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 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

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

9 November 2018

Study Abroad

Network Event

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

4 December 2018

Exhibition Tour: Gainsborough’s Family Album

Network Event

National Portrait Gallery, London

5 December 2018

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

7 December 2018

Doctoral & Early Career Researchers Christmas Social

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

7 December 2018

Publishing Your Thesis

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre