Past Events
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27 September 2017 to 12 January 2018
The Catalogues of the John Moores Painting Prize
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 October 2017 to 1 February 2018
Portraiture and Biography
Call for Papers
National Portrait Gallery, London
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10 January 2018
Last night a brass band saved my life by Jeremy Deller
Lecture
Barbican Centre
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18 January 2018
Bodies: Iggy Pop & Beyond by Jon Savage
Lecture
Royal Academy of Arts
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19 January to 18 May 2018
Publishing at the Paul Mellon Centre: A Brief History
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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19 January 2018
Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture
Research Lunch – Christina Faraday
Paul Mellon Centre
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24 January 2018
Voice Space: Es Devlin talks about designing space for music and lyric
Lecture
180 The Strand
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25 to 26 January 2018
Crossing the Channel: French Refugee Artists in London (1870-1904)
Conference
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31 January 2018
Marriage: Neil Tennant and Mark Farrow discuss the imagery of Pet Shop Boys with Scott King
Lecture
Barbican Centre
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1 February 2018
The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations
Research Lunch
Paul Mellon Centre
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2 February 2018
‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860
Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff
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16 February 2018
Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain
Research Lunch – Robert Sutton
Paul Mellon Centre
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21 February 2018
Blasphemy, Irenicism and Collecting: The Improbable Friendship of Francis Dashwood and Antonio Niccolini
Research Seminar – Peter Björn Kerber
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28 February 2018
The Lives and After-lives of Picture Displays at Castle Howard
Research Seminar – Christopher Ridgway
Paul Mellon Centre
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2 March 2018
Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity
Research Lunch – Susannah Walker
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 March 2018
Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen, Cornwall
Research Seminar
Paul Mellon Centre
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8 March to 12 April 2018
Thinking About Exhibitions: Interpretation, Reconstruction, and Curation
Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett
Paul Mellon Centre
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21 March 2018
G. E. Street: Celebrating the Paul Joyce Archive and Library
Workshop
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12 April 2018
Charles I: King and Collector
Conference
Society of Antiquaries of London
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2 May 2018
Chronicling the Summer Exhibition: The Early Years
Research Seminar
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11 May 2018
AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson
Research Lunch – Giulia Smith
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15 May 2018
No Man’s Land: Women’s Photography and the First World War
Fellows Lunch – Pippa Oldfield
Paul Mellon Centre
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16 May 2018
The Many Lives of Landseer’s Monarch
Research Seminar – Christopher Baker
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18 May 2018
Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker
Research Lunch – David Hansen
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22 May 2018
Collaborative curating: Journeys with 'The Waste Land'
Fellows Lunch – Trish Scott
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 May 2018
Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display
Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box
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29 May to 21 September 2018
Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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29 May 2018
Radical Visions: the early history of Four Corners and Camerawork 1972-1987
Fellows Lunch – Carla Mitchell
Paul Mellon Centre
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31 May 2018
London History Day Talk: The Suffering Soldier: Depictions of Courage in Eighteenth-Century British Art
Lecture
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5 June 2018
Basic Instincts - Exhibition and Publication
Fellows Lunch – Jacqueline Riding
Paul Mellon Centre
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8 June 2018
Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810
Research Lunch – Beth Richards
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13 June 2018
Chronicling the Contemporary Summer Exhibition
Research Seminar
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20 June 2018
PMC Book Night
PMC Book Night
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22 June 2018
The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative
Research Lunch – Niko Munz
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28 June to 17 September 2018
Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context
Call for Papers
National Portrait Gallery, London
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4 July 2018
“Shot out of the water”? Turner vs Constable at the Royal Academy
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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4 July 2018
Art Publishing: Where Next?
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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4 July 2018
On the Circulation of People, Artworks, and Stories in Museum Collections
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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4 July 2018
Reflections on The River Thames: Spoken Word and Photographic Images
Workshop
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 July 2018
250 years of Contemporary Art: Curating The Great Spectacle
Lecture
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5 July 2018
Film screening: The Square (1957)
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 July 2018
Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs
Exhibition
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 July 2018
Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 July 2018
Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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6 July 2018
Artists in Residence: Painters and Patrons in Georgian London
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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6 July 2018
The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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6 July 2018
Walking Tour: Well-Placed Women of Bedford Square
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 July 2018
Supporting the Spectacle: The Summer Exhibition and its Spin-Offs + Entry to Festival Picnic
Exhibition
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 July 2018
Tree Walking Tour + Entry to Festival Picnic
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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19 to 20 July 2018
Frenemies: Friendship, Enmity and Rivalry in British Art 1769-2018
Conference
Royal Academy of Arts – Burlington Gardens
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18 September to 21 October 2018
The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice
Call for Papers
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27 September to 25 October 2018
The Artist and the Garden
Public Lecture Course
Paul Mellon Centre
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1 October 2018 to 14 January 2019
Artists' Letters: Three Stories from the Paul Mellon Centre Archive Collections
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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2 October 2018
Italian Royal Furniture at Attingham Park
Fellows Lunch – Wolf Burchard
Paul Mellon Centre
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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
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16 October 2018
‘Monad to Man’: Gendering Shifting Natural Histories in the Index Museum
Fellows Lunch – Pandora Syperek
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17 October 2018
Gothic Sculpture: Idols Old and New
Research Seminar – Paul Binski
Paul Mellon Centre
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18 October 2018
The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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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
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26 October to 23 November 2018
Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence
Call for Papers
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31 October 2018
Medardo Rosso’s London Networks
Research Seminar – Sharon Hecker
Paul Mellon Centre
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2 November 2018
From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking
Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi
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6 November 2018
Communities of Curating: Professional Networks in World Cultures Museum Practice, 1945-1980
Fellows Lunch – Claire Wintle
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7 November 2018
R. B. Kitaj and the Revolution in History Painting
Research Seminar – Ben Thomas
Paul Mellon Centre
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9 November 2018
Study Abroad
Network Event
Paul Mellon Centre
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13 November 2018
Digitising the Paul Mellon Centre's Photo Archive
Workshop
Paul Mellon Centre
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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
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21 November 2018
A Famous Women “Dinner Party”: Film Screening, Talk, Discussion and Reception
Research Seminar
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29 to 30 November 2018
Portraiture and Biography
Conference
National Portrait Gallery, London
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4 December 2018
Exhibition Tour: Gainsborough’s Family Album
Network Event
National Portrait Gallery, London
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5 December 2018
PMC Book Night
PMC Book Night
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7 December 2018
Doctoral & Early Career Researchers Christmas Social
Network Event
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 December 2018
Publishing Your Thesis
Network Event
Paul Mellon Centre