CFP: IFAR Journal (The International Foundation for Art Research)
The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a nonprofit educational and research organization that offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art…
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: Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships – A Session of the UK Association for Art History Annual Conference (University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024)
In 1981, American artist and writer Mary Kelly defiantly underlined how exhibitions have become primary tools for disseminating the history of art. Since the 1990s, following the establishment of curatorial studies, the proliferation…
ANN: 5 Reisestipendien zur Art Basel 2024 (Junger Freundeskreis der Kulturstiftung der Länder)
Der Junge Freundeskreis der Kulturstiftung der Länder möchte Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistorikern, die am Beginn ihrer Laufbahn stehen, vom 11. bis 13. Juni 2024 die Möglichkeit eines Besuches der Art Basel bieten und schreibt…
ANN: Matter Materiality- 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (23 – 28 June 2024, Lyon, Centre de congrès)
The 36th CIHA Congress is organized under the aegis of the Comité français d’histoire de l’art (CFHA) in partnership between the CFHA, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), the Université Lumière Lyon…
CFP: Brâncuşi, Britain and the Idea of Modern Sculpture (Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, 27 June 2024)
To date, Brâncuşi’s contribution to ideas of modern sculpture in Britain has been understood chiefly through the tradition of direct carving, formal simplicity, and ‘truth to materials’, confining much of the discourse on…
CONF: Collections (The NORDIK Association for Art Historians; online, 25-27 Oct 2022)
Collections are the basis for art history as we know it. Whether in museums or on the pages of treatises, we bring objects and artworks together and ascribe meaning to them. Throughout history,…
EXH: The Collector Curt Glaser. From Champion of Modernism to Refugee (Kunstmuseum Basel, 22 Oct 2022 – 12 Feb 2023)
The art historian, curator, and art critic Curt Glaser (1879–1943) was a central figure in Berlin’s art scene in the 1910s and 1920s, yet he has been nearly forgotten in the years since his death….
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,…