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Award: Frank Zurlino Publication Prize, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Cologne/Germany
Description of role & details:
The Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e. V., hereinafter referred to as freunde, and the editorial team of the Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, published in Cologne, are now accepting submissions for the annual Frank Zurlino Publication Prize for early career scholars of art history as well as art technology under the age of 35 (on the date of submission). The prize will be awarded for the second time in 2027 to a previously unpublished research paper on the topics covered by the yearbook that impresses the judging panel with its originality and scholarly rigor.
The Frank Zurlino Publication Prize consists of a cash award of €3,000 in addition to the publication of the winning paper in the Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, Volume 88 (2027).
The winner will also be invited to give a public talk on the award-winning topic in the lecture series Kunstbewusst organised by the freunde.
Type of position: Open Call
Organisation name: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Cologne/Germany
Location: International
Application deadline: 31 March 2027
Recruiter website: https://www.wallraf.museum/en/the-museum/
Award / Prize Money: 3000 €
How to apply: https://www.wallraf.museum/en/the-museum/research/publication-prize/
Curator of Drawings or Senior Curator of Drawings, Courtauld Gallery
Description of role & details:
The Courtauld Gallery is seeking to appoint an outstanding Curator or Senior Curator to lead its internationally renowned collection of drawings and to oversee the work of its Prints & Drawings department – one of the most active in the United Kingdom.
The successful candidate will have a PhD in the history of art or equivalent research experience, specialist expertise and significant curatorial experience in the field of European drawings pre-1800, and the ability to work across the range of the drawings collection. The post requires a highly committed, energetic and ambitious approach, the ability to flourish within a small team, and excellent organisational and communication skills.
Type of position: Permanent
Organisation name: Courtauld Gallery
Location: London
Application deadline: Sunday 13 September 2026 at 23:59pm
Recruiter website: https://courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/
Salary: Curator Grade 7 (£52,947 – £60,658) or Senior Curator Grade 8 (£64,089 – £73,611) per annum, dependent on experience.
How to apply:
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Review the job description and person specification, then complete the online application form and submit for review.
Freelance Art History Educator / Museum Collection Guide, Independent European Art History Travel-Learning Project
Description of role & details: An independent 60-day European art-history travel-learning project is seeking Courtauld students, alumni and researchers to contribute specialist one-to-one teaching for a highly engaged adult learner. Contributors may offer an in-person session in a museum, gallery, church or historic site in a city they know well, and/or one to three remote thematic seminars.
Each contribution should grow from the educator’s own research interests or expertise and connect specific objects, collections or sites to a wider European art-historical framework, broadly from c.1500 to the twentieth century. Topics may include Renaissance and Baroque art, Dutch and Flemish art, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, modernism, or related fields.
Applicants should have strong subject knowledge, communicate research clearly to a non-specialist adult learner, and be reliable. Chinese-speaking contributors are strongly preferred, although English-language proposals are welcome. Applicants may be based anywhere in Europe, and remote proposals are also welcome.
Type of position: Freelance/Contract
Organisation name: Independent European Art History Travel-Learning Project
Location: UK/International
Application deadline: Rolling applications; applications will be reviewed as received and the opportunity will close when suitable collaborators have been appointed.
Salary: Online thematic session: GBP 80 fixed fee per 60-90-minute session. In-person museum or collection session: GBP 150 fixed fee per 2-3-hour session. Reasonable admission and necessary local travel expenses will be reimbursed where agreed in advance.
How to apply: Please email yuzouarth@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Art History Educator’. Please include your current location, research area or collection expertise, preferred language, proposed session format, availability, and a short biography or CV.