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…
ANN: Collecting Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain, online seminar (Collecting and Display, 20 Mar 2023; 8pm London GMT)
Coleccionismo de artes decorativas españolas en Gran Bretaña y España / Collecting Spanish Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain (Madrid: Polifemo, 2022) examines the collecting of Spanish decorative arts between about 1850 and…
ANN: The Anglicization of Samuel Mendel: Collecting British Art in Mid-Victorian Manchester (Online, The Institute of Historical Research, 7 Nov 2022, 6pm BST)
The Forum for Collecting and Display invites you to its seminar on Monday, 7 November, 2022 at 6 p.m BST in person on on Zoom, where Elizabeth Pergam will talk on The Anglicization…
CFP: Close Encounters – Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1500-1800 (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, Sep 22, 2022)
The risks and challenges of migration are of compelling interest today. Over the last thirty years, research on early modern artists’ migration and on cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Britain has…
CFP: Research Seminar on the History of Furniture and Interiors in Britain, Europe and the United States (Furniture History Society / online, 27 Nov 2021)
The Furniture History Society invites submissions from PhD students, post-doctorates and early career museum scholars for a symposium dedicated to the history of furniture and interiors in Britain, Europe and the United States….
PUB: “The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior” by Diana Davis
The TastemakersBritish Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785–1865By Diana DavisGetty Research Institute Departing from the conventional narrative of dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, a new volume by Diana Davis repositions them instead as…
CFP: Crossing Borders; Constructing Canons: Post-Impressionism in Britain, America and Beyond
May 1 and 2, 2020 Courtauld Institute of Art, London “Post-Impressionism,” a term invented and used by Roger Fry in the exhibition he organized in London in 1910, became a deeply influential critical and…
CFP: Women Collectors in Britain from the 18th Century to the Present Day (Edinburgh, 28 Sept 2019)
Call for Papers NGS Research Conference: Women Collectors in Britain from the 18th Century to the Present Day Hawthornden Lecture Theatre Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 28 September 2019 In recent years, as part…