What Is Research Now?

Join us for a series of festivals, events, and activities from summer 2025 to summer 2026.

Beginning in May 2025, What is Research Now? presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts. The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together?

It will bring artists, curators, writers, scholars, activists, and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.

Full programme to follow.

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