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All Recordings from Spring 2025 Seminar Series Now Live

Queen’s University Belfast and Twentieth Century Society (C20) Awarded a Collaborative Project Grant

London Gallery Weekend Grant Scheme Announced

John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Joins Art & Architecture ePortal

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of J.M.W. Turner

New Display Showcasing Staff Selections from the Paul Mellon Centre Archive & Library Collections

Sofia Nannini Receives Research Support Grant

Sir Brinsley Ford Collection of Books Acquired and Fully Catalogued

PMC-Supported Exhibitions to Visit This Spring

What Is Research Now?

Gender and Cloth 2025 Workshops 

Griselda Pollock, Adrian Rifkin, and Rachel Dickson Win HBA Book Prize for Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944

Applications Open for British Art in Motion 2025

Applications Open for Art Teachers Connect Residential 2025

Arts & Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack Now on Art & Architecture ePortal

Write on Art 2025 Now Open for Applications

Martina Droth named director of Yale Center for British Art

Hannah Darvin Receives Research Support Grant

Spring 2025 Events Programme Announced

PMC Events and Recordings 2024 Wrap-Up 

Autumn 2024 Grants Awards Announced

Art Teachers Connect: Connections Bursary 

Write on Art 2025: Workshops and Resources

Steven Brindle Awarded Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830

Book Night Will Be Livestreamed

Spring 2025 Round of Funding Opportunities Now Open for Applications

Tom Young’s Unmaking the East India Company Wins the 2024 Berger Prize

PMC Publications and Grants Recipients Shortlisted for Awards

Hepworth Wakefield Awarded Curatorial Research Grant for Surrealist Art

Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures Published Today

Tickets and Programme Released for The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture

PMC Collections Data Now Searchable Alongside Yale Collections

Museums Northumberland Awarded Curatorial Research Grant for Coalface Drawers

The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations by Mark Laird Published Today

Write on Art 2024 Winners

Massimiliano Papini Receives Research Support Grant

Autumn 2024 Events Series Announced

Eleanor Stephenson Receives Research Support Grant

Graduate Summer Programme 2024

New Network Convenors Announced

The Modern Backdrop Receive Collaborative Project Grant

Oliver Coulson Receives Research Support Grant

Summer Building Closure

Autumn 2024 Funding Round Open for Applications

Pevsner Guides Completed

Introducing “On Art Becoming Public: An Exhibition Histories” Reading Group

Ahead of our Autumn Grants Round Opening We Look at Afterall’s research into The Other Story

New Architecture Movement (NAM) Receives Digital Project Grant

Event Recordings from Out to Sea Now Live

Publication Day for Esther Chadwick and Jeff Rosen

Call for Papers: “What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture

Paul Mellon Centre Graduate Traineeships

British Art in Motion 2024 Shortlisted Participants Announced

Introducing the Digitisation Grant

Changes to the Publication Grant

Celebrating British Art and Artists in Washington DC

by Sarah Victoria Turner

The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open

Archive of Lucy Wertheim, Gallerist and Founder of the Twenties Group of Artists, Acquired

New Members of the Advisory Council Announced

Summer 2024 Events Programme Live

Applications Now Open for British Art in Motion

David Hansen (1958–2024)

by Sarah Victoria Turner

Art, Life, Love: Narratives from the Benedict Nicolson Archive

New Films Released Analysing Hew Locke's The Procession

Courtney Martin, Director of the Yale Center for British Art, to lead Rauschenberg Foundation

Programme Released for Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction

Call for Papers: Reframing King James VI and I

Deanna Petherbridge (1939–2024)

by Sarah Victoria Turner

Tickets Released for Gender and Cloth

Multiple Awards for PMC Books from the Historians of British Art Book Prize Awards

Archive of Acclaimed Biographer Fiona MacCarthy Acquired

Spring 2024 Events Programme Announced

2023 Event Recordings Now Live

Write on Art 2024

Issue 25 of British Art Studies

Professor David Alan Mellor (1948–2023)

by Sarah Victoria Turner

Applications Now Open for Spring 2024 Grants and Fellowships

Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530–1830 by Steven Brindle Now Published

Paul Mellon Centre Expands Its Archive Collection Policy: Deanna Petherbridge Archive Acquired

Apollo Book of the Year Awarded to Tim Clayton

New Drawing Room Display: “History is an Art”: Selections from the Paul Oppé Archive

Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 by Griselda Pollock Now Published

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends, 11 November 2023 – 18 February 2024

Applications Open for Graduate Summer Programme

New Members of the Advisory Council Announced

Tickets Released for Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism

Ravi Agarwal Announced as Visiting Scholar

Stained Glass Resource Acquired by the Centre: The Library and Archive of Michael Kerney

Write on Art 2023 Winners

Tickets Released for The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–60: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds

Announcing a New Partnership Between Arts Organisation Autograph and our Climate & Colonialism project

Tickets Released for Printmaking for Change

Tickets Now on Sale for British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War

Conservation Research Project Grants

Autumn 2023 Grants Now Open For Applications

PMC Books Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion

Humphrey Waterfield Archive Now Fully Catalogued 

Autumn 2023 Friday Research Lunches Announced

Anne Fadiman Joins Yale-in-London Faculty for 2023 Sessions

New Director of the Paul Mellon Centre Announced

Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815 Now Published

Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Now Published

Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby by Henrietta McBurney Wins Society for the History of Natural History Book Prize 2022

New Drawing Room Display Now Open

New Issue of PMC Notes Now Published

The Singh Twins at Tudors Now!

The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Now Published

Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England Now Published

British Art in Motion Open for Applicants

Our Summer 2023 Events Programme is Now Live

New Addition to the Art and Architecture ePortal

The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–1960: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds – Call for Papers

British Art Studies Issue 24 Published

Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s – Call for Papers

The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open

Announcing Tudors Now!

Autumn 2022 List of Awarded Grants

Giles Waterfield Library Donation

New Addition to the Art and Architecture ePortal

The Fry Gallery Archive

Introducing The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Senior Research Fellow Hammad Nasar Awarded MBE

Write on Art 2023 is Now Open

Two PMC Books Win Historians of British Art Book Prize

New Film: Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People

Our Spring 2023 Events Programme is Now Live

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Recognises Two PMC Books

Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)

by Mark Hallett

English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Wins Apollo Book of the Year Award

Adriano Aymonino Wins the William MB Berger Prize with Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland

Applications Now Open for Spring 2023 Grants and Fellowships

Building Greater Britain Now Published

The Paul Mellon Centre’s Director, Mark Hallett, will be stepping down after more than a decade in post to take up a new role next year as the Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Chloe Julius, Archives and Library Fellow on New Film Released on Brian Sewell Archive

Astrida Neimanis Announced as Visiting Scholar

James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire Now Published

2022 British Art in Motion Winners Announced

New Series of Archive & Library Journeys Films

Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People Now Published

Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist By Greg Smith

Shock City and Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Published

Andrew Edmunds (1943–2022)

by Mark Hallett

2022 Write on Art Winners

New ECRN and DRN Co-Convenors Appointed

New Advisory Council Member

Exhibition: When Dreams Confront Reality

Mark Girouard (1931–2022)

Autumn 2022 Grants Now Open For Applications

Benedict Nicolson Archive Now Fully Catalogued

Rereading Constable: Letters, Life and Art: Call for Papers

New eBook added to Yale’s Art & Architecture ePortal

Publication: Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures

Publication: Queer St Ives and Other Stories

Exhibition: Frank Bowling and Sculpture

Announcing the Acquisition of the Nicholas Goodison Archive

New Publication: A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760–1830

New Publication: Survey of London: Whitechapel

Updates to Funding Opportunities

New Event: Finding Common Ground

Illuminating Natural History Wins Award of Excellence in Biography

Announcing the Recipients of the 2022 New Narratives Awards

Explore the Frank Simpson Archive with Martin Postle

by Martin Postle

New Publication: The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones

New Publication: Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760–1910

Exhibition: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries

Publication: Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

Search New Archive Collection Now: Includes Records by M. Knoedler & Co

New Issue of PMC Notes Now Published

New Event Series: Liquid Crystal Concrete

New Publication: English Garden Eccentrics

Spring 2022 Funding Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the Turner Prize Nominees

Applications Open for the 2022 Art Trade Seminar

Bedford Square: Creating Social Distance

Rome Fellowship Reopen for Applications

British Art in Motion: Shortlisted Finalists

The 2022 Graduate Summer School: Art & Labour

Announcing The Next Public Lecture Course

Plan, Prepare, Provide: Art Teachers Residential

New Freelance Opportunity: Contributing Editor, British Art Studies

The British Art Network's UnCanon

The Kerry Downes Archive

New Paperback Edition: Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter

An Evening in Celebration of Mark Girouard

New Narratives Awards Open for Applications

Write on Art 2022 Now Open

Announcing the New Narratives Funding Opportunities

Job Vacancy: Assistant Archivist

New Issue Of PMC Notes Now Published

All Episodes of Sculpting Lives Series Two Now Live

Autumn 2021 Funding Recipients Announced

New Issue of British Art Studies: Redefining the British Decorative Arts

Latest Event Recordings

Matthew Craske’s Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness Wins Berger Prize

Fifteen Thousand Auction Catalogues Now Catalogued and Available to Search

Exhibition: Creating Constable

New Publication: A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820

Applications Now Open for Spring 2022 Fellowships

A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture Shortlisted for Apollo's Book of the Year

New Publication: Victorian Visions of War and Peace

Launching the British Art in Motion Film Competition

Unlocking the History of British Art: Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive Goes Online

Michael Liversidge Library Donation

New Public Lecture Course: Black British Artists and Political Activism

Sculpting Lives Podcast Series 2

Two New PMC Books

Changes to Senior Fellowships

Event: Biotic Resistance: Eco-Caribbean Visions in Art and Exhibition Practice

New Head of Research and Learning Appointed

Mark Girouard: A Double Celebration

Staffing News

New Drawing Room Display: Sculpting in Sound

Paul Oppé Archive: Robert Freyhan

Announcing the 2021 Paul Mellon Lectures

New Discoveries Film Series

Paul Oppé Archive: Pioneer Health Centre

British Art Network: Bursary Opportunities

Paul Oppé Archive: Cecil Sharp

Write on Art: The Winners 2021

Paul Oppé Archive: Simone Belchamber

Paul Oppé Archive: Norah & Vivien Gribble

Publication: Barbara Walker

New Publication: The Edwardians and their Houses

Autumn 2021 Funding Opportunities Open for Applications

New DRN Co-Convenors Appointed

New ECRN Co-Convenors Appointed

Job Vacancy: Head of Research and Learning

New Issue of British Art Studies Now Published

Visiting our Public Study Room

Announcing London, Asia, Art, Worlds Projects

New Advisory Council Members

Deadline Extended: Freelance Network Co-convenor Opportunities

New Publication: Enlightened Eclecticism

Event: Boyhood: Re-examining an Edwardian Obsession

Exhibition: A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s

New Publication: Illuminating Natural History

Exhibition: Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age

Event: In Sickness and In Health: British Art and Medicine, Past and Present

Write On Art Competition Closes In A Month

Publication Day For Two New PMC Books

New Issue Of PMC Notes Out Now

The Leicester Galleries and Its Exhibition Catalogues

Spring 2021 Funding Recipients Announced

New Lecture Series on William Hogarth

New British Art Talks Series: Experiments in Art Writing

The Oppé Family Papers

Research Continuity Grants & Fellowships 2021

Announcing The Next Public Lecture Course

New Publication Committee Members

Event: Pioneering Women Conference

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism: An Update from the PMC

Elizabeth Price's 'A Gothic Choir'

Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Library Donation Fully Catalogued

The PMC at the AAH 2021 Annual Conference

Job Vacancy: Events Manager (Parental Leave Cover)

Witnessing Slavery Wins Historians of British Art Book Award

PMC Notes 17 Now Published

British Art Network Events Now Online

New Vacancy: Assistant Librarian

The John Hayes Archive is now catalogued

New Publication: Joseph Wright of Derby

Spring 2021 Funding Opportunities

Art & the Country House Is Now Live

Publication: The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Publication: The Victorian Art School: Architecture, History, Environment

Thomas Gainsborough by Hugh Belsey Wins William MB Berger Prize

Providing Online Access to Photographic Archive Collections: A Report on Copyright Issues

PMC Notes: Maria Graham as Naturalist by Eleanore Neumann

Two New PMC Publications

British Art Network: Bursary Awardees 2020–21

The Paul Mellon Centre and Art UK are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Write on Art competition

New Publication: The Hidden Mod in Modern Art by Thomas Crow

Two PMC books shortlisted for the William MB Berger Prize

New publication: Making the Modern Artist by Martin Myrone

The Ford library is now catalogued

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism: An Update from the PMC

Damaged & Destroyed: A new online spotlight feature

Autumn 2020 round of funding opportunities now open

British Art Network: Applications now open for 2020 bursaries

Publication: In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World