IN PERSON: Spring Lecture Series 2025: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century – COMPLETE SERIES
30/01/2025 – 07/03/2025
IN PERSON: Spring Lecture Series 2025: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century - COMPLETE SERIES
Thursdays from 30 January to 27 February and Friday 7 March at 6.30pm
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
The series will explore contrasting pre-war and post-war exhibitions from Wembley to its antitype, The Millennium Dome, preceded by a general reflection of what these exhibitions might mean to us now.
With the recent centenary of the British Empire Exhibition of 2024 and its very different successor, the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Industrielles et Modernes in Paris in 1925, it is timely to think again about the continuation of these nineteenth century practices into the modern age. The speakers will explore contrasting pre-war and post-war exhibitions from Wembley to its antitype, The Millennium Dome, preceded by a general reflection of what these exhibitions might mean to us now.
Lectures will include:
Thursday 30 January: 1. Ephemeral Vistas Revisited, Paul Greenhalgh
Thursday 6 February: 2. Wembley 1924: The World’s First Concrete City, Kathryn Ferry
Thursday 13 February: 3. Expo 67 and its (Laurentian) World, Craig Moyes
Thursday 20 February: 4. Batting for Britain: national representation in international exhibitions, 1900 to 1992, Alan Powers
Thursday 27 February: 5. Dancing on the Volcano: Decoration at The Paris 1925 and 1937 Expositions, Leslie Klingner
Friday 7 March: 6. Inside the Millennium Dome: Remembering the Exhibition 25 years on, Paul Pope
In person season price:
C20 Society Members – £55;
Non-Members – £80;
Young C20 member + guest – Free*;
Student + guest – £25**.
* For Young C20 members, please email coordinator@c20society.org.uk to secure a place.
** For student pricing please select from the dropdown option next to 'membership number' on the booking form below.
Includes a glass of wine
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Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked, and will be available for two weeks.
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Above image: World’s Fair New York 1964 postcard
Credit: HipPostcards
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