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TIAMSA Member News: ANN: Clarissa Ricci & Marie Tavinor, “Art, Market and Agency at the Venice Biennale, 1895-1993” available for free download until 31 Jan 2022 (Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 26, n. 4, 2021)
Free Access until 31 January 2022: https://bit.ly/volume26-issue4 This special issue focuses on one of the most longstanding, international, and large scale exhibitions: the Venice Biennale. The keywords ‘art’, ‘agency’ and ‘market’ act as methodological pathways to…
ANN: New blog post from the Julius Böhler Archive, by Birgit Jooss (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich; in German)
A painting in a gilt frame titled „Bread and Butter“ (“Butterbrot“) arrived on 30 July 1929 from Berlin at the well-known Munich art gallery Julius Böhler (est. 1880). The artist is recorded as…
ANN: The Return of Beauty. Restitution of Nazi-looted Art in Comparative Perspectives (University of Bonn / online, 2 Feb 2022, 18:00-20:00 CET)
This conference is the culmination of a semester-long, unique course titled ‘Nazi-Looted Art: Law and Provenance Research’, a special collaboration between the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, funded by its programme of excellency (Transdisciplinary Research…
ANN: Summer School: Was ist der Wert der Dinge? Konzepte einer Sammlungsoekonomie (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 18–29 Jul 2022)
International Summer School des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Das Zusammentragen, Aufheben, und mitunter das Entsorgen von Dingen sind grundlegende Momente der Konstitution jeder Sammlung. Die Sammlung wird damit zum Resultat einer Kette von…
CFP: Expressionism Revisited. New Approaches and Research Questions (Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 25-28 Aug 2022)
(for German, see below) Which research questions arise from today’s public and scholarly discourses on German Expressionism? How can museums take these into account and include the changing perspectives and revised narratives in…
CFP: Globalising the Avant-Garde. The 8th Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Lisbon, NOVA FCSH, 1-3 September 2022)
The conference will reflect on the process of the globalisation of avant-gardes in the arts and literature, and on the situation of artistic avant-gardes in the context of globalisation more generally – technologically, economically,…
ANN: Exporting Art: A seminar on the policy and rules pertaining to the export of artworks, Institute of Art and Law (London, 15 Feb 2022)
We are happy to announce our next seminar, which will run on 15 February 2022 in partnership with Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP at their offices in London. The topic will be the export…
ANN: Erased Memories: Italian colonialism and its material legacies; Lecture (Istituto Svizzero, Rome / online; 28 Jan 2022, 18:00 CET; in Italian)
Memorie cancellate: il colonialismo italiano e le sue eredità materiali Sebbene gli studiosi abbiano a lungo denunciato il silenzio che ha caratterizzato lo studio del passato coloniale dell’Italia, il revisionismo storico fatica a…
ANN: Lynn Catterson – Stefano Bardini and the Manufacture of Authenticity (live online / Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin, 31 Jan 2022, 18:15-19:45 CET; in English)
In November 1888, writing to the German museum official, Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929), the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) stated that he was certain that “eight marbles and 12 terracottas” in South Kensington (V&A) were fake,…
CFP: New ethic principles for a democratic and endorsed museum (The International Journal of Museum Studies, N. 2, 2022)
The ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums sets minimum professional standards and encourages the recognition of values shared by the international museum community. Developed in the eighties and updated in 2004, it does not…