Past Events

13 May to 13 September 2019

“Painter, Gardener, Scholar”
Humphrey Waterfield, 1908–1971

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

29 May 2019

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

31 May 2019

Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space

Research Lunch – Lucia Farinati

Paul Mellon Centre

5 June 2019

Architecture sub judice: Ugliness, Law, and Public Opinion

Research Seminar – Timothy Hyde

Paul Mellon Centre

7 June 2019

Alfred Cohen: An American Vision of Britain and Europe

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

14 June 2019

Between art and science: British and Chinese 'hybrid' botanic art in 18th century Canton

Research Lunch – Josepha Richard

Paul Mellon Centre

17 June to 12 July 2019

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

Call for Papers

19 June 2019

Summerson and the Search for the Primitive in the Inter-War Period

Research Seminar – Professor Elizabeth McKellar

Paul Mellon Centre

24 June 2019

William Blake and the Idea of the Artist

Call for Papers

26 June 2019

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

Paul Mellon Centre

27 June 2019

AHRC Fellowship Opportunities at the Yale Center for British Art

Network Event

2 to 29 July 2019

Hogarth's Moral Geography

Call for Papers

3 to 6 July 2019

Bedford Square Festival

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

3 July 2019

London Splash Adult Art Class

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

3 July 2019

The Spirit of Place

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

3 July 2019

Yoga in the Square

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2019

Debussy in Bloomsbury | Talk & Concert

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2019

Film Screening: 28b Camden Street

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2019

The Three Phases of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2019

Eileen Hogan: Squares, Gardens and Portraiture

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2019

Humphrey Waterfield, “Painter, Gardener, Scholar”

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2019

London Watercolour Adult Art Class

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

30 August to 27 September 2019

George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature'

Call for Papers

23 September 2019 to 17 January 2020

Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955: The Peter & Renate Nahum Gift

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

30 September 2019

Homework: Artists’ Studio Homes and Their Afterlives in Britain and the United States Conference

Conference

2 October 2019

Towards a Virtual Feminist Museum of Greenham Common

Research Seminar – Alexandra Kokoli

Paul Mellon Centre

5 October 2019

Paul Mellon Centre x Art UK x Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

10 October to 7 November 2019

Art and War

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

11 October 2019

Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire

Research Lunch – Dr Edwin Coomasaru

Paul Mellon Centre

15 October 2019

“The Eighth Wonder of the World”: Science and Sublimity in Marc and Isambard Brunel’s Thames Tunnel Project

Fellows Lunch – Shirlynn Sham

Paul Mellon Centre

15 October 2019

Yale Young Global Scholars Information Session

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

16 October 2019

Does Color Have a History?

Research Seminar – David Kastan

Paul Mellon Centre

16 October 2019

Facebook live video tour of 'Modern Art and Publishing'

Display

22 October 2019

Establishing a Writing Practice

DRN Events

Paul Mellon Centre

25 October 2019

The Hayward Annual 1978: A Case Study in Combating Male 'Artocracy'

Research Lunch – Jennifer Dudley

Paul Mellon Centre

28 October 2019

Britain and Europe: Art and Exchange from the Medieval Period to Brexit

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

29 October 2019

Cut to Black: Filmic Disidentifications in the Work of Lis Rhodes

Fellows Lunch – Hannah Kahng

Paul Mellon Centre

30 October 2019

Artists’ Moving Image In Britain Since 1989

Research Seminar

Paul Mellon Centre

5 November 2019

Hogarth's Moral Geography

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

8 November 2019

Merlyn Evans’ Vertical Suite in Black (1957) and the Trajectory of ‘Primitivism’ in British Art from Vorticism to the Independent Group

Research Lunch – Michael Clegg

Paul Mellon Centre

12 November 2019

Against All Risks: Insuring Art in the Nineteenth Century

Fellows Lunch – Avigail Moss

Paul Mellon Centre

14 November 2019

British Art Studies, Issue 13: London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories Launch Event

Research Project

Paul Mellon Centre

22 November 2019

Narrating British Art: Robert de la Sizeranne’s Use of Insularity

Research Lunch – Julie Lageyre

Paul Mellon Centre

27 November 2019

The Newspaper Man: Michael Andrews and the Art of Collage

Research Seminar – Mark Hallett

Paul Mellon Centre

28 to 29 November 2019

William Blake and the Idea of the Artist

Conference

29 November 2019

Doctoral Researchers Network: Radical Women Exhibition Trip

DRN Events

2 December 2019

Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories

Call for Papers

3 December 2019

Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

6 December 2019

'A Liberation of Spirit': Transatlantic Seascapes by Winifred Nicholson and John Marin

Research Lunch – Samantha Niederman

Paul Mellon Centre

9 December 2019

Digital Art History Workshop

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

10 December 2019

Doctoral & Early Career Researchers Networks: Christmas Party

DRN Events

Paul Mellon Centre

10 December 2019

Publishing Your Thesis

DRN Events

Paul Mellon Centre

11 December 2019

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

Paul Mellon Centre

15 January 2020

British Landscape Art of the Long Eighteenth Century: Reflections on a Contested Field

50th Anniversary Event – David H. Solkin

Paul Mellon Centre

17 January 2020

George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’

Conference

MK Gallery

24 January 2020

Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas

Research Lunch – Eva Bentcheva

Paul Mellon Centre

29 January 2020

50 Years of British Art in Museums

50th Anniversary Event – Charles Saumarez Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

29 January to 2 March 2020

Activating Art History: 50 Years of the Paul Mellon Centre Grants & Fellowships Programme

Call for Papers

31 January 2020

Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions

Research Lunch – Martina Droth, Paul Messier

Paul Mellon Centre

31 January 2020

Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage Curators’ Tour

DRN Events

Tate Britain

7 February 2020

Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

12 February 2020

The Victorian Book I Never Wrote, or Why I Never Became a Specialist on British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Griselda Pollock

Paul Mellon Centre

21 February 2020

Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education

Research Lunch – Isabelle Mooney

Paul Mellon Centre

26 February 2020

Architectural History after Summerson

50th Anniversary Event – Steven Brindle

Paul Mellon Centre

28 February to 27 March 2020

British Artists and Generational Identity

Call for Papers

5 March to 2 April 2020

*Postponed* Ceramics in Britain, 1750 to now

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

6 March 2020

Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art

Research Lunch – Christian Berger

Paul Mellon Centre

9 March 2020

ECR Exhibition Tour: British Baroque

ECR Events

Tate Britain

10 March 2020

Pre-Raphaelite Gold

Fellows Lunch – Tara Contractor

Paul Mellon Centre

11 March 2020

**Event Postponed** Entangled Histories of British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Dorothy Price

Paul Mellon Centre

13 to 14 March 2020

Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories

Conference

16 March 2020

*Postponed* ECR: Research and Curating

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

20 March 2020

*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815

Research Lunch – Rebecca Tropp

Paul Mellon Centre

21 April 2020

*Postponed* Video Activism in London: 1969–1993

Fellows Lunch – Ed Webb-Ingall

Paul Mellon Centre

23 April 2020

*Postponed* British Art and Ecology

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

6 May 2020

William Etty and the Classical Body

Podcast – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Mary Beard

13 May 2020

“What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England

Podcast – Jessica Barker

19 May 2020

“Starting from that earth”: Humanized Landscape, Rastafarian Painting and Anticolonial Visions in 1970s Kingston

Fellows Lunch – Adrienne Rooney