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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

Plan, Prepare, Provide: Art Teachers Residential

British Art Talks: Q&A with Jessica Barker

Changes to Fellowships and Grants for Autumn 2020

AAH Conference 2021: Call for Papers

British Art Talks: Speakers Q&A

New British Art Network Convenor appointed

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism

The Paul Oppé Archive is now catalogued

The Grand Tour at Home: Cataloguing Brinsley Ford's Library

Publication: The Locked Room: Four Years that Shook Art Education, 1969–1973

The Brian Sewell Archive is now catalogued

Summer events programme now online

Announcing a new programme of fellowships and grants

Launch day for three new PMC publications

Spring 2020 list of awarded grants

Publication: SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story

Write on the Art competition deadline extended

Introducing the new podcast Sculpting Lives: Women & Sculpture

Academic Books and the Environment

British Art Studies Issue 15 now published

Cataloguing Project: One Vast Interconnected World

British Art Network: Research and the Museum Ecosystem conference

Bernard Leach by Emmanuel Cooper released in paperback

Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain 1945 to Now tickets on sale

Write on Art Workshop

Exhibition: Holding the Vision: Collecting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West

John Hamilton Mortimer sketch in the John Sunderland archive

by Martin Postle

The 50th anniversary edition of PMC Notes

Library reopens after stocktake

Nicholas Hilliard shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

Two bookbindings from the Oppé Library

George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field announced as one of the top ten exhibitions of 2019

The 50th anniversary lecture series

Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage

Publication: Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid

Spring 2020 round of funding opportunities now open

Autumn 2019 list of awarded grants

Relaunching the Rome Fellowship

Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist named Apollo Magazine's 'Book of the Year'

Call for Papers – Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1900 to Now

Publication: The Enchanted Interior

The Daphne Haldin Archive

Introducing the PMC Research Collections Fellowship

New publication: Westminster Abbey: A Church in History edited by David Cannadine

George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’

by Martin Postle

Podcast: A Meeting of Cultures

Event: Innovation and Acculturation. The Émigré Art Historian and Britain

Entries for Write On Art 2019/2020 are now open!

British Art Network call for papers: Research and the Museum Ecosystem

Event: For the People: The democratisation of modernist design

New Drawing Room Display: Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955

New programme of events now online

New publication: Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989

New publication: Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition by Sarah Thomas

Event: The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counter-Culture and Now

The new British Art Network sub-groups

Cataloguing the Oppé Library

Publication: William Powell Frith: The People's Painter

Event: New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference

Artist Collective Graduate Summer School 2019

Autumn 2019 round of grant funding now open

Publication: Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition

Introducing the Collaborative Project Grant

The PMC and Ellis Waterhouse archive on Fake or Fortune

Centre Closure - Thursday 25 July

Autumn Grant applications to open 12 August

Publication: Playing with the Book

Call for Papers: Hogarth's Moral Geography

Write on Art: the winners 2019

Event: Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries

YCBA's art collection now included on Art UK

Public Study Room and Archive Collections now re-open

Publication: Roger Fry and Italian Art

Call for Papers: Homework: artists’ studio homes and their afterlives in Britain and the United States

Event: John Ruskin, Art Education and Social Change

Publication: Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things

The PMC at the Easel Careers in the Arts Fair

British Art Studies Issue 12 now published

Call for Papers: William Blake and the Idea of the Artist

The British Art Network, a Tate and Paul Mellon Centre Partnership

The RA Chronicle wins a gold MUSE award

Bedford Square Festival 2019

The Story of Inventing Boston

by Edward Cooke

Digital Project: Voices of art

Gothic Sculpture by Paul Binski is now published

New Drawing Room Display: “Painter, Gardener, Scholar” Humphrey Waterfield, 1908–1971

Exhibition: This Life is so Everyday: The Home in British Art 1950–1980 at Graves Gallery

Exhibition: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud at York Art Gallery

Mark Hallett to give the 2019 Aspects of Art Lecture at the British Academy

Upcoming events at the Centre

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 wins a Webby

Centre closure - Wednesday 15 May

Introducing the British Art Network Bursaries

The Pre-Raphaelites and Science wins the British Society for Literature and Science book prize

Easter closure

Job Vacancy: Paul Oppé Library Project Cataloguer

Courtney J. Martin named Director of Yale Center for British Art

Temporary Closure of Archive Collections

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle 1769-2018 nominated for a Webby Award

Spring 2019 list of awarded Grants and Fellowships

Introducing the Artist Collective Summer School

The PMC at the Association for Art History Conference 2019

British Art Studies Theatres of War: Experimental Performance in London, 1914–1918 and Beyond

The Centre hosts the final of SPoKE Competition

The Pre-Raphaelites and Science nominated for the BSLS Annual Book Prize

Applications are open for ARIAH's Digital Development Award for Art History Publishing

Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters now published

Secondhand Daylight featured in The Guardian

The PMC at the College Art Association Conference 2019

Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring out now

George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field now showing at Holburne Museum

Deadline extended: Rome Fellowship

Tickets now available for the LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice symposium

Kate Retford's The Conversation Piece wins a Historians of British Art Book Prize

The Write on Art deadline has been extended

Post-doctoral Research Associate vacancy at the National Portrait Gallery

Tickets on sale for Repton Revived symposium

Recently published Grant supported publications

Panoramas and Global Landscape

by Tim Barringer

Photography and its Histories Public Lecture Course

Merry Christmas & Season's Greetings

Job Vacancy: Paul Oppé Archive Project Cataloguer

Paul Mellon Centre allocated Paul Oppé Library and Archive

British Art Studies Issue 10: Landscape Now

Spring 2019 round Fellowships & Grants funding now open

Autumn 2018 list of awarded Grants and Fellowships

Mellon Lectures 2019: Global Landscape in the Age of Empire

Survey of London: South-East Marylebone wins Colvin Prize

Changes to Spring 2019 Fellowship Award Amounts

Ash Wednesday

Call for Papers: Repton Revived The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence

Write On Art is back!

The PMC at History Day 2018

New events for the Doctoral Researchers Network

George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field

Issue 10 of PMC Notes now available

*Deadline Extended* - Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants

New Drawing Room Display: Artists' Letters

Sarah Victoria Turner elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

New Publication: Hugh Lane: The Art Market and the Art Museum

Sarah Victoria Turner elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Call for Papers: The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice

A Visit to Charleston

by Sarah Victoria Turner

Autumn 2018 events calendar now online

Chippendale Revealed - a PMC supported project

The PMC and Bloomsbury Festival

The Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant

Tickets on sale for Portraiture and Biography conference

Reflecting on The Look of Music

Autumn 2018 Grant applications now open

British Art Studies Issue 9 out now

The Artist and the Garden Public Lecture Course

Autumn Grant applications to open 13 August

Inside the Royal Academy: An interview with Mark Pomeroy

PMC and Asia Art Archive announce the recipient of the second London, Asia Research Award

Write on Art: the winners 2018

Call For Papers: Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context

Call For Papers: Public sculpture in the expanded field

Bedford Square Festival begins!

British Art Studies Aubrey Williams: Abstraction in Diaspora

New Book: Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales

PMC Library loan in Print! Tearing It Up exhibition

British Art Studies "The Art Game"

New Book:
John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science

The Great Spectacle exhibition is now open!

Frenemies symposium tickets now available

British Art Studies Issue 8 out now

Press reviews for The Great Spectacle

New Drawing Room Display: Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs

Chronicle Series: Digisation

by Thomas Powell

Announcing The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018

Out now - The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections

Chronicle Series: Designing the Chronicle

by Thomas Powell

Crossing the Channel conference report

Chronicle Series: A Year in Context

by Thomas Powell

Recently published Grant supported publications

The programme for Bedford Square Festival 2018 is now live!

Chronicle Series: An Introduction to the Chronicle

by Thomas Powell

PMC Notes 9 out now

The countdown begins...

Study Day - 'Things of Beauty Growing': British Studio Pottery

Academic Book Week

Recordings from the Charles I: King and Collector conference are now available

London History Day 2018

Summer 2018 Research Lunches

Bedford Square Festival is returning in 2018

Spring 2018 list of awarded Fellowships and Grants

Thinking About Exhibitions - George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field

Easter closing times

'Things of Beauty Growing': British Studio Pottery exhibition now on at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Open Call: London, Asia Research Award

Watch the Thinking about Exhibitions Public Lecture Course live