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…
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…
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…
PUBL: Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe, ed. Arlene Leis (Routledge)
Edited by Arlene Leis, this book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.
TIAMSA Member News: Publication – “Diálogos de colecionar: [22] Colecionadores de arte em Portugal” by Adelaide Duarte
This book brings together 22 interviews with Portuguese private collectors, carried out between 2013 and 2019. Coordinated by Adelaide Duarte, a TIAMSA member and a specialist in contemporary collecting, this project was developed…
CFP: Artium Quaestiones: Collecting in the North – Patterns, Networks, and Displays from the British Isles to Scandinavia and the Baltic Region (Artium Quaestiones. Thematic Issue)
The present call for contributions aims to gather articles studying different aspects of collecting in Northern Europe up to World War I. The geographical area we intend to consider includes cultural contexts as…
ANN: Collecting Animals, Collecting Central Europe (Online, 25 Oct 2022, 7pm)
Collecting Central Europe invites you to a workshop on the theme of collecting animals on 25 October 2022, 7pm Berlin time. There will be three short presentations followed by a discussion. To register…
CFP: The Mutability of Collections: Transformation, Contextualisation and Re-Interpretation (Seminar on Collecting & Display, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 7-8 July 2023)
We invite proposals for papers reflecting on the ways in which the contents of collections are not permanent but may be subject to numerous mutations. Objects in collections are added, exchanged or disposed of, translated and…
CFP: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal, Society for the History of Collecting (London/Online 17 Nov 2022)
The history of collecting is the history of objects on the move. Objects collected travel through space – sold, transferred, exchanged, loaned, gifted and stolen throughout the world. They also travel through time…