The CPA works with galleries, artists and curators in the UK and Europe, from major public institutions to independents. Based at King's College London, we aim to explore and advance the key questions facing the contemporary arts
The CPA works with galleries, artists and curators in the UK and Europe, from major public institutions to independents. Based at King's College London, we aim to explore and advance the key questions facing the contemporary arts
Explore the themes of luxury and leisure across paintings in the Gallery’s collection, and art more broadly, in this three-week course. Within Western art, luxury and leisure are deeply ambiguous concepts. Luxury is associated with pleasure and splendour, but also with corruption and excess. In the third session, we turn these questions back on to our own relationship to art.
Explore the themes of luxury and leisure across paintings in the Gallery’s collection, and art more broadly, in this three-week course. Within Western art, luxury and leisure are deeply ambiguous concepts. Luxury is associated with pleasure and splendour, but also with corruption and excess. In the second session, we turn to leisure, considering works by Raphael, Van Dyck, Seurat and Sorolla.
Explore the themes of luxury and leisure across paintings in the Gallery’s collection, and art more broadly, in this three-week course. Within Western art, luxury and leisure are deeply ambiguous concepts. Luxury is associated with pleasure and splendour, but also with corruption and excess.
An Online Conversation between /origin\forward/slash\ and philosopher of art Stéphane Symons, Professor of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. His research interests are in the domain of philosophy of culture and art, primarily nineteenth and twentieth century, and continental philosophy. His book chapter ‘This hand is the hand of all: Walter Benjamin on Drawing’ (in The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook, ed. Nathan Ross, 2024) is the starting point for discussion with members of /origin\forward/slash\
