Events Archive September 2022-August 2023

Summer 2023

Photograph showing Notre Damme cathedral in black and white

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The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography

Thursday 6th July, 17:30 - 18:30 BST

This paper, delivered by independent photography historian Anthony Hamber, provides a focused evaluation of the historiography of The Conway Library's origins, and how and why it was built upon Conway’s original donation.

An open book resting on a stand. Handwritten text by Paul Gauguin is on the left hand page, and the right page has handwritten text and two drawings interspersing the text.

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Avant et après: Gauguin’s Final Words

Friday 23rd June, 8.45am - 1.00pm BST and Saturday 24th June, 12.55pm - 5.45pm BST

Funded by The Getty Foundation’s “Paper Project”, this online-conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Paul Gauguin's Avant et après, one of the most significant artists manusc...

Abstract image showing an irregular black spot on a white background

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Museum Debate: Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art

6:30pm, 22 Jun 2023

Organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort, this year's museum debate 'Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art' brings together artists, curators, art historians and conservators for a critical discussion on the role that materials ...

The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects

Tuesday 20th June, 9:00am - 18:00pm BST and Wednesday 21st June 2023, 9:30am - 12:15pm BST

This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they ar...

Painting depicting a steep gorge. On one side a train moves along a track on a steep cliff side and on the other side a figure can be seen painting

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Belatedness and Historiographies of North American Art

Friday 16th June, 12:45 - 16:30 BST and Saturday 17th June 2023, 10:00 - 15:30 BST

Join us for a two day conference as part of the Belatedness and North American Art series.

Geometric image of four intersecting triangles. The bottom triangle is made up of lines of different colours and patterns, the left and right triangles are bright blue, and the top triangle is dark green with white flecks giving the impression of a night sky and stars.

Unsettling American Art History:
Perspectives from Native American & Indigenous Studies

Friday 9th June, 9.30am - 3.00pm BST and Saturday 10th June, 9.30am - 3.00pm BST

This symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and curators whose work both engages with 19th- and 20th-century Indigenous art/history and is framed by the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Abstract blue, red and yellow rectangular shapes intersecting

Artists in Conversation: Rasheed Araeen and Rana Begum

Monday 5th June, 18:00pm-19:00pm BST

The inaugural event of a new seminar series in curating will bring in conversation two leading contemporary artists based in London. It is organised on the occasion of the release of Rasheed Araeen’s book Islam and Modernism in which the artist takes...

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A Nod of a Hat: Rooftops of Old Tehran

5:00pm, 5 Jun 2023

In this talk, Ahmadreza Schricker, the principal of Architecture North (ASA North), discusses his newest project, the transformation of the abandoned Argo beer factory in downtown Tehran into a new museum, artist residency and cultural centre.

Large medieval painting depicting the virgin Mary central surrounded by religious figures including nuns and angels

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“Así repiten aún las piedras”: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate

6:00pm, 25 May 2023

Join Aaron M. Hyman for this ARTES supported lecture based on his current book project 'Formalities: The Art of Script in the Early Modern Spanish World'.

Call to Holy Ground: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

23 May 2023

Sacred Traditions & the Arts Seminar is partnering with Art + Christianity and the Dean’s Office at King’s College London, who are hosting a film screening and discussion in the Chapel at King’s.

a screeshot from the video The Earth Turned Green

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Solar Wheels and other stories

6:00pm, 11 Mar 2024

Shen Xin is an artist and storyteller who uses video, sound, installation and performance to tell ‘embodied stories’ about forms of inhabitance and dwelling – how we live with others in the places we are drawn to, settle in or claim as ours, as well ...

Photograph of a tapestry depicting the Holy Family, with a male figure leaning in through a window while a female figure holds an infant on her lap

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Intersections: Entanglements with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550

Monday 22nd May 2023, 09:00am -18:30pm BST

In this symposium we would like to draw together varying angles of research through their intersections with textiles, in whatever capacity. The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, ove...

Courtauld Institute of Art Year Three PhD Symposium

Thursday 18th May, 10:30am-17:00pm BST and Friday 19th May 2023, 13:30-17:30pm BST

Spanning across two days, the symposium creates transnational and trans-geographic connections and reflects key concerns from across the discipline. Each panel, grouped through thematic and methodological concerns, engages with innovative approaches ...

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From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art

5:00pm, 17 May 2023

Join Amy Bloch for this lecture on Donatello and his practices relating to goldsmithing.

Close up photograph of the centre of an intricately carved cross made of ivory.

Revisiting the Cloisters Cross: A One-day Colloquium

10:30am, 12 May 2023

A joint one-day colloquium, organised by the British Archaeological Association and The Courtauld, focusing on 'The Cloisters Cross'.

Black and white portrait of Maggie Keswick Jencks holding a camera

Histories Without a Voice: Marysia Lewandowska’s residency at The Cosmic House

5:30pm, 11 May 2023

Photograph showing 7 silver metal bowls of different sizes with different objects inside, set on a stone surface

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Porous Beings: Lotus Laurie Kang in conservation with Xiaowen Zhu

6:00pm, 5 May 2023

For the third event in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series Kang will introduce her most recent body of work that will be shown in her upcoming exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, and discuss issues of care, belonging, matter and memory in co...

A dark haired man walks towards the camera through a beaded curtain. He is walking into a kitchen, barefoot, and is carrying a pair of snakeskin boots with him.

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Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia

9:00am, 5 May 2023

The conference seeks to highlight the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices within or relating to Southeast Asia, and contributes to efforts to decentralise fashion studies.

Painting showing a figure with long hair and a beard facing the viewer. In one hand he holds and orb and the other is raised in the sign of a blessing

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Painting Pairs 2022 - 23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

Join us for the first presentations by the 2022 - 23 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

Painting showing a calm cove with a sailing boat on the left hand side. In the distance is a rocky island and there are large white clouds in the sky.

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Words and Wordlessness in Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester

5:30pm, 4 May 2023

Join Nicholas Robbins as he explores the peculiar intimacy between art and literature that has characterized scholarship on nineteenth-century U.S. painting through the work of Fitz Henry Lane.

Design for a playing or tarot card depicting a male figure in red armour holding a large red sword.

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Fabulous Adventurer and Magnanimous King: The Reception of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian Art

5:00pm, 4 May 2023

Claudia Daniotti will share aspects of her research into the reception of Alexander the Great in the Renaissance.

Section of a painting showing a grup of four men talking to each other with a depiction of a black devil standing at the back of one of the men

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Giotto’s Ugliness. Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism

5:00pm, 3 May 2023

Join Professor Marco Ruffini for this talk on the portrayal of Giotto as ugly and how this links to his style of painting.

Photograph showing a woman on top of a mechanical raised platform, adding paint to a painting which fills the entire wall of the room

Lyric, Mark, Mural: Matthew Holman in Conversation with Megan Rooney

6:30pm, 2 May 2023

Dr Matthew Holman and Megan Rooney, in conversation, on the occasion of Rooney’s major solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.

Watercolour painting depicting a lake surrounded by mountains. In the bottom left you can see a figure dragging a boat in to shore and there are more boats shown in the rest of the lake

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North American Impressionisms and Belatedness

6:00pm, 28 Apr 2023

The third online event in the Belatedness and North American Art series.

Photograph of a grey building against a blue sky. There are bollards to the left of the building and grass and trees in front of it.

A History of Council Housing Design and Planning

5:00pm, 27 Apr 2023

John Boughton examines the major ideas and theories that have shaped the form of council housing over its 150-year history.

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Śrī Pāda Pilgrimage: History, Icons and Representations of Saman's Divine Abode

6:00pm, 26 Apr 2023

Join Professor Mahinda Deegalle for a talk on Sri Lanka's sacred site, Mt. Samanala.

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Reflections on the Cushion Capital

6:30pm, 24 Apr 2023

Join CRSBI for their annual lecture, delivered in 2023 by Dr Richard Plant

two people sitting in front of two of Peter Doig's painting in the Courtauld Gallery

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Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The Courtauld

6:00pm, 19 Apr 2023

The Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The Courtauld series offers visitors after-hours access to our latest exhibition and a range of other activities.

The Courtauld Gallery, What's on Highlights

After Hours

7:00pm, 12 Apr 2023

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event and celebrate our latest exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig.

Brightly coloured abstract painting showing horses and human figures on a carousel

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Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s: Exhibition Presentation and Book Launch

6:00pm, 5 Apr 2023

Join us for an evening of conversation about artistic modernism in Ukraine of the early 20th century.

Front cover of the book. Text on the cover tells us the author - Rachel Warriner - and the title - Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the work of Nancy Spero. The background behind this shows abstract screaming skulls with red rays coming from their eyes.

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Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero book launch

5:30pm, 31 Mar 2023

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero' by Rachel Warriner

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Acaye Kerunen in conversation with Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller “Iwang Sawa—In the Eye of Time”

6:00pm, 30 Mar 2023

Join us for the 2023 Annual Artist's Lecture supported by the Sculptural Processes Group, delivered by Acaye Kerunen.

Photograph of a tiled mosaic depicting a female figure holding a stick, giving the sign of a blessing and with a halo around her head

The Byzantine Tradition in Africa

6:00pm, 29 Mar 2023

Join us online and in person for this year's ICMA lecture at The Courtauld's Vernon Square campus.

Photograph showing the colourful decorated spines of a series of books

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Exploring the provenance and digitisation of the British Library’s Hugh Nevill Sri Lankan Palm Leaf Manuscripts

6:00pm, 28 Mar 2023

Join Arani Ilankuberan as she presents on the British Library’s holdings of the Hugh Nevill collection of over 2,000 Sinhalese palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka, with a focus on what is currently known about Hugh Nevill and his collecting practice...

Photograph of an installed artwork, consisting of paper pictures of animals and insects stuck on a wall

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Mary Beth Edelson and The Spiral Dance of Goddess and Cyborg

5:00pm, 23 Mar 2023

Amy Tobin will discuss the career of Mary Beth Edelson and particularly how the goddess, the cyborg and other critters manifested in the technologies of Edelson’s feminist art.

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Buddhist Heritage of Sri Lanka: Moving away from the Notion of ‘Pious Vandals’ in Conserving the Sacred

6:00pm, 14 Mar 2023

Speaker Gamini Wijesuriya will explore the impact of conservation and its development in Sri Lanka around Buddhist heritage.

Painting depicting an Italian city above a scroll containing text

In the Aftermath of Destruction. Natural Catastrophes and Art Making in Sixteenth-century Italy

5:00pm, 13 Mar 2023

Join Dr Saida Bondini for this lecture on the impact of destruction on artistic production, focusing on Renaissance Italy

Photograph showing two people standing on the ground against the end of a log which is three times their height. Another figure stands on top of a ladder leaning against the log end.

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Photography, Archives and Ecologies in Anthropocenes

1:30pm, 10 Mar 2023

Join Bergit Arends and others for this workshop considering the uses of historic archives of environments, particularly when coloniality and imperialism are embodied in collections of the natural world.

picture of a black hole surrounded by white feathers

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Gravity is the momentum of feeling: Xin Liu and Joni Zhu in conversation

6:30pm, 9 Mar 2023

Join us in person or online for the second lecture in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series.

Photograph of an alabaster tomb decoration

‘perpetual food for our souls’: The Carthusians at the Cartuja de Miraflores

5:00pm, 8 Mar 2023

Join us for this medieval work in progress seminar where Dr Nicholas Flory will discuss the Cartuja de Miraflores and the tombs within it.

Black and white drawing depicting a witch on a broomstick looking directly at the viewer

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Leonor Fini’s Witches

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2023

Join Dr Anna Watz for a lecture on the motif of the witch across surrealist artist Leonor Fini’s (1907–1996) oeuvre.

Abstract image with shapes in grey, brown, white and black

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Conserving Buddhist stupas and religious nationalism in Sri Lanka

6:00pm, 27 Feb 2023

Jagath Weerasinghe explores the notion of 'authenticity' around the excavation and exploration of Buddhist stupas in Sri Lanka

Photograph showing abstract artworks by Jackson Pollock in black and white hung in a white box gallery with benches throughout the room

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Belatedness and U.S. Exhibitions in Transnational Contexts

6:00pm, 24 Feb 2023

The second online event in the Belatedness and North American Art series.

Poster made up of small black and white photographs of people, overlaid with the words 'Zerowork' in bold, white text

Images of class. Capturing a Protean Subject.

5:30pm, 24 Feb 2023

Author, Jacopo Galimberti, along with Malcolm Bull and Marina Vishmidt, will discuss Galimberti's new book 'Images of Class. Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)'

Image of the front cover of a book in which a drawn female figure holds up an empty square of space. The square is demonstrated by a series of white dashes which indicate the space.

Normativity and the Visual:
Art Historical and Theological Perspectives

5:45pm, 21 Feb 2023

King's College London and The Courtauld host this collaborative seminar as part of the Sacred Traditions and the Arts series.

Black and white photograph of a man wearing a blazer, facing the camera and with his arms crossed

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The Architecture of Aleppo City:
From destruction to reconstruction

5:00pm, 20 Feb 2023

Join Mahmoud Zin Alabadin for this lecture about the ongoing projects to restore the city of Aleppo.

Film Screening: Voices of Ukraine - Hooligan Art Community

4:00pm, 18 Feb 2023

Join us for a film screening and discussion organised by Dr Charlotte de Mille and Voices of Ukraine of work by the Hooligan Art Community.

A selection of photographic tiles each showing an individual undertaking a different dance move

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Feminine Futures : Ukraine War | Oppression | Dystopia

6:00pm, 17 Feb 2023

Join Adrien Sina and Professor Sarah Wilson for a screening and discussion of the project 'Feminine Futures : Ukraine. War | Oppression | Dystopia'

After Hours

7:00pm, 15 Feb 2023

To celebrate our latest exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig – including paintings and works on paper created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021 – this After Hours event will grant attendees the opportunity to make, h...

Painting depicting two female figures smoking cigarettes, facing each other

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Intimate tetherings: Xinyi Cheng and Alvin Li in conversation

6:00pm, 10 Feb 2023

Join us in person or online for the first lecture in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series.

Photograph of a sculpture of the Virgin Mary, who leans on a book sitting on a plinth

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Alabaster Sculpture in Europe 1300-1650

5:00pm, 8 Feb 2023

Join Dr Marjan Debaene as she speaks about the exhibition 'Alabaster' being held at M Leuven, from its concept to its curation.

Photograph showing a snakeskin high heeled shoe in front of a clock

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

5:30pm, 7 Feb 2023

Join Caroline Evans for a talk on her recent anthology, 'Time in Fashion' (2020), co-edited with Alessandra Vaccari

Cover of a book by Gavin Parkinson titled 'Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism'. The title and author's name are written across an abstract painting.

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The Bed Hurtles Along on its Rails of Blue Honey: Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism, Leo Steinberg

5:00pm, 6 Feb 2023

This talk by Professor Gavin Parkinson will consider the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the context of Surrealist art and exhibition.

Painting depicting a young girl with dark hair, tied back, wearing a pink top, looking to the bottom left corner of the canvas.

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Making Modernism in Imperial Germany

1:30pm, 3 Feb 2023

Join us at our Vernon Square campus for this afternoon symposium on 'Making Modernism in Imperial Germany'.

Image of the front cover of the book 'In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900 - 1930s'.

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Modernism in Ukraine - Panel Discussion and Book Launch for ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s’

6:00pm, 1 Feb 2023

Join Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Dr Maria Mileeva, and Katia Denysova for this panel and launch for the book 'In the Eye of the Storm:

Photograph of a gallery containing classical sculptures overlaid with a series of vertical lines varying from red to blue.

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The museum environment in an era of sustainability

7:00pm, 30 Jan 2023

Dr David Saunders, a leading conservation scientist with extensive experience working in large museums in the UK, will speak about the era of sustainability and its impact on the museum environment.

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Painting Pairs 2022 - 23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

Join us for the first presentations by the 2022 - 23 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

Photograph of a richly decorated alterpiece with three chairs in front of it

Magnificence Tempered: On Spatial Zones and Visual Strategies in Late Medieval Parish Churches

5:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

This lecture looks at visual cultures on the threshold to the choir and in the lay church, focussing on the interactions of artistic media such as altarpieces and sacrament houses.

Woman standing against a red wall as man in front of her stares at a TV

Immediations - 2022 issue launch

5:30pm, 12 Dec 2022

Photograph of a gallery display showing a sandbox with a carved bear.

The Bear in the Sandbox: Art Therapy and the Museum Object

6:00pm, 7 Dec 2022

Join us for this year's Illuminating Objects seminar, which looks at the ways Isabel Hendley and Danny Kitchener have explored mental health in connection to objects at The Courtauld.

Detail of a drawing depicting the torso and arms of a woman wearing a long dress

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Fuseli’s mutable bodies

6:00pm, 6 Dec 2022

In the final lecture in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Martin Myrone considers Fuseli's portrayal of the body and considers the mutability of these portrayals.

Painting depicting the biblical story of Adam and Eve leaving the garden of Eden

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Textures of a New Eden

5:30pm, 5 Dec 2022

Join Linda Freedman for this online talk about New Eden, mythology and redemption in nineteenth century America, and the reflection of these themes in art and literature.

Henry Fuseli, Woman in a Sculpture Gallery (1798)

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Open Courtauld Hour: The Modern Woman and Fuseli

5:30pm, 1 Dec 2022

This special Open Courtauld Hour brings our exhibition, Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism, to an online audience. The event, through the fragmentary information we have about sex work and sex workers at this time, will aim to i...

William Blake drawing depicting a male figure with his back to the viewer, hands raised together above his head, facing towards a Star of David and a figure crouched above pyramids in the distance

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The Art of Thinking through Collaboration: Fuseli, Blake and Darwin

6:00pm, 29 Nov 2022

In the third in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Dr Sarah Carter considers the significance of collaboration between Henry Fuseli, William Blake and Erasmus Darwin.

An ornamental silver bowl or dish flanked by the figures of two goats or deer

Giulio Romano: The Power of Things - Re-Imagining Renaissance Design

5:00pm, 28 Nov 2022

Join Dr Barbara Furlotti and Dr Guido Rebecchini as they discuss their recent experience of curating an exhibition on Renaissance design at the Palazzo Te, Mantua.

Film Screening: The New Bauhaus (2019)

5:00pm, 24 Nov 2022

Join Dr Robin Schuldenfrei for a screening of the film 'The New Bauhaus' followed by a Q&A.

Photograph of a stone carving at the top of a pillar depicting a man on a horse turning backwards to embrace a woman

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“So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty”: on the sculptures of knights and ladies at Santa María la Mayor de Toro (Zamora)

5:00pm, 23 Nov 2022

In this Medieval Work in Progress seminar, Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández will speak on the sculptures found in the Santa María la Mayor de Toro (Zamora).

Drawing depicting the top half of a man's body. He wears a hat pulled down over one eye with a feathered arrow piercing it.

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Fools, Heroes and Whores: Henry Fuseli’s Switzerland

6:00pm, 22 Nov 2022

In the second event in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series for 2022, Camilla Smith explores Henry Fuseli's Swiss roots.

Photograph showing a group of Black children and adults looking into a window and pointing. Behind the window are various photographs on display

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Modern Enchantments, Anachronistic Space: The American Office of War Information Overseas Radiophoto Section in Central Africa and the British Raj, 1942-1945

5:30pm, 21 Nov 2022

Jonathan Dentler delivers this online talk about the impact of the American Office of War Information's dissemination of news photography in colonial societies.

A stereoscopic image showing a dual image of a woman sat at a table with her head back, face covered by her wet hair, while she holds hands with figures on either side of her

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Science in the Séance Room: Stereographs, Medical Men, and the Testing of 'Margery' Crandon’s Extraordinary Body, c. 1925

5:00pm, 14 Nov 2022

Dr Emma Merkling explores the stereoscopic photographs made of medium Mina 'Margery' Crandon in the mid-1920s.

ONLINE EVENT: Getting in Fashion: Ethnographic Museums and their Dress Collections

5:30pm, 10 Nov 2022

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will now only be available online. Details of how to join online will be sent to everyone registered 48 hours before and on the day of the event. Daan van Dartel will demonstrate how fashion actually can b...

A photograph of a performance involving two male performers. One, wearing yellow trousers, lays across the lap of the second, who holds him around the waist.

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In Conversation: Hooligan Art Community

5:00pm, 4 Nov 2022

Join members of the Hooligan Art Community as they discuss their theatrical vision and practice.

Henry Fuseli, Two courtesans in a theatre box, with fantastic hairstyles

Open Courtauld, Public Programmes, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours

7:00pm, 26 Oct 2022

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event! Connecting Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism and The Courtauld’s rich history of textiles and fashion, this After Hours event will trans...

Networks, Transcultural Entanglements, and the Power of Aesthetic Choices: Artistic Encounters in the Medieval Afro-Eurasian World

5:00pm, 26 Oct 2022

Join Dr Vera-Simone Schulz to hear more about her work on the networks, entanglements, and artistic connections found in portable artefacts of the medieval Afro-Eurasian world.

Black and white photograph of the artist Rodin standing on a platform in his studio surrounded by parts of sculptures

Artist-as-Monk, Monk-as-Artist

6:30pm, 25 Oct 2022

Join James Hall and Lucy Newman Cleeve for two papers as part of the Sacred Traditions and the Arts seminar series.

Painting depicting a male figure lying in a boat holding the antlers of a deer, while a dog swims towards him.

Winslow Homer's Freshwater Wilderness

5:00pm, 24 Oct 2022

William R. Cross will discuss the work of Winslow Homer and his recently released 'Winslow Homer: American Passage'.

Gallery Talks, Open Courtauld, Public Programmes, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

The Big Draw 2022

11:00am, 22 Oct 2022

This year, The Big Draw Festival #ComeBackToColour is a love letter to each other and the world around us. The theme encapsulates what we all hope will be a rediscovery of the vitality, health, care and vibrancy in everyone's lives after what has bee...

Photograph of an elaborately decorated building

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Anachronisms in the art of North America

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2022

This is the first online event in the series 'Belatedness and North American Art'

The Courtauld Gallery, What's On Highlights

Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The Courtauld

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2022

The third Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The Courtauld event will take place on Weds 19 Oct, offering visitors the chance to see our latest temporary exhibitions, enjoy pop-up talks, and a range of other activities.

Renaissance style painting showing a religious figure in a room. A small dog looks up at him while he sit writing on a raised platform, at a desk.

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Vittore Carpaccio: curating the forthcoming exhibition in Washington and Venice

5:00pm, 18 Oct 2022

Professor Peter Humfrey will discuss the forthcoming exhibition 'Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice'.

Drawing depicting three women with elaborate hair styles.

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‘Female Trouble’: Vamps, Vixens and Viragoes in the Art of Henry Fuseli

6:00pm, 13 Oct 2022

The first in the 2022 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Kevin Salatino explores Henry Fuseli's depiction of women in his work.

Photograph of a smiling woman facing the camera

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Embedded in a History of Imposed Silences: Reclaiming Legitimacy in the Work of Grada Kilomba

5:00pm, 12 Oct 2022

This presentation will discuss Grada Kilomba’s performative work in general, and her performance-installation The Boat (2021) in particular.

Black outline drawings of people with text written over the top

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Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge

2:00pm, 5 Oct 2022

This workshop will explore in greater depth the collaborative process involved in the Mapping Senufo project.

Coloured line drawing of overlapping figures

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Mapping Senufo: Digital Data, Ambiguous Details, and an Artist’s Intervention

6:00pm, 4 Oct 2022

Join Susan Gagliardi as she discusses the findings from her collaborative project 'Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge'

Photograph of lots of small pieces of paper with writing on them in a pile

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Howardena Pindell: New Perspectives

10:00am, 30 Sep 2022

Join for a one day symposium at Kettle’s Yard. This day-long series of talks will explore the work of Howardena Pindell and her current exhibition A New Language. Speakers at the symposium will include Joan Kee, Helena Vilalta, Sarah Cowan, Naomi Bec...

Photograph showing a book in a glass case standing on a brightly coloured plinth

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Bloomsbury Collective: The Omega Workshops

6:00pm, 22 Sep 2022

Join Anna Liesching, curator of Bloomsbury: A Collective from Ulster Museum with guests to explore the story and legacy of this important moment in art and design history.

Image showing four different technical investigations into a painting of a woman with her hair blowing behind her, painted by Raphael

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Raphael in Villa Farnesina: From the colours of prosperity to the Egyptian Blue

6:00pm, 15 Sep 2022

Join Professor Antonio Sgamellotti to explore his scientific conservation work on the Triumph of Galatea at the Villa Farnesina.

Photograph of a woman suspended on a rope, swinging across a white room covered with black writing

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Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

9:45am, 9 Sep 2022

Exploring her interdisciplinary approach, her engagement with and assessment of urgent political questions, her relationship to feminism, and her connections with wider artistic communities, this day-long symposium will consider Schneemann’s work and...

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