A massive thank you to everyone who came along to ‘Curating Kerry James Marshall’ last week 🎉 A packed lecture theatre, great conversations, incredible energy and an unforgettable surprise visit from Kerry James Marshall himself! 🌟

We are delighted to welcome Professor Megan R. Luke (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) for a research seminar titled “What the Eye Does Not See: Albert Renger-Patzsch and the Problem of Photographic Facture.” 👁️ 🗓 22 Jan 2026 ⏰ 17:30 – 19:30 📍 IAS Common Ground All welcome! shorturl.at/2bw60

✨ Student spotlight ✨ We’re proud to share a new V&A blog post by our MSc student Alana Coates, exploring the challenges of preserving a viral digital game 🎮🖼️ shorturl.at/sAfhu

Curating Kerry James Marshall 🎨 An evening exploring Marshall’s practice, legacy, and the curatorial visions that have shaped his most significant exhibitions✨ 📅 15 Jan 2026 | 18:00–20:00 📍 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT 👉 Free and welcome to all: shorturl.at/01rAg

Celebrating 60 years of UCL Special Collections with Dr Hélia Marçal ✨ Hélia shares how the Small Press Collections have shaped her teaching and research in the History of Art 📚 “A fundamental, incredibly rich collection spanning the 20th century.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3EZ...

What does care mean in conservation? 🌿 The Journal of the Institute of Conservation’s new special issue, edited by Dr Hélia Marçal and featuring articles by Dr Brian Castriota and Professor Pip Laurenson, explores conservation as an ethical, political, and human practice. shorturl.at/NnpVG

🎥 Research Seminar: Chromatic Apparitions Join Dr. Katerina Korola (University of Minnesota) for a talk on colour, chemistry & contamination at East Germany’s iconic Filmfabrik Wolfen. 🗓 04 Dec 2025 | 🕠 17:30–19:30 How does photography reveal its own toxic material past? 🔗 shorturl.at/JsZch

Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚 In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬 Signed and discounted copies available! 👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW

We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.” 🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30 📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow) 👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1

Join us for our next Research Seminar with Dr Jiangtao Harry Gu (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY), presenting “Photography as Dust: On the Ruins of John Thomson’s Hong Kong.” 📷 🗓️ 23 Oct 2025 (Thu) 🕠 17:30 – 19:30 📍 9 Garwood LT, South Wing Free and open to all! shorturl.at/CAksH

🎬 Join Past Imperfect for Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017, dir. Bill Morrison) + intro by Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson. 🗓 20 Oct 2025 | 18:00–20:30 📍 Pool Street Cinema, UCL East, London 💬 Screening, discussion + reception - all welcome! shorturl.at/Zp582

We’re thrilled to kick off our Research Seminar series with Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld) on Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting ✨ Join us to explore the material worlds behind Chardin’s famously “mute” pictures. 🗓 9 Oct 2025 | 17:30–19:30 📍 IAS, Seminar Room 20 shorturl.at/fRc3W

✨ First CSCA event of the year! ✨ We’re thrilled to launch African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska 📖 📅 08 Oct 2024 | 17:30–19:30 📍 Room 106, Gordon House 🌟 All welcome! shorturl.at/pZwIi

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Seeking an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art & Media to join our team at UCL East. 🕒 Working Pattern: Part-time, on site 💷 Salary: £43,981–£52,586 📄 Contract: Fixed-term (12 months) ⏰ Closing date: 12/10/25 👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/57NCS

Exciting news! 🎉 We’re now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships starting in September 2026. 👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/c8WIW

📚 Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol. III 🗓 24 June | 5:30–8pm Celebrate the final volume of Peter Weiss’s masterpiece in English! 🎬 Film screening + talk w/ translator Joel Scott & Prof. Frederic Schwartz (UCL) 📍 Free and open to all: shorturl.at/AVhWs

Join us on 12 June (6-7pm) to explore how pandemic remnants - from posters to memorials -shape how we remember a crisis that hasn’t truly ended 🦠 Speakers: 🗣 Dr Clara de Massol (King’s College London) 🗣 Elsa Perryman Owens (UCL) 🔗 Free and open to all. Book your free place: shorturl.at/P2vFJ

💥 Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures at The Hepworth is her biggest show in 25+ years. Curated by Laura Smith, with a new bio via Thames & Hudson. Proud of PhD student Philomena Epps for contributing an essay on the body, fetishism & the grotesque! 📍 From our CSCA visit to The Hepworth Wakefield.

⚠️ This event has been postponed and a new date is yet to be confirmed ⚠️

🎨 Dive into the world of Art History with our EDI student journalist, Mayuko Yamaguchi, as she chats with Colin Zhongping Mao – PhD candidate at UCL – about his research on the evolution of Chinese Socialist Realism🖌️ 👉 Read the full interview: shorturl.at/DRJx2

Join us for a series of free public events exploring kinetic and media art, held alongside the workshop Movers and Shakers: Strategies in the Conservation of Kinetic Art, organised by the UCL’s MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, Getty Conservation Institute and Tate!✨ shorturl.at/ahkjr

📘 Book Launch | Soviet Factography – Reality Without Realism by Devin Fore Join us for a talk + conversation on Soviet avant-garde time politics with Steven Edwards & Stephanie Schwartz 💬 🗓 22 May, 5:30–7:30PM | Free & open to all 🔗 shorturl.at/DNcvJ

Images as History Seminar: A Letter to Laos 📷 Dr Stephanie Schwartz (UCL) on Allan Sekula’s A Short Film for Laos and war, narrative, and Southeast Asia. 📅 15 May, 6–8PM 🎟 Open to all – book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve... #ArtHistory #Photography #Laos #AllanSekula

We’re excited to welcome Avigail Moss, Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, for a talk titled “Collective Disquiet: Tangibility, Transit, Time.” 💬 📆22 May 2025, 5:30–7:30pm 📍Seminar Room 20, South Wing ✨All welcome!✨ 👉Find out more: shorturl.at/oqCBq

Kaitlin Fritz, our alumna, EdTech Entrepeneur and award-winning enterprise educator, delivers the Explore Your Entrepreneurial Idea Programme: “Each session, we have interactive activities, so it really bridges the gap between educational and practical entrepreneurship.” 💡

⏳ Deadline approaching! Just under one week left to apply for this amazing role in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (1650–1900) at UCL🏛️🌍

Join us on 22 May, 5:30–6:30PM for a talk by Dr. Valentina Ravaglia, lead curator, on 'Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet', now at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025. 📍 UCL East Lecture Theatre, Marshgate 🍷 Reception to follow 👋 Free and all welcome! 🔗 shorturl.at/61QZ5

Last week in Paris, artist Thomas Hirschhorn welcomed UCL History of Art MA students to his studio for an inspiring visit alongside Mignon Nixon, Nicholas Robbins, and Stephanie Schwartz ✨ Theme of the day: What can we learn from art history? 🖼️

We are hiring a full time Lecturer (Grade 8, £52,762-£62,035) or Associate Professor (Grade 9, £67,341-£73,142) in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (c.1650-1900), exploring its global and colonial contexts 🏛️✨ 📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025 📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr

✨ Annual Tomás Harris Lecture Series ✨ Join us as Sylvia Houghteling, Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, unravels the rich stories woven into the textiles of early modern South and Southeast Asia🧵 📅 6-8 May 2025 🔗 Find out more and book your place(s): shorturl.at/7m1ow 👈

✨Meet Mayuko Yamaguchi, one ofour EDI Student Journalist for 2025/26! ✍️ Mayuko’s first review is up – diving into Ainu Stories, a captivating virtual exhibition at #JapanHouse London 🎌 👉Check out her thoughts and reflections on this incredible cultural journey: shorturl.at/N1OuE 💭

🎬✨ Join us for an unforgettable evening at The Past Imperfect Seminar's grand finale on May 1st! We'll be screening the 2023 Italian film La Chimera (dir. Alice Rohrwacher), a gripping tale of tomb-raiders in 1980s Italy. ⏳💀 👉 This is a free event, open to all - sign up here: shorturl.at/QUyR4 👈

Tate Britain is offering an entry-level opportunity for a Curatorial Assistant, supported by the Rosenberg Memorial Fund, along with a part-time MA in History of Art in collaboration with UCL! 🌟 📍 London 💼 Full-time, 36 months 💸 £26,652 per annum 📅 Apply by 29 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/LFlRY 👈

Celebrate the launch of @richardtaws.bsky.social 'Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France' with us! 📖 We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space. 📅 24 March, 6-8pm 👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈

Just out! Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France mitpress.mit.edu/978026204918...

Join us for the launch of this ground-breaking volume with editor Eddie Chambers! The evening features a discussion on the book’s origins and themes, with responses from Osei Bonsu and Mary Evans, chaired by Tamar Garb 📖 📅 18 March 2025 ⏰ 6–8pm 📍 IAS Common Ground All welcome: shorturl.at/2RGqs

Join us as we welcome Gabriela Siracusano, UCL Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for a fascinating talk on "Material Memories of a Miraculous Image from the Andes." 🌍✨ 📅 13 March 2025 ⏰ 5:30 pm–7:30 pm 📍 Seminar Room 20, First Floor, South Wing All welcome: shorturl.at/VAO5u

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Passionate about events, comms & making an impact? Join us as Communications & Events Manager at UCL History & History of Art! 🎭📜 📍 London (Hybrid) | 💼 Full-time, Permanent 💰 £43,124–£51,610 | 📅 Apply by 9 March 2025 👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/IvV78 👈

Join us for an insightful talk with Richard Hylton on Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic 💬 🗓 29 April 2025 ⏰ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 📍 Rooms 101 & 102, 20 Gordon Square Don’t miss this deep dive into one of the most innovative voices in contemporary British art. 🎨✨ shorturl.at/WUDHR

Join us at the UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening on 12 Feb 2025, 5-7pm to explore our MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media! 📍 Leading researchers & students 🏛️ State-of-the-art facilities 🎓 Scholarships & career opportunities Find out more: shorturl.at/WnlL9 Register: shorturl.at/VB0Mj

Don't miss Dr. Felix Jäger on 6 Feb 2025, 5:30-7:30 pm for a research seminar on ‘Disability Matter(s): The Armored Body in the Renaissance’ 🛡️ Explore how plate armor shaped the ideal body while addressing physical difference, using Federico da Montefeltro as a case study: shorturl.at/0nlly

📢 UCL History of Art is now accepting applications for the MA History of Art program! 🎨🖼️ Don't miss your chance to be part of this prestigious course. Apply by January 31, 2025: shorturl.at/7xrUo #UCL #HistoryOfArt #MAProgram #ArtHistory #UCLAdmissions #ArtLovers

Join us for the Social and Historical Science Graduate Open Events to learn about our MA History of Art program! 📅 Saturday, 1 February 2025 ⏰ 10:00–15:00 GMT 📍 UCL, Bloomsbury Discover how you can deepen your understanding of art, culture, and history with us! 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/93bIW

Don’t miss our amazing Professor Alison Wright on Cunk on Life! 🎥✨ This hilarious BBC mockumentary by Charlie Brooker, starring Diane Morgan, features Alison shedding light on the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo 🖌️🎨 Watch here: shorturl.at/FT5rP