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The Klesch Collection Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Painting
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 20th Jun 2026
We are pleased to announce The Klesch Collection Scholarship Programme 2026 is open for applicants. About the programme: The Klesch Collection offers Scholarships to graduate students who will focus/are focusing their studies on European and British painting of the Renaissance...
Two funding opportunities and training from the School of Advanced Study
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 16th Apr 2026
The School of Advanced Study is pleased to announce two calls for applications for funding grants – one for Being Human Festival 2026 (https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/), and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities' (https://engagementpractice.org/) new Collaboration and Innovation...
Engagement Curator (Maternity Cover)
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 23rd Mar 2026
Autograph is looking for an exceptional and imaginative person to lead our engagement with schools and young people and to develop our wider community engagement programme, while our current Engagement Curator takes maternity leave. This post is being offered as...
CALL FOR PAPERS: PAINTING AND GENRE
Opportunity Type: Jobs
Deadline: 31st May 2026
Painting and Genre, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, 6 August 2026 Painting genres structure artistic practice, shape reception, and inform institutional frameworks. Yet as an analytical category, genre has long occupied a marginal position within art history. This is...
Scholar-in-Residency at Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Opportunity Type: Jobs
LACMA announces a Scholar-in-Residency for Viennese Art at the Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies On occasion of its multi-year acquisition of the Kallir Family Collection, begun by the venerated émigré scholar and dealer Otto Kallir at his Neue...
Waddesdon Manor + Buckingham Files
Opportunity Type: Jobs
WADDESDON MANOR × BUCKINGHAM FILES We are please to announce the publication of the first issue of The Waddesdon Manor × Buckingham Files! Explore the website: https://www.waddesdonbuckinghamfiles.com/ The Waddesdon Manor × Buckingham Files is an exciting five-year collaboration between the University...
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...