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Creative Resistance: An evening of Art History Festival talks and events
Talks, VR & drinks! Join artists and curators for an evening exploring art, ecology and memory. Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 4:45pm-8:00pm Free, in person event The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ BOOK NOW Join us for a dynamic...
Art and Extraction in the Pre-Modern World
Discover how mining, quarrying, drilling and deep-sea dredging have impacted on the history of art and visual culture Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 4:00pm-5:00pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW The environmental humanities are currently paying sustained...
Discover Art UK
Art UK - Bringing together the UK’s national collection of art on one digital platform Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 7pm-8pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Join Andrew Ellis, Chief Executive of Art UK for an...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Architecture in Harmony with Nature
Discover Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater at this Art History Festival online talk Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 5:30pm-6:30pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a country house for the Kaufmann family...
Art Nouveau and International Naturalism
Join the Art History Festival celebrations for a talk on Art Nouveau and nature. Monday, 15 September 2025, 7:00pm-8:00pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Join leading expert, Paul Greenhalgh, as he examines the relationship between...
Curatorial Conversation – Museum Development in Nigeria: The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History
This event is organised by the Association for Art History in conjunction with The Warburg Institute, University of London. Thursday, 18 September 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African...
Creating the Museum: Exploring the Museum Impulse in Local, Regional and National Contexts
When and where Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025 10.30 – 5pm, doors open at 10am Pigott Theatre, National Gallery and online Booking link for in-person tickets Booking link for online tickets About While the birth of the concept...
CFP | AAH | AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2025 | BEYOND THE VISUAL: FULL BODY IN BRITISH ART HISTORY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
2025 Autumn Symposium for PhD and Early Career Researchers Call for Papers Apply by Friday 5 September 2025 Symposium Date: Tuesday 7 October 2025, 10am-6pm Tickets: £12 for members, £15 for non-members Location: The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ Western...
CFP | GLOBAL NEW VOICES 2025
Visual Culture, Identity and the Construction of Space Online Conference for PhD students Conference Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025 Deadline: Sunday, 31 August 2025 Understanding the complex relationship between space and identity has become increasingly urgent in the context of...
In Conversation: Hew Locke with Will Gompertz
Join artist Hew Locke and art critic and broadcaster Will Gompertz for a conversation exploring themes of migration, identity, and empire in contemporary artistic practice. You can book your free ticket here. Drawing upon Locke’s expansive oeuvre, including his evocative...
IKEA: Magical Patterns | Online Tour
Can't make it to Dovecot in person? Join us for an online tour with Dovecot Curator, Dr Heather Carroll, as she takes you through our new and exciting exhibition. Magical Patterns explores six decades of groundbreaking textile design by IKEA. The...
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery September Thursday Late
Pitzhanger’s Thursday Lates are a recurring programme, happening on the first Thursday of each month, with a variety of evening events as Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery stays open after hours. Each Thursday Late features a unique theme, with opportunities to...
Embodied Ideals: The Representation of Women in European Public Sculpture (1836-1937)
Wednesday 8 October 2025 10:00–18:30 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds This workshop investigates the representation of women in European public sculpture from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War. Throughout this period, monuments were key in shaping...
Photographic Objecthood: Construction, Presence, and the Sculptural Encounter
Call for participation Symposium, to take place: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Wednesday 21 January 2026 Deadline to apply: Monday 13 October 2025, 17:00 About the symposium This symposium sets out to provoke new approaches to the spatial, sensorial and sculptural...
Art History Within the Environmental Humanities: Exploring Liminal Spaces Between Land and Sea
Call for Papers - Session at the 6th Swiss Congress for Art History - University of Geneva - 7-9 September 2026 Deadline for proposals: 12 September 2025 Session conveners: Juliette Bessette, Desmond-Bryan Kraege, Maria Stavrinaki (University of Lausanne) What can...
Conference: “Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon.
"Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy” The Calouste Gulbenkian Conference in Art History, in its second edition, offers a reflection on networks of trust in the art world, through the lens of Calouste...
Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Thinking in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond
Positioning A Symposium on Curatorial Thinking in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond 29 September - 2 October 2025 Venues: Amos Rex, PUBLICS, and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. T: +358451080585 www.publics.fi www.positioningsymposium.com PUBLICS expands The Centre For Curatorial Thinking activities...
Call for Papers: Ketty La Rocca symposium
One-day Symposium – Call for Papers Ketty La Rocca and Women Artists of the Italian Neo-avant-garde Tuesday 11 November 2025 Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art From her early collaboration with the visual poets of the Florentine Gruppo 70, to...
Theresa Roberts Art Collection Webinar
Explore the Theresa Roberts Art Collection and its new home at the Wilberforce Institute in this webinar on art, culture and collaboration. The webinar centres on the Theresa Roberts Art Collection. Theresa Roberts is the Jamaican Ambassador for Culture to...
The LondonMet Writing Studio: Building Communities of Academic Writing Practice
The LondonMet Writing Studio is a pilot project set up in October 2024 by Emma Davenport, Head of Student Experience and Academic Outcomes for the School of Architecture, Art and Design at London Metropolitan University. By adapting the writing as...
