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CFS | ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for Sessions Call for Sessions | Association for Art History 2025 Annual Conference 9-11 April, 2025 University of York Session proposal deadline: Friday 14 June 2024 We are delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be held in...
Symposium: ‘Identity Complex: Identity representation within global exhibition-making’
Symposium: Identity Complex: Identity representation within global exhibition-making AHRC Midlands4Cities-funded symposium Date: Friday 7 June 2024, 10am - 5.30pm Location: Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Identity Complex consists of a one-day symposium focusing on identity representation in the context of international, large-scale, survey...
CFP: Skin
Skin Call for Papers—Passepartout #46 Edited by Edward Alan Payne, Laura Katrine Skinnebach, and Gry Lind Merrild Hansen Skin is a contentious cultural artefact. It constitutes the body’s encounter with the world and may be read like a map of...
Physicians in the frame: portrait tour of the RCP
In this exclusive, after hours tour, discover the remarkable portrait collection of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Book with Art Tickets Pick up a complimentary glass of wine and take a journey with us to discover our early presidents,...
St Marylebone Lecture Series: Stories in Stone: History, Craft, and Conservation
This lecture will be a panel discussion with 3 speakers who have worked with St Marylebone on the recent conservation project. Each will share a different insight into St Marylebone's impressive stonework, focusing on the historical, architectural, and technical details...
St Marylebone Lecture Series: Benjamin West PRA and the Painting of the Holy Family
Dr Thomas Ardill and Rebecca Gregg Conservation share their insight on Benjamin West’s painting for St Marylebone, it's strange history, and recent conservation. Thomas Ardill will tell the story of Benjamin West's painting The Holy Family, which he painted...
St Marylebone Lecture Series: Stained Glass in the City
Alexandra Epps will talk on the reconstruction of stained-glass windows in London's churches. Following the devastation of wartime bombing a remarkable generation of architects, artists and craftsmen emerged to recreate the historic churches of the square mile of the City...
Perspectives on Curating: Women in Collections
Date: Monday 22 April, 6-9pm Location: Cromwell Place Book Now We’re delighted to be hosted by Cromwell Place for an evening of curatorial interest: a panel discussion with curators Susanna Avery-Quash and Harriet Loffler on 'Perspectives on Curating: Women in...
Online Symposium: drawing connections
Although G F Watts (1817-1904) was arguably the most famous British artist during his lifetime, until recently much of his work has not received as much attention as he did during his lifetime. This one-day online conference, held by Watts...
RCP Museum Late – The Medicinal Garden
Book free with Art Tickets This May step into spring with us for an evening enjoying our Medicinal Garden and Museum. Discover how plants from the garden have been, and in some cases still are, used in medicine with guided...
Design History Society Annual Conference 2024 – Border Control
Borders are an ever more pressing issue in the 2020s. Whether geopolitical, human and non-human, or digital and physical, the solidification and liquification of borders raises questions around design's role in creating, undoing and negotiating divides. The significance of borders...
“Impressionism and Its Overlooked Women” with Senior Curator Dorthe Vangsgaard Nielsen (Ordrupgaard)
We hope you can join us for the third installment of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute’s Women of the Impressionist Circle webinar series, organized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the art exhibition that would come to be known as...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Activist Imaginaries: Art and Curatorial Practice as Collaborative Endeavour
Bilingual, themed issue (English and Spanish). REGAC Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art (Research group AGI – Art, Globalization, Interculturality, University of Barcelona). Guest editor: Chiara Sgaramella, PhD. (Universitat Politècnica de València) Collaboration is by no means...
PhD course ‘The Exhibition as Research: Histories, Theories, Methods’
Call for Papers: PhD course ‘The Exhibition as Research: Histories, Theories, Methods’ Museum exhibitions are intimately related to research. From the systematic display of natural history in the 19th century to current ‘citizen science’ experiments, exhibitions have displayed research in...
Call for Papers: Metode Vol. 3 ‘Currents: Regenerating pasts for the not yet’
How have artists, curators, philosophers, and art theorists used local heritage for current critiques? How can this tendency be historized and theorized? Which projects are forgotten forerunners in the arts-based turn to local heritage? How do contemporary art practices negotiate...
‘Performing theatricality and imaging religious ceremonies in early modern Western Europe’
'Performing theatricality and imaging religious ceremonies in early modern Western Europe' 15-16-17 May VANDENHOVE – Centre for Architecture and Art – Ghent University Registration link: https://event.ugent.be/registration/ceremonies Theme of the Conference: 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the publication of the...
Call for Papers: Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing
Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing 20 June 2024 Symposium held in person at the Courtauld Research Forum, London, UK Additional online component hosted by The Drawing Foundation Call for Papers due 22 March 2024 From the sixteenth century to...
Sintra Summer School ’24 | Women in Iberian Court Residences: Space, Power and Leisure (15th–18th centuries)
Court and queenship studies have received growing attention over the past decades and now encompass a broad range of interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative approaches. Building on academics such as Norbert Elias and Theresa Earenfight, recent historiography has analysed themes of political, cultural...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Queer(ing) Space(s) from Antiquity to the Present
In this conference, we are inviting contributors to help us capture capacious new research examining the residues of queer histories in spaces, buildings, landscapes and material cultures. As Marko Jobst has argued, “‘queer’ is already present both in architectural historiographies...
Curating the Experience: Psychology of Art and Exhibitions
Curating and the Psychology of Perception are very closely interlinked. In the organisation of exhibitions, museums and galleries, the viewer’s sensory and immersive experiences are of great importance. Yet, psychologists and curators rarely discuss the influence of colours and arrangements...
