Events Archive September 2021-August 2022

Open Courtauld, Research

Considering Collecting: Women and Collecting

6:30pm, 19 Apr 2022

In the fifth event in this series, the panel will discuss the neglected stories of women artists, collectors and historical figures, as well as their own experiences as women in the field of visual arts.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: Perfumed

7:00pm, 20 Apr 2022

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Image, Pattern, Repetition: The Craft of Romanesque Sculpture in Southwest England

6:00pm, 21 Apr 2022

Drawing upon material from Devon and Cornwall, English counties rich in daisywheel, palmette, star and many other motifs, this lecture explores how we might consider the nuances of repeated forms and their production.

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Collecting and Curating African and African Diaspora Fashions

12:30pm, 22 Apr 2022

Dr Christine Checinska will present on her work at the V&A and on the forthcoming Africa Fashion exhibition she is Lead Curator on.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Reconsidering ‘Riffs and Relations’

5:00pm, 25 Apr 2022

This presentation will chronicle the conception and planning of Riffs and Relations, taking a hard look at the triumphs and missteps. 

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Beyond the Divide. European Avant-gardes from East to West

5:00pm, 26 Apr 2022

Please join us for a panel discussion launching the publication of Tomáš Štrauss: Beyond the Great Divide. Essays on European Avant-gardes from former East and West

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Considering Collecting: The Future of Public Collections

6:30pm, 26 Apr 2022

This sixth event in the series will consider how public collections might move towards being more representative in the future.

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The Guest of the Body: Visualizing Souls in Medieval Europe, 1100-1200

5:00pm, 27 Apr 2022

A lecture from Shirin Fozi looking at the relationship between body and soul in medieval imagery.

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Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times

6:30pm, 27 Apr 2022

What are the politics of picturing the end times? This panel discussion will celebrate the launch of Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times with Courtauld Books Online.

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Open Courtauld Hour: Art and Scent

7:00pm, 28 Apr 2022

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‘God is in the Details’ - The Art of Detail in the Middle Ages

10:00am, 29 Apr 2022

This is the 27th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Symposium, titled 'God is in the Details'.

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Frances Richardson in conversation with Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller ‘A sculpture can do what a ruler can not’

5:30pm, 5 May 2022

Taking her recent exhibition ‘if I measure it must exist’ as starting point, artist Frances Richardson will discuss the relevance of thinking through process and materials in her work.

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Painting Pairs 2021/22: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History - Second Presentations

1:00pm, 5 May 2022

This year's Painting Pairs students will share the results of their research into the paintings.

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Unravelling Threads: Tracing and Transforming Violence and Trauma through Fashion

11:30am, 6 May 2022

This two-day conference, hosted by London College of Fashion and The Courtauld Institute of Art, seeks to explore the wide-ranging and nuanced relationships between fashion, violence, and trauma.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

American Art Archives in Britain

3:00pm, 6 May 2022

This two-day symposium will feature papers presenting case studies, roundtable discussion of the questions about archives the project raised, and a keynote talk by Professor Michael Leja.

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Queer Ecologies: Artist Adham Faramawy

6:30pm, 9 May 2022

At a time of rising far right movements as well as waves of LGBTQ+ activism and in the midst of a climate emergency, artist Adham Faramawy will reflect on the relationship between queer politics and ecologies in their art practice.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass (1946-2021)  

5:00pm, 10 May 2022

A very visual lecture with images and film clips deliver by Carol Mavor.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Decolonizing Art History with Mexico’s “Tenth Muse,” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

5:00pm, 11 May 2022

What pictorial strategies did Cabrera employ in defense of the colonial muse? How do we today and how did the eighteenth-century viewer understand this portrait? This talk addresses these questions by reading colonial portraits of Sor Juana in dialog...

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Decals of Love, or, The One True Imposter, a Lyric Lecture With/Through Some Queer Love Poems

5:00pm, 12 May 2022

This is a performative, lyrical lecture by Sophie Seita.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

Royal School of Needlework at The Courtauld

10:00am, 13 May 2022

The Royal School of Needlework and The Courtauld are delighted to be partnering on a Canvaswork hand embroidery class inspired by a stunning Floral Back Chair from the museum’s Bloomsbury Room. The one-day class will be held at the museum on Friday 1...

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Art in Theory: the West in the World. An Anthology of Changing Ideas: Book Launch

5:00pm, 13 May 2022

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Art in Theory: The West in the World'.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: To Be Human

7:00pm, 18 May 2022

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2021 - 2022 Postgraduate Symposium

9:30am, 19 May 2022

You are invited to join The Courtauld's annual Postgraduate Symposium of 2021 - 2022.

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The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace

5:30pm, 24 May 2022

Monika Schmitter will present her recent book which investigates who Odoni was and how and why he amassed an impressive collection of antiquities, modern sculpture, paintings, and naturalia in his relatively modest Venetian palace.

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Ukrainian Modernism and the Architecture of Standardization

5:00pm, 25 May 2022

Christina E. Crawford provides historical context to situate present-day destruction of architecturally rich Kharkiv, the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-34).

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Memento mori  Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe

5:30pm, 26 May 2022

Stephen G. Perkinson delivers the annual ICMA lecture on Momento Mori Imagery.

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On the Framing of Women: Art Historical and Theological Perspectives

6:30pm, 27 May 2022

Following the recent opening of Reframed: The Woman in the Window at Dulwich Picture Gallery—to great critical acclaim—this seminar will offer an opportunity to hear from its curator, Jennifer Sliwka, about some of the religious traditions of depicti...

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The Desert in the Lagoon

6:00pm, 31 May 2022

David Young Kim will screen his new film, “The Desert and the Lagoon" (co-directed with Amelia Saul).

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Anachronism and assemblage: the unfinished image of Montreal 

5:30pm, 9 Jun 2022

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Aman Nath: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Restoration in India

5:00pm, 11 Jun 2022

Join us for a talk by Aman Nath about his work on restoring and preserving ancient Indian forts and other historic buildings.

MA Curating the Art Museum, Research

'On the Edge': Is the Role of Women Changing in Architecture?

6:00pm, 16 Jun 2022

Join us at the Zaha Hadid Foundation for this debate organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Writing to Images: The Practice of Corresponding with Art

5:30pm, 17 Jun 2022

In this keynote lecture, Tina M. Campt will expand upon her practice around writing as writing to, rather than about, images.

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Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series ‘Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women’ Launch

7:00pm, 21 Jun 2022

Join us for the launch of the next title in the Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series: ‘Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women’, by Alexis Romero.

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Unimpressed: Livery Badge and Legal Tender in Late Medieval England

5:00pm, 22 Jun 2022

At the center of this talk are two unimpressive objects: the livery badge and the coin.

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Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World: Experiences and Materials

1:00pm, 27 Jun 2022

An afternoon workshop on the theme of transformation of bodies through, with or in relation to experiences and materials.

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The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto

1:00pm, 30 Jun 2022

Drawing on the recent scholarly interest in the cult of the Holy House, this conference endeavors to serve as an important milestone for academic discourse on Loreto, bringing together scholars working in a variety of disciplines and employing divers...

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Approaching Downtown: Avant-Garde Cultural Production in New York City, 1970s-1990s - An Interdisciplinary Symposium

9:00am, 11 Jul 2022

Bringing together scholars from fields including art history, film and media studies, literary studies, performance studies, queer studies, and visual culture, this four-day workshop engaged with an expansive view of downtown avant-garde cultural pro...

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In Conversation: The Sculpture as Text

5:30pm, 11 Jan 2022

This event will comprise papers by Dr Jonathan Vernon, titled 'The Modern Fragment and the Functions of Language' and Dr Rachel Rose Smith titled 'Barbara Hepworth, language and feeling'.

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Structuring a Virtual World of the Buddha: In the Case of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pavilion (Wanfoge) in Beijing Zhihua Temple (1444)

6:00pm, 13 Jan 2022

Multistoried structures stood out in pre-modern Chinese architecture, built mainly in wood and characterized by horizontal sprawl of spatial arrangement and building complexes.

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Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series 'Danger in the Path of Chic' Launch

12:30pm, 17 Jan 2022

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to perfume bottles in the form of a dismembered torso, to dress pur...

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Florence and the Holy Roman Empire in the Sixteenth Century: Material Culture and Artistic Exchange

5:00pm, 17 Jan 2022

This talk will trace the diverse artistic connections created and sustained between Florence and the Holy Roman Empire’s ruling elites, on the occasion of a marriage between the Habsburg and Medici families.

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The Development of Historical Digital Methods: Late Hokusai as case study

6:00pm, 18 Jan 2022

Tim Clark and Dominic Oldman will share more about their 'Late Hokusai' project and the ResearchSpace system.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: An Artist's Studio

7:00pm, 19 Jan 2022

The Courtauld will be transformed into An Artists Studio for our first ‘After Hour’ of 2022— with pop-up talks, demonstrations, hands on activities, food and drink inspired by the ateliers of the artists in our collection. From Montmatre to the stree...

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Painting Pairs 2021/22: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

12:30pm, 20 Jan 2022

This year's Painting Pairs students will share their early research into the works.

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A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice of Yugoslavia

5:30pm, 20 Jan 2022

Please join us for this event celebrating the launch of A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2021). The author, Marko Ilić, will be joined in conversation by Klara Kemp-Welch, to ex...

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Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories

10:00am, 21 Jan 2022

This symposium will examine how feminist and queer art and visual culture challenged Northern Irish art and society since 1968.

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Fashion Illustration Masterclass with Alex Mein

7:00pm, 24 Jan 2022

Gray M.C.A in partnership with The Courtauld Institute of Art London is proud to present a series of Fashion Illustration Masterclasses – each hosted by a leading illustrator. In each session you will hear how a contemporary artist approaches his or ...

Open Courtauld, Research

Considering Collecting: Caring for Collections

6:30pm, 25 Jan 2022

This third event in the Considering Collecting series will see the panel discuss how to care for collections, from artworks to ethnographical objects.

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The Limits of Alterity in Ashkenazic Manuscripts

5:00pm, 26 Jan 2022

Professor Elina Gertsman will discuss the Hammelburg Mahzor, a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century.

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Open Courtauld Hour: In Conversation with Cecily Brown

8:00pm, 27 Jan 2022

This Open Courtauld Hour, an in conversation between the artist Cecily Brown, Barnaby Wright (Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art) and Leyla Bumbra (Research Forum Programme Manager), will traverse the com...

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Framing the Body: Yip Cheong Fun and Singapore Photography in the 1960s and 1970s

12:30pm, 28 Jan 2022

This session of Addressing Images is based on the work of Singapore photographer Yip Cheong Fun (1903-1989) in the 1960s and 1970s. We will discuss how Yip achieved 美感 (mei gan), or a feeling of beauty, that he along with other “amateur” practitioner...

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Printing Colour: Renaissance Germany/Victorian Britain

5:00pm, 1 Feb 2022

This online lecture will feature talks from Dr Elizabeth Savage and Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

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History and Her-stories: Women artists in Moscow Conceptualism

6:30pm, 2 Feb 2022

What happens if the history of Russian art is retold from the point of view of female artists? Is it possible to overturn the narrative of artistic progress driven by the male artistic “geniuses” and instead, reclaim and celebrate the influence of fe...

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Pastoral Fellowship and the Performance of Virtuosity in Titian’s Concert Champêtre

5:30pm, 3 Feb 2022

This talk places Titian’s Concert Champêtre (ca. 1509–11) within the context of elite domestic leisure in early sixteenth-century Venice.

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The Textual-Visual Collaborations of Blaise Cendrars

5:30pm, 7 Feb 2022

Professor Eric Robertson will explore some of the most significant ways in which the visual arts shaped Blaise Cendrars’s oeuvre.

Open Courtauld, Research

Considering Collecting: Collecting the Ephemeral

6:30pm, 8 Feb 2022

In this Considering Collecting event, Rose Lejeune will explore the position of performance art within the art market and the art collection.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Louise Bourgeois: Woven Yarns

6:00pm, 10 Feb 2022

This talk will explore the role of weaving as material and metaphor in Bourgeois’s practice, and her psychic identifications with woven textiles.

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Curating the Virtual

6:00pm, 14 Feb 2022

Daniel Birnbaum, director of Acute Art, will discuss the role of technology and new visual media in how we experience art today.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: Painting Oneself

7:00pm, 16 Feb 2022

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark in our latest ‘After Hours’ event! Celebrating the first ever exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career, this ‘After Hours’ will be made up of lightning ta...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Van Gogh and his Self-Portraits

8:00pm, 24 Feb 2022

This Open Courtauld Hour aligns with and celebrates our latest exhibition! The first ever exhibition devoted to Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career will take place at The Courtauld Gallery from 3 February – 8 May 2022.

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Giovanni de Fondulis: A Forgotten Protagonist of North Italian Renaissance Sculpture

5:00pm, 28 Feb 2022

This lecture will offer a reconstruction of the cultural context in which Giovanni de Fondulis operated, pieced together from documents and from his surviving works (whether in churches or dispersed through European and American collections), as well...

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The Psycho-Architectonics of the Imżā Inscriptions: Denotations and Connotations of Text in the Arts of the Safavids

6:00pm, 3 Mar 2022

This lecture by Dr Mahroo Moosavi offers a re-reading of current understandings of the arts of the Safavids

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NEW DATE: Considering Collecting: Collections within Collections

6:30pm, 7 Mar 2022

In this ‘In Conversation’ event, Coralie Malissard and Barnaby Wright will be joined by the artist and collector Linda Karshan to discuss the history, character, and importance, of the recent Karshan Gift to The Courtauld Gallery (on display 19 Novem...

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Lynne Cooke, Briony Fer and Ricardo Alcaide in Conversation about "Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay"

7:00pm, 7 Mar 2022

Join us for the celebration of the book launch of “Purity is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil,” a volume of essays published by Getty Publications in 2021 and edited by Dr Zanna Gilbert, Dr Pia Gottschaller, ...

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Digital Art History as Social Art History: Working through Architecture and the Built Environment of Krakow During Nazi Occupation

6:00pm, 8 Mar 2022

The Nazi occupation of Krakow during World War II had a surprising impact on architecture and the built environment. This presentation looks at the intersection of perpetrator interests and victim experiences in building, from high-profile architectu...

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Wayward and Wayfaring: Dubuffet’s Jargon Texts

5:30pm, 9 Mar 2022

A lecture by Jean Duffy focusing on four texts by Jean Dubuffet.

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Ruskin Unpossessed

6:00pm, 10 Mar 2022

This lecture explores the aesthetic and ethical parameters of John Ruskin’s watercolour practice.

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‘A History of Future Contagion’: Candice Lin and Neel Ahuja in conversation

5:30pm, 14 Mar 2022

This online event will involve a conversation between artist Candice Lin and scholar Neel Ahuja.

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Parmigianino Round Table

3:00pm, 15 Mar 2022

This Round Table brings together a group of world-leading scholars on Parmigianino to discuss their latest projects and research on the artist, one of the most celebrated of sixteenth-century Italy. 

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Recreating Angkorian Worlds: Out of Chaos

6:00pm, 15 Mar 2022

This talk will examine the reclining Buddha and Vishnu figures sculpted into the landscape of Angkor’s Kulen Mountains as embodying a site-specific re-birthing of the world.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: Tea Party

7:00pm, 16 Mar 2022

Anyone for tea? This ‘After Hour' will transform our gallery into a fantastical Tea Party — with pop-up talks, interventions, activities, food and drink inspired by our decorative arts collection and exhibition Kurdistan in the 1940s. Take part in te...

MA Curating the Art Museum, Research

All in it Together: Are Artist Collectives the Future of the Artworld?

6:00pm, 17 Mar 2022

Organized by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort at the Courtauld Institute of Art, this museum debate seeks to answer these questions and to illustrate the importance of collective practice.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

American Art and the Political Imagination

Friday 18th March, 2.00pm - 5.00pm GMT and Saturday 19th March, 1.45pm GMT - 6.15pm GMT

This conference originated from a single question: In what ways have art and visual culture contributed to the formulation of the American political imagination?

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Susanne Langer: On Signs, Symbols and Embodied Meaning

5:30pm, 22 Mar 2022

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin will discuss with Ben Quash some of Langer’s key influences and aims, revealing her to be one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century.

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Open Courtauld Hour: A Good Brew

8:00pm, 24 Mar 2022

This Open Courtauld Hour will interrogate the problematic history of tea, coffee and sugar and its connection to objects in The Courtauld Connection. The implicit relationship to the lives of those colonised and enslaved can be exposed through tracin...

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ART HISTORY FESTIVAL | Hidden Figures: Unlocking The Courtauld Collection

7:00pm, 20 Sep 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Gatecrashers and the Promise of American Art

5:00pm, 18 Oct 2021

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

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

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

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

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Forgetting and Remembering the Sea with Winslow Homer

5:00pm, 25 Oct 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

5:00pm, 8 Nov 2021

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

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

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

5:00pm, 11 Nov 2021

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

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Guerrilla Art and the Politics of Punitive Literacy

5:00pm, 15 Nov 2021

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2021

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.

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Harold Rosenberg and “The American Action Painters”

5:00pm, 22 Nov 2021

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

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

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.

Open Courtauld, Research

Charles Stankievech and The Double Agent

5:00pm, 29 Nov 2021

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

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

Open Courtauld, Research

Trans Artists in Conversation: Charlie Craggs and Travis Alabanza

5:00pm, 6 Dec 2021

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

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

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

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

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...

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

5:00pm, 9 Dec 2021

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....

Research

God and the Painters: The Altarpiece in the Italian Renaissance

6:30pm, 10 Dec 2021

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

Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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

5:00pm, 13 Dec 2021

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.

Open Courtauld, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

After Hours: Glow-up!

7:00pm, 15 Dec 2021

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

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!