Our lectures will be held either via Zoom or in the Kensington Library lecture hall and our visits and trips will be listed on the website as and when we can organise group visits. Please keep updated via our website and email noticeboards.
An informal visit to the excellently reviewed Japan: Courts and Culture Exhibition at the Queen's Gallery. Tickets cost £17, but they are…
An insight into Cezanne’s influence on the transition of Impressionism into art which conveyed the essence of the subject and which, ultimately…
Monday 17 – Friday 21 October 2022. STOP PRESS (12/9/22) One place has become available on this trip. Booking form should be…
An informal visit to the Cezanne exhibition at the Tate Modern. Please book your own ticket directly from the Tate website: …
The auction house is the public face of the art market. When the hammer falls, the price of an artwork can make…
The Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world and once the spiritual domain of Tibetan culture and religion. This lecture explores…
With 12 Ranks within the Imperial family and 9 Ranks for both Civil (Mandarin) and Military Officials this lecture explains the hierarchy…
What is it that holds the viewer before a beautiful young girl in a exotic turban, a woman replying to a discarded…
Hollywood’s first black superstar in the 1950’s, Sidney Poitier, overcame decades of prejudice and was awarded Best Oscar actor in 1963. He…
After World War I, artists and architects were in a state of flux, just like the world they inhabited. How could they…
We love standing in a museum gazing at a painting by Titian or Caravaggio, but we rarely question where it was before…
The remarkable untold story of Carry On actor Peter Butterworth, and his wife, Britain's first female TV impressionist, Janet Brown, best known…
