ANN: Collecting Antiquities in France in the 19th Century – Lecture by Cécile Colonna (Soc. for the History of Collecting / online, 14 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
The collector of works of art, original in his path, peculiar in his tastes, unique for his collection, is most often studied as a singular individual through a biography, precisely retraced. The act of collecting is nevertheless a social…
EXH: Retracing Provenances / Retracer la Provenance (Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d’histoire, Lausanne, 12 Oct 2021-3 April 2022)
Depuis 2016, le MCAH étudie les conditions d’acquisition de ses objets ethnographiques. Grâce aux exemples de quelques pièces originaires d’Amérique, d’Afrique et d’Asie, cette exposition invite les visiteurs à découvrir la chaîne de documentation…
CONF: Looking Forward, Looking Back – Itinerant artists between African and German-speaking countries, 1950s to 1970s (online / Universität Zürich, 16-17 Dec 2021)
The symposium aims to launch international research about itinerant artists who travelled between various African and German-speaking countries from the 1950s to the 1970s. It seeks to collate and analyse multiple transcultural exchanges between…
ANN: Launch of the “Répertoire des acteurs du marché de l’art en France sous l’Occupation (RAMA)” (INHA Paris, 3 Dec 2021)
À partir du 3 décembre 2021, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) publie en ligne plus de 150 articles biographiques du Répertoire des acteurs du marché de l’art sous l’Occupation, 1940-1945 (RAMA) sous…
CFP: Virtus Special Issue: Collectioneurs Nobles. Continuity and Change in Aristocratic Collecting Practices in Belgium and the Netherlands (1750-1950)
The long nineteenth and early twentieth century is often considered a period of socially widening collecting practices. Besides the boom of public museums, the general understanding of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collecting is…
CFP: Provenance Research on String Instruments and the Role of Switzerland in the Trade of Musical Instruments, 1930s to the Present (Schweizer Geigenbauerschule Brienz, 4-5 April 2022)
Internationale Tagung zur Provenienzforschung im Bereich Streichinstrumente und die Rolle der Schweiz im Instrumentenhandel seit den 1930er-Jahren. Mehr als 20 Jahre nach den 1998 formulierten Empfehlungen der Washingtoner Erklärung (Washington Principles) in Bezug auf…
CFP: Photography and its Institutions: Networks, Collections, Archives, Museums (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen, 23-24 June 2022)
A conference based upon the research project “Forms and Formats of Photography’s Institutionalisation” at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Thursday and Friday, 23 and 24 of June 2022, organised…
ANN: London Art Week 2021 Symposium (Online, 6-9 Dec 2021)
The third London Art Week Symposium returns this Winter from 6-9 December 2021. In collaboration with and organised by the Jewish Country Houses project, “Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market c.1850-1930” it…
ANN: Mapping Provenance: Holbein’s “Sir Thomas More” – A blog post by the Frick Collection
The provenance of Sir Thomas More—Hans Holbein the Younger’s dazzling likeness of the famed humanist scholar who defied Henry VIII and ultimately lost his head—begins with a 104-year gap. What happened to this panel…