Event Recordings

A multi-part programme of research events focuses on the encounter between artistic and art-historical practice and the forces of the natural world

How might art practice and writing foster care and healing, renewal and health in the light of the pandemic?

New research and scholarship centred around artists’ preserved homes and studios in the United States and United Kingdom

20 minute papers exploring the artistic achievement and legacy of George Stubbs

British Art Talks is our audio series. It features new research and aims to enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture.

Papers offering perspectives on the state of British art and architectural history now

A series on six iconic works of art from eighteenth-century Britain by Mark Hallett and Martin Postle.

This series explores depictions of warfare in artworks by British artists from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Papers about Li Yuan-chia's practice and the LYC Museum in Cumbria

This series explores the social and psychological impact of taking photographs and draws on recent approaches to explore the wide-ranging changes in perception brought about by the technology since its invention in 1839.

This series explores the multifarious ways in which the artist has impacted upon our understanding and perception of the British garden from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Five lectures that explore the entangled histories of Britain and South Asia through art and visual culture

An exciting behind-the-scenes look at the research, writing, borrowing, design, and installation processes involved in putting on a major exhibition.

Papers considering the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies

Tom Crow delivers the 2017 Paul Mellon Lectures

Investigating exhibitions as challenging and provocative sites through which to think about artistic exchanges between Britain and South Asia

A conference arranged to coincide with the exhibition Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy in 2018

Symposium in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation

Papers that investigate the various ways in which notions of “Britishness” have been communicated, inflected, and contested through the photographic image

Martina Droth discusses the exhibition "Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery" at the Yale Center for British Art

A series of papers exploring the legacy of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).

AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017

Papers considering how the pictorial representation of the landscape has long played an important role in the history of British art

Study day in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and Fitzwilliam Museum

A series of short films commissioned from filmmakers Lily Ford, Jonathan Law, and Jared Schiller different aspects of artist George Shaw's life and creative output