What Is Research Now?

Join us for a series of festivals, events, and activities from summer 2025 to summer 2026.

Beginning in May 2025, “What is Research Now?” presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts. The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together?

It will bring artists, curators, writers, scholars, activists, and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.

Full programme to follow. Subscribe to the Paul Mellon Centre mailing list to be the first to hear about tickets and the full programme.