PMC Book Night

Please join us at the Paul Mellon Centre for Book Night, a festive celebration of some of our latest publications with drinks and canapés.

Guests will be able to hear short presentations by each of our authors about their books, giving a lively and engaging snapshot of the exciting new research that we have recently published. There will also be time for questions.

The evening will finish with a celebratory drinks reception.

Running Order

17:30: Welcome

17:40: 10 mins per speaker

18:30: Questions and author conversation

18:50: Drinks and canapes

20:00: Finish

Authors:

Mark Crinson, author of . Mark is emeritus professor of architectural history at Birkbeck (University of London). He is the author of many books, including Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (2022). His books have won the Spiro Kostof Prize (2006) and the Historians of British Art Prize (2014 and 2024). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.

Flora Dunster, author of . Flora is a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins and course leader of the MA Contemporary Photography and Theory.

Alex Kidson, editor of . Alex is a former curator of British painting at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and author of the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of George Romney, published by the Paul Mellon Centre in 2015.

Claire Wintle, author of . Claire teaches museum studies and art history at the University of Brighton where she directs the Centre for Design History.

Meredith Gamer (Online), author of . Meredith is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she specialises in the art and visual culture of eighteenth-century Britain and the Atlantic world.

✖ Level access

✖ Livestreamed

✔ Recorded

✔ Hearing loop available (please contact [email protected])

✖ Closed caption on Zoom

✖ BSL

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