E-News Bulletin December 2024

 SOCIETY EVENTS

The Society’s next lecture will be online in the New Year on 7 January at 6pm. Rupert Dickens will talk about Hogarth at the Hustings: the Election Entertainment Series and the birth of political satire. Coincidentally a novel has just been published, Mr Hogarth’s Morning, based on Hogarth’s famous etching, a murder mystery story incorporating themes of social and artistic issues current in the eighteenth century. The author is Thom Braun who has a PhD (History of Art) from Birkbeck.

There are places available for the events offered on the spring programme. If you have not had a chance to look through our upcoming events there is a range of stimulating subjects to choose from. Do have a look on our website.

Please remember that in order to go ahead all our events need to at least break even and 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.

NOW SHOWING IN LONDON

KEW GARDENS, until 5 January 2025
Botanical Blues
A collection of botanical art celebrating the allure of blue flowers on display in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery. This is showing alongside Expressions in Blue, an exhibition of modern blue and white ‘Ming’ style ceramics.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, until 30 March 2025
Picasso: Printmaker
Picasso was a prolific printmaker throughout his career. This exhibition explores his different techniques and his changing approaches to making art over his lifetime.

LEIGHTON HOUSE, until 27 April 2025
Leighton and Landscape: Impressions from Nature
This exhibition of small landscape oil sketches painted en plein air whilst travelling abroad reveal another side to the artist known today for his academic style and large scale classical paintings.

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY, until 26 May 2025
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious
The first major exhibition dedicated to the artist and designer. In addition to some 80 of her works also included are 11 works by her husband Eric Ravilious.

COMING SOON

GRESHAM COLLEGE, 5 December 2024, 6pm live/online
‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the Buildings of….
The lecture traces the history of this famous series by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, starting from its conception in 1947.

10 December 2024, 6pm live/online
Women at the Piano: A History through Images
The lecture will reveal how paintings of the “femme au piano” genre in 19th and early 20th-century French painting offer us a window onto the history of women’s music-making and their role in society. Examples by Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse and countless others are included.

EXHIBITIONS STARTING AT MAJOR LONDON GALLERIES IN DECEMBER 2024
There are no major new exhibitions starting this month but there are many interesting ones showing currently. You can access and download a listing of current and future exhibitions showing in London from now until June 2025 here.