- Friday, 6 June 2025
- Friday, 11 July 2025
- Friday, 15 August 2025
About
For the Salon’s debut, culture journalist and broadcaster, Nancy Durrant, invites curators into the spotlight for an intimate conversation about the artworks that have shaped their careers and lives.
Throughout the evening, each curator reveals three artworks that have special significance to them, alongside a cocktail of their choice that stirs up a personal anecdote.
Art distilled is an engaging and intimate exploration of art, perfect for anyone with a curious mind, passion for the visual world, and thirst for discovery.
Take the opportunity to get to know our curators in a different light.
Doors open at 6pm.
Nancy meets Per
Per Rumberg is the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department at the National Gallery. He previously held curatorial positions at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. He curated numerous exhibitions, including 'Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504' (Royal Academy, 2024‒5), 'Charles I: King and Collector' (Royal Academy, 2018) and 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' (National Gallery, 2011‒12). He studied art history in London, Florence and Berlin and received his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Nancy meets Emma
Dr Emma Capron is Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Paintings at the National Gallery, London, where she curated ‘The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance’ (2023), and ‘Discover: Manet and Eva Gonzalès’ (2022‒3). Previously, Emma has held fellowships at Musée du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection, where she curated ‘The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos’ (2018‒19). A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she received her MA and PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute in London.
Nancy meets Imogen
Dr Imogen Tedbury is the Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 (maternity cover). Before joining the Gallery, she was Curator of Art at the Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich. She previously held positions at the National Gallery, Royal Holloway Picture Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a co-author of the Norton Simon Museum’s forthcoming Early Italian Paintings catalogue.
Your host
Nancy Durrant is a culture journalist and broadcaster with more than two decades of experience. She was formerly the Culture Editor of the 'Evening Standard', where she also hosted 'Cultural Capital', a weekly YouTube London culture show, and prior to that spent 16 years as an arts writer and editor at 'The Times'.
She is co-host of 'The London Theatre Review' podcast (which does exactly what it says on the tin) and writes 'The London Culture Edit', a regular Substack newsletter reviewing and highlighting current and upcoming cultural events in London.
She writes features, interviews and reviews across the cultural landscape, from dance to theatre, art to opera and everything in between, for publications including 'The Times', 'The Observer', 'The Sunday Times', 'The London Standard', 'Opera Now', 'W Magazine', 'Plaster, Art Quarterly' and others, and regularly pops up as a commentator on BBC Radio 4, Times Radio, Monocle Radio and others.
Nancy also hosts live and online events from in-conversations to day conferences, for clients including Dulwich Picture Gallery, Charleston Festival, Barbican, the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), Soho House and Brookfield Properties.
She also provides a consultancy service, helping cultural organisations to tell their stories more effectively, most recently working with the Royal Ballet and Opera.
Art distilled
- Friday, 6 June 2025
- Friday, 11 July 2025
- Friday, 15 August 2025
Tickets
Members & Patrons: £25
This is a House event. Please have your membership card and ticket ready.
Please meet at the Salon located in Supporters' House.
