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...
12th July 2024
The four UK higher education funding bodies (Department for the Economy Northern Ireland, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, Research England and Scottish Funding Council) opened a consultation in March of 2024 on their proposed guidelines and requirements on Open... Read More...
9th July 2024
Monday 16 - Sunday 22 September 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, design and architecture showing how these subjects help us to... Read More...10th November 2023
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...
11th August 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...
21st April 2023
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...1st November 2022
The Association for Art History’s Art History Festival 2022 was a celebration of art, design and architecture taking place at museums, galleries and cultural organisations nationwide. This was a Festival for those interested in the visual or material arts and... Read More...
6th December 2019
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