The Warburg Institute

The Warburg Institute The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.

Study with leading scholars, explore our world-renowned collections, and experience our programme of exhibitions and events. The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with a special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Lib

rary, Photographic Collection and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and a prestigious events and publication programme.

Our upcoming exhibition The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026) transforms the gallery into a listening room in the styl...
04/06/2026

Our upcoming exhibition The Department of Euterpe (1926 – 2026) transforms the gallery into a listening room in the style of a haphazard office, archive and audio laboratory.

Hosting the clerical afterlife of an imagined department of the Warburg Institute, visitors will enter a space to listen to and reflect on what happens when private collections become public, and subculture finds a temporary home in academic institutions. The public programme will encompass talks, concerts, regular broadcasts on NTS Radio, and office hours to visit the Department of Euterpe’s record collection.

Find out more ➡️ https://buff.ly/Nxul8Lf

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”― François de la Rochefoucauld.On 19 June, expert scholars f...
28/05/2026

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
― François de la Rochefoucauld.

On 19 June, expert scholars from the Warburg, University of Oxford and University of Bern will map out the relationship between migration and food history in the Renaissance between 1500-1800, and the ongoing impact of this today. Supported by the John Coffin Memorial Trust and with a special buffet of historically-themed foods catered by Gather and Gather, this public event showcases new research revealing how Western European dietary habits at this time were shaped by contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean world, and the ongoing impact of this today.

The panel: Lavinia Gambini, Anastasia Stylianou and Federica Gigante.

Date and time:
19 Jun 2026
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue:
The Warburg Institute, Bloomsbury (and online, by registration)

Places are limited - book now ➡️ https://buff.ly/hd9xWfW

In the Warburg, we celebrate true scholarship in art and culture.Heidi Heimann was not only a celebrated writer, photogr...
28/05/2026

In the Warburg, we celebrate true scholarship in art and culture.

Heidi Heimann was not only a celebrated writer, photographer and medieval iconographer - she worked as a curator here in The Warburg Institute also, helping to found our London legacy.

In the 2026 Wohl Lecture, Professor Paul Taylor, Curator of our photographic collection, explored Heimann's life with a focus on her work as a literary critic.

Watch now ➡️ https://buff.ly/A1uXtY5

This May, visitors to the Warburg have enjoyed 'Relics', a fascinating exhibition in our gallery created by students fro...
26/05/2026

This May, visitors to the Warburg have enjoyed 'Relics', a fascinating exhibition in our gallery created by students from the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture. The show brings together three interlinked exhibitions, and for it the students availed of the riches of the Warburg’s Library, Archive and Photographic Collection, and related them to new and recent works by PhD artists from the Slade School of Fine Art.

Our new blog explores how they made the show happen, from conception to realisation.

Read now ➡️ https://buff.ly/CcJN0Oy

*Relics closes 3 June.*



Our new blog explores how they made the show happen, from conception to realisation.

Read now ➡️ https://buff.ly/CcJN0Oy

*Call for Papers* The Society for Renaissance Studies has announced its next conference, and made its Call for Papers, c...
21/05/2026

*Call for Papers*

The Society for Renaissance Studies has announced its next conference, and made its Call for Papers, closing 25 September 2026.

'The Renaissance beyond Borders' envisions the Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chronological and geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, it encourages narratives that trace the movement of ideas, texts, images, everyday artefacts and peoples across regions from the Mediterranean to Asia and the Americas.

For this iteration of the conference, papers are invited on the following core themes: 'The Renaissance Beyond Europe; 'Beyond the Medieval-Renaissance Divide'; 'London as Global City (including Migration and Multilingualism)' and 'Object-Based Research'. Submissions can also be considered under the 'Open' strand, for proposals that are not connected to those aforementioned core theme(s).

Submit your paper now ➡️ https://buff.ly/91FCXvj

How can major art galleries thrive and deliver their civic mission in a complicated modern society? Our 'Curatorial Conv...
20/05/2026

How can major art galleries thrive and deliver their civic mission in a complicated modern society?

Our 'Curatorial Conversations' series invites museum directors and curators of recent exhibitions and installations at world-leading museums and galleries to discuss their work.

Join the Warburg and the Association for Art History in an online conversation with Kim Sajet, erstwhile Director of the National Portrait Gallery USA in Washington D.C. and now Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Kim Sajet has more than two decades of experience leading major cultural institutions and shaping museums as a place for dialogue, scholarship, and public engagement.

Book now for what should be an enlightening discussion about art, curation, challenge and public discourse.

Details:
Online
26 May 2026
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Book your free ticket now ➡️ https://buff.ly/ZtdCnMv

Our current, free and fascinating exhibition 'Relics' brings together three rooms of artefacts curated by our students o...
19/05/2026

Our current, free and fascinating exhibition 'Relics' brings together three rooms of artefacts curated by our students on the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture. Drawing on our unique Library, Archive and Photographic collections, the exhibitions also include new and recent works by PhD artists from the (whose studios are housed on the top floor of the Institute), creating a unique engagement between our historical collections and contemporary artistic practice.

Room 1 is 'Engrams', an exhibition which explores how images and practices retain significance and can be brought into the present through artistic work.

Find out more and visit ➡️ https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/relics

Research is central to what we do in the Warburg, and our research excellence is what makes the Institute such a unique ...
14/05/2026

Research is central to what we do in the Warburg, and our research excellence is what makes the Institute such a unique crucible of creativity for scholars, curators, artists, and those whose work transcends traditional academic structures.

We are delighted to announce our cohort of fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year, supporting dynamic and interdisciplinary research by our fellows across a wide array of academic disciplines. The new Fellows are:

Alex Tadel, Immacolata Iaccarino, Rebecca Yuste, Ilenia Russo, Nicola de Nisco, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Nicolas Liney, Claire Litt and Sarah Carter.

The newly appointed fellows will benefit from and contribute to our vibrant intellectual community and carry the cultural conversation forward. Warmest congratulations to the new Fellows. 🎉

Learn more ➡️ https://buff.ly/xS3y67E

Dr Kristen Lippincott gave a fascinating lecture in The Warburg Institute, University of London recently, discussing art...
13/05/2026

Dr Kristen Lippincott gave a fascinating lecture in The Warburg Institute, University of London recently, discussing artworks from c15th Italy kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma - Ufficio Pr.

The lecture focussed on a set of drawings that preserve one of the earliest records of the appearance of the constellation figures on a celestial globe from the early modern period. Created sometime between 1460 and 1470 by a Florentine artist closely connected with the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli, the drawings are based on models created by the German cartographer, Donnus Nicholaus Germanus. They highlight not only the complex international nature of the transmission of information, ideas and images across Europe during the fifteenth century, but also demonstrate how the vital exchanges that took place during this period operated reciprocally on several levels: culturally, scientifically and artistically.

Watch the video now ➡️ https://buff.ly/Vpi0hua

🎉 Congratulations to the Warburg Institute Frances Yates Long Term Fellow Xinyi Wen whose article, 'When Jupiter Meets S...
13/05/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the Warburg Institute Frances Yates Long Term Fellow Xinyi Wen whose article, 'When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment' (Journal of the History of Ideas, 2024), has just received the 2026 Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte, from the German Association for the History of Medicine.

This prestigious award is for the best article on the history of medicine published in the past two years by an early-career scholar.

Xinyi’s article explores the interwar politics of the study of early modern astrological medicine through the encounter between our institute’s founder Aby Warburg and medical historian Karl Sudhoff. It was written using extensive materials from the Warburg Institute’s library, archive, and photographic collections.

Find out more ➡️ https://fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/

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