Events Archive 2023-24

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R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles

6:00pm, 14 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

This event will include a screening of the film made to accompany the National Gallery exhibition 'Kitaj in the Aura of Cézanne and Other Masters' followed by a panel discussion. ...

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“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard...”: Claudette Johnson and Representation circa 1982

6:00pm, 12 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the final lecture in this year's Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, with Director of the Yale Centre for British Art, Courtney J. Martin...

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International Departures: Art in India after Independence

5:30pm, 11 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'International Departures: Art in India After Independence', with author Dr Devika Singh and a panel of contributors. ...

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Book Launch: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art

5:30pm, 8 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art' edited by Sarah Mahler Kraaz & Charlotte De Mille. ...

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Titian and the “Ethiop’s ear”

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

Join Professor Patricia Rubin in an exploration of Titian's portrayal of Africans in his work. ...

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Energies of Attachment: Mapping Intimacy across Art, Science and Ecology

9:30am, 1 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

The first annual Asymmetry International Symposium to be hosted at The Courtauld. ...

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We Are One #Iran
Short Film Festival

6:00pm, 29 Nov 2023 | £3 - £6.16

Persia Educational Foundation, Film Buzz Festival and the Courtauld Institute will host the launch of 'We Are One #Iran'. This event will include a screening and in-person panel of experts. ...

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Collecting and Curating Southeast Asian Art: In Conversation with Alexandra Green and Rosanna Nicolson

5:30pm, 28 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

This conversation between the two curators, Alexandra Green and Rosanna Nicolson, celebrates two exhibitions focusing on Southeast Asian art–“Burma to Myanmar” and “Theravada Buddhism”–concurrently showing at The British Museum and at National Museum...

Centre for American Art, Research

Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

5:30pm, 27 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join the Centre for American Art and Dr John Fagg to discuss his latest book 'Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945'...

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“Conserving Canvas” Evening Lecture Series

5:30pm, 24 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Following on from our evening discussion on Mist Linings, we have would like to invite you to the final lecture in our Getty sponsored “Conserving Canvas” lecture series. The speakers will be Simon and Thomas Bobak and Professor Alan Cummings. ...

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Revisiting the First National Black Art Convention: Keith Piper, Marlene Smith and Elizabeth Robles in Conversation

6:00pm, 21 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this discussion between Dr Lizzie Robles, Marlene Smith and Keith Piper for the third Frank Davis Memorial Lecture in this year's series. ...

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Material Attachments. Object Biography as Narrative, Forensic, and Relational Concept

5:30pm, 17 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Ann-Sophie Lehmann for this exploration of the history of the Object Biography. ...

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Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia

5:30pm, 15 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Niamh Bhalla for the first in the 2023/24 Medieval Work in Progress Seminar Series. ...

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Venetian waterscapes. Veduta drawings and the 18th-century culture of spectacle

5:30pm, 14 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Camilla Pietrabissa for an exploration of Canaletto's drawings, the sense of movement, and the link to Venitian 'veduta'. ...

State of Emergency - Harakati za Mau Mau kwa Haki, Usawa na Ardhi Yetu

5:30pm, 13 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Max Pinckers will give a talk on his collaborative documentary project 'State of Emergency - Harakati za Mau Mau kwa Haki, Usawa na Ardhi Yetu' (2014-...)...

Arnolfini?

5:30pm, 6 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Stephan Kemperdick and explore the identity of the sitters of the famous "Arnolfini Portrait"....

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Art Museums, the Sacred, and Theology

6:00pm, 6 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

This meeting of the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar will explore the intersections of curatorial practice, museology, critical heritage studies, and art history. ...

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Towers, travel, and architectural habits

5:30pm, 25 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Tom Nickson for an exploration of the habits of tower climbing and their connection to architecture and travel in the medieval period. ...

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

The Big Draw 2023

11:00am, 25 Oct 2023

The Courtauld is thrilled to, once again, be taking part in The Big Draw! The 2023 Big Draw Festival theme #DrawingwithSenses changes the focus from external to internal, exploring the way we personally process the world and internalise our experienc...

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We Are Memory and Earth and Freedom and Hope, a talk by Phoebe Boswell

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

Join Phoebe Boswell for the second lecture in the 2023 - 24 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'Black British Art: Histories, Presence, Futures'...

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Touching the Materiality of the Electronic Image: Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Video Explorations

5:30pm, 23 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Larissa Dryansky for a talk on the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka, two major figures of early video art and digital art. ...

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“Underground Before Earthworks: Robert Smithson’s Concealed Paintings” Lecture and Book Signing

6:00pm, 20 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Art Historian Suzaan Boettger for the launch of her latest book 'Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson'...

Open Courtauld, Research

The Beauty Permit

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join David McAlmont and Robert Taylor as they discuss their exhibition 'Permissible Beauty' and the short film developed from it. ...

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This body wants what it wants: Claudette Johnson and the female form

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

Join Dr Sylvia Theuri for this first lecture in the 2023 - 24 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series 'Black British Art: Histories, Presence, Future'. ...

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Manhattan Dalí: On the Artist and His Impact on the New York Artworld in the 1930s

5:30pm, 9 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lewis Kachur for this talk on Salvador Dalí's impact on the 1930s New York art scene. ...

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Safeguarding the Past: Conservation and Research of Mural Paintings at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang

6:00pm, 6 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Bomin Su for an insight into the work undertaken by the Dunhuang ...

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Visions of the Haitian Revolution’s Rebel Women and Men

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

Join François Cauvin and Dr Rachel Douglas in conversation about the portraiture of the rebel men and woman of Haiti. ...

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R.B. Kitaj: From Tipperary to Westwood

6:30pm, 2 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

This lecture presents a visual conversation of ideas, proposing that artists, R.B. Kitaj and Walter Sickert strangely echo each other through personality and artistic merit....

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Hitler Asleep in the Mercedes

5:30pm, 25 Sep 2023 | Free, booking essential

Altair Brandon-Salmon will deliver a talk on Troy Brauntuch's practice in photography and the appropriation of imagery. ...

Exhibition Preview

The VS1: Embodiment Launch Event

22nd September 2023 | Free, booking essential

The VS1: Embodiment launch event, to be held on the 22nd September, will celebrate the opening of the 2023 East Wing Biennial. The event will include guided tours of the exhibition, performance art pieces, and talks from the exhibition directors and ...