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For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’.

🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Abstract In this article I integrate school drama, mainly in Latin, with other types of drama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I do so by exploring connections between adaptations of…

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has published a new article from its upcoming 2025 volume!

‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,

How Things Can Be Used: Aby Warburg’s Zettelkästen, Materiality, and Affordances In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of the Zettelkästen.

How did Aby Warburg use his ninety-nine Zettelkästen as tools for thinking, organising, and connecting ideas?

In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today

Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined

Join us online tomorrow for 'Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined'.

Juliet Simpson & Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art & worldviews to our sense of modernity

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Lauren Laverne - Jump start your mid-morning with the biggest and brightest tunes - BBC Sounds Lauren welcomes you to a brand new week with uplifting tunes.

Edward George appeared on @6music.bsky.social today in a feature about Black Atlas!

Tune in here (from 2h 9m) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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

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Photo: Kythera Gallery featuring library of exile by Edmund de Waal ©Hufton+Crow

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...

The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon This conference marks the publication of the new, expanded edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s seminal Taste and the Antique

Explore how classical statues shaped visual culture beyond replication in this @ics.bsky.social conference 'The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon'.

10-12 December 2025 | 📍 Senate House

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#ClassicalStudies #Classics #VisualCulture

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/...

Detail view of books on a table in the Reading Room

Detail view of books on a table in the Reading Room

Detail view of books on a table in the Reading Room

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

Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…

How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Life after the Warburg: Paloma Ley Warburg alumna Paloma Ley discusses her AHRC-funded PhD, her experiences of working in museums, and how her MA at the Warburg continues to influence her research and career.

"In both my museum jobs I’ve seen the benefits of the kind of interdisciplinary and collaborative environment that the Warburg promotes."

In our latest 'Life after the Warburg' we caught up with Warburg alumna Paloma Ley:

Edward George: The Strangeness of Warburg To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.

Now available to watch!

To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.

Watch and listen here:

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

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)

Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined This event explores the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.

At the next Warburg Director’s Seminar (3 Dec), Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — the international project, book and touring exhibition exploring the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.

#GothicArt #ArtHistory #Gothic

'The Cosmic Oval' by Ella Finer - Photo by Tarlan Lotfizadeh

The Cosmic Oval - Photo by Charles Jencks

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/...

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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/...

Who Are You Looking At? Opening up Edward George’s ‘Black Atlas’ Artist and filmmaker Edward George’s cinematic reactivation of the ‘Image of the Black’ archive spotlights how curation affects our interpretation of images, Finn Blythe writes.

"Watching 'Black Atlas', one is struck by the oscillation between intimacy and distance."

Read this @ocula.com feature on Edward George’s 'Black Atlas', on view at the Warburg Institute until 17 January 2026.

ocula.com/magazine/spo...

Renaissance Lives | Memling and the Merchants 'Memling and the Merchants' explores the social and material aspects of Memling’s career and workshop.

Listen now to our latest Renaissance Lives talk with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

'Memling and the Merchants' explores the social and material aspects of Memling’s career and workshop.

#CulturalHistory

Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined This event explores the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.

Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein in conversation with Bill Sherman exploring the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.

📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg

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#GothicModern #ArtHistory #Modernity

Distilling The Alchemical Feminine Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Distilling The Alchemical Feminine

📅 19 Nov, 6–8pm

Dr M.E. Warlick explores how changing ideas of gender and sexuality shaped alchemical imagery from late antiquity to the early modern period — marking the launch of The Alchemical Feminine (Fulgur Press, 2025).

📚 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

Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds

Join us tomorrow to explore the life and ideas of Franz Boas with Noga Arikha and John Tresch.

🗓️ 11 Nov 2025, 6pm | 📍 Warburg Institute | Free with advance booking

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#FranzBoas #CulturalAnthropology

The Warburg makes its late night debut ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ took an unexpected turn with Florence Welch’s recent shout-out to Aby Warburg’s unique book classification system

Love this @warburginstitute.bsky.social !

We are looking forward to the launch of Conversation Time by Rey Conquer and Klutz by Tom Hastings at the Warburg Institute ( @warburginstitute.bsky.social) in London next week on November 13th, 6.30-8.30pm.

🎟️ Book your free ticket here: bit.ly/43aUH7n

The Cosmic Oval: Ella Finer and Marina Warner in Conversation Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join us 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 Institute | Free

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

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!

The Image of the Black Archive: Past, Present and Future This two-day international conference brings together scholars who have contributed to the project over its history and those producing new research on the historic representation of African people in European and American art and culture.

Plus you can still join online our upcoming conference this week on the Image of the Black archive that Hannah is co-organising: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...