Events Archive – Autumn 2024

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The Surrealist Revolution Against whiteness: Contemporary Surrealism and Race Traitor Journal (1993-2005)

5:30pm, 10 Dec 2024

Join Abigail Susik for the final lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'.

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Destabilising 20th-century art histories through curatorial practices

5:30pm, 9 Dec 2024

Organised in collaboration with the Barbican on the occasion of the exhibition The Imaginary Institution of India : Art 1975-1998, this panel discussion will consider comparative frameworks outside South Asia and asks how curatorial practices can des...

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Unica Zürn – Surrealism, Trauma, Resistance

5:30pm, 3 Dec 2024

Join Patricia Allmer for the fourth lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'.

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Towards a Tibetan Material Culture of Dissent

5:30pm, 29 Nov 2024

Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance to showcase Tibetan objects as symbols of political...

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Photography – A Queer History by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon

6:00pm, 28 Nov 2024

Join co-authors Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon for a book launch celebrating their recent publication Photography—A Queer History

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Art and Management

5:30pm, 26 Nov 2024

Join Elise Archias for this talk exploring how the artistic shifts of the 1960s—pop, minimalism, and conceptual art—aligned with the professional-managerial class's drive to solve social problems through technical solutions, through the lens of artis...

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The Studioli in Urbino and Gubbio: Setting the Stage for the Illustrious Men, the Montefeltro, and the Liberal Arts

5:30pm, 25 Nov 2024

Join Dr. Machtelt Israëls for a talk exploring how a newly discovered late fifteenth-century inventory reveals the evolving function of the studioli and chapels in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino.

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Joshua Compston: Factual Nonsense and the Rise of the 1990s Young British Artists

6:00pm, 21 Nov 2024

Join artist Darren Coffield and Professor Sarah Wilson as they explore the eclectic world of the early-90s avant-garde London scene, celebrating Baldwin Contemporary’s new publication "Joshua Compston: Factual Nonsense and the Rise of the 1990s Young...

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‘Material Illusionism’: On the oeuvre of Hans Plock, court embroiderer to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

5:30pm, 20 Nov 2024

Dr. Evelin Wetter joins us for a talk on the court embroiderer Hans Plock, examining the material illusionism and technical dexterity behind 16th century sculptural textile

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“Living Materials becoming Live Sculptures”: Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist World

5:30pm, 19 Nov 2024

Join Alyce Mahon for the third lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'.

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Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun in conversation

5:30pm, 18 Nov 2024

Join contemporary artist and stage designer Es Devlin for an in conversation with writer, curator, and broadcaster Ekow Eshun exploring Devlin’s latest work, Congregation, and the opening of FACE to FACE: 50 encounters with strangers at Somerset Hous...

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Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women

5:00pm, 18 Nov 2024

Dr Rebecka Jinks joins us to share her experience of researching and curating the ground-breaking exhibition 'Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women' at the Wiener Holocaust Library

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Tomorrow’s Art? With Ai-Da Robot

6:00pm, 14 Nov 2024

Can AI be creative? Join Ai-Da Robot, the first ultra-realistic artist robot, for a conversation on art practice, creativity, the self-portrait without 'self', and a discussion on why AI art is one of the most useful ways of critiquing and reflecting...

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Blue Paper: Function in the Creation of Form

5:30pm, 7 Nov 2024

Join Alexa McCarthy for a lecture exploring the origin of the use of blue paper and its function in the practice of drawing figure studies. The presentation will interweave works on paper from The Courtauld’s Drawings Gallery exhibition, Drawn to Blu...

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The Enigma of Justus of Ghent

5:30pm, 6 Nov 2024

Join Dr. Paula Nuttall on this talk exploring the enigmatic Justus of Ghent, a key Netherlandish painter in fifteenth-century Urbino

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Roberto Matta and Soil as Political Material, 1960s-1980s

5:30pm, 5 Nov 2024

Join Fabrice Flahutez for the second lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'.

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Art history journals today: a roundtable about publishing

4:30pm, 4 Nov 2024

What should the role of journals be in shaping the future of art history? As the shape of academic careers changes, how should researchers approach publishing in such venues?

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The Big Draw Festival 2024: Drawing in Motion

10:00am, 30 Oct 2024

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Work and Legacy of Mark Girouard

10:00am, 26 Oct 2024

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Byzantine Enamels: status, diplomacy and markets in the twelfth century

5:30pm, 23 Oct 2024

Join Professor Antony Eastmond for a talk on Byzantine enamels, exploring the role they played in twelfth century diplomacy, spreading from Venice to Moscow.

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Finding Queertopia: Book Event and Panel Discussion

6:00pm, 17 Oct 2024

On the occasion of Gemma Rolls-Bentley's recent publication Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between, artist Rene Matiċ and curator Fiontán Moran join her to explore how queer spaces, bodies, and identities have been shaped and represent...

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After Hours with the Research Forum

6:00pm, 16 Oct 2024

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event and celebrate our latest exhibition Monet and London. Views of the Thames

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Surrealism / Surrealismus: Documentary photography and the conditions of Czechoslovak surrealism 1934-1959

5:30pm, 15 Oct 2024

Join Krzysztof Fijałkowski for the first lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'.

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Christianity before Conversion

5:30pm, 9 Oct 2024

Helen Gittos proposes a new framework for thinking through how radical changes in faith happened in early medieval England

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Poetry and Politics in Buddhist and Hindu Visions of Self and Other

6:00pm, 7 Oct 2024

Join the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar as Dr. Sujatha Meegama explores kingship in early modern Sri Lanka through rare ivory carvings and Dr. Ankur Barua delves into the paradox of divine love in Hindu devotional poetry, with insights into the...

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Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters, Transnational Exchanges

10:30am, 4 Oct 2024

Join us for this two-day international conference bringing together established and emerging scholars for a first-ever discussion dedicated exclusively to Ukraine’s visual culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be held outside Ukra...

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Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives (2024) by Bergit Arends

6:00pm, 3 Oct 2024

Join Dr. Bergit Arends for a book launch and panel-discussion exploring how artists use photography and archives to document and reinterpret environmental and historical change. The panel features insights from leading experts and a discussion on the...