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The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography

Thursday 6th July, 17:30 - 18:30 BST

This paper, delivered by independent photography historian Anthony Hamber, provides a focused evaluation of the historiography of The Conway Library's origins, and how and why it was built upon Conway’s original donation.

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Avant et après: Gauguin’s Final Words

Friday 23rd June, 8.45am - 1.00pm BST and Saturday 24th June, 12.55pm - 5.45pm BST

Funded by The Getty Foundation’s “Paper Project”, this online-conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Paul Gauguin's Avant et après, one of the most significant artists manusc...

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Museum Debate: Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art

6:30pm, 22 Jun 2023

Organised by the MA Curating the Art Museum cohort, this year's museum debate 'Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Art' brings together artists, curators, art historians and conservators for a critical discussion on the role that materials ...

The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects

Tuesday 20th June, 9:00am - 18:00pm BST and Wednesday 21st June 2023, 9:30am - 12:15pm BST

This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they ar...

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Belatedness and Historiographies of North American Art

Friday 16th June, 12:45 - 16:30 BST and Saturday 17th June 2023, 10:00 - 15:30 BST

Join us for a two day conference as part of the Belatedness and North American Art series.

Unsettling American Art History:
Perspectives from Native American & Indigenous Studies

Friday 9th June, 9.30am - 3.00pm BST and Saturday 10th June, 9.30am - 3.00pm BST

This symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and curators whose work both engages with 19th- and 20th-century Indigenous art/history and is framed by the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Artists in Conversation: Rasheed Araeen and Rana Begum

Monday 5th June, 18:00pm-19:00pm BST

The inaugural event of a new seminar series in curating will bring in conversation two leading contemporary artists based in London. It is organised on the occasion of the release of Rasheed Araeen’s book Islam and Modernism in which the artist takes...

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A Nod of a Hat: Rooftops of Old Tehran

5:00pm, 5 Jun 2023

In this talk, Ahmadreza Schricker, the principal of Architecture North (ASA North), discusses his newest project, the transformation of the abandoned Argo beer factory in downtown Tehran into a new museum, artist residency and cultural centre.

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“Así repiten aún las piedras”: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate

6:00pm, 25 May 2023

Join Aaron M. Hyman for this ARTES supported lecture based on his current book project 'Formalities: The Art of Script in the Early Modern Spanish World'.

Call to Holy Ground: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

23 May 2023

Sacred Traditions & the Arts Seminar is partnering with Art + Christianity and the Dean’s Office at King’s College London, who are hosting a film screening and discussion in the Chapel at King’s.

Solar Wheels and other stories

6:00pm, 11 Mar 2024

Shen Xin is an artist and storyteller who uses video, sound, installation and performance to tell ‘embodied stories’ about forms of inhabitance and dwelling – how we live with others in the places we are drawn to, settle in or claim as ours, as well ...

Intersections: Entanglements with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550

Monday 22nd May 2023, 09:00am -18:30pm BST

In this symposium we would like to draw together varying angles of research through their intersections with textiles, in whatever capacity. The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, ove...

�鶹��Ƶ Institute of Art Year Three PhD Symposium

Thursday 18th May, 10:30am-17:00pm BST and Friday 19th May 2023, 13:30-17:30pm BST

Spanning across two days, the symposium creates transnational and trans-geographic connections and reflects key concerns from across the discipline. Each panel, grouped through thematic and methodological concerns, engages with innovative approaches ...

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From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art

5:00pm, 17 May 2023

Join Amy Bloch for this lecture on Donatello and his practices relating to goldsmithing.

Revisiting the Cloisters Cross: A One-day Colloquium

10:30am, 12 May 2023

A joint one-day colloquium, organised by the British Archaeological Association and The �鶹��Ƶ, focusing on 'The Cloisters Cross'.

Histories Without a Voice: Marysia Lewandowska’s residency at The Cosmic House

5:30pm, 11 May 2023

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Porous Beings: Lotus Laurie Kang in conservation with Xiaowen Zhu

6:00pm, 5 May 2023

For the third event in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series Kang will introduce her most recent body of work that will be shown in her upcoming exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, and discuss issues of care, belonging, matter and memory in co...

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Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia

9:00am, 5 May 2023

The conference seeks to highlight the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices within or relating to Southeast Asia, and contributes to efforts to decentralise fashion studies.

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Painting Pairs 2022 – 23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

Join us for the first presentations by the 2022 - 23 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

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Words and Wordlessness in Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester

5:30pm, 4 May 2023

Join Nicholas Robbins as he explores the peculiar intimacy between art and literature that has characterized scholarship on nineteenth-century U.S. painting through the work of Fitz Henry Lane.

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Fabulous Adventurer and Magnanimous King: The Reception of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian Art

5:00pm, 4 May 2023

Claudia Daniotti will share aspects of her research into the reception of Alexander the Great in the Renaissance.

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Giotto’s Ugliness. Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism

5:00pm, 3 May 2023

Join Professor Marco Ruffini for this talk on the portrayal of Giotto as ugly and how this links to his style of painting.

Lyric, Mark, Mural: Matthew Holman in Conversation with Megan Rooney

6:30pm, 2 May 2023

Dr Matthew Holman and Megan Rooney, in conversation, on the occasion of Rooney’s major solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.

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North American Impressionisms and Belatedness

6:00pm, 28 Apr 2023

The third online event in the Belatedness and North American Art series.

A History of Council Housing Design and Planning

5:00pm, 27 Apr 2023

John Boughton examines the major ideas and theories that have shaped the form of council housing over its 150-year history.

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Śrī Pāda Pilgrimage: History, Icons and Representations of Saman’s Divine Abode

6:00pm, 26 Apr 2023

Join Professor Mahinda Deegalle for a talk on Sri Lanka's sacred site, Mt. Samanala.

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Reflections on the Cushion Capital

6:30pm, 24 Apr 2023

Join CRSBI for their annual lecture, delivered in 2023 by Dr Richard Plant

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Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The �鶹��Ƶ

6:00pm, 19 Apr 2023

The Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The �鶹��Ƶ series offers visitors after-hours access to our latest exhibition and a range of other activities.��

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After Hours

7:00pm, 12 Apr 2023

Join The �鶹��Ƶ for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event and celebrate our latest exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig.

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Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s: Exhibition Presentation and Book Launch

6:00pm, 5 Apr 2023

Join us for an evening of conversation about artistic modernism in Ukraine of the early 20th century.

Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero book launch

5:30pm, 31 Mar 2023

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero' by Rachel Warriner

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Acaye Kerunen in conversation with Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller “Iwang Sawa—In the Eye of Time”

6:00pm, 30 Mar 2023

Join us for the 2023 Annual Artist's Lecture supported by the Sculptural Processes Group, delivered by Acaye Kerunen.

The Byzantine Tradition in Africa

6:00pm, 29 Mar 2023

Join us online and in person for this year's ICMA lecture at The �鶹��Ƶ's Vernon Square campus.

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Exploring the provenance and digitisation of the British Library’s Hugh Nevill Sri Lankan Palm Leaf Manuscripts

6:00pm, 28 Mar 2023

Join Arani Ilankuberan as she presents on the British Library’s holdings of the Hugh Nevill collection of over 2,000 Sinhalese palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka, with a focus on what is currently known about Hugh Nevill and his collecting practice...

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Mary Beth Edelson and The Spiral Dance of Goddess and Cyborg

5:00pm, 23 Mar 2023

Amy Tobin will discuss the career of Mary Beth Edelson and particularly how the goddess, the cyborg and other critters manifested in the technologies of Edelson’s feminist art.

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Buddhist Heritage of Sri Lanka: Moving away from the Notion of ‘Pious Vandals’ in Conserving the Sacred

6:00pm, 14 Mar 2023

Speaker Gamini Wijesuriya will explore the impact of conservation and its development in Sri Lanka around Buddhist heritage.

In the Aftermath of Destruction. Natural Catastrophes and Art Making in Sixteenth-century Italy

5:00pm, 13 Mar 2023

Join Dr Saida Bondini for this lecture on the impact of destruction on artistic production, focusing on Renaissance Italy

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Photography, Archives and Ecologies in Anthropocenes

1:30pm, 10 Mar 2023

Join Bergit Arends and others for this workshop considering the uses of historic archives of environments, particularly when coloniality and imperialism are embodied in collections of the natural world.

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Gravity is the momentum of feeling: Xin Liu and Joni Zhu in conversation

6:30pm, 9 Mar 2023

Join us in person or online for the second lecture in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series.

‘perpetual food for our souls’: The Carthusians at the Cartuja de Miraflores

5:00pm, 8 Mar 2023

Join us for this medieval work in progress seminar where Dr Nicholas Flory will discuss the Cartuja de Miraflores and the tombs within it.

Leonor Fini’s Witches

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2023

Join Dr Anna Watz for a lecture on the motif of the witch across surrealist artist Leonor Fini’s (1907–1996) oeuvre.

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Conserving Buddhist stupas and religious nationalism in Sri Lanka

6:00pm, 27 Feb 2023

Jagath Weerasinghe explores the notion of 'authenticity' around the excavation and exploration of Buddhist stupas in Sri Lanka

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Belatedness and U.S. Exhibitions in Transnational Contexts

6:00pm, 24 Feb 2023

The second online event in the Belatedness and North American Art series.

Images of class. Capturing a Protean Subject.

5:30pm, 24 Feb 2023

Author, Jacopo Galimberti, along with Malcolm Bull and Marina Vishmidt, will discuss Galimberti's new book 'Images of Class. Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)'

Normativity and the Visual:
Art Historical and Theological Perspectives

5:45pm, 21 Feb 2023

King's College London and The �鶹��Ƶ host this collaborative seminar as part of the Sacred Traditions and the Arts series.

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The Architecture of Aleppo City:
From destruction to reconstruction

5:00pm, 20 Feb 2023

Join Mahmoud Zin Alabadin for this lecture about the ongoing projects to restore the city of Aleppo.

Film Screening: Voices of Ukraine – Hooligan Art Community

4:00pm, 18 Feb 2023

Join us for a film screening and discussion organised by Dr Charlotte de Mille and Voices of Ukraine of work by the Hooligan Art Community.

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Feminine Futures : Ukraine War | Oppression | Dystopia

6:00pm, 17 Feb 2023

Join Adrien Sina and Professor Sarah Wilson for a screening and discussion of the project 'Feminine Futures : Ukraine. War | Oppression | Dystopia'

After Hours

7:00pm, 15 Feb 2023

To celebrate our latest exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig – including paintings and works on paper created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021 – this After Hours event will grant attendees the opportunity to make, h...

Intimate tetherings: Xinyi Cheng and Alvin Li in conversation

6:00pm, 10 Feb 2023

Join us in person or online for the first lecture in the Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series.

Alabaster Sculpture in Europe 1300-1650

5:00pm, 8 Feb 2023

Join Dr Marjan Debaene as she speaks about the exhibition 'Alabaster' being held at M Leuven, from its concept to its curation.

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

5:30pm, 7 Feb 2023

Join Caroline Evans for a talk on her recent anthology, 'Time in Fashion' (2020), co-edited with Alessandra Vaccari

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The Bed Hurtles Along on its Rails of Blue Honey: Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism, Leo Steinberg

5:00pm, 6 Feb 2023

This talk by Professor Gavin Parkinson will consider the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the context of Surrealist art and exhibition.

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Making Modernism in Imperial Germany

1:30pm, 3 Feb 2023

Join us at our Vernon Square campus for this afternoon symposium on 'Making Modernism in Imperial Germany'.

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Modernism in Ukraine – Panel Discussion and Book Launch for ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s’

6:00pm, 1 Feb 2023

Join Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Dr Maria Mileeva, and Katia Denysova for this panel and launch for the book 'In the Eye of the Storm:

The museum environment in an era of sustainability

7:00pm, 30 Jan 2023

Dr David Saunders, a leading conservation scientist with extensive experience working in large museums in the UK, will speak about the era of sustainability and its impact on the museum environment.

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Painting Pairs 2022 – 23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

Join us for the first presentations by the 2022 - 23 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

Magnificence Tempered: On Spatial Zones and Visual Strategies in Late Medieval Parish Churches

5:00pm, 25 Jan 2023

This lecture looks at visual cultures on the threshold to the choir and in the lay church, focussing on the interactions of artistic media such as altarpieces and sacrament houses.

Immediations – 2022 issue launch

5:30pm, 12 Dec 2022

The Bear in the Sandbox: Art Therapy and the Museum Object

6:00pm, 7 Dec 2022

Join us for this year's Illuminating Objects seminar, which looks at the ways Isabel Hendley and Danny Kitchener have explored mental health in connection to objects at The �鶹��Ƶ.

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Fuseli’s mutable bodies

6:00pm, 6 Dec 2022

In the final lecture in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Martin Myrone considers Fuseli's portrayal of the body and considers the mutability of these portrayals.

Textures of a New Eden

5:30pm, 5 Dec 2022

Join Linda Freedman for this online talk about New Eden, mythology and redemption in nineteenth century America, and the reflection of these themes in art and literature.

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Open �鶹��Ƶ Hour: The Modern Woman and Fuseli

5:30pm, 1 Dec 2022

This special Open �鶹��Ƶ Hour brings our exhibition,��Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism, to an online audience. The event, through the fragmentary information we have about sex work and sex workers at this time, will aim to i...

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The Art of Thinking through Collaboration: Fuseli, Blake and Darwin

6:00pm, 29 Nov 2022

In the third in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Dr Sarah Carter considers the significance of collaboration between Henry Fuseli, William Blake and Erasmus Darwin.

Giulio Romano: The Power of Things – Re-Imagining Renaissance Design

5:00pm, 28 Nov 2022

Join Dr Barbara Furlotti and Dr Guido Rebecchini as they discuss their recent experience of curating an exhibition on Renaissance design at the Palazzo Te, Mantua.

Film Screening: The New Bauhaus (2019)

5:00pm, 24 Nov 2022

Join Dr Robin Schuldenfrei for a screening of the film 'The New Bauhaus' followed by a Q&A.

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“So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty”: on the sculptures of knights and ladies at Santa María la Mayor de Toro (Zamora)

5:00pm, 23 Nov 2022

In this Medieval Work in Progress seminar, Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández will speak on the sculptures found in the Santa María la Mayor de Toro (Zamora).

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Fools, Heroes and Whores: Henry Fuseli’s Switzerland

6:00pm, 22 Nov 2022

In the second event in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series for 2022, Camilla Smith explores Henry Fuseli's Swiss roots.

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Modern Enchantments, Anachronistic Space: The American Office of War Information Overseas Radiophoto Section in Central Africa and the British Raj, 1942-1945

5:30pm, 21 Nov 2022

Jonathan Dentler delivers this online talk about the impact of the American Office of War Information's dissemination of news photography in colonial societies.

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Science in the Séance Room: Stereographs, Medical Men, and the Testing of ‘Margery’ Crandon’s Extraordinary Body, c. 1925

5:00pm, 14 Nov 2022

Dr Emma Merkling explores the stereoscopic photographs made of medium Mina 'Margery' Crandon in the mid-1920s.

ONLINE EVENT: Getting in Fashion: Ethnographic Museums and their Dress Collections

5:30pm, 10 Nov 2022

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will now only be available online. Details of how to join online will be sent to everyone registered 48 hours before and on the day of the event.�� Daan van Dartel will demonstrate how fashion actually can b...

In Conversation: Hooligan Art Community

5:00pm, 4 Nov 2022

Join members of the Hooligan Art Community as they discuss their theatrical vision and practice.

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After Hours

7:00pm, 26 Oct 2022

Join The �鶹��Ƶ for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event! Connecting Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism and The �鶹��Ƶ’s rich history of textiles and fashion, this After Hours event will trans...

Networks, Transcultural Entanglements, and the Power of Aesthetic Choices: Artistic Encounters in the Medieval Afro-Eurasian World

5:00pm, 26 Oct 2022

Join Dr Vera-Simone Schulz to hear more about her work on the networks, entanglements, and artistic connections found in portable artefacts of the medieval Afro-Eurasian world.

Artist-as-Monk, Monk-as-Artist

6:30pm, 25 Oct 2022

Join James Hall and Lucy Newman Cleeve for two papers as part of the Sacred Traditions and the Arts seminar series.

Winslow Homer’s Freshwater Wilderness

5:00pm, 24 Oct 2022

William R. Cross will discuss the work of Winslow Homer and his recently released 'Winslow Homer: American Passage'.

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The Big Draw 2022

11:00am, 22 Oct 2022

This year, The Big Draw Festival��#ComeBackToColour is a love letter to each other and the world around us. The theme encapsulates what we all hope will be a rediscovery of the vitality, health, care and vibrancy in everyone's lives after what has bee...

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Anachronisms in the art of North America

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2022

This is the first online event in the series 'Belatedness and North American Art'

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Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The �鶹��Ƶ

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2022

The third Morgan Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The �鶹��Ƶ event will take place on��Weds 19 Oct, offering visitors the chance to see our latest temporary exhibitions, enjoy pop-up talks, and a range of other activities.��

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Vittore Carpaccio: curating the forthcoming exhibition in Washington and Venice

5:00pm, 18 Oct 2022

Professor Peter Humfrey will discuss the forthcoming exhibition 'Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice'.

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‘Female Trouble’: Vamps, Vixens and Viragoes in the Art of Henry Fuseli

6:00pm, 13 Oct 2022

The first in the 2022 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Kevin Salatino explores Henry Fuseli's depiction of women in his work.

Embedded in a History of Imposed Silences: Reclaiming Legitimacy in the Work of Grada Kilomba

5:00pm, 12 Oct 2022

This presentation will discuss Grada Kilomba’s performative work in general, and her performance-installation The Boat (2021) in particular.

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Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge

2:00pm, 5 Oct 2022

This workshop will explore in greater depth the collaborative process involved in the Mapping Senufo project.

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Mapping Senufo: Digital Data, Ambiguous Details, and an Artist’s Intervention

6:00pm, 4 Oct 2022

Join Susan Gagliardi as she discusses the findings from her collaborative project 'Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge'

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Howardena Pindell: New Perspectives

10:00am, 30 Sep 2022

Join for a one day symposium at Kettle’s Yard. This day-long series of talks will explore the work of Howardena Pindell and her current exhibition A New Language. Speakers at the symposium will include Joan Kee, Helena Vilalta, Sarah Cowan, Naomi Bec...

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Bloomsbury Collective: The Omega Workshops

6:00pm, 22 Sep 2022

Join Anna Liesching, curator of Bloomsbury: A Collective from Ulster Museum with guests to explore the story and legacy of this important moment in art and design history.

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Raphael in Villa Farnesina: From the colours of prosperity to the Egyptian Blue

6:00pm, 15 Sep 2022

Join Professor Antonio Sgamellotti to explore his scientific conservation work on the Triumph of Galatea at the Villa Farnesina.

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Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

9:45am, 9 Sep 2022

Exploring her interdisciplinary approach, her engagement with and assessment of urgent political questions, her relationship to feminism, and her connections with wider artistic communities, this day-long symposium will consider Schneemann’s work and...