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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 9th June 2021.
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.
Why study art history?
11th February 2021
Senior Lecturer in Art History Dr Leah Clark shares her blog, talking about Art History and Careers
Art in Theory: The West in the World
22nd January 2021
Art in Theory: The West in the World a ground-breaking anthology for the study of Art History edited by Paul Wood and Leon Wainwright of the Art History department.
OU/BBC series Secrets of the Museum returns for a second series to BBC Two this spring
22nd January 2021
From a delicate Michelangelo wax sculpture to Shirley Bassey's stage costumes, series two invites you to delve even further into the lives of our objects and dedicated staff who care for them.
The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
22nd January 2021
The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain has won the Historians of British Art Book Award, Multi-Authored Book Prize for books published in 2019.