CFP: Art archives in Latin America: critical approaches (Anuario TAREA, Número 9, 2022)
[Spanish version below] Deadline: 15 Jun 2022 In the last decades of the 20th century, a radical transformation took place in the Latin American artistic field in terms of the role and value…
CONF: The Medici Beyond Florence. Art and Politics (Florence/online, 16-17 Mar 2022)
The conference investigates the history and culture of the Medici family through art collecting and patronage practices, from the beginning of the ducal era (1530) to the end of the Thirty Year’s War (1648)….
CONF: Sammler:innen, Sammlung, Netz. Tagung zu Netzimplikationen von Sammlungspraxis und Sammlungsforschung (Wolfenbüttel, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2022)
Eine Sammlung trägt Objekte zusammen, verknüpft sie und spiegelt strukturell und funktional die Grundeigenschaft des Netzes. Mit Blick auf die Sammlungspraxis sind allenthalben Vernetzungsgeschehen zu beobachten. Gegenwärtig werden Objekte mit Hilfe moderner Technologien in…
CFP: Stedelijk Studies, Issue 12: Diaspora and Collections
The “Diaspora” has come to describe mass movements of displaced peoples, or the scattering of a people away from their geographical “origin”. Yet diasporic movements are not sequestered within the flow of people:…
CFP: Collections in the Early Modern Era – International Workshop on Spaces for Collections, Collecting and Collectors (University Olomouc, 13-17 Jun 2022)
The history of collecting is one of the most interesting fields of art history, offering opportunities for interdisciplinary research. Research on the origins and development of art collections, on how works were acquired…
CFP: Thinking About the Archive & Provenance Research (DCNtR Blog)
In the debate about the colonial past of ethnological museums in Western Europe, provenance research has emerged in recent years as the main method for researching colonial legacies and addressing museums’ need for decolonisation….
ANN: Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century America (Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 21 Feb, 2022, 5.30pm GMT)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture, organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century AmericaMichele Amedei, Università di Firenze Monday,…
ANN: Seminar – The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late-seventeenth-century collectors of contemporary Italian art, IHR (Online, 7 Feb 2022, 6pm GMT)
On Monday, 7 February, at 6pm London time, Amy Lim will speak to us on The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late-seventeenth-century collectors of contemporary Italian art. Between 1678 and 1700, John Cecil,…
ANN: Summer School: Was ist der Wert der Dinge? Konzepte einer Sammlungsoekonomie (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 18–29 Jul 2022)
International Summer School des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Das Zusammentragen, Aufheben, und mitunter das Entsorgen von Dingen sind grundlegende Momente der Konstitution jeder Sammlung. Die Sammlung wird damit zum Resultat einer Kette von…