We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize is now open for entries. The deadline is 10am on Monday 14th July 2025. This year’s prize will be judged by the art historian Dawn Ades and the artist and writer Hito Steyerl.

The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.

Since its foundation in 1903 The Burlington Magazine has considered the art of the present to be as worthy of study as the art of the past. The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize advances our commitment to the study of contemporary art in the magazine and on Burlington Contemporary. Designed to encourage aspiring writers, the Prize promotes clear, concise and well-structured writing that is able to navigate sophisticated ideas without recourse to over-complex language.

The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize is generously funded by the Thistle Trust.

This year’s Discovering Dalmatia conference in Split is specifically dedicated to the dynamic relationship between words and images in the travel genre. The conference focuses on the function of visual elements (illustrations, graphics, photographs) within and alongside the travel text, and on how they shape the narrative tone of the travelogue and the perception of a particular place.

We therefore invite contributions that offer theoretical reflections on this relationship, or which discuss concrete case studies, particularly those concerning travel accounts about Dalmatia and within the intense period of study trips to the region from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Dalmatia, with its rich presence in the European travel writing tradition, offers particularly fertile ground for such research. We ask participants to reflect on two central questions: How do visual and textual representations of places, particularly Dalmatia, work together in shaping perceptions of space, heritage, identity, and otherness? What historical and conceptual models help us understand the relationship between image and text in travel literature? 

The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines – the history of art, architecture, literature, visual culture, anthropology, and media studies – to reflect on how the interrelationship between image and text in travelogues contributes to the construction of meaning, memory, and cultural identity.

Proposals for twenty-minute papers consisting of a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Croatian or English should be sent via email as a PDF to discoveringdalmatia@gmail.com by 15th July 2025. 

Conference details:
Split City Museum – Old City Hall
11th–13th December 2025
Keynote Speaker: Heather Hyde Minor, Professor of Art History, Concurrent Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame

Important dates:
Proposal submission deadline 15th July 2025
Notification of acceptance 31st July 2025
Conference day 11th December 2025

Important Information:
Registration will take place on the evening of the 10th December, the closing address will take place on the 13th of December and the hosts will organise coffee and refreshments for conference participants during breaks. No participation fee will be charged for this conference. The organisers do not cover travel and accommodation costs. The organisers can help participants to find reasonably-priced accommodation in the historic city centre. Papers and discussions will be conducted in English. The duration of a spoken contribution should not exceed 20 minutes. Presentations will be followed by discussions. We propose to publish a collection of selected papers from the conference.

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The conference will take place at the Salmagundi Club, along with a special visit to the Met Cloisters, New York, running from 24th to 26th October. Keynotes are presented by Tracy Chapman Hamilton (Sweet Briar College) and Julia Yost (First Things, New York). Artists Anthony Visco and Maya Brodsky will take part in the conference. The full programme of speakers will be published in due course and tickets for attendees will be released this summer. Content submission for Part II of the conference, which will take place in June 2026 in the United Kingdom, is also welcome. For more information, please visit www.visualtheology.org.uk/conferences.

The Burlington Magazine and the University of Cambridge are happy to announce the launch of a new annual prize.

Established to inspire the development and publication of innovative object-based scholarship, the winning entrant will receive a prize of £1,000, with publication in The Burlington Magazine’s annual issue dedicated to Northern European Art, plus a one year print and digital subscription.

We seek previously unpublished essays of 1000–1500 words from early career scholars worldwide.

This is defined as within 15 years of their most recent post-graduate degree. Submissions should be in English and should include candidate’s CV, all as a single PDF.

Preference will be given to object-related scholarship such as is published inThe Burlington Magazine.

Deadline for applications: Monday 1st September 2025