Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

Stephen Farthing RA discusses his Artists' Laboratory exhibition 'The Back Story' with art historian Professor Dawn Ades OBE.

A lecture in support of 'Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900' by MaryAnne Stevens, exhibition co-curator.

Deputy Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Dr Andrea Czere, explores the development of its collections from 1906 to the present day. A talk in support of 'Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele'.

A lecture by Dr Nina Lubbren, Anglia Ruskin University, in support of 'Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900'.

Professor Tony Jones, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, puts the Glasgow Boys paintings into context, and introduces the artists and personalities of the period. A talk in support of 'Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900'. Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, the recording of this event is slightly truncated.

A lecture by Joanna Norman, co-curator of 'Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele'.

Ian McKeever RA discusses his recent Artists' Laboratory exhibition at the RA with the Royal Academy's Secretary and Chief Executive, Charles Saumarez Smith.

By Professor David Ekserdjian, exhibition curator.

Landscape is an art of the present, fundamental to how we shape and understand both the built and natural environments. In this event chaired by art critic Richard Cork, internationally acclaimed landscape and urban designer, Diana Balmori, proposes a 25-point Landscape Manifesto that seeks to 'realign' landscape's role as a transformative and potentially transgressive art. She presents the Manifesto alongside specially devised work of Japanese video artist Mami Kosemura and a response by Eric Parry RA.

The young Sargent was immediately recognised in Paris for his precocious and remarkable talent. Professor Kathy Adler considers how his brief but scintillating career there was effectively ended by the controversy surrounding his submission of 'Madame X' to the Salon of 1884.

Lucian Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of art critic Martin Gayford. The resulting book recounts their conversations and gives a rare insight into the artist's working practice. In this talk, Gayford previews his book with Freud's assistant and photographer, David Dawson, and art critic Dr Richard Cork.

Monday 20 September saw a lecture by South African architect, Peter Rich, one of the leading proponents of a contemporary African architecture that fuses modernism with a tradition born from a deep understanding of African iconography and vernacular. In his lecture, he presents an array of projects that are deeply embedded in time and place promoting a truly sustainable architecture with a lasting legacy.

The work of Berlin-based practice Sauerbruch Hutton enchants with its refined forms, sophisticated use of colour and intelligent response to urban fabric. Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton discuss themes that inform their work, including the relationship between art and architecture, the interdependence of colour and space, and the aesthetics of sustainable architecture.

A lunchtime lecture in support of the exhibition 'Sargent and the Sea'. Exhibition curator Sarah Cash, Corcoran Gallery of Art, investigates the themes addressed in this groundbreaking exhibition of Sargent's early marine paintings, watercolours and drawings, executed in Europe and on transatlantic voyages as a young man.

An evening talk in support of the exhibition 'Sargent and the Sea'. Drawing on personal documents and reminiscences, Richard Ormond, Sargent's great-nephew and Director of the Sargent catalogue raisonne project, traces the story of Sargent's upbringing as an expatriate American in Europe, his early career and successes in Paris, his struggles to establish himself in London, his rise to fame as the greatest Anglo-American portraitist of his generation, and his prolific output as a landscapist.