Events Archive 2025

Research, Talks

Rachel Jones: Work in Progress

6:00pm, 18 Jun 2025

Join curator Elena Crippa and artist Rachel Jones for an in-conversation exploring Jones’s upcoming site-specific commission for the Courtauld Gallery, delving into Jones's artistic process and materials

A photograph of Earth from lunar orbit, showing the small blue planet suspended in the vast darkness of space. The foreground features the Moon’s barren, beige surface, contrasting with the deep black sky and blue Earth.

Conferences, Research

Out of Scale: From "Miniature" Material Cultures to the Anthropic Principle

9:30am, 16 Jun 2025

Join us for this two-day symposium, bringing together studies that examine the art historical, historiographical, and ideological significance of micro-scale and small-format designs, sites, and events, to explore how humans have persistently shifted...

The Courtauld Gallery, Workshops

With Graphic Intent - Printmaking Workshop

10:00am, 6 Jun 2025

Join us for this hands-on, print-making workshop, complementing the exhibition With Graphic Intent, running in The Courtauld Gallery Project Space until 22nd June

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Research, Talks

Samye and a Transregional History of Buddhist Architecture in the Late 8th Century

5:30pm, 2 Jun 2025

Join Dr Louis Copplestone for this talk, tracing the transregional exchange of Buddhist architectural ideas in the late 8th century, using Samye to explore a network of temples across Asia

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Conferences, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Kienholz: Un/American Violence

5:00pm, 30 May 2025

Join us for this symposium exploring the ethics and politics of violence in post-1950s art through and beyond the work of Edward and Nancy Kienholz, tracing shifting ideas of Americanness across artists, geographies, and histories

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Research, Talks

The Strand: A Biography of London's Greatest Thoroughfare

6:00pm, 29 May 2025

Join us for this event celebrating the publication of The Strand: A Biography. Drawing on remarkable archival discoveries, Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin have for the first time uncovered the deep history of this remarkable street

An early-modern oil painting shows two women in a garden. The woman on the left, dressed in rich, elegant clothing, is likely part of the nobility. She holds a flower in one hand and a banner in the other. The older woman on the right, dressed in gardening clothes, cradles a lamb in her arms and holds a pair of shears.

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Research, Talks

Painting Pairs 2024 - 25: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:30pm, 29 May 2025

Join us for the second and final session of the 2024 -25 Painting Pairs programme, where the pairs will present their research findings before compiling an Art Historical and Technical Study Report

Research, Talks

Into the woods: the British Museum citole and the English forest

5:30pm, 28 May 2025

Join Naomi Speakman for this talk exploring the British Museum citole as both a musical masterpiece and an ecological artefact, revealing how this 14th-century boxwood instrument reflects the

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Research, Talks

Representations of the tree in visual culture. Conception and Execution of the GROW exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna

6:00pm, 27 May 2025

Join Dr Miroslav Haľák for this talk exploring the tree as a cultural, spiritual, and ecological symbol in modern and contemporary European art, building upon the research behind his exhibition GROW exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna

Research

Year Three PhD Symposium

10:00am, 23 May 2025

Join us for our annual Postgraduate Symposium, where researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects

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Research, Talks

Collecting Impressionism in Winterthur & Wales: Oskar Reinhart and the Davies sisters in conversation and context

5:30pm, 22 May 2025

Join Samuel Raybone for this talk, exploring how the pioneering Welsh collectors, the Davies sisters, intersect with the collecting stories of Oskar Reinhart and Samuel Courtauld, in this talk exploring transnational networks of impressionist collect...

Research, Talks

Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing

5:30pm, 21 May 2025

Join Dr Francesca Borgo for the 2025 Leonardo da Vinci Annual Lecture, looking into the characteristic backwards writing of Leonardo as an object of the visual

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Conferences, Research

Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture

10:00am, 19 May 2025

Organised with Case Western Reserve University, this two-day international conference seeks to expand and highlight how works of art and architecture made by and for Jewish communities in the medieval period can trace the histories of Jewish communit...

Two girls dance on stage. They wear leotards; one girl bows to the other.

The Courtauld Gallery, Workshops

The Tutu: Workshop inspired by masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart and Courtauld Collections

10:00am, 18 May 2025

To celebrate London Craft week and our temporary exhibition "Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection" we are hosting a special Tutu making demonstration and workshop

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Research, Talks

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

5:30pm, 16 May 2025

Join Bancroft Prize-winning author Jean Strouse for this talk delving into her new book, an account of the dazzling world of the Wertheimers

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Research, Talks

Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist art histories from Turkey

5:30pm, 15 May 2025

Join art historian Dr Ceren Özpınar for this book launch and in conversation event celebrating the release of her book Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998

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Research, Talks

Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders

5:30pm, 14 May 2025

Join Professor Alexa Sand for a lecture exploring the vibrant world of late medieval manuscripts, where devotional texts, playful marginalia, and performance culture intersect to reveal

Research, Talks, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Situated at the Edge of the Tide

5:30pm, 13 May 2025

Join Professor Macarena Gómez-Barris for this lecture considering colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and the Pacific Ocean

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Research, Talks

Fontainebleau - the New Rome of Francis I: dream of a king / reality of a curator

5:30pm, 12 May 2025

Join Muriel Barbier for a lecture exploring the rich history and architectural evolution of the Fontainebleau Palace over the centuries. The talk will delve into how heritage experts approach the preservation and management of this historic site toda...

Research, Talks

Art and the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Woman

5:30pm, 12 May 2025

In this meeting of the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, Dr Heather Munro and Dr Karen Skinazi will give papers on the role that visual and performance art play in the lives of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women

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Conferences, Research

Henri Michaux, Mescaline and the use of psychedelics in the creative act and as treatment for psychiatric disorders

10:30am, 9 May 2025

Timed to coincide with The Courtauld Gallery current exhibition "Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings", this Study Day aims to investigate Henri Michaux’s approach to the use of psychedelics, and reveal how they transformed his artistic creativity, ...

Toulouse-Lautrec painting of a vibrant cabaret scene, figure in yellow and green, red lips, feathered hat.

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Research, Talks

Collecting Impressionism: Samuel Courtauld, Oskar Reinhart and other early collectors of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings

5:30pm, 8 May 2025

This event is timed to coincide with the exhibition currently on display at the Courtauld Gallery 'Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart collection', on view until the 26 May.

Research, Talks

(Dis)integration and Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Yugoslav Diaspora

5:00pm, 7 May 2025

Join Dr Jasmina Tumbas for this lecture examining Yugoslav diasporic contemporary art from the 1990s to today through the lens of queer and feminist

Research

Book talk on "Temples in Sri Lanka"

7:00pm, 3 May 2025

Join Dr Sujatha Arundathi Meegama for a panel discussion marking the release of her new book 'Temples to the Buddha and the Gods: Transnational Dravida Tradition of Architecture in Sri Lanka'

Research, Talks

Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2025

Join Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi for the 2025 Annual Lecture of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, as he delves into the interplay between Romanesque sculpture and water through the study of medieval stone vessels

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Research, Talks

The Impact of Motherhood within Art Schools and Institutions in the UK

6:30pm, 29 Apr 2025

This event will explore the impact of motherhood on art schools and institutions in the UK. Motherhood is understood in an expanded sense here, encompassing the experiences and challenges encountered during various stages of reproductive journeys and...

Research, Talks

Sustainability in Conservation

5:00pm, 28 Apr 2025

Join us for the third event in our Sustainability in Conservation series, where Kim Kraczon and Vivian Yip will share insights into the sustainable initiatives they are leading in the field

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Conferences, Research

Subsea Signals: Maritime histories, digital currents

9:30am, 25 Apr 2025

Join us for the 2025 Asymmetry International Symposium, offering a dynamic programme of live readings, film screenings, presentations, and panels exploring the shifting currents between maritime history in Asia Pacific, and digital technologies

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Research, Talks

With Graphic Intent: German and Austrian modernist works on paper

5:00pm, 24 Apr 2025

The panel event has been organised to coincide with the exhibition With Graphic Intent at The Courtauld Gallery (1 March – 22 June 2025)

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Research, Talks

WP7 Webinar: How do we Integrate Green into Conservation Education?

3:00pm, 24 Apr 2025

Join us for a webinar on Work Package 7 of the GoGreen project, where we’ll dive into how collaboration has helped shaped innovative course modules focused on green education in conservation. The webinar will highlight key outputs of the work package...

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Research, Talks

Sustainability in Conservation

6:00pm, 15 Apr 2025

Join us for the second event in our Sustainability in Conservation series, where Lorraine Finch and Jaap van der Berg will share insights into the sustainable initiatives they are leading in the field

Events Archive 2025

Summer Semester 2025

Rachel Jones: Work in Progress

Out of Scale: From "Miniature" Material Cultures to the Anthropic Principle

With Graphic Intent - Printmaking Workshop

Samye and a Transregional History of Buddhist Architecture in the Late 8th Century

Kienholz: Un/American Violence

The Strand: A Biography of London's Greatest Thoroughfare

Painting Pairs 2024 - 25: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

Into the woods: the British Museum citole and the English forest

Representations of the tree in visual culture. Conception and Execution of the GROW exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna

Year Three PhD Symposium

Collecting Impressionism in Winterthur & Wales: Oskar Reinhart and the Davies sisters in conversation and context

Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing

Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture

The Tutu: Workshop inspired by masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart and Courtauld Collections

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist art histories from Turkey

Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders

Situated at the Edge of the Tide

Fontainebleau - the New Rome of Francis I: dream of a king / reality of a curator

Art and the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Woman

Henri Michaux, Mescaline and the use of psychedelics in the creative act and as treatment for psychiatric disorders

Collecting Impressionism: Samuel Courtauld, Oskar Reinhart and other early collectors of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings

(Dis)integration and Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Yugoslav Diaspora

Book talk on "Temples in Sri Lanka"

Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels

The Impact of Motherhood within Art Schools and Institutions in the UK

Sustainability in Conservation

Subsea Signals: Maritime histories, digital currents

With Graphic Intent: German and Austrian modernist works on paper

WP7 Webinar: How do we Integrate Green into Conservation Education?

Sustainability in Conservation

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