E-News Bulletin February 2025

SOCIETY EVENTS
Our next lecture, Tilman Riemenschneider presented by Thomas Abbott, will take place online on 18 February at 6pm.

There are some places still available for the following events in February:

Architecture of Tate Modern, a study visit on 4 February
Mantua: Art and Patronage of the Gonzaga, a study day led by Paula and Geoff Nuttall on 19 February
God Save the King: celebrating coronations in the Middle Ages, a study day led by Sally Dormer on 26 February

Merry Monarch and Art Lover: Charles II as patron and collector, a study day led by Steven Barrett on 18 March. This study day has been opened to non-members for an additional fee of £10. If you know of anyone who would be interested in attending please contact the organiser, Maggie Stockton, (mags.stock@gmail.com) for further details.

All the above study days are offered as an in-person or a recording-only event.

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

VICTORIA MIRO, N1, until 8 March 2025
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
The artist’s current exhibition focuses on paintings of people from queer communities.

Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal, until 1 March 2025 online
A selection of works by over thirty artists made over the last century.

TWO TEMPLE PLACE, until 20 April 2025
Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen
This year’s annual exhibition explores the overlooked richness and diversity of working-class life and creative expression from the 1950s to the present day. It is also an opportunity to visit the Victorian neo-Gothic house built for William Waldorf Astor in 1895.

COMING SOON

WHITE CUBE BERMONDSEY, 7 February-6 April 2025
Theaster Gates: 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise
A new series of works in which the artist continues to contribute to the archives preserving Malcolm X’s legacy through installations, film work Whitechapel and archival presentations.

THE COURTAULD, VERNON SQUARE, 12 February 2025, 5.30-7pm
The Four Walks of the Cloister: Paradise and Practice in the Medieval Monastery
This talk will re-examine the monastic cloister as a place to be transcended, where the heavenly was made  manifest by the use of iconography.

SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM, 12 February-18 May 2025
Soane and Modernism: Make It New
This exhibition explores the notion of Sir John Soane as the first modern architect by placing his drawings alongside the works of architects such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd-Wright and Ernö Goldfinger.

PELTZ GALLERY, BIRKBECK, 14 February-9 April 2025
Visions from the Amazon
The exhibition brings together photography, painting and film as a visual exploration of entanglements between artistic production and the living and non-living inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest.

 EXHIBITIONS STARTING AT MAJOR LONDON GALLERIES IN FEBUARY 2025

This month Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern and Goya to Impressionism at The Courtauld Gallery are among the new exhibitions to look forward to. You can access and download a listing of current and future exhibitions showing in London from now until August 2025 here.