The Jubilee Arts Festival: Sotheby's Opens Up For a Fortnight of Celebration
The Jubilee Arts Festival: Sotheby's Opens Up For a Fortnight of Celebration
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Arsalan Mohammad| Jun 1, 2022
Sotheby’s invites everyone to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with an exciting programme of talks, performances and exhibitions featuring royal and noble tiaras and portraits of Britain's seven regnant queens.
Sotheby’s invites everyone to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with an exciting programme of talks, performances and exhibitions featuring royal and noble tiaras and portraits of Britain's seven regnant queens.
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his June, Sotheby’s opens its doors for the Jubilee Arts Festival – a free month-long celebration of creativity to mark Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne. Running until 15 June, it features daily talks and interactive events with leading cultural figures, performers and Sotheby’s specialists in conversation with guests from across the arts, broadcasting and academia.
With artworks and jewellery loaned from some of the nation's greatest private collections, Sotheby’s New Bond Street building is being effectively transformed into a pop-up museum of creative achievement across not only these seven decades of the monarch’s reign, but all the way back to the Tudors.
In Celebration of Her Majesty The Queen:Dame Joanna Lumley DBE and broadcaster Robert Hardman discuss the life and work of Britain’s longest reigning monarch at Sotheby's 30 May 2022
Our full programme of events, performances and exhibitions can be found here, spanning Bridget Riley to Banksy, Oluwole Omofemi to the Fantasia Orchestra, Paddington Bear to Pauline Boty. All are free, subject to booking, and promise to open up new perspectives on our shared cultural heritage and traditions.
The exhibits speak of our island’s rich cultural tapestry. From over 40 exquisite tiaras, presented to stunning effect, to a collection of Jamie Reid's artwork for theSex Pistols, the Armada portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare’s first folio, to Andy Warhol's portrait of Elizabeth II – the Jubilee Arts Festival includes some of the most precious moments of our collective cultural history.
Explore the Jubilee Arts Festival's Highlights
Launch Slideshow
Battle of the Queens: Elizabeth I vs Victoria with Intelligence Squared
Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria both put their stamp on an era, but who was the greater monarch? Watch our debate, featuring Daisy Goodwin, writer of ITV's series Victoria, and Kate Maltby, scholar of Elizabethan literature. Queen Elizabeth I is brought to life by Greta Scacchi and Queen Victoria by Kate O’Flynn. The debate was chaired by historian Anthony Seldon.
