Thu 25 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Graphic Arts Group, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Graphic Arts Group – Dr Venetia Porter

Venetia Porter will be speaking about artists’ books in her exhibition Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa  From Baghdad to Tehran Artists from across the Middle East and North Africa have become well known for their imaginative use of the form of the artist’s book.  Varying…

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Fri 19 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Museum Debates, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Looking Back, Looking Forward: Decolonising the ...

Museums are grappling with their difficult histories. In the UK, this has been complicated by government intervention; Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden recently met with a number of leading heritage institutions to discuss ‘contested’ portrayals of British history, arguing that museums should ‘retain and explain’. After the global attention brought to…

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Wed 17 Mar, 2021 Courtauld Contemporary, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Radical Acts of Cultural Fluorescence

‘The SACRED ECOLOGIST: SIX STORIES OF CULTURAL, ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FLUORESCENCE’ presents work by artist and Turner Contemporary Digital Commission winner 2020-2021, Christina Peake. Christina will explore not only the autobiographical and familial narratives, Caribbean marine identities and surrogate UK coastal spaces that feed into the work but also the…

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Wed 10 Mar, 2021 - Fri 12 Mar, 2021 Conference, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Decentering Realisms: 1750 to Now

Decentering Realisms: 1750 to Now  Seeking to expand and geographically and theoretically decentre our conceptualisations of realism in modern art this conference will ask how far and in what ways can art from across the world be comprehended under the expanded term ‘realism’? Realism is a notoriously slippery but pervasive and persistent…

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Thu 18 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Gender and Sexuality, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Black Feminist Vision: Artist Lubaina Himid

One of Britain’s most important and celebrated artists and curators, Turner Prize Winner Professor Lubaina Himid CBE has spent decades exploring the politics of race, gender and class. Early works like sculpture We Will Be (1983) or mural Justice, Unity, Equality, Freedom (1985) proclaim confident Black figures in dialogue with Black history, culture and resistance movements: mixing together visions of the past and potential futures to proclaim in…

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Fri 5 Mar, 2021 Documenting Fashion, Dress Talks, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry: f...

  This talk examines how fashion designers have used intellectual property rights to protect their creations from piracy, and to advertise the authenticity of their products.  Among the numerous couturiers that have participated in this effort, the archives-based research presented in this talk focuses on the examples of Madeleine Vionnet and Christian Dior, who,…

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Wed 3 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Gender and Sexuality, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Images of Feminist Resistance: Artist Helen Cammock

How have images shaped, and been shaped by, feminism? Turner Prize Winner Helen Cammock’s work considers how photography and film are implicated in the politics of resistance and protest – asking whose voices are marginalised from history, who speaks on behalf of whom and on what terms. Her 2018 video,…

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Thu 18 Feb, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Courtauld Asia, Event Recording, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum

[ONLINE] The Mood of a Place: A Sensible History of India...

The art of sensing moods mattered in precolonial South Asia. The eighteenth-century painters of Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, suggest that the moods of pleasure and prosperity mattered even more. The moods of grand-scale paintings, larger in size than manuscripts and portraits, which could be held in…

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Thu 25 Feb, 2021 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Brutal Aesthetics – Hal Foster and Kent Mi...

To mark the Barbican’s forthcoming exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, the first of the artist in the UK in over 50 years, The Courtauld Research Forum is hosting a conversation between acclaimed art historian Hal Foster (Princeton) and Dubuffet scholar Kent Minturn (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University). Based on Hal…

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Fri 15 Jan, 2021 Documenting Fashion, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Addressing Images: Niall Billings

In this Addressing Images we will consider representations of mythology and mysticism within the English Ballet. Some of the works we will consider will include Margot Fonteyn’s performance in ‘Horoscope’ (1938) as well as the Ballet Rambert’s production of ‘Mars and Venus (1930); of which both were choreographed by Sir…

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Thu 4 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Indecent Exposure?

Join The Courtauld on the first Thursday of the month at 20.00 for our fourth online series, ‘Open Courtauld Hour’. The Courtauld is home to numerous depictions of women historically labelled or deemed courtesans, prostitutes and night-walkers — women of disrepute painted as sexually and/or morally dubious. This Open Courtauld…

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Thu 4 Feb, 2021 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Radical Printmaking

  Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments in 2021! The Courtauld houses one of the most significant collections of works on paper in Britain, with approximately 26,000 prints ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th…

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Mon 15 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Tom Day and Jo Applin – In Conversation wi...

‘The Moving Image as Subject and Practice in American Art, 1900-1990’ Film and Television were the most popular artforms of the 20th century in America. Their cultural influence was felt across spheres as diverse as politics, fashion, design and publishing. Notwithstanding the wealth of academic discourse on the cultural, industrial and…

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Mon 7 Dec, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Dan Hicks and ‘The Brutish Museums’

The necessary drive for the ‘decolonisation’ of the arts and the restitution of looted artefacts is mounting in light of Black Lives Matter and the antiracism movement. Britain’s museums and galleries are custodians of internationally significant objects and artefacts, yet many of these items often have an untold, and uncomfortable,…

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Mon 23 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE]: Continuous Page: Bringing Art Online in a Pandemic

https://youtu.be/7BmPeFTeX1Q To celebrate the launch of the latest volume in the Courtauld Books Online series—Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext—this roundtable discussion will reflect on art history’s recent rush online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As well as being joined by the book’s contributors, a panel…

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Mon 25 Jan, 2021 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE]Light, Land, and Water: Native and non-Native Vis...

Museums in the United States like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have long represented the Anglo-American tradition of landscape painting. But what about artists who used different techniques to explore the natural world? This lecture will attempt to honor diverse definitions of “landscape” by examining Wabanaki baskets and beadwork alongside canvases by New England painters such…

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Thu 28 Jan, 2021 Architecture Cultures, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and ...

This event brings together several contributors to the recently published book Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture who will each present their research, followed by a moderated panel discussion. Speakers will consider the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artefact, with…

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Thu 18 Feb, 2021 - Fri 19 Feb, 2021 Conference, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] ‘Display and Displacement in Medieval Art and Ar...

  From the chalices that glisten behind glass museum cases to the ritual staging of powerful relics, from the architectural fragments of once towering cathedrals to fresco schemes designed to envelope the senses of the viewer, the display and location of medieval art and architecture matter. Though often meticulously designed…

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Fri 4 Dec, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part V

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.     Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and medium,…

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Thu 3 Dec, 2020 Event Recording, Fashion Illustration Masterclass, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part IV

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and medium,…

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Wed 2 Dec, 2020 Documenting Fashion, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part III

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and medium,…

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Tue 1 Dec, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part II

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and medium,…

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Mon 30 Nov, 2020 Documenting Fashion, Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Symposium Part I

  This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld Institute/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each evening, we will present aspects of our individual and joint research into fashion and…

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Wed 11 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Creators in the get-rich economy: An ‘In C...

Over the last decade capitalism in the West has undergone a fundamental  transformation. How has it changed and what effect has this had on young artists  living and working today? Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities is a major new account of modern capitalism, co-authored by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre,…

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Tue 3 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Prints and Drawings, Research Forum, Seminars and Talks

[ONLINE] Print Room Open House

  At a time when access to The Courtauld and its collections is at its most challenging, the Prints and Drawings department is throwing its doors wide open! We will be holding our first virtual Open House of the year, in which we present three highlights from the collection and…

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Tue 24 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Research Forum, Seminars and Talks

[ONLINE] Book event: Reflections: contemporary art of the...

  Book Launch Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa  Venetia Porter with Natasha Morris and Charles Tripp, British Museum Press November 2020    Professor Sussan Babaie will discuss with the authors of this new book the pioneering formation and the nature of the British Museum’s extraordinary collection of…

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Thu 12 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Medieval and Renaissance, Renaissance Italy, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Ethiopian Christians in Florence: Filippino Lipp...

Fifteen-century Florentine paintings regularly include black figures, almost always as men with low social status. In The Rise of the Black Magus in Western Art (1985), Paul Kaplan briefly considered the absence of African kings in fifteenth-century Central Italian representations of the Adoration of the Magi. This talk explores a related question: why do Florentines begin…

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Fri 29 Jan, 2021 Conference, Event Recording

[ONLINE] ‘Remarkable women’: Female patronage of religiou...

  This conference seeks to explore the ways in which women patronised and interacted with monasteries and religious houses during the late Middle Ages, how they commissioned devotional and commemorative art for monastic settings, and the ways in which these donations were received and understood by their intended audiences. The…

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Thu 3 Dec, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Rainbow Lenses

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments this Autumn! An uncensored celebration of queer culture, ‘Rainbow Lenses’ will extol the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ arts and culture in both art history and contemporary society. ‘Rainbow Lenses’ will explore…

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Thu 5 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: British – Art, Immigr...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments this Autumn! From migration and makers to immigrants and innovation the landscape of British art has undeniably been moulded by the movement of people. A cornerstone of British art, this hour will both…

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Thu 26 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Gallery, Persian and Islamic Arts, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Symposium – Precious and Rare: Islamic Met...

  This symposium will explore curatorial, practical and public engagement aspects of The Courtauld’s touring display of Islamic metalwork to four venues in the UK. Beginning with a keynote lecture uncovering the historic importance of the works on display, the rest of the talks will reflect on the opportunities and…

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Fri 13 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Event Recording, Research Forum, Word and Image

[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Moderni...

  Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements   This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian and Urdu) letters and script into abstract visual forms across North Africa, West Asia and South…

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Fri 6 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia, Courtauld Contemporary, Event Recording, Research Forum, Word and Image

[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Moderni...

Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements   This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian and Urdu) letters and script into abstract visual forms across North Africa, West Asia and South Asia…

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Sat 10 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Open Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] The Big Draw Festival

  The Courtauld invites you and your family to be part of the world’s biggest community of drawing enthusiasts! In 2020 The Big Draw Festival #ClimateOfChange focuses on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do…

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Mon 26 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] New politics, new methods: James Barry’s printma...

Rifts in the fabric of the British Empire produced spectacular and sometimes strange effects in eighteenth-century British art. The “revolution of history painting” described by Edgar Wind as long ago as 1938, in which contemporary events and topical detail came to be portrayed in the grand manner traditionally reserved for…

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Mon 19 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Gender and Sexuality, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Feminism’s Occult Imagination: Artist Tai Shani

Why has the occult become such an important image for fourth–wave feminism? Turner Prize Winner Tai Shani’s work presents a profound and complex investigation into the relationships between feminism, magic, and time. Her performance-installation DC: Semiramis (2018) adapted poet Christine de Pizan’s feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). The book builds an allegorical city for notable medieval women, blurring fact and…

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Wed 14 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, International Center of Medieval Art at The Courtauld, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: ...

  “My talk brings together my early and more recent research on the manuscript that I call the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France MS fr. 1) — the most complete surviving witness and sole extant illuminated copy of the Anglo-Norman Bible, the “earliest full prose vernacular Bible produced in England” (Russell). Building…

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Wed 18 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Medieval Work In Progress, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] The Elephant in the Room, at Gourdon in Burgundy

This talk explores the fragmentary twelfth-century mural depicting an elephant, situated in the lowermost zone, or dado, of the choir wall in the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption at Gourdon, a small village in the Charolais district of Burgundy. This painting is unique in France, but its presence has attracted little attention, let alone any further consideration of its meaning…

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Tue 6 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Open Courtauld, Research Forum, Social/Global Working Group

[ONLINE] Afterlives of the Kingdom of Haiti, 1820-2020: A...

  Born of a slave rebellion on the French colony of Saint-Domingue which transformed into the most radical antislavery and anticolonial revolution in world history, Haiti became the first independent Black republic in 1804. In the early years of independence, a scission emerged between rival revolutionary factions, leading to geographical division…

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Wed 28 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Medieval and Renaissance, Medieval Work In Progress, Research Forum

[ONLINE] A Rock-Hewn Revolution in Early Medieval Ethiopia

Following the collapse of the late antique empire of Aksum, northern Ethiopia entered a “dark age” period, wherein little is known of the region. However, around the year 1000, a triad of cruciform churches were hewn out of rock in East Tigray, unparalleled in scale, form and the use of vaulting. This…

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Tue 10 Nov, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Media...

  Professor Pamela Karimi explores the spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1990s. She illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have driven Iran’s creative agents toward increasingly original forms of site-oriented and durational artmaking. Predominantly ephemeral, most of these artworks don’t enter the global art market, at least not in the…

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Wed 7 Oct, 2020 Architecture Cultures, Book launch, Event Recording, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Book event: ‘Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprint...

  Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by László Moholy-Nagy is a new publication that offers a unique insight into one of the less familiar sides of the Bauhaus at large and Moholy-Nagy in particular. In May 1926, thirteen Bauhaus professors and students created handprints that were preserved by László Moholy-Nagy. This book brings together for the first…

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Fri 30 Oct, 2020 Documenting Fashion, Event Recording, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Addressing Images: Nadya Wang

This session of Addressing Images will be based on a photograph taken of Indonesian fashion designer Toton Januar’s Spring/Summer 2019 runway show during Jakarta Fashion Week. We will discuss how contemporary Southeast Asian womenswear designers put together traditional/modern and local/global elements not only in designing clothing but also to create compelling fashion narratives, and…

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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

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

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

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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...

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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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Fri 12 Feb, 2021 American Art, Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Meyer Schapiro: Thinking between Art and the 20t...

Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was a dazzling midcentury entrepôt of ideas, bridging the worlds of artists and intellectuals in ways that are truly incomparable. Just as he impressed Noam Chomsky, beseeched Walter Benjamin, and critiqued Martin Heidegger, so too did he mentor Robert Motherwell, assist Barnett Newman, and inspire Fernand Léger.…

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Fri 5 Mar, 2021 Event Recording, Research Forum, Sculptural Processes Group

[ONLINE] Analía Saban in conversation with Jo Applin and ...

  Annual Artist’s Talk by Sculptural Processes Group Analía Saban is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. She rethinks traditional media such as painting, sculpture and drawing in the context of scientific and technological experimentation and reworks materials like marble or canvas in confusing, subversive ways. We will…

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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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