Past Events

23 September 2019 to 17 January 2020

Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955: The Peter & Renate Nahum Gift

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

15 January 2020

British Landscape Art of the Long Eighteenth Century: Reflections on a Contested Field

50th Anniversary Event – David H. Solkin

Paul Mellon Centre

17 January 2020

George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’

Conference

MK Gallery

24 January 2020

Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas

Research Lunch – Eva Bentcheva

Paul Mellon Centre

29 January 2020

50 Years of British Art in Museums

50th Anniversary Event – Charles Saumarez Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

29 January to 2 March 2020

Activating Art History: 50 Years of the Paul Mellon Centre Grants & Fellowships Programme

Call for Papers

31 January 2020

Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions

Research Lunch – Martina Droth, Paul Messier

Paul Mellon Centre

31 January 2020

Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage Curators’ Tour

DRN Events

Tate Britain

7 February 2020

Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

12 February 2020

The Victorian Book I Never Wrote, or Why I Never Became a Specialist on British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Griselda Pollock

Paul Mellon Centre

21 February 2020

Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education

Research Lunch – Isabelle Mooney

Paul Mellon Centre

26 February 2020

Architectural History after Summerson

50th Anniversary Event – Steven Brindle

Paul Mellon Centre

28 February to 27 March 2020

British Artists and Generational Identity

Call for Papers

5 March to 2 April 2020

*Postponed* Ceramics in Britain, 1750 to now

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

6 March 2020

Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art

Research Lunch – Christian Berger

Paul Mellon Centre

9 March 2020

ECR Exhibition Tour: British Baroque

ECR Events

Tate Britain

10 March 2020

Pre-Raphaelite Gold

Fellows Lunch – Tara Contractor

Paul Mellon Centre

11 March 2020

**Event Postponed** Entangled Histories of British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Dorothy Price

Paul Mellon Centre

13 to 14 March 2020

Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories

Conference

16 March 2020

*Postponed* ECR: Research and Curating

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

20 March 2020

*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815

Research Lunch – Rebecca Tropp

Paul Mellon Centre

21 April 2020

*Postponed* Video Activism in London: 1969–1993

Fellows Lunch – Ed Webb-Ingall

Paul Mellon Centre

6 May 2020

William Etty and the Classical Body

Podcast – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Mary Beard

12 May to 30 June 2020

British Art and Natural Forces: A State of the Field Research Programme

Call for Papers

13 May 2020

“What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England

Podcast – Jessica Barker

13 May 2020

British Art and Natural Forces: Cover Commission for the Online Journal British Art Studies

Call for Papers

19 May 2020

“Starting from that earth”: Humanized Landscape, Rastafarian Painting and Anticolonial Visions in 1970s Kingston

Fellows Lunch – Adrienne Rooney

27 May 2020

The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence

Podcast – Julian Luxford

28 May 2020

Walking the Streets: William Hogarth’s The Four Times of Day (1736–1738)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

29 May 2020

Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s Faded Wallpaper (1988)

Research Lunch – Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

3 June 2020

Hard Times and Late Victorian Art

Podcast – Alex Potts

4 to 5 June 2020

‘What Comes Next?': Careers in Art History

DRN and ECR Events

4 June 2020

Variations on a Theme: Richard Wilson’s The White Monk (c. 1755–1765)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

10 June 2020

Exploring London's Art Scene in the 1960s

Podcast – Lisa Tickner, Mark Hallett

11 June 2020

All Done from Nature: George Stubbs’s Whistlejacket (1762)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

17 June 2020

“Things in their natural surroundings”?: Marketing the British Country House as Home

Podcast – Kate Retford

18 June 2020

The Artist as Intellectual: Joshua Reynolds’s Self-Portrait as President of the Royal Academy (1780)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

24 June 2020

The Medicinal Garden

Podcast – Clare Hickman, Claire Preston, Carole Rawcliffe

25 June 2020

Displaying the Hero: John Singleton Copley’s The Death of Major Peirson (1784)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

26 June 2020

*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978

Research Lunch – Harry Weeks

2 July 2020

Making an Impact: Thomas Lawrence’s Arthur Atherley (1792)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

9 to 10 July 2020

Art Criticism and the Pandemic

Workshop – Chris McCormack, Jade Montserrat, Khairani Barokka, David Dibosa, Juliet Jacques, Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Rehana Zaman, Larne Abse Gogarty, Robert McRuer, Neo Sinoxolo Musangi, Marina Vishmidt

9 July 2020

Georgian Provocations: A Conversation

Public Lecture Course

9 July 2020

The Doctoral Researchers Summer Symposium 2020

DRN Events

17 July 2020

'Dying a Very British Death: Ecstatic Antibodies and the Possibilities of Censorship of Queer Art in Britain, c.1990'

Research Lunch – Theo Gordon