{"title": "Hymn to Fertility: Paul Klee & the well-gardened painting", "start": "2026-11-20T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "£7", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/expressionism", "nature/plants"], "description": "An accessible one-hour online talk introducing how the expressionist artist Paul Klee experimentally embraced nature in his paintings. Speaker Dr Niccola Shearman, an independent art historian, explores how Klee used botanical metaphors to reach beyond imitation of nature towards the metaphysical and the healing potential of plants. 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Through contemporary art, photography, archival material and historic objects, it reveals how nature can offer freedom, imagination and belonging, and asks what happens when access to it is unequal. It features works by Joy Gregory, Andy Holden, Jade de Montserrat, Mark Neville, Quentin Blake, Ruth Beale, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, and spills out into the wider Museum with a 'nature trail' and a display on the pioneering London Pleasure Gardens. 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The show brings together paintings, prints, linocuts and sculptures, with linocut her primary medium for decades. The works present the landscape as a living world with which humans are intimately connected.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/australglyphs-70265/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75a5113774fc92c5d27e1ac86bf5ef1cd6cdec73d8b135cf5120c3cf4f3d5cc5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Green: Salman Toor and South Asian Literary Production In Detail", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "literature"], "description": "A lecture evening with two talks and an in-conversation exploring the motifs and symbols of South Asia in the work of painter Salman Toor, tracing the colour green and South Asian literary production through his art. It is part of the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, organised alongside Toor's first solo museum exhibition in Europe, and features curator and writer Aziz Sohail and writer, editor and critic Evan Moffitt. It is organised by Elena Crippa and Leyla Arrianne Bumbra at The Courtauld.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/green-salman-toor-and-south-asian-literary-production-in-det-35440/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/green-salman-toor-and-south-asian-literary-production-in-detail/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f74b1bbf0f0446f31a18c826bc51796f3d7f3ac0c25f9e9d729d898ac076ebb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Robert Ryman: A New Way of Seeing symposium", "start": "2026-11-20T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A half-day symposium marking the major Robert Ryman retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery. 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Prof. C Green", "start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Keats Community Library", "address": "Keats Grove 10, NW3 2RR London", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A lecture on the painter Henri 'Le Douanier' Rousseau at Keats Community Library. Christopher Green, Emeritus Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art and co-curator of a recent major Rousseau exhibition in Paris, explores what we know — and what we may never know — about Rousseau and his extraordinary paintings. He draws on things learned from curating the show and from new conservation research in Philadelphia and Paris, asking just how simple Rousseau really was as a man and a painter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/there-is-nothing-simple-about-henri-rousseau-prof-c-green-131606/", "official_url": "http://keatscommunitylibrary.org.uk/Henri-Rousseau.shtml", "image": "https://noky.io/images/683e21d1934bb6625b1c0f19be8fbefbe66d2da08f82457331234f08aa5f99b9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Glasshouse Stories – an installation by artist Claudia Fontes", "start": "2026-03-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "100 Bishopsgate", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture/installation-art", "nature/plants"], "description": "Glasshouse Stories is an art installation displayed in the glass-fronted reception space of an office building in the City of London. 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