Past Events

27 September 2017 to 12 January 2018

The Catalogues of the John Moores Painting Prize

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

25 October 2017 to 1 February 2018

Portraiture and Biography

Call for Papers

National Portrait Gallery, London

10 January 2018

Last night a brass band saved my life by Jeremy Deller

Lecture

Barbican Centre

18 January 2018

Bodies: Iggy Pop & Beyond by Jon Savage

Lecture

Royal Academy of Arts

19 January to 18 May 2018

Publishing at the Paul Mellon Centre: A Brief History

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

19 January 2018

Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture

Research Lunch – Christina J Faraday

Paul Mellon Centre

24 January 2018

Voice Space: Es Devlin talks about designing space for music and lyric

Lecture

180 The Strand

25 to 26 January 2018

Crossing the Channel: French Refugee Artists in London (1870-1904)

Conference

31 January 2018

Marriage: Neil Tennant and Mark Farrow discuss the imagery of Pet Shop Boys with Scott King

Lecture

Barbican Centre

1 February 2018

The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

2 February 2018

‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860

Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff

16 February 2018

Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain

Research Lunch – Robert Sutton

Paul Mellon Centre

21 February 2018

Blasphemy, Irenicism and Collecting: The Improbable Friendship of Francis Dashwood and Antonio Niccolini

Research Seminar – Peter Björn Kerber

28 February 2018

The Lives and After-lives of Picture Displays at Castle Howard

Research Seminar – Christopher Ridgway

Paul Mellon Centre

2 March 2018

Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity

Research Lunch – Susannah Walker

Paul Mellon Centre

7 March 2018

Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen, Cornwall

Research Seminar

Paul Mellon Centre

8 March to 12 April 2018

Thinking About Exhibitions: Interpretation, Reconstruction, and Curation

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

Paul Mellon Centre

21 March 2018

G. E. Street: Celebrating the Paul Joyce Archive and Library

Workshop

12 April 2018

Charles I: King and Collector

Conference

Society of Antiquaries of London

2 May 2018

Chronicling the Summer Exhibition: The Early Years

Research Seminar

11 May 2018

AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson

Research Lunch – Giulia Smith

15 May 2018

No Man’s Land: Women’s Photography and the First World War

Fellows Lunch – Pippa Oldfield

Paul Mellon Centre

16 May 2018

The Many Lives of Landseer’s Monarch

Research Seminar – Christopher Baker

18 May 2018

Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker

Research Lunch – David Hansen

22 May 2018

Collaborative curating: Journeys with 'The Waste Land'

Fellows Lunch – Trish Scott

Paul Mellon Centre

25 May 2018

Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display

Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box

29 May to 21 September 2018

Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

29 May 2018

Radical Visions: the early history of Four Corners and Camerawork 1972-1987

Fellows Lunch – Carla Mitchell

Paul Mellon Centre

31 May 2018

London History Day Talk: The Suffering Soldier: Depictions of Courage in Eighteenth-Century British Art

Lecture

5 June 2018

Basic Instincts - Exhibition and Publication

Fellows Lunch – Jacqueline Riding

Paul Mellon Centre

8 June 2018

Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810

Research Lunch – Beth Richards

13 June 2018

Chronicling the Contemporary Summer Exhibition

Research Seminar

20 June 2018

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

22 June 2018

The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative

Research Lunch – Niko Munz

28 June to 17 September 2018

Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context

Call for Papers

National Portrait Gallery, London

4 July 2018

“Shot out of the water”? Turner vs Constable at the Royal Academy

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2018

Art Publishing: Where Next?

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2018

On the Circulation of People, Artworks, and Stories in Museum Collections

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

4 July 2018

Reflections on The River Thames: Spoken Word and Photographic Images

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2018

250 years of Contemporary Art: Curating The Great Spectacle

Lecture

5 July 2018

Film screening: The Square (1957)

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2018

Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs

Exhibition

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2018

Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

5 July 2018

Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

6 July 2018

Artists in Residence: Painters and Patrons in Georgian London

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

6 July 2018

Bedford Square Festival Keynote Talk by Tristram Hunt & Panel Discussion

Conference Panel

Paul Mellon Centre

6 July 2018

The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

6 July 2018

Walking Tour: Well-Placed Women of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

7 July 2018

Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs + Entry to Festival Picnic

Exhibition

Paul Mellon Centre

7 July 2018

Tree Walking Tour + Entry to Festival Picnic

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

19 to 20 July 2018

Frenemies: Friendship, Enmity and Rivalry in British Art 1769-2018

Conference

Royal Academy of Arts – Burlington Gardens

18 September to 21 October 2018

The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice

Call for Papers

27 September to 25 October 2018

The Artist and the Garden

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

1 October 2018 to 14 January 2019

Artists' Letters: Three Stories from the Paul Mellon Centre Archive Collections

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

2 October 2018

Italian Royal Furniture at Attingham Park

Fellows Lunch – Wolf Burchard

Paul Mellon Centre

5 October 2018

Ancient Sculpture & the Narratives of Collecting: (Re)Contextualising the Collection & Display of Classical Art in Britain

Research Lunch – Nicole Cochrane

Paul Mellon Centre

16 October 2018

‘Monad to Man’: Gendering Shifting Natural Histories in the Index Museum

Fellows Lunch – Pandora Syperek

17 October 2018

Gothic Sculpture: Idols Old and New

Research Seminar – Paul Binski

Paul Mellon Centre

18 October 2018

The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

26 October 2018

Neo-classical Display in the Suburbs: Recreating a Lost Adam Garden Temple Built for George Bubb Dodington

Research Lunch – Clare Hornsby, Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

Paul Mellon Centre

26 October to 23 November 2018

Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence

Call for Papers

31 October 2018

Medardo Rosso’s London Networks

Research Seminar – Sharon Hecker

Paul Mellon Centre

2 November 2018

From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking

Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi

6 November 2018

Communities of Curating: Professional Networks in World Cultures Museum Practice, 1945-1980

Fellows Lunch – Claire Wintle

7 November 2018

R. B. Kitaj and the Revolution in History Painting

Research Seminar – Ben Thomas

Paul Mellon Centre

13 November 2018

Digitising the Paul Mellon Centre's Photo Archive

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

16 November 2018

The Central School of Arts and Crafts: An ‘informal nucleus’ of Collaborative Practices in Post-War London

Research Lunch – Rosie Ram

Paul Mellon Centre

21 November 2018

A Famous Women “Dinner Party”: Film Screening, Talk, Discussion and Reception

Research Seminar

29 to 30 November 2018

Portraiture and Biography

Conference

National Portrait Gallery, London

5 December 2018

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night