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International Departures: Art in India after Independence

5:30pm, 11 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'International Departures: Art in India After Independence', with author Dr Devika Singh and a panel of contributors. ...

Photograph showing an installation of three video screens with two people in sillhouette against them

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The Beauty Permit

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join David McAlmont and Robert Taylor as they discuss their exhibition 'Permissible Beauty' and the short film developed from it. ...

Black and white photograph of two people in a studio surrounded by cameras and filming equipment

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Touching the Materiality of the Electronic Image: Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Video Explorations

5:30pm, 23 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Larissa Dryansky for a talk on the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka, two major figures of early video art and digital art. ...

Cover of 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music And Art', edited by Sarah Mahler Kraaz and Charlotte de Mille. The background image is a photograph of many objects, including photos stuck to a wall, small tin foghorns, scissors, cut out quotes, and cut out portraits, in black and white - scribbled over with circles and arrows in red pencil.

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Book Launch: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art

5:30pm, 8 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art' edited by Sarah Mahler Kraaz & Charlotte De Mille. ...

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Energies of Attachment: Mapping Intimacy across Art, Science and Ecology

9:30am, 1 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

The first annual Asymmetry International Symposium to be hosted at The Courtauld. ...

A painting depicting an angelic figure in pale green at the bottom of the page, with numbers and letters surrounding them. The sky is purple and black and they are set against a backdrop of volcanoes and mountains

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“Underground Before Earthworks: Robert Smithson’s Concealed Paintings” Lecture and Book Signing

6:00pm, 20 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Art Historian Suzaan Boettger for the launch of her latest book 'Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson'...

Photograph in black and white showing the installation of an exhibition in a white room

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Art Museums, the Sacred, and Theology

6:00pm, 6 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

This meeting of the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar will explore the intersections of curatorial practice, museology, critical heritage studies, and art history. ...

Photograph of an installation showing white panels in a darkened room. On each panel the back of a person has been drawn.

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We Are Memory and Earth and Freedom and Hope, a talk by Phoebe Boswell

6:00pm, 24 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Phoebe Boswell for the second lecture in the 2023 - 24 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'Black British Art: Histories, Presence, Futures'...

Line drawing of an abstract female figure in a contorted position as if dancing

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This body wants what it wants: Claudette Johnson and the female form

6:00pm, 10 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Sylvia Theuri for this first lecture in the 2023 - 24 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series 'Black British Art: Histories, Presence, Future'. ...