Archiv

Venue: Tate Britain, Milbank, London SW1P 4RG, meeting point: 8.45 am on the steps of the main entrance, facing the Themse Join Ruin Lust curator Emma Chambers for a tour of the exhibition, focusing on artists’ exploration and reimagining of ruins in both…

Venue: UCL, Department of History of Art, Gordon Square no. 20, London WC1E 6BT, room 3/4 For many years the cost and speed of digital technologies restricted the practical size of digital images. However, with continually improving systems, cameras and procedures…

Venue: UCL, Department of History of Art, Gordon Square no. 20, London WC1E 6BT, room 3/4 Esther Leslie (Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck College) tracks a curious line between Caspar David Friedrich’s painting Sea of Ice, from 1824 and the discovery of the…

Venue: UCL, Department of History of Art, Gordon Square no. 20, London WC1E 6BT, room 3/4 Ellery Foutch (Art Historian, Courtauld) will talk about how throughout his life, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) was obsessed with butterflies, ultimately creating thousands of drawings, lithographs,…

Venue: UCL, Department of History of Art, Gordon Square no. 20, London WC1E 6BT, room 3/4 Artist Susan Hiller (London) in conversation with Petra Lange-Berndt (art historian, UCL) about her interest in materiality, things, memory, politics, and the occult.

Venue: UCL, Department of History of Art, Gordon Square no. 20, London WC1E 6BT, room 3/4 We will screen the silent movie Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (Denmark 1922; with a voice-over by William Burroughs). This will be followed by a tarot card…

Venue: Institute of Making, Malet Place, UCL Founders and directors of the Institute of Making, Mark Miodownik, Zoe Laughlin and Martin Conreen (a materials scientist, an artist/curator and a designer), will talk to Petra Lange-Berndt and Emma Richardson (History of…