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Associate Lecturer Dr Joel Robinson publishes The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons
20th January 2023
This book reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of ‘planetary urbanisation’. Joel Robinson examines the development of these large-scale, international, and perennial exhibitions as they address such challenges as urban regeneration, heritage preservation, climate change, and the migration crisis.
FASS Art History series about climate change to debut at Glasgow Science Festival
9th June 2022
A new FASS series using art history to examine climate change is set to launch at the Glasgow Science Festival.
A. G. Leventis Funding for ‘Hell’ Database
30th March 2022
Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Art History, has been awarded £4,000 by the A. G. Leventis Foundation to continue maintaining the ‘Hell’ wall-painting database.
Celebrating Dr Atta Kwami
15th October 2021
It is with great sadness that we have received and now share the news of our former doctoral student, Atta Kwami, who passed away earlier this month. Dr Kwami received his doctorate in Art History at the Open University in 2007 for a thesis entitled Kumasi Painting, 1951-2007, which was subsequently published as a book.
Art and Politics for Cov19: Chronicles from the Margins
20th September 2021
Dr Amy Charlesworth contributes to a participatory project co-created by a group of researchers at the OU along with those who have direct experience of forced migration and/or have worked and lived with refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people.
IF: MK International Festival 2021 with Dr Carla Benzan
16th July 2021
Facilitated by Dr Benzan, an interdisciplinary panel discussion focuses on our relationships with animals in urban spaces, specifically interactions between birds and humans in city centres with specific reference to Marco Berotti's artwork The Woodpeckers.
Siena and the Angevins, 1300-1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition - New publication
22nd June 2021
Siena and the Angevins, 1300-1350: Art, Diplomacy, and Dynastic Ambition published by Professor Emerita in Art History, Diana Norman
Landscapes of Power: Energy & Environment in Eighteenth-Century London: a Keynote lecture by Professor Emerita, Elizabeth McKellar
10th June 2021
Professor McKellar is Emerita in Architectural and Design History at the Open University and the President Elect of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. She will deliver her keynote, on Architectural History and Climate Emergency online on Wednesday 9^th June 2021. Details to be found here.
Art History research celebrates £100,000 funding boost
23rd February 2021
Art History celebrates a £100,000 grant from AHRC to partner with the University of Chester on a new year-long project that brings an innovative approach to exhibiting every day historic artefacts.
New book by Dr Kim Charnley Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism published by Bloomsbury
22nd February 2021
Congratulations to Staff Tutor in Art History, Dr Kim Charnley, whose new book Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism is now out.