Hauser & Wirth: BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017

Hauser & Wirth
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Hauser & Wirth: BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017

Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, provides an audio guide to artworks, artefacts and objects made in bronze included in Hauser & Wirth's presentation at Frieze London 2017 'BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017'.

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    1. Introduction

    Mary Beard introduces 'BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017', Hauser & Wirth's fictional Bronze Age presentation from a forgotten museum at Frieze London 2017. BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    2. Anna Maria Maiolino

    Mary Beard on Anna Maria Maiolino's 'Entre Si (Among Itself)’ from Hilomorfos (Hylomorphs) series (2016). BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    3. Unknown Axe

    Mary Beard on an Unknown Axe. Generously loaned from Great North Museum. BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    4. David Smith

    Mary Beard on David Smith's sculpture 'Untitled' (1959). BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    5. Peck Meausuring Vessel

    Mary Beard on an official peck measuring vessel belonging to Richard Hudson and Charles Wollaston, Gentleman Bailiffs for the Corporation of Ludlow (1793). Generously loaned from Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

    1 min

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    6. Subodh Gupta

    Mary Beard on Subodh Gupta's 'Food for Others' (2013). BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    7. Holy Water Situla

    Mary Beard on an Irish Catholic Holy Water Situla (ca. 1780 / eBay item number: 122650743236). BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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    8. Martin Creed

    Mary Beard on Martin Creed's 'Work No. 1650' (2012). BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017, Hauser & Wirth at Frieze London, 5 – 8 October 2017. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at University of Cambridge.

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Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, provides an audio guide to artworks, artefacts and objects made in bronze included in Hauser & Wirth's presentation at Frieze London 2017 'BRONZE AGE c. 3500 BC – AD 2017'.

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