Events Archive September 2020-August 2021

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ART HISTORY FESTIVAL | Hidden Figures: Unlocking The Courtauld Collection

7:00pm, 20 Sep 2021 | Free, booking essential

Join the Courtauld team as they unearth the hidden stories of people of colour in their collections through an exploration of both pictorial and material representation....

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Ruskin's Ecologies - Book Launch Event

6:30pm, 21 Sep 2021 | Free, but booking essential

This is an event to celebrate the publication of 'Ruskin's Ecologies', edited by Thomas Hughes and Kelly Freeman, published by Courtauld Books Online. ...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Captured!

8:00pm, 30 Sep 2021 | Free, booking essential

To celebrate the upcoming reopening of our gallery we are teaming up with our digitisation team, volunteers and students for our first Open Courtauld Hour of the season!...

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The Big Draw Festival: Make The Change!

11:00am, 2 Oct 2021 | Free, but booking essential

The Big Draw Festival: MakeTheChange! is a timely development on last year's exploration into the relationship between people and our living environments. In 2021, we are partnering with The Big Draw team to take action, to explore and to discover wa...

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Decolonizing the Museum?

2:30pm, 6 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This lecture discusses a series of practices and experiments initiated by Françoise Vergès around the decolonisation of the museum for the ‘Museum without Objects’ (Réunion Island, 2004-2020), ‘The Slave in the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity’ (Paris ...

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Addressing Images: Fashion, Taste and the Jeweller’s Sentiment

12:30pm, 8 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This Addressing Images will be based on a 1912 editorial image featuring jewels by French jeweller Georges Fouquet. ...

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Considering Collecting: Collecting Today

6:30pm, 12 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This first event in the 'Considering Collecting' series brings together experts and collectors to share knowledge, insight and advice on collecting artworks. ...

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Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre, how to organize an impossible exhibition?

5:00pm, 13 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

In 2019-2020, the Louvre organized an exhibition to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in France, of particular importance for the museum, which holds the largest collection in the world of da Vinci’s paintings, as w...

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“Salvage and Selvage: An Art Historian’s Misadventures Sponsoring Thangka Remounting in Western Himalayan Village Shrines”

6:00pm, 14 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

Although monastic and palace shrines have the most splendid holdings, they can also be the most complicated for an outsider like myself to study and document. My talk is about a different model of mutual benefit I have recently stumbled upon....

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Gatecrashers and the Promise of American Art

5:00pm, 18 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

Nearly one hundred years ago, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of the elite art world, as their paintings of American life and fantastical scenes derived from their imaginations began appearing in major museums. This talk draws upo...

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Digital Imaging as Disciplinary Practice: Photography and Art History

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

What should scholars know about digital imaging? And how might this knowledge facilitate a deeper, more critical engagement with the images and image infrastructures they use every day? These are the questions I will address in this talk, using examp...

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Unsettled Subjects: Confronting Questions of Race, Space and Identity in Architecture

5:30pm, 20 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event brings together several architects and faculty members of the larger collective, Unsettled Subjects, to discuss diverse approaches to issues of race, space and identity in members’ architectural practice, pedagogy, and writing. ...

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Shen Xin and Alvin Li in conversation

5:00pm, 21 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

Artist Shen Xin joins curator and writer Alvin Li for an intimate conversation in this online event. In lieu of a conventional studio visit, the two interlocutors will proceed by posing each other a series of questions informed by their ongoing resea...

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The Archaeology of Disciplines: or adventures in the analogue archive

5:30pm, 22 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

What does the material archive teach us? I shall explore the transformation in recent years of the analogue archive from a space of receding utility to a space of expanding intellectual enquiry. ...

Centre for American Art, Research

Forgetting and Remembering the Sea with Winslow Homer

5:00pm, 25 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This lecture interrogates Homer’s marines anew by focusing on the unique epistemology and materiality of the ocean. The late photographer and theorist Allan Sekula has called the oceans a “forgotten space.” Indeed, art historians tend to look out to ...

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Considering Collecting: Collecting in the Digital Age

6:30pm, 26 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This second event in the 'Considering Collecting' series focuses on digital spaces for collecting, with Oliver Miro speaking about Vortic, a virtual exhibitions and events platform. ...

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Ecosensibility

1:00pm, 27 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

Zheng Bo will discuss his practice and thinking on cultivating ecological wisdom in the age of Anthropocene extinction. ...

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Trying to Listen to Medieval Architecture: Between Audiences and Settings and Book Launch for 'Towards An Art History Of The Parish Church, 1200–1399'.

5:00pm, 27 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk reflects on the need to consider what role historical knowledge of architecture should play in the study of architectural soundscapes....

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Open Courtauld Hour: Restaged!

8:00pm, 28 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

The Courtauld Gallery will open its doors this November, following the most significant modernisation project in its history. This Open Courtauld Hour will therefore provide a rare back of house tour, a sneak preview to The Courtauld Gallery and the ...

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Representation as a Matter of Fact

6:30pm, 2 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

Since the late ’60s Toren has been addressing the ways in which representation can incorporate that which it represents. His is a unique practice. ...

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The Many Lives of Fragmented Letters: Buddhist Death Rituals, Palimpsests, and Reuse in Medieval Japan

6:00pm, 3 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

While a fading practice today, handwritten letters in medieval Japan were the sole form of communication between long-separated lovers, parents unlikely to reunite with their children, and distant friends, artists, and poets. ...

Centre for American Art, Research

'"What do you say about homosexuals?" Gene Swenson’s "Other" Tradition'

5:00pm, 8 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk begins with the question “What do you say about homosexuals?,” which critic Gene Swenson posed on tape to Andy Warhol in 1963 (in an unknown recording I uncovered during my research). ...

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Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the Victoria and Albert Museum

5:00pm, 10 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

On the occasion of the Fragmented Illuminations exhibition at the V&A (8 September 2021-8 May 2022), curator Catherine Yvard will explore the history of this collection, and highlight some of the exciting discoveries made while researching for the ex...

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On Borderlands. Cross-cultural Encounters in the Alps Around 1500 and the Production of ‘Place’

5:00pm, 11 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk takes the castle of Issogne (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) and its distinctive mural decorations as the lens through which to look at the arts in the Western Alps around 1500. ...

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‘Temporary Fabulous Zones’: Che Gossett and Wu Tsang in conversation

5:00pm, 11 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event brings Tsang and Gossett together in a critical discussion of art, visibility, black and trans poetics, collaboration, and more. ...

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Guerrilla Art and the Politics of Punitive Literacy

5:00pm, 15 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

In this talk, Faye Glessier aims to provide an alternative historical narrative for guerrilla art in the U.S. that emerged in the late 1960s and gained legibility throughout the 1970s. ...

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Not / Making / Marks: On Lygia Clark’s Organic Line

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk concerns the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s concept of the “organic” line: an interval of space that appears between a painting and its frame, a door and its lintel, or tiles on the floor....

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Harold Rosenberg and “The American Action Painters”

5:00pm, 22 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) is still primarily known by a single essay, “The American Action Painters,” which was published in ARTnews in 1952.  When the piece appeared in the December issue, the response was phenomenal.  Not only did it galvanize a...

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Investigating Xinjiang's network of detention camps: digital mapping and architectural investigations

6:00pm, 23 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

China has built a vast network of detention camps in the north west region of Xinjiang, as part of its campaign of oppression against Turkic Muslims. It is believed that more than a million people have been detained. Our team used satellite imagery, ...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Can-Can!

8:00pm, 25 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This Open Courtauld Hour invites you to enter a world of splendour, misery and excess! In this hour the electrifying entertainment of the can-can and cabaret of the Courtauld Collection takes centre stage....

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Charles Stankievech and The Double Agent

5:00pm, 29 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event will involve a discussion around the project Nº6092 by the artist Charles Stankievech, commissioning KW curator Nadim Samman and The Courtauld’s Research Forum Programme Manager Leyla Bumbra. ...

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The Last Judgment and the dramaticule 'Orifeus and Oublietta' - Screening and Discussion

6:30pm, 30 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event will consist of a screening of Barbard Golshiri's 'dramaticule Orifeus and Oublietta' followed by an In Conversation with Professors Sarah Wilson and Sussan Babaie ...

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Trans Artists in Conversation: Charlie Craggs and Travis Alabanza

5:00pm, 6 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

The incredible Charlie Craggs (she/her) and the illustrious Travis Alabanza (they/them) will be joining the President of the Courtauld’s LGBTQIA+ Society to discuss their work as transgender activist artists. ...

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Immediations no.19 (2021) Launch

5:30pm, 6 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Join us at the launch of the 2021 issue of immediations, Courtauld’s annual peer-reviewed publication of postgraduate research. ...

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Living Matter in Medieval Denmark

5:00pm, 8 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

In this talk, the phenomenon of living matter will be discussed using medieval Denmark as a case-study. ...

Centre for American Art, Research

Workshop :“How close can I get to someone? Will we become each other”: Epistolary Subjects, Objects, and Methods in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History

10:00am, 9 Dec 2021 | Free, very limited space, booking essential

In this participatory workshop involving writing experiments and collective discussions, we will revisit, handle again, the letters we have discovered in the archives of the artists and subjects we study, considering our roles as interlocutors across...

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Around Valentine’s Day, 1980: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller’s Lovesick Letter-pieces

5:00pm, 9 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

On the evening of February 14, 1980, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller posed as the ex-boyfriend of the poet and playwright, Gary Indiana, for a performance he was doing alongside another of his friends, Kathy Acker, at the Mudd Club in New York....

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God and the Painters: The Altarpiece in the Italian Renaissance

6:30pm, 10 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Professor David Ekserdjian will talk about his new book 'The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative'. ...

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African Diasporic Modernism: The Far-Reaching Tropicality of Black Geographies

5:00pm, 13 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism examines the creative manifestations of black modernism, and explicates how tropicality functioned as a key unifying element in African Diasporic art....

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After Hours: Glow-up!

7:00pm, 15 Dec 2021 | £9.00

Get your glad rags on, dust the cobwebs off your favourite and sparkliest outfits and join The Courtauld for its first After Hour event in its newly transformed gallery! ...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Dress-up!

8:00pm, 16 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Get your glad rags on, dust the cobwebs off your favourite and sparkliest outfits and join The Courtauld for its last Open Courtauld Hour of 2021!...

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Mod Gothic? Medieval Architecture in the Modern Ages

1 Jul - 2 Jul 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Open Courtauld Hour: A Night at the Theatre

8:00pm, 1 Jul 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Relationality in American Art

24 Jun - 25 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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McQueens Illuminating Objects Annual Seminar

5:00pm, 23 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Annual Postgraduate Symposium

21 Jun - 22 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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susan pui san lok: seven x seven - Courtauld x GSA x GI2021

5:00pm, 17 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Decentring Whiteness: A Platform for Intersectional Conversation

5:00pm, 16 Jun 2021

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Post-conflict: Art History and Cultural Heritage in Dialogue

5:00pm, 15 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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In Conversation: Refugee Artists and the Ben Uri Collection

12:30pm, 15 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Crossing Borders; Constructing Canons: "Post-Impressionism" in Britain, America and Beyond

10 Jun - 11 Jun 2021

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Monet in Mind: Curator in Conversation

6:00pm, 10 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Public Art: Who Decides?

7:00pm, 9 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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‘I saw wonders, I saw horrors’: Reconsidering Enguerrand Quarton’s Coronation of the Virgin

5:00pm, 9 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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‘“It’s Showtime!”: Anton Perich Presents and the Performativity of the Party’

5:00pm, 7 Jun 2021

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1940s in Focus: American Art during the Decade of Transition

3 Jun - 4 Jun 2021

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Open Courtauld Hour: Hair Moments

8:00pm, 3 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Wuhan Punk: Chris Zhongtian Yuan

6:30pm, 2 Jun 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Jay DeFeo: A Symposium

4:30pm, 28 May 2021

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Perverse Images: Monstrous Beauty and Monkey Business in Italian Art from Botticelli to Bronzino

5:00pm, 27 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Seecum Cheung: Artist Talk

6:30pm, 25 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series Launch

21 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Painting Pairs: collaborative research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 19 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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The Vagabond as an Aesthetic Wanderer: Thomas Meteyard’s Aesthetic Peregrinations, c. 1890

5:00pm, 18 May 2021

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Andy and Edie planning an 'Afternoon' (1965): fallacies and film practice in Warhol’s cinema

5:00pm, 17 May 2021

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Reading Renoir with The Dress Detective

4:00pm, 15 May 2021 | Free and open to all

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Open Courtauld Hour: Musical Interludes

8:00pm, 13 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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In Conversation: Blueprints for the Otherwise

11 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Painting Dissent: The American Pre-Raphaelite Experiment

5:00pm, 10 May 2021

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Black Masculinities and Contemporary Art in Britain

5:00pm, 4 May 2021 | Free, booking essential

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Paradise found: Romanesque tombs in Western Europe, c. 1000- c. 1150

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2021 | Free, booking essential

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The Shop Girl in Movies and Fine Art

5:00pm, 26 Apr 2021

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Afrotropes and Art History’s Global Imagination

2:00pm, 23 Apr 2021

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Gay Bar: A dig beneath the disco

5:30pm, 22 Apr 2021

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Painting Pairs: collaborative research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 22 Apr 2021

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Graphic Arts Group - Dr Venetia Porter

5:00pm, 25 Mar 2021

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Decolonising the Museum

6:00pm, 19 Mar 2021

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Black Feminist Vision: Artist Lubaina Himid

5:00pm, 18 Mar 2021

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Radical Acts of Cultural Fluorescence

5:00pm, 17 Mar 2021

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Tom Day and Jo Applin - In Conversation with Jann Haworth

5:00pm, 15 Mar 2021

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Eagles, dragons, griffins, and angels: Netherlandish brass lecterns in context

5:00pm, 10 Mar 2021

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Decentering Realisms: 1750 to Now

10 Mar - 12 Mar 2021

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Listening to Revolution

5:00pm, 9 Mar 2021

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Earth Diplomacy: Diné Arts of Reciprocity, 1966–1968

5:00pm, 8 Mar 2021

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Analía Saban in conversation with Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller

6:00pm, 5 Mar 2021

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Intellectual Property in the Fashion Industry: from Vionnet to Dior

12:30pm, 5 Mar 2021

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Open Courtauld Hour: Indecent Exposure?

8:00pm, 4 Mar 2021

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Images of Feminist Resistance: Artist Helen Cammock

5:00pm, 3 Mar 2021

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Brutal Aesthetics - Hal Foster and Kent Minturn in Conversation

7:00pm, 25 Feb 2021

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Blackening Surrealism: Ted Joans’s Ethnographic Surrealist Historiography

5:00pm, 22 Feb 2021

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The Mood of a Place: A Sensible History of India’s Eighteenth-Century Locals and Locales

5:00pm, 18 Feb 2021 | Free

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‘Display and Displacement in Medieval Art and Architecture’

18 Feb - 19 Feb 2021

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Art, Architecture and Reputation Management in Early Fourteenth-Century England

5:00pm, 17 Feb 2021 | Free

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Meyer Schapiro: Thinking between Art and the 20th Century

2:00pm, 12 Feb 2021

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What Collages Do: Four Lessons and a Timeline

5:30pm, 9 Feb 2021

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Open Courtauld Hour: Radical Printmaking

8:00pm, 4 Feb 2021 | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

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Morbid Curiosity? Painting the Tribunale della Vicaria in Seicento Naples

5:00pm, 3 Feb 2021

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‘Remarkable women’: Female patronage of religious institutions, 1300-1550

10:00am, 29 Jan 2021

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Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture

5:30pm, 28 Jan 2021 | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

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Light, Land, and Water: Native and non-Native Visions of New England

5:00pm, 25 Jan 2021

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Addressing Images: Niall Billings

12:00pm, 15 Jan 2021