Exhibitions, museums and talks

I have been to a few events over the last few months and so I thought I would start recording them here.
We took a trip to the South of France earlier in the year and managed to fit in a couple of museum visits while we were there
Firstly the Picasso Museum in Antibes
Chateau Grimaldi at Antibes
In 1608 it became a Stronghold of the Grimaldi family and has borne their name ever since. In 1946 it was the home for six months of the artist Pablo Picasso. Today it is home to the Picasso Museum.
Picasso himself donated works to the museum, most notably his paintings "The Goat" and "La Joie de Vivre".
Returning two years later, Picasso - by then living in nearby Vallauris - exhibited 77 of his ceramic works in the gallery, and in 1949, a special room was named in his honour. Picasso became an honorary citizen of Antibes in 1957, and in 1966 the entire Chateau Grimaldi was renamed the Picasso museum in honour of one of the twentieth century’s finest artists.
In 1990 Jacqueline Picasso bequested many works by Picasso to the museum. These included 4 paintings, 10 drawings, 2 ceramics and 6 etchings. These are displayed at the Château in addition to the 3 works on paper, 60 etchings and 6 carpets by Pablo Picasso which the museum collected between 1952 and 2001. Today the collection totals 245 works by Picasso.

Pic 1 La Joie de Vivre. Pic 2 Outside the Chateau Grimaldi. Pic 3 Sculpture by Giacometti in Museum grounds. Pic 4 the Goat

In Nice we visited the Museum of Modern Art

The permanent collections of the museum consist of works by top pop art and new realism artists: Andy Warhol, Sol Lewitt, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alain Jacquet, David Tremlett, Claude Viallat, and Arman. The works of Yves Klein are also displayed here.
The building of the museum was fantastic in itself, a very original structure with 4 square towers, rooftop terraces and glass passageways between sections of the building with pieces of art displayed throughout .

 

I also went to the Eastern Region Embroiderers Guild AGM which was held at the John Innes Centre Norwich. The morning speaker was Michael Brennand Wood I first saw his work at the Sainsbury's Centre at the UEA when there was a visiting textile exhibition and really loved the 3D work which looks like flowers but is often made up of military symbols. The afternoon speaker was Alastair Macleod from Hand and Lock. It was a great day which also had exhibitions by all the Embroiderers Guilds and Young Embroiderers in the region.