Previous Events
LSE Arts evening concert
Blas Flor (harp)
Date: Monday 11 April 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building
Blas Flor began playing music at the age of 10 under the guidance of some of the most accomplished players of the 36 string Paraguayan harp, an instrument as representative of that distant Latin American country as the Irish harp of Ireland.
From an early age, he began composing in a style all his own, which blends the warm melodies of Paraguay's traditional "guaranias" and vibrant polkas with more contemporary sounds, thus becoming a pioneer of the Paraguayan Folk Rock and Electro Rock sounds.
This unique concert will offer the audience an opportunity to experience the traditional sounds of Paraguayan music at its best, plus Blas Flor's own compositions that have a truly modern twist.
LSE Arts public lecture
Documenting China: Being a Professional Photographer in the Middle Kingdom
Date: Thursday 24 February 2011
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Ryan Pyle
Canadian born, award winning, documentary photographer Ryan Pyle first visited China in 2001. After a 3 month trip around the country he was hooked. He has never left since. It was very much Ryan's first trip to China that inspired him to enter the discipline of photography, and since then his imagery has graced the pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The Sunday Times Magazine and the Financial Times Magazine.
Ryan will visit the LSE to speak about his work, his career to date and what it is like working in China for the world's leading publications.
LSE arts and HRL Contemporary public lecture
Jeffrey Boloten on The State of the Global Art Market 2011
LSE Arts and HRL Contemporary public lecture
Date: Wednesday 23 February 2011
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Jeffrey Boloten
As part of HRL Contemporary's collaboration with the LSE, we are delighted to present our first lecture examining the relationship between art and commerce. Jeffrey Boloten, Managing Director of ArtInsight will be talking on the current state of the global art market. An expert in this area, Boloten will use recent research and data to analyse the international art system and its functions from a macro perspective. The slippery subjects of how value is ascertained in the art world and the definition of its meaning will be discussed. Boloten will relate these themes to the recent economic crisis and its effect on global art markets. This will incorporate both established art scenes as well as news and analysis of emerging international markets.
The LSE has invited HRL Contemporary to curate a series of exhibitions at the university. The first exhibition, A Baker's Dozen, to be held at The Atrium Gallery at the LSE, will examine the relationship between art and commerce from 6th June – 7th July 2011. LSE is an internationally renowned university, specialising in the social sciences. HRL Contemporary is a young commercial gallery, founded in 2008, which stages carefully curated thematic shows in diverse venues across London. This partnership draws together an emerging curatorial dealership and a highly influential public institution in an unprecedented, multi-disciplinary interrogation of the politics and economics of art.
Jeffrey Boloten is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of ArtInsight Ltd., the leading art market education partner of art market analysts, ArtTactic. Following a business degree from McGill University, and a background as a Solicitor, Jeffrey graduated from the Publishing course at Harvard University, with a publishing career including directorships with major international publishers including Penguin Books. Following an MA in Arts Management from City University (London), focused on the Art Market, and posts at the Tate, and as General Manager of a London art college, Jeffrey Boloten co-founded ArtInsight in 2004. He lectures internationally on the photography art market, and on the global art market.
LSE arts public lecture
The meaning of Life
Date: Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Robert Rowland Smith
Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
From Plato through Monty Python to Terry Eagleton and beyond, the question of the meaning of life has been a source of both mystery and mirth. In this lecture, based on his new book Driving with Plato, Robert Rowland Smith breaks life down into its milestones from cradle to grave: what does it mean not just to be born and to die, but to learn to talk, to lose your virginity or have a mid-life crisis?
Robert Rowland Smith began his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford before becoming a partner in a management consultancy. He now consults independently, has a column on moral dilemmas in the Sunday Times and contributes to BBC television and radio. His last book was Breakfast with Socrates, recently translated into sixteen languages.