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SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION
12 October 2015
Coming up in San Francisco . . .

THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW

The Soane Foundation is pleased to serve as a Cultural Partner for the eighth year with this show.  Please join us!


For show PREVIEW GALA Tickets, Entry Tickets and Lecture Tickets, please go to > Eventbrite

Saturday, October 24, 2:30pm
SFFAS LECTURE:  Join Soane Foundation President Thomas A. Kligerman and his Ike Kligerman Barkley partners John Ike and Joel Barkley for Love, American Style: 150 Years of Shingle Style Houses.  John, Tom and Joel believe the American romance with the shingle style has lasted nearly 150 years because it presents, in an understated way, the best of everything.  Presented by the SFFAS and its Cultural Partner, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.  Just out is the newest book on IKB's work.  There is a book signing at 3:30pm following the talk.
 
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. . . and in Stanford, California . . .

EXHIBITION - now to 4 January 2016
Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305
 

 
Exhibition Organization and Support
This exhibition was organized by Sir John Soane's Museum, London. The Cantor Arts Center gratefully acknowledges support for the exhibition's presentation from John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn, Frances and Theodore Geballe's Pre-19th-Century European Art Fund, and Mary Anne Nyburg Baker and G. Leonard Baker, Jr.

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DETAILS ON HE LISTED PROGRAMS BELOW:


Panel Discussion: "Drawn to Build: Architectural Representation in the Digital Age"
Wednesday, October 28, 5:30pm, auditorium
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Two prominent architects from Europe and the United States will discuss the role of the architectural drawing -- both analog and digital -- as a tool in the design process and as an object worth collecting and putting on display. This panel is part of programming for the Cantor's special exhibition, Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered.
The speakers are:
- Sergei Tchob an, managing partner of the architectural firm nps tchoban voss with offices in Berlin, Dresden, and Hamburg, and founder of the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin
- Andrew Zago, partner and founder of the firm Zago Architecture in Los Angeles

The panel will be moderated by Wim de Wit, Adjunct Curator of Architecture and Design at the Cantor.

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Symposium: Piranesi, Paestum, and Soane
Friday, November 13, 9:30am to 4pm, Cantor auditorium and McMurtry Building; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305
This symposium is part of programming for the Cantor's special exhibition, Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered. For the latest information on speakers and registration, visit the Department of Art and Art History website.
The presenters are:
- Heather Hyde Minor (University of Notre Dame), Piranesi and the Art of History
- Maarten Delbeke (University of Ghent), Ornament and Crime, Piranesi on the Primitive
- Mark Rakatansky (Columbia University), His conduct is Mischievous:' Piranesi and Soane
- Mario Bevilacqua (University of Florence), Piranesi in Eighteenth-Century America: Ancient Models for the New Nation

Sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History
 
 


 



 
COMING UP NEXT MONTH IN NYC . . .

The Samuel C. Miller Memorial Lecture
presented by a Museum Director


BEYOND BLOGTALK:
Museums and Collections in the early 21st Century
Talk by MICHAEL CONFORTI
Director Emeritus
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
 
Introductions by
Ulysses G. Dietz, Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts, Newark Museum,
and Annabelle Selldorf, Architect
 
Tuesday, 10 November 2015  -  6:30pm
Doors open 6pm for seating - Reception following

 
Further details on the talk will be forthcoming.

LOCATION: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th Street, New York City
 
TICKETS: By advance reservation. There is no charge.  Please call 212-223-2012 to reserve or send an email to:

EXHIBITION: Arrive early to see the exhibition - The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past. 

 








  
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