E-News Bulletin October 2024

SOCIETY EVENTS

Our first lecture of the 2024-25 programme, The Value of Drawing in Renaissance Italy given by Grant Lewis, will take place online at 6pm on 8 October.

We have a variety of interesting events starting this autumn many of which have places available. Do also have a look at events taking place in the spring term – booking is open. 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 to ensure that events do not need to be transferred online or at worst cancelled.

Places are still available  for the following events:
Old Flo and Her Friends: the public art of Canary Wharf, a walk on 5 October led by Bridget Daly. This will be the first walk organised on a Saturday for at least 15 years!
Between Nationalism and Modernity: Artists of Eastern Europe, a five-week online course led by Kathy McLauchlan, starting on 16 October.
Caspar David Friedrich: intense visionary painter of landscape, a study day at Lettsom House on 18 October led by Clare Ford-Wille.
Four English Medieval Churches in Context, a two-afternoon study day led by John McNeill.
Drawing the Italian Renaissance, a visit to The King’s Gallery on 29 November.

Our 2024 AGM will take place on 26 November at 5pm at The Art Workers’ Guild, followed by a lecture on Alphonse Mucha: the Man, the Artist, the Legacy at 6pm. A joint ticket will be issued when you book for the lecture. Papers relating to the meeting will be distributed to all members at the end of October.

NOW SHOWING IN LONDON

FRIEZE SCULPTURE 2024, until 27 October 2024
The works of 22 leading international artists are displayed throughout the English Gardens in Regent’s Park. This event coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters 9-13 October also situated in the park.

CASSIUS&CO, until 26 October 2024
André Derain and the Stage
An exhibition considering the artist’s relationship with the stage from his early paintings to collaborations with theatres from the early twentieth century to his death in 1954.

ANNELY JUDA FINE ART, until 2 November 2024
László Moholy-Nagy: a new world
A retrospective of the Hungarian artist’s life and work in two distinct periods, in Berlin and subsequently in Chicago as Director of the New Bauhaus.

COMING SOON

PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY, 9 October 2024-23 February 2025
Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily
A solo show of works by the Italian photographer who used the camera to document the brutal daily terror of the Mafia in everyday Sicilian life.

RIBA, 11 October-29 November 2024
Sustainable design in the Gulf: past, present and future
The exhibition charts fifty years of RIBA architects’ work on sustainable design through historical and contemporary developments.

WALLACE COLLECTION, 22-23 October 2024, 6-8pm online
Still Life: extravagance and simplicity
In this short course Clare Ford-Wille will explore how from the sixteenth century onwards still life became a subject in its own right.

THE COURTAULD, VERNON SQUARE, 23 October 2024, 5.30-7pm
The Four Walks of the Cloister: paradise and practice in the medieval monastery
This talk re-examines the concept of the medieval cloister as a place of contact with the heavenly world.

THE GARDEN MUSEUM, 23 October 2024-2 March 2025
Lost Gardens of London
The exhibition will explore the history of the rich and varied gardens that once enhanced the capital.

EXHIBITIONS STARTING AT MAJOR LONDON GALLERIES IN OCTOBER 2024
Exhibitions starting this month include Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery, Gilbert & George at the Hayward Gallery and Sonia Boyce at the Whitechapel.  You can access and download a listing of current and future exhibitions showing in London from now until March 2025 here.