CONF: Annual Lecture – Judy Rudoe ‘The British Museum and collecting post 1850 applied arts’ (17 Sep 2025, 5:30 PM BST)
In the late 1970s, the decision was made to extend the European applied arts collections into the 20th century. This was in part to bring the European collections in line with other departments…
CFP: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating (25-26 October 2024 / London, British Museum and V&A)
Over the last three decades, research on Gothic ivories has seen a significant shift from studies concerned with stylistic attribution and classification towards the investigation of their materiality, iconography, function, and – last…
ANN: ‘Who curates (whom): Artist-curators in institutions’ – Lecture by Lilian Cameron (Sotheby’s Institute, 23 June 2022, 17:00-18:30 BST)
Artist-curated exhibitions in museums and biennales have become more prevalent since the early 2000s. This seminar will examine several examples of this practice with a focus on artist-curated exhibitions in the UK, analysing to…
ANN: Circulating Artefacts (CircArt): a global platform against the looting and trafficking of pharaonic antiquities (British Museum)
The British Museum’s Circulating Artefacts (CircArt) project, launched in 2018, has gone live: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/egypt-and-sudan/circulating-artefacts
Forum: Objects of Contention, Spoils from the Yuanmingyuan
British Museums, 15 August and 25 September 2017 In the autumn of 1860 British and French troops looted the Yuanmingyuan, the lavish garden estate of the Qing emperors. Campaign members then returned to Europe…