Talks examine the structure and characteristics of art and culture. Offering a broad, comparative perspective that takes into account global and regional contexts.

Lectures at Sotheby’s Art Institute cover Japanese art since the 1890s; performance art and the body in art; strategies and politics of curating ‘Japanese’ art; twentieth-century Japan and modernity; visual culture in Japan and spectatorship, transnational art and post-March 11 artistic activity; Criticism and curating in the Japanese art world.

Bringing together research specialists and international scholars from various disciplines through symposia, seminars, workshops and lectures in Japan and UK.

An ongoing endeavour Conversations, a series of research-related interviews with curators, artists and academics.