Focusing primarily on decorative art, this lecture will reflect upon how change, innovation and acquisition in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II has shaped the Royal Collection now and for the future.

Private out-of-hours guided tour of the British Museum's latest block-buster exhibition, Legion: life in the Roman army, led by its lead curator, Richard Abdy.

The United Guilds' Service is held two Friday's before Good Friday at St Paul's Cathedral. Followed by an optional lunch at Apothecaries' Hall

The Pocket Lunch is the annual event for members to enjoy a convivial lunch and at the same time bring along a small work of art for circulation and discussion with your fellow diners.

The Master invites members of the Court (current and past) of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars to join him at a reception and dinner following the 2024 Election Court Meeting.

A special opportunity for six of our younger members and award winners to showcase their lives and careers. The speakers will be Sophie Croft (Objects Conservator specialising in ceramics and related materials), Lewis Browning (business getter in Dawson’s Auctioneers' new Valuations Department), Alexandra Verney (custodian of the Claydon Estate and Council member for the National Trust), Joseph Trinder (Director and joint owner of Wotton Auction Rooms), Henrietta Hammant (Collections Coordinator at the Polar Museum, Cambridge) and Camilla Szymanowska (newly-appointed Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Bakers).

A reception with wine and nibbles will follow, concluding about 9 pm.

The latest edition of an Arts Scholars tradition: the Friday Fish and Chips lunch at the City University Club. Please note a slightly changed format: the lunch will include Fish and chips, a glass of wine, dessert of the day, coffee and chocolates and a staff gratuity.

Arts Scholars will be given an exclusive and private curator-led tour round the British Museum's new Archaeological Research Collection (BM ARC) located in a newly-opened purpose-built complex in Shinfield, outside Reading. Our guides will be the two members of staff with principal responsibilities for the success of the project.

This is a wonderful opportunity to view rarely seen artefacts previously housed in the BM's two Central London storage locations. An optional lunch (self-paid) at a local pub will follow the visit.

The Master Arts Scholar, Graham Barker, invites you to join him at the Company’s Annual Banquet, which will be held at Goldsmiths' Hall, in the presence of The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress.

You will dine in the magnificently proportioned Livery Hall with its Corinthian columns and richly decorated moulded ceiling in gold leaf. The four matching chandeliers of English glass, supplied by Perry and Co. in 1835, now electrified internally, each hold forty-eight candles.

Arts Scholar Tara Draper-Stumm will be talking to us about the Sekhmet statues of Amenhotep III (c.1390-1352 BC) and their dispersal from Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, built many great monuments and statues, some in preparation for his jubilee or Sed festival in year 30 of his reign. The Sekhmet statues, which may have numbered 800-1000, would appear to have been a key element of this event, the highlight of his reign.

Tara, an art and architectural historian, is currently in the final stages of writing her PhD thesis at Cardiff University on the Sekhmet statues of Amenhotep III.