{"title": "Colonial Paris: Hidden Histories of French Art and the Caribbean", "start": "2026-11-19T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/history", "history/colonialism"], "description": "This is a one-hour talk on how France's colonial empire, especially the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), shaped the eighteenth-century Paris art world. It is given by Dr Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art at Queen Mary University of London and co-director of the research project Colonial Networks. The talk explores how colonial trade, wealth, and power intersected with the making, circulation, and collecting of art, and how the French and Haitian Revolutions brought some works to London. It can be attended in person in the museum's Theatre, with no ticket required, or watched live online via Zoom with a free booked ticket.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colonial-paris-hidden-histories-of-french-art-and-the-caribb-39913/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/colonial-paris-hidden-histories-of-french-art-and-the-caribbean/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1330661f89dedfa130bfc3bdfe24a8429c4e485e937d0cf63d9e89bc754f61bb-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Cornwallis Cloth: Championing untold stories of WW2 in the Caribbean", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "Free (Booking Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "An evening at the Visitor Centre with a viewing of the Cornwallis Cloth exhibition and film installation, followed by a panel discussion. Sweet Patootee Arts and the Old Royal Naval College Interpretation Team explore how oral testimony and creative research can break through archival silence to restore long silenced histories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War. From 6pm to 7.30pm visitors can view the exhibition, with the talk and Q&A running from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Admission is free, though booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cornwallis-cloth-championing-untold-stories-of-ww2-in-the-ca-37528/", "official_url": "https://ornc.org/whats-on/cornwallis-cloth-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f154f1d4ee985023b247b25a756c70c8a52e88d0955166951326d2f69cafbd67-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Metamorphoses: The Swing", "start": "2026-11-18T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A short museum talk titled Metamorphoses: The Swing, held in The Study at the museum and spoken by Shahina Chung. It is part of a November programme discovering the connections between Rachel Kneebone's sculptures and works from the Wallace Collection. It explores the relationship between Kneebone's newly created Bower and Fragonard's The Swing, looking at how both artists use movement and sensuality to draw viewers into imaginative worlds that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/metamorphoses-the-swing-70691/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/metamorphoses-the-swing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2cba9f2c39f4afd406d1b898cbdf9520718837d41bfffcca4e04fdc11995ab56-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history"], "description": "The Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026 is an annual talk at the museum, held in its Theatre and broadcast live online via Zoom, followed by a drinks reception. This year's speaker is Wolf Burchard, Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the lecture 'The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle: Piecing together Louis XIV's Grande Galerie Savonnerie carpets'. He tells how, in 1668, Louis XIV commissioned 92 enormous Savonnerie carpets for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, woven over 25 years and never laid out there; after the French Revolution many were stripped of royal emblems, segmented, sold and dispersed, and curators from the Mobilier national and The Met are now piecing them together. In February 2026 the Mobilier national showed 32 of these carpets together at the Grand Palais in Paris, and from September 2026 The Met will stage the first ever exhibition devoted to the Savonnerie in the United States. The lecture honours Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection from 1992 to 2011, who transformed the under-visited institution into a cultural landmark.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026-39905/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Caribbean Voices: Shaping Docklands trail", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Museum Docklands", "address": "No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, E14 4AL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "Caribbean Voices: Shaping Docklands is a museum trail that sheds light on the Caribbean community's contributions to London Docklands. It was created by London Museum Docklands in collaboration with local partners. The trail highlights the need to reclaim the histories of colonised Caribbean nations, the role of Caribbean produce in shaping Britain, the contributions of Second World War veterans, and how the community has influenced the area's past and present. Visitors pick up a guide on the Third Floor and follow six stops across the Second Floor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/caribbean-voices-shaping-docklands-trail-70018/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f3f3a91b2d89e67aed7831238786e2b4cd8fa91acfcb9d2efb55315825e5300-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unexpected Views: Caroline Walker", "start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Unexpected Views is a series of conversations between National Gallery curators and leading living artists, looking at selected paintings from the collection. In this session, curator Daniel F. Herrmann is joined by the Scottish painter Caroline Walker, whose work reflects on the social, cultural and economic experiences of women. They discuss Walker's practice in relation to Edouard Manet's 'Corner of a Café-Concert'. The talk takes place in Room 41 and is free, with ticket booking required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unexpected-views-caroline-walker-78922/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/unexpected-views-caroline-walker-20-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d271bab27f7944c1dcf4bdef80869882e373355265588eb6ba1d68d8fe2e86bd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Provenance, politics and the history of collecting: 19th-century German art in the collection of the National Gallery", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "A seminar on the 19th-century German paintings in the National Gallery's collection and what they reveal about the Gallery's growth and relations between Britain and Germany. 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": "Hogarth and the 18th Century Sex Trade", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hogarth's House", "address": "Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN London", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/18th-century", "society/sex-work"], "description": "An immersive evening at Hogarth's House exploring the world behind William Hogarth's depictions of London's 18th-century sex trade. A storytelling tour through the galleries led by an 18th-century 'Covent Garden Lady' introduces the real people behind his famous images, followed by a talk by speaker Maria on the facts, figures and case studies of the trade, with a bar serving Mother's Ruin. Contains themes some may find triggering and is suitable for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hogarth-and-the-18th-century-sex-trade-36535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d329cb605afe081ee6704b9e9a7c19765d4b71e217a669cdfc3651e24fc24d45-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Metamorphoses: A Dance to the Music of Time", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A short fifteen-minute talk at the museum in the Billiard Room exploring the links between Rachel Kneebone's sculptures and works from the Wallace Collection. The speaker is David Wootton. It looks at Kneebone's Dance alongside Nicolas Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time and François Anguier's Borghese Dancers, considering how movement in the 'sister arts' of painting and sculpture relates to dance and ballet. Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/metamorphoses-a-dance-to-the-music-of-time-70690/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/metamorphoses-a-dance-to-the-music-of-time/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/603e27bce57ed5792f37fbda9841fe5f227aeacb1ed1cb3c107b00b167c375fa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Stories from the Middle Ages", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-07-25T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-ages"], "description": "Beyond Bayeux: Stories from the Middle Ages is a ten-month season of talks, workshops and concerts exploring the lesser-known stories and mysteries of the medieval era, held at the French Institute in London. It celebrates the landmark Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum. From the Norman Conquest to the story behind the Tapestry's loan, from la chanson de geste to l'amour courtois, it revisits the grand narrative of history and unravels a thousand and one stories. Historians, writers, artists, singers, musicians, dancers, storytellers and troubadours take audiences back to the medieval world and the intertwined histories of Britain, France and the wider European continent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-stories-from-the-middle-ages-90540/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Arcadia\" is a multi-screen film installation about a global migration of people, nature and disease. It is by John Akomfrah, a widely respected artist and filmmaker known for works exploring memory, post-colonialism and the experiences of migrant diasporas. The installation shows the mass movement of plants, people, animals, metals, diseases and ideas between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe from the 1400s onwards, known as the Columbian Exchange. Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "African Heritage Tours at Tate Modern", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "art"], "description": "A guided tour at Tate Modern that explores artworks relating to African and Caribbean heritage and history. All are welcome, and portable chairs are available. The tour meets at the Level 2 tour meeting point in the Natalie Bell Building and is part of the gallery's programme of African Heritage Tours. Some tours may reference slavery and racism, and tours are subject to change, so visitors are asked to check on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/african-heritage-tours-at-tate-modern-87899/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/african-heritage-tours-at-tate-modern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f40a6cade6a5954eaea6fc0313f3e0507d335b3329c51d380dc6bf3d69df7ff2-1200.webp"}]}