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Presentation of Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

6:00pm, 21 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Jo Applin for a special presentation and in conversation of her forthcoming Courtauld Gallery exhibition Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception....

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'The Question'

6:00pm, 24 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Joseph Kosuth and Professor Sarah Wilson for a special in-conversation event celebrating Kosuth's 80th birthday and his solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London...

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Carrie Mae Weems and the Opacity of Grief

5:30pm, 27 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Tina Campt for this talk on the work of Carrie Mae Weems, exploring the multi-layered forms of sonic and visual correspondence the artist creates in three bodies of work ...

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The Courtauld Gallery

New Compositions from Guildhall School of Music and Drama

6:45pm, 27 Jan 2025 | Tickets from £10 / concessions available

Come and listen to new music written in response to paintings across The Courtauld's collections...

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

2:30pm, 30 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the first presentations by the 2024 - 25 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme...

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Immediations 2024 Launch

5:30pm, 30 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the launch of the 2024 issue of Immediations, The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research...

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Records of Care:
informing approaches to the conservation of Britain's wall paintings

9:30am, 31 Jan 2025 | £15.00, concessions available

Join us for this symposium to mark the culmination of the first major phase of the grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database ...

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A Women's Sutra: Han Mengyun in Conversation with Ashley Thompson

5:30pm, 3 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Han Mengyun and Professor Ashley Thompson for a screening and an in-conversation event exploring Mengyun's acclaimed video installation, Night Sutra....

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The Four Walks of the Cloister: Paradise and Practice in the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 12 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Gabriel Byng for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, reexamining the monastic cloister as a place to be transcended, where the heavenly was made manifest in the everyday lives of monks, friars and nuns....

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The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Prototypical Palace in the Age of Absolutism

5:30pm, 13 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Christopher Tadgell for this talk and book event celebrating his recent publication The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Prototypical Palace in the Age of Absolutism...

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"What completely baffles me is my inability to understand their position" : Science and Aesthetics in the Cleaning Controversy, 1946-ca.1950

5:30pm, 24 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Hero Lotti for a talk exploring how post-WWII scientific approaches to painting conservation at the National Gallery sparked debates...

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The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism

5:30pm, 3 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join author Irene Small and Professor Jo Applin for this book launch and in conversation celebrating the release of Small's The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism....

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Film premiere: Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join director Dr Sigrid Faltin for the London premiere of her documentary "Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer", which delves into the artistic practice and enduring legacy of a remarkable pioneer. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the dire...

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Publishing perspectives: Documenting Tibetan and Himalayan heritage in an Indian context

5:30pm, 10 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Trisha de Niyogi for a talk on the complexities of publishing arts and architecture from Tibet and the Himalayas within the broader narrative of global art history...

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Three Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany: An Ultra-violet Art History of Afterlives

5:30pm, 17 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Sarah James for this talk exploring the influence of nuclear production and radiation across three sites of cultural production in East Germany...

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Carceral Conceptualism? An Imperfect Guide

5:30pm, 18 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian and cultural theorist Faye Gleisser for this talk, expanding upon her book Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 ...

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"It is noteworthy that in this church there should be such an ancient tusk": elephant tusks in Spanish cathedrals

5:30pm, 19 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join curator Mariam Rosser-Owen as she delves into the use of elephant tusks in Iberian cathedrals and explores their connection to the exquisite crafts practices of Islamic Spain...

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Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

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

6:00pm, 27 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

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...

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