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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...

Alumnus Daniel Zamani appointed Artistic Director at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden

12 September 2024

The Department is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Zamani, whose PhD In search of the Holy Grail : medieval tropes and the 'occultation of surrealism' in the work of André Breton, ca. 1928-1957 (2017) was supervised by Professor Alyce Mahon, has been appointed Artistic Director of the Museum Frider Burda, Baden Baden...

The Department congratulates MPhil Student Cecilia Zhou on winning the Gordon Duff Prize

10 July 2024

The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. It is open to all University of Cambridge members, students, staff and alumni. A copy of the winning essay is deposited in the Manuscript Department of the University Library. More information about...

The Department is pleased to congratulate alumna Isobel Muir on her recent appointment as Associate Curator of Post-1800 Painting at the National Gallery

11 June 2024

Muir, who completed the History of Art Tripos in 2014 and recently passed her PhD (a CDA with the National Gallery and Durham University), will be working on the Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition.

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

Alumnus Daniel Zamani appointed Artistic Director at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden

The Department congratulates MPhil Student Cecilia Zhou on winning the Gordon Duff Prize

The Department is pleased to congratulate alumna Isobel Muir on her recent appointment as Associate Curator of Post-1800 Painting at the National Gallery

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