{"title": "There is nothing simple about Henri Rousseau. 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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Keats Community Library", "address": "Keats Grove 10, NW3 2RR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Curator's introduction: Renoir and Love", "start": "2026-11-16T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A lunchtime lecture introducing the exhibition \"Renoir and Love\". Chiara Di Stefano, Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings, explores how Pierre-Auguste Renoir became one of the great painters of human connection. She looks at the themes, ideas and artistic developments at the heart of the exhibition, from dance halls to quiet moments between friends and families. The talk takes place in the Pigott Theatre on level -1 of the Sainsbury Wing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/curators-introduction-renoir-and-love-78913/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/curators-introduction-renoir-and-love-16-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d450462417371c8de747f14e3f74a04a4a962ffc09417dcabfeda2b04dff8d4-2000.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": "Mindful Art Observations", "start": "2026-11-09T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T10:45:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "Free, no booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Mindful Art Observations is a short drop-in session exploring the William Hogarth paintings through 'slow looking', a technique that invites you to slow down and dive deeper into the paintings through mindful observations. The sessions are led by the Barts Heritage Engagement Team. They run across several dates, with upcoming dates listed on the what's on page. The event is free and no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mindful-art-observations-60008/", "official_url": "https://bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/mindful-art-observations-666/?occurrence=2026-11-02&", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68f357d810a4c041b896b9713748ddfb3eab6738b7f88a238cf1c2fa14fb1e27-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Conversations | Storytelling Pictures: The Paintings of Julian Bell", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:30:00Z", "place": "Royal Drawing School", "address": "Charlotte Road 19-22, EC2A 3SG London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "literature"], "description": "Creative Conversations | Storytelling Pictures: The Paintings of Julian Bell is an in-person evening lecture at the Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch, seating guests from 6.30pm for a 7pm start with limited tickets. It celebrates the launch of 'Storytelling Pictures: The Paintings of Julian Bell', the first book to survey Bell's paintings, written by American art writer David Carrier and published by DISTANZ. Painter Julian Bell, who has taught at the school since 2012, is in conversation with the London-based painter Matthew Krishanu, whose work is in the collections of Tate and others. The event is part of the Creative Conversations series curated by Dr Claudia Tobin and is chaired by broadcaster and journalist Bidisha, with copies of the book available to purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-conversations-storytelling-pictures-the-paintings-o-135699/", "official_url": "https://royaldrawingschool.org/events/creative-conversations-storytelling-pictures-the-paintings-of-julian-bell", "image": "https://noky.io/images/629e6b0d650e187f2c06bb5cc2dbaf342af4c62c8ec5dbd0e3d390f0939e6a30-1200.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": "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": "Lascar – The Art & Ephemera of Stephen Tennant – The Man Who Stayed in Bed", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.81", "price_to": "17.81", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History showing paintings, drawings, scrapbooks and ephemera from its extensive collections. It is devoted to Stephen James Napier Tennant, a British artist known for his decadent, eccentric lifestyle and described as the brightest of the bright young things. A catalogue with essays by Philip Hoare, Hugo Vickers and Max Egremont will be available on the opening night. There is an opening reception with RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lascar-the-art-ephemera-of-stephen-tennant-the-man-who-staye-79105/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/stephen-tennant-an-exhibition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69b0bd2335b44ac4268a107bcee603d805fc009032a58d2c15ff51319da59492-1200.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": "Journeys into the Unseen Forest", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery", "address": "Conway Street 2, W1T 6BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/forest"], "description": "\"Journeys into the Unseen Forest\" is an exhibition of new paintings by Sylvain Lefebvre. It presents an imagined journey into an untouched forest, with invented but plausible tree species that may exist in undiscovered corners of the world or be trees of the future. The artist worked during the hottest summer on record in the South of France, where heatwaves and wildfires led him to explore through his imagination a forest untouched by humans. Framed as an expedition led by Professor Charles Gulliver Watson, who names each tree he sees, the show invites reflection on our impulse to discover, name and control the natural world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/journeys-into-the-unseen-forest-126610/", "official_url": "https://www.rebeccahossack.com/exhibitions/367/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4555f2ca6c7339dae54c0755c5920e74c9db94d822a97659438c9769ccf5e846-1200.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. 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"}]}