Past Events

1 October 2018 to 14 January 2019

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

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

7 January 2019

The global panorama

Paul Mellon Lectures – Tim Barringer

National Gallery, London

9 January 2019

Discussing Landscape

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

11 January 2019

**CANCELLED** The Earl, his heir and their psalter: the patrons and artist of the Ormesby Psalter and East Anglian medieval painting

Research Lunch – Dr Frederica Law Turner

Paul Mellon Centre

14 January 2019

South: Grand tours and the origins of the picturesque

Paul Mellon Lectures – Tim Barringer

National Gallery, London

21 January 2019

North: The industrial revolution and the British Isles

Paul Mellon Lectures – Tim Barringer

National Gallery, London

21 January to 3 May 2019

Secondhand Daylight: A Display by George Shaw

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

25 January 2019

The Duchess of Portland’s Museum-Salon: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1770-1786

Research Lunch – Madeleine Pelling

Paul Mellon Centre

28 January 2019

East: Orientalism and the British in India

Paul Mellon Lectures – Tim Barringer

National Gallery, London

29 January 2019

A Postcard Tour of Rome

Fellows Lunch – Renée Tobe

Paul Mellon Centre

31 January 2019

Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence

Conference

The Garden Museum

4 February 2019

West: The black Atlantic and the American sublime

Paul Mellon Lectures – Tim Barringer

National Gallery, London

6 February 2019

Preparing Your CV and Making Job Applications

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

7 February 2019

Exhibition Tour: Corner of a Foreign Field - George Shaw

Network Event

Holburne Museum

8 February 2019

Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Designs

Research Lunch – Sarah Hardy

Paul Mellon Centre

12 February 2019

'A Devious Route’: Building products and the emergence of the architect-shopper in 1930s Britain

Fellows Lunch – Katie Lloyd Thomas

Paul Mellon Centre

21 February to 21 March 2019

Photography and its Histories

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

22 February 2019

The Magic Hand of Chance: Reframing Modern Textiles in the Interwar Shop

Research Lunch – Lotte Crawford

Paul Mellon Centre

26 February 2019

Researching Black Queer Artistic Life Histories: Berto Pasuka in Jamaica, Britain and France

Fellows Lunch – Gemma Romain

Paul Mellon Centre

27 February 2019

‘Art knows no geographical lines’: The influence of Edwardian British artists on Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International exhibitions

Lecture – Alison Clarke

Paul Mellon Centre

27 February 2019

Making Post-Doctoral Applications

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

6 to 7 March 2019

The LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice

Conference

Manchester Art Gallery

8 March 2019

In Search of the Landscape Artists’ Studio: Database and Map of London 1780-1850

Research Lunch – Rhian Addison

Paul Mellon Centre

13 to 29 March 2019

The Ballet of Nations: Dance, Art and History

Call for Papers

28 to 29 March 2019

Hilliard, Oliver and the Miniature in Context

Conference

National Portrait Gallery, London

10 April 2019

George Shaw: Film Screening and Talk

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

3 May 2019

‘Mannered beauty and theatric grace’: Guido Reni and the Royal Academy

Research Lunch – Amy Parrish

Paul Mellon Centre

8 May 2019

“The sense of sight which is very keen”: English history as shown in 1580s Rome

Research Seminar – Professor Carol Richardson

Paul Mellon Centre

10 May 2019

Doctoral and Early Career Researchers Networks: Summer Social

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

10 May 2019

Doctoral Researchers Network Summer Symposium

Network Event

Paul Mellon Centre

13 May to 13 September 2019

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

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

14 May 2019

Going with the Grain? Post-War British Film, Photography and Audiovisual Argument

Research Seminar

Paul Mellon Centre

17 May 2019

The Hearth and the Inferno: LCC Fire Safety Displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1958-63

Research Lunch – Alistair Cartwright

Paul Mellon Centre

22 May 2019

Gillray in Grub Street: some episodes from the 1780s

Research Seminar – Tim Clayton

Paul Mellon Centre

22 May 2019

The Ballet of Nations: Dance, Art and History

Workshop

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