2020 / 21 Lectures

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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...

15-Mar-21 at 2 pm - To Russia with Love

The Work of British Artists, Architects and Garden Designers Down the centuries, the British found their fortunes in Russia. They first...

Mon 19-Apr-2021 at 6.30pm. Fresh Encounters: Contemporary Sculpture and the Public Space

The role of sculpture has changed substantially in recent times. Here, I consider how the concept of monument and memorial, familiar...

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