Research Archives

Medieval map and drawing showing a church with a large tower.

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Towers, travel, and architectural habits

5:30pm, 25 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Tom Nickson for an exploration of the habits of tower climbing and their connection to architecture and travel in the medieval period. ...

Picture of Time Magazine cover bordered in red. In the centre is a photograph of a man in a suit and tie looking directly at the camera. He is lit from below making shadows fall across his face.

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Manhattan Dalí: On the Artist and His Impact on the New York Artworld in the 1930s

5:30pm, 9 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lewis Kachur for this talk on Salvador Dalí's impact on the 1930s New York art scene. ...

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Visions of the Haitian Revolution’s Rebel Women and Men

6:00pm, 5 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join François Cauvin and Dr Rachel Douglas in conversation about the portraiture of the rebel men and woman of Haiti. ...

Section of a painting which shows a small Black boy looking up to a figure who is cut off

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Titian and the “Ethiop’s ear”

5:30pm, 7 Dec 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Patricia Rubin in an exploration of Titian's portrayal of Africans in his work. ...

Photograph of the interior of an artist's studio. The walls and floor are covered with paintings, drawings, and books and there are two easels central.

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R.B. Kitaj: From Tipperary to Westwood

6:30pm, 2 Oct 2023 | Free, booking essential

This lecture presents a visual conversation of ideas, proposing that artists, R.B. Kitaj and Walter Sickert strangely echo each other through personality and artistic merit....

Image of an incomplete wall depicting a cross. The wall is missing a section at the top and sections of rock are visible in the background through this gap.

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Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia

5:30pm, 15 Nov 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Niamh Bhalla for the first in the 2023/24 Medieval Work in Progress Seminar Series. ...

Photograph showing Notre Damme cathedral in black and white

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The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography

Thursday 6th July, 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Free, booking essential

This paper, delivered by independent photography historian Anthony Hamber, provides a focused evaluation of the historiography of The Conway Library's origins, and how and why it was built upon Conway’s original donation. ...

Abstract image showing an irregular black spot on a white background

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Museum Debate: Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art

6:30pm, 22 Jun 2023 | Free, booking essential

Organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort, this year's museum debate 'Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art' brings together artists, curators, art historians and conservators for a critical discussion on the role that materials ...

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A Nod of a Hat: Rooftops of Old Tehran

5:00pm, 5 Jun 2023 | Free, booking essential

In this talk, Ahmadreza Schricker, the principal of Architecture North (ASA North), discusses his newest project, the transformation of the abandoned Argo beer factory in downtown Tehran into a new museum, artist residency and cultural centre....

Photograph showing 7 silver metal bowls of different sizes with different objects inside, set on a stone surface

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Porous Beings: Lotus Laurie Kang in conservation with Xiaowen Zhu

6:00pm, 5 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

For the third event in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series Kang will introduce her most recent body of work that will be shown in her upcoming exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, and discuss issues of care, belonging, matter and memory in co...

An open book resting on a stand. Handwritten text by Paul Gauguin is on the left hand page, and the right page has handwritten text and two drawings interspersing the text.

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Avant et après: Gauguin’s Final Words

Friday 23rd June, 8.45am - 1.00pm BST and Saturday 24th June, 12.55pm - 5.45pm BST | Free, booking essential

Funded by The Getty Foundation’s “Paper Project”, this online-conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Paul Gauguin's Avant et après, one of the most significant artists manusc...