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
Lecture – 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
Lecture – 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
Lecture – 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
Lecture – 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
Research Lunch – Tara Contractor
Paul Mellon Centre
-
11 March 2020
**Event Postponed** Entangled Histories of British Art
Lecture – 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
Research 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
Research 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
-
29 July to 18 December 2020
Damaged & Destroyed: Stories of Preservation and Loss from the Photographic Archive.
Display – Freddie Pegram
-
31 July to 18 September 2020
London, Asia, Art, Worlds
Call for Papers
-
4 August to 15 September 2020
Redefining the British Decorative Arts
Call for Papers
-
8 September 2020
British Art and Ecology: Andrew Patrizio in Conversation
ECR Events
-
6 October 2020
Geomorphic Forces
Lecture
-
8 October 2020
Plants, Animals
Lecture
-
16 October 2020
'Black Art' and British Art History
Research Lunch – Elizabeth Robles
-
20 October 2020
Authors of Architecture
Lecture
-
22 October 2020
Apocalyptic Conjunctures: The Weather of Art History
Lecture – Andrew Patrizio
-
28 October to 17 December 2020
Leaving the House
Podcast – Lucy Skaer
-
3 November 2020
Observations, Meteorology
Lecture
-
5 November 2020
Observation and Diagnosis: Pathologizing Bodies, Medicalizing Space in the British Empire
Lecture – Anna Arabindan-Kesson
-
5 November 2020
Pots with Attitude: British Satire on Ceramics, 1759–1820
Public Lecture Course
-
10 November 2020
Slade, London, Asia: Intersections of Decolonial Modernism
Lecture – Ming Tiampo
-
12 November 2020
Josiah Wedgwood: Experimentation and Innovation
Public Lecture Course
-
13 November 2020
Contagion
Research Lunch – Jade Montserrat
-
17 November 2020
Decolonial Agencies
Lecture
-
18 to 19 November 2020
Screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus Infinity (2019)
Lecture
-
19 November 2020
'Blue and White' in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Beyond
Public Lecture Course
-
19 November 2020
Racial Capitalocene: Ecology and Abolition
Lecture – T. J. Demos
-
24 November 2020
Curating the Sea: Journal of Curatorial Studies Special Issue Launch
Lecture
-
25 November 2020
“Racial Capitalocene: Ecology and Abolition” - Live Q&A with T. J. Demos
Lecture – T. J. Demos
-
25 November to 17 December 2020
A Gothic Choir: Part 1
Podcast – Elizabeth Price
-
26 November 2020
‘Beyond East and West’: the Founding of British Studio ceramics
Public Lecture Course
-
26 to 27 November 2020
Screening of John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses (2010)
Lecture
-
27 November to 17 December 2020
A Gothic Choir: Part 2, Plans and Elevations
Podcast – Elizabeth Price
-
27 November 2020
Affective Proximities
Research Lunch – Dr Jessica Carden, Dr Tiffany Boyle
-
1 December 2020
Unstable Boundaries, Ecologies
Lecture
-
2 to 17 December 2020
DIFFICULT TRUTHS TO LIVE INSIDE - TROUBLE WITH TIME
Podcast – Ryan Gander
-
3 December 2020
Final Panel Discussion
Lecture
-
3 December 2020
Obsolescence and Renewal: Reimagining North Staffordshire’s Ceramic Heritage
Public Lecture Course
-
7 December 2020
A Gothic Choir: Part 3, Song and Dans
Podcast – Elizabeth Price
-
9 December 2020
PMC Book Night
Book Night
-
10 December 2020
Ceramics in Britain: Live Q&A
Public Lecture Course