ANN: Donata Levi – Reflecting on the gaze of the connoisseur (The Hugo Helbing Lecture, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich & online, 24 April 2024, 18:15 CET)
In the last decades of the 20th century, art history has been subject to a deep process of rethinking. In particular, the practice of connoisseurship, which had played an important role at the…
CONF: Straniere in Italy: the visual and critical reception of non-European arts since World War Two (University for Foreigners of Siena, 2-3 Mar 2023)
The international conference, promoted and hosted on March 2 and 3, 2023 by the University for Foreigners of Siena (Italy), is part of the research project La Straniera | A community of digital…
CFP: Significant Findings: Object- And Archives-Based Assessments of US Art (Colonial-1945) (CAA Conference, NYC, 15-18 Feb 2023)
Today scholars on art created in the US from the colonial era through 1945, grapple with new theoretical and ontological inquiries—especially as we reckon anew with the nation’s history of imperialism, racism, colonization, and societal and…
ANN: Pop Places 1958–1966 – Weekly Webinar Series dedicated to different key exhibition spaces of the era (Wildenstein Plattner Institute, online; 20/27 Sept, 4/11 Oct 2022)
Join the WPI this fall for Pop Places 1958–1966, a series of mid-day talks, dedicated to a different key exhibition space of the era. The series’ overarching thesis is that what became known as Pop…
ANN: Seminario – Il mestiere del conoscitore, Bernard Berenson, Herbert Horne, Roger Fry: Firenze-Londra 1900 (Bologna / Firenze, 20-23 Sep 2022)
All’esordio del XX secolo, nell’ambiente londinese e anglo-sassone in genere, in un intreccio fitto di relazioni verso la Toscana e verso gli Stati Uniti, fra ricerche, editoria, letteratura, fotografia, mercato, collezionismo e musei,…
CFP: Cross-Border Artistic Contacts in the Nordic-Baltic Realm (online, 3-10 Jun 2022)
This call is open to researchers interested in the historical development of artistic interactions of the Nordic–Baltic realm since the Great Baltic Exhibition in 1914 in Malmö, Sweden, up until 2004. The purpose of…
CONF: Westkunst, 1981: A Historiography of Modernism Exhibited (Paris, DFK, 10-11 Mar 2022)
In 1981 a large exhibition opened in the trade fair center in Cologne under the title “Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939” (Western Art. Contemporary Art Since 1939). Organized by art critic Laszlo Glozer…
ANN: Book Presentation: “Vasarély – Le Pillage” (Galerie Denise René Paris, 8 Feb 2022, 17:30-19:30; in French)
A l’occasion de la parution du livre “Vasarely, Le pillage”, vous êtes conviés à rencontrer les auteurs Laetitia Sariroglou, journaliste spécialisée dans la chronique judiciaire à La Provence, et Pierre Vasarely, petit-fils et légataire universel de…
ANN: Book launch and discussion – Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art (8 Dec 2022; 13:00 AEDT)
Please join us for a brief presentation on the new book by author Dr David Challis followed by a discussion moderated by Associate Professor Christopher Marshall. Wednesday 8th December at 1.00pm AEDT (9pm…