We warmly welcome responses and proposals for future themed issues. More info on our website: openartsjournal.org/submissions/

We're really happy to announce a new, free-to-access OpenLearn course written by our own Angeliki Lymberopoulou: The Byzantine icon open.edu/openlearn/hist… #OpenAccess

Art History Emeritus Professor Tim Benton will give the 2023 SAHGB Annual Lecture at the University of Cambridge on Thursday, 9th March 2023. For bookings and further details, see the SAHGB website: sahgb.org.uk/whatson/annual…

See also Joel's contributions to Issue 2 of Open Arts Journal on 'Pavilions': openartsjournal.org/issue-2/

Our Deputy Editor, Tilo Reifenstein, has contributed a chapter - 'On Writing: Propositions for Art History as Literary Practice' to a new book examining 'W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies'. More info on the publisher's website: aup.nl/en/book/978946…

Our Associate Lecturer colleague, Dr Elisabetta Toreno, has a new book out: 'Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power'. For more details, see the publisher's website: aup.nl/en/book/978946… Congrats Elisabetta!

Associate Lecturer in Art History, Dr Elisabetta Toreno, is launching her new book this Thursday (9th Feb) at 6pm on Zoom. Registration is free. More details here: aup.nl/en/events/book…

It's official, we're looking to extend this project very soon, possibly coming to a museum near you.... #museums #UKmuseums #artandclimatechange Art and Climate Change: An Introduction | Samuel Shaw & Carla Benzan, Th... youtube.com/watch?v=rn-SR5… via YouTube

Angeliki Lymberopoulou The Open University OU Arts & Social Sciences OU Art History discusses the representations of Hell and how they make references to the five senses in order to make the punishments more vivid and realistic to its viewers buff.ly/43oigYg #arthistory #art

Job advert alert! We're looking for associate lecturers to teach our new Art History modules! Please share widely. :) jobs.ac.uk/job/DAE348/ass…

We're hosting a one-day workshop and networking event for postgrads working on #ancient #materialreligion topics on Tuesday October 17th at the Institute of Classical Studies in London - more info here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgraduate…

CFP: Workshop in ancient material religion for UK-based postgraduate researchers at the Institute of Classical Studies, Tuesday October 17th (10.30am to 4pm). More details on the Open Material Religion website, openmaterialreligion.org/events-1/2023/…

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Dr Sam Shaw (Image of the Zebra), OU Lecturer in Art History, on the publication of his new book, 'Art, Identity and Cosmopolitanism: William Rothenstein and the British Art World, c.1880-1935'.

Our third and final session of term: 15 March 5.30pm UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social Book Launch, ‘Art and Emancipation', by John Roberts (@BrillPublishing Historical Materialism series, 2024). Kim Charnley (OU Art History) & John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) in conversation. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Polar bears... in Scotland? The new OU Art and Ecology film is finally here! OU Art History Perth Art Gallery RSGS OU Arts & Social Sciences Doug Allan BBC Earth youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?fe… via YouTube #polarbears Bear Trust International @JournalPolar Polar Bears International

OU Art History I am proud of my colleague Dr Sam Shaw and all those who worked on this groundbreaking short film focused on urgent ecological issues. Transdisciplinarity in action!

‘The Polar Bears of Perth’ by my brilliant OU Art History colleague Image of the Zebra is now online. A 3rd film in the Art and Ecology series (w/ Carla Benzan) will be part of Glasgow Science Festival in June, & shown in Perth in late 2024. Watch now: youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?si…

We're delighted to announce details of a new PhD opportunity with OU Art History: 'Art on the Underground, 1986-2020: contemporary legacies of a modernist project'. Further details on the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP website (tinyurl.com/29wrb2k6). Clare Taylor Image of the Zebra Art on the Underground