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ANN: The Origins of Intellectual Property in German Renaissance Art – Lecture by Shira Brisman (American Academy Berlin / online, 2 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
When we speak of “intellectual property today,” we are likening the right to profit from one’s unique idea to the right to benefit from workable land that is individually possessed. How did this…
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…
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: 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: 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…
CONF: Collecting and archiving in the post-digital age / Sammeln und Archivieren im postdigitalen Zeitalter (online / Donau Universität Krems, 3 Dec 2021; in German)
Alte und neue Archive. Sammeln und Archivieren im postdigitalen Zeitalter Die Digitalisierung hat in Sammlungen, Archiven und Bibliotheken in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem weitreichenden Wandel geführt. Das Digitale ist trotz bzw. mit…
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…