Free arts and culture events, page 26 of 27

Laura Lee on Contemporary Art and Technology

Smart Museum · Smart Museum of Art

teamLab’s works—from wall-mounted pieces to vast, immersive installations—have become some of the most widely shared, most photographed art in the world.

Migrant Forms: Contemporary Art, Colonial Pasts

The Courtauld Institute of Art

In the third lecture in our 2026-27 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series we are delighted to welcome Professor Saloni Mathur.

Do Machines Make Music?

Gresham College · LSO St Luke's

From ninth-century Arabic musical automata to the vast, electricity-driven synthesizer of 1896, the idea of machines making music is far older than we might imagine.

Annie Shirer - A Kininmonth Lassie and Collector of Folklore

University of Aberdeen · MacRobert Building, MR051

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

Bunker Talk #171 Restoke

Manchester Metropolitan University · SODA Cinema

Discussion, SODA Cinema

Conversation Piece: Brian Callender

Smart Museum · Smart Museum of Art

In this Smart series, University of Chicago scholars and their invited guests host intimate, in-gallery conversations about one artwork on view in a current exhibition.

Bunker Talk #172: Daphne Baram

Manchester Metropolitan University · The Salutation Pub, 12 Higher Chatham St, Manchester, M15 6ED

Discussion, The Salutation Pub

One Gay Man's Accidental Creation of the Modern Tattoo Industry

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Hanns Rudolf “Rudi” Inhelder (1929–2003) was a Swiss physicist in Cold War America and passionate tattoo collector. He built a vast archive and founded the Tattoo Club of America in 1960s New York…

An Unknown Architectural Drawing from the Workshop of Peter Parler

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Professor Jakub Adamski for a lecture which explores a parchment sheet with a presumed sketch of the canopy tomb of Pope Innocent VI from the Charterhouse in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Christiane Paul on Immersion

Smart Museum · Smart Museum of Art

The talk will trace the history of immersive environments in digital art and explore the degrees of immersion enabled by different platforms. Virtual and augmented realities, as well as enveloping…

ALI LECTURE SERIES | Sitting Still: A Laurie Olin Documentary

College of Design · Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street Se Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Join us for a series of lectures hosted by the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (ALI) during the 2026-27 academic year.

Talk and Film Screening: Disavowal as Belonging

Iranian Studies · BAMPFA

This talk expands on Gelare Khoshgozaran’s ongoing explorations of exile as a generative space to form a resonant collectivity—one that embodies alienation, embraces the impossibility of return, and…

Smart Lecture Series | “The Time of Dyes: Fleeting Textile Color and the Environment in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia”

Department of Art History · Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157

In this talk, Houghteling will introduce her current book project on bright but short-lived textile dyes that were shared across South Asia and island Southeast Asia.

Together Now: Cooperation and Collaboration in Social Art Practice - Mr Harold Offeh, Royal College of Art

University of Cambridge · Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue

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Play it Again Ludwig: Waves, Strings, and the Stradivarius

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

The production of sound by a musical instrument is a process of great beauty and mystery. What makes a sound deep or rich? How does it depend on the size of the instrument and the way it is made.

What Is Talent? Nature, Nurture, and the Myth of the Muse

Gresham College · LSO St Luke's

Are great musicians born or made? Talent is often seen as a mysterious gift, yet musical ability also depends on practice, environment, and culture. Can disciplined effort take us all the way, or are…

TACIT STORYTELLING & IMPROV

California Institute of Technology · Ramo Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena

The Wild : Movie screening & Discussion

Geneva Graduate Institute · Auditorium A2 | Geneva Graduate Institute

Going to the Playhouse with Shakespeare

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture imagines a trip to a Shakespearean playhouse, accompanied by Shakespeare himself, in three parts: arriving at the theatre, where ballad sellers shape expectations through song; entering…

The Practices and Politics of Film Subtitles

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

From its birth, film has always been a global phenomenon. The arrival of the talkies opened up many opportunities for the popularisation of cinema to different audiences but also posed challenges to…