As spring bulbs come into flower outside the Warburg in Gordon Square, we’re taking a closer look at the tulip, one of the flowers that mark the beginning of spring 🌷 Here are some examples from our Iconographic Database.

In a change to the advertised programme, Caspar Heinemann will be in conversation with Conspiracies curator Larne Abse Gogarty. Warburg Institute, Tues 24 March 2026: 7.00pm warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Handmade by re-wrap, the Blue Warburg X re-wrap Book Bag is a 100% organic cotton canvas tote, made to carry all your books. Purchase yours here: universityoflondon.estore.flywire.com/products/blu...

Join the Maps and Society lecture series for Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): ‘Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China’. 26 March, 5pm - 7pm Free in person or online with advance booking.

The culture and politics of our present are subject to the rapid, shape-shifting spread of conspiracy. Conspiracies traces how seductive fictions claiming to expose hidden power recur across history, and how they shape ideas of fate and fortune. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #LondonExhibitions

Jennifer Nelson joins Caspar Heinemann for “Jerusalem 0 - 0 Athens” at the Warburg Institute, as part of Conspiracies. 24 March 2026, 7–8:30pm Free, advance booking required. Find out more and book:

Francis I of France led one of the most colourful and influential courts of the sixteenth century. Join Glenn Richardson in conversation with Penny Roberts for Renaissance Lives: ‘Francis I The Knight-King’. 19 March, 5:30pm to 7pm | Online

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a flourishing of interest in the Arabic language across Christian Europe. This in-person short course examines the reasons for studying Arabic in England, the manner in which it was done and the results to which it led.

Our current exhibition Conspiracies takes fortune as a thread, with two Bilderatlas Mnemosyne panels installed in the gallery as a point of contact for the contemporary works. Free entry, no booking required.

Live at the Warburg: Next week Sam Keogh activates his collaged drawing in Conspiracies with a performance and dialogue between two characters hunting “The Secret Identity Stamp of the Peasants”. 11 March 2026, 7–8:30pm Free, booking required warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Globe Maker’s Model Book from Florence: Nicholaus Germanus and the production of globes in fifteenth-century Italy. Lecture with Dr Kristen Lippincott (The Saxl Project). 📅 17 Mar 2026 | 🕕 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | 📍 Warburg Institute

New recording: 'Gothic Modern' with Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein, in conversation with Bill Sherman. Late medieval Gothic art meets modern artists, and the Gothic’s afterlives in modern culture come into focus. Watch now.:

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy Saint David’s Day! 🏵️ Today we celebrate the feast day of St. David, or Dewi Sant, which is supposedly the anniversary of his death. Image: Statue of St David with dove, St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Cymru). Warburg Institute Photographic Collection.

Caspar Heinemann shares a poetic, creative-critical response to his works in Conspiracies, weaving contemporary and historical examples. Jennifer Nelson presents: “Neither Athens Nor Alexandria: The Failed Reconquering of Aby Warburg”. 📅 24 March, 7–8:30pm

Planning a gallery stop in Bloomsbury? Conspiracies is now on at the Warburg: four contemporary artists tracing how conspiracy shapeshifts across cultural and political history, in dialogue with Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne panels on fortune. Free entry.

Have you applied, or are you thinking of applying, for a PhD at the Warburg Institute? Explore our scholarship opportunities for students starting in October 2026. Deadline for the Rubinstein Scholarship and the JB Trapp Scholarship: 5pm, Friday 20 March

Join us for a live performance by artist Sam Keogh who will activate his collaged drawing as part of our current exhibition, Conspiracies. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Wednesday 11 March, 7pm #ContemporaryArt

Join Conspiracies curator Larne Abse Gogarty for a tour of the exhibition. 📅 18 Mar 2026, 6–7pm 📍 Warburg Institute Free with advance booking.

The Warburg is a leading centre for global cultural history and the role of images in society. Join us next Thursday to explore our collections, meet our community of scholars and learn about postgraduate study options. Register: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

New blog: Robert Eisler and his legacy at the Warburg by @stefaniaragau.bsky.social Discover Eisler’s Warburg links, his early Hebrew University plans, and correspondence with Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, plus the story of his papers at the Institute today.

The New Acquisitions Library display has been updated! With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.

Happy Lunar New Year 🏮 2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database. Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home

With Pancake Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into the Elizabeth David Bequest. From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books. Which would you try?

Happy Valentine's Day! Which one are you sending? 💌 #ValentinesDay #MedievalManuscript #Library

Conspiracies is now open! An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history. Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📚 This week’s new acquisitions tables in the Warburg Reading room feature topics such as #IslamicPhilosophy, the #Sociology of #Art, early #Martyr narratives and #Donatello. 📚

New recording: Distilling The Alchemical Feminine with Dr M.E. Warlick (University of Denver), chaired by Dr Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford). Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”. Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #Alchemy #ArtHistory

Ahead of our opening this week, Conspiracies is in the @financialtimes.com! Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...

Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️

Valentine’s Day is nearly here 💘 and we’re marking it with a Warburg love story. in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.

Interested in postgraduate study at the Warburg Institute? Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities. warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...

New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen. From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942). warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

The new acquisitions display in our library just got bigger! Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚

The latest volume of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out now! From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters. Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...

Conspiracies opens at the Warburg next week! An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy

Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #MaterialCulture #History

A new display in our Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).

Handle rare materials on witchcraft, Caribbean cosmologies & tarot in this short course with Pragya Dhital. 3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg). Limited to 15. Book by 23 February. In-person only. #RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

"...a startling work of scholarship, imagination, and defamiliarisation, this book is as exciting as it's original" Join us this Friday evening for the launch of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England' by E. K. Myerson: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #Medieval #Syria

On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'. This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew. #LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library

With books on the mysteries of nature, confraternities, and Eugene Delacroix, this week’s New Acquisitions display in the Warburg’s Reading Room is well worth a browse! #EugeneDelacroix #Library #LibraryBooks

“There’s no finger-pointing here; just sonority, speculation, the poetry of deep thought.” @prospectmagazine.co.uk Looking for something to do this weekend? Black Atlas closes on Saturday 31 January 2026. Make sure to view it whilst you can! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A diamond-shelled “treasurer” tortoise that dispenses money and predicts the future? Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.

Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University) 🗓️ 2 Feb 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #textiles #history

📣 Job opportunity: Digital Communications Officer (maternity leave cover) We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)! 17.5 hrs per week £37,085 pro rata Apply by 25 Jan 2026 Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs

📚 Job opportunity: Graduate Library Trainee (2026 to 2027) Join the Warburg Institute Library for a paid year of training before library school. Apply by: 1 February 2026 Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

“There’s no finger-pointing here; just sonority, speculation, the poetry of deep thought.” Prospect has chosen 'Black Atlas' as one of its 'Films of the Year: 2025' www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7197... Find out more about the exhibition & plan your visit: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interested in studying at the Warburg? Registrations are now open for our upcoming Open Day! Tuesday 26 February, 2:30 - 5:30pm Find out more and register: warburg.sas.ac.uk/study-us/stu...

 👀  With subjects ranging from political propaganda to the metaphysics of light, the new acquisitions table in the Reading Room has been updated. #PoliticalPropaganda #LibraryBooks #Metaphysics

Upcoming short course: Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts Increase your skills in producing critical editions and stemma codicum, with a mix of theoretical background and hands-on training. 16 Aprril - 7 May 2026, 2-4 pm | Online