Events Archive September 2022-August 2023

Spring 2023

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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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Leonor Fini’s Witches

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Centre for American Art, Online, Research

Belatedness and U.S. Exhibitions in Transnational Contexts

6:00pm, 24 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Research

The Architecture of Aleppo City:
From destruction to reconstruction

5:00pm, 20 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Research

Feminine Futures : Ukraine War | Oppression | Dystopia

6:00pm, 17 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | £0.00 - £14.00

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

Intimate tetherings: Xinyi Cheng and Alvin Li in conversation

6:00pm, 10 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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

Alabaster Sculpture in Europe 1300-1650

5:00pm, 8 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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.

Centre for American Art, Research

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

5:00pm, 6 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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.

The museum environment in an era of sustainability

7:00pm, 30 Jan 2023 | Free, booking essential

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. ...

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Textures of a New Eden

5:30pm, 5 Dec 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Centre for American Art, Research

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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.

In Conversation: Hooligan Art Community

5:00pm, 4 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | £0.00 - £13.00

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...

Photograph of a stone structure surrounded by bushes and trees

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

5:00pm, 26 Oct 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Centre for American Art, Research

Anachronisms in the art of North America

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free for under 25s, booking required

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 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

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

5:00pm, 12 Oct 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, very limited space, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Centre for American Art, Research

Howardena Pindell: New Perspectives

10:00am, 30 Sep 2022 | Free, booking essential

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

Partner Exhibition, Research

Bloomsbury Collective: The Omega Workshops

6:00pm, 22 Sep 2022 | Free, booking essential

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 | Free, booking essential

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

Centre for American Art, Research

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

9:45am, 9 Sep 2022 | Free, booking essential

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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