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Latest news and information from The Christopher Isherwood Foundation, August 2017
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Alan Cumming and Angus Wright read Chris and Don's letters in front of David Hockney's portrait of the pair at the launch at Tate Britain, 14 May 2017  © Alan Cumming

The Animals and A Meeting by the River
A love story told in letters and a play written by the lovers
 
Since its launch at Tate Britain in May, The Animals Podcast has reached almost 30,000 listeners all over the world and has been lavishly praised by critics. Chris and Don's letters ‘make for fascinating listening... electrifying’, according to The Economist, while The Guardian called them ‘a joy, combining cheeky humour with romance.’ ‘Listening to these voices flirting, and yearning, and quarreling, I felt as though I was privy to something private, something intimate, but something grand’, wrote Tyler Malone in The LA Times.

The audience continues to grow. If you haven't heard it yet, download for free on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also listen online at TheAnimalsPodcast.com where you can find out lots more about the series.
(l) W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, 1937 Photo by Howard Coster;  (r) Matthew Spender

Matthew Spender to deliver 2017 Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture
at Huntington Library

On Monday, September 25 author and sculptor Matthew Spender will talk about the friendship between his father, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, from the late 1920s until Auden and Isherwood emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. He will focus on the intense relationships between these three British writers, their homeland, and Nazi Germany. The lecture will begin at 7:30 pm in Rothenberg Hall at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens (directions). Free; no reservations required.

Tom Ford to Give 2018 Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture

We are excited to announce that film director and fashion designer Tom Ford, whose 2009 film of A Single Man won an Academy Award nomination for Colin Firth, will give the Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture in the autumn of 2018. More information to follow.
Chief Curator Scott Shields and Don Bachardy
Don Bachardy on the floor of the California Senate

Don Bachardy Presents Isherwood Portrait to the Crocker Museum
and Is Honored by the State of California
 
Bachardy, who usually works on paper, painted only a handful of large portraits on canvas. This spring, he loaned a rare 1983 portrait of Christopher Isherwood to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The portrait was unveiled on June 8 by Chief Curator 2017 Scott Shields. It is promised as a gift to the museum, which hosts one of the state’s premier collections of California art.

Earlier on June 8, in the California State Senate, Senator Ben Allen (D – Senate District 26) presented Bachardy with a resolution honoring his contribution to the arts in California. Bachardy also visited his portrait of Governor Jerry Brown, on view since 1984 in the lobby of the capitol building.
Life drawing by Nicholas Wilson, 2017 Don Bachardy Fellow, completed at Royal Drawing School

Applications Open for 2018 Don Bachardy Fellowship
at the Royal Drawing School, London
 
The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School invites a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to study at the Royal Drawing School. Nicholas Wilson, a graduate of Yale and a resident of New York City, was selected as the first fellow and spent April to July in London this year. Nick wrote:

“In addition to my coursework at the school, I made a point of visiting almost all of London’s museums and galleries to gather as much inspiration from the art of the past as possible. I visited the National Gallery, British Museum, Cortauld Institute, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, John Soane Museum, Wallace Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge and Ashmolean in Oxford… Thanks to my time in London, I feel that I have become a more confident and competent draughtsman, fully prepared for the next stage in my artistic development.”

The fellowship – named after Don Bachardy who studied at the Slade in 1961, and had his first exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in Mayfair that year – promotes the practice of drawing from life. The Don Bachardy Fellow will spend 3 full days per week for ten weeks, drawing alongside postgraduate students studying on the Royal Drawing School's MA level program. He or she will choose from over 38 different drawing and printmaking courses. Applications for the Don Bachardy Fellowship for the Spring Term at the Royal Drawing School (15th January – 24th March 2018) opened 16 August. The deadline is Monday 18 September 2017. For more information visit the Royal Drawing School website. Apply using the online application form.

Christopher Isherwood Fellowships at the Huntington Library

Applications for the 2018-2019 Christopher Isherwood Fellowships will be accepted beginning September 1, 2017. Submission deadline is midnight PST on November 15, 2017. To apply, visit The Huntington Website.
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