The deadline for our essay prize is 27 April — please do share and submit! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recently published; a short review of Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, ed. Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad in latest issue of Norwegian-American Studies; muse.jhu.edu/issue/55851

Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...

From our archive: Sarah Victoria Turner argues that "‘empire’ was not simply a process of ‘diffusion, extension, or expansion’ – of experience directed outwards – but was of integral importance to the development of sculptural and cultural modernism in Britain" www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!

To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just published: Victoria Munn's article argues that "the Woman’s Work section at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition proclaimed women’s collective progress in, and contribution to, art in the Victorian era" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Caterina Franciosi reviews Iris Moon’s recent book 'Melancholy Wedgwood' (2024, @mitpress.bsky.social) as "a provocative and original contribution to the intertwined histories of capitalism and decorative arts" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Esme Garlake reviews @youth-demand.bsky.social's recent protest at the National Gallery, to reflect on the visual politics of pro-Palestine activism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rachel Warriner examines American artist Jimmie Durham’s work in 1980s Northern Ireland, who implicated the Irish diaspora in US settler colonialism and saw parallels between structures of oppression across continents, to rethink a "British" art history: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nicholas Mirzoeff examines the politics of contemporary Palestinian visual culture and solidarity movements resisting settler colonialism, to critically interrogate British complicity in the region's past and present: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa considers how 18th-century classical studies constructed modern ideas of racial whiteness, using contemporary illustration to challenge the worldviews such sculptures came to represent (we are delighted to feature on our latest cover) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .

On Photography and Care 📷🍏

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From our archive — Mira Rai Waits explores the history of fingerprinting in India under British rule (2016, 17:1), examining how the scientific technology was bound up in a politics of identification and classification, embedded in colonial infrastructures: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow, I’ll be talking about journal publishing and @vcib.bsky.social for @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social — if you’re interested in writing for us, get in touch!

Hi new followers! Using this as a shameless plug to (re)introduce my book ‘Crafted with Pride’ which includes contributions from academics, activists, artists and curators on LGBTQ+ material culture 🏳️‍🌈🪧🪡 Published with Intellect and Uni of Chicago Press. www.intellectbooks.com/crafted-with...

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a lecture at @newcastleuni.bsky.social on queer ecologies and anti-colonial abundance in Sri Lankan art. The event will start at 5:15pm in the Fine Art seminar room of the King Edward VII Building. All welcome!

Symposium at the V&A on Nov 30th (£5), in conjunction with the Jameel Prize exhibition and a new commission by Morehshin Allahyari, focus is on Middle East, South Asia, ecology, Islam. Full programme at same link, plus online curator talk on Nov 28th. 📜 #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt

Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋! I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

‘Postcards from the Apocalypse’: Tanya Agathocleous’ article from our archive (17:13, 2016) explores ways in which literature and film have imagined London in ruins, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: doi.org/10.1080/1471...

We wanted to find the people writing about photography so we've made a starter pack. Let us know if there's anyone w should add.

Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...

Looking forward to this: Annual Conference 2025, ‘Photography, Value, History’, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...