*TONIGHT* to mark the UK launch of 'In the House of the Trembling Eye', artist Allison Katz and poet Ariana Reines discuss art, philosophy, creativity and art history.
*TONIGHT*
7:00 to 8:30 pm
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
Free - book now ➡️ tinyurl.com/2dtjpjje
#aspenartmuseum
In our recent 'Curatorial Conversations' talk, the groundbreaking multi-year digital #culturalcollaboration between the #Rijksmuseum and the #Getty. was discussed
by Saskia Scheltjens (Rijksmuseum), David Newbury (Getty Trust) and Bill Sherman (the Warburg).
Watch now ➡️ tinyurl.com/3utrnakz
'Window' by Sam Keogh, 2026
As part of our current exhibition 'Conspiracies' by Sam Keogh , we are delighted to announce a new print for sale, specific to the show. This special work is limited to an edition of 30 and is on sale now, priced at £300.
Buy now ➡️ universityoflondon.estore.flywire.com/products/win...
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How have artistic and cultural iconologies been challenged and updated by the work of gay artists? Dieison Marconi has written a new blog analysing the theoretical connections between the work of our founder Aby Warburg, and Queer Studies.
Read now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#QueerStudies
On the occasion of the UK launch of the book 'In the House of the Trembling Eye', artist Allison Katz and poet Ariana Reines discuss Warburgian philosophy, creativity and art history.
21 April 2026
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
Book now ➡️ tinyurl.com/2dtjpjje
The Warburg Institute is delighted to announce the names of the creative practitioners selected for its second cohort of the annual Assetto Fellowships: Fabiola Alondra, Matheus Rocha Pita and James Wilkes.
Find out more about our new Assetto Fellows ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#funding
The Warburg's Iconographic Database is an art-historical image resource that lets you browse works by subject matter or iconography, bringing together around 100,000 images (mostly from the Photographic Collection) spanning the Stone Age to the present: iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
As spring bulbs come into flower outside the Warburg in Gordon Square, we’re taking a closer look at the tulip, one of the flowers that mark the beginning of spring 🌷
Here are some examples from our Iconographic Database.
In a change to the advertised programme, Caspar Heinemann will be in conversation with Conspiracies curator Larne Abse Gogarty. Warburg Institute, Tues 24 March 2026: 7.00pm warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Handmade by re-wrap, the Blue Warburg X re-wrap Book Bag is a 100% organic cotton canvas tote, made to carry all your books.
Purchase yours here: universityoflondon.estore.flywire.com/products/blu...
Join the Maps and Society lecture series for Mimi Cheng (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): ‘Aesthetics and Authority in 19th Century Maps of China’.
26 March, 5pm - 7pm
Free in person or online with advance booking.
The culture and politics of our present are subject to the rapid, shape-shifting spread of conspiracy.
Conspiracies traces how seductive fictions claiming to expose hidden power recur across history, and how they shape ideas of fate and fortune.
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Jennifer Nelson joins Caspar Heinemann for “Jerusalem 0 - 0 Athens” at the Warburg Institute, as part of Conspiracies.
24 March 2026, 7–8:30pm
Free, advance booking required.
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Francis I of France led one of the most colourful and influential courts of the sixteenth century.
Join Glenn Richardson in conversation with Penny Roberts for Renaissance Lives: ‘Francis I The Knight-King’.
19 March, 5:30pm to 7pm | Online
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a flourishing of interest in the Arabic language across Christian Europe.
This in-person short course examines the reasons for studying Arabic in England, the manner in which it was done and the results to which it led.
Our current exhibition Conspiracies takes fortune as a thread, with two Bilderatlas Mnemosyne panels installed in the gallery as a point of contact for the contemporary works.
Free entry, no booking required.
Live at the Warburg: Next week Sam Keogh activates his collaged drawing in Conspiracies with a performance and dialogue between two characters hunting “The Secret Identity Stamp of the Peasants”.
11 March 2026, 7–8:30pm
Free, booking required
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A Globe Maker’s Model Book from Florence: Nicholaus Germanus and the production of globes in fifteenth-century Italy. Lecture with Dr Kristen Lippincott (The Saxl Project).
📅 17 Mar 2026 | 🕕 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | 📍 Warburg Institute
New recording: 'Gothic Modern' with Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein, in conversation with Bill Sherman. Late medieval Gothic art meets modern artists, and the Gothic’s afterlives in modern culture come into focus.
Watch now.:
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy Saint David’s Day! 🏵️
Today we celebrate the feast day of St. David, or Dewi Sant, which is supposedly the anniversary of his death.
Image: Statue of St David with dove, St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Cymru). Warburg Institute Photographic Collection.
Caspar Heinemann shares a poetic, creative-critical response to his works in Conspiracies, weaving contemporary and historical examples.
Jennifer Nelson presents: “Neither Athens Nor Alexandria: The Failed Reconquering of Aby Warburg”.
📅 24 March, 7–8:30pm
Planning a gallery stop in Bloomsbury?
Conspiracies is now on at the Warburg: four contemporary artists tracing how conspiracy shapeshifts across cultural and political history, in dialogue with Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne panels on fortune.
Free entry.
Have you applied, or are you thinking of applying, for a PhD at the Warburg Institute?
Explore our scholarship opportunities for students starting in October 2026.
Deadline for the Rubinstein Scholarship and the JB Trapp Scholarship: 5pm, Friday 20 March
Join us for a live performance by artist Sam Keogh who will activate his collaged drawing as part of our current exhibition, Conspiracies.
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Wednesday 11 March, 7pm
#ContemporaryArt
Join Conspiracies curator Larne Abse Gogarty for a tour of the exhibition.
📅 18 Mar 2026, 6–7pm
📍 Warburg Institute
Free with advance booking.
The Warburg is a leading centre for global cultural history and the role of images in society. Join us next Thursday to explore our collections, meet our community of scholars and learn about postgraduate study options.
Register: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
New blog: Robert Eisler and his legacy at the Warburg by @stefaniaragau.bsky.social
Discover Eisler’s Warburg links, his early Hebrew University plans, and correspondence with Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, plus the story of his papers at the Institute today.
The New Acquisitions Library display has been updated!
With books on #Latin verse by Martin Luther, #Byzantine portraits, and art and war in the #Renaissance and a new publication on women who made a difference in #EarlyModern art, with a chapter by the Warburg’s very own Elizabeth McGrath.
Happy Lunar New Year 🏮
2026 is the Year of the Horse, so here are a few horse depictions from the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database.
Explore the database online: an art-historical image resource organised by subject matter (iconography): iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/home
With Pancake Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into the Elizabeth David Bequest.
From pancakes made with “freshly fallen” snow to pink-coloured beetroot pancakes, we’ve found some brilliantly unusual recipes in David’s historical cookery books.
Which would you try?