Past Events

The Catalogues of the John Moores Painting Prize

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

Portraiture and Biography

Call for Papers

National Portrait Gallery, London

Last night a brass band saved my life by Jeremy Deller

Lecture

Barbican Centre

Bodies: Iggy Pop & Beyond by Jon Savage

Lecture

Royal Academy of Arts

Publishing at the Paul Mellon Centre: A Brief History

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Christina Faraday

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Lecture

180 The Strand

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

Conference

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

Lecture

Barbican Centre

The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff

Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain

Research Lunch – Robert Sutton

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Seminar – Peter Björn Kerber

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

Research Seminar – Christopher Ridgway

Paul Mellon Centre

Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity

Research Lunch – Susannah Walker

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Seminar

Paul Mellon Centre

Thinking About Exhibitions: Interpretation, Reconstruction, and Curation

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Workshop

Charles I: King and Collector

Conference

Society of Antiquaries of London

Chronicling the Summer Exhibition: The Early Years

Research Seminar

AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson

Research Lunch – Giulia Smith

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

Fellows Lunch – Pippa Oldfield

Paul Mellon Centre

The Many Lives of Landseer’s Monarch

Research Seminar – Christopher Baker

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

Research Lunch – David Hansen

Collaborative curating: Journeys with 'The Waste Land'

Fellows Lunch – Trish Scott

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box

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

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Fellows Lunch – Carla Mitchell

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Lecture

Basic Instincts - Exhibition and Publication

Fellows Lunch – Jacqueline Riding

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Beth Richards

Chronicling the Contemporary Summer Exhibition

Research Seminar

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

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

Research Lunch – Niko Munz

Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context

Call for Papers

National Portrait Gallery, London

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

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

Art Publishing: Where Next?

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

Reflections on The River Thames: Spoken Word and Photographic Images

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

250 years of Contemporary Art: Curating The Great Spectacle

Lecture

Film screening: The Square (1957)

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Exhibition

Paul Mellon Centre

Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

Walking tour - The Magnitude of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

Artists in Residence: Painters and Patrons in Georgian London

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

Walking Tour: Well-Placed Women of Bedford Square

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Exhibition

Paul Mellon Centre

Tree Walking Tour + Entry to Festival Picnic

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Conference

Royal Academy of Arts – Burlington Gardens

The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice

Call for Papers

The Artist and the Garden

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

Italian Royal Furniture at Attingham Park

Fellows Lunch – Wolf Burchard

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Nicole Cochrane

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Fellows Lunch – Pandora Syperek

Gothic Sculpture: Idols Old and New

Research Seminar – Paul Binski

Paul Mellon Centre

The Art of Protest, Suffrage and the Summer Exhibition

Lecture

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence

Call for Papers

Medardo Rosso’s London Networks

Research Seminar – Sharon Hecker

Paul Mellon Centre

From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking

Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi

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

Fellows Lunch – Claire Wintle

R. B. Kitaj and the Revolution in History Painting

Research Seminar – Ben Thomas

Paul Mellon Centre

Study Abroad

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

Digitising the Paul Mellon Centre's Photo Archive

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Lunch – Rosie Ram

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Seminar

Portraiture and Biography

Conference

National Portrait Gallery, London

Exhibition Tour: Gainsborough’s Family Album

Network Event

National Portrait Gallery, London

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

Doctoral & Early Career Researchers Christmas Social

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

Publishing Your Thesis

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre