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DAT Publishing Grants Deadline: Collections, Exhibitions, & Conference Papers – 3.31.2026
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 31st Mar 2026
This is just a quick reminder that Tuesday, March 31, is the deadline to apply for one of the Decorative Arts Trust’s publishing grants for collections, exhibitions, and conference papers. Focused on supporting book-length publications tied to collections, exhibitions, and conferences, this grant...
Trustee
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 16th Mar 2026
Since 1988, Autograph has been shaping a more inclusive future in the visual arts and beyond. We champion artists who explore race, representation, human rights and social justice through photography. Autograph’s work ensures these stories are seen and celebrated, deepening...
Lise Meitner Research Groups
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 15th Apr 2026
“Free science is as natural as free breathing.” – Lise Meitner The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.) is a world-leading, independent, non-profit research organization with the goal to promote cutting edge basic research. Over 26,000...
JRSP Educational Programme Director
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 12th Mar 2026
Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Educational Programme Director https://www.rubinoffsculpturepark.org/#educational-programme-director-job The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP) is seeking an accomplished scholar to lead its educational portfolio at a pivotal moment in the development of the sculpture park’s intellectual mission. First opened to...
Imagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 9th Mar 2026
Imagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art Symposium to be held on Tuesday 9th June 2026 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership. In recent decades, a significant...
TrAIN Open Lecture
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 11th Feb 2026
Devika Singh - International Departures: A transnational history of art in India This TrAIN Open Lecture will take Devika Singh’s book International Departures: Art in India after Independence as a starting point to discuss transnational readings of art in India. Described as...
Postdoctoral Positions, History, Theory, and Heritage
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 2nd Mar 2026
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are available to begin in the 2026-27 academic year, working primarily with Professor Cammy Brothers (https://actu.epfl.ch/news/appointment-of-epfl-professors-178/). It is a one year, renewable position. Candidates must have a Ph.D. or be in their final year of...
Funded Collaborative PhD opportunity under the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award scheme
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 30th Apr 2026
Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG Project overview The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (RGS-IBG) cares for hundreds of thousands of colonial-era photographic images. Yet, these resources are largely underused. Through a pedagogy of student...
Postdoctoral Positions, History, Theory, and Heritage
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 2nd Mar 2026
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are available to begin in the 2026-27 academic year, working primarily with Professor Cammy Brothers (https://actu.epfl.ch/news/appointment-of-epfl-professors-178/). It is a one year, renewable position. Candidates must have a Ph.D. or be in their final year of...
Summer programs in 19th and early 20th century art, architecture and design
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 13th Mar 2026
Apply now for one of the VSA's three summer programs in 19th- and early 20th-century art, architecture, and design! Join graduate students, academics, architects and fellow enthusiasts in exploring early Modernism in Chicago, Gilded Age Newport, or 19th-century England. NEWPORT...
Scholar-in-Residence in Art History
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 1st Mar 2026
Scholar-in-Residence in Art History Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) Appointment: 9-month Start Date: August 10, 2026 Location: Doha, Qatar Application Deadline: March 1, 2026 Position Summary: The Department of Art History at VCUarts Qatar...
Scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 31st Mar 2026
We are pleased to announce the ninth annual scholarship for the study of French eighteenth-century fine and decorative art. The scholarship provides 12 months of funding, enabling the recipient to develop original ideas and research that will make a meaningful...
Scholar in Residence (Art History)
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 1st Mar 2026
The Department of Art History at VCUarts Qatar invites applications for a nine-month, Scholar-in-Residence position beginning in August 2026. The position carries a 1:1 teaching load, which may include a first-year global survey course as well as an upper-division course in...
Curatorial Prizes 2026
Opportunity Type: Funding, grants, and prizes
The Association for Art History seeks to acknowledge the achievements and contributions of curators in public museums and galleries in the UK through awarding annual prizes in two key areas: exhibitions and displays, and curatorial writing and publications. The prizes...
Call for Papers, Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 1st Feb 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS Online Symposium Neoclassicism in the Extended Field: A Global Project 28-30 May 2026 Co-chaired by: Faraz Olfat - PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Rebecca Yuste - PhD candidate, Department of Art History...
Call for Papers
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 1st May 2026
Contemporary Art in New Materialist Modality New Materialism is the philosophy of 21st century that has molded diverse fields of inquiry from the sciences to sociology and political studies. It prompted scholars in various disciplines to reexamine the concept of...
Call for Papers for the BAPCR Conference
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 27th Feb 2026
BAPCR Conference: Friday 9th October 2026, The British Library, London Deadline for abstract submissions: Friday 27th February 2026 The BAPCR (British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers) is pleased to announce the call for papers for their forthcoming conference in October 2026: Forging...
Call for Papers: Love’s Matter – The Material Culture and Art of Affection, c. 1700-1900
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 20th Mar 2026
CFP: Love’s Matter – The Material Culture and Art of Affection, c. 1700-1900 University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 12th-13th of November 2026 International Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers 9th edition of the Entretiens de la Fondation Maison Borel...
Call for Papers: Revolutions, Art, and the Market, 4-5 June 2026
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 1st Mar 2026
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...
Reviews Editor for Art History Journal
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 27th Feb 2026
The Reviews Editor of the Association for Art History’s prestigious academic journal, Art History, completes their term of office at the end of June 2026. Applications are therefore now sought for this position. Art History is an international, peer-reviewed journal for...