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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

The State of the Field: Photography

6:00pm, 24 Mar 2026

Join us for an evening panel discussion, exploring the state of the field of photography.

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Lecture, Research

Time, Body and Building: Architecture and Timekeeping in Late Medieval Italy

5:30pm, 25 Mar 2026

Join Dr Giosuè Fabiano for this lecture exploring the ingenious ways medieval monks used shifting sunlight, starlight and architectural design to measure the passage of time, revealing remarkable visual alignments and time‑keeping practices embedded ...

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Lecture, Research

Cai Guo-Qiang: The Artist’s Materials

6:00pm, 26 Mar 2026

Join Dr Rachel Rivenc for this lecture exploring the making of Cai Guo-Qiang's work across media, and their associated conservation issues.

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Mark Crinson: Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape

6:00pm, 31 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an evening lecture delivered by Mark Crinson on the architectural history of Heathrow.

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Lecture, Research

Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 1 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar where Dr Jessica Barker and Dr Claire Gilbert discuss the exhibition Living by the Rule (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich), which presents medieval monastic art in dialogue with contemporary works.

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Book Talk: Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain

6:00pm, 2 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the launch of Renee Mussai's new book

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Lecture, Research

“at the name of Jesus every knee should bow”: A Byzantine icon of Christ Pantepoptes and its inscriptions

5:30pm, 22 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr George Bartlett for this lecture, taking the Icon of Christ Pantepoptes as a starting point to explore wider epigraphic and onomastic trends in Byzantine art. He will trace how the varying inscriptions used for images of Christ position these...

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Conferences, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Beatriz González: Frieze of Comedy / Frieze of Tragedy

3:00pm, 24 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an afternoon exploring the work of Colombian artist Beatriz González, coinciding with her current monographic exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery. This event will look more broadly at Colombian history and popular culture, as well as w...

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Lecture, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualising Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement

5:30pm, 27 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black on this lecture presenting new research on the creation of art for the Chicano civil rights movement, el movimiento chicano, in the late 1960s and 70s. It will focus on some of the earliest artists, including ...

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The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s

6:00pm, 11 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Susan L. Siegfried for this book launch event and panel discussion celebrating the publication of her book The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s. On the occasion of this lecture at the Courtauld, Professor Siegfried inv...

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Judgments in Nuremberg: The 1950s Trade in Medieval Christian and Jewish Manuscripts in the “Most German of All German Cities”

5:30pm, 20 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor William J. Diebold for a lecture examining the reception and sale of medieval illuminated manuscripts in 1950s Nuremberg. Drawing on extensive archival research, he explores how post‑war Germany sought to reconcile its medieval past wi...

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Authority Unravelling at the Seams: Clothing, Narrative, and Roccabianca’s Griselda

6:00pm, 8 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Timothy McCall for this lecture on the camera di Griselda at Roccabianca castle, near Parma, exploring how the room’s fresco cycle works within a semi‑public space. The talk will examine how visitors moved through and interpreted the s...

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Conferences, Research

Advancing Green Education in Conservation

10:00am, 11 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

GOGREEN is delighted to announce a two-day workshop in London dedicated to advancing green education in conservation. GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The workshop supports the g...

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