Lunch time talks are delivered by students and researchers at The Courtauld Institute of Art on works in the collection. Lunchtime Gallery talks are free with admission, start at 1.15pm and last approximately 15 minutes unless otherwise stated. Signs are placed in the Gallery indicating the title of the talk and where it will take place.

View through the fountains of the Courtauld Gallery

Also taking place in The Courtauld Gallery will be monthly Curators' talks focussing on the temporary exhibitions and the Sunday tour programme that encompasses both the temporary exhibitions and other works from the collection.

Please view the programme for more details.


Recently Ruth Padel Somerset House, writer in residence at Somerset House, organised in partnership with The Courtauld Gallery a series of writers talks that took place in the gallery.


To find out about the Research Forum and other free events taking place within The Courtauld Institute of Art please follow this link.



View a video that features a lunchtime talk on Degas' Dancers delivered by two students from the MA: Curating the Art Museum course.