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The Textual-Visual Collaborations of Blaise Cendrars

5:30pm, 7 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

Professor Eric Robertson will explore some of the most significant ways in which the visual arts shaped Blaise Cendrars’s oeuvre....

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History and Her-stories: Women artists in Moscow Conceptualism

6:30pm, 2 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

What happens if the history of Russian art is retold from the point of view of female artists? Is it possible to overturn the narrative of artistic progress driven by the male artistic “geniuses” and instead, reclaim and celebrate the influence of fe...

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Fashion Illustration Masterclass with Alex Mein

7:00pm, 24 Jan 2022 | £15 full price (concessions available). Limited space, booking essential

Gray M.C.A in partnership with The Courtauld Institute of Art London is proud to present a series of Fashion Illustration Masterclasses – each hosted by a leading illustrator. In each session you will hear how a contemporary artist approaches his or ...

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Framing the Body: Yip Cheong Fun and Singapore Photography in the 1960s and 1970s

12:30pm, 28 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

This session of Addressing Images is based on the work of Singapore photographer Yip Cheong Fun (1903-1989) in the 1960s and 1970s. We will discuss how Yip achieved 美感 (mei gan), or a feeling of beauty, that he along with other “amateur” practitioner...

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Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series 'Danger in the Path of Chic' Launch

12:30pm, 17 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to perfume bottles in the form of a dismembered torso, to dress pur...

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Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories

10:00am, 21 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

This symposium will examine how feminist and queer art and visual culture challenged Northern Irish art and society since 1968. ...

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Considering Collecting: Collecting the Ephemeral

6:30pm, 8 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

In this Considering Collecting event, Rose Lejeune will explore the position of performance art within the art market and the art collection. ...

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Considering Collecting: Caring for Collections

6:30pm, 25 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

This third event in the Considering Collecting series will see the panel discuss how to care for collections, from artworks to ethnographical objects. ...

Book front cover A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia

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A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice of Yugoslavia

5:30pm, 20 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

Please join us for this event celebrating the launch of A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2021). The author, Marko Ilić, will be joined in conversation by Klara Kemp-Welch, to ex...

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Ruskin Unpossessed

6:00pm, 10 Mar 2022 | Free, booking essential

This lecture explores the aesthetic and ethical parameters of John Ruskin’s watercolour practice. ...

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Giovanni de Fondulis: A Forgotten Protagonist of North Italian Renaissance Sculpture

5:00pm, 28 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

This lecture will offer a reconstruction of the cultural context in which Giovanni de Fondulis operated, pieced together from documents and from his surviving works (whether in churches or dispersed through European and American collections), as well...