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collecting practices

8th September 2023 — Conference, News

ANN: Now online – « Collections premières ». Aux débuts des objets d’Afrique dans les musées occidentaux (INHA, Paris, 14 Jul 2023)

Comment la mise en collection des objets d’Afrique a effacé leur histoire pour les transformer en « arts premiers » ? Si cette catégorie de classement a fait long feu, ses effets perdurent….

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28th July 2023 — Calls for Papers, Conference, News

CFP: Transnational Collecting: Objects Crossing Borders, Objects Transformed (Online Session at 112th CAA Annual Conference, 14-17 Feb 2024 Chicago)

What happens to objects when they cross borders and enter collections located beyond the cultures or nations in which they were produced?  Objects don’t have fixed meanings, and collectors are a vital source of…

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9th June 2023 — Conference, News

CONF: The Mutability of Collections – Transformation, Contextualisation and Re-Interpretation (Collecting & Display, London, 7 July 2023)

This one-day conference concentrates on the ways in which objects in collections are added, exchanged or disposed of, translated and transformed. Items can be moved to new surroundings and different decorative settings, resulting…

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9th June 2023 — Events, News

ANN: Booked and Busy. Syncretic Methodologies Towards Provenance Research into East Asian Objects, lecture by Tullia Fraser (V&A Museum, London, 6 June 2023, 16:00-17:30)

Note: Past Event | For Reference Only In the shifting international order of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United Kingdom saw a surge in the presence of East Asian material culture. Acquired…

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5th May 2023 — Events, News

ANN: Early Modern Collecting and the Shifting Cabinet of Curiosities – Lecture by Patricia Rocco (Collecting and Display, 15 May 2023 18:00 BST, zoom only)

Ulysses Aldrovandi had established one of the largest naturalist collections of his day in 16th century Bologna, including all manner of exotic flora and fauna. His collection was meant to be categorized, catalogued,…

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31st March 2023 — News

ANN: Fördermöglichkeiten für Provenienzforschung im Bereich koloniale Kontexte (Digitale Infoveranstaltung des Deutschen Zentrums Kulturgutverluste, 31 Mar 2023)

Der Fachbereich “Kultur- und Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten” des Deutschen Zentrums Kulturgutverluste stellt seine Tätigkeit und die Fördermöglichkeiten im Rahmen einer online Veranstaltung vor. Seit mittlerweile vier Jahren hat das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste…

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17th March 2023 — Events, News

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…

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3rd February 2023 — Calls for Papers, Conference, News

CFP: Nineteenth-century worlds of vision, 1820s-1870s (ANU Canberra, 16-18 Jul 2023)

This symposium will be of interest to curators, scholars and arts practitioners working on nineteenth-century visual culture: cartography; draughtsmanship; etching; engraving; lithography; mark-making; photography; painting; printing; modes of illustrated publishing, scrapbooking and album…

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20th January 2023 — Calls for Papers, Events, News

CFP: Imagining Art Futures – Collection and Exhibition Strategies in the Gulf Region (Loughborough University, United Kingdom / online, 4-5 May 2023)

This two-day, international symposium examines recent developments in the art landscape of the Gulf countries. Debating conceptions of ‘Gulf Art’, ‘petro-culture’, and ‘Arab futurism’, we seek to test ideas and terminologies currently being…

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