Please join us – with partners/spouses – for summer drinks and a private viewing of the Saatchi Yates Gallery’s upcoming show, London Rules The World. The show features artist commissions from the gallery programme as well as secondary consignments drawing from the rich history, diversity and cultural scene of London, that has brought together remarkable modern and contemporary artists.

Join us for a private curator led tour of the V&A’s new exhibition, Cartier. A major exhibition featuring more than 350 objects, including precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks, that chart the evolution of Cartier’s legacy of art, design and craftsmanship since the turn of the 20th century.

Please note the timing of this event: 9-10am.

Harry launched his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC, in 2014 when just 18 years old. By combining content creation with genuine curiosity, he has carved a unique path and inspired a new generation of entrepreneurs and investors. Leveraging his podcast relationships he broke into VC, and now manages over $500m in venture capital funds, in addition to his thriving media empire. He joins us to explain this unusual odyssey.

In conversation with John Arlidge at the Albemarle Street store, Paul will discuss ‘the tourist tax’, the state of fashion and retail including sustainability and pricing, Brexit, UK creativity, what makes Paul Smith different – and why he does not have an email address.

Join us for a Private View of Patricia Swannell’s exquisite work at Marylebone gallery, jaggedart. Following Patricia’s untimely death from secondary cancer in late 2023, a portion of sales will be donated to Breast Cancer Now.

Join us for a curator led tour of the V&A’s new exhibition, Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Elton John and his husband David Furnish have been collecting photography since the 1990s. Their collection, comprising over 10,000 items, spans the history of photography and includes masters of the medium such as Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Zanele Muholi, Tracey Moffat and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Please note the timing of this event: 9-10am.

Hala weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent travelling to some of the most dangerous places in the world, with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants.

Join us for bowl food followed by a private screening of Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, with an introduction from producer, Josh Berger.

We join Thomas at his spectacular new studio to learn more about putting human emotion back at the heart of the design process as a counterbalance to the increasingly soulless and depressing buildings we see around us. By changing the world around us, Thomas believes we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet.

For two years Walter Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, co-workers, and adversaries. He joins us to share the ultimate inside story of the most controversial innovator of our era. Who is the real Elon Musk? And are the demons that drive him also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? (in collaboration with How To Academy)

Imagination is our supreme gift, our biggest opportunity, our greatest source of fulfilment and our most vital asset for the future. Drawing on a career spent at the intersection of business and creativity, Albert joins us to discuss the critical role the imagination will play in our future.

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives. In conversation with Mark Evans, Brooks explains how we can do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What aspects of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Join us for breakfast at the V&A and a Private View of the first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today.

An exhibition of contemporary sculpture charting the extraordinary but little known three-billion-year history of our nation, told through the rocks that lie unnoticed beneath our feet, introduced by the artist, Angela Palmer. A wonderful opportunity to catch up post summer, with your partners, and to view this remarkable work.

Breakfast in Kew’s remarkable Marianne North Gallery followed by a private guided tour of two new art exhibitions, showcasing a fusion of stunning western botanical imagery, contemporary sculptural work, and Islamic art. This event provides a great opportunity to learn about different ways you can engage with the Royal Botanic Gardens on a deeper and more personal level.

Join us for a very special breakfast held at Serpentine South, within this year’s Pavilion designed by Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh. Serpentine’s CEO, Bettina Korek, will welcome guests, reflect on the commission, and share her vision for the future of the Serpentine.

Join us – with partners and children –  for breakfast and private viewing of London’s latest and most immersive art experience. As we journey through four distinctive galleries, experiencing a different type of immersive technology in each one, we will see timeless art in ways we have never seen or felt before.

‘Objects of Desire’ explores design from the birth of surrealism in 1924 to the current day; spanning classic surrealist works of art and design as well as contemporary surrealist responses.

Having been the pioneer of satellite TV in the 1980s, Sky has not stopped innovating and is today Europe’s leading media and entertainment company. In the last twelve months, alongside the launch of new platforms like Sky Glass, Sky has also won plaudits for its award-winning original programming, securing a record 27 nominations at this year’s BAFTAs. Group CEO Dana Strong will talk about how Sky is changing, what’s behind its innovations and what’s in store next.

Co-founded by William Lewis, former CEO of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director and Economics Editor of BBC News, the News Movement is a new media content business aimed at providing trusted, unbiased, engaging news on social media and other digital platforms. Kamal and his colleague, Clodagh Griffin, join us to discuss their mission and the new ways of telling stories and listening to audiences.

Join us at the Vue cinema, Leicester Square, for a dynamic conversation between Gerry Fox and Tim Richards covering the issues faced by cinema over the past 2 years and how cinema will survive and prosper going forward.

After a combined 30 years at the Wall Street Journal, Bradley Hope and Tom Wright launched Project Brazen. With offices in Singapore and London, Project Brazen is a new kind of journalism studio and production company. They dig deep to uncover the truth and deliver thrilling stories via podcasts, books, documentaries, television shows and films. Bradley joins us to share their latest stories.

An exciting opportunity to see the newly refurbished Donmar Warehouse with an introduction from Artistic Director, Michael Longhurst

Imran joins us to discuss the social and psychological dynamics of social media, as well as what goes wrong in those spaces, such as trolling, identity-based hate, misinformation, conspiracy theories, modern extremism, and fake news.

The family name is synonymous with wealth, power and glamour, but the Rothschild women have remained something of a mystery – until now. Natalie joins us to share the hidden stories behind one of the world’s most famous families.

Breakfast at the Meta London office where we will hear how virtual reality and the metaverse could transform our experiences online, and how virtual reality can be used to help teams connect, create and collaborate in the workplace. Using Quest virtual reality headsets we will be able to experience this world first hand.

Curious, worldly and discerning, Tyler is an insider who loves to go outside. He starts conversations, he listens, he turns mindsets into action. Tyler will be sharing his vision and reflecting on 15 years of independent media.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is an annual exhibition and award of £30,000 presented at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Originally established by the Gallery in 1996 as the UK’s first dedicated photography award, it continues to identify, debate and celebrate innovative and original photographic practice from across the world.

The 2021 shortlist presents four highly individual artists – Poulomi Basu, Alejandro Cartagena, Cao Fei and Zineb Sedira – whose bold wide-ranging projects cover geographical territories from Algeria to China and explore issues affecting both the local and the global.

The morning will start with a brief breakfast followed by a curator led tour of the exhibition.

Following the success of their first novel, The President is Missing, Bill Clinton and James Patterson are back with a new story to tell: The President’s Daughter. They’ll take us deep into their art, craft and friendship, exploring the dynamics of their extraordinary collaboration. How do they fuse the lived experience of the presidency with the art of fiction?

Thomas will share thoughts on the future of the workplace and discuss recent and upcoming projects and design inspirations, expanding on the major issues his Studio is thinking about in 2021.

This new body of work – 116 works in total – has been ‘painted’ on the iPad and then printed onto paper, with Hockney overseeing all aspects of production.

Made in the spring of 2020, during a period of intense activity at his home in Normandy, this exhibition charts the unfolding of spring, from beginning to end, and is a joyous celebration of the seasons.

In a wide ranging discussion with Gerry Fox, and drawing on his recent work with the Cultural Recovery Fund, Neil will expand on his hopes for the cultural sector in post pandemic Britain.

The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on the orders of the Saudi Royal Family, was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance. It had glowing reviews, a ripped from the headlines subject, and a big-name director in Fogel, yet the subject matter kept the buyers away.

Bryan joins us to share the challenges and risks in making the documentary, the struggle for distribution and the Saudi-backed online troll campaign trying to kill it…

In conversation with Gerry Fox, Kwame will share his personal journey, his vision for the Young Vic and the importance of BLM.

Join Lionel Barber, in conversation with FT Editor Roula Khalaf, for a no-holds barred account of life behind the headlines, and a riveting portrait of power in times of crisis. At the helm of the most important business newspaper in the world, Barber documented the tech boom, the financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, populism and the rise of fake news.

Michael will discuss compassion, the healing power of books and the arts, and also his charity of Farms for City Children and the work it does with deprived children.

Nick Allott will be discussing the current state of live theatre in the UK and its uncertain future. He will talk about the West End’s natural resilience and the problems of getting theatres up and running again and will examine the plight of the freelancers in this crisis, the role of government and lobbying, streaming as a substitute to live theatre and where we are in the process of recovery. Finally, he will tackle the challenges going forward for the industry both in the short and long term.

John Arlidge, senior business writer at The Sunday Times, in conversation with Mark Thompson on safeguarding quality journalism, political debate in run up to the US presidential election, and the future of the BBC.

Join Gerry Fox (Pi member, filmmaker and Member Governor or the BFI) in conversation with Josh Berger about the state of the global film and TV industry in this age of disruption.

As inherently public institutions, museums have been hit very hard by the Covid crisis. Even after lockdown, they face an uncertain future with a significant drop in visitor numbers, especially overseas visitors.

We’ll be discussing how Tate and the Science Museum have fared during the crisis, what they have learnt about online engagement and how the directors of these great institutions anticipate moving forward.

Join us for breakfast and a private, guided viewing of this summer’s must-see exhibition at the Tate Modern, Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life.

In Eliasson’s captivating installations you become aware of your senses, people around you and the world beyond. Some artworks introduce natural phenomena such as rainbows to the gallery space. Others use reflections and shadows to play with the way we perceive and interact with the world.

Many works result from the artist’s research into complex geometry, motion patterns, and his interest in colour theory. Several explore Eliasson’s deep engagement with society and the environment. Only one has ever been seen in the UK before.

From the British coastline to the rooftops of Manhattan, Antony Gormley’s sculptures are recognised across the world.

Join us for breakfast and a private guided tour of this exhibition which will bring to light rarely-seen early works from the 1970s and 1980s – some of which led to Gormley using his own body as a tool to create work – as well as a selection of his pocket sketchbooks and drawings.

Throughout a series of experiential installations, the exhibition will invite visitors to slow down and become aware of their own bodies. Highlights include Clearing VII, an immersive ‘drawing in space’ made from kilometres of coiled, flexible metal which visitors find their own path through, and Lost Horizon I, 24 life-size cast iron figures set at different orientations on the walls, floor and ceiling – challenging our perception of which way is up.

Founded in 1837, the Royal College of Art is the world’s oldest art and design university in continuous operation and has been ranked number one globally for the fifth consecutive year.

For over 180 years, the RCA has nurtured generations of world-leading artists, architects and designers who have become true pioneers in the creative industries. It is the most concentrated community of artists, designers and communicators to be found anywhere. Alumni include Tracey Emin, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Thomas Heatherwick, Chris Ofili and Henry Moore.

Join us for a exclusive private view and drinks reception celebrating the Graduate Show of Ceramics and Glass, Jewellery and Metal, Contemporary Art Practice, Painting, Print and Photography at the RCA’s Battersea Campus.

Edvard Munch: love and angst, opening at the British Museum in April, is the largest exhibition of Munch’s prints in the UK for 45 years. The show will focus on Munch’s remarkable and experimental prints – an art form which made his name and at which he excelled throughout his life – and will examine his unparalleled ability to depict raw human emotion.

A major highlight of the exhibition will be Munch’s The Scream which is one of the most iconic images in art history. On display will be a rare lithograph in black and white which Munch created following a painted version and two drawings of the image. It was this black and white print which was disseminated widely during his lifetime and made him famous.

At this special Pi breakfast, we will hear from Giulia Bartrum, the curator of the exhibition about Munch’s place in the art world, the influence of his work and about his skill and creativity in expressing the feelings and experiences of the human condition – from love and desire, to jealousy, loneliness, anxiety and grief.

This exhibition is supported by the AKO Foundation.

In May 2019, Edmund de Waal’s Psalm will open during the Venice Biennale preview week.

The exhibition will be in two parts. The first will be within the Canton Scuola, the beautiful sixteenth century synagogue within the Ghetto Nuovo. New installations of porcelain, marble and gold will reflect the literary and musical heritage of this extraordinary place.

The second will be a pavilion at the Ateneo Veneto, near the Fenice Opera House which will house 2,000 books by exiled writers, from Ovid to the present day. All the books will be in translation, reflecting the idea of language as migration.

Join Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford, for an inspirational and insightful tour of the Autumn highlights of the West End commercial gallery scene.

We will start the morning with coffee and then spend time visiting several galleries. Expect to be with us until around 11.30am.

Rodin first visited London and the British Museum in 1881 and was hugely impressed by the collection, particularly the sculptures of the Parthenon.

In this exhibition, for the very first time, visitors will be able to appreciate Rodin’s extraordinary talent as a sculptor by showing his work alongside the very Parthenon sculptures that inspired him. This comparison will provide unique insight into the full breadth and depth of Rodin’s vision, and provide new insight into the sculptures of an artist that everyone thought they knew.

Thanks to a collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris, over 90 works in marble, bronze and plaster – along with some of Rodin’s sketches – will be displayed in conversation with ancient Greek art.

Pi’s private viewing, with an introduction from a British Museum curator, is made possible through the kind collaboration of the Trustees and Director of the British Museum.

Curated by Tacita Dean, one of the genre’s leading contemporary practitioners, ‘STILL LIFE’ presents a diverse selection of works in a variety of mediums. The exhibition examines the genre’s legacy within the history of art and demonstrates the continued importance of still life and the National Gallery Collection as sources of inspiration in contemporary art practice.

Works by Tacita Dean – including a new film diptych made especially for the exhibition, ‘Ideas for Sculpture in a Setting’, and ‘Prisoner Pair’ (2008, 16mm) – feature alongside works by Dean’s contemporaries, including Thomas Demand, Roni Horn, and Wolfgang Tillmans, and paintings from the National Gallery Collection, such as Zurbarán’s Cup of Water and a Rose.

The exhibition is part of an unprecedented collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts, who are hosting related exhibitions, ‘Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT’ and ‘Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE,’ respectively.

Tacita Dean (b.1965) is a British European artist based in Berlin and Los Angeles who works with many mediums but primarily film. She first came to prominence in the 1990s and is now considered to be one of the most influential artists working today.

Pi’s private viewing with an introduction from a National Gallery curator is made possible through the kind collaboration of the Trustees and Director of the National Gallery.

Maria Balshaw succeeded Sir Nicholas Serota as Director of Tate on 1 June 2017.

Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries, Maria was responsible for the artistic and strategic vision for each gallery.

Maria was also Director of Culture for Manchester City Council from 2013-2017. She is a board member of Arts Council England and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the arts in June 2015.

British designer Thomas Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring craft, design, architecture and urban planning together in a single workspace. Today a team of 180, including architects, designers and makers, work from a combined studio and workshop in King’s Cross, London.

The studio’s completed projects include a number of internationally celebrated buildings, including the award-winning Learning Hub at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town.

Join us for a special early viewing of the V&A’s major new exhibition which considers how the finished and unfinished revolutions of the 1960s changed the way we live today and how we think about the future.

The exhibition explores the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s, expressed through some of the greatest music and performances of the 20th century alongside fashion, film, design and political activism.

The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show. Now in its 249th year, the Summer Exhibition provides a unique platform for emerging and established artists to showcase works across painting and printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture and film.

Caroline Rush CBE is the Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council. Since her appointment in April 2009 she has introduced numerous innovations to British fashion, including creating London Fashion Week Men’s and publishing a series of reports into the contribution that fashion makes to the UK economy. She has also attracted key British designers – such as Burberry, Matthew Williamson, Mulberry, Pringle of Scotland and Preen – back to London Fashion Week and overseen exponential growth in the value, reach and profile of British fashion.

In 2012 she worked with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to launch Britain Creates, an artistic project which formed part of the Fashion 2012 platform to celebrate the Games and the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. In 2014 she was made an Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and awarded a CBE for her services to the British fashion industry.

Mulberry is an iconic English design company renowned world-wide for its craftsmanship and quality.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Yana Peel, CEO and Ben Vickers, Curator of Digital, Serpentine Galleries with Director of Zaha Hadid architects, Patrik Schumacher.

Technology and innovation were central to the work of architect Zaha Hadid. At this breakfast we will take a private tour of the new exhibition of Hadid’s work at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and learn about the intersection between art, architecture and technology in her work.

Please join us for an introduction of ZEITZ MOCAA, Africa’s first major Museum of Contemporary Art, opening September 2017.

The London Library, founded in 1841, lies at the heart of the intellectual and cultural life of the nation. More than one million books and periodicals, on open access shelves and available for borrowing, provide a breadth and depth in the arts and humanities that few others in the world can match. Membership is open to everyone.

This major exhibition examines the late 1960s as a moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism and motivated people to come together to question the established power structures across every area of society. Through objects relating to music, fashion, film, design and politics, an immersive soundtrack and theatrical three dimensional design, it will investigate the cultural upheavals and the changes within the law that took place during those five revolutionary years.

The spine of the exhibition will be a musical odyssey through some of the greatest music and performances of the 20th century, from Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change is Gonna Come’, to The Who’s ‘My Generation’, to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock; and will focus on particular moments or environments that defined the cultural and social vanguard of the period, including clubs and counterculture, the Paris protests of May 1968, World Fairs, the Woodstock Festival of 1969 and communes on the West Coast of America. The exhibition considers how the finished and unfinished revolutions of the 1960s changed the way we live today and affect the way we think about the future.

David Hockney returns to the RA with a remarkable new body of work. Embracing portraiture with a renewed creative vigour, he offers an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two years.

After his monumental landscape exhibition burst to life in the RA’s Main Galleries in 2012, Hockney turned away from painting and from his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Slowly he began to return to the quiet contemplation of portraiture, beginning with a depiction of his studio manager. Over the months that followed, he became absorbed by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.

Each work is the same size, showing his sitter in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background and all were painted in the same time frame of three days. Yet Hockney’s virtuoso paint handling allows their differing personalities to leap off the canvas with warmth and immediacy.

The Garden Bridge is an incredibly bold idea, the chance to walk through woodlands over one of the greatest rivers in the world. It will improve the quality of life for everyone in London. For commuters, it is a quick and beautiful route to and from Waterloo Station. For dreamers, it is a quiet place to linger among trees and grasses to look at the views. For tourists, it is an unforgettable landmark.

It will link the North Bank to the South Bank – the huge theatrical institutions of Covent Garden in the West End to the South Bank with its film and television centres, concert halls and art galleries. On that stretch of the river are the most stunning views. It will be a place to set hearts racing and calm troubled minds. It will be open to all, changing with the seasons, enchanting everyone who uses it.

Ai Weiwei’s work is visionary, iconoclastic and increasingly political. When he speaks, the world listens. Ai has been a significant force in the international art world for more than 10 years and the RA is proud to have him among the ranks of their Honorary Royal Academicians.

This will be the first major institutional survey of his work ever held in Great Britain and it will bridge over two decades of his extraordinary career. Curated in collaboration with Ai Weiwei from his studio in Beijing, the RA will present some of his most important works; from the time he returned to China from the US in 1993 right up to present day.

Among new works created specifically for our galleries and courtyard will be a number of large-scale installations. He is well known for his skilled craftsmanship and ability to master different materials and this show will be a testament to that, showcasing everything from marble and steel to tea and glass. And, with typical boldness, the chosen works will explore a multitude of challenging themes, drawing on his own experience to comment on creative freedom, censorship and human rights, as well as examining contemporary Chinese art and society.

Established in 1769, the Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission exhibition in the world. The Summer Exhibition remains a much anticipated highlight of the arts calendar, serving as a unique window on to all areas of the contemporary art world. It is the world’s largest open-submission exhibition, displaying more than 1,000 works in all styles and media, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architectural models and film. The works are selected and hung by Royal Academicians and entry is open to all artists.

The first and largest retrospective of the late designer’s work to be presented in Europe, the exhibition will showcase McQueen’s visionary body of work. Spanning his 1992 MA graduate collection to his unfinished A/W 2010 collection, McQueen’s designs will be presented with the dramatic staging and sense of spectacle synonymous with his runway shows.

Savage Beauty will be presented in ten sections which will showcase the dominant themes and concepts within McQueen’s extraordinary body of work. The sections are built around garments which span the breadth of McQueen’s womenswear collections, from his MA graduation collection in 1992 to A/W 2010, McQueen’s final, unfinished collection.

This event is co-hosted with Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, Chair of the Natural History Museum.

‘The Leonardo da Vinci of our times’: this is how Sir Terence Conran has described Thomas Heatherwick. By bringing design, architecture and engineering, along with a dash of sculpture and urban planning, all under the roof of a single practice, Heatherwick has won a global reputation for transformation, experimentation and surprise.

Rubens and His Legacy brings together masterpieces produced during his lifetime, as well as major works by great artists who were influenced by him in the generations that followed.

We see the influence of Rubens in the prints of Picasso and Rembrandt, in the portraiture of Van Dyck, in the hunting scenes and devotional works of Delacroix, and in the landscapes of Constable and Gainsborough. It is a far reaching and remarkable legacy.  Rubens, best known for his fleshy nude women, also embraced a broad array of subjects, from religious and mythological scenes to landscapes and portraits.