CFP: Imperial Material – Napoleon’s legacy in culture, art and heritage 1821-2021 (online, 3 Aug 2021)
We invite researchers of all disciplines, and museum and heritage professionals, to reflect on the enduring material and visual legacy of Napoleon, what our interpretation and use of it means for the future…
ANN: Infrastructures of Collecting (online / Amsterdam, 22 Jun 2021)
The webinar “Infrastructures of Collecting in Transnational Perspective,” featuring keynote lectures by John Clark and Partha Mitter, marks the start of the long-term research project “(Un)mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives on Modern Art, 1900-1970.”
CONF: Who is the Artist? Practices of Connoisseurship in Museums / Kennerschaftliche Praxis in Museen (Interdisciplinary Workshop, Forum Kunst & Markt / Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin; online, 15 June 2021)
Who are the artists? Is the question still relevant or is it not rather about the biographical dynamics of the artworks? And who gives the answers: the experts in the museum, the collectors…
ANN: Training program on Nazi-era art provenance research (online / Center for Art Collection Ethics (ACE), University of Denver, 2-6 Aug 2021)
The Center for Art Collection Ethics (ACE) at the University of Denver (DU) is pleased to announce a fully virtual training program on the fundamentals of Nazi-era art provenance research, August 2–6, 2021….
CONF: Let’s talk. Art Museums and Contemporary Collecting Practices (online / Univ. of Leicester, 20 May 2021)
The School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, will host online on the 20th of May 2021 the roundtable event “Let’s talk: Art Museums and Contemporary Collecting Practices”. Please register by 19 May…
ANN: Lecture ‘Collecting practices in the Gulf’ by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya (online / University of Edinburgh Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster, Tues 27 Apr 2021)
Sheikh Saoud bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani (1966-2014) was one of the most prominent art collectors of the last decades. He was very influential in the constitution of collections for Qatar Museums…
From Private to Public / Du privé au public (Online / Université Grenoble-Alpes, 13 Apr 2021)
From private to public. Issues and strategies in the presentation of private collections of modern and contemporary art in public institutionsTuesday, 13 April 2021Via Zoom Organized within the framework of the exhibition Giorgio Morandi….
ANN: Deaccessioning After 2020 (Syracuse University, Online, 17-19 Mar 2021)
Deaccessioning After 2020 is a virtual 2-day symposium that aims to comprehensively address collections and deaccessioning in the context of the economic fallout of the pandemic and the national call to rethink the role…
CONF: The Acquisitions of the Louvre between 1933 and 1945. Preliminary Findings / Les acquisitions du musée du Louvre entre 1933 et 1945. Premier bilan (Paris, 10 March 2021, now online; in French)
The Acquisitions of the Louvre between 1933 and 1945. Preliminary Findings / Les acquisitions du musée du Louvre entre 1933 et 1945. Premier bilan Paris, 10 March 2021, now online; in French) À la…