Online Archives

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The Byzantine Tradition in Africa

6:00pm, 29 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us online and in person for this year's ICMA lecture at The Courtauld's Vernon Square campus. ...

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Online, Public Programmes, Short Courses, Showcasing Art History

Photography and the French Avant-Garde from Delacroix to Cézanne

25 Apr - 23 May 2023 | £195

These lectures examine the mutual give-and-take, as well as the competition, between painting and the new medium of photography in France from the 1850s to the 1890s. The series includes a contribution by Alistair Morrison, one of Britain’s most prom...

A photograph of a performance involving two male performers. One, wearing yellow trousers, lays across the lap of the second, who holds him around the waist.

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In Conversation: Hooligan Art Community

5:00pm, 4 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

Join members of the Hooligan Art Community as they discuss their theatrical vision and practice. ...

Saturday Study Event, Short Courses

Saturday Study - Fuseli and his Drawings of the 'Modern Woman'

11:00am, 26 Nov 2022

Our next Saturday Study event takes place on 26 November and accompanies The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism....

Painting showing a calm cove with a sailing boat on the left hand side. In the distance is a rocky island and there are large white clouds in the sky.

Research

Words and Wordlessness in Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester

5:30pm, 4 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Nicholas Robbins as he explores the peculiar intimacy between art and literature that has characterized scholarship on nineteenth-century U.S. painting through the work of Fitz Henry Lane. ...

Painting depicting the biblical story of Adam and Eve leaving the garden of Eden

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Textures of a New Eden

5:30pm, 5 Dec 2022 | Free, booking essential

Join Linda Freedman for this online talk about New Eden, mythology and redemption in nineteenth century America, and the reflection of these themes in art and literature. ...

Photograph showing a group of Black children and adults looking into a window and pointing. Behind the window are various photographs on display

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Centre for American Art, Research

Modern Enchantments, Anachronistic Space: The American Office of War Information Overseas Radiophoto Section in Central Africa and the British Raj, 1942-1945

5:30pm, 21 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

Jonathan Dentler delivers this online talk about the impact of the American Office of War Information's dissemination of news photography in colonial societies. ...