Association for Art History

🌿 Art, Nature & Wellbeing 🎨
This year’s #ArtHistoryFestival explores how art and the natural world inspire, restore & uplift — from Chinese calligraphy to contemporary eco-art.

🗓 15–21 Sept 2025 | Free events UK-wide & online
Browse events: https://loom.ly/jYycklc

Image: Nature Prints and Patterns, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Q: What is the #ArtHistoryFestival?

A: A UK-wide, free celebration of the people who study and share art, with talks, tours & workshops across the country & online.

join us!
👀 Browse events: https://loom.ly/jYycklc
📣 Submit yours: https://loom.ly/HHW1m2o

This year’s theme explores the deep connection between art and nature, and how creativity can support well-being and inspire change.

View the full programme: loom.ly/jYycklc

📸 Spiral Jetty - Smithson Laramee.
Event: Art & Environment: an introduction to earthworks. @citylit.bsky.social

What will you see in this year's #ArtHistoryFestival?

The Art History Festival is back from 15–21 September 2025 – all across the UK.

Whether you're into quiet gallery tours, hands-on workshops, curators talks, or enjoying outside walks amongst artworks – there's something for everyone.

Image: Art History Festival 2024 - Participating artists and visitors attending Aso là ´nkí, kí a tó ki ènìyàn – We greet the cloth before we greet its wearer, the inaugural exhibition at the G.A.S. Farm House curated by Miriam Bettin. Image courtesy of Guest Artists Space Foundation.

📆 Monday 15 - Sunday 21 September 2025
🔗 Browse events: loom.ly/7AgWu-s

Watch this space for details on our special events programme soon.

📣 Art History Festival 2025 📣

We are thrilled to announce the return of our UK-wide #ArtHistoryFestival2025. Join us this Sept. for a week of free talks, tours, workshops and more.

Now in it's 5th year, the festival celebrates the richness of art history and the people who bring it to life.

will prove invaluable to strengthening the AAH’s ability to serve the field and our communities. I look forward to working with them all.”
Chris Breward, Chair of Association for Art History

strengthening our ability to support the field of art history in all its forms.

"We’re delighted to welcome Annabelle, Belinda, Dionne and Halle to the Board. I’m confident that their collective experience, from academic research and public engagement to communications, strategy, and fundraising, ⬇️

The Association for Art History is pleased to welcome four new members to its Board of Trustees: Annabelle Scholar, Belinda Bowring, Dionne Griffith and ‪@halleoneal.bsky.social‬. Together, they bring a rich breadth of experience from across academia and the creative sector, ⬇️

Just 24 hours to submit your session proposals for the 2026 AAH Conference!

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Just 24 hours to get your 2026 AAH Conference session submissions in!
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hosted in collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Department of History of Art.

Submit your session proposals by Tuesday 1 July 2025 and help shape one of the UK’s leading events for art history and visual culture.
Open to members and non-members alike.

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🔔 Deadline Reminder: Tuesday 1 July 🔔
Call for Sessions: AAH 2026 Annual Conference

Interested in sharing your research with an international community of art historians, curators, and creatives? Submit a session proposal for the 2026 Annual Conference, ⬇️

We are bidding a warm farewell to some of our Trustees who have been on the AAH board since 2019, each completing two three-years terms. Thank you for your support, Jorella Andrews, Emma Black, Kat Havelock, and Neil Walton.

🚨 Happening today:
Join us online at 5:30pm (BST) for our June Curatorial Conversation: "European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King".

🎟️ Free to attend online. Book via: 🔗 https://loom.ly/-ETVMgY

Organised by @decrarthistory.bsky.social with @warburginstitute.bsky.social

3. Cambridge calling: Present your work in one of the most iconic academic cities in the world!

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday 1 July 2025
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1. Share your brilliance: Got big ideas, bold questions, or niche obsessions? This is your moment to spark conversations that matter.

2. Find your people: Connect with fellow art historians, curious minds, and potential collaborators who love what you love

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Need some Monday motivation for submitting your session proposal for our 2026 Art History Conference? Here you go!

Three reasons why you should submit a session proposal for the Art History 2026 Conference:
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📆 Wednesday 18 June 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm
📍Online
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Image: Canova Fountain Nymph, marble (1819), Grand Entrance & Marble Hall, Buckingham Palace: Royal Collection Trust

1300 catalogue entries, this is the latest instalment in a century-long endeavour to bring the Royal Collection into the domains of wider scholarship and public enjoyment. The catalogue is due to appear in September 2025, the culmination of 27 years of work. ⬇️

University of London Director) and Gregory Perry (CEO, Association for Art History).

Join us online for the next instalment of our Curatorial Conversation series, on the imminent publication of European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King. Running to four volumes with ⬇️

Reminder about our June Curatorial Conversations event next Wednesday!

Curatorial Conversations: European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty The King

Jonathan Marsden (former Director of the Royal Collection Trust) in conversation with Bill Sherman (The Warburg Institute, ⬇️

If you are interested in joining or learning more about the group, contact us at info@forarthistory.org.uk.

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AAH works with its Art Market Steering Group to help students and young people to learn about, and enter into, careers in all aspects of art trade. The group works in an advisory, volunteer capacity and meets several times per year. ⬇️

For more information and to submit a proposal see the 2026 Session Proposal Form and email it to: conference2026@forarthistory.org.uk
🔗 Details & submission form: loom.ly/dgUyRps

Image: Photo by Meet Cambridge.

The 2026 Annual Conference is open to all, members and non-members of the Association for Art History. Anyone can submit a session proposal. Speakers and conveners pay to attend.

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Members of the Association get reduced conference rates, and members and non-members are welcome to attend and propose sessions and papers. Convenors are limited to convening one session, and we ask that speakers give a paper in one session only.

The Annual Conference attracts around 400 attendees each year and is popular with academics, curators, practitioners, PhD students, early career researchers and anyone engaged with art history research. ⬇️