8th September 2023
The Association for Art History’s Art History Festival 2023, running from 19 to 24 September, is a celebration of art, design and architecture taking place at museums, galleries and cultural organisations nationwide. This is a Festival for those interested in... Read More...
24th August 2021
Image credit: Margaux Porton, National Gallery Originary Arts invite you to see and draw differently with contemporary figures juxtaposed against seventeenth-century Italian paintings. Give life drawing a go, experiment with mark-making and build your creative confidence. They are a Brighton-based... Read More...
24th August 2021
Image credit: Lisa Howard Originary Arts invite you to see and draw differently with contemporary figures juxtaposed against seventeenth-century Italian paintings. Give life drawing a go, experiment with mark-making and build your creative confidence. They are a Brighton-based arts company... Read More...
12th August 2021
G F Watts, Love Triumphant, 1893-98, oil on canvas, Watts Gallery Trust In his heyday, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was internationally respected as ‘England’s Michelangelo’. This accolade inflected the mastery of High Renaissance art with British Victorian tastes and interests. This... Read More...
12th August 2021
[caption id="attachment_10294" align="aligncenter" width="509"] Image credit: Ben Wyeth on behalf of the Welsh Assembly[/caption] Join art historian Deborah Lewer for a wide-ranging conversation with the noted theologian, poet and former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.... Read More...
12th August 2021
How do Western narratives of art history inform our perception of Blackness? Alayo Akinkugbe will consider this question in relation to the role of Black sitters, artists and the layout of national museums, with the hope of challenging long-existing and... Read More...
12th August 2021
The art dealer Philip Mould and conservation scientist at the Courtauld Aviva Burnstock from the award winning BBC1 series Fake or Fortune? will revisit some past cases in order to demonstrate how science, hand in hand with more traditional methodologies,... Read More...
12th August 2021
Image credit: Ash Kingston Join Tasha Marks for an olfactory journey around the gallery. Understand the artworks in a more sensory way with a series of scent pairings that have been matched to individual paintings. This event is organised by... Read More...
12th August 2021
Image credit: Vanley Burke Join us for a conversation with Christine Checinska, Senior Curator Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where she will explore her experience as an artist, writer and design historian... Read More...
12th August 2021
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Image credit: Richard J. Williams Charles Saumarez Smith, former Director of the National Gallery and author of The Art Museum in Modern Times (Thames & Hudson, April 2021), and Richard J. Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures... Read More...
12th August 2021
Image credit: Joy Gregory, Little or No Breeze - Seeds of Empire For the past 25 years Joy Gregory's practice has been engaged with the telling of stories that slip between the cracks. 'I have always been interested in listening... Read More...
12th August 2021
Image credit: Lisa Howard Savour the sensory details of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Take a slow look at paintings of everyday life in seventeenth- century Holland and find out for yourself whether mindfulness practice can help sustain your viewing of art... Read More...
12th August 2021
In this session we will engage with the visual resources in Room 29: French Painting, 1600–1700. As we do so, we will consider how to use free public collections and resources creatively and strategically in order to clarify deeply held... Read More...
12th August 2021
[caption id="attachment_11050" align="aligncenter" width="568"] Harbour Meadow, Birdham, Sussex: the entrance hall from the courtyard by night. RIBA Collections.[/caption] Valeria Carullo, Curator, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, will focus on the activities of the RIBA Refugee Committee, set up in January... Read More...
12th August 2021
[caption id="attachment_10337" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Gallery view of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.Photo: © David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts[/caption] This week, the Royal Academy opens the doors to its 253rd Summer Exhibition, an annual celebration of... Read More...
12th August 2021
[caption id="attachment_10341" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Bronze, waxwork and glass sculpture by Eleanor Crook entitled Santa Medicina. Commissioned by the Science Museum for the Faith, Hope and Fear gallery. This figure is part surgeon part saint, combining objects and imagery from different... Read More...
12th August 2021
Around the year 1770, the artist Johan Zoffany painted his friend Dr William Hunter teaching anatomy to a class at the Royal Academy (RA). Zoffany’s painting is now owned by the Royal College of Physicians.. Hunter was appointed as the... Read More...
12th August 2021
Janina Ramirez will discuss her forthcoming book, Femina, and introduce the audience to the important women that have been written out of history. By bringing them back into the buildings they inhabited, the landscapes they walked across, and alongside the... Read More...
12th August 2021
Gregory Perry, Chief Executive Officer, Association for Art History, and Caroline Campbell, Director of Collections and Research at The National Gallery and Trustee of the Association for Art History will launch the in-person programme and introduce our guest speakers: Jill Burke,... Read More...
12th August 2021
Michelangelo di Pietro Mencherini (1489-1521), Adoration of the Magi, Circa 1500-10, The Courtauld, London. Join the Courtauld team as they unearth the hidden stories of people of colour in their collections through an exploration of both pictorial and material representation.... Read More...Copyright 2023. All Rights Reserved
