Posted 27 July 2018 Nathan Waddell speaks about Wyndham Lewis at the Royal Academy of Arts On Friday 13 July 2018, Dr Nathan Waddell spoke at the Royal Academy of Arts about Wyndham Lewis's rejected 1938 portrait of TS Eliot. Part publicity stunt, part sincere tribute, the portrait tells us as much about Eliot's significance as about Lewis's impishness.
Posted 25 July 2018 Scholars discuss new ways of reading modernist magazines On Thursday 14 June, an interdisciplinary group of postgraduate and early-career academics explored new ways of reading modern(ist) magazines. Working with periodicals from the Cadbury Research Library, they discussed BLAST, Form, Coterie, and Rhythm, among others.
Posted 19 July 2018 Modernist Scholar Celebrates Dalloway Day 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery and British Library On 20 June 2018, Professor Alexandra Harris led a tour at the National Portrait Gallery of selected paintings and photographs of and by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and others associated with the Bloomsbury Group and the modernist movement.