Events Archive – Autumn 2025

Conferences, Research

ART, INC. : The Corporation in Art History

9:30am, 5 Dec 2025

Across galleries and university curricula, art is still routinely categorised, displayed, and taught according to a conceptual framework that centres the nation. This focus has resulted in a minimisation of the significant role that corporations have...

Book cover with a deep purple background featuring the title

Lecture, Research

Surrealism and the Tarot

5:30pm, 4 Dec 2025

Published by Fulgur Press, 'Surrealism and the Tarot: a love story' is a groundbreaking and extensively illustrated collection, bringing together leading scholars to illuminate a fascinating but understudied aspect of surrealist practice.

Lecture, Research

The Lives and Afterlives of Buddhist Icons: Deactivation and Reactivation Rituals in Medieval Japan

6:00pm, 3 Dec 2025

This lecture by Dr Benedetta Lomi will explore how Buddhist institutions of the Heian and Kamakura periods negotiated the challenges of maintaining, repairing, and reusing their icons. In the Japanese Buddhist tradition, statues, scriptures, and othe...

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'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision

6:00pm, 2 Dec 2025

In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic perspective to explore how computer vision projects ...

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HERIe: Digital platform for decision support in preventive conservation

5:30pm, 1 Dec 2025

Join Professor Łukasz Bratasz for a lecture on HERIe, a powerful digital decision-support tool that helps assess environmental risks to heritage assets. HERIe provides remote access to advanced data analysis and risk assessment modules, supporting in...

Abstract landscape painting with earthy tones of brown, ochre, and green. The composition suggests a sweeping hillside or ploughed field with rough, textured brushstrokes in the foreground, leading towards a dark horizontal band of land against a pale, almost blank sky. The overall effect is atmospheric and moody, evoking a sense of vast, desolate terrain.

Lecture, Research

Degas's landscapes: or, traversing picture surfaces and terrains

5:30pm, 27 Nov 2025

Join art historian Dr Michelle Foa for this lecture examining the critical significance of attending to Degas's landscape pictures, positioning his landscapes as the purest distillations of fundamental but long-overlooked features of his practice

Lecture, Research

Global responsibility: The architect's autobiography in the shadow of Hiroshima

6:00pm, 26 Nov 2025

Shiben Banerji tracks the figure of the migrant in the American architect Marion Mahony’s unpublished memoir, The Magic of America. Mahony composed the text between 1938 and 1949, in the twilight of her five-decade-long career across the United State...

Lecture, Research

The power, the joy and the destruction: Journeys through Modernity

6:00pm, 25 Nov 2025

In the second event in our 2025-26 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series, artist Ricardo Yui will reflect on the contradictions of modernity through his personal journey as an artist, from his initial excitement about the modernisation of Lima, to t...

A vintage blue postage stamp from the German Democratic Republic depicting Raphael’s Sistine Madonna. The design shows the Madonna holding the Christ Child, flanked by saints, with draped curtains framing the scene. The stamp is marked

Lecture, Research

Postwar Renaissance: Studying, exhibiting, teaching, and appropriating Early Modern European art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990

6:00pm, 24 Nov 2025

Join Prof. Sapir for this talk exploring his project 'Postwar Renaissance: Studying, Exhibiting, Teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990', which investigates the reception of Renaissance and Baroque art i...

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Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970

6:00pm, 20 Nov 2025

Join us to mark the launch of Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970, edited by Victoria Horne

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Lecture, Research

Cubism and Reality

5:30pm, 20 Nov 2025

Join us for this book event celebrating Emeritus Professor Christopher Green’s new publication 'Cubism and Reality' (Bloomsbury, 2025). The book presents a fresh look at Braque, Picasso, and Juan Gris, considering their works not as conclusive statem...

Research, Talks

Story and Vision: Wonders of Creation

5:30pm, 19 Nov 2025

Join Professor Ladan Akbarnia for this illustrated talk will explore the story and vision behind Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World, a touring exhibition organised by The San Diego Museum of Art and which was on vi...

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Digital spaces of repair: Repatriation and decolonising futures in Southeast Asian Art

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2025

In the first lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Maria Cristina Juan will draw on case studies that employ digital archiving, 3D modeling, and digital reconstruction tools to examine how collective digital spaces can reorie...

Lecture, Research

Filmmaking on the Border

5:30pm, 17 Nov 2025

Join artist Eleonore de Montesquiou for an evening of film screenings and conversation on the complexities of filmmaking on the border. Drawing from her own experiences of displacement, Eleonore’s work explores the ambiguities of life on the margins....

Photograph or a coner-side floor to ceiling bookshelf, painted green, filled with books on architectural history.

Conferences, Research

Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives

9:30am, 15 Nov 2025

Since 1980, studies of the historiography of architectural history, as well as the institutional and cultural frameworks within which it is situated, have grown enormously. The symposium seeks to examine how the discipline has developed over the past...

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The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Iris Moon

6:00pm, 11 Nov 2025

Join us for the inaugural lecture for The Manton Centre for British Art, delivered by Iris Moon

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Comrades in Art, Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43

6:00pm, 31 Oct 2025

Join us for a conversation with Andy Friend to mark the launch of his new book: Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43.

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Lecture, Research

On Parasocial Media: The Shoggoth and the Skeuomorph

6:00pm, 28 Oct 2025

In the first event in our 2025-26 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series, artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang will discuss the internet, AI, and the techno-politics of persona through an account of “parasocial media”. Online identity formation and the...

Claude Lorrain (around 1604–1682), A Pastoral Landscape, 1645, oil paint on canvas, 101.5 x 134 cm. The Henry Barber Trust, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.

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Lecture, Research

The Barber at the Courtauld: New research on the Barber collection

6:00pm, 23 Oct 2025

To coincide with the current display at The Courtauld Gallery of 18 masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, this event will bring together researchers from the Barber and The Courtauld to discuss some of these works, presenting new resea...

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Research, Talks

Episcopal display and the English crozier around the time of the Norman Conquest

5:30pm, 22 Oct 2025

Join Dr Sophie Kelly for a talk on the making and meaning of medieval croziers in the decades either side of the Norman Conquest. Croziers, the sceptre-like staffs granted to bishops, abbots, and abbesses across Europe as a sign of authority, are one...

Lecture, Research

Japanese Buddhist Art at The British Museum: Collection, Curation, Conservation and Collaboration

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2025

The British Museum holds about 1,000 items of Japanese Buddhist material, ranging from the eighth century to the present day. The majority date from the 18th and 19th centuries, and include sculptures, paintings, portable shrines, and ritual and voti...

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A Place in the World with Garth Evans in Conversation

6:00pm, 20 Oct 2025

Join us for a screening of A Place in the World, followed by a conversation with Garth Evans and Sam Cornish, chaired by Indie A. Choudhury.

Research, Talks

ORLAN's Striptease: All about my Life, All about my Art

6:00pm, 16 Oct 2025

Join artist ORLAN and Professor Sarah Wilson for a special in-conversation event. ORLAN returns to London and to the Courtauld Institute, interrupting her international trajectory of exhibitions, ranging from Saint-Etienne in France (her home town), ...

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Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukranian-Russian case

1:00pm, 16 Oct 2025

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Ambicoloniality and War. The Ukrainian-Russian Case', by Svitlana Biedarieva. The book proposes the new notion of “ambicoloniality” to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territo...

A 19th-century painting of a bearded man in a dark suit, reclining thoughtfully on a chair draped with a tiger skin, with books and a vase in the background.

Research

Negotiating cultural modernity: Jewish dealers and the modern European art market

5:30pm, 9 Oct 2025

A new book from Bloomsbury brings together a team of distinguished international contributors to consider Jewish art dealers as an interconnected cohort, tied together by common strategies and a shared vulnerability. Spanning the decades 1860-1940 th...

Gilded bronze statue of Tara, the Buddhist goddess of compassion, from Sri Lanka, 9th century. The standing figure wears a tall headdress and long draped skirt, with one hand raised in gesture and the other lowered in offering.

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Lecture, Research

Reflections on the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka at The British Museum

6:00pm, 7 Oct 2025

The bronze Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka is currently displayed in the special exhibition, “Ancient India: Living Heritage” at the British Museum. Donated to the British Museum in 1830 by Sir Robert Brownrigg, this nearly life-size sculpture of Tara ...

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British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain

6:00pm, 2 Oct 2025

Join us to mark the publication of Lynda Nead's latest book, British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain

Exhibition Preview

The 16th East Wing Biennial RE:VISION

6:30pm, 24 Sep 2025

Join us for the opening party of The Courtauld Institute's 16th East Wing Biennial, under the theme of RE:VISION. Through a wide-ranging selection of contemporary artwork and an exciting slate of events throughout 2025-2027, RE:VISION urges audience...

Lecture, Research

Making something out of nothing: Women, sculpture & visibility in 1980s London

6:00pm, 9 Sep 2025

Join Natalie Rudd for this talk exploring the overlooked histories of women sculptures in 1980s London, through an examination of Phyllida Barlow, Shelagh Cluett and Veronica Ryan's work.

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Events Archive – Autumn 2025

Autumn Semester 2025

ART, INC. : The Corporation in Art History

Surrealism and the Tarot

The Lives and Afterlives of Buddhist Icons: Deactivation and Reactivation Rituals in Medieval Japan

'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision

HERIe: Digital platform for decision support in preventive conservation

Degas's landscapes: or, traversing picture surfaces and terrains

Global responsibility: The architect's autobiography in the shadow of Hiroshima

The power, the joy and the destruction: Journeys through Modernity

Postwar Renaissance: Studying, exhibiting, teaching, and appropriating Early Modern European art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990

Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970

Cubism and Reality

Story and Vision: Wonders of Creation

Digital spaces of repair: Repatriation and decolonising futures in Southeast Asian Art

Filmmaking on the Border

Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives

The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Iris Moon

Comrades in Art, Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43

On Parasocial Media: The Shoggoth and the Skeuomorph

The Barber at the Courtauld: New research on the Barber collection

Episcopal display and the English crozier around the time of the Norman Conquest

Japanese Buddhist Art at The British Museum: Collection, Curation, Conservation and Collaboration

A Place in the World with Garth Evans in Conversation

ORLAN's Striptease: All about my Life, All about my Art

Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukranian-Russian case

Negotiating cultural modernity: Jewish dealers and the modern European art market

Reflections on the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka at The British Museum

British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain

The 16th East Wing Biennial RE:VISION

Making something out of nothing: Women, sculpture & visibility in 1980s London

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