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Free display from 2 May–4 Oct 2020 Gallery 11 Free Admission Explore art produced in China during the thirty-year period that followed the founding of the People’s Republic of China, with works ranging from painting in traditional styles to the propaganda art produced in response to Mao Zedong’s political campaigns. Image: Zhang Chaoyang, 1970. Heroes Are All Around © The artist

On Friday 1 January, star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in his first ever recorded performance of Dvořák’s rich and lyrical Cello Concerto in B minor (1894), performed in its arrangement for chamber orchestra by George Morton. Dvořák had long resisted writing a solo concerto for cello – he was fond of the instrument, especially its middle register, but felt it would not do as a solo instrument thanks to its ‘nasal high register and mumbling bass’.…

On Friday 15 January, the Oxford Philharmonic present a jam-packed programme of Baroque favourites, from Pachelbel’s Canon to Bach’s ‘Air on the G String’. Music Director Marios Papadopoulos directs the Orchestra from the harpsichord in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, joined by soloists Anthony Robb and Robert Manasse on flute, and Carmine Lauri on violin. Natalia Lomeiko performs Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor – one of only two of the composer’s surviving violin concertos. Four of the Orchestra’s principals…

Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Adam Frost is a British garden designer and television presenter, known for his award-winning Chelsea gardens and for his presenting role on BBC's Gardeners’ World. He is an RHS Ambassador, helping to raise awareness and interest in gardening amongst secondary school children and other community groups. In this talk Adam will discuss his 7 Chelsea gold-medal winning gardens followed by a…

Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Dr Tim Upson is Director of Horticulture, Education and Communities at the RHS. A self-professed ‘hybrid’, Tim has both a botanical background from his time at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew and Cambridge University Botanic Garden and a research background from his PhD in Plant Sciences. In this talk, Tim will discuss the creation of a brand new RHS garden, RHS…

Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Jane Owen is an author, lecturer, journalist and TV presenter with a focus on gardens. She writes for the Old Money column of the Financial Times, delighting readers with her insights into tackling her new garden in the centre of Oxford, the contribution of gardening to the British economy and the economics of ‘grow your own’. In this talk, Jane will…

Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Dr Sue Stuart-Smith is a Psychiatrist and Psychologist and author of ‘The Well Gardened Mind’, a Sunday Times bestseller. She earned her degree in English Literature at Cambridge University before qualifying as a doctor and went on to become the lead clinician in psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over 30 years together,…