Events Archive September 2020-August 2021

Autumn Term 2021

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The Big Draw Festival: Make The Change!

11:00am, 2 Oct 2021

The Big Draw Festival: MakeTheChange!听is a timely development on last year's exploration into the relationship between people and our living environments. In 2021, we are partnering with The Big Draw team to take action, to explore and to discover wa...

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Decolonizing the Museum?

2:30pm, 6 Oct 2021

This lecture discusses a series of practices and experiments initiated by Fran莽oise Verg猫s around the decolonisation of the museum for the 鈥楳useum without Objects鈥 (R茅union Island, 2004-2020), 鈥楾he Slave in the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity鈥 (Paris ...

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Gatecrashers and the Promise of American Art

5:00pm, 18 Oct 2021

Nearly one hundred years ago, artists鈥痺ithout formal training 鈥渃rashed the gates鈥 of the elite art world, as their paintings of American life and fantastical scenes derived from their imaginations began appearing in major museums. This talk draws upo...

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Shen Xin and Alvin Li in conversation

5:00pm, 21 Oct 2021

Artist Shen Xin joins curator and writer Alvin Li for an intimate conversation in this online event. In lieu of a conventional studio visit, the two interlocutors will proceed by posing each other a series of questions informed by their ongoing resea...

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Forgetting and Remembering the Sea with Winslow Homer

5:00pm, 25 Oct 2021

This lecture interrogates Homer鈥檚 marines anew by focusing on the unique epistemology and materiality of the ocean.听The听late听photographer and theorist Allan听Sekula听has called the oceans听a听鈥渇orgotten space.鈥 Indeed, art historians tend to look out to ...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Restaged!

8:00pm, 28 Oct 2021

The Courtauld Gallery will open its doors this November, following the most significant modernisation project in its history. This Open Courtauld Hour will therefore provide a rare back of house tour, a sneak preview to The Courtauld Gallery and the ...

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Not / Making / Marks: On Lygia Clark鈥檚 Organic Line

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2021

This talk concerns the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark鈥檚 concept of the 鈥渙rganic鈥 line: an interval of space that appears between a painting and its frame, a door and its lintel, or tiles on the floor.

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Harold Rosenberg and 鈥淭he American Action Painters鈥

5:00pm, 22 Nov 2021

Harold Rosenberg听(1906-1978) is still primarily听known听by a single essay, 鈥淭he American Action Painters,鈥澨齱hich was published in听ARTnews听in 1952.听听When 迟丑别听piece听appeared in the December issue, the response听was phenomenal.听 Not only did it galvanize a...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Can-Can!

8:00pm, 25 Nov 2021

This Open Courtauld Hour invites you to enter a world of splendour, misery and excess! In this hour the electrifying entertainment of the can-can and cabaret of the Courtauld Collection takes centre stage.

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Workshop :鈥淗ow close can I get to someone? Will we become each other鈥: Epistolary Subjects, Objects, and Methods in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History

10:00am, 9 Dec 2021

In this participatory workshop involving writing experiments and collective discussions, we will revisit, handle again, the letters we have discovered in the archives of the artists and subjects we study, considering our roles as interlocutors across...

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After Hours: Glow-up!

7:00pm, 15 Dec 2021

Get your glad rags on, dust the cobwebs off your favourite and sparkliest outfits and join The Courtauld for its first After Hour event in its newly transformed gallery!

Spring and Summer Semester 2021

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