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The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
This new display will present an important lost masterpiece by one of the early 20th century’s most radical female abstract artists, Helen Saunders (1885-1963).
Join us for online teachers launch of Re-working Manet, an open brief asking UK based students aged between 14-18 to interrogate and create a personal response to Edouard Manet’s famous painting
This conversation between the two curators, Alexandra Green and Rosanna Nicolson, celebrates two exhibitions focusing on Southeast Asian art–“Burma to Myanmar” and “Theravada Buddhism”–concurrently showing at The British Museum and at National Museum...
Although monastic and palace shrines have the most splendid holdings, they can also be the most complicated for an outsider like myself to study and document. My talk is about a different model of mutual benefit I have recently stumbled upon.
Multistoried structures stood out in pre-modern Chinese architecture, built mainly in wood and characterized by horizontal sprawl of spatial arrangement and building complexes.
