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This article is about the British members' club. For the Vancouver, Canada theatre company, see Arts Club Theatre Company.

The Arts Club
Formation1863
TypeThe arts, literature & science
HeadquartersLondon, England
Location
President
Sir Peter Blake
AffiliationsAuthors' Club
Websitewww.theartsclub.co.uk

The Arts Club is a London private members' club founded in 1863 by, among others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Lord Leighton in Dover Street, Mayfair. It remains a meeting place for men and women involved in the creative arts either professionally or as patrons.

History

In the nineteenth century members and guests included Dickens, Millais, Whistler, Kipling, Monet, Rodin, Degas and Turgenev.[citation needed] As early as 1891, James Whistler, one of the Arts Club's leading members, broke away to found the rival Chelsea Arts Club.

Clubhouse

The original club premises were at 17 Hanover Square, Mayfair. After thirty years there, the club moved nearby to its current accommodation, an 18th-century townhouse at 40 Dover Street, Mayfair, just north of the Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly, formerly the London home of the family of the Baron Stanley of Alderley. It was badly bombed in the Blitz and extensively rebuilt. The Arts Club is also looking at expanding its clubhouses, and planning venues in Los Angeles and Canary Wharf in London.[1] In December 2020 the club opened its first international outpost in Dubai in the ICD Brookfield Place building. Ajaz Sheikh, was named CEO in 2018 for The Arts Club. [2]

Membership

Current membership includes a number of Royal Academicians, architects, musicians, actors and writers. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was the Patron and Sir Peter Blake is the President of the Club. The Chairman of the Club is OBE Arjun C Waney. Current members include Grayson Perry, the photographer Tom Hunter, the actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Cattrall and also Ronnie Wood. Well known "non-artist" members include Richard Attenborough, Matthew Parris, and Henry Blofeld.

As of 2012, the Club has no reciprocal clubs in the UK. However, a number of clubs outside the UK of similar character have reciprocal arrangements, including the Cercle de l'Union interalliée in Paris, The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, the St. Botolph and Algonquin Clubs in Boston, the Cosmos Club in Washington DC, the Arts Club of Chicago and the Arts Club of Washington DC, and the Century Association, The Coffee House, National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club in New York.

References

  1. ^ Boland, Hannah (16 May 2018). "Arts Club to follow rival private members clubs in expanding overseas". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. ^ "A LOOK INSIDE DUBAI'S ULTRA-EXCLUSIVE THE ARTS CLUB DUBAI". Conde Nast Traveller. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

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