26th July 2012
The Medieval Art of Love and Life
Patricia Wright,
author and lecturer illustrates the myths and contradictions
of medieval love and courtship through less familiar art of
the period often filled with people doing everyday things,
sometimes racily sketched, often filled with humour and
romance.
28th June 2012
A Kiss for All the World: Klimt
and the Viennese Secession
Douglas
Skeggs, writer, TV presenter and artist
explores Vienna in the final years before the outbreak of the Great War, when
the haunting paintings of Klimt,
the writings of Freud and the
music of Mahler gave expression to this brief,
often dark but always dazzlingly inventive period of art.
March 22nd 2012
The British Seaside Holiday:
History,
Architecture and Entertainment
Jackie Marsh-Hobbs
The British seaside holiday started in the 18th
century when wealthy people
began going to coastal towns like Scarborough and Brighton to
partake in the seawater cure. Like spa towns it was the health
benefits that enticed society, sea bathing became popular as
well as promenading along seafront or pier to breathe the fresh
air. It was the building of the railways and the earlier steam
boat excursions that opened up the seaside resorts to the
masses, small towns on the coast rapidly expanded to cater for
the ever increasing crowds of visitors.
26th
April 2012
The World of Graham
Sutherland and John Piper
Valerie Woodgate
lecturer at Tate Modern and Tate Britain speaks about the
surprisingly similar lives of these two artists who produced
astonishing bodies of work.
Born in 1903, they were both
commissioned as official war artists in World War II and went on
to create moving and inspirational works of religious art.
24th May 2012
The Ancient Greek
Olympics – A Visitor’s Guide
Dr Neil Faulkner,
writer, archaeologist and broadcaster is our expert commentator
on the Ancient Greek Olympics of 388 BC, a vastly different
experience to London 2012, and one that was surprisingly well
documented in literature, archaeology and art.