Marina Warner
Diary
Alternative Lessons and Carols, 6 December 2024
28/11/24Marina is going to be reading, alongside CAConrad, Jim Finer and Andrew O’Hagan (amongst others) an ‘alternative lesson’ as we approach the year’s festivities. The event, one of two shows on consecutive night with different line-ups, is organised by th …
Marina Warner on Uncanny Visions, The Holborne Museum, 5 December
14/11/24The Holborne Museum currently has the exhibition ‘Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya’, on until January 5, 2025. Marina has described Paula Rego as one of her heroes, and will reflect on Rego’s admiration for, and inspiration by, Goya’s …
Finding the Words – Freedom from Torture fundraiser
24/09/24On 21st November, from 7pm, at the London Library, Freedom from Torture are putting on a literary festival and fundraiser, Finding the Words. Join for a star-studded literary evening at the London Library featuring readings by distinguished writers and …
Andrew Carnegie Lecture, 25 September 2024, Edinburgh College of Art
05/09/24‘Sanctuary: Places of Refuge, Sites of Memory, Grounds of Home’ In this lecture, taking a cue from Alfred Korzybski’s axiom, ‘The map is not the territory’, Marina will explore the interrelations between telling and dwelling in the making of home and c …
Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope
04/09/24Marina’s essay on Rikki Ducornet is in the 19 September 2024 issue of the New York Review of Books – have a read of the piece on their website here
Edinburgh International Book Festival – 23 August 2024
21/08/24Marina will be in conversation with Octavia Bright on Friday 23 August at 3.30pm, discussing the role of imagination in understanding the world, and celebrating Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists. Tickets available here!
26 June 2024 – Keynote @ Women and the Arts Forum Conference, National Gallery
23/05/24Booking is now available to attend the Women and the Arts Forum Conference 2024, where Marina will be giving the Keynote speech on Paula Rego. Attendance is online and in-person, here. More details to follow soon.
LRB Screen X MUBI: Arabian Nights, Monday 20 May, 8pm
14/05/24At The Garden Cinema (London WC2B 5PQ), Marina will be introducing the film Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015), the first in a trilogy of films by the Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes. The screening is organised by the London Review Booksh …
In Conversation: Cultures of Enchantment
23/04/24On Thursday May 9th, Marina is taking part in an event and discussion at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, to mark the exhibitions The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg (Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards) and William Blake’s Universe (Fitzwilli …
Forms of Enchantment due in paperback in March 2024!
23/01/24Marina’s anthology of essays on artists, Forms of Enchantment is due in paperback from 7 March. Here is a sneak peek of the paperback cover, adorned with a piece (Moth, 1996) by Kiki Smith: