2010 Events and Lectures
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
23 January—18 April 2010

Vincent Van Gogh, 'The Yellow House (The Street)', September 1888. Oil on canvas, 72 x 91.5 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Talks
Van Gogh: Reading Matters
Wouter van der Veen (Friday 29 January)
Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
Ann Dumas (Monday 1 February)
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Odd Couple of Art
Martin Gayford (Friday 5 February)
Playing Vincent
Jochum Ten Haaf and Mark Edel-Hunt (Friday 12 February)
Van Gogh’s Years in London
Martin Bailey (Monday 15 February)
‘I have a draughtsman’s fist’: Van Gogh’s First Years as a Toiling Artist
Teio Meedendorp (Monday 22 February)
Van Gogh in Saint Rémy
Dr Jean-Marc Boulon and Ann Dumas (Friday 5 March)
Van Gogh: A Man of Letters
Leo Jansen, Nienke Bakker and Ann Dumas (Friday 19 March)
Vincent and Poetry
Pele Cox (Friday 9 April)
Workshops and courses
Creating an Artists’ Book
Barbara Salvadori (Saturday 6 March)
Paul Sandby RA: Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition
13 March—13 June 2010

Paul Sandby, Roche Abbey, Yorkshire, c.1770s. Watercolour over graphite, 300 x 588 mm. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo © Royal Academy of Arts/Slingsby
Talks
The Watercolour Comes of Age: Paul Sandby’s Legacy (free talk: 12 Apr)
MaryAnne Stevens (Monday 12 April)
Mapwork: Sandby and the Topographical Tradition (evening talk: 23 Apr)
Professor Stephen Daniels (Friday 23 April)
Following in Sandby’s Prints (evening talk: 30 Apr)
Professor Malcolm Andrews (Friday 30 April)
The Sandbys and the Royal Academy (free talk: 10 May)
Dr Martin Postle (Monday 10 May)
The English Landscape: Art and Poetry (evening talk: 14 May)
Sir Andrew Motion and MaryAnne Stevens (Friday 14 May)
Sandby Views of Windsor (free talk: 24 May)
The Honourable Lady Roberts (Monday 24 May)
Symposia and Focus Days
Paul Sandby and the Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Art
(18 — 19 March 2010)
Summer Exhibition 2010
14 June—22 August 2010

Installation View of the Large Weston Room, Summer Exhibition 2010. Photo: John Bodkin/DawkinsColour
Talks
David Nash RA
David Nash RA, Peter Murray OBE and Dr Richard Cork (Thursday 8 July)
Sargent and the Sea
10 July—26 September 2010

Talks
Free Lunchtime Lecture: Sargent and the Sea
Exhibition curator Sarah Cash, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Monday 12 July)
Evening Talk: 'Sargent: A Personal View'
Richard Ormond, Sargent’s great-nephew and Director of the Sargent catalogue raisonné project (Friday 16 July)
Free Lunchtime Lecture: ‘All roads lead to Paris’
MaryAnne Stevens, the RA’s Director of Academic Affairs (Monday 19 July)
Free Lunchtime Lecture: Sargent Storms Paris
Professor Kathy Adler (Monday 20 September)
Artists' Laboratory 01: Ian McKeever RA
8 September—24 October 2010

Talks
Ian McKeever RA: Hartgrove Paintings
Ian McKeever RA and the Royal Academy’s Secretary and Chief Executive, Charles Saumarez Smith
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele
25 September—12 December 2010

Egon Schiele, 'Two Women Embracing' (detail), 1915. Egon Schiele, 'Two Women Embracing' (detail), 1915. Pencil, watercolour, gouache. 48.5 x 32.7 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Talks
Treasures from Budapest: An Introduction
Professor David Ekserdjian, exhibition curator (Monday 11 October)
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Piers Burton-Page (Friday 15 October)
An Art Collection for Hungary
Joanna Norman, exhibition co-curator (Monday 25 October)
Heroes’ Square: The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Deputy Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Dr Andrea Czére (Friday 5 November)
The Fabulous Esterházys
Stefan Körner and Rosie Goldsmith (Friday 26 November)
Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900
30 October 2010—23 January 2011

Talks
Gauguin and the Glasgow Boys
Dr Nina Lübbren (Monday 1 November)
Introducing the Glasgow Boys
Roger Billcliffe (Monday 8 November)
Glasgow Boys and Girls
Professor Tony Jones (Friday 12 November)
Just What Made the Glasgow Boys So Special?
MaryAnne Stevens (Monday 22 November)
Artists' Laboratory 02: Stephen Farthing RA
The Back Story
10 November—19 December

Talks
Stephen Farthing RA in Conversation
Stephen Farthing RA (Thursday 25 November)
Artists' Laboratory Talks: Stephen Farthing RA
(16 November-14 December)