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Professor Singh was a leading scholar in the study of South Asia’s court painting and contemporary politics of collecting and museums. She served as the Dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, where she taught since 2001, and was distinguished for the energy she brought to her teaching and research. De…

The 2023-2024 Professor of Fine Art is Professor Pascal Griener. This lecture series is entitled: 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.The history of the human race on earth now has a name: the Anthropocene. During the nineteenth century, the Anthropocene entered a crucial …

This book offers a fresh look at the history of feminist informed art making, focusing on the 1970s when the Women’s Liberation Movement was most active. Rather than tell this story through one artist, or one medium or one strand of feminism, I wanted to register the complex ways artists negotiated women’s liberation, sometimes finding great empowe…

Camouflage is not the exclusive domain of animals. Humans also practice it, in hunting, war and fashion, social behaviour, and the arts. It is not restricted to artefacts; it also occurs in social behaviour, when people disguise their social status, desires, or motives behind appearances they judge to be more acceptable or effective. The shared dom…

The development of the Old Press / Mill Lane site by Pembroke College has created a dynamic new city quarter, as well as providing additional accommodation for the College, publicly accessible gardens, and exhibition and performance spaces. This inaugural exhibition features Cambridge-based artistsXinyi Bi,Rebecca Ilett, andIdit Nathanwho were give…

The article was published in Art HistoryVolume 46, Issue 1 and can be read here:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8365.12709

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Professor Deborah Howard has won the award for the project 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio'. All winners are now up for a Public Choice Award and voting is open here: https://vote.europanostra.orgFor more information about the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards visit: https://www.europanostra.org/202…

With great pleasure, we announce the 23/24 cohort of Visiting Research Fellows as Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (Michaelmas 2023), Professor Carol Payne (Michaelmas 2023), Dr Elizabeth Emrich-Rougé (Lent 2024), and Kimberley Foster (Easter 2024). (Residency terms indicated)..These researchers will join us and departments includingHistory of Art,the Sco…

Sade was a clandestine and censored writer who was imprisoned, but is now a classic author for French literature. He was acclaimed as a revolutionary who supported freedom, whilst arousing scandal and outrage.The exhibition looks at the stereotypes associated with his name and explores the aesthetic, philosophical and political implications of his …

The artwork, entitled The Willow will Submerge in Time contains plants and soil from the River Cam mounted in a Lightbox and has now taken pride of place in the Dining Hall of Trinity Hall alongside more traditional portraiture.Sophie Mei Birkin was a BA History of Art student in the Department from 2014-17  and graduated with First Class Honours w…

It was with great sadness and real shock that we learnt of the death last week of Elain Harwood. Elain was a tireless advocate for twentieth-century architecture. Her career with English Heritage and later Historic England was largely devoted to identifying, researching, publishing and protecting the best of modern architecture in England. She was …

The book is published by Yale University Press, for more information visit: https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/tudor-liveliness/?k=9781913107376To see a trailer for the book visit: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrdKmkkIws_/

About the lecture:My Slade Lecture series intended to take up different aspects of Mughal painting and to play with method differently in each. In this special lecture, I bring the background into the foreground as I turn to a series of 18th century paintings that are marked by a keen and even vertiginous interest in perspective. These paintings ar…

Cambridge Visual Culture invites applications for their 23/24 programme of Visiting Research Fellowships in Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. The programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ at Cambridge by bringing fresh voices and approaches to the University, and to extend visual culture studies into specialisms an…