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ANN: Provenienzforschung vermitteln. „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe“ – Eine digitale Vermittlungsplattform (Online Workshop, Bayerische Museumsakademie – 19 Nov. 2025 ff.)
Mit der Entrechtung und Verfolgung von Minderheiten im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland ging auch deren Beraubung einher. Zwangsabgaben wurden erhoben, Besitz beschlagnahmt. Oft waren die Verfolgten aus wirtschaftlicher Not gezwungen, ihr Hab und Gut zu…
PUB: Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections. A research guide by Jacques Schuhmacher (UCL Press 2024 / open access)
When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has…
CONF: Good Practices in the Art Market ( Medeiros e Almeida Museum, Lisbon – 25-26 Oct 2024)
This colloquium aims to discuss good practices in the art market and the challenge ethical standards and values represent when applying to a proper professional performance. The global art market is often associated…
CFP: Fashionability and Temporality in Art Production, Reception and Historicization (Session at AAH – York, 9-11 Apr 25)
Fashionability in art (or its other, outdatedness) forces change, directs artistic agency, and amplifies the (modernist) imperative for innovation and originality. Indeed, in his Arcades Project (1927-40), Walter Benjamin identified the temporal dynamics…
EXH: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde (NYU, Grey Art Museum, 1 Oct 2024 – 1 Mar 2025)
Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde surveys the groundbreaking career of the first woman modern art dealer. Berthe Weill (1865–1951) championed many fledgling masters of modern art early…
CONF: From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial Fight for Restitution and Repatriation (Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt – 24-25 Oct 2024)
Starting in the early 1970s, activists all over the world embarked on a decades-long fight for the return of Ancestral Remains and looted colonial artefacts from European and North American museums and collections…
TIAMSA Activities: Video of our Live Book Discussion of Kathryn Brown “Art Auctions: Spectacle and Value in the 21st Century.”now available online
TIAMSA is happy to share the link to the recording of eleventh book discussion: Art Auctions: Spectacle and Value in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2024) by Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University)…
CONF: Restitution and Beyond – The Future of Benin’s Cultural Heritage (Museum Rietberg – 26 Oct 2024)
On the occasion of the current exhibitions on Benin at the Museum Rietberg and the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich, experts from Nigeria and Switzerland will discuss the future of Benin’s…
CONF: Provenienzforschung an Musikinstrumenten (Historisches Museum Basel / online – 17-18 Oct 2024)
Das HMB erforscht seit Juli 2023 mit grosszügiger Unterstützung vom Bundesamt für Kultur und der Stadt Basel die Provenienzen ausgewählter Musikinstrumente aus der Sammlung. Zum Abschluss des Projektes veranstaltet das HMB eine Tagung….