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Art history events happening near you.
This page includes Association for Art History events, as well as other events taking place across the UK and internationally. Association for Art History events are open to all, including members and non-members, art historians and non art historians.
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Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries
Free online webinar Saturday 15 November, 11am-12.30pm Book Now Overview A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries. Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into...
Sotheby’s Institute of Art London – MA Open Day
You’re Invited to the Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London MA Open Day! Join us for an immersive and inspiring Open Day at Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London, where we combine rigorous academic study with continuous industry exposure to...
WAYS OF SEEING 2025
Ways of Seeing, the Association for Art History’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers takes place at The National Gallery on Saturday 22 November, 2025. The event is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art...
Modern, Minimal, Practical, and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen
Join us for the final two lectures in our 2025 Paul Mellon Lectures series, 'Modern, Minimal, Practical, and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen' delivered by Courtney J. Martin, Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in December. 12 December:...
Re-exhibiting the Museum Conference: New perspectives on nineteenth-century exhibition, collection, and display
Re-exhibiting the Museum: New perspectives on nineteenth-century exhibition, collection, and display Wednesday 12th November 2025 Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham 9:30 – 20:00 Re-exhibiting the Museum is a single-day conference which aims to shift the academic conversation away from...
The word and the image are one: Hans Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-word-and-the-image-are-one “The word and the image are one. Painters and poets belong together.” Taking its title from a line written by Hugo Ball (1886-1927), which inspired Hans Arp (1886-1966) and sparked the imagination of the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay...
The Art of Nursing: Panel Discussion
Join the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum for the launch of their new exhibition "The Art of Nursing". This new major exhibition presents art by and about nurses - revealing how they have been mythologised, frequently as saints, angels and heroes, usually...
Illuminated lettering workshop
Join the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum for a practical workshop to create your own illuminated letter to take home or give as a festive gift. Artist Sarah Davis will lead the session using an array of medieval techniques...
RCP Museum Late: characters of the RCP library
Join the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum Late to discover the characters key to the creation and care of the RCP library over the last 500 years and have fun with book-based crafts. Who was the RCP librarian who...
Tales from the Doctors’ library: family storytelling
Join professional London storyteller Vanessa Woolf for a colourful interactive storytime with music, props and even smells! The Royal College of Physicians has collected books for over 500 years. Today the RCP Heritage Library has over 50,000 books! In 1666 the RCP...
SYMPOSIUM: Neurodivergence and Art Museums
SYMPOSIUM Neurodivergence and Art Museums Thursday, October 23 – Friday, October 24 Yale Center for British Art This symposium will consider how art museums can be reimagined as public spaces that embrace and engage individuals with a diverse range of neuro-abilities,...
African Art Now
Join African Art Now this November — an online ten-week course at Imperial College London that explores the dynamic world of modern and contemporary African art, from iconic paintings to ground-breaking photography and sculpture. Throughout the sessions, we’ll look at...
Global New Voices 2025
Identity and the Construction of Space Thursday, 13 November 2025 Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Understanding the complex relationship between space and identity has become increasingly urgent in the context of ever widening geopolitical conflict....
Beyond the frame: Incorporating Art History into the Curriculum (Teaching Ancient Egypt)
Magic Lantern and The Association for Art History present this free online CPD workshop for Primary School Teachers. Thursday, 20 November 2025, 4:00-5.00pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW This session will be led by Magic...
CFP | ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for Papers | Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference 8-10 April, 2026 University of Cambridge Call for Papers deadline: Sunday 2 November 2025 We are delighted to announce Call for Papers for our next year’s conference which will...
RCP Museum Late: a body of knowledge
Explore new exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’ will be open to visitors after hours at our Museum Late on 2 October. Discover the doctors’ library, an enthralling collection that has shaped the minds, practice and identity of physicians for over 500...
Modern, Minimal, Practical and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen, Paul Mellon Lectures 2025
Modern, Minimal, Practical and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen, Paul Mellon Lectures 2025 Delivered by Courtney J. Martin Book tickets 17 October: Rasheed Araeen: “What Is Black Art?” Opening the series, this lecture offers an overview of Araeen’s practice...
Conference: Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition
Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition Conference We are delighted to announce the programme for our forthcoming conference Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition taking place on 7 November 2025 at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, 30 Bedford...
Creating a Primary School Art History Resource
Open Invitation to Primary School Teachers We’d be delighted if you would join us for a special in-person roundtable event exploring the potential for a scalable digital resource to introduce art history into primary schools. This is a chance for primary...
AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2025
BEYOND THE VISUAL: FULL BODY IN BRITISH ART HISTORY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 10am-6.30pm Free, booking essential Bring your own lunch. We will close with a Drinks Reception. The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M...
