July 2010
In collaboration with Tate Artists Rooms
Shimmering paintings by one of America's foremost minimalist painters.

THE LONG DARK
17 July - 19 September 2010
Taking as its starting point John Ruskin’s essay ‘The Nature of gothic’, written in 1853, The Long Dark explores ‘medievalism’ in contemporary art.

Key Dates And Times

Gallery open: Tuesday-Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 11.30am-5pm
House open: Tuesday-Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 2-4pm (1.30-4.30pm from 1st weekend in April to last weekend in September)
Free entry

Venue

Museum

Type of Art/Course

Other