LOndon Pub Meet 16

[Swallow]

One other exhibition

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/george-catlin-american-indian-portraits/exhibition.php

During the 1830s Pennsylvanian-born artist George Catlin (1796-1872) made five trips to the western United States to document the Native American peoples and their way of life. The resulting portraits have become one of the most extensive, evocative and important records of indigenous peoples ever made.
Catlin was also an entrepreneur and a showman and, inspired by his encounters, he created an ‘Indian Gallery’ that toured America and Europe during the next ten years. This exhibition of over fifty portraits will be the first time that they have been seen together outside America since returning there in the 1850s. They will be displayed to suggest the sense of spectacle created by Catlin and demonstrate how he constructed a particular image of American Indians in the minds of his audience.

with a talk

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/late-...he-frontier-myth-cowboys-indians-30052013.php

[h=1]In Conversation: The Frontier Myth, Cowboys & Indians[/h]30 May 2013, 19:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

• Late Shift

Dr Karen Jones and exhibition curator Dr Stephanie Pratt discuss how the popular mythology of cowboys and Indians was created, and it's impact today.

 

[Swallow]

Anyone fancy the talk in the post above?

 

[Mesquite]

Anyone fancy the talk in the post above?

I would have but I'm off to the woods tomorrow for a long weekend

 

[Swallow]

Utter rubbish guys. You didn't miss a thing.

Congratulations to Woodpoet who didn't attend as he was in the process of becoming a grandfather for the 4th time.

 

[woodpoet]

Thanks Swallow. I held him when he came back from hospital. He is gorgeous. His name is Dylan.