PUBL: Les Carnets de Provenance 2026 (Association ASTRES)
Sommaire L’association astres et la revue Les Carnets de provenanceÉditorial — Première partie. Actualités de la recherche de provenance
PUB: Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery, Author Valentina Castellani (Gagosian / Rizzoli)
Trading Beauty traces the evolution of the Western art market from the medieval era to the present day, examining how social, cultural, religious, and economic circumstances have informed distinct models of art production, validation,…
PUB: Named Experts in Fine Art Auction Text from the Getty Provenance Index German Sales (1900–1945) by Mathew Henrickson
The dataset is an enhanced subset of the “Getty Provenance Index – German Sales art auction data”. It contains the extracted names of art experts and connoisseurs who authenticated works appearing for sale…
PUBL: The art collection of John Waterloo Wilson (1815-1883) (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History)
By Marijne Boland The British-Belgian cotton manufacturer John Waterloo Wilson (1815-1883) brought together an impressive collection of seventeenth-century and contemporary art. Wilson is no unknown collector and manufacturer. Through his connections in the…
PUBL: The Exhibition of Travelling – Senzacornice Journal n. 1/2025
The monographic issue “The Exhibition of Travelling. Exhibitions, Editorial Projects, and the Birth of New Networks in the Italian Art System since the Postwar Period”, edited by Alessandra Acocella and Caterina Toschi, inaugurates…
PUB: Surya Bower, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson & Niti Acharya, ‘State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, November 2024
Abstract This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the…
PUBL (OA): Quelle und Kontext: Objekte, Akteure, Prozesse der Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler (ed. by C. Dollansky, C. Fuhrmeister, B. Jooss, S. Klingen, A.-L. Schneider; Munich, 2024)
This volume publishes results of a seven-year digitization and research project (2017-2024) revolving around the archive of the Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, founded in Munich in 1882. Acquired by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in…
PUBL: Handreichung Kulturgutentzug Sowjetische Besatzungszone und DDR
Die Handreichung „Kulturgutentzug in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone und in der DDR: Historische Hintergründe – Praxisbeispiele – Rechercheansätze“ trägt dem gewachsenen Interesse von Museumsmitarbeiterinnen und -mitarbeitern Rechnung, sich mit problematischen Sammlungszugängen nach 1945 zu…
PUB: The Social World of Galleries Contemporary Art, the Market and Internationalization by Alain Quemin, Translated by Keara Engelhardt (Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2024, 480 p.)
Abstract: This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author’s field…