Autumn art courses and lectures in Cork and Dublin

The Cork Decorative and Fine Arts Society (CorkDFAS) will launch its programme for autumn/winter with a free public lecture on Wednesday, September 21st, at Cork’s Central Library on ‘Aspects of the Arts & Crafts of The Honan Chapel in its Centenary Year’ by Virginia Teehan (UCC) and James Cronin (UCC).

The regular lecture programme – held on the first Wednesday evening each month at the Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain Street, begins on Wednesday, October 5th, with Vera Ryan on ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in Cork’. The lectures are free to CorkDFAS members (annual subscription 80) but open to non-members for 15 per lecture.

According to the honorary president Anthony Wade, the society aims to promote the advancement and study of the decorative and fine arts in Cork and, in addition to the lecture series, organises conservation workshops for members (including a current project to record the contents of St Anne's Church, Shandon), an extensive programme of visits to museums, private and public collections and guided tours of significant buildings. Full details of the society's activities are available on its website, corkdfas.ie.

The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV) has announced details of its autumn/winter programme of fine and decorative arts courses and lecture series run in association with the Irish Antique Dealers Association (IADA).

The well-known fine and decorative arts diploma courseis now run over two days a week (it used to be three) from October 3rd to May 16th and the principal topics are furniture (including the new fields of Art Deco and furniture of the ’50s/’60s/’70s); domestic architecture and interior decoration; painting; and silver.

The evening certificate course, with a “particular emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century art”, runs from October 4th to March 14th and costs

1,450.

A 16-week 20th-century Irish art lecture series, beginning on October 19th with two lectures each Wednesday evening from 6.30pm-9.30pm costs

750 and will include lectures on how to buy and sell art at auction.

And, finally, a new course entitled ‘Genius of Germany – Art and Design from the Renaissance to today’ runs for 16 weeks, on Monday evenings from 6.30pm-9.30pm, beginning on October 24th. It costs

750 and covers diverse topics including German Baroque architecture and Rococo interiors; sculpture; Meissen and Dresden porcelain and Biedermeier furniture; the Degenerate Art exhibition (Entartete Kunst) and the Nazi reaction against modern art.

All the courses and lectures take place at IPAV’s headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. For further details, see fineartcourses.ie