Octavia Elfrida Saunders Memorial Lecture 2026
Professor Craig Clunas: 'Painting the Learned Woman in Ming China'
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Coming soon:
Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina’i Ware Bowls: Dr Richard Piran McClary
All welcome. Check poster for more information!
📷 Modern forgery of a mina'i bowl, formerly owned by Harvey B. Plotnik
Coming soon! Elizabeth J. Petcu (The University of Edinburgh) on "Dürer's Precision".
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Today is the day! Looking forward to welcoming Lucy Beall Lott from @arthistorysta.bsky.social! Remember to sign up by following the link below!
Happy Lunar New Year - welcome to the Year of the Horse! 🧧🐎
Wishing all our students, staff, alumni and friends, in St Andrews and around the world, a very happy and prosperous Spring Festival.
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Coming soon! Elizabeth J. Petcu (The University of Edinburgh) on "Dürer's Precision".
All welcome! Check poster for more details!
From our latest issue on 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe' by Stephanie O'Rourke (@arthistorysta.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-5/
Text reads: Find artworks for your exam board themes: Students! Find inspiration for your Art & Design A Level 🎨🖼️ Edexcel (Origins) OCR (Shadows, Cubism, Skeletal, Messages and messengers, Scale, Migration, Protest) CCEA (Narrative) AQA (Interiors, Elaborate, Flocks and herds, Dramatic scenery, Reliefs, Groups of people, Technology) With a colourful mural underneath
Students! Are you looking for inspiration for your Art & Design A Level? 🖼️
Our new learning resources have plenty of artworks on your exam themes to get you started 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/view_as/grid/search/2026--lr_resource:exam-support--lrresource_auto:a-level-2026
New series 🎥✨
We visited 'From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ at University of St Andrews' Wardlaw Museum.
Explore the work of Mhairi Killin and John Duncan Fergusson in the last episode 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1mLUHO6h0
#RSA200 Royal Scottish Academy
Mark your calendars ✨ On 17 Feb, Lucy Beall Lott of
@arthistorysta.bsky.social will present: ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes': Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey
🗓️ 17 Feb
⏰ 17:30 GMT
🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE
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New series 🎥✨
We visited the 'These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ exhibition at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Wardlaw Museum
Assistant Curator Struan Watson guides us through the work of William McTaggart and Callum Innes in the first episode 👉 youtu.be/MoTTAHBNtJQ?...
A still life painting featuring a basket of assorted fruits, a silver pitcher, a glass of white wine, and a vase of blooming flowers on a dark background.
It's quiz time ⏲️
How much do you know about still life? Take our quiz to find out!
👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-still-life/
Made in collaboration with School of Art History
'Still Life of Fruit and Flowers' by Clara Peeters (c.1585–c.1655) 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Out now! "A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present", edited/introduced by the School's Professor Natalie Adamson
and Professor Richard Taws (UCL). For more info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...
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Coming soon!
School of Art History Spring Lecture Series. All welcome!
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New publication: In 'Digital Museum Objects and Digital Ecologies', published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Dr Nicôle Meehan draws attention to barriers to access that many audiences experience when attempting to access digital heritage. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...
Interested in online study?
Join us for a fascinating series of short courses covering subjects such as the History of Scottish Design with @vadundee.bsky.social, Women and Modern Art, and AI in the GLAM sector!
Starting 12 January 2026.
Book now!
👉 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online...
Interested in online study?
Join us for a fascinating series of short courses covering subjects such as the History of Scottish Design with @vadundee.bsky.social, Women and Modern Art, and AI in the GLAM sector!
Starting 12 January 2026.
Book now!
👉 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online...
🎉🎓The School would like to congratulate all our wonderful students who graduated at this week’s Winter Graduation ceremony. The weather was mixed but spirits were not dampened!
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Well done all! #EverToExcel
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ICOM, launches its new publication, 'The Museum Definition Handbook: Words Inspiring Action', co-authored by the School of Art History's Bruno Brulon Soares.
'The Museum Definition Handbook' addresses and analyses each term that appears within the definition.
👉 icom.museum/.../publicat...
'Invisible Loot: Maritime Warfare and Circulating Objects in Hugo Grotius’s De Jure Praedae' in 'Early Modern Low Countries' (9: 2, 2025). @elsjevankessel.bsky.social rethinks early modern looting – its theory, its practice, and its place in the violence of war.
👉 emlc-journal.org/article/view...
Call for Papers: In Her Words.
21 November 2025
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, 19 June 2025
For more info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...
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Award News!!!
The School of Art History–led Shared Island Stories research project has been announced as the winner of the inaugural International Council of Museums (ICOM) Award for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums.
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Call for Papers: In Her Words.
21 November 2025
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, 19 June 2025
For more info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Thinking about studying Art History or History of Photography at the University of St Andrews?
Join us for an Online Postgraduate Visiting Day on 24th November.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/meet-u...
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Art History Research Lecture given by Professor Victoria Horne on Wednesday 12 November 2025, 4pm, School 3. All welcome!
See poster for more details.
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Publication news: The School's Dr Ruth Ezra extends the book metaphor in this text exploring the use of mica in contemporary art, outlining the social, economic, and cultural histories of mica, from its extraction to its transformation: espaceartactuel.com/en/produit/1...
An exhibition by our colleague Dr Shona Kallestrup, on Queen Marie of Romania, was the subject of a documentary on Romanian national television last week: Ora regelui: Maria a Romaniei, Regina-artista.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuU...
Thursday 25th November: Curators in Conversation
Niamh Finlay: Curating the Climate Crisis: Waters Rising at Perth Museum
4.00pm. School 2, St Salvator's Quad, St Andrews
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