Events
Our June - July 2026 programme
ARTscapades launches a new season of unique opportunities for you to explore art with online talks and study courses led by expert speakers. We are grateful for your support which enables profits from our ticket sales to help UK museums and arts-based organisations.
Book now to join our leading curator’s talks on some of this season’s top exhibitions — Helen Jacobi on James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Daniel Sobrino Ralston on the National Gallery’s Zurbarán and Lucy Davis on Winston Churchill: The Painter at the Wallace Collection.
Amy Boyington serves up the power of the Georgian dining room and Simon Morley follows in the footsteps of British artists in La Belle France. Russell Kelley spans the making of the Louvre from medieval times to today. Katie Wignall continues to reveal the hidden history of London’s bridges in Part Two of her new virtual walk series.
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.
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event you can purchase a link by visiting our on-demand Recordings page. Looking for a present? Click here for details on gifting an ARTscapades talk.
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Forthcoming events
Monday 15 June 2026, 6-7pm. £10
Step back into the 1700s and into the most important room in Britain: the country house dining room. Dr Amy Boyington pulls back the velvet curtains on the ‘theatre of the feast’ to reveal how the Georgian elite used architecture, art, and an almost religious devotion to excess to cement their social standing.
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Thursday 18 June 2026, 6-7pm. £10
One of 17th-century Spain’s leading painters, Zurbarán remains less celebrated than his close contemporaries Velázquez and Murillo. The National Gallery’s exhibition is the first major monographic show dedicated to him in Britain, a rare opportunity to encounter his sumptuous, subtle art. Encompassing monumental single-figure saints draped in elaborate textiles, soaring altarpieces and exquisite still lifes, all bridging the boundary between earthly and divine. Dr Daniel Sobrino Ralston, exhibition co-curator, explores what makes Zurbarán's art so arresting and enduring.
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Tuesday 23 June 2026, 5-6.30pm. £10
The epitome of constant change, the Louvre spans the history of modern Paris from the construction of the medieval fortress in 1200 to the current New Renaissance project announced by President Macron. Join Russell Kelley for a journey through an institution that helped shape – and preserve – France’s extraordinary cultural heritage.
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Tuesday 30 June 2026, 6-7pm. £10
Join Carol Jacobi, curator of this major retrospective exhibition now on view at Tate Britain. A truly global figure, Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. He pioneered new and innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Tuesday 14 July 2026, 2.30-3.30pm. £10
Churchill came to painting relatively late in life and it immediately became a passionate, life-long hobby. Join Dr Lucy Davis, co-curator of Winston Churchill: The Painter at the Wallace Collection, as she talks us through this retrospective exhibition of nearly sixty of the former Prime Minister’s paintings, showing the range of subject matter of this ambitious amateur, who sought advice from the leading artists of the time.
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Thursday 30 July 2026, 7-8pm. £10
Join Katie Wignall for the second instalment in her four part series for ARTscapades of the capital's river crossings. Since London was first founded, people have needed to travel across the Thames and the varied history of these bridges give us fascinating insight into the history of the city.
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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. You will also find a selection of past Study evenings and virtual walks available.
