Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

A lecture by Kathleen Adler, Art Historian, in support of the exhibition 'Manet: Portraying Life'.

A talk by Research Curator Annette Wickham recorded in the exhibition 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape'.

A talk by Head of Collections and Library Nick Savage on Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', recorded in the exhibition 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape'

A talk by curator Helen Valentine on 'The Leaping Horse' by John Constable RA, from the Royal Academy's exhibition 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape'

A lecture by Professor David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester and exhibition curator, in support of the exhibition 'Bronze'.

Dr Nigel Spivey explores the technical, social and aesthetic factors behind the formation of the bronze male nude in the fifth century BCE, when sculptors such as Myron, Pheidias and Polykleitos created a type that has come to define the Classical era. A lecture in support of the exhibition 'Bronze'.

Australian architect Sean Godsell has built an international reputation for his exquisitely crafted private houses and 'compassionate infrastructure' projects such as the Park Bench House and Bus Shelter House that provide refuge for displaced persons in the urban environment.

Historian Michael Wood explores the living bronze casting tradition of South India, looking at masterpieces from the Chola Empire (ninth to twelfth century). A lecture in support of the exhibition 'Bronze'.

Piccadilly has always been a meeting place of different social worlds, commemorated in popular songs and human stories - and reflected in its architecture. Inspired by a 1933 lecture on Piccadilly by the celebrated inter-war architect and wit, H.S. Goodhart-Rendel, Professor Alan Powers, curator of 'Eros to the Ritz', uses the street and its diverse architecture to explore questions of architectural criticism and judgement in the twenty-first century.

A lecture by Professor John Picton, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in support of 'Bronze'.

By presenting a series of built projects, Xiaodu Liu, partner of Urbanus Architecture and Design, discusses how Urbanus executes its design approaches through 'reading the architectural programme from the viewpoint of the urban environment in general, and the ever changing urban situations in specific' in recent rapidly developing Chinese cities.

Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects is a lab for testing ideas that traverse scale. Founder Jeanne Gang discusses how the Studio explores the full technology and material spectrums and creates projects that treat cities as interconnected, ecological systems such as Chicago's newest skyscraper, the Aqua Tower, and Columbia College Chicago's Media Production Center, a cutting-edge film production and teaching facility. We apologise for the variable sound quality of this recording.

Colin Bailey (Frick Collection) places some of Renoir's iconic works in context and looks at his strategy as a modernist who navigated between the Salon and the independent exhibition. A lecture in support of 'From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism - Paintings from the Clark'.

Ranging from Dickens to The Wire, we explore the phenomenon of urban narratives and their role in our understanding of the city. Dr David Cunningham, Dr Gregory Dart and Richard Wentworth discuss. Please note this recording contains explicit language.

Michael Conforti, Director of the Clark Art Institute, tells the story of the private art collectors, Sterling and Francine Clark. A lecture in support of 'From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism - Paintings from the Clark'