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Power panel at CIHA and Digital Art History Survey
Power invites contributions to a new survey on Digital Art History as part of a panel being presented at the 36th CIHA World Congress in Lyon on 'The Research Institute in the Metaverse'

Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966-1993
We're proud to announce a major new publication: the most comprehensive collection of writings by Ian Burn, artist, curator and "ex-conceptual artist", edited by Ann Stephen.
Ian Burn at his desk in Finsbury Park flat, London, 1966.

Gail Priest: Paris Residency Fellow 2024
Sound artist and researcher Gail Priest details her travels around Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen, and her time in the snow-bound halls of the Pierre Schaeffer archives in Caen.
Gail Priest, Audioblast: Resonant Futurs Performance, Nantes. Photo: Eva Ursprung.

2025 Paris Residency Fellowships: Applications Closing Soon!
You can now apply to be one of our 2025 Nicholas & Angela Curtis Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellows. Applications close 31 July 2024!

Simryn Gill: Schaeffer Library Artist in Residence 2024
In 2024, Simryn Gill will be the Schaeffer Library Artist in Residence, finding a place for her practice amidst the Library's unique collection.

Digital art history: Power convening panel at CIHA Lyon 2024
The Power Institute is convening a panel in June on art history and the digital, at the prestigious CIHA conference in Lyon.

Lauren Carroll Harris: Paris Residency Fellow 2023
Lauren Carroll Harris details her winter writing and research projects in Paris.

End of Year Message 2023
A message from Mark Ledbury, Director of the Power Institute
Slight edit of JW Power, Self portrait, c1920, Chau Chak Wing Museum, PW1961.8.

Ends of Painting wins prize
Our 2023 publication Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s, edited by Paris Lettau and David Homewood, has been awarded a prize for best anthology.

Vale Lindsay Barrett
We mourn the passing of author and cultural historian Lindsay Barrett (1959-2023).