On Art Becoming Public - Fourth Panel

Conference – Claudia Di Tosto, Juliet Jacques, Ben Cranfield, Fiona Anderson, Jennifer Powell, Hana Leaper, Ella Nixon, Lynda Nead, Ese Onojeruo, Lily Ford, Madeleine Kennedy, Dominic Bilton, Jonathan P. Watts, Saim Demircan

6 June 2025
9:30 – 5:30 pm
Paul Mellon Centre and Online
On Art Becoming Public is a research project around exhibition histories hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) and convened by Claudia Di Tosto (PhD candidate, University of Warwick). The aim of the project is to provide a space for discussion and reflection about the role of exhibitions, the becoming public of art as described by Dr Lucy Steeds (University of Edinburgh), within the production of British art history.

Following the online reading group that ran from September to March, this hybrid one-day symposium further expanded the discussion around methods and approaches to researching exhibition histories through four conversations between two panellists and a chairperson.

The fourth panel built upon the event ‘Exhibition Histories and Interpretative Walking Tours Reading Group’ to further the exploration of installation views both as primary sources for exhibition histories but also as crucial documents for the re-enactment of previous exhibitions and as visual objects inserted within the curatorial narrative of a show.