We are delighted that last month’s colloquium in honour of Dr Shulamith Behr (1946-2023) is now available to watch online 🎬

‘Art, culture, politics and society – German art in an expanded field’

📽️youtu.be/UOfy4qPQ3og

✨Watch now ✨

The House of Mirth: the ethics of laughter and ridiculous Gothic art

#ProfessorialLecture by Alixe Bovey

📽️ youtu.be/2MuwBQUV5CE?si…

Looking forward to this Friday’s #MaterialWitness workshop @courtauldres on Early Photographic techniques with artist Jo Gane for CHASE DTP funded arts and humanities research students.

Including a wet plate collodion demonstration!

📢We're Hiring 📢

Two new faculty roles The Courtauld for specialists in the past/present/future of the art market

Starting from £50,942
Full Time

Deadline: 2 May

courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/

📢 We're Hiring! 📢

Head of Public Engagement to develop a cross-institutional strategy and lead our Public Programmes department The Courtauld

£61,662
Full Time/Permanent

Deadline: 28 April

courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/

📣 We are thrilled to announce the second session in the #Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series on #Contemporary #Chinese and #SinophoneArt 2024: ‘Lee Kai Chung: Espionage and Disposable Lives.’

📅 30 April
⏰ 6.00-7.30PM

🎟️ Free, booking essential courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/lee-k…

✨The Courtauld and ‘Artist Development’ Royal Academy of Music invite you to a series of short performances of music and words to draw you closer The Courtauld Gallery’s collection 🎼

Sounds Like Art

📅25 Apr 2024
⏰14:00 - 16:30

🎟️Included in Gallery Ticket courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/perma…

Join us for the Leonardo da Vinci Society Annual Lecture

‘Describe the jaw of a crocodile’: Leonardo da Vinci’s Animal Anatomies

Speaker: Martin Clayton LVO FSA

📅9 May
⏰17:30 - 19:00

Free, booking essential courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/descr…

Just in from Beijing, news that my new (bilingual) book on flows of art theory between China and Europe in early 20th c is now published

Our event 'Material Power: Embroidery, Dress, and Resistance in Palestine' with #RachelDedman and #OsmanYousefzada is fully booked with a waiting list.

If you have booked a ticket but can no longer attend please release your ticket, so another may take your place 🙏

🎬 An interview with Frank Auerbach 🎬

In this new film, hear artist Frank Auerbach reflect on his life and artistic practice.

🎟️ Book now until 27 May courtauld.ac.uk/frank-auerbach

youtube.com/watch?v=MrbKeN…

Thomas Hughes & my chapter “Queer Darwin, Plant-Human Entanglements, & Aestheticist Art” has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, alongside wonderful contributions by Catriona Sandilands & others! Our essay looks at how English art from the 1870s…

Our first event of the summer semester is next week 🙌

online, free and open to all!

👇Don't miss it 👇

Fewer than 1% of state schools offer Art History qualifications. Yet each year over 90 state students enrol on our free Art History A level + EPQ courses on term-time Saturdays The Courtauld The Courtauld Research Forum Zoom Support our students + help save art history! justgiving.com/campaign/savea…

We are delighted to be hosting this conference, book your free ticket today, open to all 🙌

🎟️courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/moder…

Tune in to our #ProfessorialLectures including

💫Making Choices 💫

Speaker: Professor Dorothy Price FBA Dorothy Price

📽️youtu.be/ZLKKTXVvqDg?si…

“Do Not Serve Every State”: Ethico-Aesthetic Strategies of Retreat from Antiquity to the ČSSR of the 1970s

Speaker: Hana Gründler

📅8 May 2024
⏰18:00 - 19:30

🎟️Free, booking essential courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/do-no…

“Artist’s Things” Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun in conversation with Katie Scott and Hannah Williams

📅 10 May 2024
⏰ 17:30 - 19:00

🎟️Free, booking essential courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/book-…

What's On at The Research Forum?

💫Look ahead to our summer semester events💫
courtauld.ac.uk/research/whats…

Thank you to everyone who joined us The Courtauld Somerset House for Morgan Stanley Lates last night ✨

We saw some fantastic sketches as part of our Drawing Masterclass with LondonFineArtStudios as well as incredibly beautiful music from Royal Academy of Music students 🎶🎼