{"title": "Titian and the Dog's Gaze", "start": "2026-11-02T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.nationalgallery.org.uk/13275/13615", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/renaissance"], "description": "A talk at the National Gallery exploring dogs in art, built around Titian's painting 'The Death of Actaeon', in which the hunted Actaeon is torn apart by his own hounds. The speaker is Thomas W. Laqueur, historian and author of 'The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History'. He examines the dogs in the painting as witnesses and drivers of the scene, then broadens to how dogs across centuries of art guide the viewer's eye and stand in for us. The talk asks what viewing art through the eyes of dogs reveals about the human experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/titian-and-the-dogs-gaze-74468/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/titian-and-the-dogs-gaze-02-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/150d03921b73a5a07aa7686e23d9f65368564f4e0897b351ca2d73c069d1d227-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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, "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "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. 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It looks at Rachel Kneebone's white porcelain sculptures, After the Dance I and III, and how they invite comparisons with the paintings and sculptures around them. Set against dark red walls and gilded frames, the works draw attention to movement, stillness and transformation across the Collection. 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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": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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. 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Visitors explore highlights from across the galleries and discover the stories, techniques, and artistic achievements behind some of the Collection's most celebrated works. 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Art historian, critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon takes us inside Vermeer's paintings, exploring their composition, symbolism, technique and atmosphere through close looking. Drawing on years of research for his book Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, named The Times Art Book of the Year 2025, he reveals the discoveries behind his new understanding of the artist and situates the works within the religious, political and social upheavals of the seventeenth century, including newly unearthed documents. Every ticket includes a copy of the new paperback edition of the book.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/masterclass-andrew-graham-dixon-on-vermeer-60009/", "official_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclass-andrew-graham-dixon-on-vermeer-tickets-1997330614635", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0959fd25a59630b4461bd36f9e6a5adc98fc4bb1367a6ceb15a02b2674b83bdb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past", "start": "2026-11-06T09:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history"], "description": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past is the Society of Antiquaries' annual Collections and Research Day, focusing this year on its Prints and Drawings collection of works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The event is hosted by the Society of Antiquaries and presents the work of early career researchers and collections professionals. It examines how images shape knowledge production and circulation, mediate encounters with lost and extant objects and buildings, and contribute to the study of the material past, from early modern prints to contemporary graphic practices. The keynote, 'Towers and Transformations: 40 years of printmaking by Anne Desmet RA', spans her career as artist-printmaker, and attendees can also visit curated displays at the library of either the Royal Academy of Arts or the Linnaean Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lines-of-enquiry-graphic-arts-and-the-afterlives-of-material-38657/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/lines-of-enquiry/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7db67b77575aa91c39629348415212837d9c42d8f7d5ace48bea44c9b8f4b718-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Reimagined histories: Spoken word and choir", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/singing/choir", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "An evening of spoken word and choir at the National Gallery, held in the Pigott Theatre on level -1 of the Sainsbury Wing. It is led by poet and lawyer Dave Neita together with composer, artist and double bassist Dr Deborah Pritchard, joined by a choral ensemble. The performance is inspired by the exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation', exploring themes of identity, dialogue, social justice and freedom. Blending historical and newly commissioned work, it places classical music of Gainsborough's era alongside contemporary compositions and bespoke poetry, reflecting on the legacies of empire and the transatlantic slave trade.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reimagined-histories-spoken-word-and-choir-78903/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/reimagined-histories-spoken-word-and-choir-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f5d42008a43fbc58de46f3e82c460b9f2c079a38af17ff9475f542dbca29080-2000.webp"}]}