Events

20 December
2025
8 January
2026
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Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850

Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, United States

Yale Center for British Art

This exhibition tells the story of artists from India, Britain, and China who worked in the era of one of the most powerful corporations in history. The British East India Company began in 1600 as a private trading enterprise but grew into a military and political force during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It waged […]

24 January
2026
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Drawn to Venice

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street), San Francisco, CA, United States

Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Spanning the Renaissance to the Rococo period, this exhibition celebrates the vitality and originality of the arts in Venice and the Veneto region through more than 30 drawings and prints. […]

28 January
2026
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Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United States

Bard Graduate Center Gallery

Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds is the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to the life and work of visionary architect, designer, and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879). Bringing together nearly 150 drawings and objects, the majority of which have never before been on view in the U.S., the exhibition highlights Viollet-le-Duc’s prolific work as a draftsman and the […]

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A View of One’s Own: Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860

The Courtauld Gallery The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, United Kingdom

The Courtauld Gallery

A View of One’s Own showcases landscape drawings and watercolours by British women artists working between 1760 and 1860, whose work represents a growing area of The Courtauld’s collection. These artists […]

31 January
2026
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Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024

Art Institute of Chicago 159 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL

Art Institute of Chicago

Over the course of five decades, Dunham has engaged in wide-ranging formal and thematic experimentation across various media, yet his drawings represent a distinct, interconnected body of work. Dunham’s mature […]

29 April
2026
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French Ornament in the Nineteenth Century; A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche and Estelle Thibault

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United States

Bard Graduate Center Gallery

A lecture duet by Ralph Ghoche (Barnard College) and Estelle Thibault (École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Belleville), moderated by Martin Bressani (McGill University) Inspired by thirteenth-century gothic architecture, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc understood ornament as the medium through which the vital energies of the living world became visible. Ornament distilled the anatomical logic of the plants or […]

1 May
2026
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Exhibition Tour of Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 West 86th St, New York City, NY, United States

Bard Graduate Center Gallery

Join co-curator Martin Bressani for a private tour of Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from January 28 to May 24, 2026. This is the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), celebrated restorer of Notre-Dame de Paris and one of modern architecture’s most influential figures. It is […]

2 May
2026
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The Drawing Marathon 2026

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, United States

The National Arts Club

Join up to 100 artists for a full day of drawing from multiple live models

6 May
2026
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Exhibition Tour of Gothic by Design

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Don't miss this opportunity to attend an intimate tour of Gothic by Design. The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship with curator Femke Speelberg. Packed with loans from collections across Austria, Belgium, Germany, England, France, and Switzerland, the exhibition offers an overview of a drawing tradition that has received little attention within the traditional canon of art […]

13 May
2026
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The History of Drawings Conservation and Its Ethics​​​

Online (Zoom Webinar)

Online (Zoom Webinar)

This two-day symposium explores the history and ethics of drawings conservation, from early restoration methods to contemporary approaches in professional practice. By examining how drawings have been repaired, stabilized, and preserved over time, the sessions consider the evolving standards of care and address ethical questions of intervention. They also reflect on the role of material […]

19 May
2026
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Drawing out the Gothic: Curator Conversation

Bard Graduate Center 38 West 86th Street, New York City, United States

Bard Graduate Center

Join us for a discussion about the gothic and Gothic architectural drawings as we enter the final week of one exhibition (Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds) and the early weeks of another (Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship). This program, organized as a partnership between The Drawing Foundation, Bard Graduate Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of […]

Latest Past Events

Events, Upcoming
Gothic Aryan: Viollet-le-Duc and the Museums of the Trocadéro; A lecture by Risham Majeed
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
March 16, 2026 6:00 pm
Events
Tour of Painters, Ports, and Profits at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
February 28, 2026 1:00 pm
Events
Tour of Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-70
Clark Art Institute
February 27, 2026 1:00 pm
Events
Close Looking with the Curator: Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 17, 2026 5:30 pm
Events, Recordings
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – The Importance of Jewelry in Portraiture: Symbols, Power, and Secrets
The National Arts Club
February 6, 2026 2:00 pm
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder
Hispanic Society Museum & Library
February 6, 2026 10:00 am
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Sketch Night at The Frick
The Frick Collection
February 5, 2026 5:00 pm
Events
DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 – Early Hours Tour of Renoir Drawings
The Morgan Library & Museum
February 5, 2026 9:30 am

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