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Research Excellence Framework 2028

Response to consultation on initial decisions from the UK education funding bodies In June 2023 the four funding bodies (Research England, the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland)... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – East of England

Beecroft Art Gallery COLOUR 2 EXHIBITION TOURS Colour 2 explores the use of colour within painting, sculpture and sound. The power of colour has fascinated psychologists, philosophers, chemists and artists for hundreds of years, with certain colours long being associated... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – West Midlands

IKON gallery MALI MORRIS: CALLING Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris. Calling includes nearly 30 works from the last 25 years and documents a notable change in Morris’ artistic practice from the late 1990s when she considered... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – THE South

The Box Summer of Colour & Light REYNOLDS' PAINT PALETTE Attend our bitesize event – ‘Reynolds’ Paint Palette,’ with Terah Walkup, Art Curator at The Box.  It will introduce the history of colour, paints, pigments and their global context. We will... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – Scotland

Glasgow Life Museums REVOLUTIONARY COLOUR: A TOUR OF BRITISH ART An exploration of paintings that revolutionised British art with their radical colour theory and bold application. This tour, led by Curator of British Art Dr Jo Meacock, will encompass aesthetes... Read More...

Art History Festival 2023 – Wales

Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery INDUSTRIALISED: A special guided tour of our Industrial Art Exhibition With pencils, easels, brushes and paints, several traveling artists captured the changing landscape of South Wales in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – Yorkshire

Athena art Foundation with Henry moore institute THE COLOUR OF ANXIETY: REINTERPRETING PROBLEMATIC VICTORIAN SCULPTURE FOR A CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE Dr Adrienne L. Childs and Dr Nicola Jennings discuss The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture which... Read More...

Art History Festival 2023 – North East

baltic centre for contemporary arts PROJECT ART WORKS EXHIBITION PREVIEW A preview at Baltic celebrating the opening of an exhibition developed in collaboration with Project Art Works, a collective of neurodiverse artists, activists and carers based in Hastings. Their programmes... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – North West

The Whitworth GREENANDOWENS QUEER ART THEORY READING GROUP This reading group is open to all who have an interest in exploring, discussing, digesting, and critiquing queer theory. We are interested in thinking about what queer theory can do, and how... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – Online/Hybrid Events

Association for Art History COLOUR INFUSION: THE NATIONAL TRUST & LITTLE GREENE Discover the vibrant colours of National Trust wallpapers and interiors, and their inspiration for contemporary wallpapers by the renowned paint company, Little Greene. From Chinese blue and white... Read More...

ART HISTORY FESTIVAL 2023 – London and National

Association for Art History COLOUR INFUSION: THE NATIONAL TRUST & LITTLE GREENE Discover the vibrant colours of National Trust wallpapers and interiors, and their inspiration for contemporary wallpapers by the renowned paint company, Little Greene. From Chinese blue and white... Read More...

Art History Festival 2023 – regional listings

LONDON AND NATIONAL THE SOUTHEAST OF ENGLANDWEST MIDLANDSYORKSHIRENORTH EASTNORTH WESTSCOTLANDWALES ONLINE / HYBRID EVENTS ←Return to Festival Guide Read More...

Art History Festival 2023

The Association for Art History’s Art History Festival 2023, included nearly 70 events from over 50 museums, galleries and cultural organisations around the UK. The Festival featured a lively programme of free events, both in person and online, around the theme of... Read More...

Reading Group

In the past fifty years, the discipline of art history has undergone significant changes, becoming increasingly politically engaged. In 2001, the art historian Jonathan Harris described emerging objectives and methodologies contributing to social and political change as a radical “new... Read More...

Written in the Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature

Early modern artistic literature is a crucial source for the study of art between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Treatise writers such as Vasari, Pacheco, Baldinucci, and Palomino were crucial to the construction and future interpretation of art and their... Read More...

Visualising Addiction

Experiences of addiction span human history and extend across all cultures. Yet it was not until 1877 that Eduard Levinstein published the first Western medical definition of addiction. Since then, our understanding of addiction has continued to evolve. From the... Read More...

Uttering: Magical and Alternative Spiritual Practices in Art

This session concentrates on modern and contemporary art’s enchantment with magic and esoteric themes. It does so at a moment when a presumed turn towards the numinous is recorded in various aspects of culture, which coalesces with philosophical re-evaluations of... Read More...

Romantic Legacies in the Twentieth Century

Against a backdrop of rapid industrialisation, the Romantic movement that emerged at the turn of the nineteenth-century upheld the fantastical possibilities of the imagination against the hard-edged reason of scientific empiricism, decried the wanton destruction of the natural world, and... Read More...

Picturing Wartime Sexual Violence Before Modernism

The ubiquity of sexual violence at times of military conflict has been recognised in a range of geopolitical contexts. Historically, the principal targets of wartime rape have been women and girls, nevertheless, victims can include men and boys or those... Read More...

Last Works 1500 – 2000

Art history is, most often, a history of beginnings. Its art historical chronologies invoke a history of firsts: first artists, first artworks, first movements. Classification and periodization often accord with an artist’s life, and acts of initiation and points of... Read More...
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