Dulwich Picture Gallery - What makes a global city?

Contextual Lecture Series London: The Making of a Global City Click here to watch our new video with Contextual Lecture Series curator Dr Kenneth Wolfe What makes a global city? How do we maintain its expanding fortitude? Join expert speakers as they examine aspects of London's identity from 1817-2017, discussing two centuries of social, industrial and cultural innovations. The series opened earlier today with a long-sold-out lecture by Professor A.C. Grayling. The rest of the series is selling out fast, and we've just released tickets for dates in May & June. Book now online to guarantee your seat. All Contextual Lecture Series, Tuesday mornings at 10.30 - 11.30am. £12 / £10 Friends View the lectures →

Contextual Lecture Series: March - June Enlightenment London - 14 March Professor John Robertson  Two Hundred Years of Farming Change, 1817–2017 - 21 March Dr Paul Brassley Greater London: The story of the Suburbs - 28 March (SOLD OUT) Dr Nick Barratt   Keynes: A Revolution in Economic Thinking - 11 April (SOLD OUT) Lord Robert Skidelsky A City of Women But Not Always For Us: London 1817 - 2017 - 25 April Professor Mary Evans Punch and the Athenæum: Satire and High Places in London's Famous Club - 9 May Professor Michael Wheeler The Subterranean Railway: How the Underground Changed London - 16 May Christian Wolmar The Life and Work of Michael Faraday (1791-1867) - 30 May Professor Frank James English Law and the Empire - 13 June Sir Francis Jacobs The Contemporary City - 20 June Ben Judah Book online now → Other Lecture Series InTown & InSight InTown: Thursday evenings, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start. £12 / £10. Clash of the Titans - Michaelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and their Rivals - 23 February Dr. Paula Nuttall, National Gallery Revolutionary Russian Art 1917-1932 - 16 March Graham Greenfield, Royal Academy The Painting Techniques of John Singer Sargent - 30 March Dr Joyce Townsend , Tate Book InTown Lectures → InSight: Wednesday mornings, 10.30-11.30am. £12 / £10. Series of three: £32 / £26. 'My portrait in little': 16th Century Portrait Miniatures - 1 March Karen Hearn, Tate Britain / UCL The World Made Small: miniatures from the V&A Museum of Childhood - 8 March Esther Lutman, V&A Museum of Childhood. Microcosms and Microworlds: Ivory Carvings from the Middle Ages - 15 March Naomi Speakman , British Museum Book InSight Lectures