Helen Chadwick, Unbound
Wednesday
13
December
2023
Chadwick’s disruption of the centrifugal nostalgia of the ‘Artists in National Parks’ project, Dr Gordon will argue, offers a vision of the dissolution of boundaries, realising HIV as a crisis that persists into and pressurises the present moment
Book Launch - Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
Wednesday
29
November
2023
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp: Art and Political Economy in an Age of Religious Conflict. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume 67. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Rooms: Francis Bacon in Wartime London
Wednesday
22
November
2023
In 1942, Francis Bacon moved into a bomb-damaged house at 7 Cromwell Place in South Kensington. It was here that he painted Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion and other ground-breaking work which cut across the prevailing trends of British art. The destruction of London during the Blitz enabled a new creative direction for Bacon.
The Dark Side: Time, Decay, Preservation and the Museum
Wednesday
8
November
2023
All things will decay but museums are seen as places of perpetual preservation. This lecture will explore the contradictions and paradoxes involved in balancing the agency of decay with the impulse for preservation.
Modern and Contemporary Research Cluster with Dorothy Price
Wednesday
8
November
2023
Professor Dorothy Price FBA, Courtauld Institute of in conversation with Dr James Boaden about two upcoming exhibitions she is curating - Claudette Johnson at the Courtauld Institute of Art (29 September 2023 to 14 January 2024) and Entangled Pasts at the Royal Academy of Art (3 February to 28 April 2024).
Bodies on the Line
Friday
6
October
2023
Bodies on the Line is a mini-exhibition, a conversation, and a dance intervention organised by the Art Rights Truth team at the University of York in collaboration with UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, the Guild for Media Arts, and XR Stories.
Rethinking British and European Romanticisms in Transnational Dimensions
Tuesday
19
September
2023
The event is the second part of a cooperative two-part workshop between the History of Art Departments of the University of York and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Considering the institution's main research areas, the event aims to discuss the different concepts of Europe present in the art and culture of Romanticism.
One Object, Many Voices: Fashion History Up Close: Looking at Georgian Fashion from the Inside Out
Wednesday
12
July
2023
Did you know that the optimal eighteenth-century fashionable appearance relied to a large extent on the use of buckles?
Fastened to shoes, sashes, cravats and hats, buckles could be both functional and ‘flashy’. They held up tall neckties and slimmed the waist. Georgian bodies were also moulded into the desired silhouette by the cut and design of their clothes and support garments. However, being ‘in fashion’ is more than presenting a façade to be looked at. Being fashionable can also mean looking back at the viewer, with a calibrated move and gaze achieved with the right optical prosthesis such as a quizzing glass.
The New Pre-Raphaelites
Wednesday
5
July
2023
Join artist Sunil Gupta for this special conversation with Theo Gordon. This conversation will seek to further explore the artists relationship to the Rossettis, the influence of historic art on his practice and his current work.
One Object, Many Voices: Fashion History Up Close: Encounters with the Materiality of Victorian Parasols
Tuesday
27
June
2023
Did you know that parasols not only preserved the pale complexion desired by well-to-do white women, but that they were also a dress accoutrement that needed to be matched to different occasions and outfits, and updated with each changing fashion? The manufacturing of these objects supported vast and often exploitative industries with local and global dimensions. Trading networks spanning from South America to the North Atlantic and Eastern Asia supplied materials such as rare woods, silks, baleen (a product of the whaling industry), precious stones, silver, and ivory.
Rossettis: In Relation conference
Friday
16
June
2023
Rossettis: In Relation conference is a collaboration between Tate Britain, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the History of Art Department at the University of York.
Rossettis: In Relation conference
Thursday
15
June
2023
Rossettis: In Relation conference is a collaboration between Tate Britain, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the History of Art Department at the University of York.
Beauty Will Save the World: Reimagining the everyday
Tuesday
13
June
2023
Join us for a wonderful panel discussion with a variety of speakers who, together, will engage with this idea of finding beauty in the everyday, in seemingly ordinary items, actions and relations.
York Festival of Ideas - One Object, Many Voices: An Evening with Giambologna
Monday
12
June
2023
Two sixteenth-century bronzes depicting an owl and a hawk by the famous Florentine sculptor Giambologna have been in the collection at Castle Howard since the 1750s. The two sculptures are thought to have been commissioned in the 1560s by the Medici family for the grotto at the Villa di Castello, Florence.
On Glowing Struggle
Monday
22
May
2023
QUEEEN Queer Ecology Network at LCAB invites you to a seminar by Abri de Swardt
Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance
Saturday
13
May
2023
This online event hosted by the Victorian Society of America will be an introduction to the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance (forthcoming in 2024) by co-curators Peter Trippi and Liz Prettejohn.
