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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.
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.
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.
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

Sargent Exhibition Poster

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

mckeever

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. 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

Glasgow Boys poster

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

Farthing

Talks

Stephen Farthing RA in Conversation
Stephen Farthing RA (Thursday 25 November)

Artists' Laboratory Talks: Stephen Farthing RA
(16 November-14 December)