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Modern Couples: Family Tours

Let's Make Family Day

Sun 2 Dec 2018 ,Art Gallery

Couples in Architecture and Design

A free family tour of the Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde.

Join us for a free family tour of the current exhibition, exploring creative relationships across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. This exhibitions shows the lives and works of artists and reveals way in which creative individuals came together.

Pick up a free activity sheet before you enter the gallery to help unpack the themes of the exhibition with the family.

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This exhibition is part of The Art of Change season, highlighting how artists respond to, reflect and potentially effect change in the social and political landscape.This event is part of the Let's Make: Wetwang Slack & Modern Couples Family Day.

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