Events Archive – Summer 2024

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Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing

10:00am, 20 Jun 2024

Pose, Power, Practice is a one-day symposium that seeks to reassess the scope of life drawing, applying new critical frameworks to this sustained and complex practice within art history

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Traces of the Body, Remnants of the Voice: Curating and Commissioning Performance Art in Contemporary Spaces

6:00pm, 10 Jun 2024

Organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort, performance is a defining thread throughout their exhibition Good Morning, Midnight. This panel expands upon the theme of performance, considering the complexities of curating and commissioning perf...

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Word and Image: Making Connections Across Different Disciplines and Across Institutions

10:30am, 7 Jun 2024

Word and Image is a one-day interdisciplinary conference bringing together doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from The Courtauld and King’s College London through a focus on Word/Image relations. The event will offer a collaborative space in whic...

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The 42nd Gerry Hedley Student Symposium

9:00am, 4 Jun 2024

This yearly day-long conference is held in memory of Gerry Hedley, a pioneer in art conservation and an inspiration to generations of students. The symposium is an opportunity for final-year students and interns to share their research with peers, pr...

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Collective Body: Book launch and panel discussion on the limits of socialist realism

6:00pm, 29 May 2024

Join Christina Kiaer for a panel discussion with Maria Mileeva, Michał Murawski, Alex Potts and Sarah Wilson to mark the launch of Kiaer’s new book Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism, which offers a new account of So...

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The Avant-gardists! The rise and fall of revolutionary artists in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

5:30pm, 24 May 2024

Join Dr. Sjeng Scheijen's lecture on the personal stories behind the avant-garde artists of early 20th c. Russia, celebrating the release of his new book The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935

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Painting Pairs 2023 – 24: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

1:30pm, 24 May 2024

Join us for the second presentations by the 2023 - 24 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

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Other Printers: Making Images Read as Lesbian

5:30pm, 20 May 2024

Join Laura Guy for a lecture on queer image-making, focusing on lesbian-made images and the networks of feminist-run periodicals and workshops, from the 1960s onwards

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Metropolises in the Mud: Innovation in Building Technology in the Low Countries

5:30pm, 15 May 2024

Join Prof. Merlijn Hurx for a lecture on the building practices and technologies employed in the Low Countries for the construction of large structures in marshy conditions

Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Offerings for Escalante

6:00pm, 14 May 2024

Following Asymmetry's recent collaboration with the CCA Berlin (Centre for Contemporary Arts Berlin) to present the public programme accompanying the exhibition 'Offerings for Escalante' by Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, we are delighted to announce that...

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The Open Mesh of Possibilities: Examining the Queer Potential of Textiles in Art

6:00pm, 13 May 2024

In a discussion moderated by Dr Joseph McBrinn, the artists Sarah Zapata and LJ Roberts will explore the queer potential of textiles, organised in partnership with the Barbican Art Gallery to mark the exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Tex...

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“Artists’ Things” Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun in conversation with Katie Scott and Hannah Williams

5:30pm, 10 May 2024

Artists Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun join Katie Scott and Hannah Williams for an in conversation on the role of the objects they possess and consume, in their creative lives and at their studios, and how these relate to preoccupations and ...

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‘Describe the jaw of a crocodile’: Leonardo da Vinci’s Animal Anatomies

5:30pm, 9 May 2024

Please join the Leonardo da Vinci Society for a lecture given by Martin Clayton LVO FSA that explores the artist's anatomical works

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“Do Not Serve Every State”: Ethico-Aesthetic Strategies of Retreat from Antiquity to the ČSSR of the 1970s

6:00pm, 8 May 2024

Join Hana Gründer for a transhistorical lecture on the critical theories and ethical conditions of 'retreat as resistance', spanning from Antiquity to the contemporary

Lee Kai Chung: Espionage and Disposable Lives

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2024

Artist and researcher Lee Kai Chung shares excerpts from his recent moving image work exploring the roles of intelligence operatives in British Hong Kong and Guangzhou during the Cold War, weaving in themes of historical erasure, colonialism, ecology...

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Modern Sculpture, Essence and Difference: Reflections on the Work of Constantin Brâncuşi

11:00am, 26 Apr 2024

Organised with the Henry Moore Foundation, this symposium will re-examine Brancusi's work and reception in Britain, while coinciding with The Courtauld's upcoming summer exhibition Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall

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Material Power: Embroidery, Dress, and Resistance in Palestine

5:30pm, 24 Apr 2024

Join curator Rachel Dedman and artist Osman Yousefzada for a lecture on the cultural history of Palestinian embroideries as sites of craftsmanship, themes of gender, national heritage, and politicisation

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The Visual Order of the Promenade: The Chaharbagh of Safavid Isfahan and its Sensory Experiences

5:00pm, 23 Apr 2024

Join Dr. Farshid Emami for an online lecture on the Chaharbagh, a four-kilometre-long, tree-lined promenade that served as the primary venue of urban leisure in the capital of Isfahan, early modern Safavid Iran