Events
June - July 2025 Programme
ARTscapades is delighted to offer you a unique spring programme of opportunities to enjoy art through talks by expert speakers. We continue to be grateful for your support which enables profits from our ticket sales to help UK museums and arts-based organisations.
Join medieval expert Sally Dormer for an exciting Study Afternoon on Norman Sicily’s rich cultural heritage. Step out with Katie Wignall on a virtual walk to track down the unsung entrepreneurs who shaped London.
From Renaissance to Enlightenment, Leslie Primo uncovers what the development of British art owes to foreign artists; and we get under the skin of one of the Renaissance’s greatest patrons, Isabella d’Este, with Sarah Dunant.
…And be sure to look below for the new events we’ve just added to our July programme!
All events take place via Zoom Webinar and can be watched live including Q&A. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to join 24 hours in advance. In case you can’t make it on the day, ticket holders will also receive a link to view a recording of the talk, which will be available for one month.
Ticket proceeds go to help support UK museums, galleries and other arts-based organisations.
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event you can purchase a link by visiting our on-demand Recordings page.
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Forthcoming events
Tuesday 17 June 2025, 6-7pm. £10
Over the last four years Sarah Dunant has been researching and writing a novel about Isabella d’Este, one of the most formidable female characters and important artistic patrons of the Italian renaissance. In this ARTscapades talk Dunant discusses the sources she drew on to bring alive this most flamboyant and influential of renaissance women.
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Thursday 26 June 2025, 2.30-3.30pm. £10
Hope Wolf discusses her new book Sussex Modernism and an exhibition she is curating that opens at Towner Eastbourne in May. Spanning over one hundred years of art history, both explore how artists harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of their locations to reimagine how art should be made and life lived.
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Tuesday 1 July 2025, 2-3pm. £10
Arriving at the Royal Academy in June is an unusual pairing of two celebrated painters: the Dutchman Vincent van Gogh and the German Anselm Kiefer. Dr Ben Street leads our exploration of this landmark exhibition, the culmination of Kiefer’s lifelong fascination with van Gogh, which will showcase his use of familiar imagery, including sunflowers, wheatfields and starry skies.
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Tuesday 15 July 2025, 6-7pm. £10
Drawing from her exciting new book Rodin’s Dancers, this ARTscapades talk by Juliet Bellow introduces us to his interactions with dance makers and performers during his late career and investigates the relationship between Rodin’s sculpture of Vaslav Nijinsky and Nijinsky’s ballet Afternoon of a Faun, both created in 1912.
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Tuesday 22 July 2025, 6-7pm. £10
Join Alexandra Loske for a fresh look into the sumptuous Chinoiserie interiors of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, a building often considered the most impressive architectural expression of the Romantic imagination and a hallmark of Regency Style.
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Past events
Recording Links
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event by expert curators and speakers, you can purchase a link to the on-demand recording by visiting our Recordings page.
Monday 28 July 2025, 5-6pm. £10
Exhibition Curator Kelli Cole introduces renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray whose powerful works are the subject of a groundbreaking exhibition at Tate Modern.
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