Parisian Museums 2017, by Rachel Hughes and Lucy Gray
As second year Art History students, we had the amazing opportunity to go to Paris for autumn reading week. We … More
View ArticleThe Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Works by William Blake (1876), by...
This is an edited version of a talk given at ‘Exhibiting Blake, 1780-2020’, at The Paul Mellon Centre, London, 16 … More
View Article‘In Memory of Prof. Suzanne Butters’, by Dr Tom Rasmussen
Art History and Visual Studies has been hugely saddened by news of Professor Suzanne Butters, who has died after a … More
View Article‘Research Network for Visionary Art and Visionary Objects’, by Stefania...
I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision I see Every thing I paint In This … More
View Article‘Not New York?’, by Ellen Blocksidge
During the late 1970s, a new constellation of countercultural venues began to emerge in downtown New York. Integrating music, performance … More
View ArticleUnlocking Special Collections for Teaching and Learning, feat. Dr Uglow
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View ArticlePeggy Guggenheim and the Origins of the Guggenheim Venice, by Millie Cluzan
After returning from her summer as an intern at the Guggenheim Collection in Venice, our third-year student Millie Cluzan discuss … More
View Article“Ruskin Matters”, 20 March 2019, by Cicely Spence
Ruskin Matters, held at the Whitworth, attracted an audience of over eighty people from the North West. As explained by … More
View ArticleSurvey about digital editions of correspondence — Lives of Letters
Do you use digital editions of correspondence in your research? Our very own Naomi Billingsley and her colleague Lisa Gee … More
View ArticleAutumn 2019 Research Seminars & Events
We’re delighted to announce our research seminars & events for autumn 2019. All are welcome, and booking is not required … More
View ArticleImogen Delbourgo: My Experience at Sotheby’s Summer Institute of Art
Art History student Imogen Delbourgo writes: I applied for the bursary to study at Sotheby’s Summer Institute of Art on a whim. I selected Art Crime on the instruction of a fanciful mental image of...
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Event report – The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism,...
Student interns Ami Savage and Marnie Parker write: Earlier this month, guests from Art History and English Literature backgrounds came together for the conference The Artist of the Future Age:...
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Teaching spotlight: Art in Medieval Books
This semester, Dr Anne Kirkham has been teaching a Level 3 course on Art in Medieval Books. The course introduced students to the glorious imagery on the pages of many medieval books in the West, from...
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Modernity as ‘Echo Chamber’: Prof. Craig Clunas on early twentieth-century...
Report on the 2020 Pilkington Lecture, ‘The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century’ by Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Trinity College, Oxford Prof. Clunas...
View ArticleCloth turned people into objects by Molly Lewis
Report on the November 2020 Lecture, ‘Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race’ by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, assistant professor of Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University Anna...
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Who’s Laughing Now: Humour as Cultural Resilience in Contemporary Art by...
Report on the November 2020 Lecture, ‘Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Strategies of Cultural Resilience in Contemporary Art’ by Chrisoula Lionis, Marie Curie Fellow, University of...
View ArticleReviewed in Third Text: UoM Student Lucas Nieboer on ‘White Psyche’ at The...
Congratulations to Lucas Nieboer, currently a third year student in Art History and Visual Studies at UoM, for publishing his review of the Whitworth’s exhibition ‘White Psyche’ in Third Text: ‘What...
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Report on Prof. Marcia Pointon’s Lecture on Peter Paul Rubens, Astronomy,...
Report on the February 2021 Lecture, On The Origin of the Milky Way (1637) by Peter Paul Rubens: Astronomy, Astrology and Mythology in early modern Europe’ by Marcia Pointon, Professor Emerita of...
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Lunch with Shamiyaana by William Singleton
On 12 February 2021, second year Art History students were treated to a virtual visit to Shamiyaana, the restaurant and conceptual art project of Karachi-born, London-based artist Rasheed Araeen...
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