Wed 1 Jul, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] The 38th Annual Gerry Hedley Student Symposium

The Gerry Hedley Symposium is an annual student-run conference. Post-graduate students and interns from all three of the UK’s conservation courses, The Hamilton Kerr Institute, Northumbria University and The Courtauld Institute of Art, have the opportunity to present their research ranging from conservation, technical analysis and art-historical research of paintings…

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Wed 24 Jun, 2020 Artist's talk, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Artist Talk with Sunil Gupta

This is a live online event.   You do not need to register for the event. On Wednesday 24th June at 17.30 you can tune in to watch the event live here and via the Somerset House eventpage here: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-sunil-gupta  Please email researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions.    Sunil Gupta…

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Thu 25 Jun, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Past Orders – Art and...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s weekly digital instalment on all things art history – is back! With pubs being the first places to be closed, and most likely last to be opened, in the UK’s approach to tackling Covid-19, this episode begins and ends by delving…

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Thu 18 Jun, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: The Art of Feasting

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s weekly digital instalment on all things art history – is back! From subject matter to statement, it is no secret that food and feasting have played a fundamental role in art for millennia. Eating and food preparation have taken on a…

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Wed 1 Jul, 2020 Event Recording, Gender and Sexuality, Research Forum

[ONLINE]: Violent Fluids: Feminist Histories of Blood

How have images of blood shaped histories of gender from medieval manuscripts to contemporary art? The Courtauld’s Gender & Sexuality Research Group welcome Dr Hetta Howes (City University of London) and Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik (St Andrews) to speak about their research into the bodily fluid (followed by a Q&A). Paper abstracts below:     ‘And there came…

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Thu 25 Jun, 2020 - Fri 26 Jun, 2020 Conference, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Art History in Climate Change

This online conference will explore the stakes of art and art history in the climate crisis.  In recent years, climate change has become a central issue on the international political agenda, due to the activism of groups such as Extinction Rebellion and the worldwide campaigning of figures such as Greta…

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Fri 22 May, 2020 Event Recording, Material Witness, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Jane Austen Embroidery: from the Lady’s Ma...

Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. She was a keen amateur embroiderer who was praised for being so ‘excellent in satin stitch’ that she would have put ‘a sewing machine to shame’. Austen’s letters document her embellishing caps and gowns while trying and failing to…

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Wed 20 May, 2020 Event Recording, Museum Debates, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Declaring Emergency: Museums and the Climate Crisis

This is a live online event.  Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour prior to the event start time.  If you do not receive the platform and log-in…

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Thu 21 May, 2020 Event Recording, Panel Discussion, Research Forum

[ONLINE] McQueens Illuminating Objects Talk and Panel: Wh...

This is a live online event  Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour prior to the event start time.  If you do not receive the email with the…

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Tue 26 May, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Ornament and Obsolescence: Lee Krasner’s M...

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Tue 23 Jun, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[NEW DATE – ONLINE] Facture Wars: The expanded fiel...

This is an online event.  Please register for further details. The platform and log in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour prior to the event start time.  If you do not receive the email with the…

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Thu 21 May, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Open Courtauld Hour, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Women Artists

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Our fourth Open Courtauld Hour will focus on Women Artists, addressing gender imbalance in the art world, expanding on notions of public and private and reinserting women of all backgrounds…

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Thu 14 May, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Open Courtauld Hour, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: The Future of Art History

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! In this session, our experts discuss the Courtauld’s ever-changing approach to the online publication of its extensive photographic collection (via the development of an ambitious digitisation project encompassing 3.3 million…

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Thu 7 May, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Open Courtauld Hour, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Art and Wellbeing

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Over recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of the potential impact that art can have on health and wellbeing. In our second session, we will investigate the powerful…

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Thu 30 Apr, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Open Courtauld Hour, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Art in Isolation

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Why does art matter in quarantine? Lockdown has been transformational in how artists, galleries and museums are adapting to an online world to continue showcasing and making art. Join Alixe…

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Thu 5 Mar, 2020 Bahari Lecture, Event Recording, Research Forum

Art in Peril: The Case of the Negarestan Museum and its C...

In recent years, civil wars, terrorism and revolutions have destabilized the Middle East and Western Asia and taken a terrible human and cultural toll. Cultural destruction knows no boundaries, geographical or historical. This lecture will focus on the Negarestan Museum of 18th and 19th century Iranian Art in Tehran, Iran,…

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Tue 10 Mar, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

Van Gogh at the Met: recent insights through technical ex...

Spring Lecture Series The Metropolitan Museum of Art has in its collection seventeen paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. These celebrated works have been researched and published extensively, but technical examinations are providing new insights into the creative process of the artist. The talk will centre on a group of four…

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Mon 27 Apr, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] “Not so much a line as a star” Donald Judd in Th...

This is a live online event. Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Donald Judd’s rising reputation and fame in the United States in the second half of the 1960s, epitomized by his…

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Wed 23 Oct, 2019 Event Recording, Lecture, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum

Gender and Ritual in the Baptistery of Padua

One of the most remarkable fresco programmes of the later Trecento can be found in the baptistery of Padua.  The frescoes, painted by the Florentine artist Giusto de’ Menabuoi in the mid-1370s, include a dazzling depiction of paradise in the dome and narratives that span all of salvation history, from Genesis…

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Wed 12 Jun, 2019 Event Recording, Medieval Work In Progress, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Historical Present: Collective Misremembering, Material C...

We live in history, scurrying along streets with ancient names, past old buildings and historic landmarks, through protected landscapes, amidst plaques and statuary memorialising achievement and catastrophe. While the commemoration industry is focused on events that actually happened in the past – births, deaths, discoveries, battles, calamities – an important…

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