Art Club

Join our monthly Art Club with Art Historian David Smith.

What if an Art Club worked like a Book Club — but without having to read the book first? Imagine meeting with a group of curious people, choosing a painting, and spending an hour simply looking at it, discussing it, questioning it and discovering what everyone else sees. That’s the idea behind our Art Club.

Like a Book Club, we’ll come together regularly to explore great works, share ideas and hear different perspectives. But instead of reading hundreds of pages beforehand, we begin with something far more immediate: an artwork in front of us.

As Laurence Werner puts it: The purpose of art is to ask questions.

And that is exactly what we’ll do. You don’t need to know anything about art. There’s no homework, no right answers, and no specialist vocabulary required. You just need to be curious, to…