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…
CFP: Collecting Latin America: Actors, Networks, and Approaches in the 20th century (Leiden University, 28-29 Jun 2022)
Museums across Europe and the United States hold innumerable Latin American objects in their collections. A small percentage of these were collected in the Early Modern Era, most, however, were brought together in…
ANN: Non-dits et mouvements des collections (Munich, Institut français / LMU, 26 Apr-12 Jul 2022)
Kaulbachstr. 13, 80539 München, 26.04.–12.07.2022 Veranstaltungsreihe:Was hinter der Kunst steht? Non-dits et mouvements des collections. Alors que les questions liées à l’origine et la provenance des objets incitent à penser les collections et…
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,…