The Warburg Institute
@warburginstitute.bsky.social
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Join us for the first event in this year’s @amaterialworld.bsky.social series.
Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Join us for the first event in this year’s @amaterialworld.bsky.social series.
Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’
🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence are now open!
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Our Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence are now open!
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
How does the Gothic shape modern art?
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How does the Gothic shape modern art?
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our Reading Room has a refreshed New Acquisitions Table!
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Our Reading Room has a refreshed New Acquisitions Table!
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.
You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.
#Library
It depicts the sort of person who might be produced by each horoscope. In this case, the person born with this horoscope is destined to feel very cold!
📖 Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens (1540), Warburg Rare Books FAH 2180
📖 Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens (1540), Warburg Rare Books FAH 2180
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It depicts the sort of person who might be produced by each horoscope. In this case, the person born with this horoscope is destined to feel very cold!
📖 Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens (1540), Warburg Rare Books FAH 2180
📖 Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens (1540), Warburg Rare Books FAH 2180
Winter wardrobe inspiration from the 15th century - this is how we’ll be dressed now that the weather is getting chilly 🥶
This illustrated horoscope comes from an astrological treatise written by Joannes Angelus in 1488 (our copy of the book is a later edition printed in 1540)
This illustrated horoscope comes from an astrological treatise written by Joannes Angelus in 1488 (our copy of the book is a later edition printed in 1540)
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Winter wardrobe inspiration from the 15th century - this is how we’ll be dressed now that the weather is getting chilly 🥶
This illustrated horoscope comes from an astrological treatise written by Joannes Angelus in 1488 (our copy of the book is a later edition printed in 1540)
This illustrated horoscope comes from an astrological treatise written by Joannes Angelus in 1488 (our copy of the book is a later edition printed in 1540)
Join us next week for an evening of conversation with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner.
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg | Free
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg | Free
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Join us next week for an evening of conversation with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner.
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg | Free
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg | Free
In our latest Life after the Warburg interview, alumna Paloma Ley discusses her AHRC-funded PhD, her experiences working at leading museums, and how her MA at the Warburg continues to shape her research and career.
Read the full interview: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Read the full interview: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In our latest Life after the Warburg interview, alumna Paloma Ley discusses her AHRC-funded PhD, her experiences working at leading museums, and how her MA at the Warburg continues to shape her research and career.
Read the full interview: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Read the full interview: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Library's Reading Room has been updated!
With books on gardens and academies in Early Modern Italy, Bellini, and medieval love letters, there is something for everyone. 📚
#EarlyModern #Medieval #Library #LibraryBooks
With books on gardens and academies in Early Modern Italy, Bellini, and medieval love letters, there is something for everyone. 📚
#EarlyModern #Medieval #Library #LibraryBooks
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Library's Reading Room has been updated!
With books on gardens and academies in Early Modern Italy, Bellini, and medieval love letters, there is something for everyone. 📚
#EarlyModern #Medieval #Library #LibraryBooks
With books on gardens and academies in Early Modern Italy, Bellini, and medieval love letters, there is something for everyone. 📚
#EarlyModern #Medieval #Library #LibraryBooks
From God the Geometer to Brunelleschi’s dome — architect Mojan Kavosh traces how measurement shaped perspective, and asks what happens when geometry gives way to the digital.
Read her Warburg blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory
Read her Warburg blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
From God the Geometer to Brunelleschi’s dome — architect Mojan Kavosh traces how measurement shaped perspective, and asks what happens when geometry gives way to the digital.
Read her Warburg blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory
Read her Warburg blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory
The new acquisitions table in our Library's Reading Room has been updated!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The new acquisitions table in our Library's Reading Room has been updated!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
We loved hearing Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine talk about using the Warburg Library while researching for her new album on @latenightseth.bsky.social 💫
Congratulations to Florence on the release of Everybody Scream!
Watch “Evelyn’s daughter” (from 2:40): youtu.be/M_mc_gErXX0?...
Congratulations to Florence on the release of Everybody Scream!
Watch “Evelyn’s daughter” (from 2:40): youtu.be/M_mc_gErXX0?...
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We loved hearing Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine talk about using the Warburg Library while researching for her new album on @latenightseth.bsky.social 💫
Congratulations to Florence on the release of Everybody Scream!
Watch “Evelyn’s daughter” (from 2:40): youtu.be/M_mc_gErXX0?...
Congratulations to Florence on the release of Everybody Scream!
Watch “Evelyn’s daughter” (from 2:40): youtu.be/M_mc_gErXX0?...
👻 In our latest blog, our Graduate Library Trainees dive into the Warburg Library’s Subject Catalogue to uncover where witchcraft, vampires and ghosts are hiding among the stacks.
Read the blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgLibrary #Halloween #Library #Librarys
Read the blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgLibrary #Halloween #Library #Librarys
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
👻 In our latest blog, our Graduate Library Trainees dive into the Warburg Library’s Subject Catalogue to uncover where witchcraft, vampires and ghosts are hiding among the stacks.
Read the blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgLibrary #Halloween #Library #Librarys
Read the blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#WarburgLibrary #Halloween #Library #Librarys
Have you seen Black Atlas yet?
Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Have you seen Black Atlas yet?
Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Conversation Time by Rey Conquer and Klutz by Tom Hastings.
Both Conquer and Hastings respond to letters, postcards and telegrams sent between 1938 and 1946 from the Holocaust Centre North Archive: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ 13 Nov 2025 | 6.30pm
Both Conquer and Hastings respond to letters, postcards and telegrams sent between 1938 and 1946 from the Holocaust Centre North Archive: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ 13 Nov 2025 | 6.30pm
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Conversation Time by Rey Conquer and Klutz by Tom Hastings.
Both Conquer and Hastings respond to letters, postcards and telegrams sent between 1938 and 1946 from the Holocaust Centre North Archive: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ 13 Nov 2025 | 6.30pm
Both Conquer and Hastings respond to letters, postcards and telegrams sent between 1938 and 1946 from the Holocaust Centre North Archive: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ 13 Nov 2025 | 6.30pm
Why did English scholars in the 1500s and 1600s start learning Arabic?
Join Prof. Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown for a five-day course uncovering the first generation of English Arabists, from William Bedwell to the beginnings of Arabic printing.
📍 Warburg Institute
🗓️ 3–7 Nov 2025 | 11am–1pm
Join Prof. Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown for a five-day course uncovering the first generation of English Arabists, from William Bedwell to the beginnings of Arabic printing.
📍 Warburg Institute
🗓️ 3–7 Nov 2025 | 11am–1pm
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Why did English scholars in the 1500s and 1600s start learning Arabic?
Join Prof. Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown for a five-day course uncovering the first generation of English Arabists, from William Bedwell to the beginnings of Arabic printing.
📍 Warburg Institute
🗓️ 3–7 Nov 2025 | 11am–1pm
Join Prof. Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown for a five-day course uncovering the first generation of English Arabists, from William Bedwell to the beginnings of Arabic printing.
📍 Warburg Institute
🗓️ 3–7 Nov 2025 | 11am–1pm
How have people of African descent been represented in art, travel literature and visual culture?
Join our 3-day course (25–27 Nov) on the Image of the Black archive, including a screening, exhibition tour and curator talk.
📍 Warburg Institute, London
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join our 3-day course (25–27 Nov) on the Image of the Black archive, including a screening, exhibition tour and curator talk.
📍 Warburg Institute, London
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How have people of African descent been represented in art, travel literature and visual culture?
Join our 3-day course (25–27 Nov) on the Image of the Black archive, including a screening, exhibition tour and curator talk.
📍 Warburg Institute, London
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join our 3-day course (25–27 Nov) on the Image of the Black archive, including a screening, exhibition tour and curator talk.
📍 Warburg Institute, London
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Reading Room of the Library has been refreshed!
Find research containing metalogues on issues in philosophy and anthropology, late Mamluk regimen for travellers as well as art books on silk and Caravaggio.
#library #librarybooks #philosophy #mamluk #caravaggio
Find research containing metalogues on issues in philosophy and anthropology, late Mamluk regimen for travellers as well as art books on silk and Caravaggio.
#library #librarybooks #philosophy #mamluk #caravaggio
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Reading Room of the Library has been refreshed!
Find research containing metalogues on issues in philosophy and anthropology, late Mamluk regimen for travellers as well as art books on silk and Caravaggio.
#library #librarybooks #philosophy #mamluk #caravaggio
Find research containing metalogues on issues in philosophy and anthropology, late Mamluk regimen for travellers as well as art books on silk and Caravaggio.
#library #librarybooks #philosophy #mamluk #caravaggio
Congratulations to Haworth Tompkins, architects of the Warburg Renaissance, who have won Higher Education Architect of the Year!
The award recognises their work across several educational projects, including the £14.5m transformation of our Bloomsbury home.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The award recognises their work across several educational projects, including the £14.5m transformation of our Bloomsbury home.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Congratulations to Haworth Tompkins, architects of the Warburg Renaissance, who have won Higher Education Architect of the Year!
The award recognises their work across several educational projects, including the £14.5m transformation of our Bloomsbury home.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The award recognises their work across several educational projects, including the £14.5m transformation of our Bloomsbury home.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Black Atlas is now open ✨
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Black Atlas is now open ✨
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Reading Room of the Library has been updated!
Find books on Luther, Dante, Petrarch and the Magic of Drawing. You can also check out the 'Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation', with contributions from Warburg Honorary Fellow Alastair Hamilton.
Find books on Luther, Dante, Petrarch and the Magic of Drawing. You can also check out the 'Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation', with contributions from Warburg Honorary Fellow Alastair Hamilton.
October 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📚 The new acquisitions table in the Reading Room of the Library has been updated!
Find books on Luther, Dante, Petrarch and the Magic of Drawing. You can also check out the 'Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation', with contributions from Warburg Honorary Fellow Alastair Hamilton.
Find books on Luther, Dante, Petrarch and the Magic of Drawing. You can also check out the 'Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation', with contributions from Warburg Honorary Fellow Alastair Hamilton.
✨Opening next week ✨
Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!
Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!
Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
✨Opening next week ✨
Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!
Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!
Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
We’re honoured to host a special event this afternoon with @icws-sas.bsky.social & @ials.bsky.social: Albie Sachs in Conversation.
The anti-apartheid activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court judge is sharing his experiences of overcoming adversity and reflecting on his time at the ICWS
The anti-apartheid activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court judge is sharing his experiences of overcoming adversity and reflecting on his time at the ICWS
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We’re honoured to host a special event this afternoon with @icws-sas.bsky.social & @ials.bsky.social: Albie Sachs in Conversation.
The anti-apartheid activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court judge is sharing his experiences of overcoming adversity and reflecting on his time at the ICWS
The anti-apartheid activist, writer, and former Constitutional Court judge is sharing his experiences of overcoming adversity and reflecting on his time at the ICWS
A big welcome to all of our new students starting this week, pictured here in our auditorium!
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A big welcome to all of our new students starting this week, pictured here in our auditorium!