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DESCRIPTION:Christopher Brown will be coming to speak at the Museum\nConver
 sations Seminar on Wednesday\, February 13\, 2013.  His talk is entitled “
 The\nNew Ashmolean.”The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is Britain’s oldest pub
 lic museum\, and possibly the oldest museum in the world.  In November 200
 9\, it reopened following a 9-month period of closure and a £61 million re
 development.  In his talk\, Christopher Brown will discuss the transformat
 ive project that has created a new 100\,000 square foot building behind th
 e famous 19th-century Cockerell façade.  The new building\, designed by Ri
 ck Mather Architects\, houses 39 new galleries\, including four for tempor
 ary exhibitions\; a dedicated Education Centre\; state-of-the-art conserva
 tion studios\; and the City’s first roof-top restaurant.  Since it opened\
 , the new Ashmolean has won a host of major awards and has received more t
 han 1.2 million visitors.\n\nChristopher Brown is Director of the Ashmolea
 n Museum and Fellow of Worcester College at the University of Oxford.  Bef
 ore taking his current position\, Brown served as Assistant Keeper\, Deput
 y Keeper\, and Chief Curator at the National Gallery in London.  He receiv
 ed his B.A. in Modern History at the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. at
  the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London.  Brown’s primary a
 rea of specialization is 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings.  His pu
 blications include Van Dyck\, 1599-1641 (London: Royal Academy\, 1999)\; U
 trecht Painters of the Dutch Golden Age (London: National Gallery Publicat
 ions\, 1997)\; Rubens's Landscapes (London: National Gallery Publications\
 , 1996)\; Van Dyck Drawings (New York: Abrams\, 1991)\; Flemish Paintings 
 (London: National Gallery Publications\, 1987)\; Dutch Landscape: The Earl
 y Years\, Haarlem and Amsterdam 1590-1650 (London: National Gallery Public
 ations\, 1986)\; Scenes of Everyday Life: Dutch Genre Painting of the Seve
 nteenth Century (London and Boston: Faber and Faber\, 1984)\; Van Dyck (It
 haca: Cornell University Press\, 1983)\; and Carel Fabritius: Complete Edi
 tion with a Catalogue Raisonné (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 1981).
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The New Ashmolean
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