Short Courses

Food in Art – Velasquez to Wayne Thiebaud

Online and On Campus

i Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), Cakes, 1963, oil on canvas, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with Additional Support from the Abrams Family in Memory of Harry N. Abrams © Wayne Thiebaud/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2024.

09:30 (registration) to 13:15

Dr Karen Serres, Dr Chloe Nahum, Dr Thomas Balfe and Janine Catalano

On campus at Vernon Square
£65 (£55 concessions – Universal/Pension credit; full-time students)

Or

Online as a recording
£15 (£7.50 concessions – Universal/Pension credit; full-time students)

This Study event accompanies The Courtauld Gallery’s pioneering UK exhibition of Wayne Thiebaud’s quintessentially post-war American subjects, such as diner food and deli counters.  Our speakers will explore the exhibition themes, and more widely, the rich symbolic and formal potential of food and its consumption in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century still-lifes and genre scenes, in the artistic innovations of artists like Cézanne and Picasso, and investigate the use of food as subject-matter and artistic medium in twentieth-century and contemporary installation and performance art.

This event will open for booking in mid-July 2025.

Food in Art - Velasquez to Wayne Thiebaud

22 Nov 2025

Saturday 22nd November 2025 On Campus

£65 On Campus, £15 Online (concessions available)

Online  Vernon Square 

How to Book

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