http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales.html Actividades Actuales del Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza en-us http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior124.html 02/02/2009 - 06/02/2009 The Artist’s Workshop programme, organised by EducaThyssen in collaboration with the Fundación Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, will continue in February with a course led by Joan Fontcuberta. Entitled Conspiratorial Images, the workshop will aim to explore conflicts within visual representation in order to open up a debate on issues of credibility, veracity and authenticity in the light of the impact of the digital image on contemporary consciousness. Aimed at students and post-graduates as well as practising artists, enrolment opens on 10 November at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. The workshop will be held from 2 to 6 February 2009 in the EducaThyssen space at the Museum. MORE INFORMATION: Download leaflet (pdf) http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior125.html 20/12/2008 - 04/01/2009 Timed to coincide with the Christmas holidays, the EducaThyssen team has prepared a new activity to occupy young visitors and engage them with art. This year’s theme is light, a highly appropriate one for the season. The workshops, aimed at children aged 6 to 12 accompanied by an adult, will take place on 20 December and 4 January. Reservations are on 6 and 7 November for Friends, and from 11 November for the general public. MORE INFORMATION: EducaThyssen.org http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior122.html 21/11/2008 - 30/01/2009 Artists’ Workshops, a programme first launched by Educathyssen in 2006, offers participants the chance to learn about the viewpoints of leading artists regarding the Museum’s collections and to follow up what they have heard with the aim of stimulating creativity through observation and creative analysis. Following on from this experience, a new series of six lectures has been organised for general public in which six artists – Antoni Muntadas, Jaume Plensa, Rogelio López Cuenca, Fernando Sinaga, Eva Lootz and Joan Fontcuberta – will discuss and explain the motivation behind their creative activities, their particular areas of interest, the reference points for their work and their preferred techniques, among other issues. Overall, the intention is to bring public of the Museum closer to contemporary art and creation through the work of these six artists explained in their own words.LECTURE HALL, 7PMENROLMENT: FROM 11 NOVEMBER AT THE MUSEUM’S TICKET DESK AND ON TEL: (34) 91 429 43 10. PRICE: 100 EUROSMORE INFORMATION: Download leaflet (pdf) http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior123.html 15/11/2008 - 11/01/2009 In conjunction with the exhibition 1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War, the Museum is presenting a film cycle during the months of November, December and January. It will feature some of the most important films to be made on the subject of World War I, including two masterpieces by the American director Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven of 1927 and A Farewell to Arms of 1932. Also from 1932 is Ernst Lubitsch’s marvellous The Man I killed, while another magnificent film, Paths of Glory, was directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1957. The series is completed with some more recent titles such as Johnny got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo of 1971 (author of the novel of the same title) and examples of French filmmaking including La Grande Illusion of 1938 by Jean Renoir or Life and Nothing But by Bertrand Tavernier of 1989. SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS, 8PM, LECTURE HALLFREE ENTRY UNTIL ALL SEATS FILLEDMORE INFORMATION: (34) 91 369 01 51. Download leaflet (pdf) http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior120.html 22/10/2008 - 17/12/2008 Few historical events were of such crucial importance to the development of the early avant-garde art movements as the 1914 war. The years immediately prior to the outbreak of the conflict coincided with a period of outstanding creative vitality for these art movements, in which the desire to rise up and overthrow what had gone before anticipated the militant aggression subsequently expressed by most of the protagonists of the new art. The exhibition 1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War, to be presented jointly at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid between 7 October 2008 and 11 January 2009, brings to Spain an outstanding selection of new international art created between 1912 and 1917. Through these works it is possible to appreciate the extent to which the tragic events of the conflict determined the evolution of the artistic movements of the day. A monographic course has been organised in conjunction with the exhibition, entitled The artistic Avant-garde in the 1914 War. Enlistments and Mobilisations. It will be led by Javier Arnaldo, Head of the Museum’s Research and Further Education Department and the curator of the exhibition. The lecture series will begin on 22 October with The clamorous Decade, by Javier Arnaldo. These lectures will be given in the Museum’s Lecture Hall and will continue until December 2008. Leading international experts on avant-garde art will be participating in the course. Its intention is to offer new information and opinions on issues such as the way in which the new artistic idioms (Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, etc) were able to convert their representations into the visual symbol of militancy. Enrolment: Friends of the Museum and students of the UCM and UAM, from 23 September to 7 October. General public, from 8 to 22 October. MORE INFORMATION: Download leaflet (pdf) Image:Fernand LégerLe quatorze juillet, c. 1912-1913Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cmCollection Triton Foundation, Netherlands http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen_ing/actividades/actividades_actuales_interior117.html 20/09/2008 - 14/12/2008 Enrolment is now open for the family workshop-visits in September, October, November and December. All those who would like to take part in this weekend activity can reserve places on tel: +34 91 360 03 34 from 10am to 2pm. MORE INFORMATION:http://www.educathyssen.org/html/informa/TiempoLibre/visitastallerfamilias.html