Association for Art History
@forarthistory.org.uk
We believe that art history inspires people to think differently and see differently. Find out more about our vision, mission and work:
www.forarthistory.org.uk
www.forarthistory.org.uk
Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries - A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries.
Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.
📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.
📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Careers with Art History: Working in Museums and Galleries - A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries.
Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.
📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them.
📍Online
📆Sat 15 Nov
🎟️ https://loom.ly/ppSqlNY
The AAH took part in the QAA’s 2025 review of the History of Art Benchmark statement. It’s now your chance to check you agree it’s fit for purpose.
Read the statement and complete the consultation survey here by 21 November: https://loom.ly/pEM4YK4
Read the statement and complete the consultation survey here by 21 November: https://loom.ly/pEM4YK4
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The AAH took part in the QAA’s 2025 review of the History of Art Benchmark statement. It’s now your chance to check you agree it’s fit for purpose.
Read the statement and complete the consultation survey here by 21 November: https://loom.ly/pEM4YK4
Read the statement and complete the consultation survey here by 21 November: https://loom.ly/pEM4YK4
Ways of Seeing, the AAH’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design.
📆Sat 22 Nov
📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A
📆Sat 22 Nov
📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ways of Seeing, the AAH’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design.
📆Sat 22 Nov
📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A
📆Sat 22 Nov
📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Beyond the frame: Incorporating Art History into the Curriculum (Teaching Ancient Egypt)
Learn how to introduce Ancient Egyptian art into your teaching, to consolidate history skills such as investigation, interpretation & communication while firing imaginations
Thur 20 Nov
https://loom.ly/CG5W4c8
Learn how to introduce Ancient Egyptian art into your teaching, to consolidate history skills such as investigation, interpretation & communication while firing imaginations
Thur 20 Nov
https://loom.ly/CG5W4c8
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Beyond the frame: Incorporating Art History into the Curriculum (Teaching Ancient Egypt)
Learn how to introduce Ancient Egyptian art into your teaching, to consolidate history skills such as investigation, interpretation & communication while firing imaginations
Thur 20 Nov
https://loom.ly/CG5W4c8
Learn how to introduce Ancient Egyptian art into your teaching, to consolidate history skills such as investigation, interpretation & communication while firing imaginations
Thur 20 Nov
https://loom.ly/CG5W4c8
Join us for the 2025 Global New Voices Conference on ‘Identity and the Construction of Space’ organised by DECR Art History committee members Man Li and Isaac Nugent (University of York).
📆 Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Attendance free with advance booking: https://loom.ly/0gLIai0
📆 Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Attendance free with advance booking: https://loom.ly/0gLIai0
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Join us for the 2025 Global New Voices Conference on ‘Identity and the Construction of Space’ organised by DECR Art History committee members Man Li and Isaac Nugent (University of York).
📆 Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Attendance free with advance booking: https://loom.ly/0gLIai0
📆 Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Attendance free with advance booking: https://loom.ly/0gLIai0
AAH Fellows 2026: Call for Nominations
Nominations are open to all, and nominees can be at any career stage. A panel of peers will select two to three Fellows to be honoured at our Annual Conference in Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.
Deadline: Wed 19 Nov 2025
https://loom.ly/Ioia2qY
Nominations are open to all, and nominees can be at any career stage. A panel of peers will select two to three Fellows to be honoured at our Annual Conference in Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.
Deadline: Wed 19 Nov 2025
https://loom.ly/Ioia2qY
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
AAH Fellows 2026: Call for Nominations
Nominations are open to all, and nominees can be at any career stage. A panel of peers will select two to three Fellows to be honoured at our Annual Conference in Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.
Deadline: Wed 19 Nov 2025
https://loom.ly/Ioia2qY
Nominations are open to all, and nominees can be at any career stage. A panel of peers will select two to three Fellows to be honoured at our Annual Conference in Cambridge, 8–10 April 2026.
Deadline: Wed 19 Nov 2025
https://loom.ly/Ioia2qY
Open Invitation to Primary School Teachers: Creating a Primary School Art History Resource ✏️💭
Primary school teachers are invited to an in-person roundtable event exploring the potential for a scalable digital resource to introduce art history into schools.
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Primary school teachers are invited to an in-person roundtable event exploring the potential for a scalable digital resource to introduce art history into schools.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Open Invitation to Primary School Teachers: Creating a Primary School Art History Resource ✏️💭
Primary school teachers are invited to an in-person roundtable event exploring the potential for a scalable digital resource to introduce art history into schools.
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Primary school teachers are invited to an in-person roundtable event exploring the potential for a scalable digital resource to introduce art history into schools.
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The deadline for our Annual Conference 2026 Call for Papers is fast approaching! Swipe for some key information about how to present at our biggest conference yet.
📆 Deadline for paper applications: 2 November 2025
AAH Conference: 8-10 April 2026
Submit your proposal via https://loom.ly/cdelGgQ
📆 Deadline for paper applications: 2 November 2025
AAH Conference: 8-10 April 2026
Submit your proposal via https://loom.ly/cdelGgQ
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The deadline for our Annual Conference 2026 Call for Papers is fast approaching! Swipe for some key information about how to present at our biggest conference yet.
📆 Deadline for paper applications: 2 November 2025
AAH Conference: 8-10 April 2026
Submit your proposal via https://loom.ly/cdelGgQ
📆 Deadline for paper applications: 2 November 2025
AAH Conference: 8-10 April 2026
Submit your proposal via https://loom.ly/cdelGgQ
We currently have several live call-outs and opportunities for individuals at all stages of their career. Now is the time to apply, nominate, and submit - and share!
More info via our website: https://loom.ly/VozIqKI
More info via our website: https://loom.ly/VozIqKI
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We currently have several live call-outs and opportunities for individuals at all stages of their career. Now is the time to apply, nominate, and submit - and share!
More info via our website: https://loom.ly/VozIqKI
More info via our website: https://loom.ly/VozIqKI
🎬 Studying Art History? We want your story
Enter our video competition - make a 90-second clip about what it’s really like to study art history.
More info: https://loom.ly/CDPGY2Y
Deadline: 5pm, 30 Oct.
Email entries to: info@forarthistory.org.uk
Enter our video competition - make a 90-second clip about what it’s really like to study art history.
More info: https://loom.ly/CDPGY2Y
Deadline: 5pm, 30 Oct.
Email entries to: info@forarthistory.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎬 Studying Art History? We want your story
Enter our video competition - make a 90-second clip about what it’s really like to study art history.
More info: https://loom.ly/CDPGY2Y
Deadline: 5pm, 30 Oct.
Email entries to: info@forarthistory.org.uk
Enter our video competition - make a 90-second clip about what it’s really like to study art history.
More info: https://loom.ly/CDPGY2Y
Deadline: 5pm, 30 Oct.
Email entries to: info@forarthistory.org.uk
We're hiring: Development Manager
We’re looking for a Development Manager to help grow support for the Association for Art History and advance our mission.
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We’re looking for a Development Manager to help grow support for the Association for Art History and advance our mission.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We're hiring: Development Manager
We’re looking for a Development Manager to help grow support for the Association for Art History and advance our mission.
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We’re looking for a Development Manager to help grow support for the Association for Art History and advance our mission.
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Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference
Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️
Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference
Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️
Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️
Now that the Art History Festival 2025 has wrapped, we wanted to share a memorable session from this year’s festival - Hew Locke in Conversation with Will Gompertz, exploring themes of migration, identity, and empire in contemporary artistic practice.
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
📸 Brian Benson
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
📸 Brian Benson
September 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Now that the Art History Festival 2025 has wrapped, we wanted to share a memorable session from this year’s festival - Hew Locke in Conversation with Will Gompertz, exploring themes of migration, identity, and empire in contemporary artistic practice.
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
📸 Brian Benson
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
📸 Brian Benson
Autumn Symposium 2025: Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present and Future
How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️
How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Autumn Symposium 2025: Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present and Future
How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️
How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️
That’s a wrap on the Art History Festival 2025 - thank you to all the artists, speakers, participants, and partners for a thought-provoking week of ideas and exchange across the UK.
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
That’s a wrap on the Art History Festival 2025 - thank you to all the artists, speakers, participants, and partners for a thought-provoking week of ideas and exchange across the UK.
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
#ArtHistoryFestival2025
A brilliant evening at the National Gallery full of insight, creativity, and engaging discussion, part of #ArtHistoryFestival2025. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Scroll through for highlights from the night!
📸 Frederique Cifuentes
📸 Frederique Cifuentes
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A brilliant evening at the National Gallery full of insight, creativity, and engaging discussion, part of #ArtHistoryFestival2025. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Scroll through for highlights from the night!
📸 Frederique Cifuentes
📸 Frederique Cifuentes
Halfway through our #ArtHistoryFestival2025! Last night’s Creative Resistance event brought powerful conversations and critical insights to the fore. With over 130 events across the UK and online, there’s still plenty more to engage with.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Halfway through our #ArtHistoryFestival2025! Last night’s Creative Resistance event brought powerful conversations and critical insights to the fore. With over 130 events across the UK and online, there’s still plenty more to engage with.
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What's on today at Art History Festival 2025:
🎨 AAH Key Event - Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us today for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and ⬇️
🎨 AAH Key Event - Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us today for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and ⬇️
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
What's on today at Art History Festival 2025:
🎨 AAH Key Event - Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us today for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and ⬇️
🎨 AAH Key Event - Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us today for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and ⬇️
Audio Art: Utterly in the Picture at @NationalGallery, today. 🎻🎨
Cellist Nina Plapp performs a newly composed piece inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised!, capturing the drama and mystery of the natural world through Rousseau’s vivid imagination. 🐅🌧️
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Cellist Nina Plapp performs a newly composed piece inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised!, capturing the drama and mystery of the natural world through Rousseau’s vivid imagination. 🐅🌧️
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September 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Audio Art: Utterly in the Picture at @NationalGallery, today. 🎻🎨
Cellist Nina Plapp performs a newly composed piece inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised!, capturing the drama and mystery of the natural world through Rousseau’s vivid imagination. 🐅🌧️
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Cellist Nina Plapp performs a newly composed piece inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised!, capturing the drama and mystery of the natural world through Rousseau’s vivid imagination. 🐅🌧️
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🇳🇬Curatorial Conversation - Museum Development in Nigeria: The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, part of Art History Festival 2025
Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African Art History, University of Leeds and Seun Oduwole, ⬇️
Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African Art History, University of Leeds and Seun Oduwole, ⬇️
September 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🇳🇬Curatorial Conversation - Museum Development in Nigeria: The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, part of Art History Festival 2025
Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African Art History, University of Leeds and Seun Oduwole, ⬇️
Will Rea, Senior Lecturer in African Art History, University of Leeds and Seun Oduwole, ⬇️
AAH Key Event, part of Art History Festival 2025, happening today:
🌎Art Nouveau and International Naturalism
📆Mon 15 Sept, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Leading art nouveau expert, Paul Greenhalgh, examines the relationship between Art Nouveau and nature – a key theme in his new book ⬇️
🌎Art Nouveau and International Naturalism
📆Mon 15 Sept, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Leading art nouveau expert, Paul Greenhalgh, examines the relationship between Art Nouveau and nature – a key theme in his new book ⬇️
September 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
AAH Key Event, part of Art History Festival 2025, happening today:
🌎Art Nouveau and International Naturalism
📆Mon 15 Sept, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Leading art nouveau expert, Paul Greenhalgh, examines the relationship between Art Nouveau and nature – a key theme in his new book ⬇️
🌎Art Nouveau and International Naturalism
📆Mon 15 Sept, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Leading art nouveau expert, Paul Greenhalgh, examines the relationship between Art Nouveau and nature – a key theme in his new book ⬇️
🎉 It’s here! 🎉
Today marks the start of Art History Festival 2025. Get curious, relax, have fun or learn something new at a free event online or at a venue near you, across the UK.
See our full programme: festival.forarthistory.org.uk
Today marks the start of Art History Festival 2025. Get curious, relax, have fun or learn something new at a free event online or at a venue near you, across the UK.
See our full programme: festival.forarthistory.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🎉 It’s here! 🎉
Today marks the start of Art History Festival 2025. Get curious, relax, have fun or learn something new at a free event online or at a venue near you, across the UK.
See our full programme: festival.forarthistory.org.uk
Today marks the start of Art History Festival 2025. Get curious, relax, have fun or learn something new at a free event online or at a venue near you, across the UK.
See our full programme: festival.forarthistory.org.uk
🌼 The Art of Science and Nature Trail – part of Art History Festival 2025
From the importance of green urban spaces for our wellbeing to emotive depictions of climate change, this trail invites you to discover new ways to explore the art of science and nature.
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From the importance of green urban spaces for our wellbeing to emotive depictions of climate change, this trail invites you to discover new ways to explore the art of science and nature.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🌼 The Art of Science and Nature Trail – part of Art History Festival 2025
From the importance of green urban spaces for our wellbeing to emotive depictions of climate change, this trail invites you to discover new ways to explore the art of science and nature.
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From the importance of green urban spaces for our wellbeing to emotive depictions of climate change, this trail invites you to discover new ways to explore the art of science and nature.
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🎨 Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us next Wednesday for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and speaks to resistance in our changing world, part of Art History Festival 2025. 🌍🖼️
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Join us next Wednesday for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and speaks to resistance in our changing world, part of Art History Festival 2025. 🌍🖼️
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September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🎨 Creative Resistance: An Evening of Art History Festival 2025
Join us next Wednesday for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and speaks to resistance in our changing world, part of Art History Festival 2025. 🌍🖼️
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Join us next Wednesday for an evening of VR experiences and critical conversations around how art shapes memory, sparks ecological awareness, and speaks to resistance in our changing world, part of Art History Festival 2025. 🌍🖼️
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