The Warburg Institute

Conspiracies An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.

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

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

Warburg Director's Seminar | Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein join Bill Sherman to explore 'Gothic Modern', and how the Gothic reshaped modern art and still speaks to our present.

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.

Jerusalem 0 - 0 Athens: Jennifer Nelson & Caspar Heinemann in conversation

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

Conspiracies Performance: Sam Keogh Sam Keogh will activate his collaged drawing in the exhibition with a live performance which brings two of its characters into dialogue as they search to find the origin of ‘The Secret Identity Stamp of the Peasants’.

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

Curator’s tour with Larne Abse Gogarty Join exhibition curator Larne Abse Gogarty for a tour of Conspiracies.

Join Conspiracies curator Larne Abse Gogarty for a tour of the exhibition.

📅 18 Mar 2026, 6–7pm
📍 Warburg Institute
Free with advance booking.

Study at the Warburg: Open Day, Spring 2026 Join us on Thursday 26 February 2026 in the new teaching and research spaces created by the Warburg Renaissance Project to discover more about our postgraduate programmes, tour our collections, meet our programme convenors, and find out what it’s like to study at the Warburg Institute.

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/...

Robert Eisler and his legacy at the Warburg Institute Who was Robert Eisler? Dr Stefania Ragaù explores his Warburg archive, tracing a cosmopolitan scholar’s ties to Zionist thinkers and his enduring relationship with the Institute.

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?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Which one are you sending? 💌

#ValentinesDay #MedievalManuscript #Library

Conspiracies is now open!

An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.

Ft. Hannah Black, Caspar Heinemann, Sam Keogh, and Shenece Oretha. Curated by Larne Abse Gogarty. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📚 This week’s new acquisitions tables in the Warburg Reading room feature topics such as #IslamicPhilosophy, the #Sociology of #Art, early #Martyr narratives and #Donatello. 📚

Distilling The Alchemical Feminine A lecture by Dr M.E. Warlick marking the publication of The Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Alchemical Images

New recording: Distilling The Alchemical Feminine with Dr M.E. Warlick (University of Denver), chaired by Dr Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford).

Alchemical images, gender, sexuality and a “Chemical Wedding”.

Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Alchemy #ArtHistory

Ahead of our opening this week, Conspiracies is in the @financialtimes.com!

Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...

Enjoy my story of an impossible encounter, where Aby Warburg and Shimomura Toratarō got off linear timelines. Where San Francisco became next-door to Yokohama. Where WWII Japan’s ‘overcoming modernity (近代の超克)’ reworked #Astrology in #EarlyModern Europe. #History #HistoryOfArt #HistSci #PhilHist 🗃️

“My Heart Is Overflowing”: Aby Warburg, Mary Hertz, and Love as Creativity A chance encounter in Florence brings Mary Hertz into view as artist and interlocutor, alongside the first stirrings of Warburg’s Botticelli and Venus research.

Valentine’s Day is nearly here 💘 and we’re marking it with a Warburg love story.

in this blog, Marianna Leszczyk introduces Mary Hertz (later Mary Warburg), tracing her early encounters and correspondence with Aby Warburg in Florence, and the emergence of his Botticelli and Venus research.

Interested in postgraduate study at the Warburg Institute?

Join our in-person Open Day on 26 February to learn more about our MA and PGCert programmes, as well as MPhil and PhD research opportunities.

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Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.

New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.

From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).

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#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

The new acquisitions display in our library just got bigger!

Now with two tables of new items, you are sure to find something that interests you. Make sure to pop by the Warburg’s Reading Room to see this week’s picks. 📚

The latest volume of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes is out now!

From the medieval reception of the Antonine Itinerary to women’s Latin writing in the Quattrocento, and numismatic chronology in the Republic of Letters.

Read here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jwci/cur...

Image: Sam Keogh, The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden Cartoon, mixed media installation with performance, 2024, credit: Kerlin Gallery

Conspiracies opens at the Warburg next week!

An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy

Palampore (India); cotton; H x W: 289.6 x 137.2 cm (114 x 54 in.) Repeat H x W: 40.6 x 78.7 cm (16 x 31 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1959-146-1; Cooper Hewitt Museum. Public Domain.

Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'

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#MaterialCulture #History

New display explores the Library of Michael Innes A new display in the Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).

A new display in our Wohl Special Collections Reading Room ‘Alchemical Networks: The Library of Michael Innes’ explores the rare book collection of Michael Innes (1897-1980).

Handle rare materials on witchcraft, Caribbean cosmologies & tarot in this short course with Pragya Dhital.

3–5 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm (Senate House + Warburg).
Limited to 15.
Book by 23 February.
In-person only.

#RareBooks #OccultHistory #Magic #Witchcraft

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