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Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence (DAY 1: May 7, 2026)
Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this program reconsiders American resistance not as a singular political rupture but as a material and visual process shaped through objects, images, and everyday rituals. Rather than treating independence as an...
ICRA: Online Spotlight on Gender Bias and the Catalogue Raisonné
We're delighted to announce the first ICRA Spotlight of 2026 - our series of online events where expert speakers address subjects based on our audience feedback and requests from ICRA members and supporters. Register now On Thursday May 7th we'll be...
Art Decades: School’s Out – The Rock ‘N’ Roll Graduates
The amount of rock stars who kicked their heels at art college could easily fill...an art college. It's not confined to 60s luminaries like The Beatles and Pink Floyd either - the latest in the Art Decades series identifies the...
Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence
Thursday, May 7, 2026–Friday, May 8, 2026 Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall and Livestream https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/thinking-through-tea Lunder Institute@ Yale Center for British Art Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this program reconsiders American resistance not as...
Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence (DAY 2: May 8, 2026)
Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this program reconsiders American resistance not as a singular political rupture but as a material and visual process shaped through objects, images, and everyday rituals. Rather than treating independence as an...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal in Matlock
Saturday 9 May 2026 12.00 at the Imperial Rooms, Matlock, followed by the unveiling of the plaque in situ at 14.30. For about ten months in 1857-8, Pre-Raphaelite artists and poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal stayed at Lime...
Revolutions, Art, and the Market
Art market trends and practices, whether historical or contemporary, are affected by networks of complex and often competing forces. As moments of political, economic, intellectual or technological rupture, revolutions have significantly shaped art market systems and fortunes, refracting and redirecting...
Senses Matter: The value of sensory approaches to the domestic sphere
Location: KLC School of Design, London Organised by Vanessa Vanden Berghe (UAL) & Rosamund Lily West (KLC School of Design) Senses Matter examines the domestic sphere through sensory-led approaches in art, architectural, and design history. Addressing the senses, the conference seeks...
Call for Papers: Waste. Art and the Global Routes of Rubbish // Conference on June 11, 2026, Dortmund (Germany)
Conference Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U Dortmund, Deutschland June 11, 2026 Submission deadline: March 15, 2026 On June 11, 2026, the international conference Waste: Art and the Global Routes of Rubbish will be held parallel to the exhibition Waste. An...
Delta Dialogues: The Culture and Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World
Association for Low Countries Studies 16th Biennial Conference, 22-24 June 2026 University of York, UK The Delta Dialogues conference invites scholars, researchers, artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore the profound and complex relationship between culture, language, and...
Wednesday Walkthrough of Physical Culture by Augustas Serapinas with Marta Marsicka
This Summer we are presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in England by Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas featuring his large-scale sculptural installation, Physical Culture. Join Marta Marsicka, a curator, researcher, and art historian for a walkthrough of the exhibition. Drawing on visual...
CFP: The Politics of Munch
Call for Papers: The Politics of Munch An interdisciplinary conference examining the socio-political dimensions of Edvard Munch’s life, work, reception, and legacy, past and present. This conference invites scholars from any discipline to challenge the long-standing perception of Edvard Munch...
CALL FOR PAPERS In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing before 1920
Pigott Theatre, The National Gallery, London, 2 October 2026 Organisers: Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Lead: Partnerships, Networks and Initiatives, National Gallery; Dr Rebecca Birrell, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of St Andrews, and Bye Fellow, Murray Edwards College,...
CFP – Right to Housing: Projects, Policies, and Knowledge Exchange after the Second World War
In recent years, housing has re-emerged as one of the most pressing social and political issues, driven by rising real estate prices, declining affordability, shrinking dwelling sizes, and the deterioration of residential environments. As new models of affordable and public...
International Conference: Vassals & Lords. Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Western Mediterranean (13th-15th Centuries).
CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VASSALS AND LORDS. CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JEWS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (13TH-15TH CENTURIES) Madrid, October 26-28, 2026 Faculty of Geography and History, UNED. Medieval history has been traditionally dominated by a monarchical and State-centric perspective....
A Focus on Pedagogy 2026: ACROSS TEACHING, THEORY, TECHNOLOGIES & TIMES
Event Summary: A virtual conference on the past, present and future of teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. A collaboration across six universities in six countries. Event Details: VIRTUAL Conference: 18-20 November, 2026 Glasgow School of Art ...
