Events Archive 2025

The Courtauld Gallery

Chronicles: Women in the arts

6:45pm, 4 Apr 2025

Join us for an evening of music and art at the Courtauld Gallery, featuring a musical performance by Katrina Lee and a conversation with Leah Broad

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Conferences, Research

Medieval Art on the Move

10:00am, 28 Mar 2025

Now entombed in airless glass vitrines, medieval objects in museums appear static and immovable. But in the Middle Ages artworks were active and mobile: they were manipulated in the hand, processed through towns, and traded or gifted across very larg...

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Research, Talks

Art and its Market

5:30pm, 27 Mar 2025

Join Professor Dirk Boll for this talk on the art market and its often overlooked aspects, from the extensive digitisation of structures and content, to the evolving roles of museums and art criticism

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Research, Talks

Center Stage: Dance Film in the Art Historical Spotlight

5:30pm, 25 Mar 2025

As dance film gains increasing recognition within art historical discourse, how do we position it within the broader visual arts landscape? This event explores how dance film intersects with art history and how we can continue to platform such art fo...

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Research, Talks

Bringing the Ends of the World Together: Art, History, and the Memory of Slavery

5:30pm, 24 Mar 2025

Join Professor Elvan Zabunyan for this talk focused on her latest book Bringing the ends of the world together, a groundbreaking study of contemporary art practices relating to the history and the memory of Transatlantic slavery

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The Courtauld Gallery

Sounds Like Art

7:00pm, 23 Mar 2025

Join us for an evening of music and art at the Courtauld Gallery, featuring new music written in response to paintings across the collection

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Research, Talks

"It is noteworthy that in this church there should be such an ancient tusk": elephant tusks in Spanish cathedrals

5:30pm, 19 Mar 2025

Join curator Mariam Rosser-Owen as she delves into the use of elephant tusks in Iberian cathedrals and explores their connection to the exquisite crafts practices of Islamic Spain

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

Carceral Conceptualism? An Imperfect Guide

5:30pm, 18 Mar 2025

Join art historian and cultural theorist Faye Gleisser for this talk, expanding upon her book Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987

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Research, Talks

Three Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany: An Ultra-violet Art History of Afterlives

5:30pm, 17 Mar 2025

Join Professor Sarah James for this talk exploring the influence of nuclear production and radiation across three sites of cultural production in East Germany

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Research

From 3rd Floor Group to Bunker: The Complex History of Abstraction in Late Soviet Armenia, through the Sergei Djavadian Collection

5:00pm, 11 Mar 2025

Join Dr Choghakate Kazarian for this talk examining the early years of the art collection of Sergei Djavadian, focused on abstract and conceptual works by key members of the famous 3rd Floor group, considered the first movement of contemporary art in...

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Research

Publishing perspectives: Documenting Tibetan and Himalayan heritage in an Indian context

5:30pm, 10 Mar 2025

Join Trisha de Niyogi for a talk on the complexities of publishing arts and architecture from Tibet and the Himalayas within the broader narrative of global art history

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Research

Film premiere: Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2025

Join director Dr Sigrid Faltin for the London premiere of her documentary "Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer", which delves into the artistic practice and enduring legacy of a remarkable pioneer. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the dire...

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Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism

5:30pm, 3 Mar 2025

Join author Irene Small and Professor Jo Applin for this book launch and in conversation celebrating the release of Small's The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism.

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Research

Grids of Vietnamese modernism

5:00pm, 26 Feb 2025

Join Duc Le for a talk on 20th-century Vietnamese architecture, exploring the state of neglected modernist heritage sites and innovative preservation methods in Vietnam

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Research

"What completely baffles me is my inability to understand their position" : Science and Aesthetics in the Cleaning Controversy, 1946-ca.1950

5:30pm, 24 Feb 2025

Join Dr Hero Lotti for a talk exploring how post-WWII scientific approaches to painting conservation at the National Gallery sparked debates

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Research

The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Prototypical Palace in the Age of Absolutism

5:30pm, 13 Feb 2025

Join Dr. Christopher Tadgell for this talk and book event celebrating his recent publication The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Prototypical Palace in the Age of Absolutism

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Research

The Four Walks of the Cloister: Paradise and Practice in the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 12 Feb 2025

Join Gabriel Byng for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, reexamining the monastic cloister as a place to be transcended, where the heavenly was made manifest in the everyday lives of monks, friars and nuns.

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Research

Sustainability in Conservation

6:00pm, 4 Feb 2025

Join us for a three-part talk exploring sustainable advancements in UK conservation - from new standards in art packing and transportation to the recycling materials in the conservation studio

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Research

A Women's Sutra: Han Mengyun in Conversation with Ashley Thompson

5:30pm, 3 Feb 2025

Join artist Han Mengyun and Professor Ashley Thompson for a screening and an in-conversation event exploring Mengyun's acclaimed video installation, Night Sutra.

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Research

Records of Care:
informing approaches to the conservation of Britain's wall paintings

9:30am, 31 Jan 2025

Join us for this symposium to mark the culmination of the first major phase of the grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database

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Research

Immediations 2024 Launch

5:30pm, 30 Jan 2025

Join us for the launch of the 2024 issue of Immediations, The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research

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Research

Painting Pairs 2024 - 25: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:30pm, 30 Jan 2025

Join us for the first presentations by the 2024 - 25 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

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The Courtauld Gallery

New Compositions from Guildhall School of Music and Drama

6:45pm, 27 Jan 2025

Come and listen to new music written in response to paintings across The Courtauld's collections

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Research

Carrie Mae Weems and the Opacity of Grief

5:30pm, 27 Jan 2025

Join Professor Tina Campt for this talk on the work of Carrie Mae Weems, exploring the multi-layered forms of sonic and visual correspondence the artist creates in three bodies of work

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Research

'The Question'

6:00pm, 24 Jan 2025

Join artist Joseph Kosuth and Professor Sarah Wilson for a special in-conversation event celebrating Kosuth's 80th birthday and his solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London

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Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Presentation of Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

6:00pm, 21 Jan 2025

Join Professor Jo Applin for a special presentation and in conversation of her forthcoming Courtauld Gallery exhibition Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.

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Research

The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Book Launch

5:30pm, 9 Jan 2025

Join author Esther Chadwick for a panel discussion with Johanna Gosse, Stephanie O'Rourke, Nicholas Robbins, and Richard Tows to mark the launch of Chadwick's book The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Research

Re-encountering the Oldest Original Tibetan Monastery

5:30pm, 6 Jan 2025

Join researcher and photographer Peter van Ham for a captivating talk on the ancient monastery of Tabo, showcasing the images from his newly published book "TABO - Gods of Light"

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