Before 3am, Talks & lectures, Visual art

David Brittain of Manchester Metropolitan University discusses Paolozzi's work in the context of the artist's lifelong fascination with science fiction, as discussed in Brittain's new book, Paolozzi at New Worlds: Science Fiction and Pop Art in the 1960s, published to coincide with the Space Age Archaeology exhibition.

Marina Warner talks about representations of witches and sorceresses in fairy tales and myths. Booking is essential.

Dr Dominic Paterson, Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow, will give a talk on the exhibition Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations. Free admission, booking essential: ihevents@rbge.ac.uk or 0131 248 2971.

Lisa Le Feuvre – curator, writer and Head of Sculpture Studies at The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds – will give a talk on the exhibition Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations. Free admission, booking essential: ihevents@rbge.ac.uk or 0131 248 2971.

Art historian Andrew Wilton talks about Frederic Edwin Church, one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, and the Hudson River School of painters to which Church belonged.

Get your multidisciplinarity on at this night of 'psychogeographical exploration', featuring a screening of May Mile Thomas' 'The Devil's Plantation, a film about Harry Bell, who searched for secrets within Glasgow's cityscape, along with some tunes from the Psychogeographical Commission and sound artist Caroline…

Simon Biggs, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, joins artists and researchers to present interactive media art projects that explore how the ‘glitch’ can be beautiful.

Artists Kjersti Sletteland and Despina Nissiriou will give an exclusive guided tour of their exhibition at Patriothall Gallery, providing insights into the works on show and the history of the building which the works respond to. All are welcome.

Dr Diane Purkiss of Keble College, Oxford, gives a talk subtitled The Place of the Restless Dead in Scottish Witchtrials, concerning the role of folk myths in the history of witchcraft in Scotland.

Glasgow Women's Library presents a series of activities to complement their Illuminated Letters exhibition.

DJ and author Dave Haslam talks with Rob Da Bank and Manchester-based photographer Kevin Cummins.

Course designed for those with some experience of drawing and painting, combining practical work with study of artists and art movements directly related to your work. Taught by Peter Wilson. Prices includes all materials. Ages 18+.

Art historian Ola Wojtkiewicz leads a series of monthly sessions which consist of informal themed discussions in the gallery, designed to help you develop an understanding and appreciation of modern art. Booking is essential.

Art historian Ailsa Turner discusses Davison's portrait of the astronomer-peer (he was President of the Royal Society) and his family.

Dr Debbie Lewer discusses the work of 20th century German artist Joseph Beuys, focusing on the themes of personal and collective trauma, redemption and Beuys' idiosyncratic conception of his art as 'social sculpture'.

Prof Martin Hammer of the University of Kent discusses the work of Ken Currie and other contemporary artists working with self-portraiture.

The Portrait Gallery's chief curator Julie Lawson talks to Ken Currie about his new exhibition of paintings. Booking is essential.

Dr Tom Normand of the University of St Andrews talks about the new paintings of Ken Currie in the context of the artist's recent development.

Prof Peter Abrahams gives this Heritage Society Festival Lecture about the original Renaissance man's career as an anatomist and his extremely detailed drawings, which came from the study of 23 corpses that the artist personally dissected. Prof Abrahams discusses how the unique concepts found in these ancient renderings…

New poems to make you question your relationship with the capital - whether you're a lifelong Londoner or one who's just here for the day. Wordsworth's famous sonnet, 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', contemplates London's mighty heart asleep in the silence of a 19th-century dawn. This summer at Southbank Centre…

A chance to meet and hear from Marieke Stolk, Danny van den Dungen and Erwin Brinkers, the members of acclaimed Dutch design studio Experimental Jetset.

Man Ray once said that he had never intended to record his dreams; instead he was determined to realise them. Robin Gillanders looks at the influence of the challenge that Ray and other surrealists issued to realism, which is still ongoing at the present day.

Terence Pepper, curator of the Man Ray Portraits exhibition, talks to gallery director Christopher Baker about the ideas behind it. Booking is essential.

Anthony Penrose is the son of noted surrealist Donald Penrose and American model-turned-photographer Lee Miller, and as such grew up in surrealist circles (before she met and married Penrose, Miller had been the lover and muse of Man Ray). Anthony Penrose has been working on the conservation and dissemination of his…

Prof David Hopkins of the University of Glasgow discusses Man Ray's enigmatic portraits of the proto-conceptualist and arch-trickster of 20th century art, Marcel Duchamp.