Events
Spring 2025 Programme
ARTscapades is delighted to offer you a unique spring programme of opportunities to enjoy 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.
After Easter, discover Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery with curator James Russell, and the Wallace Collection’s remarkable Venetian views by Canaletto and Guardi in our Study Afternoon with Clare Ford Wille.
New events starting in May feature special Curator talks on exhitbions including Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy with Sarah Lea; Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery with Alison Smith; and Alfred Haft introducing the British Museum’s Hiroshige:Artist of the Open Road. Curator and author Hope Wolf reveals how artists harnessed the disctinctive power of their location in Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne.
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.
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
Wednesday 23 April 2025, 6-7pm. £10
This ARTscapades talk about Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition on Tirzah Garwood by curator James Russell, reveals her as a multi-talented painter, printmaker and author whose work is characterised by wit, clarity and an extraordinary imagination.
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Thursday 8 May 2025, 2.30-3.30pm. £10
Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France’s most famous writers, with curator Sarah Lea in this ARTscapades talk on the exhibition of his rarely-seen works on paper now at the RA.
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Wednesday 21 May 2025, 6-7pm. £10
Join Dr Alison Smith, curator of Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, for an ARTscapades talk on this exhibition which explores, for the first time in the UK this important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of the artist’s work.
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Thursday 29 May 2025, 6-7pm. £10
Join Dr Alfred Haft, curator of the first exhibition on Utagawa Hiroshige to be held at the British Museum, as he discusses this prolific artist with ARTscapades. Embark on a lyrical journey through Edo Japan, exploring the natural beauty of the landscape and the pleasures of urban life.
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Thursday 5 June 2025, 2.30-5pm. £20
Join leading medieval art historian Sally Dormer for ARTscapades unique short course on the Norman kings who governed the island between 1130 and 1194, bringing stability and prosperity. Their culturally diverse kingdom was enriched with sumptuous monuments and artefacts, many of which still survive in Palermo, its environs, and elsewhere.
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Tuesday 10 June 2025, 6-7pm. £10
What shapes a city? …The people. Katie Wignall takes us on a virtual journey to discover the unsung visionaries who shaped London. From the 16th to the 20th century a number of entrepreneurs have transformed this city through their ideas and vision. Join ARTscapades to explore architecture, sites and hidden details through their lives and work.
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Thursday 12 June 2025, 6-7pm. £10
This ARTscapades talk looks at Britain’s enduring fascination with foreign artists and how they came to have such a profound impact on British art and artistic practice. Join Leslie Primo as he traces these artists from the Tudor period to the Renaissance and Baroque.
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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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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.
Tuesday 29 April 2025, 2.30-5pm. £20
Celebrate the outstanding collection of twenty-seven Venetian vedute, view paintings by Canaletto, Guardi and their followers owned by the Wallace Collection, which glow once again from the gallery walls, after a major cleaning project over the last decade.
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