Looking ahead: January - March 2019
4 December 2018
January 2019
New year, new you. Start this year on a healthy note: go back to gym, explore the great outdoors, or treat yourself to a spa day.
This January marks 150 years since the birth of Grigori Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916), a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
Rosa Luxemburg (also Rozalia Luxenburg, 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919), an activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.
Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin (left) on their way to the SPD party congress in Magdeburg, 18–24.9.1910. AKG96309
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More than 2,000 people demonstrate on 15.11.1969 in Stuttgart against the Vietnam War and for the withdrawal of all US troops from Vietnam. AKG2776791February 2019
Black History Month is celebrated in the US since 1976 to commemorate the contributions of black Americans to the nation's history. We mark US Black History Month with these special selected images recognising black history, arts and culture in the USA and across the rest of the world.
“Colored Balcony” (cinema in Birmingham, Alabama which offers seats for black cinemagoers), 1940. AKG296619
Memphis Sanitation Strike: Protest of 1300 black sanitation workers against poor treatment, discrimination and dangerous working conditions. 12th February 1968. AKG28156
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford), born 1931, American novelist and professor. AKG3551712To celebrate St Valentine's day on February 14th, we are looking at depictions of couples in works of art, from frescoes to sculptures.
Kazimir Malevich (23 February 1879 - 15 May 1935), a Russian painter and art theoretician, was born 140 years ago in February 1979. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement.
March 2019
On 23 June 2016, 51.89% of voters voted in favour in the UK referendum on leaving the European Union. Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, on 29 March 2019 will mark a turning point in British and European history.
Our selection looks at the history of the UK-EU relations, the UK during the 1970s, the period when the country became a member of the EU, and features refreshingly satirical illustrations by Rainer Ehrt.
In March 2019, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington will stage "Votes for Women: An American Awakening, 1840–1920" exhibition (March 1, 2019 – January 5, 2020) to usher in the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The exhibition reveals the women and organisations often overlooked in the complex narrative of women’s suffrage in the United States.
A Suffragette is demonstrating against the incarceration of women’s rights activists in Washington DC, 1917. AKG1046349
Trixie Friganza (born Delia O’Callaghan), US film actress and suffragette. New York 28.10.1908. AKG558747
Suffragette with banner: "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?", Washington DC, 1917. AKG4507922American actress Gloria Swanson (17 March 1899 - 4 April 1983) is primarily known as a glamorous Hollywood star of the 1920s. Swanson would have turned 120 years in March 2019, but, quoting her character in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the fading movie queen Norma Desmond, "The stars are ageless, aren't they?"
