28th September 2025
In the late 20th century, museum spaces underwent significant changes as a result of the United States’s Rehabilitation Acts of 1954, 1973, and the Disability Act of 1990. These laws sought to combat discrimination against disabled people in their use... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel explores the materials, techniques, and embodied practices of printmaking with the goal of engendering a more capacious understanding of the medium and its ongoing potential as a field of art-historical inquiry. While Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed in Understanding... Read More...28th September 2025
First theorised in the early decades of the twentieth century, in essays by filmmakers, artists and literary critics including Sergei Eisenstein (1928), Hans Richter (1940) and Alexandre Astruc (1948), the essay film emerged across disciplinary borders as a key form... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel addresses the critical and conceptual potential of the epic as form in modern and contemporary art practices. At a time of converging and interconnected crises – climate, fascist, humanitarian – this panel asks how – and why –... Read More...28th September 2025
Cross-pollination of contemporary artworks and museum historical collections has become standard, especially since the 1970-80s heralding of institutional critique by Fred Wilson, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, and others. Hybridized installations may fall into what Claire Bishop has described as “museums... Read More...28th September 2025
Scientific and technical inquiry has transformed the way we see artworks and has helped challenge established narratives of authorship, dating, and studio practice. Yet these studies too often unfold in disciplinary silos: scientists generate data without sufficient (art)-historical framing, while... Read More...28th September 2025
This session explores South American biennials as underexamined dispositifs of aesthetic and political agency, with particular attention to their emergence, evolution and resonance beyond dominant Euro-American exhibition paradigms. Events such as the São Paulo Bienal, the Bienal de La Habana,... Read More...28th September 2025
From the resonant acoustics of sacred spaces to the immersive soundscapes of film and digital art, art, architecture and visual culture can connect with, challenge, support or subvert the sonic dimensions of space and experience. Drawing inspiration from scholars such... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel invites reflection on the possibility of a situated feminist grammar in the context of Chinese art. While such a grammar has not yet been fully articulated, it may be emerging through historical, cultural, and artistic conditions specific to... Read More...28th September 2025
It is a cliché within the field of modernist studies that modernism marked the end of history painting. Theatrical gesture, heroism, and the rendering of the past as legible spectacle were, to quote one authority, ‘displaced, if not deconstructed, by... Read More...28th September 2025
The development of digital technologies —AI, biometrics, wearables, surveillance systems, and biotech — has reshaped the body, transcending a coherent biological whole into a dynamic site formed by data, networks, and algorithmic systems. This panel addresses the urgent need to... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel seeks to explore the fragment broadly construed as both a physical entity and a methodological approach. In the discipline of art history, the fragment calls to mind ancient marble bodies, like the Belvedere Torso, and the ways in... Read More...28th September 2025
Reforms, revivals and returns in the visual arts have taken many avenues and have had many departure and end points. By seeking an alternative path, they often promised a distinctive departure from the powers of capitalism. For instance, calls for... Read More...28th September 2025
This session focuses on the stele—inscribed stone—as a transhistorical and transcultural medium, examining how it has been interpreted, mobilised, and embodied within diverse cultural and political contexts. We foreground its dual identity as both textual artefact and material object, attending... Read More...28th September 2025
Craft traditions from the Muslim world have often been framed through colonial and Eurocentric lenses, reducing them to exotic artifacts or static relics of a bygone era. This session seeks to disrupt these narratives by exploring and reimagining traditional crafts... Read More...28th September 2025
This session foregrounds Central Asia as a critical site of postwar cultural convergence. Rather than a distant periphery within Cold War imaginaries, Central Asia was an active meeting ground, where national ambitions, resistance movements, and visions of modernity intersected in... Read More...28th September 2025
This session seeks to interrogate the concept of heroism in medieval culture through exploration and (re)evaluation of the forms and motifs associated with the heroic in the art of the Middle Ages. Deeply rooted in ancient and medieval literary sources... Read More...28th September 2025
Ever since the establishment of the perspectival system in Western art, pictorial illusion has been pitted against materiality. Seminal works such as Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form and Hubert Damisch’s A Theory of /Cloud/ have helped to solidify this... Read More...28th September 2025
From Tucumán Arde, in 1968 that sought to address the governmental hypocrisy and negligence that plagued the region of Tucumán, Argentina, to Group Material, a group of conceptual artists active between 1979 and 1996 in NYC who created nearly fifty... Read More...28th September 2025
Kettle’s Yard was the home of Jim and Helen Ede between 1957 and 1973, containing their collection of art, furniture, ceramics and other objects. The house and its contents were given to the University of Cambridge in 1966, after protracted... Read More...Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved