What’s On at The Research Forum

Conferences, MA Curating, Research

Substance and Surface at Strawberry Hill: The Heritage and Legacy of Walpole’s Gothic ‘Paper Castle’

2:00pm, 19 Jun 2026

Join us for a symposium accompanying Paper Castle, an exhibition of contemporary art at Strawberry Hill House exploring artifice and the architecture of visual deception. Bringing together scholars, curators and artists, the symposium will consider h...

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Lecture, Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 24 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

The Courtauld is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

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Lecture, Research

Research Notes: Surveying Rubens’s late landscapes

6:00pm, 25 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Bert Watteeuw for a lecture on Peter Paul Rubens’s late landscapes, marking the temporary reunion of the Courtauld Gallery’s own Landscape by Moonlight (1635—40) with the Barber Institute of Fine Art’s A Landscape Near Het Steen (1635—40), th...

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Research Notes: Hepworth in Colour Roundtable

6:00pm, 10 Jul 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a round table discussion on the theme of colour in the work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth

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