{"title": "British Sign Language (BSL) talk: Renoir and Love", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/impressionism"], "description": "A free British Sign Language talk titled 'Renoir and Love', part of the Friday Lates series in the Whitcomb Room at the National Gallery. Deaf lecturer Alan Murray MBE introduces the National Gallery's major exhibition 'Renoir and Love'. The exhibition explores Pierre-Auguste Renoir's unique ability to capture love, friendship and human connection through celebrated Impressionist paintings, focusing on his most innovative years from the 1860s to the 1880s, with works brought together from international collections including 'Bal au Moulin de la Galette' (1876) shown in the UK for the first time. The session is led in British Sign Language with interpretation in spoken English, with priority given to British Sign Language users.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/british-sign-language-bsl-talk-renoir-and-love-49218/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/british-sign-language-bsl-talk-renoir-and-love-30-10-2026", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "A toast to Renoir: Champagne tasting with canapés", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "From £100", "price_from": "100.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.nationalgallery.org.uk/books.html", "category": "food-drink", "tags": ["food-drink/wine/champagne"], "description": "An evening of champagne tasting with paired canapés in the Supporters' House Salon, inspired by the sparkling social scenes in Renoir's paintings. Host Martin Dibben, formerly Searcys' Head of Champagne and co-founder of Premier Crew, guides guests through a selection of the finest champagnes while exploring the colours, characters and joie de vivre of Renoir's world, transporting them to the lively cafés, gardens and salons of Paris. The event is for House and Exhibition Members and is now fully booked.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-toast-to-renoir-champagne-tasting-with-canapes-78902/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/experience-a-toast-to-renoir-champagne-tasting-with-canapes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68b523531a8bd8a577d695ccfcfa790a21a6e8dceea8d1dc81c57b4c8ec1a5a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy", "address": "Burlington Gardens 6, W1S 3ET London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop/exhibition-catalogues/painting-the-french-riviera-exhibition-catalogue", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "The exhibition \"Painting the French Riviera\" shows how the French Riviera inspired and supported the rise of modern art, with more than 160 works including paintings, sculpture, books, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s. It is held by the Royal Academy, which selected 15 original vintage travel posters from AntikBar for the show, displayed in Gallery 9. The paintings include works by Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse and Klein among others, plus a video of Le Train Bleu produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The exhibition is on in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, open Tue-Thu and Sun 10am-6pm, Fri and Sat 10am-9pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-at-the-royal-academy-40956/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d58d3e524301624dc10977659e6e91e6936d452da4e4d6cf04267ad6146ae315-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Painting the French Riviera", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£24–£26 (£26.50–£28.60 with donation)", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/events/ex-painting-the-french-riviera", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism"], "description": "\"Painting the French Riviera\" is an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, running from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. It is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition tells the story of how the Côte d'Azur dazzled modern art's great innovators, showing how its radiance roused painters such as Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir and Klein, as well as giants of literature, cinema and fashion. It brings this to life through more than 160 works, including paintings, sculpture, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-38251/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0b576fb358580072257c9aa9dc3f50bca487966f691271b1834a7e363828fc1-600.webp"}, {"title": "In Provence and Southern France", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "A free selling display of prints and paintings shown in the Belle Shenkman Room in the Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Arts, with all works available for sale. 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The display runs from 29 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, and visitors who are not members can enquire at the membership desk to view it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-provence-and-southern-france-38255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ee24d195441fbf6f15e09319aa2c294e380865054be4fcfc8ea9ffc80e1054c-600.webp"}, {"title": "WINTER EXHIBITION", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Connaught Brown", "address": "Albemarle Street 2, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "WINTER EXHIBITION is an art exhibition at the Connaught Brown gallery in London. The gallery presents outstanding works by artists including Chagall, Matisse, Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Hepworth and others. 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Dr Lucy Wasensteiner, a Junior Professor of Art Historical Provenance Research at the University of Bonn, gives the talk, which looks ahead to the exhibition 'German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900-1918'. It takes place in the Whitcomb Meeting Room in the Sainsbury Wing, followed by a one hour drinks reception, and will also be livestreamed. The event is currently fully booked.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/provenance-politics-and-the-history-of-collecting-19th-centu-78906/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/seminar-09-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6588ab7deb2d2426643f10c4344e81574a9cb76f5eccdf73b63418549102167-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fresh takes: Art in 10 minutes", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A short 10-minute lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, part of the monthly Fresh takes series. The speaker is Tia Grant, an alumnus of the Gallery's Articulation initiative, which helps young people aged 16–19 build research and presentation skills and invites them to give 10-minute talks on works of art. She revisits her talk on Pietro Longhi's painting A Fortune Teller at Venice, offering fresh perspectives on the Venetian scene and the stories and mysteries at its heart. The free session is open to everyone in Room 33.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-78901/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a4b3b848068842b10d27a72b1c00c686328c296192a483295f5a0837b53e58-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BSL Tours of ‘The Coming of Age’ with Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsl-tour-of-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq-tickets-1989545523217?aff=WCWebsitelink", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/disability", "art"], "description": "A Deaf-led gallery tour of the exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’, delivered entirely in British Sign Language with no voiceover or audio. Artist and facilitator Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq guides visitors through selected objects and themes of the exhibition, including adolescence and how experiences of age vary across cultures and societies. Participants can ask questions and share their perspectives in BSL. The tour is free and meets at the Information Point on level 0.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bsl-tours-of-the-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq-40248/", "official_url": "https://wellcomecollection.org/events/bsl-tours-of-the-coming-of-age-with-rubbena-aurangzeb-tariq", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7cacbb429fcb782e5c3d458e52d3f299977668127b8b0c9bcfeedacb06d443ad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1920 \"Character Changed\"", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Philip Mould", "address": "Pall Mall 18-19, SW1Y 5LU London", "price": "Free to all | No booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, shown at Philip Mould & Company and titled after Virginia Woolf's declaration that 'on or about December 1910 human character changed.' It gathers works from the painters' most radical decade, when Roger Fry's 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition first showed British audiences Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse. Drawn mainly from private collections, it includes Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Duncan Grant (1915), shown publicly for the first time, Duncan Grant's Still Life in the Garden Room at Charleston (c.1918) and Roger Fry's Poinsettias in a Vase (c.1915). The exhibition is free to all with no booking required, and runs alongside Tate Britain's Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, to which Philip Mould & Company is lending works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-76743/", "official_url": "https://philipmould.com/exhibitions/67-the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-an-exhibition-of-works-by/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd1c2646f9fb4dfec77fd5ca585ca0ef86ecc028b49efd3b794099fc5925b9f9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Berkeley Square Fair LAPADA London W1 Stand A13", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "MacConnal-Mason", "address": "Duke Street St James's 17, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-detail/875538/0/dorothea-sharp-rba-roi-pswa-dartford", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "MacConnal-Mason presents a stand at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, held in Berkeley Square, London W1. The gallery brings selected artworks, including paintings by Gustave Loiseau, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Kyffin Williams, alongside sculpture and other works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/berkeley-square-fair-lapada-london-w1-stand-a13-76662/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb7bb218b5a9687919fc8c84da974d500b50a2c55f8ff1ef00564bc5125301d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alison Ramm", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bonnington Cafe", "address": "Vauxhall Grove 11, SW8 1TD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition of the art of Alison Ramm, running throughout October at the Bonnington Cafe. It is presented by Alison Ramm together with BCCA and 4th World Arts, and marks a welcome return, celebrating a member of the extraordinary community of artists who lived and worked there in the 1980s. Opening hours follow the cafe's own opening hours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alison-ramm-41063/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2deabd5bbaf8bf5d583cba30df617cd944af948dfadaf79d14821f6d5eaec63-600.webp"}, {"title": "L.S. Lowry RA (1887-1976) An Exhibition and Book Launch", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Crane Kalman Gallery", "address": "Brompton Road 178", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.cranekalman.com/exhibitions/66/works/artworks-10256-laurence-stephen-lowry-a-corner-shop-1943/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by L.S. Lowry RA held to mark the publication of the 4th edition of 'L.S.Lowry: A Biography' by Shelley Rohde. The gallery shows works spanning the artist's career, from early portraits and scenes to landscapes and industrial views. It also recalls the gallery's long friendship with Lowry, beginning when he bought a picture at its second exhibition in 1949.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ls-lowry-ra-1887-1976-an-exhibition-and-book-launch-35462/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37eed4bbf4d5996078e07fa6b3287bd447e50e8062432dbe12d4e2df0386a0e1-1200.webp"}]}