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E-News Bulletin April 2025

We are delighted that one of our new members, Megan Williams, has volunteered to take over as Communications Coordinator. Going forward, she will be responsible for all aspects of communications and will also provide creative input. We are very grateful for her assistance.

Megan has a degree in Art and Design and has a strong interest in the arts and art history. She has experience in creating website and social media content, press release documents, creating brochures and promotional material and copywriting.

SOCIETY EVENTS

We still have some tickets for our next study visit The Foundling Museum and Exhibition – Self Made: Reshaping Identities, guided by Lucy Shanahan on Thursday 3rd April. The visit will be followed by a music recital in the Picture Gallery at 13.00.

Our next member lecture, The Luttrell Psalter: Decoding a Medieval Masterwork presented by Michelle Brown FSA will take place online on Tuesday 8th April at 6pm.

There are still places on several upcoming study events:

Imperial Garden Cities: Babylon, Palmyra, Samarkand, Agra a study day led by Sue Rollin on Friday 4th July.

American Art in the 1960s a two day study event led by Ben Street on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June.

All the above study days and courses are offered as in-person events at Lettsom House and recording-only events.

Rethinking the History of Architecture in England 1530-1830 an online Zoom study event presented by Steven Brindle on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th September is now open for booking.

Also now open for booking is The Exterior and Immediate Environs of St Paul’s Cathedral – St Bride’s Church and Museum a study walk and visit led by Yvonne Jackman on Friday 11th July.

A number of other events will soon be available for booking but, in the meantime, you may wish to save the following dates in your diaries:

      – Wednesday 3rd September: Visit to Worcester Cathedral
      – Monday 8th December: Tour of the British Library Conservation Studio

Please remember that in order to go ahead all our events need to at least cover their costs. Therefore we do need members to book as early as possible in order to ensure that events do not need to be transferred online or at worst cancelled.

OVERSEAS EXHIBITIONS THIS YEAR

There are many interesting overseas exhibitions this year:

THE LOUVRE, PARIS until 12th May
A New Look at Cimabue
For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an exhibition to Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century.

MUSEUM BARBERINI, POTSDAM until 18th May
Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century
This exhibition spans six decades and showcases how Geometric Abstraction found radical expression in all its variations in Europe and the USA.

MUSEUM BARBERINI, ROME until 6th July
Caravaggio 2025
One of the most important and ambitious projects featuring Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571 – 1610), with an exceptional number of autograph paintings and an itinerary of difficult-to-view pieces and new discoveries in one of the places symbolizing the connection between this artist and his patrons.

PALAZZO DEI DIAMANTI, FERRARA until 20th July
Alphonse Mucha
The exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti illustrates Mucha’s entire biographical and artistic career through approximately 150 works – including paintings, drawings, photographs, posters, objects: from the decisive meeting in Paris with the “divine Sarah” to the affirmation of his language through advertising posters; from the projects for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900 to his stays in the United States, up to the production of his mature years spent in Czechoslovakia.

CHATEAU DE CHANTILLY 7th June to 5th October
Books of Hours a History in Objects
The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry and the Hours of Étienne Chevalier are placed in their broader context. In parallel the Reading Room will present a collection of over fifty Books of Hours, in manuscript and print form, surveying the history of these previously neglected but now widely celebrated objects.

If you wish to recommend other overseas exhibitions that may be of interest to fellow members please contact our Communications Coordinator.

NOW SHOWING IN LONDON

Finally, and with thanks to Eva Bigalke, you can access and download a listing of current and future exhibitions showing in London from now until October 2025 here.