V&A
The V&A and the History of Art Department agreed to institute a research partnership in March 2010 designed to further the most advanced art-historical scholarship in areas of mutual interest and expertise. The partnership has involved:
- selected curators and scholars from both institutions focusing for two-yearly periods on a designated research field or strand, tied to particular areas of specialism within the museum and to the art-historical areas covered by one of the Research Schools in the department.
- Since 2012, the two institutions have worked together in other areas covered by the Department’s Research Schools.
- Between 2010 and 2012 the designated strand was ‘Medievalisms’. Experts in the medieval field from the V&A worked with members of the department’s Research School in Medieval Art and Medievalisms.
- an annual V&A/York lecture, in which a scholar from one institution gives a public lecture in the other, with the venue alternating from year to year.
- an annual V&A/York symposium, again taking place in each venue in alternate years. Each such event is jointly organised by a V&A curator and a York colleague.
- annual V&A/York Research Fellowships. These see a V&A curator coming to York for a short period each year to present their research, to give classes to our MA and PhD students, and to work with a York collaborator. Each year a member of the History of Art department spends a similar period at the V&A’s research department, working with interested curators, and presenting their research.
For more information about our links with the V&A, email Jason Edwards.