Ever since its inception two-hundred years ago, the National Gallery has been open to the public free of charge. Starting with a small collection, it has grown to just over

Over the centuries, composers and painters have often drawn inspiration from the same subject matter – a crow on a dead branch, a lonely traveller, a man contemplating the moon,

Portraits, piety, the classical world – it is the great celebratory themes which dominate our perception of the history of art, but the artist’s familiar world, both personal and social,

This course will study the influences from East to West, and West to East, on the East Asian cultures of Cambodia and Vietnam, Japan and China, from Classical times to

Performance of all kinds – from opera and dance to the spoken-word and many other manifestations in between – has been a site of fascination for artists. With the advent

London of the Victorian and Edwardian period is all around us, so much so that we scarcely register the scale of building, and the ambition and inventiveness of the architecture

In 1863, a 31year old artist exhibited a masterpiece, Luncheon on the Grass (Déjeuner sur l’Herbe) at the notorious Salon des Refusés in Paris. From that moment on, Edouard Manet

Twentieth-century London was characterised by profound change as the emergence of new superpower nations, world wars, and the end of empire caused profound shifts in the nation’s social, economic and

This course will explore the mutually enriching intersection between art and the garden. Often seen as works of art in and of themselves, great gardens have always inspired and delighted

Today the Nordic countries are considered to be politically stable, their populations among the happiest on the planet. This short course will highlight past conflicts and traumatic events, and will