Events
April - June 2024 Programme
ARTscapades is delighted to bring you our new exciting programme for Spring 2024! As ever, we are grateful for your support which enables profits from our ticket sales to help UK museums and arts-based organisations.
Spectacular exhibitions abound in the museums this season and we are thrilled to have the very special opportunity of bringing you talks by several of the truly expert exhibition curators themselves. We feature Davinder Toor on the Wallace Collection’s Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King and Annette Wickham with the Royal Academy’s long awaited Angelica Kauffman exhibition. Curators Sarah Vowles will focus on Michelangelo: The Last Decades at the British Museum and Francis Fowle will discuss Discovering Degas at the Burrell Collection.
The stunning Sargent and Fashion exhibition at Tate Britain is introduced by Lucrezia Walker and Richard Stemp also returns to explore The Last Caravaggio on view at the National Gallery.
Our focus on French art continues in a two-part short course, Gothic Cathedrals in France, with leading medieval specialist and art historian Jana Gajdošová. Tracing the evolution and cultural impact of these architectural marvels.
We will be adding new events to our programme from time to time so be sure to keep an eye on our website or look for newsletter updates!
The ticket price for each online event is £10, or £20 for each day of the short course, with proceeds supporting museums, galleries and other arts-based organisations. All events take place via Zoom Webinar and can be watched live including Q&A. In case you can’t make it on the day, they are recorded and available on-demand to ticket hoders for one month afterwards.
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Forthcoming Events
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 6-7pm
Annette Wickham gives this curator’s introduction to the Royal Academy’s unmissable Angelica Kauffman exhibition. One of the most celebrated artists of the 18th century she was known for both her portraiture and her history paintings.
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Tuesday 7 May 2024, 6-7pm
Join guest curator and collector Davinder Toor for an introduction to the Wallace Collection’s major exhibition exploring the life of the great Sikh leader Ranjit Singh (1780–1839).
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Thursday 9 May 2024, 6-7pm
This year Caravaggio’s last known painting, The Martyrdom of St Ursula, is on loan to the National Gallery, and will be exhibited alongside their own late painting by the great master. We will discuss the similarities and differences between the two works and discover the dramatic life of the artist which led up to their creation.
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Monday 20 May 2024, 6-7pm
Exhibition curator Sarah Vowles talk on the British Museum’s Michelangelo exhibition reveals how, although his last three decades were dominated by the demands of a sequence of Popes, whose requests for frescoes and architectural work challenged him both physically and creatively, this period also saw Michelangelo create a variety of more personal, intimate works.
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Thursday 30 May 2024, 6-7pm
Continuing her series of historic virtual tours for ARTscapades, Katie Wignall reveals what's left of central London from Tudor times. From the majesty of St James's Palace and the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, to the houses that survived the Great Fire of London, what do these buildings say about this period of the city's story and the lives of Tudor Londoners?
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Wednesday 5 June 2024, 6-7pm
Professor Frances Fowle, co-curator of Discovering Degas at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, discusses her exhibition ‘highlights’ and introduces some of the pioneering British collectors who developed a taste for the work of Edgar Degas.
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Past events
Recording Links
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event you can purchase a link to the on-demand recording. Please note that the link will expire one month after the date of the event.
