What’s On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum programme will return in the Autumn semester with both online and onsite events, publications and digital assets. Please do visit our to catch up on our events from previous years.

Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Autumn Semester

Lecture Research

Buddha|Nature: Exhibiting Buddhist Art in a Time of Climate Crisis

6:00pm, 30 Sep 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Hao聽Sheng, curator of聽Buddha|Nature, as they present the Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art, an extraordinary collection of pan-Asian Buddhist sculptures that has been on long-term loan at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This public talk will a...

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Looking at Edward Gibbon

6:00pm, 1 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for a lecture from Professor Dame Linda Colley on Edward Gibbon

Lecture Research

Research-led curating in an art fair context

5:00pm, 2 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Held on occasion of the upcoming edition of the Frieze Masters fair (14-18 October 2026), this panel discussion will offer the opportunity to discover some of the highlights of this year鈥檚 Spotlight section. With a particular emphasis on art from acr...

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Andy Warhol鈥檚 Guide to Everyday Life

5:30pm, 5 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University as he demonstrates how Andy Warhol's聽attention to daily life sparks possibilities for us to rethink our own.

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Mira Schor Artist talk and panel

6:00pm, 12 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

The Courtauld welcomes the American artist Mira Schor (b. 1950, New York) on the occasion of her solo exhibition Wet/London at Mimosa House, London.

Lecture Research The Manton Centre for British Art

The Bayeux Tapestry on Display

5:30pm, 14 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

In this joint session, two curators from the British Museum will discuss the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, highlighting the logistics and research behind it. I帽igo聽Salto Santamar铆a will then consider the current exhibition in relation to previous shows...

Lecture Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

The Courtauld is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

Lecture Research The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Robert Ryman: A New Way of Seeing symposium

3:00pm, 20 Nov 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for this half-day symposium marking the major retrospective of American painter Robert Ryman鈥檚 work at the Barbican Art Gallery.

Lecture Research

A Book Talk: Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome

6:00pm, 10 Dec 2026 Free, booking essential

Following the publication of Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome: Connected by Travel in summer 2026, co-editors Jelena Stojkovi膰 and Daniel Sturgis talk about their research of a transient community of abstract women artists who lived and...

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