Our courses, led by an acknowledged authority in the subject, are designed to give members a chance to explore a wide range of new or familiar topics in the fields of art and architecture, at a level to suit their own expertise. Courses are either in-person or online and consist of either five weekly two-hour sessions or a two-day study event with four hours of lectures each day (either on consecutive days or over two weeks). Online courses and, where possible, in-person courses are recorded (subject to lecturer permission) and available to ticketholders for two weeks after the event.
In the past, courses have been open to Society members only. From 1st January 2025 non-members are allowed to attend certain events at the Organiser’s discretion at a non-member rate. Please see individual event booking page for further information.
Fees for Society members are £125 in-person and £110 online for a five-week course or £98 in-person and £88 online for a two-day study event.
Fees for non-members are £145 in-person and £130 online for a five-week course or £118 in-person and £108 online for a two-day study event.
It is not possible to pay for part of a course.
PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKING CLOSES 48 HOURS BEFORE THE START OF THE COURSE
Open to all
Places available
- Wed 11 - Wed 18 November 2026
11am-4pm every Wednesday
- The Art Workers’ Guild & As Post Event Online Recording
- Lecturer: Niccola Shearman
If, by the turn of the twentieth century, cracks were beginning to show in the decorative façades of most European centres of power, the pain and the pleasure were nowhere more public than in Vienna. From the launch of the Secession to the angst-ridden art of the Expressionists; from the theatrical splendour of institutional architecture to the clean lines of the sanatorium, there is plenty to analyse in this modernist arena. In the work of famous artists and architects including Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos; across the applied arts, literature and music too, this course examines the radical overthrow of tradition by an avant-garde equipped with an uncanny x-ray vision.
