{"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. Organised by Professor Jo Applin, Director of The Courtauld's Centre for the Art of the Americas, it revisits and rethinks the American painter's work, connections and legacy from a range of perspectives. For almost 60 years Ryman made paintings without pictorial or symbolic content, focusing on the physical properties of materials and their effects, and exploring the basic assumptions of painting itself. Speakers include Indie A. Choudhury, Briony Fer, Pia Gottschaller and David Gray.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/robert-ryman-a-new-way-of-seeing-symposium-35444/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/robert-ryman-a-new-way-of-seeing-symposium/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2cb1e9f6d603a846d5a46c29a88648539d9a341386b9b4e07651f72603c232e9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Studio", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Massimo De Carlo", "address": "South Audley Street 55, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Studio is a solo exhibition of paintings by the American painter Jonathan Gardner at a London gallery. He takes the artist's studio as his subject: rooms within rooms and paintings within paintings, built from memory, imagination and art history. The flat, clean rooms with colour laid down in blocks nod to Matisse and Magritte, while landscapes with rivers and desert scenes open spaces of solitude. Beneath the art-historical poise, the exhibition holds something like hope shadowed by unease at a deliberate, painterly distance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-studio-41680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e028b4fa2074ea7ca08e23bd838fd3d70465d1e7057b4ba7f18128d37392ecd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "On Painting: Fiona Rae Interviewed by Glenn Brown In Conversation", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Brown Collection", "address": "Bentinck Mews 1, W1U 2AF London", "price": "£12 (standard), £10 (concession)", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An in-person interview event titled 'On Painting: Fiona Rae Interviewed by Glenn Brown : In Conversation', taking place in Gallery 3 at The Brown Collection, with doors opening before the talk begins. The British painter Fiona Rae, known for energetic abstraction drawing on pop culture, film, television and digital technology, is interviewed by artist Glenn Brown, founder of The Brown Collection. Both are painters associated with the Young British Artists who emerged in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, each answering the era's questioning of painting in a different way. The conversation explores how their early positions shaped their practices, the place of painting in a changing visual culture, and their approaches to colour, composition and the materiality of paint.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/on-painting-fiona-rae-interviewed-by-glenn-brown-in-conversa-39025/", "official_url": "https://the-brown-collection.co.uk/events/36-on-painting-fiona-rae-interviewed-by-glenn-brown-in-conversation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d3c109a00a0de152f6ced9db50b914084b88f5fa12349798622950e880a8e39-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ian Davenport: Reflections", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Waddington Custot Galleries", "address": "Cork Street 11-12, W1S 3LT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Reflections' is a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings spanning the late 1980s to the present. It celebrates the career of artist Ian Davenport (b. 1966), showing early experimental pieces made after he graduated from Goldsmiths college alongside the Puddle Paintings for which he is best known. The exhibition marks his 11th solo exhibition with the gallery since his debut show in 1990, and traces his process-led approach, from Erased Lines and Watering Can Drawings to poured colour lines and recent splatter paintings. It is accompanied by a new publication with essays, reviews and a conversation with his brother, writer Philip Davenport.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ian-davenport-reflections-42787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a313a11d67eea50f265f4ecca04f3c41ccc46794999d7e37d20afb4ee1b83c68-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ha Chong-Hyun", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "A panel discussion at Lisson Gallery reflecting on the concurrent exhibition of Ha Chong-Hyun and his six decades of pioneering work. Organised in partnership with ArtReview, it considers the development of the Seoul-based artist's practice and its place in the broader history of postwar abstraction. Speakers include Sook-Kyung Lee and Wenny Teo, with moderation by Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ha-chong-hyun-37023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4292ec4eb37d5a0f97bab91c1a993bdcd3c7922e43cff897c85392c6a6ba730-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Mind’s Weather", "start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Mind's Weather is an exhibition of new paintings by Christopher Le Brun at Lisson Gallery in London. The artist presents an extensive sequence of canvases informed by a lifetime's thinking about painting, showing his mastery of colour and touch. The works explore the fundamental characteristics of painting: surface and depth, tone and light, memory and imagination. The title highlights the vital role that changeability, or openness to change, plays in Le Brun's paintings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-minds-weather-41642/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c16321806ddb1bb3806509d176fcd6d0d1f818dc0f9e49c9a881799c28fe129-1200.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": "Art of conversation: 10-minute Talk", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A ten-minute gallery talk at the National Gallery called 'Art of conversation', part of a series of talks and conversations. Speaker Erin-Jane Golding, a multidisciplinary creative, artist and cultural programmer who develops events at the National Gallery, leads it, inspired by the exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation'. The talk asks how we should converse with art, challenging the worry that visitors need art-historical knowledge or the 'right' interpretation to engage with a painting. Drawing on her own reflections, Erin invites everyone to explore looking, questioning and interpretation, celebrating that there is no single way to make meaning from art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-78909/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-autumn-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bac510622656a1288bab8efe51b6b567a1ebb981f12ed44d3ff19f17ed58923-2000.webp"}, {"title": "White Cube x RA", "start": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/prints"], "description": "A free selling display of limited edition prints by Royal Academicians, shown in the Academicians' Room and the Belle Shenkman Bar in the Keeper's House, with artworks available for sale. The Royal Academy of Arts has partnered with White Cube, a contemporary art gallery founded in 1993 by Jay Jopling, curating the display together. It features seven- and ten-colour lithographs by Michael Armitage inspired by Ousmane Sembène's films and Kenyan cave paintings, a portfolio of four polymer-gravure etchings by Tracey Emin revisiting her Margate childhood, and meditative lithographs by Antony Gormley on the body in space. Sales support the artists, the RA and its Schools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/white-cube-x-ra-38257/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ff2b9129a37a3e0babf9b60bf7c0986896a08b981219f94554e0c89ded8cd65-600.webp"}, {"title": "Line, Color, and the Concept of Space", "start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An art exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the American artist Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996), presented under the title 'Line, Color, and the Concept of Space'. The show brings together more than twenty paintings alongside related works on paper, tracing Smith's mature practice from the mid-1950s through 1980. It explores his investigations of positive and negative space, line, color, and form, including several works never before exhibited. The display highlights how simple geometric elements give rise to complex and shifting perceptions of space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/line-color-and-the-concept-of-space-41643/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/line-color-and-the-concept-of-space", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82f0c96fe92855948824f22756ccb38b49b4c7fb6d484f1e70c7633206e7a9b2-1200.webp"}]}