CFP: After Canova. Sculpture made in Rome from 1822 to 1870 (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 27–28 Oct 2022)
What happens to Rome – the unrivalled European center of neo-classical sculpture – after Canova’s death in 1822? The workshops of Bertel Thorvaldsen, Adamo Tadolini and John Gibson continue to produce works for…
CFP: Interdisciplinary dialogues. Non-ferrous Metal Objects in Western Europe (Art & History Museums Brussels, Oct 2022)
The Center of Excellence for Decorative Arts of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels, in collaboration with the Archeology Center of the University of Liège, invites proposals for a seminar,…
CFP: “COLLECTIONS” – 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries (Online, 24-28 Oct 2022)
The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing a call for papers for the upcoming conference taking place 24.-28.10. 2022 under the heading “Collections”. Confirmed keynote speakers: Steven ten Thije, Head of collections,…
CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paris, 9-10 Jun 2022)
In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon…
ANN: (Beautiful) Mess: Collective Studies from ruangrupa, Gudskul, and Beyond (The Cambridge Modern & Contemporary Art Seminar; online, 7 Feb 2022)
Please join us for a talk with ruangrupa, the Jakarta-based curatorial collective in charge of the Artistic Direction for the upcoming documenta fifteen (Kassel, Germany, 18 June-25 September 2022) and Gudskul, the informal…
CFP: Tools For the Future – Researching art market practices from past to present: Markets for applied arts, artistic crafts and design (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 9-11 Jun 2022)
The workshop Markets for applied arts, crafts and design is part of the International Workshops Series “Tools for the Future: Researching art market Practices from Past to Present”, jointly founded by Elisabetta Lazzaro…
CONF: Artists’ Collections. Objects, Frameworks, Ideas (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität/ZIKG, Munich / online, 12-13 Nov 2021)
Artists have always assembled a variety of things, whether beautiful, rare or “exotic” artifacts and naturalia, works by other artists, memorabilia, studio materials and models, found objects or knick-knacks. Like other collections, those of artists often…
CONF: Infrastructures of Producing, Transporting and Logistics in Transnational Perspective (online, 27-28 Oct 2021)
This workshop is part of the ongoing research project “(Un)Mapping Infrastructures. Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art”. The original meaning of “infrastructure” (from the Latin infra, and structura) refers to a substructure…
CFP: Avant-Garde Art on Paper in Europe. 1905-1950 (Brussels, 23-25 Mar 2022)
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in collaboration with the University of Leuven and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, is organizing an international symposium on the role of paper in European…