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.
Aspex Portsmouth and The Place are pleased to present Embodied Activism, the debut visual arts exhibition by interdisciplinary dance artist Sivan Rubinstein.
What separates the authentic from the fake? Is authenticity always something to aspire to? And is fake the worst we can be? What exactly is authenticity? Should we want it - and, if so, how do we get it? Join philosophers, analysts and artists to debate these questions.
In collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon, the CPA are delighted to present Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, a conference exploring new ways of understanding Francis Bacon's work and its implications for psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Flat Time House and /origin\forward/slash\ are hosting an online conversation with ‘Art & Language’ (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden) and Michael Corris (artist and author of upcoming publication Inside Art & Philosophy: An Artist’s Point of View).
Registration is now open for our Virtual Conference ‘Time for Beauty’ generously sponsored by the British Society for Aesthetics.
