New Kingdom This week we celebrate the golden age, Egypt's New Kingdom. We'll view iconic works that span from the reunification and great Queen Hatshepsut through Ramses the Great! We […]
“An Antwerp Friendship” Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Van Dyck Rubens rose head and shoulders above his contemporaries and could afford to be generous to the other artists in his […]
The Jews of Spain to the Expulsion From 711 and the Moslem conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the Jews living there experienced an extraordinary era. This presentation will examine the […]
Coronation, Pageantry, and Tradition: a tantalising look at monarchy from Queen Victoria to today A "Royal Event" prior to the Coronation Can’t travel to England for the coronation of King […]
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case takes readers back to 1962, a time when forgeries were turning […]
Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, And Muslim Art Draw From The Same Source This pair of richly-illustrated talks will consider the common origins and divergent and often convergent directions […]
The Jews of Holland Once part of the Spanish Empire, the Protestant Dutch finally broke away from their Catholic Masters. They emerged as one of the great trading Nations of the World. Sephardi Jews, many of them Merchants and Traders, found an acceptance there. This presentation will tell the highs and lows of their story […]
Aurelia Young will tell the incredible unknown story of her father, Oscar Nemon, a friend and sculptor of Freud and Churchill! She will trace Nemon's dramatic journey across Europe from […]
Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, And Muslim Art Draw From The Same Source The art of the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that faith's specific spiritual needs. And much of this symbolic language predates any of the […]
Life or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon As co-curator of the most comprehensive exhibition of Salomon’s work to date (held to great acclaim at the Royal Academy of Art in 1998), Monica Bohm-Duchen had the privilege of gaining an intimate knowledge of an extraordinary, but still today insufficiently well-known work of art. Life or Theatre? A […]
1656 Resettlement in England to about 1750 Jews officially returned to to England during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. They were wealthy Sephardi merchants from Holland. Small in number, they enhanced British Trade and many scaled the heights of society. This is their story. In the series: May 3: The Jews of Spain to the […]
A War of Two Titans Sir Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough vied with one another to paint the elites of 18th Century England. Despite occasional tensions between them each expressed a somewhat grudging admiration for the other. In the series: Apr. 11: “A Renaissance Rivalry May 2: “An Antwerp Friendship” May 23: […]
Trying to understand the complex Middle East Join Amnon Zohar on his latest update as he unravels background and context in the volatile Middle East where the news headlines change daily. Protests, Gaza initiative - For Netanyahu, the storm before the calm? Has he taken charge again? What's happened to the judicial overhaul? Will the coalition survive? […]
In Conversation with Michael Smith on “Foley - The Spy who saved 10,000 Jews” During the 1920s and 1930s, Frank Foley worked as Chief Passport Control Officer for the British Embassy in Berlin, a cover for his role as MI6 Head of Station there. As the Nazi administration increased its stranglehold over the country, Foley used […]
Become a Classi Member! Join our great Community of those who love “The Arts”, History, Food & travel and are Learners having Fun! All lectures* June 1 – August 31, 2023 $75 NEW Monica Bohm-Duchen: New Art Lectures with Monica Bohm-Duchen Ori Z. Soltes: Plundered Art Revisted Jordan Klapman: Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen Amnon Zohar: […]
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of […]
"After Impressionism" A ground-breaking new exhibition of over 100 paintings and sculptures by artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Klimt, Kandinsky and Mondrian opened at the National […]
Jews in England Seduced by England, Jews strove for acceptance. Emancipation was a long, slow process. This presentation will explore the Jews of Victorian Britain and the personalities that shaped […]
Dorothy Gibson Dorothy Gibson was an American actress, socialite and artist's model, active in the early 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic and for starring […]
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