2020 / 21 Lectures

Cancelled: to be rescheduled in 2021.

Lizzie Darbyshire, John Singer Sargent: An American Abroad John Singer Sargent was born in Florence of American parents. In 1884 he shoc...

Zoom Lecture: Mon 21-Sep-2020 at 2.00 pm. It's not just Tchaikovsky

Primarily an exploration of the music chosen by ballet choreographers through the years, proving that the right piece with the right move...

Cancelled until the new year - Annual General Meeting

Zoom Lecture: 19-Oct-20 at 2.00pm. Painting the Modern Garden.

Painting the Modern Garden. Monet to Matisse

Zoom Lecture: 16-Nov-20 at 11.00am. Ravillious, Pipers and English Romantic Modernism

Born in the years between the Wars, Romantic Modernism continues to inspire 21st century designers and painters like Mark Hearld and Emil...

Zoom Lecture: 16-Nov-20 at 2.00pm. Art, Architecture and Style in Old Shanghai

The lecture follows Shanghai's history through its art and architecture, a potent hybrid of East and West. Once known as The Paris of the...

Zoom Lecture: 07-Dec-20 at 11.00am. Shaken by an Earthquake

The story of one of the greatest creative collaborations of all: Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, whose team of dancers, choreographers...

Zoom Lecture: 07-Dec-20 at 2 pm. Beethoven at 250 - Classical Music’s Greatest

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, born in December 1770, Sandy guides us through the life and work of t...

Mon 18-Jan-2021 at 2 pm. The Prince and the Prophet - Tradition and Modernity in Archi

When, in a speech on 30 May 1984, the Prince of Wales described a proposed extension to the National Gallery as ‘a monstrous carbuncle’ h...

Mon 15-Feb-2021 at 2 pm - The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garde

In 1888 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in The Garden in which she urged the readers to “remember that in a garden we a...

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