Enjoy the recorded version of our informal conversation with an art historian - Bojana Popovic.
Video Category: Visual art
Picturing Memories: A walk through contemporary art
By looking at a group of contemporary artists, discover how memories inspired them to create some of their best-loved paintings.
Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings: Vulnerability and Community
This lecture explores Moore’s ‘Shelter Sketchbook’, the artist’s feelings for his subjects and how, over time, the artist’s intention was lost to suit a more heroic narrative.Â
Peggy Guggenheim: Saving Modern Art
This lecture traces the development of her work and her collection, from its early days of failure in London and Paris, to its ultimate success in New York and Venice.Â
Andy Warhol: A Rise to Success
Andy Warhol's fame and success were not immediate and his rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant home in Pittsburgh to his status as New York celebrity socialite, wasn’t without its challenges. In this session discover the turbulent life story behind one of the most important American artists of all time, Andy Warhol.Â
Lucian Freud: artist in focus
Coinciding with a major retrospective exhibition at The National Gallery in London, this talk will focus on one of the best-loved figurative painters of the 20th century – Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
The History of Caribbean Carnival in Britain
Join us to explore the celebratory history and purpose of a Caribbean Carnival to understand its combination of Trinidadian roots, African traditions and Jamaican sound system culture and how it came to symbolise freedom in the face of oppression for the Afro Caribbean community in West London’s Notting Hill carnival.
Freedom of Speech: Art as a forum for discussion
We will look at artists who use their art to hold a mirror to society and expose problems or issues around them. Join art historian Bojana Popovic as she takes us on a journey exploring works by Ai Weiwei, Kahinde Wiley, Kara Walker, Banksy and others.
Cabaret Culture
The multi coloured world of cabaret is a vast spectrum of performance, incorporating visual arts, comedy, music, dance, strip tease, the list is seemingly endless. Join us as we discuss who what where when how and why is Cabaret.
On Tastemakers: Culture, Beauty and History
Have you ever considered who decides what is cool, appealing, fashionable, undesirable, threatening or healthy? We consume the media for knowledge and entertainment but do we ever stop and think how that consumption shapes what we get to know and like and what we don’t?
Join Samantha Allen to explore notions of beauty, heritage and ‘the savage’ to understand why we often think the way we do.