We welcome Dr Sarah Gould (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) for a research seminar on 'Accommodating Toxicity: the 1850 Select Committee on the National Gallery'

What can we learn by turning a queer lens onto the study of medieval art? Three art historians discuss Spectrum of Desire, an exhibition at New York's Cloisters.

There are several opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to join the Department. Key fellowship routes are outlined below, with many other funding options also available.

UCL History of Art is an inclusive and globally-minded community of nearly 400 talented staff and students in the heart of Bloomsbury, London. We strive to create a welcoming environment, open to all.

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Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.

UCL History of Art is an inclusive and globally-minded community of nearly 400 talented staff and students in the heart of Bloomsbury, London. We strive to create a welcoming environment, open to all.

We are delighted to welcome Lamia Balafrej (UCLA) for a lecture series on 'Technical Marvels and the Making of Difference in Medieval Islam'.

In The Object’s Interlacing (2020), Kader Attia interviews leading voices on the restitution of African artefacts displaced into Western collections during colonial rule.

In January, Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson opened a new series of BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed with a wide-ranging discussion on colour in film, sharing her research with a national audience.

We welcome Professor Professor Sarah Betzer (University of Virginia) for a research seminar on New “Lesson[s] of a Bas Relief”.

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We welcome Professor Megan R. Luke (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) for a research seminar on 'What the Eye Does Not See: Albert Renger-Patzsch and the Problem of Photographic Facture'.

In early 2014, millions of people were playing one of the most brutally difficult mobile games ever created: Flappy Bird. Most players died within seconds, but its tap-to-fly mechanic was so addictive...

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The Journal of the Institute of Conservation has released a special issue on Conservation and Care, featuring a guest editorial by UCL’s Helia Marcal and articles by Brian Castriota and Pip Laurenson.

Please join the Past Imperfect seminar to hear Jack Hartnell reflect on his new book Wound Man: the Many Lives of a Surgical Image.

UCL History of Art is delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.

We’re excited to begin this year’s CSCA events with a special book launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska.

Described by some as a ‘paradigmatic example of an Anthropocene disease’ (Antó et al.), COVID-19 presented the world with a catastrophe that, whilst itself was invisible, bore massive material consequ...

In conjunction with 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 ...

A seminar series on photography and history in the Americas

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Avigail Moss, for a talk on 'Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time'

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Lecture Series: Textiles and Time in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia

Join us at UCL History of Art’s Past Imperfect Seminar for an evening of discussion to celebrate the publication of Prof Richard Taws’ Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France (M...

Join editor Eddie Chambers for the launch of The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History.

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Gabriela Siracusano, UCL Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for a talk on 'Material Memories of a Miraculous Image from the Andes'

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For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Felix Jäger (Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on 'Disability Matter(s): The Armored Body in the Renaissance'.

Professor Alison Wright features on Cunk on Life speaking on the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo in an episode that aired on 30 December 2024.