Cold and drizzly Oxford was briefly brightened in late January by a visit to Ertegun House by Mrs Ertegun and Mrs Wachner. We enjoyed the pleasure of their company at a private evening viewing of the Ashmolean’s new exhibition, Gods in Colour. The exhibition comprises a group of twenty full-size casts of ancient sculptures, all […]

The Ertegun Scholars made their way to London for yet another cultural outing, this time to visit the Banqueting House and the National Portrait Gallery. We first made a quick stop in Trafalgar Square to take in the sights and sounds. I was surprised to discover that when the National Gallery was completed in the […]

The first Ertegun tour of 2015 took the scholars to St Catherine’s College on Manor Road. St Catz is famous for its then daring decision to appoint a Danish modernist architect, Arne Jacobsen, to help realise a new college at the beginning of the 1960s. Born of a desire to find a home for students […]