Marina Warner
Diary
Eyes, Lies, Illusions
30/05/18Marina Warner’s ‘Eyes, Lies and Illusions: Optical Wizardry through Time, 2004’ to is published in Fifty Years of Great Art Writing From the Hayward Gallery, published by Hayward Publishing (London, 2018), pp 315-327. A collection of important essays a …
Marina in conversation with Joan Jonas
21/05/1821st May 2018 6.30pm Tate Modern, London Marina Warner in conversation with Joan Jonas. http://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/bmw-tate-live-exhibition-2018-ten-days-six-nights
Birkbeck Arts Week 2018: Thursday 17 May 2018
16/05/18Thinking with dance, moving with fairy tale. Cinema, 43 Gordon Square Gingerella (RockaFela) (65′, Dir. Alex Reuben, Wellcome Trust/ACE, UK 2018) explores cognition, motion and imagination as expressed in fairy tales. Join the director for a sc …
The Story of The Persian Carpet – documentary
11/05/18MW contributed an interview to ‘The Story of The Persian Carpet’ a documentary about the cultural heritage of the Persian carpet in Britain, produced by the London Iranian Association and available to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHd7jSd …
The MHRA Centenary Lectures
11/05/1811th May 2018 The MHRA Centenary Lectures Dame Marina Warner (Birkbeck) – ’Sound, Gesture, Image: Translations of Performance and Genre in the Digital Age’ The MHRA Presidential Address for 2018, held at Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place, Mayfair W1J …
Fondation Barbier-Mueller – Presentation of New Publications
20/04/1823 April 2018 5.30pm Fondation Barbier-Mueller – Presentation of New Publications 23 April 2018, 5.30pm – 7.30pm Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB The Barbier-Mueller Foundation, located at the University of Geneva, holds more than 600 …
National Theatre and Sicilian Folk Tales
17/04/18Marina has contributed the essay ‘The Future in the Instant’ to the theatre programme for Macbeth at National Theatre, Spring 2018. Marina also contributed the essay ‘Cola Pesce (Cola Pisci) Legends’ to Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Fo …
BBC Radio 4’s Words Apart – Word of Mouth
16/04/1810th April 2018 Marina Warner contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Words Apart – Word of Mouth Broadcast on BBC RADIO 4 on Tuesday 10 April 2018 at 16:00 and Monday 16 April 2018 at 23:00 Word of Mouth returns with a special programme in which Michael Rosen an …
Dutch translation of Leonora Carrington’s Down Below
01/04/18Leonora Carrington ‘Beneden’ with an introduction by Marina Warner has been translated into Dutch published by Uitgeverj Orlando 2018, pp7-39.
Publication of ‘Filigrana Italiana’
01/04/18Marina has contributed ‘Filigrana Italiana’ to The Italian Renaissance – A Zest for Life, edited by Michel Jeanneret and Nicolas Ducimetière, published by Legenda (2018) pp127-139. The Italian Renaissance marks the beginning of the modern era in Weste …