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Spain and the Hispanic World Symposium: cross-cultural exchanges
Summary of event: As part of our Spain and the Hispanic World events programme, the Royal Academy of Arts is holding a one-day symposium exploring the global exchange of Spanish art and culture. Details of event: Spain and the Hispanic...
Moving Muybridge: Transatlantic Dialogues
Moving Muybridge: Transatlantic Dialogues International Conference Thursday 2 & Friday 3 March 2023 In-person at Town House, Penrhyn Road, Kingston University London This international conference showcases the latest research on Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), whose multi-faceted work continues to have significance...
The 16th CCVA Annual Conference Magical Metropolis: the Shanghai Surreal
CALL FOR PAPERS The 16th Annual Conference, the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University Magical Metropolis: the Shanghai Surreal Date: 23-24 November 2023 Venue: School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK (in-person only) Deadline for abstracts: 31 March...
Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies
A KHI – UCL Symposium on Material Transformations in the Indigenous Americas 01, 08, 15, 22 February 2023 (16:00 GMT) Program 1 February 2023, 17:00 CET / 16:00 GMT Session 1: Interplay between materialities and sensory experience Nicholas J. Saunders...
Careers in the Art Market: advice and guidance from industry professionals
A morning of advice and tips from art market professionals aimed at A-Level and undergrad students considering a career in the arts sector. Sat, 28 January 2023, 11:00 – 12:30 GMT BOOK NOW This webinar offers an oversight of the art...
Faces of Britain – Missing Portraits and the Gaps in British History
A conversation exploring the power of portraiture in representing Britain’s complex history. Panelists Thomas J Price, Nicholas Cullinan, Moya Lothian-McLean will be joined by the Earl of Harewood David Lascelles, and chaired by Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Intelligence Squared and Harewood House...
London’s Art Networks and Marcel Broodthaers in the 1970s
London’s Art Networks and Marcel Broodthaers in the 1970s Chelsea College of Arts, London, 23 June 2023 Call for Papers At the end of the 1960s British artists related to conceptual art - some directly, such as Art & Language,...
In Pursuit of Pleasure: Lucy May Schofield & Japanese Woodblock Prints
‘In Pursuit of Pleasure’ refers to the golden age of Japanese woodblock printing in the 18th and 19th centuries, Ukiyo-e, or 'pictures of the floating world'. This is an expression of the fleeting, ephemeral pleasures of life: the theatre, beautiful...
RCP Museum Late – February
Explore the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) museum and brand new exhibition 'Unfamiliar' after hours. Discover new exhibition 'Unfamiliar' The RCP museum is delighted to introduce photographer Theo Deproost and physician associate Debbie Jegede. Together, Theo and Debbie identified objects...
History Lab Plus 2023: Community and Collaboration
Are you in the latter stages of your PhD or post PhD? Does/did that PhD involve historical research? Then scroll no further! To mark the relaunch of History Lab Plus you are warmly invited to attend History Lab Plus...
Unfamiliar: exhibition launch
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum is hosting a special opening night celebrating the launch of exhibition ‘Unfamiliar’ on Tuesday 24 January 2023. Be among the first to explore stunning reinterpretations of the RCP’s medical and fine art collections by photographer...
Welbeck Abbey State Room Tours // ‘Treasures’ Tours 2023
Take a guided tour of Welbeck Abbey’s State Rooms and see treasures from The Portland Collection of art. Imagine life as an Edwardian aristocrat as you explore the rooms decorated by the 6th Duke and Duchess of Portland. You’ll see...
Online Symposium ‘National Identity and Exhibition Histories: from fin-de-siècle world’s fairs to contemporary art biennials’
‘National identity and Exhibition Histories’ is a virtual one-day symposium focused on understanding the relationship between art and politics in world’s fairs, international exhibitions, missionary loan expositions, and art biennials. It aims to explore how such cultural and artistic events...
CONF: The Art Museum in the Digial Age – 2023 (online/ Vienna)
CONF: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2023 (online/ Vienna) Mo, 16.01.2023 – Fr, 20.01.2023 The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fifth event on the...
Call for Papers: ESNA Conference 2023: Beyond ‘The Obstacle Race’
CALL FOR PAPERS European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) Conference 2023 Beyond ‘The Obstacle Race’. Women’s Role in the History of Nineteenth-Century Art Revisited RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague 1-2 June 2023 Rephrasing John Donne’s famous...
Works on the Floor Symposium
Richard Long’s Quantock Wood Circle (1981) is currently installed in the Yale Center for British Art’s Library Court, where it will be on view through February 19, 2023. The floor sculpture consists of 285 weathered and broken pine branches the artist...
Designing Urban Universities
Designing Urban Universities Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2023 This three-day conference, hosted by the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin, will debate the significance and development...
Gallagher & Turner Open Exhibition 2022
Exhibition: 26th November 2022 – 21st January 2023 Preview: Friday 25th November 2022, 5.00 – 7.00pm Gallagher & Turner, 30 St Mary’s Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7PQ 0191 261 4465 www.gallagherandturner.co.uk Newcastle gallery Gallagher & Turner...
CFP: ’Touch-Space‘: The Tactile Imagination in Contemporary Sculptural Practice
Conference Wednesday 22 March 2023, University of Leeds This conference is the last in a collaborative season of research events programmed by the Henry Moore Institute in partnership with the University of Leeds. The impetus for the research season is...
Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
12th & 13th January 2023 Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent) This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi to the drawing rooms of Britain...
