Sotheby's Institute of Art courses

...as demonstrated by the network of industry professionals who visit the Institute as guest speakers to share their insights and experience. In addition...

...By the end of Semester II, students are called upon to synthesise text-based information with object-based information in order to set objects within...

...experience of the specific art object rather than theory. In order to emphasise the object-based nature of the course, visits occur frequently throughout...

...the question of taste and the impact of Western trade and culture. Details of technique and manufacture will also be considered. STRUCTURE The programme...

...students follow core units in the history of design from art nouveau of c.1900 through to the present day. Developments are examined chronologically...

...to make a business successful in today's art market. Equal parts business and art, the program devotes one unit to art history and a second to art business... Learn about: Auction House, Art Museum, Art Business...

...architecture, decorative art and the development of the art market. Additionally, it examines techniques and materials, patronage and the display of collections...

...as a prelude to the MA in East Asian Art, but it is also an ideal introduction to the subject of Asian art in its own right...

...Lectures are reinforced by visits to museums, houses, dealers and previews of sales at Sotheby’s. A study tour to Paris is normally offered...

...of rooms near the Institute for the duration of the Summer Study. There will be several options depending on student needs...

...Reserves a certain number of rooms near the Institute for the duration of the Summer Study courses. There will be several options depending on student needs...

...including the rights of the artist, the recovery of stolen or looted artworks and the subject of fakes and forgeries. Is led by Anna O’Connell of Klein Solicitors...

...as well as the carvers’ and gilders’ response to the artworks themselves...

...skills and competitive edge in today’s art market. The school offers art professionals an exclusive opportunity to enhance their business practices within the art world...

...analysis and of academic and professional practice. The course unit Contemporary Photography since 1968 (Dr Lucy Soutter) examines photography’s place...

...number of rooms near the Institute for the duration of the Summer Study. There will be several options depending on student needs...

...This course will look back to the collector who arguably started the trend for collecting in Britain, King Charles I. Looking at a wide-range of collections...

...The school reserves a certain number of rooms near the Institute for the duration of the Summer Study. There will be several options depending on student needs...

...the beginning of the Space Age. The sessions examine trends such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism whilst setting the leading practitioners and...

...Led by James Malpas, Course Leader, Styles in Art Semester programme, this course explores the key developments, including Impressionism, Symbolism and Post-Impressionism...