What’s On at The Research Forum

Lecture, MA Curating, Research

Artistic mobility and multimedia practice: How residencies provide a home away from home for artists

6:00pm, 15 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a panel discussion with curator Giulia Civardi of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, Robert Leckie, Director of Gasworks, and artists Mar Kristoff and Tai Shani, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The stairway that separates my room from ...

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Lecture, Research

Making/Matter: The Aetiology of Miraculous Images in Venice, c. 1200–1700

5:30pm, 17 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Jessica N. Richardson for this lecture focusing on two miracle-working sculptures in medieval and Renaissance Venice, addressing a central preoccupation of both early modern writing and current scholarship: the aetiology or origins of miracle...

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Conferences, MA Curating, Research

Substance and Surface at Strawberry Hill: The Heritage and Legacy of Walpole’s Gothic ‘Paper Castle’

2:00pm, 19 Jun 2026 | £15 tickets, concessions available

Join us for a symposium accompanying Paper Castle, an exhibition of contemporary art at Strawberry Hill House exploring artifice and the architecture of visual deception. Bringing together scholars, curators and artists, the symposium will consider h...

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Lecture, Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 24 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

The Courtauld is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

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Lecture, Research

Research Notes: Surveying Rubens’s late landscapes

6:00pm, 25 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Bert Watteeuw for a lecture on Peter Paul Rubens’s late landscapes, marking the temporary reunion of the Courtauld Gallery’s own Landscape by Moonlight (1635—40) with the Barber Institute of Fine Art’s A Landscape Near Het Steen (1635—40), th...

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