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The Department congratulates MPhil student Luca Ferraro on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2025

4 April 2025

The 170th Men's Race will take place on Sunday 13 th of April March from 2:21pm between Putney and Mortlake. For more information and details on how to watch: https://www.theboatrace.org/spectator-information

Dr Laura Slater will be speaking at a research seminar in Paris in April 2025

19 March 2025

Dr Laura Slater, Associate Professor in the History of Medieval Art and Architecture, will be speaking at the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire/Seminar in Franco-British History in Paris (Maison de la Recherche de l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne) on Thursday 3rd April on: ‘Philippa of Hainault: Queenship, Music and...

Associate Professor of the History of Art, Frank Salmon, will feature on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme with Melvin Bragg at on Thursday 6 February

29 January 2025

Dr Salmon and two other colleagues will be discussing the life and work of the English architect John Soane (1753-1837), who rose from being a bricklayer's son to become the architect of the Bank of England and of King George IV's entry spaces to the House of Lords. For this, among other public works, Soane received a...

Professor Emeritus Paul Binski has recently published a new book entitled 'Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages'

20 January 2025

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and...

Elections to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art, 2025–2030

16 December 2024

The Department is pleased to announced that the following persons have been elected by the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art: 2025–26 Professor Terence Smith, University of Pittsburgh 2026–27 Professor Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths , University of London 2027–28 Professor Tamar Garb, University...

Professor Alyce Mahon’s new exhibition Surrealism in the Service of Distraction is currently on show at the Galerie Raphael Durazzo, Paris, until 23 November 2024, as part of the centennial celebrations of Surrealism by France’s Comité des Galeries d’Art

25 October 2024

Focused on Surrealists Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning, in dialogue with contemporary painters Sara Anstis, Piper Bangs and Ginny Casey, the exhibition celebrates the subversive potential of ‘distraction’ for women artists. https://www.raphaeldurazzo.com/exhibitions/19-le-surrealisme-au-service-de-la-...

The Department would like to congratulate the editorial team of the Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture (CJVC) on the launch of Issue 3 — Systems

24 October 2024

The occasion was celebrated yesterday on October 23 with a drinks reception at Scroope Terrace. We wish the new team every success with Issue 4 and look forward to toasting their achievements again in the new year! https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambridge-journal-of-visual-culture/

The Department would like to congratulate Barry Phipps (Affiliated Lecturer, Fellow at Churchill College, Director of BBCW) on the opening of the Bill Brown Creative Workshops at Churchill College

15 October 2024

The Bill Brown Creative Workshops (BBCW) is a new platform for creative thinking and interdisciplinary solution-building at Churchill College. The BBCW provides multi-purpose workshops where students, as well as Fellows and staff, can explore, design, test, scale, and build, and realise their ideas. The spaces are equipped...

The Department is pleased to congratulate Dr Saul Nelson on the launch of his new book, Never Ending: Modernist Painting Past and Future

15 October 2024

Dr Nelson presented his work at the first Modern and Contemporary Art (MACA) Seminar series event of the new academic year. To find out more about the book visit: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300272307/never-ending/ To find out more about the seminar series, visit: https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/seminars/cambridge-modern-...

Art & Wit in the Renaissance: Holbein, Erasmus, & More - the Pharos Lectures with Professor Alexander Marr will take place at New College, Oxford from the 4th - 25th November

24 September 2024

From the satirical barbs of Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly (1511) to the urbane games of Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano (1528), wit was a serious subject in the Renaissance, addressed in natural philosophy and medicine as the intellective part of the human soul, in artistic theory as the wellspring of creativity, and...

The Department congratulates MPhil student Luca Ferraro on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2025

Dr Laura Slater will be speaking at a research seminar in Paris in April 2025

Associate Professor of the History of Art, Frank Salmon, will feature on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme with Melvin Bragg at on Thursday 6 February

Professor Emeritus Paul Binski has recently published a new book entitled 'Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages'

Elections to the Slade Professorship of Fine Art, 2025–2030

Professor Alyce Mahon’s new exhibition Surrealism in the Service of Distraction is currently on show at the Galerie Raphael Durazzo, Paris, until 23 November 2024, as part of the centennial celebrations of Surrealism by France’s Comité des Galeries d’Art

The Department would like to congratulate the editorial team of the Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture (CJVC) on the launch of Issue 3 — Systems

The Department would like to congratulate Barry Phipps (Affiliated Lecturer, Fellow at Churchill College, Director of BBCW) on the opening of the Bill Brown Creative Workshops at Churchill College

The Department is pleased to congratulate Dr Saul Nelson on the launch of his new book, Never Ending: Modernist Painting Past and Future

Art & Wit in the Renaissance: Holbein, Erasmus, & More - the Pharos Lectures with Professor Alexander Marr will take place at New College, Oxford from the 4th - 25th November

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