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Museums Northumberland Awarded Curatorial Research Grant for Coalface Drawers
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The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations by Mark Laird Published Today
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Write on Art 2024 Winners
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Massimiliano Papini Receives Research Support Grant
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Autumn 2024 Events Series Announced
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Eleanor Stephenson Receives Research Support Grant
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Graduate Summer Programme 2024
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New Network Convenors Announced
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The Modern Backdrop Receive Collaborative Project Grant
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Oliver Coulson Receives Research Support Grant
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Summer Building Closure
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Autumn 2024 Funding Round Open for Applications
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Pevsner Guides Completed
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Introducing “On Art Becoming Public: An Exhibition Histories” Reading Group
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Ahead of our Autumn Grants Round Opening We Look at Afterall’s research into The Other Story
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New Architecture Movement (NAM) Receives Digital Project Grant
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Event Recordings from Out to Sea Now Live
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Publication Day for Esther Chadwick and Jeff Rosen
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Call for Papers: “What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture
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Paul Mellon Centre Graduate Traineeships
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British Art in Motion 2024 Shortlisted Participants Announced
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Introducing the Digitisation Grant
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Changes to the Publication Grant
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Celebrating British Art and Artists in Washington DC
by Sarah Victoria Turner
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The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open
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Archive of Lucy Wertheim, Gallerist and Founder of the Twenties Group of Artists, Acquired
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New Members of the Advisory Council Announced
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Summer 2024 Events Programme Live
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Applications Now Open for British Art in Motion
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David Hansen (1958–2024)
by Sarah Victoria Turner
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Art, Life, Love: Narratives from the Benedict Nicolson Archive
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New Films Released Analysing Hew Locke's The Procession
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Courtney Martin, Director of the Yale Center for British Art, to lead Rauschenberg Foundation
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Programme Released for Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction
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Call for Papers: Reframing King James VI and I
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Deanna Petherbridge (1939–2024)
by Sarah Victoria Turner
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Tickets Released for Gender and Cloth
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Multiple Awards for PMC Books from the Historians of British Art Book Prize Awards
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Archive of Acclaimed Biographer Fiona MacCarthy Acquired
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Spring 2024 Events Programme Announced
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2023 Event Recordings Now Live
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Write on Art 2024
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Issue 25 of British Art Studies
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Professor David Alan Mellor (1948–2023)
by Sarah Victoria Turner
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Applications Now Open for Spring 2024 Grants and Fellowships
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Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530–1830 by Steven Brindle Now Published
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Paul Mellon Centre Expands Its Archive Collection Policy: Deanna Petherbridge Archive Acquired
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Apollo Book of the Year Awarded to Tim Clayton
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New Drawing Room Display: “History is an Art”: Selections from the Paul Oppé Archive
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Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 by Griselda Pollock Now Published
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Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends, 11 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
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Applications Open for Graduate Summer Programme
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New Members of the Advisory Council Announced
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Tickets Released for Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism
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Ravi Agarwal Announced as Visiting Scholar
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Stained Glass Resource Acquired by the Centre: The Library and Archive of Michael Kerney
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Write on Art 2023 Winners
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Tickets Released for The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–60: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds
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Announcing a New Partnership Between Arts Organisation Autograph and our Climate & Colonialism project
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Tickets Released for Printmaking for Change
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Tickets Now on Sale for British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War
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Conservation Research Project Grants
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Autumn 2023 Grants Now Open For Applications
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PMC Books Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
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Humphrey Waterfield Archive Now Fully Catalogued
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Autumn 2023 Friday Research Lunches Announced
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Anne Fadiman Joins Yale-in-London Faculty for 2023 Sessions
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New Director of the Paul Mellon Centre Announced
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Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815 Now Published
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Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Now Published
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Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby by Henrietta McBurney Wins Society for the History of Natural History Book Prize 2022
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New Drawing Room Display Now Open
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New Issue of PMC Notes Now Published
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The Singh Twins at Tudors Now!
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The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity Now Published
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Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England Now Published
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British Art in Motion Open for Applicants
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Our Summer 2023 Events Programme is Now Live
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New Addition to the Art and Architecture ePortal
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The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–1960: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds – Call for Papers
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British Art Studies Issue 24 Published
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Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s – Call for Papers
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The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open
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Announcing Tudors Now!
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Autumn 2022 List of Awarded Grants
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Giles Waterfield Library Donation
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New Addition to the Art and Architecture ePortal
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The Fry Gallery Archive
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Introducing The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Senior Research Fellow Hammad Nasar Awarded MBE
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Write on Art 2023 is Now Open
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Two PMC Books Win Historians of British Art Book Prize
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New Film: Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People
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Our Spring 2023 Events Programme is Now Live
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The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Recognises Two PMC Books
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Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)
by Mark Hallett
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English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Wins Apollo Book of the Year Award
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Adriano Aymonino Wins the William MB Berger Prize with Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
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Applications Now Open for Spring 2023 Grants and Fellowships
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Building Greater Britain Now Published
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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
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Chloe Julius, Archives and Library Fellow on New Film Released on Brian Sewell Archive
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Astrida Neimanis Announced as Visiting Scholar
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James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire Now Published
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2022 British Art in Motion Winners Announced
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New Series of Archive & Library Journeys Films
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Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People Now Published
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Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist By Greg Smith
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Shock City and Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Published
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Andrew Edmunds (1943–2022)
by Mark Hallett
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2022 Write on Art Winners
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New ECRN and DRN Co-Convenors Appointed
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New Advisory Council Member
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Exhibition: When Dreams Confront Reality
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Mark Girouard (1931–2022)
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Autumn 2022 Grants Now Open For Applications
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Benedict Nicolson Archive Now Fully Catalogued
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Rereading Constable: Letters, Life and Art: Call for Papers
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New eBook added to Yale’s Art & Architecture ePortal
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Publication: Keith Piper: Jet Black Futures
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Publication: Queer St Ives and Other Stories
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Exhibition: Frank Bowling and Sculpture
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Announcing the Acquisition of the Nicholas Goodison Archive
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New Publication: A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760–1830
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New Publication: Survey of London: Whitechapel
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Updates to Funding Opportunities
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New Event: Finding Common Ground
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Illuminating Natural History Wins Award of Excellence in Biography
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Announcing the Recipients of the 2022 New Narratives Awards
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Explore the Frank Simpson Archive with Martin Postle
by Martin Postle
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New Publication: The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones
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New Publication: Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760–1910
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Exhibition: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries
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Publication: Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit
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Search New Archive Collection Now: Includes Records by M. Knoedler & Co
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New Issue of PMC Notes Now Published
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New Event Series: Liquid Crystal Concrete
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New Publication: English Garden Eccentrics
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Spring 2022 Funding Recipients Announced
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Congratulations to the Turner Prize Nominees
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Applications Open for the 2022 Art Trade Seminar
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Bedford Square: Creating Social Distance
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Rome Fellowship Reopen for Applications
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British Art in Motion: Shortlisted Finalists
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The 2022 Graduate Summer School: Art & Labour
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Announcing The Next Public Lecture Course
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Plan, Prepare, Provide: Art Teachers Residential
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New Freelance Opportunity: Contributing Editor, British Art Studies
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The British Art Network's UnCanon
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The Kerry Downes Archive
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New Paperback Edition: Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter
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An Evening in Celebration of Mark Girouard
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New Narratives Awards Open for Applications
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Write on Art 2022 Now Open
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Announcing the New Narratives Funding Opportunities
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Job Vacancy: Assistant Archivist
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New Issue Of PMC Notes Now Published
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All Episodes of Sculpting Lives Series Two Now Live
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Autumn 2021 Funding Recipients Announced
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New Issue of British Art Studies: Redefining the British Decorative Arts
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Latest Event Recordings
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Matthew Craske’s Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness Wins Berger Prize
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Fifteen Thousand Auction Catalogues Now Catalogued and Available to Search
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Exhibition: Creating Constable
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New Publication: A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820
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Applications Now Open for Spring 2022 Fellowships
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A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture Shortlisted for Apollo's Book of the Year
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New Publication: Victorian Visions of War and Peace
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Launching the British Art in Motion Film Competition
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Unlocking the History of British Art: Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive Goes Online
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Michael Liversidge Library Donation
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New Public Lecture Course: Black British Artists and Political Activism
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Sculpting Lives Podcast Series 2
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Two New PMC Books
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Changes to Senior Fellowships
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Event: Biotic Resistance: Eco-Caribbean Visions in Art and Exhibition Practice
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New Head of Research and Learning Appointed
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Mark Girouard: A Double Celebration
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Staffing News
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New Drawing Room Display: Sculpting in Sound
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Paul Oppé Archive: Robert Freyhan
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Announcing the 2021 Paul Mellon Lectures
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New Discoveries Film Series
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Paul Oppé Archive: Pioneer Health Centre
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British Art Network: Bursary Opportunities
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Paul Oppé Archive: Cecil Sharp
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Write on Art: The Winners 2021
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Paul Oppé Archive: Simone Belchamber
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Paul Oppé Archive: Norah & Vivien Gribble
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Publication: Barbara Walker
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New Publication: The Edwardians and their Houses
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Autumn 2021 Funding Opportunities Open for Applications
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New DRN Co-Convenors Appointed
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New ECRN Co-Convenors Appointed
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Job Vacancy: Head of Research and Learning
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New Issue of British Art Studies Now Published
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Visiting our Public Study Room
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Announcing London, Asia, Art, Worlds Projects
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New Advisory Council Members
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Deadline Extended: Freelance Network Co-convenor Opportunities
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New Publication: Enlightened Eclecticism
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Event: Boyhood: Re-examining an Edwardian Obsession
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Exhibition: A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s
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New Publication: Illuminating Natural History
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Exhibition: Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age
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Event: In Sickness and In Health: British Art and Medicine, Past and Present
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Write On Art Competition Closes In A Month
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Publication Day For Two New PMC Books
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New Issue Of PMC Notes Out Now
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The Leicester Galleries and Its Exhibition Catalogues
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Spring 2021 Funding Recipients Announced
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New Lecture Series on William Hogarth
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New British Art Talks Series: Experiments in Art Writing
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The Oppé Family Papers
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Research Continuity Grants & Fellowships 2021
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Announcing The Next Public Lecture Course
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New Publication Committee Members
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Event: Pioneering Women Conference
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Our Commitment to Anti-Racism: An Update from the PMC
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Elizabeth Price's 'A Gothic Choir'
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Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Library Donation Fully Catalogued
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The PMC at the AAH 2021 Annual Conference
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Job Vacancy: Events Manager (Parental Leave Cover)
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Witnessing Slavery Wins Historians of British Art Book Award
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PMC Notes 17 Now Published
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British Art Network Events Now Online
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New Vacancy: Assistant Librarian
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The John Hayes Archive is now catalogued
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New Publication: Joseph Wright of Derby
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Spring 2021 Funding Opportunities
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Art & the Country House Is Now Live
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Publication: The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image
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Publication: The Victorian Art School: Architecture, History, Environment
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Thomas Gainsborough by Hugh Belsey Wins William MB Berger Prize
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Providing Online Access to Photographic Archive Collections: A Report on Copyright Issues
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PMC Notes: Maria Graham as Naturalist by Eleanore Neumann
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Two New PMC Publications
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British Art Network: Bursary Awardees 2020–21
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The Paul Mellon Centre and Art UK are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Write on Art competition
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New Publication: The Hidden Mod in Modern Art by Thomas Crow
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Two PMC books shortlisted for the William MB Berger Prize
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New publication: Making the Modern Artist by Martin Myrone
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The Ford library is now catalogued
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Our Commitment to Anti-Racism: An Update from the PMC
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Damaged & Destroyed: A new online spotlight feature
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Autumn 2020 round of funding opportunities now open
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British Art Network: Applications now open for 2020 bursaries
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Publication: In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World
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Plan, Prepare, Provide: Art Teachers Residential
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British Art Talks: Q&A with Jessica Barker
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Changes to Fellowships and Grants for Autumn 2020
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AAH Conference 2021: Call for Papers
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British Art Talks: Speakers Q&A
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New British Art Network Convenor appointed
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Our Commitment to Anti-Racism
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The Paul Oppé Archive is now catalogued
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The Grand Tour at Home: Cataloguing Brinsley Ford's Library
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Publication: The Locked Room: Four Years that Shook Art Education, 1969–1973
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The Brian Sewell Archive is now catalogued
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Summer events programme now online
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Announcing a new programme of fellowships and grants
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Launch day for three new PMC publications
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Spring 2020 list of awarded grants
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Publication: SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story
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Write on the Art competition deadline extended
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Introducing the new podcast Sculpting Lives: Women & Sculpture
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Academic Books and the Environment
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British Art Studies Issue 15 now published
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Cataloguing Project: One Vast Interconnected World
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British Art Network: Research and the Museum Ecosystem conference
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Bernard Leach by Emmanuel Cooper released in paperback
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Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain 1945 to Now tickets on sale
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Write on Art Workshop
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Exhibition: Holding the Vision: Collecting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West
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John Hamilton Mortimer sketch in the John Sunderland archive
by Martin Postle
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The 50th anniversary edition of PMC Notes
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Library reopens after stocktake
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Nicholas Hilliard shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
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Two bookbindings from the Oppé Library
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George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field announced as one of the top ten exhibitions of 2019
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The 50th anniversary lecture series
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Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage
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Publication: Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid
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Spring 2020 round of funding opportunities now open
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Autumn 2019 list of awarded grants
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Relaunching the Rome Fellowship
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Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist named Apollo Magazine's 'Book of the Year'
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Call for Papers – Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1900 to Now
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Publication: The Enchanted Interior
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The Daphne Haldin Archive
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Introducing the PMC Research Collections Fellowship
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New publication: Westminster Abbey: A Church in History edited by David Cannadine
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George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’
by Martin Postle
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Podcast: A Meeting of Cultures
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Event: Innovation and Acculturation. The Émigré Art Historian and Britain
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Entries for Write On Art 2019/2020 are now open!
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British Art Network call for papers: Research and the Museum Ecosystem
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Event: For the People: The democratisation of modernist design
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New Drawing Room Display: Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955
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New programme of events now online
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New publication: Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989
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New publication: Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition by Sarah Thomas
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Event: The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counter-Culture and Now
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The new British Art Network sub-groups
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Cataloguing the Oppé Library
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Publication: William Powell Frith: The People's Painter
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Event: New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference
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Artist Collective Graduate Summer School 2019
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Autumn 2019 round of grant funding now open
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Publication: Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition
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Introducing the Collaborative Project Grant
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The PMC and Ellis Waterhouse archive on Fake or Fortune
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Centre Closure - Thursday 25 July
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Autumn Grant applications to open 12 August
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Publication: Playing with the Book
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Call for Papers: Hogarth's Moral Geography
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Write on Art: the winners 2019
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Event: Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries
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YCBA's art collection now included on Art UK
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Public Study Room and Archive Collections now re-open
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Publication: Roger Fry and Italian Art
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Call for Papers: Homework: artists’ studio homes and their afterlives in Britain and the United States
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Event: John Ruskin, Art Education and Social Change
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Publication: Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things
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The PMC at the Easel Careers in the Arts Fair
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British Art Studies Issue 12 now published
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Call for Papers: William Blake and the Idea of the Artist
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The British Art Network, a Tate and Paul Mellon Centre Partnership
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The RA Chronicle wins a gold MUSE award
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Bedford Square Festival 2019
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The Story of Inventing Boston
by Edward Cooke
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Digital Project: Voices of art
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Gothic Sculpture by Paul Binski is now published
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New Drawing Room Display: “Painter, Gardener, Scholar” Humphrey Waterfield, 1908–1971
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Exhibition: This Life is so Everyday: The Home in British Art 1950–1980 at Graves Gallery
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Exhibition: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud at York Art Gallery
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Mark Hallett to give the 2019 Aspects of Art Lecture at the British Academy
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Upcoming events at the Centre
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 wins a Webby
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Centre closure - Wednesday 15 May
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Introducing the British Art Network Bursaries
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Science wins the British Society for Literature and Science book prize
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Easter closure
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Job Vacancy: Paul Oppé Library Project Cataloguer
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Courtney J. Martin named Director of Yale Center for British Art
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Temporary Closure of Archive Collections
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle 1769-2018 nominated for a Webby Award
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Spring 2019 list of awarded Grants and Fellowships
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Introducing the Artist Collective Summer School
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The PMC at the Association for Art History Conference 2019
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British Art Studies Theatres of War: Experimental Performance in London, 1914–1918 and Beyond
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The Centre hosts the final of SPoKE Competition
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Science nominated for the BSLS Annual Book Prize
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Applications are open for ARIAH's Digital Development Award for Art History Publishing
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Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters now published
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Secondhand Daylight featured in The Guardian
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The PMC at the College Art Association Conference 2019
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Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring out now
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George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field now showing at Holburne Museum
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Deadline extended: Rome Fellowship
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Tickets now available for the LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice symposium
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Kate Retford's The Conversation Piece wins a Historians of British Art Book Prize
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The Write on Art deadline has been extended
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Post-doctoral Research Associate vacancy at the National Portrait Gallery
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Tickets on sale for Repton Revived symposium
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Recently published Grant supported publications
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Panoramas and Global Landscape
by Tim Barringer
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Photography and its Histories Public Lecture Course
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Merry Christmas & Season's Greetings
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Job Vacancy: Paul Oppé Archive Project Cataloguer
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Paul Mellon Centre allocated Paul Oppé Library and Archive
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British Art Studies Issue 10: Landscape Now
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Spring 2019 round Fellowships & Grants funding now open
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Autumn 2018 list of awarded Grants and Fellowships
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Mellon Lectures 2019: Global Landscape in the Age of Empire
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Survey of London: South-East Marylebone wins Colvin Prize
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Changes to Spring 2019 Fellowship Award Amounts
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Ash Wednesday
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Call for Papers: Repton Revived The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence
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Write On Art is back!
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The PMC at History Day 2018
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New events for the Doctoral Researchers Network
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George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field
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Issue 10 of PMC Notes now available
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*Deadline Extended* - Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants
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New Drawing Room Display: Artists' Letters
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Sarah Victoria Turner elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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New Publication: Hugh Lane: The Art Market and the Art Museum
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Sarah Victoria Turner elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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Call for Papers: The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice
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A Visit to Charleston
by Sarah Victoria Turner
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Autumn 2018 events calendar now online
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Chippendale Revealed - a PMC supported project
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The PMC and Bloomsbury Festival
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The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant
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Tickets on sale for Portraiture and Biography conference
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Reflecting on The Look of Music
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Autumn 2018 Grant applications now open
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British Art Studies Issue 9 out now
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The Artist and the Garden Public Lecture Course
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Autumn Grant applications to open 13 August
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Inside the Royal Academy: An interview with Mark Pomeroy
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PMC and Asia Art Archive announce the recipient of the second London, Asia Research Award
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Write on Art: the winners 2018
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Call For Papers: Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context
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Call For Papers: Public sculpture in the expanded field
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Bedford Square Festival begins!
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British Art Studies Aubrey Williams: Abstraction in Diaspora
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New Book: Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
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PMC Library loan in Print! Tearing It Up exhibition
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British Art Studies "The Art Game"
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New Book:
John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science -
The Great Spectacle exhibition is now open!
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Frenemies symposium tickets now available
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British Art Studies Issue 8 out now
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Press reviews for The Great Spectacle
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New Drawing Room Display: Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs
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Chronicle Series: Digisation
by Thomas Powell
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Announcing The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018
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Out now - The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections