26th September 2025
How can art history respond to the heat of the present? Hito Steyerl’s Medium Hot (2025) proposes temperature as a conceptual framework for understanding art’s entanglement in planetary-scale crises, infrastructures and networks. Rather than stable categories or binaries (hot/cold, digital/analogue,... Read More...26th September 2025
This session explores the archive as a locus of negotiation in writing the histories of women artists in the Global South whose artistic modernity has been a colonial and post-colonial experience that is different from the Euro-American hegemonic understanding of... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel explores how archival materials – formal and informal, institutional and affective – serve as catalysts for art practices that rework memory, identity, and narrative. Artists working within and beyond East Asian contexts increasingly approach the archive-as-method to fiction... Read More...26th September 2025
Water is a key enabler of movement, no more so than in the late early modern period. Water was a means to carry people and things across the world – accommodating intercultural exchange and hybridity, as well as facilitating colonial... Read More...26th September 2025
Animals occupied a multivalent space in the medieval world. As part of nature, they were embedded in ecological systems, yet they were also abstracted into symbols of power, religious allegory, and medicinal knowledge—ultimately serving as a nexus between human societies... Read More...26th September 2025
Art history draws on a host of relational paradigms, from ecologies and networks to systems and webs, to frame its analyses of artistic production, circulation, and reception. Recent studies illuminate, for instance, how artworks have been embedded in systems of... Read More...26th September 2025
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how we research, analyse, and teach art history. As generative models, image synthesis tools, and data-driven analytics become increasingly embedded in educational practice, their use in disciplines traditionally grounded in human creativity, critical interpretation, and visual... Read More...26th September 2025
With artists like Pindar van Arman using agentic AI while Holly Herndon and Sasha Stiles forge transmedia human / technological collaborations, is it time to move away from definitions of creativity that are rooted in the human experience? How might... Read More...26th September 2025
African artworks, makers, and narratives are increasingly – if belatedly – a focus of British, European and American art markets and exhibitions, with attendant increases in the number of books focused on African art, and aspirations to create more undergraduate... Read More...26th September 2025
Founded in London in 1974, Artists for Democracy (AFD) brought together a group of international artists and activists, including Cecilia Vicuña, John Dugger, David Medalla, and Guy Brett. The collective aimed to support liberation movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin... Read More...
11th September 2025
Explore the full Art History Festival programme and find out more about what we do, all in one free, easy-to-use mobile guide. Bloomberg Connects makes it simple to browse (and book!) any of our 100+ free Festival events across the... Read More...
5th June 2025
Monday 15 - Sunday 21 September BROWSE OUR 2025 Art History Festival events now. Browse Events The Association for Art History’s Art History Festival is a free, annual event for the public which celebrates and explores the histories of art,... Read More...12th May 2025
The Art Market Steering Group assists the Association in helping to raise awareness of career opportunities in the art trade and to facilitate entry into it. The focus of the Group's work is on pre-university students, undergraduate students and those... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved